The signboard of Li Family Cloth Shop hadn't been taken down yet. Su had already arranged for Lao Feng to order a new signboard for Yun Family Cloth Shop, which would take two or three days to be completed and delivered. In order not to affect business for the next two days, she discussed it with Zhou and decided to hang up the signboard of Li Family Cloth Shop for the time being.
Manager Liu, accompanied by several burly men, stormed in aggressively. Pointing at Zhou and the others, he shouted angrily, "You bunch of robbers, stop right now! Don't you know whose territory this is? How dare you come here and cause trouble!"
Zhou stepped forward with a smile and said, "Manager Liu, we already settled the matter yesterday and we don't owe each other anything. Why are you bringing people to our door today?"
Manager Liu waved his hand, almost slapping Zhou across the face, but Yu reacted quickly, pulling her sister-in-law back.
Manager Liu angrily pointed at Zhou's nose and cursed, "You bunch of peasant women who appeared out of nowhere, how dare you use some kind of bewitching magic to trick me into selling this big cloth shop for only one hundred taels of silver? Do you think I'm dead?"
Zhou looked bewildered. "What bewitching magic? What deception? Yesterday, it was clearly you who agreed to transfer the cloth shop to us for one hundred taels of silver. We had already signed the contract at the government office and it was officially registered. How come you're going back on your word?"
Manager Liu sneered, "Go ask around the world. This cloth shop is so big, the land deed alone is worth more than 1,500 taels, not to mention the goods laid out in the shop, which are worth at least four or five thousand taels. If you hadn't bewitched me, how could I have transferred it for a mere 100 taels of silver?"
At this moment, Madam Li stepped forward and said, "I presume you were willing yesterday, and we have already signed the contract and exchanged the red papers. This matter is now set in stone, and you cannot go back on your word now."
Manager Liu looked at the two maids beside him and the waiter standing outside the door, and called him in, "Xiao Liu, Chunhua and Qiuyue, you should know my state yesterday best. Tell me, did they use some kind of bewitching spell yesterday to make me feel confused and agree to this request in a daze?"
Xiao Liu scratched his head. In fact, he had thought about yesterday's situation several times after returning home. He was a little confused about his decision to let them into the store directly. However, he couldn't find anything unusual. To be on the safe side, he went to the pharmacy to have a doctor take his pulse, but he still couldn't find any clues.
Faced with his former employer's question, he looked at the two familiar older sisters, Chunhua and Qiuyue, and saw in each other's eyes their approval of the new employer. So he hesitated and said, "Manager Liu... we felt that you were very clear-headed yesterday."
Chunhua and Qiuyue exchanged a glance and nodded. One of them said, "Manager Liu, I called you back yesterday and asked you to reconsider, but you ignored me and left with the land deed firmly. I didn't see anything wrong with it."
Manager Liu's brows furrowed, and he glared at Zhou, saying, "Hmph, you used illusion magic, so naturally no one else will notice anything! I'm going to the government to sue you and have this contract invalidated. This is clearly an unbelievable deal, and the county magistrate will certainly not be fooled by a bunch of scoundrels like you."
Just then, Xiao Youran, holding her brother's hand, ran downstairs and stood in front of Manager Liu. In a soft and cute voice, she said, "Aunt Liu, you clearly said yesterday that as long as I could cure your son's venereal disease, you would let us buy this big cloth shop for one hundred taels of silver. Have you forgotten?"
Shopkeeper Liu was taken aback. She seemed to vaguely recall that her son had venereal disease, as it had been mentioned yesterday.
But……
Her face quickly turned bright red. "You little slut, spouting nonsense! How could my son possibly have that kind of 'dirty disease'! You're going to be the death of me!"
After saying that, she raised her hand to slap Xiao Youran.
Madam Su pulled Xiao Youran into her arms, avoiding Manager Liu's large, fat hand, and looked at her coldly, "Yesterday at the government office, you clearly told the registrar that your son had syphilis. We might lie, but would the registrar lie? Don't you believe me? Go ask him."
Manager Liu looked at the four- or five-year-old girl in front of him and suddenly burst into laughter. "Hahaha, even if what you're saying is true, do you even know what venereal disease is? How dare you shamelessly claim you can cure my son's illness? How could I possibly use that as a condition to sell my family's large cloth shop for just one hundred taels of silver? You should know that my large cloth shop makes more than one hundred taels of profit every month! Do you think I'm a fool?"
Although it was embarrassing to talk about her son having venereal disease, that was definitely not a reason for her being tricked into signing the contract yesterday!
Little Youran peeked her head out from her mother's arms and asked, "Aunt Liu, do you want to get your son treated, or are you just going to watch him suffer and die from this disease?"
Manager Liu gritted his teeth, "Don't spout nonsense like that, you little brat!"
A thin man pulled her aside and whispered, "Wife, our son is our only child. The doctors all said he was beyond saving. But now that we have this opportunity, maybe there's still hope?"
Hearing her husband say that, Manager Liu was furious and slapped him across the face. "Isn't it all your fault as the father? You didn't take good care of your son! That's why he got this venereal disease!"
Surprisingly, the thin man didn't resist, but instead coaxed her meekly, "Wife, the contract has been changed, and it's a done deal with the authorities. Even if we take it to court, we might not win. Why don't we let her try? Maybe our son can live. As long as our son lives, what does it matter if this mere cloth shop is gone?"
A burly man standing nearby glared angrily, "Do you all think we're fools? We've seen so many doctors who all said there's no hope, and you just casually say you can cure her? You even tricked my second cousin into signing this ridiculous contract?"
He said to Manager Liu, "Second cousin, don't waste your breath on them. Since they won't return this cloth shop, we'll sue them! I don't believe the magistrate will believe such an absurd transaction! Even if we can't win the lawsuit, we brothers will move all the goods out of the shop for you. Every little bit helps!"
The Zhou family members' expressions changed upon hearing this.
Xiao Youran said confidently, "Aunt Liu, this cloth shop belongs to the Liu family, and your son also has the Liu surname, right? Aren't you afraid that if he really dies, your family fortune will have no one to inherit it?"
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