Seeing that things were developing towards a good result, Shopkeeper Zhu was in a good mood, and generously left them in his shop and vacated a man's room for them to live in. But the two of them had palpitations, because there was a haunted pharmacy next door, so they didn't dare to stay in this jewelry store, and finally decided to stay at the guest house.

So, Shopkeeper Zhu sent a few men to escort them to an inn and found a single room to live in, and the night was safe.

The next morning.

Yang Mingde and his wife returned to the Rejuvenation Hall, and the shopkeeper Zhu and a few men followed into the house again, saw the overturned table on the ground, and remembered the frightened encounter last night, although it was broad daylight, they still felt creepy.

Yang Mingde and his wife rented a carriage according to the direction said by the shopkeeper Zhu, and came to the street in front of the prefect's yamen, and sure enough, they saw a merchant with a notice for rent, and the size of the shop was about the same as their own shop, so the two hurriedly went in to ask.

They were received by an old man with a bit of a hunched back, saying that he was the landlord. said that the original tenant of this shop had been taken away by him because of rent arrears, so he repacked it and rented it out.

Yang Mingde cautiously asked about the rent, and the hunchbacked old man asked them what they were renting this house for? When he learned that it was used to open a medicine shop, the hunchbacked old man smiled and said, "This is a good thing, I am most willing to rent the shop to such a family." By the way, there is a pharmacy called Huichun Tang, and I heard that their Xiaolangzhong is good at caesarean section to heal injuries, which is very good. If they come to me to rent a house, I will rent it to them at half price, they will live in my house, open a pharmacy, treat people, my face will be bright, hehehe. ”

When Yang Mingde and his wife heard this, they couldn't help but be surprised and delighted, and hurriedly said: "The little Langzhong of the Rejuvenation Hall that your old man said is the dog, and I am the Langzhong who opened the Rejuvenation Hall, and my surname is Yang." We want to open a pharmacy in another place, and we know that you have a room for rent here, so we came to ask. ”

The hunchbacked old man was surprised and delighted, and said: "Oh, it turns out that it is really you, I have not been to your rejuvenation hall, but I heard that it is a middle-aged couple, I guessed if it was the two of you, and I guessed correctly, great." In that case, I just said that it definitely counts, and I will rent it to you at half price!"

The rent in this area is much more expensive than in other places, but if you only charge half the price, it will be about the same as the original rent of the Rejuvenation Hall.

Yang Mingde was like a pie falling from the sky, overjoyed, and expressed his gratitude repeatedly. Then you have to sign a contract with him.

The hunchbacked old man said: "Don't worry, you move things over first, open the business, I can't read, my son went out, he will come back in two days, he will sign a contract with you after he comes back, and you will open the business first." ”

Yang Xianmao and his wife are very grateful and glad to have met a good person.

At that moment, Yang Xianmao and his wife returned to the jewelry store happily and told the shopkeeper Zhu. Of course, Shopkeeper Zhu was very happy, and immediately sent a few men to hire a carriage to help them transport things. Yang Xianmao and his wife are really grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Zhu.

Yang Mingde and his wife first found Grandma Sun and said that they would quit the shop and find another place to rent a shop to open a pharmacy, but they did not dare to mention the haunting in the shop.

Granny Sun was a little puzzled why they moved out, but she roughly guessed that it might be the shopkeeper Zhu who did something, but she didn't have a handle, so it was not easy to guess, so Granny Sun said that she was very sorry, in fact, she hoped that they could continue to rent. Even if I lend them a few more guts, I don't dare to stay in this haunted pharmacy anymore.

After completing the lease surrender procedures, more than a dozen people from the jewelry store of the shopkeeper Zhu helped together, and the action was very fast, and it only took half a day to transfer all the things in Yang Mingde's pharmacy to the new store. Mr. and Mrs. Yang Mingde were even more grateful. felt that he had really met a good person, and he was afraid that Yang Xianmao would not find him when they came back, so after telling the shopkeeper Zhu, the shopkeeper Zhu said that he would tell Yang Xianmao at that time, and Yang Mingde and his wife were relieved.

However, the relaxed hearts of Yang Mingde and his wife did not last long, and soon, he was worried again. Because, in the evening, some strong men came, and when they entered the door, they shouted, "Who is this? Who has come to my shop? Is there a royal law?

Yang Mingde was taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Who are you? This is the shop I just rented, not a private house." ”

The first strong man with a full face looked at Yang Mingde, and his fingers almost poked his head: "What about the shop you rented, and the rental contract?" ”

Yang Mingde hurriedly said: "I haven't had time to sign this yet, but the owner has already agreed to rent it to us, saying that his son will come back in two days and sign the contract at that time." ”

The strong man snorted, cocked his thumb, pointed to his nose and said, "I'm the landlord's son, and my bastard didn't tell me about the rent." This house is in my hands, and I will rent it to whoever I say it will rent to, and don't even think about renting it without my permission. Then the strong man commanded the men who followed him, "Go and call me that old fellow!"

