Seeing Zhou Yun's arrival, Tong Mu quickly stood up to greet him and said with a smile: "Cousin, why do you want to come here today?"
Zhou Yun smiled and explained: "I was just here with a few friends. Because I was a little hungry, I came to Liufangju to have some food and wine." As he said that, he seemed to have just noticed the shopkeeper Wu beside him. Asked: "Old Wu, why are you crying and sad, but is there anything wrong with you?"
Looking at this poor acting, a trace of disapproval flashed in Sun Tu's eyes. But he was not in a hurry to clarify the problem, but wanted to see what this person could do when he came here. But Tong Mu seemed not to see any problem, and followed the other party's question and said: "Because I was worried that Liufangju's business would be slow, I wanted to ask Sanlang to help me come up with ideas. As a result, Shopkeeper Wu..."
When Zhou Yun heard this, his expression darkened, and his hostile eyes fell on Sun Tu's face: "You encouraged the second young master to do this, right? You are so brave!"
Facing Zhou Yun's aggressive look, Sun Tu didn't show any signs of nervousness. He just looked at him and said, "I don't understand Mr. Zhou's words. What does instigation mean?"
"Hmph, do you know how many years Lao Wu has been in my Tong family, and how many years he has been helping to take care of Liufang's residence? I'm afraid you weren't around at that time!" Zhou Yun said angrily: "He was in charge of Liufang back then. I have made this hotel one of the seventy-two in the capital. But now that some difficulties have arisen, are you actually going to encourage the Second Young Master to fire such an old minister? If the matter is spread, people will How do people in Tokyo view him and our Tong family?"
Tong Muxin said that I had never had such a plan, but before she said anything, she heard Zhou Yun continue: "Second Young Master, there is no such thing as a guarantee of profit or loss in business. Although the business in Liufangju has been deserted recently, You can't get much interest, but you can't treat the old man of my Tong family so badly. In my opinion, the most hateful thing is Sun Tu. It must be his greed for profit that makes you make such a stupid decision. It’s coming!”
Tong Mu was unable to react to this sudden attack. Sun Tu had no intention of defending himself at this time. He just watched Zhou Yun perform, but he had already vaguely guessed something in his heart.
At this time, two of the young masters who followed Zhou Yun also stepped forward to persuade him: "Second Young Master Tong, although we are all outsiders, we still have to say something. You really shouldn't spend a couple of days with you just for the sake of someone." Yue, maybe someone has ulterior motives for treating an old man of his own in this way, and if word gets out, your reputation will not be good."
Shopkeeper Wu expressed his position at the right time: "Second Young Master, if you really want to exempt me from this job, I will definitely not dare to complain. I will only blame myself for my inability to do things well. I will bring all the blame on myself..."
Well, now there are people singing the song with red faces and white faces, and Tong Mu is obviously not a decisive character. At this time, it is naturally impossible to stick to the idea just now. He can only smile bitterly: "What my cousin said is that I have some I’m too eager, so let’s put this matter aside for now.”
"Thank you, Second Young Master. I will try my best to take care of the restaurant from now on, and I will never let you down." Shopkeeper Wu breathed a sigh of relief and quickly thanked him. Several others also said that Tong Mu was knowledgeable. Afterwards, several people started eating and drinking at the same table as Tong Mu. Although they were talking and laughing during the dinner, they deliberately ignored Sun Tu and made him look bored.
Tong Mu naturally saw all this, so not long after, he left the restaurant with Sun Tu on the pretext that he had something else to do. Seeing them leaving in embarrassment, Zhou Yun showed a look of pride in his eyes: "If I had known you had such a temper, I would naturally have plenty of means to deal with you."
After leaving the restaurant, Tong Guan looked at Sun Tu apologetically: "Sanlang, I'm going to disappoint you this time. I did lack some consideration. In addition, my cousin and the others came unexpectedly, so... "
Sun Tu and he led the horse and walked slowly. When he heard this, he laughed: "Why, second brother, don't you see? Mr. Zhou is a reinforcement specially invited by shopkeeper Wu."
