Rebirth, guarding the mute at the tip of my heart

When Jiang Xin went upstairs, the shopkeeper was sitting on a chair concentrating on checking accounts. He looked up when he heard footsteps and frowned subconsciously when he saw two strangers, but he still stood up and greeted them with a smile:

"What kind of books are you looking for? Most of the books in our shop are on the first floor. The second floor is now used as a warehouse, and the books in it are basically on the first floor.

The books on the first floor are all placed separately, so it is easy for you to find them. Or you can tell me the title of the book you want to find and I will help you find it."

The shopkeeper had a smile on his face, but in his heart he couldn't help but scold Lu Wuliang harshly again.

This guy is getting more and more lazy. He doesn't even know how to receive guests and even puts them on the second floor!

The second floor is a mess and has not been cleaned up. If customers who come to buy books leave dissatisfied after seeing it, isn't that a disguised way of driving them away? !

Their bookstore's business was not good to begin with, and on weekdays they could only afford to hire one clerk.

The original clerk was quite diligent and he was able to work with him well. However, a while ago, the second son of his boss suddenly sent someone over, forcing him to dismiss the original clerk. Not only that, the newcomer was Lu Wuliang, who had been kicked out of the academy and had a terrible reputation!

It would be fine if he just had a bad reputation, but this guy didn't work properly. All day long he either hid behind his desk reading books or asked for leave every few days because of leg pain. But he couldn't get angry and fire him, because this guy had the support of the second young master.

However, in the past few days, his shop has been transferred to the name of the eldest young master, and the servants have also heard some rumors about the affairs of the eldest young master and the second young master's mother.

Since these two people can't get along, he might not need to keep Lu Wuliang.

Just as he was thinking about it, the shopkeeper saw the man following behind, who looked like a subordinate of the young master in front, took the initiative to speak: "Our young master is the new owner of your shop, and he came here specially to take a look today."

As he spoke, Agui took out the land deed and handed it to the shopkeeper for inspection: "This is the deed."

The shopkeeper knew it was real after just one look, and hurriedly bowed to Jiang Xin respectfully: "It turns out to be the eldest master. I was shortsighted for a moment, please forgive me, eldest master."

It's not his fault. When Jiang Xin was in the Jiang Mansion, Jiang Zhengchu didn't want him to embarrass himself, so he always went between home and the academy and seldom went anywhere else, let alone inspect the family property.

Therefore, the shop owners of several shops had never seen this elusive young master.

Unexpectedly, the young master would suddenly come to his bookstore to check things out today. The shopkeeper was inevitably a little nervous, and said haltingly, "I wonder why the young master came here today..."

"Let me take a look." Jiang Xin exempted the shopkeeper from the courtesy and asked doubtfully, "Has the business of this shop always been so quiet?"

He just walked around downstairs for a while, but no one came in. It was very quiet.

If the shop has always been like this, then the loss in the accounts is understandable.

The shopkeeper was a little embarrassed when he heard this. After thinking for a while, he finally decided to report the truth: "The original business of the shop was not good, but at least it could maintain a balance between income and expenditure. But since the second young master hired... the clerk downstairs, the business has been getting less and less."

What this means is that no matter what other abilities this guy downstairs has, he is indeed very good at driving customers away.

"Then, quit." Jiang Xin had no intention of seeing Lu Wuliang again. Even if he performed well, he didn't want to keep him, not to mention that this guy was just here to kill time.

As for why Jiang Xingyu sent the other person here, Jiang Xin could roughly guess something.

It was simply that Jiang Xingyu was afraid that his attempt to frame himself would be exposed, so he reached an agreement with the other party under Lu Wuliang's coercion.

Jiang Xin had no interest in the relationship between the two men. He just continued to say to the shopkeeper: "From now on, the accounts must be reported once a month. No concealment is allowed."

"Yes, I dare not hide anything." The shopkeeper lowered his head and said tremblingly.

The young master in front of him has the support of the wise king. Even if he is given the courage of a bear and a leopard, he dare not hide anything.

Jiang Xin nodded, and without saying anything more, he turned around and left with Agui.

When passing by downstairs again, Lu Wuliang wanted to go up and get close to him, but Jiang Xin didn't give him the chance at all and left the bookstore directly.

In this life, he had no contact with Lu Wuliang after the theft case was cleared up.

But in his previous life, this man framed him and caused him to have his legs broken and be kicked out of the house. Several years later, he still went to great lengths to find him and wanted to use his power to force him to become his mistress. The repeated harassment made him unbearable.

