Chapter 384: Convergence(4)_1
With these many additional hands, Cai Wei no longer had to worry about not having enough meat skewers to sell. She relaxed and instructed Zhang Biaotou to seek a trustworthy mediator to carry out the purchase of the manor.
The Zhang brothers were all escorts, living a dangerous life on the edge of a blade. Cai Wei did not want them to belittle themselves by stringing the meat skewers in the back kitchen, so she instructed the remaining four brothers to take their old mother and families and go outside to find a mid-sized home to settle them temporarily.
Once the Zhang brothers left, Cai Wei sat down with everyone to string skewers, chatting casually as she worked.
Chun Liu mysteriously claimed, "Miss, you wouldn’t know, but after you left, our previous home turned into quite a spectacle!"
The ’previous home’ was the Bafu Restaurant back in Qingyun Town, the home seized by the main house. Cai Wei started laughing. She didn’t need Chun Liu to elaborate, she already knew what was going to follow. After all, she had arranged everything ahead of time.
Unaware that Cai Wei already knew, Chun Liu continued to tell her story like it was breaking news.
"The family that moved in later tidied up our old house, spending a good deal of money on renovations before buying a lot more furniture and fixtures. Altogether, less than a hundred and eighty taels would be unthinkable. But who could have thought that, only two days after they started living in the renovated house with the new furniture, the former shopkeeper of the Bafu Restaurant returned, brandishing the contract signed by you from before, asking them to move out."
"Would that family comply? They sulked, screamed, rolled on the ground, causing a ruckus that lasted the better part of the day. Then, Shopkeeper Cui lost his patience. He called on some hooligans and had those folks, along with their belongings, thrown out. Now, guess what happened next?"
Chun Liu intentionally left her listeners hanging, stopping right before the climax, chuckling as she looked at Cai Wei with bright eyes.
Cai Wei, smiling, asked, "What happened?"
Chun Liu covered her mouth to chuckle, her face flushed and wouldn’t continue with the story.