The Bully General's Spiritual Husband

Wang Fu invited Jin Cheng into a private room upstairs and poured him wine with great enthusiasm: "Please, young master."

With his thick lips, Jin Cheng murmured, "Sit down and tell me what happened. I'm in a good mood today, so I'll give you a hand."

Wang Fu nodded repeatedly: "Oh... thank you, Young Master Jin."

Qinghong remained seated in Jincheng's lap, feeding him the wine Wang Fu had poured, and said in a soothing voice, "Young Master Jin, drink up."

Jin Cheng drank the wine that Qing Hong fed him, his already small eyes narrowing into slits with satisfaction.

Wang Fu was also moved by Qinghong's voice. No wonder she was the top courtesan at Huamanlou! Her voice was so sweet.

Wang Fu told Jin Cheng about his troubles, while Jin Cheng grabbed a large pork knuckle from the table and gnawed on it. "Wang Fu, you're so useless. You have to come to me for such a small thing."

Wang Fu nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, I'm useless. The other side was on guard. I tried everything, but I still couldn't succeed."

Wang Fu poured Jin Cheng another glass of wine: "I'm useless, I just heard that you are exceptionally wise, young master, so I came to learn from you..."

Wang Fu's flattery made Jin Cheng very happy. At home, his father always said that he was good for nothing and doted on his illegitimate son. He never expected that Wang Fu would see his talent.

Jin Cheng, having eaten and drunk his fill, let out a burp: "Alright, you don't need to worry about it anymore. Leave this to me, young master. Just wait for the other side to close down!"

Seeing that he had achieved his goal, Wang Fu happily saw Jin Cheng out the door, then glanced at the person opposite him with a sinister smile.

Zhang Quan, you're still too green to fight me. Before long, your little dilapidated building will be back to its old self, deserted and desolate.

As soon as Yin Baicai and Li Zhe finished setting up their stall, many vendors set up their goods next to them to sell. After all, they had heard that it was cool there, and that customers would gather there, so they might be able to buy their own things as well.

When the stewards of the wealthy households in town heard that two new men had come to sell ice and that their prices were cheaper than those of the ice shops, they all came over.

They're all in the purchasing business, and the profits here are huge. If you only spend half the money to buy the goods, the rest goes straight into your pocket.

Before long, a lot of the ice that Yin Baicai and the others had prepared was sold out, and even some of the wealthier people in the town bought a lot of it.

When Li, the owner of the ice shop, heard that someone was selling ice at the market for half the price, he immediately became furious. This was clearly stealing his business.

He bought that shop because it had an ice cellar, so he could store ice in winter and sell it in summer.

Therefore, he made a lot of money from the wealthy families in the town. He firmly believed that he was the only one selling ice in Qingshui Town, so even if the price was high, he was not afraid that no one would buy it.

Now that a kid selling ice has suddenly appeared and is trying to steal his business, he naturally has to go and see.

No wonder he said that yesterday, Steward Zhang sent someone to tell him not to provide ice; it turns out someone stole his business.

With a furious expression, Manager Li stormed into the market and immediately saw a long line of people queuing up to buy ice from Yin Baicai's stall.

Upon closer inspection, he immediately recognized Yin Baicai and Li Zhe. Weren't these the two people who had come to the ice cream shop last time and asked him to leave?

Now they're actually selling ice, and even lowering the prices—it's definitely revenge for driving them away.

Shopkeeper Li strode over and shouted at the customers who came to buy ice: "No more buying! No one is allowed to buy any more!"

Yin Baicai had just seen Manager Li, but he was too lazy to pay attention to this snob. Now that he dared to come and disrupt his business, he had grown bold: "Oh! Who is this? What's the reason for kicking out my customers? I, Yin, really don't understand."

Manager Li immediately realized that Yin Baicai was doing it on purpose. He whispered, "How can you do business like this? You deliberately lower the price. How am I supposed to sell to you like this?"

"You sell yours, I sell mine, it's completely unrelated, why are you so concerned?"

Manager Li was immediately displeased. He had already kindly spoken to him, but the man still acted this way on purpose. He couldn't be blamed for that.

Shopkeeper Li shouted at the customers who came to buy ice: "This ice isn't good ice. It will melt in no time. If you buy it, it will melt before you even get home. Isn't that a waste of money?"

Yin Baicai saw that Manager Li was deliberately slandering her ice, but she didn't say anything and just quietly watched Manager Li.

The customers refused to listen, saying, "What nonsense are you talking about? I bought it yesterday, and it took several hours for it to melt."

Someone recognized Manager Li: "Isn't this Manager Li? You're probably here to cause trouble on purpose, aren't you? Your ice shop is the only one in town, and your prices are ridiculously high. Now that we've bought it for half the price, you can't make any money, so that's why you're saying this!"

"that is……"

As more and more people echoed his sentiments, Manager Li could no longer reason with them and could only slink away in disgrace.

Yin Baicai watched the people flee into the distance and chuckled to herself: "Serves you right for being so opportunistic. Otherwise, I might have been able to cooperate with you."

Thanks to Manager Li's outburst, Yin Baicai's business improved, and the ice was quickly sold out.

Just as Yin Baicai was about to take Li Mo and Li Zhe out for lunch, Xiao Si hurriedly came looking for them.

"Young Master Yin, something terrible has happened! There's been an accident at the restaurant! You must go and take a look!"

Upon hearing that her wallet was affected, Yin Baicai immediately became agitated and placed Li Mo, whom she was holding, into Li Zhe's arms. "Li the bully, you take Xiao Mo to eat first, I'll go check on her."

They left in a hurry with Xiao Si.

Li Zhe was anxious and wanted to follow, but then he heard Li Mo's stomach rumbling.

I decided to take Li Mo out to eat first, and then head over after we finished eating.

Half an hour ago

This is the busiest time for Hongxilou Restaurant, as it's lunchtime and there are many people eating there.

A group of county yamen constables rushed in, carrying knives. "Who is the manager? We received a report that your Hongxi Restaurant poisoned a customer, and he died. Come with us now."

The constables who came with them chased the guests who had already started eating out of the house: "Stop eating! I haven't heard of anyone dying from eating this. Get out of here now."

Manager Zhang knew that Jin Cheng had made his move. After all, that old fox Wang Fu had invited people over yesterday, probably to discuss how to deal with him!

Seeing that something was wrong, Xiao Si immediately sneaked out through the back door. They had heard that Yin Baicai was selling ice in town, so they went to try their luck.

If Young Master Yin were here today, he might be able to break this deadlock.

Manager Zhang deliberately stalled for time, saying, "Sir, you are joking. Our Hongxi Restaurant has never done such a thing. You must have arrested the wrong person."

The diners also said, "That's right, we've been eating here for a long time, how come we haven't died from overeating? I'm afraid someone is jealous of Hongxilou and deliberately reported it to the authorities! Officials, you should investigate this thoroughly."

Even Shen Jin, who had come to Hongxilou for dinner today, was kicked out. He stood in the crowd, coldly watching the scene before him.

Suddenly a voice came: "If you're saying they ate dead people, then produce evidence, otherwise we won't accept it."

Yin Baicai walked through the crowd, entered the shop, and spoke to the official in front of her.