Even after he had clearly refused several times, Lu Wuliang still secretly did bad things and cut off his livelihood of copying books and selling wood carvings. It was really disgusting to use such despicable means to force him to submit.

He was too lazy to pay attention to this scumbag. If he had the time, wouldn't it be better to just finish the matter and go back to accompany his own prince?

Lu Wuliang didn't even have time to close his open mouth, and he watched Jiang Xin run away from him as if he was avoiding the plague god.

Lu Wuliang's face turned ashen and he was so angry that his lungs were about to explode.

What is this?! Did Jiang Xin hate him so much that he didn't even want to talk to him?

He didn't even have the time to let Jiang Xin see his broken leg, or let Jiang Xin see how miserable his life had been these days!

I don’t know if it was because Lu Wuliang had been thinking about how miserable he was, but soon, reality taught him what misery was.

After Jiang Xin left, the shopkeeper also went downstairs. When he saw Lu Wuliang standing by the desk like a fool, his face suddenly turned black and he yelled at him angrily, "You don't have to come tomorrow!"

"What?!" Lu Wuliang was still immersed in anger, but when he heard the shopkeeper's words, he immediately came to his senses and said hurriedly: "Did Jiang Xin force you to fire me?! I didn't do anything wrong, why do you treat me like this?!"

"..." The shopkeeper rolled his eyes speechlessly, thinking that this guy might have become stupid because of reading too much. This whole shop belongs to Master Jiang. Does he need a reason to fire his shop assistants?

What's more, doesn't this guy have any idea whether he has done anything wrong or not?

You sit in the shop all day long and do nothing like your ancestors. You are here to work, but you really think you are the boss? How can you be so shameless and confident to say such a thing?

The shopkeeper was too lazy to argue with this stupid guy, and said directly: "The business of the shop is not good now, and we really don't have the money to support idle people. Okay, you can leave now, I will take care of the shop myself."

After saying that, the shopkeeper waved his hand and pushed the person out, saying calmly: "Hurry up and leave! Don't affect the business of the shop."

"You, you guys——" Lu Wuliang was pushed out. Seeing that the people around him were coming to watch the fun, he remembered the scene of being surrounded and criticized by everyone in the county government office that day. After all, he didn't want to experience it again. He just gritted his teeth and glared at the shopkeeper and said, "You are going too far!"

The shopkeeper sneered, turned around and slammed the door shut. Business had been slow these days anyway, so it wouldn't hurt to delay for a day.

I don’t know who is going too far. The business of Jiang’s shop has never been good. He has worked hard for so many years before it has seen a slight improvement.

The original clerk in the shop was actually his nephew. As he was old, he wanted to let his nephew work hard and then ask the owner to let his nephew take over his position as shopkeeper.

Who would have thought that the second young master would give him such an unlucky guy, who took his nephew's place, and couldn't even help him at all? Who could he complain to? !

Fortunately, now that he has changed his boss, he can finally get rid of this guy as he wished. As for letting his nephew inherit his position as the shopkeeper...

The shopkeeper sighed, shook his head and went upstairs to settle the accounts. Well, just let it be. He would be thankful as long as the new boss didn't bring in some guys who only eat and do nothing and cause trouble.

*

Jiang Xin didn't know what the shopkeeper was praying for, so after leaving the bookstore, he went to the cosmetics shop.

His original plan was to close the cosmetics shop and choose one of the clothing store and bookstore, converting the two stores into a glass shop. As for the shop assistants and the manager, if they were still capable, he would continue to employ them. If not, he would find someone else.

Now, after Jiang Xin looked at the two shops before, he already had some ideas in mind.

Now I just need to go and see how the owner of the cosmetics shop is doing.

Jiang Xin looked at the previous accounts. Even though the shop got cheap goods from the Su family, the business was so good, which at least showed that the man had some skills.

Who would have thought that when they got nearby, they saw a lot of people gathered in front of the shop, as if they were watching some excitement.

Ah Gui helped his son push the crowd aside and asked the people around him curiously, "Excuse me, is there something going on here?"

The people watching the excitement nearby were just worried that no one would gossip, so when they heard this, they immediately said with great interest: "Do you know the Jiang Mansion? It's the one that has caused a lot of trouble recently. I heard that the Jiang Mansion has caused a big incident recently, and many of the shops under it have changed owners, just like this cosmetics shop, which is now owned by Young Master Jiang.

Although they all have the surname Jiang, Young Master Jiang has now left the Jiang family and is no longer considered a family member. However, this cosmetics shop used to be Madam Jiang's dowry, and the shopkeeper is said to be Madam Jiang's confidant.

