Chapter 891: Chapter 891 Shu Yu’s Identity Made Widely Known

The next morning, as dawn just began to break, the gates of the county office were opened, and two officers with solemn expressions walked out.

One of them was Hu Li. The two of them went to the bulletin board near the city gate and posted a notice.

After posting it, they left, just as people entering the city swarmed around to read the notice.

“What is written on this? Can someone read it out loud?”

“Let me see, let me see, make way.” A man who looked like a scholar came forward, scanned the notice from top to bottom, and then widened his eyes in surprise, exclaiming loudly, “We have a Village Chief in our county town now.”

“What, what Village Chief?”

The man eagerly read the news aloud, beginning to get excited, “Lu Corporation’s lady… Heating Pack… Appointed as Village Chief. Heaven’s, this is incredible, our Jiangyuan County is going to make history.”

Although the appointed one was a woman, this event brought great benefits to the people, and would inevitably be recorded in history books.

The bystanders exchanged surprised glances upon hearing this.

Village Chief, who is this girl? How come we have never heard of her before?

The crowd of onlookers grew larger and words started spreading from mouth to mouth. Gradually, some people recognized who she was.

In the crowd, a middle-aged man with a slightly bulging belly pondered for a moment and asked his attendant in a low voice, “Lu Shuyu, is she the one who runs the ready-to-wear clothes shop on Ningshui Street?”

“Yes, Lord.”

The middle-aged man’s eyes brightened, “Let’s go, back to the shop.”

The two squeezed out of the crowd and strode towards their own shop.

It was still early; the shop had just opened and customers had not yet arrived. The middle-aged man walked in, and the staff wiping the counter looked up and respectfully greeted, “Boss.”

“Hmm, where is Manager Qiu?”

“The shopkeeper is in the back checking stock, I’ll go call him immediately.”

The staff ran to the back, and soon came out with Manager Qiu.

The middle-aged man sat down on a chair and looked around his large cloth shop, asking the manager with a smile, “Old Qiu, I recall you told me that our shop had business dealings with the ready-to-wear shop on Ningshui Street, Yiren Pavilion, run by a girl surnamed Lu, right?”

Manager Qiu was stunned, not understanding why the boss would suddenly ask about Lu Shuyu.

Could it be that something really happened to Lady Lu?

He immediately nodded and said, “Yes, that ready-to-wear shop indeed used to cooperate with us. However, just yesterday, both sides have dissolved the contract, and there probably won’t be any business dealings in the future.”

The middle-aged man’s originally cheerful expression suddenly stiffened, “What did you say? The contract was dissolved?”

“Yes.” Manager Qiu tried to lighten things, explaining, “That shop originally dealt with the rich families in the city, so the fabrics they ordered were of high quality. However, the business of the shop has not been good recently, and those nobles rarely buy clothes from them, hence the quality and quantity of fabric ordered decreased. A few days back, our shop was too busy, and all delivery carts were out, so I asked Shopkeeper Lu to wait a moment, but the other party was dissatisfied, and boss Lu came over and accused us of violating the contract, insisting on dissolving it.”

As he spoke, he sighed, not noticing the increasingly grim expression on the middle-aged man’s face, and continued with a tone of regret, “It seems they really couldn’t continue with their business, so they found an excuse to dissolve the contract with us. I…”