The youngest son of the Wei family is notoriously unkind.

Princess Hui'an grew up with him as a childhood sweetheart. She jumped off the city wall for him without him blinking an eye. If the secret guards had not acted in time, Princess Hui'an would have been killed.

And Princess Lingxi, his cousin, fell into the lake in front of him, and he just left. For this, General Wei beat him with dozens of boards and forced him to kneel in the ancestral hall in the middle of winter...

That guy has a heart of stone. Why would he care about the life or death of a little country girl?

Mr. Xiang smiled: "It's getting more and more interesting."

Chang Ping suddenly said, "Master! I have an idea! Since he cares so much about that girl, why don't we... tie that girl up!"

"Master Jing!"

Another servant's voice came from outside the door.

Changping glanced at his own master and immediately shut up.

Jing Yi stepped inside: "Cousin."

Mr. Xiang said in a gentle voice: "Where have you been? You are sweating all over."

Jing Yi said: "Just came from the post station."

Mr. Xiang paused and asked, "Is there any more news from the capital?"

Jing Yi nodded: "Your wedding date with Miss Qin has been set in May. The palace is urging you to return as soon as possible."

Mr. Xiang put down his teacup helplessly: "I know."

Jing Yi said: "Cousin, if there is nothing else, I will leave first."

Mr. Xiang said, "Go ahead."

After thinking for a while, he asked again, "Jing Yi, are you hiding something from me?"

Jing Yi asked, "What do you mean by cousin?"

Mr. Xiang smiled gently: "Nothing, I just said it casually. You should understand that you are the only person I can trust around me. You won't betray me, right?"

Jing Yi was stunned for a moment: "Of course I won't betray my cousin."

Mr. Xiang smiled with satisfaction.

Jing Yi stood up and left.

He had already walked out, but suddenly stopped.

"Cousin, I can kill anyone you want, just don't touch her."

…

Su Xiaoxiao first went to Manager Sun's residence and told him about the store.

Shopkeeper Sun's eyes were filled with tears.

After being a street vendor for so long, is it finally time to have your own shop?

"Which area do you like?" asked Manager Sun.

Su Xiaoxiao said, "The cloth shop opposite Jinji."

Shopkeeper Sun: You are in conflict with Jinji!

Coincidentally, me too.

People with similar interests can discuss anything very smoothly. The two hit it off and set off for the cloth shop.

The cloth shop was sublet due to poor management and cash flow problems, and the lease was not yet due.

But due to the good location and the fact that the cloth shop owner had seen Su Ji grow and thought that Su Ji had made a lot of money, he wanted to make a fortune from Su Ji.

That was really unfortunate. Shopkeeper Sun and Su Xiaoxiao were both more experienced than the other. No matter how much the cloth shop owner talked, they just refused to raise the price.

"Go ask around, where can you find a shop that is more prosperous than mine? Girl, you first set up a stall in front of my house, right? Didn't business come as soon as you set up your stall? I'm telling you, my place has good feng shui!"

Su Xiaoxiao said calmly: "Then you are still bankrupt?"

"You just want to steal business from Jinji! There's no other shop for rent nearby!"

The cloth shop owner originally rented the place for 20 taels a month for a total of five years, with three years left, totaling 720 taels. He wanted to double the price when he sold it to Su Xiaoxiao.

Can Su Xiaoxiao be the scapegoat?

"Manager Sun, let's go."

After leaving the cloth shop, Manager Sun asked, "You really don't want that shop anymore?"

"Yes." Su Xiaoxiao hooked her finger at Shopkeeper Sun.

Shopkeeper Sun came over and whispered.

Su Xiaoxiao whispered a few instructions, and Shopkeeper Sun's mouth twitched: "Will this work?"

Su Xiaoxiao said: "If it works, you will know after trying it."

She has always been a person who respects others as much as she can. If the cloth shop owner wants to rip her off, he can't blame her for cheating him.

Over the next afternoon, several people came to the cloth shop to ask for prices. However, what annoyed the cloth shop was that those people lowered the price, one more outrageous than the other! "Two hundred and fifty taels? Do you think I'm a beggar? Go away!"

The same thing happened in the next two days. Many people asked, but no one asked for more than three hundred taels. The lowest price even went to one hundred and fifty taels. He almost vomited blood on the spot.

When Su Xiaoxiao and Su Ergou came to the alley opposite to sell cakes again, he walked over with gritted teeth.

"Girl, do you still want the shop?"

Su Xiaoxiao said calmly, "No."

The cloth shop owner was shocked: "What?"

Su Xiaoxiao said seriously: "I've thought about it. Even if I bring Jin Ji down, I don't necessarily have to rent your shop. I can just take away all of Jin Ji's business, and it will be the same when Jin Ji goes bankrupt!"

Cloth shop owner: “???”

If someone else had made such a boast, the cloth shop owner would have sneered, but this girl's business was indeed growing bigger and bigger, and she hired more and more people.

At the beginning of the year, you could see a lot of customers queuing up in front of Jin Ji, but now almost all of them come to Su Ji.

Although it was a bit exaggerated to take down Jin Ji, he somehow felt that this girl might be able to do it! The cloth shop owner said, "You don't have a shop, you are just a small stall, you can't get good business! Rich families will not be willing to buy your snacks!"

Su Xiaoxiao said, "You mean, the Qi family is not a wealthy family? I wonder if Madam Qi and Mr. Qi will be unhappy when they hear this?"

The cloth shop owner's heart skipped a beat.

He quickly tried to smooth things over: "I, I just think that your dim sum is so good, it would be more impressive if you had a shop, right?"

Su Xiaoxiao said: "We are a small business, I can't afford your price!"

The cloth shop owner asked, "How much do you want to pay?"

Su Xiaoxiao pointed with her finger.

The cloth shop owner covered his chest and said, "Two hundred taels? You said six hundred taels last time!"

Su Xiaoxiao spread her hands and said, "That was the price last time. You missed it. It's gone."

Cloth shop owner: “…”

In the end, Su Xiaoxiao bought his shop for four hundred taels, with a rent of three hundred taels and the remaining fifty taels for some furniture in his shop.

The cloth shop owner saw that Su Xiaoxiao was just a little girl and he couldn't get a bargain on the price, so he wanted to do something crooked. However, he didn't know that Su Xiaoxiao was more shrewd than the accountant in the county government.

"If you move out one day later, I will deduct one day's rent."

The cloth shop owner was sweating profusely. In this day and age, could a little village girl be so powerful? On second thought, if she wasn't powerful, how could she go against Jinji? The cloth shop owner quickly asked people to pack up their things. Manager Sun went to the county government to ask for a guarantor to come over and complete the procedures for subletting.

The next step was renovation. After all, they were a snack shop, and the layout of the shop was different from that of a cloth shop.

Su Xiaoxiao went back to design the drawings, and Manager Sun looked for craftsmen, and Liu Ping could be considered one of them.

(End of this chapter)