The melon-eating system, everyone listens to my voice

Chapter 441 Secretly Pawning Things

Li Zhou was holding a brocade box in his hand, which contained the inkstone. He came to the warehouse.

It’s called a warehouse, but actually it’s just a small room.

It was so crowded that it was hard to even turn around, so the warehouse was filled to the brim with things.

Li Zhou looked at the screen in front of him. It was a gift from someone else for Grandfather Chen’s fiftieth birthday and was worth one hundred and fifty taels.

His eyes also passed over other treasures one by one, some weighing dozens of taels, some over a hundred taels.

Thinking of his only son who cried every day and his old wife who cried every night, Li Zhou's eyes flashed with strange colors...

Gua Gua continued, "It was this opportunity that gave Li Zhou an idea.

Seeing that the day when the gambling house would collect debts was getting closer, Li Zhou finally made up his mind.

He secretly found a few valuable but hard-to-identify items in the warehouse, took them to another part of the city and asked someone to make fake ones for him, and then put them back in the warehouse.

He actually pawned those items in an inconspicuous pawnshop for three thousand taels.

Adding to that the savings of Li Zhou and Mrs. Jiang themselves, and after borrowing some money, they had nearly one thousand taels, but they were still eight hundred taels short of five thousand taels.

Li Zhou knew that he could no longer pawn his things as it would be easy to be discovered.

So he set his sights on the two shops and a land deed of the Chen family.

These two shops have been passed down by the Chen family's ancestors.

That title deed is the best place to start.

Simply selling the land is not a good solution.

Li Zhou thought of renting out the land deed.

But the name on the land deed was Grandfather Chen’s, so as a servant he had no right to rent it out.

But as a confidant of Grandfather Chen for decades, Li Zhou has a lot of experience.

He spent one hundred taels to find someone to print his name on it.

This is your own deed, you can rent it out if you are qualified.

But it cannot be rented to those who have power and money, so Li Zhou carefully selected Manager Zhong. 】

Shen Zhao: [Gua Gua, I understand.

Li Zhou was worried that if he rented this place to someone with insight and ability, his tricks would be discovered.

If this is discovered, he will be in trouble.

Therefore, they would rather lower the price to rent to ordinary people and ensure their own safety.

Tsk tsk, for this useless boy Li Ping'an, Li Zhou really put in all his efforts. 】

Gua Gua: [That’s right, Manager Zhong used to be the head chef of a big restaurant.

In the past, my great-grandfather was a chef for the imperial court and he had great skills.

Shopkeeper Zhong inherited some of the skills and the food he cooked was also delicious.

I was just working in the kitchen of a big restaurant, and the monthly salary was only one or two taels.

He was also targeted by the new kitchen manager, and Manager Zhong was overwhelmed by it.

I continued to work there, feeling very tormented.

Shopkeeper Zhong's wife saw that her husband was cooking in the kitchen, but he was getting thinner and thinner.

Finally one day, I told Manager Zhong to quit his job.

At that time, the shopkeeper Zhong and his wife were only in their twenties.

The two people in the back set up a small stall and sold breakfast and lunch.

Although it was hard work, I made money.

After all, if you have good skills, there will always be a steady stream of customers coming.

After five or six years of doing this, he had saved more than two thousand taels.

At this time, Manager Zhong had the idea of ​​opening his own restaurant.

But it is difficult to find a good location, and it is even more expensive to buy and resell a restaurant.

When Manager Zhong was struggling, Li Zhou appeared in front of him.

The contract was signed for fifty years at twenty taels per year. 】

Shen Zhao: [Twenty taels, fifty years, one thousand taels.

This is too cheap. Doesn't Shopkeeper Zhong have any doubts? 】