Chapter 28: Robbery is shameless, so shameless!
"I rushed to your knife shop early this morning just to buy the limited edition kitchen knife you advertised, but you told me it was sold out. Aren't you kidding me?"
The middle-aged man stood at the door of the shop and shouted loudly in dissatisfaction. Xiao Ruo stood beside him and tried to persuade the man to calm down, but was pushed away by him.
"Calm down! How do you expect me to calm down? You just opened your business and you're already trying to deceive us, the people. I wonder who in this town will dare to buy kitchen knives from your shop anymore."
The man's tone became increasingly intense, and he even ran to the knife display rack next to him and pushed down several rows of display racks.
The other customers in the shop were frightened by the man's behavior and moved away.
Zhou Tinglan saw this scene as soon as she went out. She immediately understood what was going on, but she didn't know if this person simply wanted to buy a knife, or...
She remembered what Mr. Wu said in the restaurant a few days ago. If that was true, she would have to solve a big problem.
"Sir, why don't you come back tomorrow? I'll give you a 50% discount."
The man refused, becoming even more agitated: "I don't want tomorrow, just today. Give me a limited edition kitchen knife."
"Our shop sells at low prices but sells in large quantities. Sir, you know we definitely won't be able to produce the limited edition kitchen knife today, yet you're still pestering me. May I ask if you really want to buy a kitchen knife when you come to our shop?"
"Of course. Why would I come to your shop if I'm not buying kitchen knives?"
Zhou Tinglan smiled: "It could also be..."
She paused, but the man opposite her felt his clothes get slightly wet on his back.
He thought to himself, maybe this girl had noticed the instructions given to him by the young master.
"What do you want to say?" The man saw that Zhou Tinglan was hesitant to speak.
"say what……"
"What do you want this girl to say?" The old lady rushed to the man and said, "Didn't you say you came here sincerely to buy a limited edition kitchen knife? It just so happens that I bought one early. If you want it, I'll give it to you."
Seeing this, the man hurriedly waved his hands and said, "I don't want it. I don't want to buy a kitchen knife today!"
Suspicious, the old woman turned to look at the man, grabbed his arm, and dragged him away from the knife shop. "No, you can't do that. You must buy the knife I have today."
I could still faintly hear the man's wailing: "Auntie, please let me go! Take your kitchen knife and go back, okay?"
"No, pay up!"
Aunt Zhou Tinglan's back was lost in thought. Wasn't she the one who gave her an exaggerated description of how a punch knocked someone flying?
She silently gave the old lady a thumbs up in her heart. It turned out that words come from life, and the old lady's strength should not be underestimated.
Zhou Tinglan turned around and patted Xiao Ruo's shoulder: "Well done."
"These are all orders from Miss Zhou."
While the man was shouting, Zhou Tinglan called Xiao Ruo to his side and whispered to him to go to the shop to find an old lady to deal with the matter. After the matter was done, he could come to the shop tomorrow to get a limited edition kitchen knife for free.
Business at the knife shop returned to normal. Zhou Tinglan returned to the shop and took Xie Zechuan with him to go for a stroll in the town.
She has been in the town for some time, but she has never toured the town yet.
The town is not big, and the knife shop where Zhou Tinglan worked before was a temporary shop she rented in the town, which was named Zhou's Knife Shop.
The two came to the door of another Zhou's knife shop. Manager Yang stood behind the counter and greeted Zhou Tinglan enthusiastically.
"How is your place, Manager Yang?"
Shopkeeper Yang thought about the sales of kitchen knives this morning, and a smile crinkled his eyes. "That's great! I've never seen such sales in our shop before."
"That's good. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
Zhou Tinglan pointed to the street ahead, and Manager Yang nodded and said goodbye to Zhou Tinglan.
Xie Zechuan looked back at Shopkeeper Yang, who was introducing knives to a customer. "Lan'er, was this also the case when you discussed cooperation with me before?"
Recalling the situation when she first came to Beijiang City and took the initiative to seek cooperation with Xie Zechuan at the weapons factory, it was indeed very similar.
"Perhaps it was a coincidence, but if Zhou Tinglan hadn't appeared with a long sword and offered to cooperate with you, given the dire shortage of weapons in Beijiang City, how would you have responded to the attack of the Northern Di soldiers?"
When talking about the safety of Beijiang City, Xie Zechuan said solemnly, "I will stay in Beijiang City. The city is alive, and the people are alive. If the city is destroyed, the people will die. I cannot betray the trust that the people of Beijiang City have placed in me."
Hearing Xie Zechuan's words, Zhou Tinglan's mind had already emerged a scene of corpses scattered all over the ground outside the city. Xie Zechuan was standing in the middle of it, his broken long sword no longer able to resist. He used the sword to support himself on the ground and looked at the miserable scene around him. Dugu Xuan stared at him coldly and swung his long sword.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but shudder. Fortunately, fortunately.
"Yeah, luckily you are by my side, Lan'er, and you took the initiative to find me."
"Let's not talk about it, let's go take a look at that shop." Zhou Tinglan pointed to a wood carving shop on the street.
There were several carved wooden birds hanging at the entrance of the shop. When Zhou Tinglan walked into the shop, the shopkeeper came up to her and asked, "Miss, what kind of wood carvings would you like to buy?"
She looked at the wood carvings on the counter, which were of various types, including fish, flowers, and even a few small wooden knives.
Although the wood carvings were exquisite, they were not what Zhou Tinglan wanted.
"Shopkeeper, can your shop be customized?"
The shopkeeper said without hesitation: "Sure, what style of wood carving do you want, young lady?"
