Chapter 005: He Has an Addiction to Climbing Window
When Cheng Liyuan hurried back to Lian's Trading Company, it was already the end of work, and all the long-term workers in the firm were going home one after another.
Lian Beichuan's young master stayed at his post, clearly a drunkard and not interested in drinking.
"This stuff is too bitter, I can't stand it."
Huo Jie frowned and put down his cup, then suddenly raised his eyes and saw Cheng Liyuan walking into the room with a serious look on his face.
He immediately realized something and clicked his tongue in disbelief: "Isn't it right? Butler Cheng couldn't even do it himself?"
Cheng Liyuan sat down on the square chair by the wall, picked up the cup of coffee that Huo Jie had just put down and drank it in one gulp.
"You guys underestimated the eldest daughter of the Gu family too much. They have found out about us a long time ago, and she exposed me in public as your second master's son."
Hearing this, Lian Beichuan was indifferent and leaned on the desk pretending to review the recent inventory list.
Huo Jie hurriedly gave Cheng Liyuan another cup of coffee, "Shopkeeper Gu has something."
"No wonder the old shopkeeper Gu passed away and the teahouse was handed over to her." Cheng Liyuan sighed with emotion, and then took Gu Qingdai's words one by one.
Lian Beichuan finally reacted and threw the wolf hair in his hand on the ink plate, "She is giving a toast and will be fined if she doesn't eat it!"
Huo Jie and Cheng Liyuan looked at each other.
"Second Master, if that doesn't work, let's think of something else to do." Huo Jie hurriedly persuaded him.
Cheng Liyuan suddenly straightened up from the square chair and said, "Second Master, the buyer I saw today looks a bit familiar. He seems to be... the person next to the third young master of the Fan family."
"Fan Zheng?" Lian Beichuan and Huo Jie said in unison.
"Gu Qingdai has some skills, she was able to hook up with that brat Fan Zheng."
When Fan Zheng was mentioned, Lian Beichuan became extremely angry. The relationship between him and Fan Zheng could be traced back to childhood.
However, at that time, the relationship between the Lien and Fan families was still very good, but it was almost like they were on the verge of breaking up now.
Unfortunately this time, Lian Beichuan was a step too late.
Early the next morning, Fan Zheng went to the Xingshi Teahouse with great fanfare and signed the deed with Gu Qingdai in person.
Gu Qingdai also understood at first glance that Fan Zheng didn't care about the Gu family's old house at all, he just wanted to disgust Lian Beichuan.
If Lian Beichuan wanted to get something, he had to step in and grab it.
Fan Zheng took the house deed from Gu Qingdai and immediately ran to Lian Beichuan to show off.
He also compared Gu Qingdai with those top-notch brothel girls in Luancheng, which made him want to get involved.
Lian Beichuan was long past the age of impulsively beating people up. He looked calm on his face, but later ordered the Chamber of Commerce to raid the Fan family's medical store.
The medicine shop sells dog meat with sheep's heads hanging on it, but secretly it is a place for smoking.
Lian Beichuan had already investigated the situation inside, and was just thinking of finding a way to start the attack, when Fan Zheng bumped into him.
This kind of thing has been banned repeatedly, and the officials have always turned a blind eye.
However, the Chamber of Commerce and the officers and soldiers came together and everyone got the stolen goods, causing the Fan family to completely fall.
When Master Fan found out, he tied up Fan Zheng and beat him severely.
Lian Beichuan felt that this was not enough to relieve his anger, so he sent someone to tell his fiancée that Fan Zheng was keeping a prostitute in his Taoyuan residence.
The marriage between the two families had been decided many years ago, and the wedding could be held only after the fiancée graduated from a girls' high school.
The fiancée was the daughter of a wealthy family in Luancheng, and she was educated in new ideas. How could she tolerate Fan Zheng's dissolute and disgraceful behavior?
The fiancée went on a hunger strike at home to protest, which made her parents feel so distressed that she finally broke off the engagement with the Fan family.