The people quarreling in here right now are the shopkeeper and the second son of the Jiang family, and it’s a fierce quarrel!”

Ah Gui was stunned when he heard this: "Isn't the Second Young Master Jiang the son of Madam Jiang? If he is a close confidant, why are they quarreling?"

The man shook his head, and said with some emotion and sigh: "The Jiang family was ruined by Madam Jiang, and the second young master was naturally abandoned by Lord Jiang. Now he is very poor and has no money, so he set his sights on this shop.

The second young master thought that the shopkeeper was his mother's confidant, and it should be easy for him to withdraw some money from him. However, he didn't expect that the shopkeeper was also a cruel person. He turned against him and even wanted to arrest him and bring him to the authorities for theft!

The second son of the Jiang family was furious on the spot, shouting that the shopkeeper had made a lot of money over the years because he helped to cover it up. If he went to see the official, let's see who would die first! "

After saying that, the man paused again and said with interest: "In my opinion, these two people are just biting each other, both of them are not good people!

Young Master Jiang was so bold as to come and take the silver, it was obviously not the first time he did this.

In the past, these two people should have helped each other and taken what they needed. But now, the boss has changed, and it is well known that the eldest and second sons of the Jiang family are not on good terms. The shopkeeper wants to seize the opportunity of the second son of the Jiang family to show goodwill to the new boss in order to keep his position.

Who would have thought that this second young master was such a ruthless character, willing to self-destruct rather than risk mutual destruction with the shopkeeper, tsk tsk tsk!"

What a great show.

Jiang Xin & Agui: "..."

"Let's go back." Jiang Xin immediately lost the desire to go shopping inside, and said directly to Agui: "Close the shop for a few days. Later, find someone to investigate how much the shopkeeper and Jiang Xingyu have embezzled, and ask them to return it. If they can't, send them to see the officials."

"Yes." Agui nodded, silently writing down what he was going to do, and then asked, "Sir, do you want to go and have a look at some other places?"

The Jiang family had to compensate for many more shops than just these few. Since we are here now, it would be fine to take a look at them all at once. If the shop owner is too outrageous, it would be better to replace him as soon as possible.

However, Jiang Xin just shook his head and said seriously: "The rest is not urgent, so you need to come with, Your Highness."

I promised to support His Highness and show His Highness my strength!

Agui: “…” Okay, as long as you two are happy.

*

Just when Jiang Xin finished his work and quickly went back to find his prince, he didn't know that there was a few acquaintances in a certain place who were talking about them.

The second prince's residence.

The second prince was sitting in the study, looking at the counselor standing beside him with a satisfied look on his face, and said admiringly: "Brother Yuan is indeed as good as a god. Originally, when my fourth brother married into the Jiang family, I thought he would get in touch with Xie Ze.

Who knew that Xie Ze not only did not become close to them, but also turned around and destroyed the Jiang family. Fourth brother was also implicated because of this. I guess he will have to keep his tail between his legs for a long time, haha!"

However, the handsome man called Mr. Yuan by the Second Prince was not as optimistic as the Second Prince. Instead, he said seriously, "The Fourth Prince is nothing to be afraid of. The Wei family is powerful, and His Majesty will sooner or later not tolerate him.

The person Your Highness should be most wary of now is the wise king.

The virtuous prince is a ruthless person, commands a large army, and is deeply favored by Your Majesty. He will never be content to be a carefree prince. Your Highness must be on guard and do everything in his power to prevent him from gaining power."

The second prince frowned upon hearing this: "But Xie Ze is only the nephew of the emperor after all..."

If he rashly targeted Xie Ze now, wouldn't that give the Fourth Brother an opportunity to take advantage? You know, the Fourth Brother is his biggest rival in the fight for the throne.

"It is precisely because he is your nephew that he can keep a low profile and be ignored by your highnesses." Mr. Yuan said coldly, "He is also ignored by your majesty. No matter what he wants to do, people will be less wary of him."

The second prince's face became solemn, thinking about what Mr. Yuan had pointed out before, he sat up straight and asked for advice humbly: "Please give me some advice, Brother Yuan."

Mr. Yuan's expression eased, he bent down and lowered his voice and said, "From the Jiang family incident, it can be seen that Jiang Xin of the Jiang family is Xie Ze's Achilles' heel. In this case, Your Highness can do this..."

The second prince listened carefully, then immediately slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Not bad! Sir, it is indeed a good idea. I will do it right away!"

Mr. Yuan took a step back, looked at the Second Prince's excitement, nodded and smiled slightly.