After the system ran, I took off with my family

"Mr. Zhao's kindness has led to him being ungrateful. This guy is really a fool. If you can't afford to lose, don't play!"

"That's right, he slandered others without even explaining the reason. Hey... Could he be trying to blackmail Manager Gao and Mr. Zhao?"

In the crowd, the gray-clothed man who had been helping Mr. Zhao at the beginning pointed at Hu Lei and deliberately talked loudly with his companions around him.

"Oh, it's possible..."

The man's companion echoed.

The rest of the onlookers also looked at the Hu Lei brothers with strange eyes.

Hu Guang pulled his brother who wanted to rush forward, and glanced back and forth between Manager Gao behind the counter and Master Zhao in front of the counter.

Suddenly, he spoke in a loud voice: "When my eldest brother opened the jadeite before, I saw this shopkeeper Gao glanced at Mr. Zhao and Master Wu secretly.

I was a little confused at the time, but now I understand everything. It turns out that you are all in the same group!

This Zhao deliberately approached my eldest brother and lured him to gamble on stones. After letting him get a taste of the sweetness, he then persuaded him to buy scraps!"

Hu Guang's words caused an uproar in the crowd. The guests who had originally just been there to watch the show immediately changed their expressions to a serious one, and looked at Manager Wu and Mr. Zhao.

When Hu Lei heard what his second brother said, he was furious and shouted, "So you guys are the ones who killed me! I'm going to fight you!"

After saying that, he shook off Hu Guang's hand, clenched his fists and rushed towards Mr. Zhao and Manager Gao, but before he got to them, he was stopped by several strong men in the store.

When Hu Guang saw his elder brother being held captive, he rushed over to help. However, he was no match for those strong men and was soon pinned down by them.

"What nonsense!"

Shopkeeper Gao was so angry that his beard trembled. He pointed at the Hu Lei brothers who were being held down and shouted, "You are really making trouble. I have opened this shop in the jade market for more than ten years, and this is the first time I have heard someone slander me like this."

"You are all in the same gang! I'm going to report it to the police! Let them arrest you all!"

Hu Lei glared and struggled desperately.

Manager Gao glanced down at him, his expression unchanged as he said, "I am upright and honest, and you cannot slander me with empty words! You say we are in the same group, then show me the evidence!"

"I..."

Hu Lei, who fell to the ground, had his lips trembling, but he could not utter a word. Tears of regret and despair flowed from his red eyes.

Hu Guang looked at his elder brother who had fallen into despair, and couldn't help but tear up. But what should he do now? They couldn't produce any evidence, so were they just going to admit it?

"These two brothers look quite pitiful. Could what they said be true?"

In the crowd, some people felt sorry for the two middle-aged men who looked so desperate.

"But Shopkeeper Gao has run this shop for more than ten years, and no one has ever said that he is cheating people. It must be that these two brothers lost money and are trying to extort money from them."

The man in gray retorted with disdain.

"But the brothers don't look fake..."

The onlookers were talking to each other, and were a little hesitant for a moment.

"Young Master, I just saw the shopkeeper winking at those people in the crowd who were speaking for him." Qingzhi leaned close to Lin Shuyue's ear and whispered.

Lin Shuyue turned her head and glanced at her in surprise. This little girl was quite observant.

Seeing this, she also realized that the Hu Lei brothers must have encountered a "pig killing scam"!

First, they found someone to get close to Hu Lei, and lured him to gamble on stones with the promise of being a powerful stone gambling master and offering high returns. Then they deliberately selected some good materials for him, and after he got addicted, they instigated him to invest all his money to buy the waste materials they had selected.

She had seen such a scam in her previous life, but the person there was even worse off than Hu Lei. After losing all his cash, he was lured into borrowing a lot of high-interest loans.

But she did not sympathize with Hu Lei. If he had not been unable to resist the temptation and was too greedy, he would have deserved his fate.

However...Lin Shuyue's gaze stopped on Manager Gao and Master Zhao.

"I'm telling you, no matter how much you try to make trouble, I won't return the money to you. If you continue to make trouble, I'll report you to the police."

Manager Gao snorted coldly, glanced at the crowd that had not yet dispersed, sighed helplessly, and waved his hand to signal his men to let go of the Hu Lei brothers.

"Okay, stop looking so pitiful. It's my bad luck. I'll take the three bricks you cut out for eighty taels of silver. That way you don't have to pay me back the seventy-five taels of silver you owe me. I won't bother with your slander."

After that, he signaled the shop assistant to take the IOU and tear it up in front of everyone. He then took out five taels of silver and stuffed it into Hu Lei's arms, saying earnestly, "Here, this is the extra five taels of silver. Take it. Don't go to this kind of place if you can't afford to lose it in the future. You may not meet someone as kind as me next time."

"Manager Gao is so kind and righteous!"

"Yes, those two brothers had framed him like that, but he still spent eighty taels of silver to buy their brick materials. That was really noble!"

The onlookers praised Manager Gao's words.

Seeing that there was no way out, Hu Guang had no choice but to swallow his anger and pull Hu Lei, who was like a walking corpse, out.

"Wait!"

Lin Shuyue lowered her voice and called out to them, and the people in the store looked over.

"Sir, who are you?"

Hu Guang supported Hu Lei with a puzzled look on his face.

"I am just an ordinary guest. I just have one thing I don't understand, so I would like to ask your brother."

Lin Shuyue waved a fan, looking like a rich young man.

Hu Guang didn't understand what was going on, but looking at her dress he felt that he couldn't afford to offend her, so he quickly pulled Hu Lei's sleeve, motioning him to answer.

Lin Shuyue looked at Hu Lei, who had come to his senses but still looked depressed, and asked, "Brother, you said you selected 28 pieces of raw materials, and after you cut them, 25 of them were waste materials, and the other three were brick materials?"

"Yes, that's right." Hu Lei replied in a muffled voice, then raised his voice again, pointing at Master Wu who had remained silent from beginning to end, and said unwillingly: "However, those materials were really chosen by that liar surnamed Wu. I don't know how to gamble on stones at all. I just listened to him."

"Oh, you are such a jerk! Why are you still trying to wrongly accuse someone?"

Mr. Zhao quickly put away his fan and pointed at Hu Lei in frustration.

"You are liars, a gang of liars!"

Hu Lei roared with a ferocious look on his face.

"Don't be impatient."

Lin Shuyue glanced at Hu Lei, and then said with interest: "Let's not talk about whether this material was chosen by you or Master Wu.

I'm just a little curious. There are more than a hundred pieces of raw materials displayed in this store, how come all the ones I picked out are waste?

Is it you or Master Wu who has smelly hands, or is there something else going on? "

"Yeah, no matter how unlucky you are, it's impossible that you can't pick a good one, right? Could there really be something fishy going on?"

"That's right, my hands shouldn't be this smelly..."

The guests who had been listening to the excitement with their ears perked up also had some doubts and began to whisper to each other.