Gu Qingdai only heard about these things later. While admitting that Fan Zheng brought it upon himself, she also indirectly saw Lian Beichuan's methods.
He is just a cunning fox!
But she had no time to do anything else. From the moment she got the money, she took action non-stop.
Either go find a roof tile maker with excellent skills, or go to the decoration materials market to shop around.
It was so busy every day that even Mr. Dong, the accountant, couldn't stand it anymore.
Ever since the old shopkeeper passed away suddenly and left the teahouse in the hands of this girl, he had concluded that the Awakening Lion Teahouse was exhausted.
As soon as the girl took over the business, she made drastic changes and asked him again and again for advice on how to save money.
He was perfunctory as long as he could. It was not until he saw that she actually sold the Gu family's old house and started to do all the work personally that he finally believed that this girl could accomplish great things.
On the contrary, Gu Qingsong always had an attitude that it had nothing to do with him. No matter how busy Gu Qingdai was, he had no intention of helping his sister to share the burden.
On this day, Gu Qingdai came back early, ate a simple meal, and then went back to the back room to revise the last version of the renovation sketch.
She held a pen in one hand to sketch on the sketch, and waved the white silk fan in the other hand to cope with the hot summer night.
"What time is it? Shopkeeper Gu hasn't rested yet. Isn't he working too hard?"
Gu Qingdai was already familiar with this voice, but she was still startled when she heard it so suddenly.
She quickly stood up and wrapped herself tightly in her intimate clothes, yelling angrily: "Lian Beichuan, what's the difference between you and a thief? I should have reported the officer to arrest you!"
Lian Beichuan sat down on the Arhat couch with ease and said, "I have been to the teahouse several times during the day, but I can't find you anywhere."
Gu Qingdai hid behind the curtain and hurriedly put on her clothes, "Is it reasonable for you to break into my boudoir at night?"
"Are you trying to reason with a traitor?"
Gu Qingdai cursed, this man will be jealous if he really loves her.
She opened the curtain and walked out again, "I sold the Gu family's old house to Fan Zheng, will you be unhappy?"
"What do you think?" Lian Beichuan picked up the half cup of herbal tea on the couch and took a sip.
Gu Qingdai secretly covered the sketch on the desk, not wanting to attract Lian Beichuan's attention. After all, this picture must have looked familiar to him.
"When the teahouse reopens and makes money, I will give you a big gift and I will definitely repay your favor."
"You really don't want to have anything to do with me, Lian Beichuan?"
He saw her little moves clearly and guessed what she used to fool him last time.
"Hand it over, give it to me." Lian Beichuan went straight to the point.
Gu Qingdai's heart skipped a beat, "What did you say? I don't understand."
"You should know very well how many suspicious faces come in and out of the teahouse these days."
As soon as Lian Beichuan became serious, that invisible sense of oppression surged around him again.
"The Awakening Lion Tea House has always been more than just a place to drink tea. Who doesn't have it?"
"It's me who sneaked in tonight, but what about next time?"
Gu Qingdai walked lightly to the Arhat's bed, her expression slightly condensed: "Even if I hand the picture to you, I can sit back and relax and there will be no danger at all? Will you send someone to guard me for twelve hours?"
"It's a good idea, not a bad idea." At this point, Lian Beichuan appeared very confident.
"I can protect myself and don't bother Second Master. I really ruined that picture. Please don't mention it again in the future."
Lian Beichuan grabbed her waist and forced her into his arms, "Believe it or not, I dare to search your body right now?"
Gu Qingdai gave him a loud slap in the face with her backhand. She struggled to take a few steps back, "Don't really let me treat you as a traitor!"
Lian Beichuan stroked the face that had been beaten by Gu Qingdai, his eyes suddenly darkened, "Gu Qingdai!"
Gu Qingdai spat at him harshly: "Go somewhere else to spend your money with Second Master Lian!"
"Am I too generous to you..."
"Shh!" She covered her lips with her index finger, signaling him not to make a sound.
Someone is eavesdropping outside. This chapter has been completed!