Brother Chao's name was Yu Chao. If he knew Liu Chang'an considered him a vegetable-market bully, he certainly would not have admitted it.
Yu Chao considered himself a businessman who ran a vegetable company.
The vendors in the market were all shareholders in the vegetable company, while Yu Chao and his brothers held dry shares.
Of the vegetable company's annual profits, Yu Chao and the others took forty percent as management fees. After deducting daily expenses and the like, the remaining profits were distributed among the vendors. That was reasonable, wasn't it?
If there was a loss, then naturally the market vendors were responsible. If they sold vegetables properly, how could there be losses?
Recently, Yu Chao had received word that someone wanted him to keep a lower profile. They said times had changed, and if things ended up online and public opinion gained momentum, a business like his could easily draw the attention of the authorities and be wiped out in one sweep.
Yu Chao did not care. Vegetable markets were too close to people's livelihoods and a little too far from the internet... After all, most people who spent all day babbling online ordered takeout for their meals and might not visit a vegetable market more than once or twice a year.
He did know that five years ago... no, the New Year had passed, so that was six years ago—in 2012, forty-one people from a vegetable-market bully gang over in Mawangdui had been arrested. Yu Chao had kept a low profile for a while back then, but he knew that bunch had deserved it. They had been far too arrogant and had left no room for anyone else to survive.
Yu Chao, on the other hand, was very wise. Though he had acted flamboyantly today, he had