Leafeon had finally figured it out: the old geezer just couldn't stand seeing them build up any savings. They had barely managed to earn a few points before he decided to play the evil landlord and confiscate the lot.
Those points represented not just Ye Lan's hard work, but Leafeon's too!
If they kept letting him get away with this, Leafeon feared that old man Zhang Pengfei would even start imposing candy taxes, arms sales taxes, war taxes, drug trafficking taxes, and all sorts of other bizarre taxes on their Candy Shop just to rake in points, driving the net profit on each candy below ten points. Absolutely unforgivable!
Giving ground here wouldn't bring peace of mind. It would only make Leafeon angrier the more Leafeon thought about it!
In truth, Leafeon was being a little unfair to Dean Zhang.
Rent had always been paid on that plot of land. In fact, because Zhang Shuling was an externally appointed professor, his rent had been considerably higher than the price quoted to Ye Lan. Then his three disciples had caused a major disaster, leaving Zhang Shuling, a senior researcher and professor at Huaxia Academy, in such dire financial straits.
After he began working with the Su Family, they had covered all those expenses. When Ye Lan converted the place into a restaurant, however, the Su Family stopped renewing the lease at Zhang Shuling's instruction.
It wasn't that he was a stingy master. Rather, Zhang Shuling didn't want his youngest disciple entangled in financial interests with any of those Elite Four families, as that might obstruct Ye Lan's future rise to the Elite Four in the Huaxia League.
Su Muqing was Su Muqing, and the Su Family was the Su Family. Whether it was the research or the tangled web of connections,