Zhu Nao

A few days later, several men sneaked into the Gaomen compound through the back door.

In the back garden, a plump woman was sitting on a chair, fiddling with her fingers carelessly: "What did you bring?"

The leader waved his hand, and the people behind presented three boxes.The man said: "This is a gift prepared by a businessman from Langzhou for Madam. Do you want to see it?"

The woman lazily said: "Open it and have a look."

The man opened the first box first, and it contained a pair of bright green jadeite earrings.

When the green light came out of the box, the eyes of the woman who was sitting languidly lit up, and she involuntarily leaned forward, her eyes fixed on the pair of excellent jade earrings.

The man asked, "Does Madam like it?"

The woman forcibly retracted her gaze and said, "What else did you bring?"

The man opened the second jewelry box.The green light still came out of the box, and a transparent jade bracelet lying quietly in the box, glowing thickly under the sunlight.

The woman couldn't help putting her hands on her chest, feeling her breathing was a little tight.

The man fetched a third jewelry box, which was much bigger than the first two.Just as he was about to open it, he suddenly heard the woman say: "Wait a minute, let me see for myself."

The man hurriedly sent the box over, and stepped aside by himself.

The woman put the big box on her lap and opened the box a crack.The third green light came out of the box, and she immediately opened the lid of the box.Lying in the jewelry box was a whole set of emerald heads.The head and face are emerald green, and the aura is compelling.

Her expression was uncontrollable, her butt on the chair moved around, and she couldn't wait to go into the room to try it on.

The man observed her expression and asked, "Does Madam still like it?"

The woman's eyes turned green: "Okay, very good."

The man said: "Then please Madam..."

The woman waved her hands again and again: "Isn't it just to trouble that little slut? Don't worry, this matter - bag! On! Me! Body! On!"

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In the evening, Wang Zhoumu's servants were sweeping the floor in the yard, when they suddenly heard the sound of arguing in the room.He quickly pricked up his ears and slowly approached the room.

In the room, the woman's tone was sometimes aggressive and sometimes coquettish.

"You can promise that foxy, why can't you promise me? Tell me, do you lose me in your heart? When you married me, you clearly said that I was your favorite!"

"What? That's her real brother? My cousin is closer than her real brother!"

"I don't care, I don't care, if you don't agree, I won't let you out of my door."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

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The next day, Zhu Nao was sitting in the yard looking through the ledger, when Li Xiang walked in with a happy face: "Zhu Zhoumu, we got the approval from the state government!!!"

Zhu Nao put down the ledger: "Oh?"

Li Xiang hurriedly handed him the approval document he had just received, and said happily: "That lady loves jadeite. Zhu Zhoumu's jadeite was sent to her, but she was very happy. I heard that she pestered Wang Zhoumu all night. This morning Wang Zhoumu I didn't even go to the state capital, and the approval came out in the afternoon!"

The smoothness of this matter far exceeded Li Xiang's imagination.In the past, Li Xiang also thought about getting involved in the grain and grass business, after all, this business is profitable.But he invited a lot of guests and entrusted a lot of connections, but none of them came in handy.As a result, as soon as Zhu Nao came, it was easily solved!I have to say that Zhu Nao's eyes are still vicious.He relies on his wife's relationship, so he also uses his wife's relationship, which is really better than other men's relationship.

Zhu Nao smiled, stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go to the shop."

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Li Xiang already had a few shops in Yuzhou, which he bought when the business was the best.However, the business has been sluggish in the past two years. He has already vacated some shops and is about to sell them out. It just so happens that Zhu Nao came, so his shop can be vacated for Zhu Nao to use.

He took Zhu Nao for a walk around the city, visited all the shops in his hands, and said: "If brother Zhu is not satisfied, I know a few friends, and there are shops in my hand that can be vacated. I'll take you to see it again."

Zhu Nao said: "No need, just the one in the south of the city, I think it's pretty good."

Li Xiang was taken aback: "Ah? That one? But that shop is very small and the location is not very good. How do you do business here?"

Although Wang Zhoumu approved them to operate grain, he only allowed them to open one store, so the location of the store is very important.The shop in the south of the city was originally used as a pawn shop, and it was only about two feet deep.And the Kailiang shop needs to stock up on a large amount of goods, so such a small shop can't stock much at all.

