Chapter 406 Closing the Shop
Ling Yi's face also looked very bad.
Seeing Shen Qing looking at him in confusion, he explained: "My mother died early, and the one who manages the shop is the nanny sent by my stepmother. I have been in Blackwater City all year round, and the people I trust are all rough people. The inner house has always been managed by her people;
I've asked a few times before, and the nanny said that 300 taels is considered good in this street, and other places only have 200 or so. If I ask more, she will say that I am dissatisfied with my stepmother and deliberately making things difficult for her.
Shen Qing understood.
No matter if she is your biological mother or stepmother, she is still your mother. In this dynasty, filial piety is more important than anything else. If you are disrespectful to your parents and elders, your career and reputation will be ruined.
"No wonder you were able to get a big shop in a good location, master. It turns out you were waiting here!" Ying Er was indignant, but still lowered his voice and whispered.
Yingyi sighed deeply and looked at his master worriedly.
The cost of a shop was a full nine hundred taels of silver!
You should know that the total annual expenses of a family of eight are less than ten taels of silver, which means that ten taels of silver can support at least eight people. How many people can be supported with nine hundred taels of silver?
Blackwater City was unusually cold, a place of exile and a place where disaster victims were relocated. In the past, when officials were exiled there, some were innocent but implicated, while others were upright but framed. Their masters would use their own savings to help some of them.
Last year, there were too many disaster victims to migrate, and the master sold everything he could to raise money, but he only managed to collect three thousand taels of silver in total!
You have to know that just one shop brings in an extra 900 taels of silver a year, and with the other shops, an extra 3,000 taels of silver a year is no problem. How much would that have been in the past four or five years? And how many more people could it have helped?
How could the master be so worried about the resettlement of disaster victims that he couldn't sleep all night?
Nor will we have to watch many disaster victims suffer from hunger and cold and feel helpless!
"Master, what should we do now?"
Ling Yi's eyes were firm: "I can't show up and let anyone know that I'm back. You take my seal to take back the shop and tell them that Jiang Xiangbei knew about my predicament in Blackwater City. Not only did he not take advantage of the situation, but he was also willing to pay a high price to rent my shop to help me out of my urgent need!
I was grateful for his kindness, so I had no choice but to pay the penalty for breach of contract and terminate the contract, subleasing the shop to him. Mammy moved out of Mother's house, and you two just pretended not to know and said it was my decision, and asked Mammy to tell Mother and then scold me."
Ying Yi and Ying Er understood.
In the past, the master would ask the nanny, and the nanny would bring up the Empress because the master could not go to the palace to confront her. But now the master is "far away" in Blackwater City, and they took the master's seal to take back the shop. Even if the nanny was dissatisfied and went to the palace to complain, it was the Empress who wrote to blame the master.
But for the sake of the shop rent, especially in the face of the glaring disparity, why would the Empress specifically write a letter to blame the master?
She couldn't even bring it up! After all, it was too embarrassing to bring it up openly.
It takes a lot of effort to cover it up. After all, there are many concubines in the palace, and everyone wants to find fault with the other!
Shen Qing also understood.
This is using Ling Yi's shop to fill his own pockets.
However, Ling Yi's family should be richer than she thought, otherwise, how could their unmarried son not only have his own house, but also fertile land and shops?
How rich is his father? Could he be the richest man in Beijing?
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There was a high possibility of an argument when closing the shop, and for fear of any unpleasant words, Ling Yi asked Shen Qing to wait with him in the carriage.
Shen Qing was not afraid of hearing unpleasant words. In fact, she really wanted to go in and watch the fun, but Ling Yi couldn't show up, and it was really lonely to leave him here alone, so she had no choice but to stay.
Shadow One and Shadow Two jumped off the car frame and started calling for help from the vehicles behind.
The two men first explained the situation to Jiang Xiangbei, and after the group of men had made nice with each other, they walked into the shop together.
"Waiter, where is your boss? We have something to ask him." Jiang Xiangbei said politely with a bow.
The waiter looked at the group of burly men, especially the two in the lead who had a murderous aura. They didn't look like they were here to buy things, but more like they were here to collect debts!
He swallowed hard and said with a smile, "Unfortunately, our shopkeeper is not here. Please come back next time."
"No rush. We have nothing to do anyway, so just wait in this shop. The sooner the boss tells you to close the shop, the sooner you can find another suitable shop." Ying Yi said coldly.
When they heard that the shop was closing, the expressions of the shop assistants changed suddenly, and one of the shop assistants immediately ran to the backyard with nimble legs.
Jiang Xiangbei and others were relieved when they saw this. It seemed that the shopkeeper was in the shop and had gone to invite someone.
It’s just right, it can be solved quickly and quickly without wasting time.
After a while, the shopkeeper came running over while buttoning his long gown, angrily cursing: "Which ignorant boy with red lips and white teeth is so wild that he dared to mess with me!
Do you know who the owner of the cloth shop is? What is his relationship with the owner of the shop? How dare you come and take over the shop! "
Ying Er smiled sarcastically and asked, "Oh? Then tell me who owns the cloth shop and what is his relationship with the owner?"
The shopkeeper glanced at everyone from head to toe. Seeing that none of the people were wearing expensive fabrics, he snorted, "You don't need to know the details. Just know that our boss is the nephew of the shop owner, Nanny!"
Then he waved his hands impatiently, as if shooing away a fly: "Get out, get out now, or I'll report you to the police!"
Ying Er raised the seal in his hand and said with a smile, "Okay, then you can report to the authorities and ask the yamen runners to come and see if we have the right to take back the shop."
The nephew of the wet nurse?
Their master's wet nurse died along with his biological mother a long time ago!
The nanny who is in charge of the shop now is also a wet nanny, but she is not their master's wet nanny. It is obvious whose wet nanny she is.
The shopkeeper's eyes, which were originally narrowed with disdain, saw the seal raised by Ying Er change again and again.
After a while, he reached out and called a waiter over, whispering, "Quick, go to the palace and ask the nanny to come!"
Seeing the clerk quickly go to call for help, he regained his composure and said calmly, "This shop has always been managed by Mammy. The master is thousands of miles away, so how can he be asked to take care of it personally?
Keeping so many servants but unable to share the master's worries is a dereliction of duty and a waste of time, isn't it? Don't bother, everyone. Not to mention that you can't make the decision, even if your master comes in person, he may not be able to make the decision! Let's wait for Nanny to come and talk about it."
Feng Meng and others' chests heaved violently with anger!
What do you mean they can’t make decisions even when their master comes?
If this shop doesn't belong to the master, does it belong to the servants who run it?
It's something I've never seen or heard of before!
Jiang Xiangbei extended his hand to signal everyone to stay calm.
"We should talk to the matron in charge in the end. There's no point arguing with them."
To catch a thief, you must first catch the leader. If you don't scare the nanny and she continues to sublet the house to others, there will be endless arguments.
The men immediately suppressed their tempers and stood behind Jiang Xiangbei with their strong bodies.
A group of people waited patiently.
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