Chapter 515 - 515: Reason for the Deficit

Chapter 515: Reason for the Deficit

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“I understand. How are the other shops? Arc there any bosses like your previous shopkeeper?” Ning Yue asked.

“Master, ever since you reorganized the place previously, the shopkeepers of these shops have become much more obedient. However, after you didn’t come for a long time, they changed again but we didn’t interact much. I don’t know the details. I only see that their actions are no different from before,” the shopkeeper replied.

Ning Yue did not say anything and asked the shopkeeper to go busy himself while she and Baili discussed in the back hall.

Ning Yue decided to wait in the restaurant when the time came. She had to cut off those tumors.

When the time was up, Baili and Ning Yue went outside the restaurant. The guests outside the restaurant left one after another, leaving only the shopkeeper and a shop assistant.

Seeing this, Ning Yue and Baili quietly went to the roof.

“How much did you earn today?” the shopkeeper asked the clerk.

The shop assistant replied respectfully, “I earned a total of 500 taels of silver today.”

The shopkeeper was very satisfied with the answer. He smiled and said, “Very good, very good. Looks like it won’t be long before we’re rich.”

“Shopkeeper, are we going to report a negative number as usual today?” the shop assistant asked.

The shopkeeper was a little dissatisfied and berated him. “What do you mean by usual? We don’t make money here. It’s not like you don’t know that. If you don’t make things clear to the higher-ups, we’ll be blamed for the bankruptcy.”

When Ning Yue heard this conversation, she frowned. It seemed that this shop assistant was someone trusted by the shopkeeper, so the shopkeeper said everything.

“Brother-in-law, but we keep reporting the negative numbers to the people who are familiar with this place. It’s easy to be discovered,” that person said. People who were related? She hated nepotism the most.

Hearing the shop assistant call him out like that, the shopkeeper sighed. “So what if they are familiar faces? The higher-ups have always asked for the best ingredients, the best chef, and the best shop assistant. Doesn’t this cost money?”

“What other training do the higher-ups have? I don’t even know about this. In any case, these things are very expensive. How can we have so much money to support it?” the shopkeeper said.

Hearing this, Ning Yue was already furious. If not for her good restraint, she would have rushed down to beat someone up.

After listening to the shopkeeper and the shop assistant chat for a while, the two of them said that they had to go back and rest first.

The two of them were not going in the same direction. Seeing this, Ning Yue instructed Baili to follow the shop assistant. She asked Baili to tie him up and stuff a rag into his mouth. The shop assistant could not speak even if he wanted to.

“Behave yourself, or I’ll kill you,” Baili said in a low voice.

The shop assistant instantly became much more obedient. He looked at Ning Yue and Baili in panic.

“I don’t intend to kill you either, as long as you answer a few questions honestly. Now, I’ll pull the cloth out of your mouth. Don’t think of taking the opportunity to shout. I’ll see if your mouth is faster than the knife in my hand,” Ning Yue said as she took out a knife.

The bright knife scared the shop assistant out of his wits. A stench wafted over.

Ning Yue covered her nose and frowned. She realized that the shop assistant’s pants were wet. Not only that, but there was also a foul smell. Ning Yue almost vomited.

The shop assistant was so frightened that he peed his pants.

Baili was a little speechless. What could he do in this situation? He didn’t know that this person was so timid.

Ning Yue pulled the cloth out of the man’s mouth. The man quickly said, “Please spare me. You want money, right? I’ll give you as much as you want. My brother-in-law has a lot of money. I’ll get him to give it to you.”

Ning Yue was interested. “How much money does your brother-in-law have?”

“I’m not sure, but there must be a few thousand taels of gold,” the man said.

Ning Yue thought that it would take a lot of effort to pry something out of this person’s mouth. She did not expect to get it out of him.

“Then tell me, where did these thousands of tales of gold come from?” Ning Yue asked.

“My brother-in-law manages a restaurant. He stole a lot of money from the restaurant, and our family clan has become rich. Now, it depends on whether my brother-in-law’s boss can sustain it. If not, we’ll leave this place. If we can continue things, we’ll continue to earn money,” that person said.

So that was his plan. Ning Yue was furious. That shopkeeper could not stay in the restaurant any longer..