But Zhu Nao said, "It doesn't matter, I have my own way."

Li Xiang thought for a while, then asked cautiously: "Brother Zhu chose where, because it is near Zhengda Grain Shop?" The Zhengda Grain Shop is the one opened by Wang Zhoumu's brother-in-law.

Zhu Nao smiled: "Yeah. We're close, so we can grab their business."

Li Xiang licked his lips, and said dryly: "Brother Zhu, you must be better than me in terms of business. But we have to prepare for one thing first. Although we have obtained the approval for business, but here is Chongqing People in Yuzhou and Yuzhou do things differently from those in Langzhou. Wang Zhoumu’s brother-in-law is not a good person. If there is a conflict between the two parties...the conflict will become bigger...he is his brother-in-law after all, we just bribed him If you need to rely on the Yuzhou government to solve the problem, they may not help you."

This is already quite euphemistic. To put it bluntly, the brother-in-law is likely to use unfair means to compete.Now that the law and order in Yuzhou is so chaotic, it is hard to say what will happen.

Zhu Nao said, "Are you afraid of offending that brother-in-law?"

Li Xiang dared not speak.

Zhu Nao said: "If the store opens to the north of the city, can't you offend him? You will offend both left and right, so what do you do to avoid him?"

Li Xiang was speechless for a moment.That's true.As long as they open a grain store, they will definitely have conflicts with that brother-in-law.It's just that if you drive a little farther away, maybe people won't be so angry.But directly opening the store next to someone's house, the meaning of provocation is obvious...

Zhu Nao comforted: "You don't have to worry about Yuzhou Prefecture. In the first few days of opening the store, I will try my best to arrange as many people as possible to maintain order, and you will also help mobilize some friends to help keep an eye on it. If someone wants to make trouble, we will know in advance It can be dealt with in advance. As long as it lasts for ten days and a half months, the rest of the matter will not be decided by the Yuzhou government."

Li Xiang was dumbfounded: "Huh?" In Yuzhou, the government of Yuzhou doesn't count, so who has the final say?

However, Zhu Nao looked confident, so Li Xiang could only follow his instructions and arrange to go quickly.

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At the window of the large grain store, Lou Yi collected a sum of money and handed out a bag of grain, and there were no customers outside the window.

The bored clerk in the store swung to the window to take a look, and muttered, "It feels like our business has gotten worse since that lunatic made a fuss two days ago."

Lou Yi glanced at him: "Are you new here?"

The clerk hurriedly said, "Shopkeeper, I've only been here for a month."

Lou Yi sorted out the copper coins in the box nonchalantly: "You don't understand the new ones. Just wait and see, business will improve in two days."

Business has not been very good these two days.Although there are still a constant stream of customers, there is often a long line outside the window on weekdays. The line is not long these two days. As long as the shop assistants move quickly, the line will be empty.Presumably it has something to do with what happened two days ago.

From Lou Yi's point of view, what happened two days ago was simply a trivial matter.This kind of thing actually happens several times a month.There are far times when the trouble is bigger than this time.I don't know why, but this time the incident was quite popular. When he came home last night, even his family members asked him if the grain store had started arguing with customers again because of the lack of catties.It is said that when I go out, the neighbors are talking about it, and I don’t know who is so free, and a small incident is spread to the whole city.

But even if the news spread, Lou Yi didn't care.Every time something happened in the grain store, the business would be quiet for a few days.But it will only be a few days at most, and soon the line outside will be re-lined up, and those guests will come back again.

Not for anything else, just because the people in the city have no choice at all.They are the only ones in the whole city who are able to manage food in a serious manner. The common people may not drink tea or wear shoes, but they have to eat.What kind of temper, if you are hungry, you will be gone.

Lou Yi was counting money with her head lowered for fun, when she caught sight of another person coming in front of her out of the corner of her eye, she asked nonchalantly, "What do you want?"

The man didn't speak.

Lou Yi was in a bad mood, and rolled his eyes impatiently: "Buy it or not? If you don't buy it, get out..." As soon as the words fell, he saw who was standing in front of him, and jumped up from his chair in fright .And because he moved too quickly, his foot tripped over the leg of the chair, and he fell backward.

"Bang!" Lou Yi fell on all fours.

