Not only was Peanut worried, the shop assistant who had just returned to the shop was also about to explode with anger. Wasn't it just to buy silk at a cheap price, so why did he threaten like that? However, when he saw his own shopkeeper giving him a look that told him to go and guard the door, even though he felt aggrieved, he could only lower his head and go.
But as soon as he went out, he suddenly remembered that there was a guest in his backyard! What on earth was the big shopkeeper thinking? He had just signaled him to go out to greet the guests without making a fuss and just take the guests to the backyard. Now he left the VIP there... No matter how you look at it, Zhang Shou, a doctor of the Imperial College, is much more important than this shitty advisor of the Hejian prefect!
In the store, Shopkeeper Hua stared at the aggressive Bi Shiye, and suddenly laughed and said, "Bi Shiye, although your Fuzun is in charge of Hejian Prefecture, it is far from being all-powerful, not to mention that there are two... no, three big Buddhas in Changlu County Yamen. You are jumping up and down and trying to make alliances, and you are trying to throw dirty water on General Zhu and Dr. Zhang. I just want to ask you one question..."
"Is this really what your master meant?"
This sudden shout made Master Bi's heart tremble. When he realized that he should not show cowardice, he saw that the manager of the Hua family branch, whom he regarded as an insignificant one, was already sneering.
He was not willing to be outdone, and immediately said angrily: "Well, Shopkeeper Hua is really hot-tempered! Since your family opened a store in Cangzhou, you have been hoarding goods and causing many small private merchants to go bankrupt and their families to be separated! You are a profiteer like you, and you still want to climb up the social ladder? Dream on!"
"Even if a profiteer like me tries to climb the social ladder, I am better than a scholar like you who failed the imperial examination but still licks the ass of a bastard young master!" Shopkeeper Hua retorted without giving in. Seeing Master Bi's face suddenly turn the color of liver, he couldn't help but laugh heartily, "Emperor Taizu used the word lick when he cursed people. Don't you scholars curse people in private as vulgar? It's a great idea to use it on you!"
Master Bi finally succeeded in being thoroughly enraged. He subconsciously picked up the teacup that the young man had brought to him at the beginning and threw it out, but Shopkeeper Hua turned his head and dodged it lightly, and only his shoulder was soaked by the spilled tea. However, as the teacup fell to the ground with a clang, he realized that something was wrong.
Just a few days ago, the son of the prefect was talking in a tavern and threw a teacup from the second floor in anger, and it was said that he even injured someone. Although he later learned that the injured person was sent to a clinic by a passerby and no one dared to ask for the medicine fee, he was still a little worried after hearing about it.
Now he is still in Hua's territory, but he smashed someone's things because he was provoked. What if the other party blackmails him and says that this teacup is a Song Dynasty official kiln porcelain...
Before Master Bi could figure out how to symbolically submit in a neither humble nor arrogant manner and then quickly leave, he saw Shopkeeper Hua gently flicking a piece of tea leaves off his shoulder and then laughing again.
Only this time, there was no sarcasm in the laughter, but it also lacked warmth and sounded sinister.
"Like master, like servant... No wonder people are like snakes and rats! Do you think that you have been cheating people everywhere in the name of your Fu Zun these days, and everyone will kneel down and fear you like a tiger? People respect Fu Zun, the parents of Hejian Prefecture appointed by the court, but even the young master Huang behind you is nothing without his father, let alone you!"