Chapter 261: We Can’t Afford to Provoke Them Anyway
Sang Yu handed the first two chapters of Journey to the West, which had been sewn together, to Liu Mao and said, "If you can meet that elder brother, give this book to him."
"What if I can't see it?"
Liu Mao was in a bit of a dilemma. He accepted the job the day before and then found an excuse to decline it the next day. It would be difficult for him to see that person again.
"If you can't find him, just hand it over to his men and ask them to pass it on."
Sang Yu didn't take this matter very seriously. She just did one more step out of habit, thinking that it might come in handy someday.
"Okay." Liu Mao breathed a sigh of relief, stuffed the script into his lapel, and nodded seriously to agree to this matter.
"By the way, you've come just in time. I just got a shop. How about I take you there?"
Since he came here on his own initiative, Sang Yu didn't have to make another trip and could just go and check out the new dessert shop.
"Shop?" Liu Mao was stunned. He and Sang Yu had only not seen each other for one day, so how come the other party bought a shop?
No, the word "得" is used. Could it be that it was given by someone else?
Thinking of this, he asked tentatively: "Was it a gift from someone?"
"Yes, it was a gift from my new business partner." There was no need for Sang Yu to hide this from him, so she told him the truth directly.
He should have been happy that he'd guessed it right, but Liu Mao suddenly felt a pang of bitterness. How could he have a new business partner after being away for less than a day?
"Come on, let's go and take a look at the layout of the store." Sang Yu didn't notice his lost expression and turned around and walked back happily.
Zhong Xueru was very cautious. When the deed was delivered to Sang Yu, she closed the dessert shop and even put the key in a wooden box.
Taking out the key to unlock the door, Liu Mao took the initiative to help remove the door panel, making enough space for one person to enter, and the two of them entered the dessert shop one after the other.
After entering, Sang Yu was shocked to find that the store had been simply cleaned, and all the account books, silver and money had been taken away, but there were still a lot of ready-made ingredients left in the kitchen at the back.
This dessert shop has two floors and a small courtyard at the back. There are two rooms in the courtyard, a kitchen and a warehouse, as well as a well and a back door.
After walking around, Sang Yu couldn't help but sigh: "Wow, what a generous gesture."
This is not a simple shop. With a little modification, you can live in it. It is not a problem to open a shop in the front and live in the back.
Especially the well in the yard, which can raise the price of the shop by another three points.
Those days were different from later times. If you wanted to dig a well, you could only use human or animal power to repeatedly impact the rock layer and dig to the groundwater layer bit by bit.
Even though Qinghuan Street is close to a river, the river water outside is not as convenient and easy to use as the well water at home.
Sang Yu calculated carefully and found that if the tables, chairs, benches, spare ingredients and other things left in the shop were included, the price of this shop would be at least 1,300 taels.
Zhong Xueru is really generous. She just casually gave away a shop worth more than a thousand taels. What is her background?
Thinking of this, she simply asked Liu Mao directly: "Is there any wealthy family with the surname Zhong in the city?"
Liu Mao answered without hesitation: "Yes, in Lingnan City, besides the city lord, the most famous are the four families of Zhang, Wang, Zhong, and Deng. I heard that 70% of the business in the city is controlled by them."
Before, Sang Yu was only concerned about finding out how to make money from food, and didn't really care about these things. It was rare for him to meet someone who knew the inside story, so naturally he had to ask everything clearly.
"Are there any other well-known forces besides this?"
Liu Mao pondered this question for a while, and after a moment's hesitation, he said, "There are a few other wealthy families that are well-known, but compared to those four, they are nothing."
"As for other more famous forces, the one I met yesterday was one of them. Rumor has it that he is related to the city lord by blood."
Upon hearing this, Sang Yu immediately started gossiping: "The city lord's illegitimate son? The age doesn't match."
She didn't know anything else, but even if she didn't ask specifically about the mayor of Lingnan City, she could get a general idea from the discussions of people on the streets.
The mayor of Lingnan City took office five years ago. Generally, in order to prevent officials from separatist activities in such remote areas, the term of office is three years, and the maximum number of consecutive terms is nine years.
He can only stay here for three years at most before he has to return to the capital to report on his work and wait for the court to make further arrangements. At the same time, a new city lord will take over.
The other party only came to Lingnan five years ago. Unless the illegitimate child came from somewhere else, the age does not match at all.
Liu Mao nodded slightly. "I heard that the child was born to the city lord and a prostitute, and he was brought here from Jiangnan specifically to find her."
"Wow, you traveled thousands of miles to find your father, so why don't you acknowledge him?"
This illegitimate child has great perseverance to chase all the way from the rich water town of Jiangnan to the sparsely populated and miasma-filled Lingnan.
What's more, he is a boy. Even if the city lord's wife can't stand his background, she should let him recognize his ancestors.
"I heard that he looks like his mother, not the City Lord. Moreover, after so many years, no one knows whether he is the City Lord's offspring."
After Liu Mao said this, Sang Yu immediately understood.
It is estimated that the city lord had a romantic encounter with the other party's mother in Jiangnan and left, and was completely unaware of the pregnancy.
Now the child has grown up and come to the house. Although the time and place match, there is no token and the appearance is not similar to the original, so I can't be sure whether it is my own child, so I keep him by my side to take care of him.
I think the reason he became the big brother in the Qinghuan Street area was because of his unclear relationship with the city lord.
"No matter whether it is true or not, we can't afford to offend him anyway." Sang Yu muttered softly and looked at the backyard again.
Originally, she was thinking that when the scale of the milk tea business expanded, the village’s milk supply would be insufficient, and she might have to drag a cart to the villages around the city to collect milk in advance.
Now that I have this shop, I don’t have to work hard to collect milk every day. I can just ask the surrounding farmers to deliver the milk to my door.
Besides, it is obviously impossible for such a big store to only sell milk tea and rock sugar and snow pear. She has to sell some other snacks as well.
Thinking of this, Sang Yu suddenly scrutinized Liu Mao, staring at him from head to toe, until he felt a chill down his spine.
Just when he couldn't help but ask if there was anything inappropriate about his attire today, he heard Sang Yu ask, "Have you considered deepening our cooperation?"
He was stunned at first, then ecstatic, nodding repeatedly: "Of course."
Since he started doing business with Sang Yu, he had made a lot of money and his family was getting better and better. Now that she had acquired the shop and was thinking of continuing to cooperate with him, Liu Mao was of course very happy.
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