Chapter 275 A Farce to Buy a Shop (4)_1
After learning about these developments, Mo Yan deliberately brought Lizhong to the teahouse opposite Zhang Ji’s rice shop and booked a private room on the second floor. From the window, they could easily see Zhang Ji’s rice shop.
They watched for a long time and saw that the normally unspectacular business of Zhang Ji’s rice shop had become even more desolate. Many people who knew the inside story pointed fingers and talked about it, dissuading uninformed customers who wanted to enter to buy rice. They then spilled all the misdeeds of the Zhang Family, and those who had wanted to buy rice fled hastily upon hearing them, not daring to enter the shop!
Upon seeing this, Lizhong muttered the word "retribution" to himself. The word was not only for his poor daughter but also for those others poisoned by the moldy rice.
If the Zhang Family had merely been emotionally detached, he might have resented them but would not have had other thoughts. Now that the Zhang Family had committed such selfish acts, his disdain deepened.
Who else but such people deserve retribution?
Inside Zhang Ji’s rice shop, the delicate-faced Zhang Ming sat beside the counter with a troubled expression, holding a one-year-old child—the seductive woman beside him was his former mistress, now his wife, Yao Taohua.
Zhang Fugui had been beaten with dozens of rods and lay immobile in bed; needing the care of the Hu family, he was unable to tend to the shop, which was temporarily overseen by Zhang Ming and his wife.
"Tell me, what’s the use of being so tall if you can’t even bring in business? You can’t think of any ideas either. If this continues, our household won’t even be able to lift the pot off the fire! Do you want to starve our Baobao to death?"