inspire-indiana Chapter 183 Losing Money
Chapter 183 Losing Money
After receiving instructions from Master Cheng, Butler Chen took his men out again.
This time, since it was Master Cheng who asked him to make a fuss, he didn't care about anything and just let go.
So he rushed into the store with his men and asked the servants to drive away the customers who had nothing to buy.
"Everyone get out, get out. We are closed today!"
"What are you doing? Are you here to cause trouble again?" Chunlian saw that it was housekeeper Chen again and her tone was very unfriendly.
Butler Chen said, "This is our family's business. My master asked me to get the account book and take over the business. You all should cooperate well. If you don't accompany me, we can't do this business today!"
"What is your business? I've never heard of it! Get out of here!" Chunlian said!
When Sister Gao heard the noise, she said directly to Chunlian: "Chunlian, go report to the police!"
"It's no use for you to report to the police. Our master said that this is our Cheng family's business. We are just minding our own business and it can't be considered as making trouble!" Butler Chen conveyed the words of the second master Cheng.
Sister Gao ignored him and said to Chunlian, "Chunlian, just go and report to the police. Just say that someone is causing trouble here and is trying to seize my family's finances without any reason!"
"Yes!" Chunlian glared at Butler Chen and ran out to report to the police!
Butler Chen felt a little guilty when being looked at by Sister Gao.
"You...it's useless to report to the authorities. The authorities won't intervene in their own affairs. You'd better take over the business to me as soon as possible! Otherwise, it will be embarrassing!"
Sister Gao laughed sarcastically and said, "Who said this is your business? Why don't you call this store and see if they agree to your request?"
Butler Chen frowned. He didn't want to do this kind of thing! He was just doing things for others. There was nothing he could do.
"Boss, please listen to my advice! Don't make a big deal out of it and affect your business."
Sister Gao said, "My business will never be affected. It will only get better and better. It's so good that people like you are jealous and want to grab it!"
Butler Chen was speechless. The Cheng family was indeed wrong in this matter! Anyone would be unhappy if their hard-earned business was taken away.
But Butler Chen is here to do things for his master.
"Butler Chen? Should we kick them all out?" asked the servant.
Butler Chen said, "Don't worry, wait for the officials to come and make the judgment. It's okay to drive them out after the judgment is made! They are all workers here, not the owners. When the time comes, the officials will help us, and it will be more reasonable for us to drive them out."
The servants all nodded, thinking it made sense, and then they all stood in the store waiting for the officials to arrive.
After a while, officials from the Beijing government arrived.
"What's going on? Are you causing trouble in someone else's store in broad daylight?" the officer asked Butler Chen rudely.
Butler Chen said politely, "Sir, I am the steward of the Cheng family. My master asked me to take over the business here, but the shopkeeper here is unwilling to hand it over. I have no choice but to do so."
"Oh? Is it your family's business?" The officer looked at Sister Gao, also curious. If there was a dispute among family members, the officer would not be able to interfere.
Sister Gao explained, "Sir, he's talking nonsense. I opened this shop and it's under my name. How could it possibly become his? They are bringing people to rob us! I've run this shop for so long, the customers here all know me!"
The two officers had also come to buy cakes and recognized Miss Gao, so they nodded and said to Butler Chen, "Indeed, it's someone else's business, but you just say it's yours. What's the evidence?"
Butler Chen naturally had no evidence, so he could only say, "My fourth daughter is the owner of this store. Her last name is Cheng, and this store is also named Cheng. If it's not my Cheng family's, then it must belong to someone else?"
Sister Gao sneered, "Sir, isn't that funny? If my shop is named Cheng, it belongs to the Cheng family. Then everyone with the last name Cheng in the world can come and get a piece of the pie?"
"You are making far-fetched arguments!" Butler Chen couldn't argue with him.
"Alright, alright, why are you arguing? Isn't it easy to prove who owns this store?" The officer didn't want to listen to their arguments, so he said directly: "Bring out the official documents of this store. Whoever's signed on it owns it!"
Butler Chen naturally didn't have the documents. He just said, "The documents are with my fourth young lady. It's hard to get them now! My fourth young lady is Cheng Wenwen. Isn't her private property our Cheng family's?"
The officer nodded, and then looked at Miss Gao: "What about you? Do you have the document?"
Sister Gao glanced at Steward Chen and said to the officer, "Sir, I have the document. You will know after you take a look!"
Sister Gao took out a document from her bosom and handed it to the officer.
The two officers looked at each other, then turned to Miss Gao and asked, "Your name is Gao Xiaoting?"
Sister Gao nodded: "It's me! That's my name, and everyone here knows it! If you don't believe me, you can go to my house and ask for my household registration!"
The shop assistants in the store nodded one after another: "That's the name for Shopkeeper Gao!"
The officer nodded and said, "Since you have the document, and your name is written on it, then this store is yours."
"Impossible! Sir, could this document be forged?" Manager Chen asked carefully.
The officer glared at Steward Chen and said, "Do you think we are just here to eat for free? You don't even know whether the official seal is real or fake? You don't even know whether the document is real or fake?"
Sister Gao said, "Sir, I think they did this on purpose. They are jealous of my good business and want to rob my store. You can't let them off so easily!"
When Butler Chen heard this, he knew that this was a serious crime, so he immediately said in a gentle voice, "Sir, we really didn't mean it. I was just following my master's orders. Maybe my family didn't figure it out. Can you let us off this time? We didn't beat anyone or smash the store. At most, there was some misunderstanding."
The officer snorted coldly, "It's not up to us to let you go! It depends on whether they are willing to forgive you!"
Sister Gao said, "Sir, it's not that I don't want to forgive them, but they have driven away all my customers, disrupted our business, and affected our reputation! If everyone comes to make trouble!"
The officers nodded, thinking it made sense, and then said, "Since you have disturbed someone's business, you must compensate them!"
"How much compensation do I have to pay?" Butler Chen felt miserable! He didn't have any money, and if he wanted compensation, it had to be paid by the host family. He was just an employee, and he couldn't let himself be blamed!
Sister Gao calculated and said, "I still have half of the desserts in my shop that have not been sold! If it were normal, our shop would have no shortage of customers and would have sold out and closed by this time! But because of their interruption, all the customers were scared away!"
The officer also understood and said to Butler Chen: "In this case, you should buy all the desserts in the store to make up for the loss of the shopkeeper."
"Ah? This...how much does this cost?" Butler Chen was confused.
Sister Gao calculated and said, "At least five taels of silver."
"Five taels of silver?" Butler Chen only gets two taels of silver a month!
"Give it to me!" the officer said bluntly.
"Sir, wait a minute. I don't have that much money right now. Let me send someone back to the master's house."
"Fine!"
Butler Chen was not stupid enough to pay for it himself, so he immediately sent someone to report to the Cheng family. Of course, he also anticipated the Cheng family's stingy habits, so he also gave the servants some other instructions.