Upon hearing the noise, Zhou Wan thought something serious had happened and immediately rushed upstairs, asking hurriedly, "Your Highness, what's wrong?"
"Zhou Wan, go and search San Niang's house to see if there's a business license for the fried chicken shop," Qi Guze said quickly.
He could have done it himself, but since San Niang was a woman, it wasn't appropriate for a man like him to enter her boudoir directly. If word got out, although San Niang certainly wouldn't mind, there would inevitably be some gossip.
Zhou Wan was completely confused.
They had been running Tianxianglou for some time, but no one in the capital had ever investigated this matter. Now, Qi Guze was eagerly wanting to find it himself, which puzzled her greatly.
She thought about it for a while but still couldn't figure it out, so she prepared to ask again.
"king……"
Before she could finish speaking, Qi Guze interrupted her, saying, "Go find it first. I'll tell you after this is over. Now is not the time to talk."
“Okay.” Zhou Wan immediately turned around and left. After all, Qi Guze had already said so much, so she naturally didn’t dare to delay any longer.
Although she didn't know why Qi Guze was suddenly looking for this thing, she knew he would never harm them.
Zhou Wan had lived with San Niang for some time and knew her habits well. Without much effort, she quickly found the location of the business license.
She quickly took it and handed it to Qi Guze: "Your Highness, here you go."
Qi Guze took it and looked at it for a while, and then he realized that it was real.
“Go get it for Third Aunt,” Qi Guze nodded and said. “When you get to the fried chicken shop, you’ll understand why I asked you to find this.”
“Okay.” Zhou Wan agreed immediately.
She hurried downstairs, but Qi Guze's tightly furrowed brows remained furrowed.
He paced around Tianxiang Tower twice before deciding to go find Tiexiong. He felt that even if Tiexiong saw the item, he probably wouldn't let it go.
Upon seeing the visitor, Tie Xiong immediately tried to invite him into the house: "Your Highness, come in quickly! Why did you come in person? Couldn't you have sent someone to inform me? I would have gone looking for you!"
"No," Qi Guze waved his hand and said, "You should go to the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion right now, invite the Duke of Zhenguo over, and take him directly to the fried chicken shop."
"Why..." Tie Xiong was also completely confused.
"Go ahead and do it," Qi Guze said calmly.
Having served under Qi Guze for so many years, Tie Xiong had long since figured out Qi Guze's temperament, and upon hearing this, he immediately did as instructed.
When Zhou Wan arrived at the fried chicken shop, she saw that it was noisy inside. Although she didn't know what was going on, she quickly squeezed in and then handed the business license to San Niang.
"Here, this is what that person asked me to bring to you right away. I'm not too late, am I?" she said in a low voice, but her eyes fell on the Prefect of the Capital, and she immediately understood what was going on.
Third Sister immediately understood who the other party was.
Without saying a word or asking any questions, she took the document and handed it to the Prefect of the Capital: "Sir, here, our license."
The Prefect of the Capital had only made up an excuse. At first, he was quite pleased when he saw that the others couldn't produce it, not expecting to achieve his goal so easily. However, he didn't expect that the other party actually had it. Now it was his turn to be dumbfounded.
He glanced at it pretending to read it, but he didn't absorb a single word; instead, he was thinking of other ideas.
It is said that people can unleash superhuman potential under high pressure, and the Prefect of the Capital is in such a state now, and he has actually come up with a solution.
The Prefect of the Capital threw the business license on the ground and said fiercely, "This one is clearly a forgery!"
"this……"
San Niang and Zhou Wan were both stunned.
Third Sister quickly bent down and picked it up. After looking at it for a few moments, she explained, "Sir, this was done according to procedure. How could it be fake? You must look carefully."
"Why don't you go to the government office and check the backup? There's absolutely no way ours could be fake." Zhou Wan was also getting angry. Seeing the other party's blatant blatant misrepresentation, she knew he had no good intentions.
Now that things had come to this point, none of them were fools; they naturally understood that the Prefect of the Capital had come today deliberately to cause trouble.
Zhou Wan and San Niang were not powerful people, so they naturally did whatever the government said. However, they could not be allowed to close their shop. They still had to fight for their rights.
"My lord, is there some misunderstanding?" Zhou Wan immediately put on a smiling face again. "Our fried chicken shop is owned by Princess Heyue. How could we do something illegal and disorderly? This must be a misunderstanding. Why don't you go back and investigate it carefully? Otherwise, you won't be able to explain it to Princess Heyue, will you?"
The Prefect of the Capital was determined to close the fried chicken shop today, so naturally he wouldn't listen to them. Now he had to give an explanation for his own life, so he didn't care about explaining to Xu Yuehuai.
“If you people don’t have the necessary licenses, then don’t open your shops recklessly. If I say your licenses are fake, then they are fake,” he said angrily.
"You!" Third Sister pointed at him, but couldn't utter a single word.
The surrounding people were filled with righteous indignation and wanted to rush up to help Third Sister get justice, but they were blocked by the yamen runners and could not get close at all.
"Men, smash it for me!" The Prefect of the Capital gave the order with a cold laugh.
At his command, the other constables began to smash and destroy things.
San Niang and Zhou Wan were weak women after all, and they couldn't stop them at all. In no time, the fried chicken shop had been reduced to ruins.
Seeing her hard work trampled underfoot, San Niang felt her heart bleeding. She could only hold Zhou Wan beside her and sob softly. Just as they were thinking about what to do, a shout suddenly came from outside the shop.
"stop!"
Although the voice was old, it carried a certain authority.
Everyone immediately looked towards the doorway.
Zhenguo Gongzheng just happened to come in from outside.
The Prefect of the Capital City naturally saw the person who had arrived and was instantly terrified.
"Lord Zhenguo, why have you been disturbed? It's just shutting down a small shop that was operating haphazardly. They can't be operating here without a license," the Prefect of the Capital hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile.
“Lord Zhenguo, we all have licenses.” Upon hearing this, Third Sister hurriedly handed over the license in her hand.
He took it, glanced at it, and said, "This certificate is real. How can you tell it's fake?"
"Really? Then I might have misread it." The Prefect of the Capital said, forcing himself to speak, but even he didn't believe it, and his words lacked any real conviction.
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