A guy rushed away, and when Yang Linde and his wife saw this situation, they couldn't help but have a heart hanging. It turns out that the son of this hunchbacked old man is so unreasonable, if he refuses to rent it to himself, what will he do?"

After a while, the hunchbacked old man came to the house with a red face, and the strong man scolded him one by one, pointed at the old man and said, "Old immortal, have you rented the house to someone else without my permission? How many times have I warned you? No one can rent my house without my permission." ”

The old man just blushed and didn't dare to say a word.

After the strong man asked about the rent, he was even more furious: "What? Rent it to them at half price? Well, from now on, they will take care of the pension in the end, I don't care." This house was left to me by my grandfather, and I will take care of it by name. Rent it to someone else at half price, are you crazy?"

The strong man pointed at Yang Mingde and shouted: "Let me tell you, don't say half the price of this house, even if it is the full price, I won't rent it to you! My friend has already said that he wants to rent this house and open a green house." What kind of broken medicine shop can you open, how much money can you make? Okay, I won't talk to you, and I can't do too much. Give you three days to move out, and if I see you here after three days, I can just throw your things on the street, and don't blame me for not turning my face and being ruthless. ”

After that, the strong man didn't care about Yang Mingde, who was stunned, and walked away with a few entourage.

After a long while, Yang Mingde reacted, and hurriedly asked the hunchbacked old man: "Old man, you, what do you think of this?"

The hunchbacked old man smiled bitterly and said, "This house is indeed my son's." His grandfather said in his will to his little grandson, I can't be the master, I thought he would agree, so I let you move in. I don't know if he doesn't agree now, and I can't help it, or you should find another place. My son is so arrogant that if you don't move out after three days, he'll throw your stuff on the street, I'm sorry. ”

With that, the hunchbacked old man sighed and shook his head and left.

Now only Yang Mingde and his wife looked at each other, thinking that they had made a big bargain, but where was there a pie in the sky, so what should I do now?

At this time, it was already dark, and the two discussed, since this house could not be lived, it was better to take advantage of the fact that it was not completely dark now, and quickly look for a place to see where there were still shops, and quickly move the place to vacate the house.

………………

Seeing that Yang Mingde and his wife were scared away, the shopkeeper Zhu and his wife in the jewelry store smiled.

However, an unexpected accident made them lose their smiles suddenly. In the evening, a carriage stopped at the door of the jewelry store, and several strong men carried a man with a white cloth sheet on a stretcher into the jewelry store and placed it on the ground.

The guy didn't know what was going on, and when he saw that there seemed to be a corpse on the stretcher, his face turned white suddenly, and he hurriedly called the shopkeeper Zhu out.

The shopkeeper Zhu was discussing with his wife inside, asking his wife to go to Grandma Sun to rent Yang Xianmao's pharmacy so that they could expand their business after renovation. Suddenly, I heard someone carrying a corpse in, and I couldn't help but be startled and hurried out.

He came to the antechamber and saw several standing beside the stretcher, one of them a middle-aged man with a thin figure and a gloomy face. And the other is Sun Dalang, the son of the owner's grandmother-in-law.

Sun Dalang said to the shopkeeper Zhu: "There are some things to tell you alone, close the door, and tell other unrelated people to withdraw." ”

As soon as Shopkeeper Zhu saw their posture, he immediately understood that it was possible that they had entrusted them to scare Yang Mingde and his wife away, so he hurriedly asked the guys to close the door of the store and let them go to the inner house to talk. The thin middle-aged man didn't leave, just stared at the shopkeeper Zhu and didn't speak.

Shopkeeper Zhu had to tell the guys to retreat to the kitchen to eat, closed the door, and only the three of them were left in the front hall, as well as the corpses covered with white cloth sheets lying on the stretcher on the ground.

Sun Dalang introduced the thin middle-aged man and said, "He is what I told you, the brother macaque on the road is the one who helps you do things." ”

Shopkeeper Zhu hurriedly laughed and said, "This matter is very beautiful, I am very grateful." ”

The macaque didn't say much, squatted down, grabbed the white sheet, and slowly lifted it, revealing a corpse below, it was a thin young man, his eyes were slightly closed, and he looked ahead, and there was a deep wound on his neck, which had cut off a small part of his neck, but the blood vessels in his neck were severed, and most of his clothes were stained red with blood.

Shopkeeper Zhu was startled, Dong Dong took a few steps back, looked at the corpse on the ground in horror, looked at Yang Xianmao again, and said, "This, what's going on?"

The macaque said: "Pig shopkeeper, last night in order to help you pretend to be a ghost to scare away Lang Zhong, my brother pretended to be a ghost in the house, but I didn't expect that Lang Zhong carried a kitchen knife in his arms, threw the kitchen knife out, and cut it right on my brother's neck. Soon died, and there was no time to save it. ”

When Shopkeeper Zhu heard this, he immediately understood what the other party wanted to do, and hurriedly said: "Of course I don't want to see such a thing happen, but I don't know why you carried people to my house?"

The macaque said in a light tone: "I don't want to be verbose,—— my brother died to complete your business, so you have to burn the silver and give his family a pension." ”