Linze City.
A room in the branch.
The three businessmen were sitting on chairs. Obviously there were cushions on the chairs, so they should be very comfortable to sit on, but the businessmen were sitting on pins and needles.
"Have you figured it all out?"
Michu had a smile on his face and his hands were in his sleeves. Step into the house.
"Shopkeeper Mi, you are making things difficult for us. Do you want us to raise those mud-legged people? How can we afford to raise them?"
"Yes, Shopkeeper Mi. It's not that I'm unwilling to contribute. Business has not been very good recently. I can't make ends meet. How can I get so much money?"
"Shopkeeper Mi, if you have a lot of money, please let us go. Our family's business is small and we can't stand the trouble."
The three shopkeepers kept talking all the time, just crying about being poor and saying how pitiful they were.
"We are all businessmen, and I know your difficulties. Since you can't make ends meet, and Linze City makes you so uncomfortable, let me think of a way for you. You all leave Linze City and find somewhere else. That's great, maybe. The timing has turned out!" Mi Xiu was still smiling.
"Leave...leave Linze City?"
The three shopkeepers looked at each other. Their businesses were basically all in Linze City. If they left Linze City, would it be so easy to establish themselves elsewhere? The loss would be great.
"Why, aren't the three friends willing?"
Mi Xiu said calmly: "If you refuse, our firm will help you move together."
The three were hesitant and unwilling to express their stance immediately.
Just when they didn't know how to respond, someone suddenly broke in from outside.
A rough man with long arms and legs, he walks with a mighty look.
He held a spherical package in his hand. After striding through the door, he came to Mi Xiu and placed the package in his hand heavily on the table.
"Shop Manager Mi, the matter is finished, where is the money?"
"Inspect the goods first and make sure you are behind the scenes. The money will be yours." Mi Xiu said with a smile on his face.
"Okay, you see clearly."
The rough man reached out and unknotted the cloth strips on the package, revealing the contents layer by layer.
At this moment, the three shopkeepers widened their eyes and almost screamed.
The thing inside turned out to be a bloody human head, and the dead-eyed face looked quite familiar.
"Yes, this is Gu Gan's head. You did a good job. Take the money."
Michu took out a stack of banknotes and slapped them on the table.
The rough man hurriedly picked up the banknote, dipped his fingers in saliva, and tapped it. His originally gloomy face immediately brightened up with a smile.
"Shopkeeper Mi, please come to me if you have any work in the future. I guarantee that it will be done properly for you." The rough man laughed.
"Shopkeeper Mi, this, is this Gu Gan's head?" At this time, one of the shopkeepers asked tremblingly.
"Yes, if you don't believe it, you can take it and take a closer look." Mi Xiu said.
Look carefully? My mother, the shopkeepers felt dizzy after taking a second look at it. They smelled the smell of blood from time to time, and their calves felt cramped and weak. They almost slipped off the chair on the spot. How could they take a closer look at it?
"Shopkeeper Mi, what crime did Gu Gan commit? Why did he need to be lynched to kill him?"
One of the shopkeepers summoned up the courage to ask.
"I did not carry out a lynching. I only did this after asking the Governor of Chu for instructions and getting approval from the court. This Gu Gan refused to eat and drink fine wine for toasting. The merchants were not willing to pay him even if they asked him to pay. He dared to collude with the imperial criminals. If you want to frame our trading company, this is the way to die." Mi Xiu said calmly.
"Shopkeeper Mi, these guys are asking all kinds of questions. They are not good people at first sight. Why don't I kill them for you? You can give them less money, just give them as much as you want."
The rough man next to him suddenly glanced at the three of them and said loudly.
The three shopkeepers were glanced at by the rough man, and they felt like pigs about to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, being targeted by a butcher.
"Shopkeeper Mi, we are willing to donate money, we are willing to donate money, and please spare our lives."
"Yes, we will all donate the money from selling pots and irons. Shopkeeper Mi has a lot of money. Don't argue with us."
The three of them couldn't bear it anymore and hurriedly begged for mercy.
Then it became much easier to sign the agreement. The three of them just glanced at the agreement casually, ignoring the many clauses that were not beneficial to them, and signed it directly.
When he saw them signing the agreement, the rough man's eyes revealed a bit of regret.
Not being able to kill people means no money, thank you.
"Song Laoqi, I'll call you if you have another day." Mi Xiu said.
"Okay, Shopkeeper Mi, I'll take my leave now."
Song Laoqi said with his hands clasped in fists.
"When you go out, take this head with you." Mi Xiu said again.
"Where to take you?" Song Laoqi didn't mind doing more work. After all, the money he just got was much more than what was agreed.
If Mi Xiu gave him face like this, he wouldn't mind doing whatever he wanted.
"Bring it to Prefect Chu and tell him that the matter is done... By the way, Prefect Chu has a silver reward. Go and get it." Mi Xiu said.
Song Laoqi was still a little tired at first, but when he heard that there was actually a silver reward, he instantly became energetic.
"I'll leave right away."
Carrying the package, Song Laoqi strode away.
The three shopkeepers finally left the branch of Yang's Trading Company and came to the door. The three of them looked at each other with lingering fears.
"I have heard about Song Laoqi for a long time. It is said that Song Laoqi is a famous butcher in the nearby arena who works for money and kills people without blinking an eye."
"Didn't he say that Song Laoqi wouldn't kill seven of them? Women and children he wouldn't kill, good people he wouldn't kill, and so on."
"Yes, there is such a thing, but even if the rumors in the world are true, we are not going to do anything like that."
"Yes, we all know what we did. Besides, a vicious person like Song Lao Qi will definitely kill someone if he takes money. Why does he care about not killing Qi?"
"Yang's Trading Company, they can hire murderers to kill people, can't we? Should we pay that Song Laoqi to make him take action?"
"No, no, we have Yang's Trading Company, do we have money? Song Laoqi and those people, You Nai is the mother, whoever has money will go with him, how much should we pay? What should we do if he betrays us backhand? How about... Let’s just pay the money honestly, why should we be enemies with Yang’s firm?”
After some analysis, the three shopkeepers sighed and got into the carriage one after another, preparing to go home.
They don't know that their every word and deed has fallen into the eyes of some people.
"Are the three of you still honest?"
Looking at the spy who reported back, Mi Xiu took a sip of tea and asked.
"I'm reluctant, but in the end I'm still ready to fulfill the contract," the spy said.
"It's normal to be unwilling. I don't care what they think, as long as they pay." Mi Xiu didn't care about that much.
