The Lai family was once a rather strong family, when the Old Master Lai was still alive he was able to secure the finest things and properties for his family members. He was a respectable man and cared for his family a lot, thus he tried to make sure that his family would be able to live a decent life even if he was gone.
However, once Old Master Lai was gone, the power of the family fell into the hands of Old Madam Lai. That woman was not only arrogant but ruthless, under her teachings the children of the Lai family grew up in a distorted manner.
The fact alone that one of the sons of the branch family actually dared to touch a married woman in the temple was enough to let them know what kind of teachings Old Madam Lai had given to the younger generations.
Not to mention every single upper beam of that family was now crooked!
"Is something the matter?" Han Fu questioned with a frown on his face. He did not like the Lai family or their ways of doing things. Thus, when Yun Zhao mentioned the Lai family, he immediately turned vigilant. He did not want to face something similar to his accident!
Yun Zhao sighed. He answered Han Fu with a troubled expression, "Nothing happened. But you know how the Lai family lived like a tyrant in this city right? The only reason they could act like the ruler of this city was because they were the richest in the city. They also handed jobs no matter how pitiful to the people of the city, think of it.
If Madam Su's actions were to give employment to these people who were standing in front of their house with a bowl while begging for alms were to get employed, do you think they would respect the Lai family?"
"They won't," Han Fu was quick to reply as he knew that if he was one of the people of the city who once lived on the alms of the Lai family, he would never respect them once he got his hands on jobs that were better than the ones that the Lai family handed to him.
"That's right," Yun Zhao nodded with a sigh. "This is something that the Lai family knows as well, this is the reason why they are keeping an eye on Magistrate Su's actions. You have no idea how many thugs and hired troublemakers were caught in the snack street at the first week of its opening."
"Fortunately, Madam Su is someone who has connections with the third prince and thus she was able to keep everything under control but that does not mean that the Lai family had stopped or changed their intentions," Yun Zhao could still remember the incident where one of the troublemaker insisted that there was a strand of hair in his cheese corn dog.
He even went as far as threatening to burn the shop, if not for Lin Chen who arrived at the right time along with his younger brother, the matter would have been escalated to the point where business would have been disrupted.
However, the two men dealt with the situation rather quickly. Yun Zhao did not know what the two of them did, but the troublemaker vanished for a while before confessing that the Lai family's eldest son was the one who hired him to cause trouble.
Who knows what the two men did but the troublemaker was never seen in the city.
He had already paid the rent for this small hut to the owner of this house, so he only needed to relay to the owner that he was leaving and nothing else.
The owner of the small hut was also not a good person, he had given the ownership of the hut to Han Fu at a rather high price. Thus when he heard that the Han family was moving he thought it was a shame as he lost one of the gullible and easily bullied family who paid the rent on time.
But since they did not sign any contract, he couldn't stop Han Fu or his family. He only told him that he was not going to pay the rent that Han Fu had paid him at the start of the month. Though Han Fu thought it was a shame, he did not fight with the owner of the hut, he simply nodded and then took his leave.
The owner of the small hut even made a round around the house before Han Fu and his family left. He wanted to make a small profit from them in case they had damaged his property.
But the Han family was also smart, even though they lived in the hut for a long time, they did not damage the property as they knew that if they were to do that then the owner of the property would try to make them pay an exorbitant amount for something small!
When the landlord saw that there was indeed no damage to the hut, he was quite disappointed. He really wanted to a quick benefit!
Han Fu on the other hand heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the landowner did not quibble when they were leaving. He together his family left the small house and went to live with Yun Zhao that night.
"Welcome, Madam Han, Master Han," Madam Yun smiled at the two and their children. "You are just in time, I asked my son to bring a few bowls of grilled eels with braised sauce and rice. They are served on the dining table, come wash your hands and let's have something to eat. I am sure that you must be starving after all the packing and moving."
"Ah there is no need," Madam Han refused she wanted to state that she and her family were fine with something light but Madam Yun did not let her refuse. She dragged Madam Han and her children to the dining table and served them warm-heartedly.
While the Han family were having dinner at the Yun Zhao's house, someone started a fire at the old Han house.
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