Reborn as Tycoon's Wife in the Countryside-Chapter 476 - 388 Good men don’t quarrel with women_2

The decoration was already halfway done, and it was time to start bringing in shelves and goods, all tasks that required personnel.

Zhu Yuhua listened to the tone of the other person, "You’re also the boss here."

"No, I’m just here to help out," Xianghe said with an embarrassed smile.

"Alright, I’ll come back again tomorrow." Seeing that Xiaofeng wasn’t there, the person didn’t say anything more.

She was short on money now, lacking only a way of life that could fulfill her.

Zhu Yuhua had just left when a girl not yet twenty came forward, "Hello, are you still hiring here?"

"Yes, we are. There’s a form here, please register, and when the boss comes back, I’ll hand over the form to her," Xianghe pointed to a table not far away. "Find one and fill it out."

"I’d like to ask, how much is it a month here?" the girl’s face still showed her youth, "Can it be up to three hundred."

If it wasn’t up to three hundred, she’d go to work in a factory.

More importantly, it was University Town here; she wanted to be closer to this place.

This place was a dream she could never enter, but as long as she could be closer, she was willing.

"We have it." Xiaofeng offered wages that were not low, "How about this, come over again tomorrow morning, and you can ask about anything you want to know."

"Oh, okay." Manman simply filled in her information and left.

As evening approached, a group of people of uncertain identity barged in. The man leading them had a very round belly, what’s modernly termed a beer belly.

As soon as he arrived, someone found him a chair, and with his legs crossed, he looked utterly at ease. He surveyed the spacious grounds and let out a sound, "Yo-heave-ho, someone is setting up such a big shop on my turf without my knowledge. Aren’t you taking me too lightly?" freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

At this moment, the decorators had gone home early, leaving only Xianghe and Tie Bao on the scene. They exchanged a quick glance upon seeing the group of people; they had encountered troublemakers.

They had thought there wouldn’t be such riffraff causing trouble in a big city but hadn’t expected to encounter trouble even before they opened for business.

"Who are you?" Without giving their names, Xianghe and Tie Bao couldn’t guess their identity.

"Our big brother here is the well-known Zhi Shangfei, Brother Fei," a lean young man at the side snorted coldly. "We’re not going to waste words with you. Starting this month, you’ll pay a protection fee of two thousand every month. The money has to be in place by the first of each month. If it’s not, we can’t guarantee that nothing will happen to the goods in your store."

For such a big shop, charging only two thousand was already very benevolent of them.

Tie Bao and Xianghe had both been thugs before and knew these thug tactics all too well. Now that they were being charged protection money, they understandably couldn’t swallow this indignity.

Tie Bao rolled up his sleeves and moved forward, his expression full of resistance, unwilling to show weakness as he looked at the few men. "Say that again, how much do we have to pay?"

They hadn’t even started doing business yet, and here they were being asked for protection money. How was this different from robbery?

"What are you doing, want to fight, is that it?" The lean man, hearing Tie Bao’s words, also rolled up his sleeves and moved forward. "This is our turf. If we say you have to pay, then you have to pay whatever we ask, so quit the yapping. If you don’t want to comply, then clear out of here right now, because we won’t let you have peace."

Who didn’t know that University Town and its vicinity were under Zhi Shangfei’s control? Anyone doing business on his turf had to dutifully cough up the specified protection money.

Of course, this protection fee only targeted the nearby small restaurants, small shops, and other sole proprietors.

They wouldn’t dare to mess with other people who had different backgrounds and statuses.

Xianghe held back Tie Bao, pulling him to avoid escalating the situation.

Having been through trouble once, he was naturally more cautious in his actions and deeds than before. He whispered to Tie Bao, "Baozi, we have no clue who these people are or what they’re up to. Let’s just listen to what they want for now."

Tie Bao snorted without saying anything further.

"I heard the boss here is a pretty young woman, very beautiful. I heard that Fatty Zhao even suffered a loss at her hands. Where is she?" Zhi Shangfei looked around, not seeing anyone else, and frowned.

"There’s no woman here. We are the bosses," Xianghe knew he was looking for Xiaofeng and seemed prepared, "Isn’t two thousand a bit too much? Can’t it be less?"

If it were just a few hundred yuan, if money could solve the problem, there would naturally be no need to resort to violence.