The biggest news in Hangzhou these days comes from Huiyuan Pavilion. There are private rumors that Huiyuan Pavilion is haunted.
Over the past few days, the guests of Huiyuan Pavilion have encountered terrifying evil spirits one after another, and the appearance of the evil spirits they encountered was different. Red-faced, in short, everything is evil.
It was just scary at first, but then it became more and more serious. If it is a trivial matter to suddenly find a dead mouse in the vegetable bowl, then the three talented scholars were stripped naked by the ghosts and fainted in the private room. The words "disturbing my peace" in big blood red characters shocked everyone.
Weird things often happened in the whole Huiyuan Pavilion. After a few days, the number of customers dropped drastically. As for the guests who dared to eat and drink in Huiyuan Pavilion after dusk, it was very rare.
Many people have heard privately that the site of Huiyuan Pavilion used to be a place of execution, where many prisoners were hacked to death. Presumably, those ghosts lingered and the guests disturbed their peace.
The ancients were extremely superstitious, and believed in the theory of ghosts and ghosts. It seems that they did not think that the so-called ghosts had another source.
At the same time, haunting incidents also occurred in several other Huiyuan Pavilions of the Lu family. Once night fell, Huiyuan Pavilion became a veritable haunted house. If the guests were not paying attention, ghosts would come out. While discussing business with a client, a ghost suddenly appeared, and the businessman fainted from fright. After waking up, the business was completely over, and the wealthy businessman also had a deep hatred for the Lu family.
At the beginning, the Lu family invited Taoist priests to exorcise ghosts. Who knew that the Taoist priests were frightened and fainted by the ghosts. They were also stripped of their clothes and covered with charcoal ink. When they were found, they had only half their lives left.
So some people said that the Lu family might have done something utterly devoid of conscience to provoke the resentment of the ghosts. Even a Taoist priest could not dispel that resentment. blow.
The business of Huiyuan Pavilion took a sharp turn for the worse, there were still few customers during the day, but when the sun went down, the huge restaurant was empty, only shopkeepers and waiters were frowning and sighing.
Huiyuan Pavilion lost customers, but Hanyuan's business was booming. The two restaurants were full of seven or eight hours of twelve hours a day. Even after nightfall, there were still many interested guests drinking and chatting. They even sleep on the ground among red flowers and green grass, and the reputation of Hanyuan for its hospitality and thoughtfulness resounds throughout Hangzhou.
This time the haunting incident almost destroyed the Huiyuan Pavilion, but the Han Garden became very popular.
In desperation, Huiyuan Pavilion had no choice but to drastically cut prices, which was still rare and prosperous.
Of course, the Lu family's business spread all over Hangzhou. Although there were problems in several restaurants, overall it only caused some financial and reputation losses to the Lu family, and did not hurt their vitality.
As the head of the Lu family, Mrs. Fang already knew the real reason of the matter. It was a counterattack, Han Yuan's counterattack, Xue Poye's counterattack, but she couldn't figure out how Xue Poye had such a great ability. Such a large group of "evil ghosts" were actually attracted.
She wasn't sure if these evil spirits were pretended to be by someone. After hearing the news, those evil spirits seemed to be omnipotent. Even if they wanted to dress up, ordinary people couldn't do it.
When Lu Fu told in horror that there are still a group of ghost exorcists in the world, Mrs. Fang shuddered. Could it be that the young and handsome shopkeeper Xue is actually a ghost exorcist
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Xue Poye put his legs together on the desk, leaned on the chair, looked at Xiao Pan in front of him, couldn't help laughing and said: "You can't figure it out, but you actually took off the clothes of those talented people, they are all It's a shame, if this happens, I'm afraid these guys won't dare to come out to sing poems and enjoy the moon in the future."
These things seemed easy to Xiao Pan and the others. Xiao Pan didn't show complacency or excitement, and said softly, "I hate that kind of pious appearance, which is full of righteousness on the surface, but full of troubles in the stomach."
Xue Poye smiled and frowned: "Madam Fang is not a fool, I think she already knows that this matter is related to us."
"Should we continue?" Xiao Pan asked.
