Chapter 131 - Chapter 131: Chapter 131: Eyesore (1/2)

Chapter 131: Chapter 131: Eyesore

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The price wasn’t cheap, that much was certain, but he had gone further by suggesting that if Feng Ershu didn’t have the money, he shouldn’t be aiming for such a good shop, and could settle for a cheap one in a more remote area instead.

The contemptuous looks accompanying such insulting words were enough to infuriate anyone.

Feng Ershu couldn’t recall how he had walked out of the shop that day, his eyes filled with the image of the smug Mrs. Deng renting the shop to others.

At that moment, he had made up his mind to secure this shop for himself, if only to see how deflated Mrs. Deng would appear when the time came, and regret her earlier decision.

The problem was, the money he had was nowhere near enough to afford such a fine shop in such a great location. His only option was to resort to schemes.

For example, tarnishing the shop’s reputation.

Those renting shops were typically business people, who tended to be superstitious when it came to money-making and took Feng Shui seriously, fearing even the slightest damage to their fortunes.

If the shop was deemed to have bad Feng Shui, potential renters would be put off by this, increasingly anxious as time goes by. Any accidents, big or small, they would attribute to the shop’s Feng Shui.

Fate would have it that the shop manager who rented the place then broke his leg, and thus became Feng Ershu’s point of argument, his perfect chance. He propagated the rumor that the shop had terrible Feng Shui throughout the entire town.

What happened afterwards made Feng Ershu feel as if even the heavens were helping him. Misfortunes fell upon the shop or the homes of everyone who rented the place, seemingly validating the rumors of the shop’s bad Feng Shui.

Gradually, no one dared rent the shop anymore, and if someone did, they would greatly lower the price, hoping for a lucky bargain.

Feng Ershu was ecstatic during that period.

As long as he keeps spreading the rumor, and if the shop fails to be rented out for a while longer, Mrs. Deng’s previous cockiness would disappear completely. By then, seeing his willingness to buy the shop would be like seeing a lifesaver, and she would happily sell the shop to him at a low price.

But when he was smugly going along with his plan, someone rented that “bad Feng Shui” shop, paying a decent price and remained in business to this day, the first day’s trading being particularly successful…

If things continued to go this way, wouldn’t all those past rumors about the shop’s bad Feng Shui be proven false, and the shop would successfully clear its name. Not only would the shop return to its former price, it might even rise further in the future.

All he had done before would be in vain.

What a pity.

How he loathes this tofu shop!

Feng Ershu gave the tofu shop a murderous glare, as if his eyes were nearly burning the shop down.

The tofu business was booming. Even though Zhuang Qingning had deliberately reduced the amount of tofu from Zhuang Yonghe’s end for sale at the shop, all of their tofu sold out in less than half a day.