"Oh?" When Tong Mu heard this, he frowned and seemed to understand.
"When shopkeeper Wu invited us upstairs just now, he winked at the waiter on the side, but I saw this. And what a coincidence. Not long after we arrived today, Mr. Zhou suddenly led someone to rush us. Go, he is clearly coming for us."
Tong Mu suddenly nodded: "I see, that's no wonder."
"What's even more strange is Shopkeeper Wu's reaction. Why would he want to ask Mr. Zhou to come to the rescue? Also, when I asked him just now about why the wine prices in the foot shops outside are lower than ours, he also flashed the other Ci, things are not simple." Sun Tu expressed his doubts again.
"So you suspect that this is shopkeeper Wu who has done something secretly? But he is indeed an old man of my Tong family for many years. He has been taking care of the restaurant before my uncle gave it to me. How could he..."
It's not because you look easy to bully. It's not easy for Sun Tu to say this directly, but he just said from another angle: "This should be because someone is supporting him, so he becomes bolder and greedier. After all, people's hearts It’s not enough.”
"You mean cousin?" Tong Mu said hesitantly, and then thought of something: "Speaking of which, my uncle did leave Liufangju to my cousin to take care of. But then I arrived in Tokyo, and my uncle wanted to It gave me some potential, so the restaurant was handed over to my name again."
"That's the root cause. Mr. Zhou obviously didn't want someone to take away a piece of his own meat, so he took this trick." Sun Tu nodded clearly, which could explain why shopkeeper Wu suddenly met him. If you are in trouble, you will think of asking Zhou Yun for help. It turns out that they are in the same group. In addition, they knew Tong Mu's character well and knew that he was a gentleman who could be bullied, so they used the Tong family's elders and their own reputation to sway him, thus making him change his mind.
"But... what tricks did they do in the dark?" Tong Mu already believed Sun Tu's inference, but he still had some doubts in his heart.
Sun Tu looked at several foot shops on the roadside, thought for a moment and said: "The truth of the matter should fall on these foot shops. They should not dare to do anything else today. In two days we will be in secret Take a look and you should be able to discover something."
After Tong Mu hesitated for a while, he finally agreed with his suggestion, but his face was not so pretty. After all, no one would be happy if someone plotted something like this behind his back.
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Three days later, it was approaching dusk.
People were still coming and going in the market. Many pedestrians, after feeling hungry, went to a nearby hotel to buy wine and food to eat and drink. This made many hotels along the street do good business.
The only thing that is a little different is Liufangju. This restaurant, which looked quite grand, had only a few customers at the moment. Both the shopkeeper and the waiters were leaning on the counter with a lazy look, showing no intention of attracting customers.
But just after the sky darkened, shopkeeper Wu suddenly started to move. While ordering a waiter to guard the front, he already led the people to the back door. After a while, several bullock carts sneaked up in the alley where the back door of the restaurant was.
After seeing the pot-bellied businessman who brought the bullock cart, Shopkeeper Wu laughed and asked, "How much do you want this time?"
"If it were still the old price, it would cost two hundred jars."
"I think you'd better ask for more. We've had some problems in the restaurant recently. Maybe I'll have to stay here for a month or two."
"Oh? Then I need three hundred jars." The businessman was easy to talk to. He immediately stretched out three fingers and said: "But I don't have so much cash with me. I will give it to you in two days?"
"Well, let's pay the two hundred dollars first." Shopkeeper Wu nodded with satisfaction.
After the other party handed over a large package, shopkeeper Wu quickly ordered someone to completely open the back door and let the bullock carts in. It took a while before the bullock carts came out again, but the originally empty carts were now filled with wine jars.
And all this was clearly seen by Sun Tu and Tong Mu who were watching from an attic not far away. The latter's face was even more ashen, and his body was obviously shaking with anger: "There is something really fishy. !”