Chapter 81: The Fight Begins
Everyone was rendered speechless by Zhao Chun. At this moment, Wang Fuhai laughed. "It seems like your third brother genuinely cares about you. For a prescription worth fifty taels, he’s offering ten taels just because you’re his brother. No wonder his restaurant has no business. Turns out his heart is too dark."
Hearing this, Zhao Chun’s face fell, and he looked unfriendlily at Wang Fuhai. "Who are you? This is our family business. What’s an outsider like you meddling for?"
Wang Fuhai didn’t get angry and replied slowly, "Eh, my friend, you’re mistaken. I just bought two prescriptions from your Brother for one hundred taels. In other words, these two prescriptions now belong to my Guang Ju Restaurant. You tell me, is this still your family business?"
At these words, Zhao Chun was immediately shocked. "What did you say? You bought the prescriptions?!"
Wang Fuhai ignored him and simply nodded farewell to Zhao Dong. "Alright, I’ll take the prescriptions now. We had a pleasant cooperation. If there are any more prescriptions, come find me again."
Having said that, he walked towards the door, and Zhao Dong quickly went to see him off.
Just after Wang Fuhai left, Zhao Chun, his face full of accusation and all pretense of brotherly love gone, began to complain, "Brother! What do you mean by this? Don’t you know that my restaurant and Guang Ju Restaurant are mortal enemies? And you still sold the prescriptions to them; what exactly are your intentions!"
Zhao Dong sneered inwardly but pretended to be pitiful on the surface. "Third Brother, what are you saying? Others sought me out to buy the prescription. They saw my misery and offered fifty taels of silver. You know what your Brother is like now. With this life-saving fifty taels of silver, how could I not sell? Or are you saying you want to see your Brother die?"
Zhao Chun’s face turned ashen. So, Zhao Dong’s words implied that he, his own third brother, was worth less than a stranger who, seeing his hardship, had offered fifty taels of silver!
Although furious, he was too ashamed to stay any longer. So, he had to take the pastries he had brought and left in a frustrated rage.
When he returned home, still fuming, his wife was in the courtyard disciplining their younger daughter.
After Zhao Cai returned home, she heard that Zhao Zhitong had started school. She had always been competitive since childhood and loved to compare herself to Zhao Zhitong.