The clerk in the store rushed over to help Lou Yi up, and when he saw the person outside the window, he quickly nodded and bowed to salute: "Boss."

Lou Yi fell so badly that she barely stopped, and hurriedly bowed to the man and smiled apologetically, "Master, why are you here?"

Standing outside the window was a tall and fat man with a pair of upside-down eyes and a bulbous nose, and a very mean face.This person is none other than the owner of this grain shop, that is, Wu Liang, Wang Zhoumu's brother-in-law.

Wu Liang said with a straight face: "Where are the guests? Why are there no guests outside?"

Lou Yi hurriedly said: "Just, I just finished entertaining a batch, and it happened that there was no one else."

Wu Liang's face was still very ugly.

Lou Yi hurriedly came out from the door on the side, and rushed to Wu Liang: "Master, come into the shop and sit down? Have some hot tea?"

"Why do you sit, the store smells musty." Wu Liang looked disgusted, "I'm going to see who the bastard dared to take our business!"

"What, what?" Lou Yi suspected that she had heard wrong, "Business?"

Speaking of this topic, Wu Liang's face turned as dark as burnt firewood, and he gritted his teeth: "Mrs. Zhou, that bastard, I don't know where to get a cousin from Langzhou, and he insists on making a noise in the city to open food." Shop! Zhou Mu was given ecstasy soup by her, and she really agreed!"

Lou Yi was dumbfounded: "Huh???"

Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Wu have never dealt with each other. I heard that the two of them competed fiercely for favor.At the beginning of this year, Mrs. Zhou had just given birth to a son for Wang Zhoumu, and she has been in the limelight recently.When Lou Yi heard these gossips before, she thought it was a matter of women competing for favor, but who would have thought that they would actually win his job? !

He hurriedly asked, "Where are they going to open a store?"

Wu Liang was even angrier: "It's at the corner of the street, I heard that the shop that used to be a pawn shop has been sold by them!"

"Huh?" Lou Yi stared.Isn't that just turning a street on the side? !

Wu Liang came here today just to see the new store.He turned around and walked towards the pawnshop, Lou Yi hurriedly ordered the waiter to look at the grain shop, and chased after him.

The location of the new store is very close, turn right at the intersection, and walk two steps forward, the original pawn shop will arrive.Now the pawn shop has long been closed, and the grain shop has not yet opened.

Wu Liang stepped forward and kicked the door fiercely. The door of the shop was kicked open, and the inside was empty, with no one there.He broke in and wanted to smash something to vent his anger, but unfortunately there was nothing in the store for him to smash.

Lou Yi also followed into the store, looked around, and let go of a lot of anxiety: "It's such a small store, it can't fit all the goods, what kind of grain store can this open?"

Seeing that Wu Liang was very angry, he quickly comforted him: "My boss, don't be angry. Mrs. Zhou created such a cousin just to compete with Mrs. Wu. I think his cousin doesn't know how to run a business at all. Opening the store in such a place, it is clear that he wants to fight against us. But he doesn't think about it, why can he fight against us?"

He also said: "Our family has always been the only one who manages food in Yuzhou. They want to get their hands on it. Do you know how to do it? In terms of financial resources and connections, how can they compare with us? I think his shabby shop may not be able to do it in a few months." Open it. Even if it is opened, I will be able to run him and close the door in a few days!"

It's not that Lou Yi is talking big, he really has such confidence.Since Langzhou is the only one that deals in grain, other small merchants and hawkers don't even have the ability to go to other states to buy grain.Now that someone wants to compete with them, don't they have to start by looking for sources of goods and opening up business routes?This is what they toss.Moreover, Zhengda Grain Shop is now a big shop bully. If there is a competitor, it is not impossible for them to do a good job. He still does not believe that the opponent can match them in terms of financial resources.At that time, if the big deal is to lower the price, he can quickly defeat the opponent.

Hearing what Lou Yi said, Wu Liang finally looked a little better.He doesn't know how to run a business, but relying on his relationship with the state herdsman to run amok, Lou Yi has always been in charge of the shop's affairs.He said coldly: "You can figure it out. If you have the ability to clean them up, it will save me trouble." If he bothers, it's not just a business matter.

Lou Yi hurriedly said: "My boss, don't worry, this matter is on me!"