"Why not?" Xue Poye said with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth: "Since you have done it, you will not stop halfway. If you have nothing to do, you can still take your two brothers to play. My The purpose is very simple, I just want to tell them that Han Yuan is not easy to bully, and I, Xue Poye, am not an easy boss. I want Mrs. Fang to understand that although she is rich, I, Xue Poye, still have The ability to fight back, in this way, she may have to think twice about what she wants to do in the future."
Xiao Pan showed a strange smile: "Don't worry, the lord, as long as there is one guest in Huiyuan Pavilion, this ghost still won't be able to leave."
Xue Poye picked up the teacup beside him, took a sip comfortably, and said leisurely: "The Lu family will naturally not sit and wait like this. In your opinion, what are they going to do next?"
Xiao Pan thought for a while, and finally said: "The Lu family is the chairman of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce. I thought that at this moment, they will use the power of the Chamber of Commerce."
Xue Poye said "Oh". It's not that he has never heard of the concept of the chamber of commerce, but he didn't understand the specific function, so he couldn't help asking: "Do you know what the function of the chamber of commerce is? Their Lu family is the president of the chamber of commerce. What rights?"
Even though Xiao Pan was calm and calm, at this moment he was breaking out in a cold sweat. Shopkeeper Xue, who already owned three restaurants, didn't know what the chamber of commerce was for.
Xue Poye also seemed to feel Xiao Pan's strange eyes. Although he was a little embarrassed, he still raised his neck and said, "I'm testing you to see if you are knowledgeable. Don't look at me like that."
Xiao Pan felt contemptuous in his heart, fell silent for a moment, and said slowly: "Speaking of the chamber of commerce, it has three functions. Under the leadership of the president, the chamber of commerce is a cohesive business force. First, the president uses the chamber of commerce to As a basis, you can directly negotiate with the government, and you can ask the government to improve the rules that harm the interests of merchants. This is a negotiation with the government. If there is no strong chamber of commerce to support it, ordinary merchants will not have the courage to do so.”
"Negotiate with the government, hehe, I'm afraid the Lu family has the guts to not have a chamber of commerce behind them." Xue Poye said with a sneer, sipping tea.
Xiao Pan continued: "Secondly, the president can gather the strength of the members of the Chamber of Commerce to attack and restrain merchants who disrupt the order of the mall or have ulterior motives. In addition, they also need to help some small merchants and form a joint force. According to their words , is to standardize a set of order, and all businesses can only do business in this order, so as to prosper Hangzhou’s business.”
Xue Poye smiled and said, "That's the yamen among merchants."
"The last thing is to gather together to resist the infiltration of foreign businessmen. There are so many merchants in Hangzhou. If merchants from other places enter Hangzhou, I am afraid that they will snatch the business of many local merchants. Therefore, the last point of this chamber of commerce is to jointly resist the entry of foreign merchants. Once foreign merchants enter, the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce will unite the strength of all merchants to attack foreign merchants." Xiao Pan said slowly: "The Chamber of Commerce is mainly used for these purposes."
Xue Poye was silent for a moment, touched his nose and frowned and said, "In other words, it is possible for the Lu family to use the name of the chamber of commerce to charge me with a crime of disrupting business order, and then unite with those so-called members of the chamber of commerce to deal with me?"
Xiao Pan nodded and said, "For the Lu family, this is the least troublesome but most effective method."
Xue Poye sneered and said: "The Lu family always thinks that he is the chairman of the chamber of commerce and can control all the merchants. I don't believe in this evil. Grandma, I really want to anger Master Xue. I will be driven down from my position." But I also knew in my heart that I had said that, even though I am no longer Wuxia Ameng, if I want to bring down the Lu family, it would be a bit of a fantasy, this Hangzhou is somehow stronger than my own wealth The merchants who pay a hundred times are also submissive to the Lu family, and they are not that strong yet.
The ghosts still haunt Huiyuan Pavilion in the following days, but the Lu family really doesn't seem to care about the business of the restaurant, not only did they not take any measures, even the Han Garden didn't bother them at all.
Of course, Xue Poye didn't believe that the Lu family would give up so easily, and he was sure that the so-called Chamber of Commerce would show up in all likelihood, but this Chamber of Commerce had never appeared, and the post from the magistrate He Ruhui was delivered.
The location is still in the intoxicating spring of Zuiyouju, which seems to be the best place for the magistrate to meet in the dark.