Zhou Tinglan asked the shopkeeper for paper and pen, and started drawing on the counter. A bird with a pointed head and two pointed wings gradually appeared on the paper.
Xie Zechuan recognized her immediately: "Lan'er, do you want to carve a thousand paper cranes?"
"That's right, the thousand paper cranes you took from my desk in Beijiang City are no longer there."
Xie Zechuan showed a trace of embarrassment on his face. He nodded and said, "Lan'er, you know everything."
The thousand paper cranes were not lost by Xie Zechuan because he threw them away. The paper used in Dazhao Kingdom was not as strong as the modern paper. In addition, Xie Zechuan often held them in his hands to look at them, so they were damaged. They were burned together with the paper cranes when the post station caught fire. The burning of the thousand paper cranes made Xie Zechuan depressed for several days.
"Since the paper cranes have flown away after being bathed in fire, I present you with new wooden cranes. I hope you will always feel the same as when we first met."
Seeing the atmosphere between the two, the wood carving shop didn't want to disturb them. After Zhou Tinglan finished drawing the thousand paper cranes, she used the extra paper to fold another one for the shopkeeper as a sample.
"Just carve it as directed by the shopkeeper."
After seeing the structure of the paper crane, the shopkeeper exclaimed that he had never seen such a bird before.
"It will take some time to carve it, so please come and get it later."
After paying the money, the two walked out of the wood carving shop and continued walking forward on the street.
"Lan'er, do you want to visit any other stores or buy anything?"
"No! Please, let my daughter go!"
The old lady's hoarse screams reached their ears, and Zhou Tinglan looked over.
It's a tofu shop.
Behind the shop, a thin old woman was stopping a fat man, who was followed by a servant.
The leading man's clothes were lifted up on his abdomen, and he had a folding fan in his hand. He folded the fan and slapped it on the old woman.
"Old man, if you know what's best for you, hand your daughter over to this young master!"
It was Mr. Wu whom I met in the restaurant that day.
Zhou Tinglan's heart immediately flared with anger: "I thought he would stay home and reflect on his behavior after that day, but he showed no remorse at all. He even dared to go out on the street and abuse other people's beautiful girls and bully women and children!"
Then she rushed straight across the street.
Filthy words continued to spew out of Master Wu's mouth, and the servant echoed him: "Young Master, you don't know, the daughter of this tofu stall owner has skin that is even whiter than the tofu on the stall. She is definitely the most beautiful girl among the girls in the surrounding streets of this town."
Upon hearing this, the old woman hurriedly shook her head and said patiently, "My two gentlemen, these are just rumors from the neighbors. They have caused you to misunderstand. My daughter is not what you think she is."
Seeing the impatience on the face of Master Wu standing next to him, the servant drew his long knife and pressed it against the old woman's neck: "Our young master told you to call your daughter out, so you did. This is what will happen to you if you dare to disobey our young master!"
The old woman was so frightened that she burst into tears. She fell to her knees and begged for mercy: "Sir, it really didn't happen. Please let my daughter go!"
"You are so impatient to live!"
At that moment, Zhou Tinglan, eyes filled with rage, rushed to the tofu stall and kicked Master Wu: "I think you are tired of living. You raped a woman in broad daylight. How can there be scum like you in Dazhao!"
Master Wu was kicked to the ground by Zhou Tinglan: "Who! Who is so blind as to kick this young master!"
Another kick came.
The sudden situation caught everyone in the tofu shop off guard. The servant stood there in a daze, with the long sword in his hand half-drawn.
When Master Wu saw clearly that the person who kicked him was the beauty he met in the restaurant a few days ago, the greed in his eyes could no longer be hidden.
"My beauty, are you here to see me?" He glared at the servant: "Help me up quickly!"
Shameless, so shameless! It's absolutely shameless!
Zhou Tinglan clenched his fists and punched Master Wu in the face, who hadn't even stood up yet. He couldn't hold back any longer and cursed, "I'm going to fuck your grandmother's legs! If it weren't for you forcing women and bullying women, who would want to see a fat pig like you? You wouldn't even consider your appearance and dare to go out and embarrass yourself!"
Master Wu came to his senses, and the pain on his face reminded him of the pain in his lower abdomen that day: "Hurry up and stop this vicious woman!"
The servant let go, and Master Wu lost his strength and fell to the ground again. He roared, "Idiot, help me up first!"
As Mr. Wu stood up, Zhou Tinglan punched him in the face again.
The servant was about to draw his sword to stop him, but he couldn't pull the sword out no matter how hard he tried.
Xie Zechuan grabbed the servant's hand that was drawing the knife, with a smile on his face, but that smile turned into endless danger in the servant's eyes.
Young Master Wu's wailing continued, attracting the attention of the people on the street. When they saw who was lying on the ground, they whispered, "Who is that girl?"
"He seems to be one of the owners of Zhou's knife shop. I think I saw him when I bought a knife this morning."
“…”
Someone in the crowd saw the scene, dropped his vegetable basket, and ran to the other side of the street.
A young girl ran out from the back room of the tofu shop and helped the old lady who was kneeling on the ground. Both of them were very worried.
"Mom, will anything happen to us?"
"Don't be afraid, it will be alright."
The old woman tried to comfort her daughter, but her voice was trembling and she was powerless to do so.
Soon, the sound of chaotic horse hooves was heard on the street, and people all avoided it.
"Who is causing trouble?"
Zhou Tinglan stopped what he was doing, took out a handkerchief to wipe his hands in disgust, and looked over.
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