On the seventh day of the New Year, landlady Aunt Qin showed up with a rent increase notice demanding 6,800 yuan. Xu Zhiwei took out a tape measure on the spot and proved the shop only occupied eight square meters. Citing the second clause in the contract's appendix, he forced her to cross out 6,800 and change the rent to 4,800. But as Aunt Qin was leaving, she revealed that someone had offered 1.2 million yuan for the shop. Three refrigerated trucks from Changeng Fresh Foods had already come by the alley entrance to ask about it, and the next day, his senior, Duan Peng, arrived with two boxes of goods, calling him "junior brother." Meanwhile, the old case of thirty-seven people poisoned at Tongfu House three years ago still hung over this very stove.
