Li Ling's words really made Gu Yuezi and the old shopkeeper look solemn. Seeing the seriousness of the matter. Especially the former, he frowned and pondered, and muttered: "You are right. If the people from all families can take the initiative to catch all the authors in one place, they must have mastered the information in our store. Especially brother, you are Xiaoyaozi, few people know about it. Except for me and Lao Wu, the remaining friends know no one else."

Speaking of this, he found that the old shopkeeper's expression was different, so he quickly added: "Old Wu, don't think too much. You have been with my father for many years. I have always treated you as an uncle, so I will never doubt you."

"I will never do anything to sell my boss even if I starve to death!" The old shopkeeper immediately stated.

Li Ling also nodded to agree. If it were in the future, there would be many things that would be caused by the opponent's instigation of internal personnel and become commercial spies. However, in this ancient world hundreds of years ago, it would be too difficult for a group of outsiders to do this. Old shopkeepers, like the old shopkeeper, are not easily bribed and moved by money.

As his mind turned, he thought of another point: "The most important thing is that they can easily find my home to lobby. This proves that the traitor even knows my residence. Such a specific person should be easy to find, right?"

Gu Yuezi's eyes flashed: "That's all he is, Gu Kui, the guy who went to your house with me that day!"

Li Ling recalled that the guy looked quite down-to-earth, and he could keep Gu Yuezi with him. He should be a confidant, right? Why was he easily bribed by someone?

Even the old shopkeeper showed suspicion: "Boss, Gu Kui is your domestic slave. How could he... dare to do this?"

Nowadays, those who join his family as slaves are divided into two categories: one is to sell themselves, and from then on, life, death, honor and disgrace are completely related to the master's family, and there is no freedom to say. They are to raise slaves for the family; the other is just an employment relationship, just like most shopkeepers in the store, coming and going freely, which earns employment fees.

On the surface, of course, the latter has a higher status, but in fact, for those poor people who have to be slaves, the latter is more beneficial to themselves, because once they become domestic slaves of a wealthy family, they will never have to worry about their livelihoods in their entire lives, and even have arrangements for marriage and children. If they can be trusted and used by their master, their power will be far more than that of ordinary servants. After all, he can be considered his own family.

Of course, correspondingly, such slaves are in the hands of the master. Even if they are killed, the government will not interfere. Therefore, such a person is the most loyal to the master. Now, as a slave of the Gu family, Gu Kui actually colluded with the people of the Wan family and leaked all the commercial secrets in the store!

Gu Yuezi's face looked very bad, and she only snorted: "At least, it seems that the only one that matches him. Yes or no, you will know it as soon as you ask." As he said that, he walked out and rushed to the worker outside, saying, "Where is Gu Kui? Tell him to come over quickly!"

Someone rushed to call someone elsewhere. After a while, Gu Kui, who had a lot of ink on his body, rushed over. As soon as he saw his master's face, a hurriedly panic flashed in his eyes. He just bowed his head to greet him, but did not dare to look up at him: "Does the master tell me what instructions do you mean?"

"Gukui, I, Lao Gu, have always treated you very well. Why do you do such a thing as scrambling? Say! If you dare to deny again, be careful that I will take your life, and your mother..."

Li Ling was so eager to slap his forehead when he was listening. This guy was too direct. He came up and spread the whole story. How could he make the other party honestly admit it? Gu Yuezi usually looks quite smart, but why is he so casual in this matter?

But the scene immediately surprised Li Ling - if anything - after Gu Yuezi said something intimidating, Gu Kui actually weakened his legs, knelt on the ground, and said in self-pity and horror: "Master, I know I was wrong, I... I was forced to do it too. In the past few days, I regretted it even more. If I had known that it would cause such a big trouble to you and our store, I would never reveal the matter to them..." As he said, he was already crying and kept kowtowing. After a few strokes, his forehead was already broken and bloody.

"This..." Li Ling was really stunned. The traitor's self-destruction was too easy. He actually admitted it in just one sentence?

This is actually because Li Ling is a bit overly optimistic about the psychological endurance of ordinary people at this time. A slave like Gu Kui is already very guilty and feels guilty when doing such things, so once it is seen through, he dare not deny it with any fantasy.

Looking at Gu Kuina's crying and regretful look, Gu Yuezi couldn't get angry for a moment. After a while, he said in a deep voice: "Tell me honestly, what's going on? Why was he bought by the people of the Wan family?"

"I..." Gu Kui then raised his head, wiped the tears and snot from his face with his sleeve, and choked and said, "I dare not hide it from my master. I had to agree to tell them something because I took their money."

"Why don't you tell me if you want to use money?"

"My mother needs dozens of taels of silver to buy medicine to treat her..."

"I know this. Didn't I ask you to go to the cabinet to withdraw some? Could it be that the shopkeeper didn't give it to you?"

"Shopkeeper Wu gave it to me, and I took it too... But, after that, when I went out, a friend pulled me into the Casino Casino and... I lost all the dozens of taels of silver... I originally wanted to win something to buy some chickens and ducks for my mother to replenish my body, but in the end I owed hundreds of taels of silver in the casino... I don't want it, I really don't want it... But I don't dare to tell the truth to your master, nor dare to tell my mother..." At this point, he shed tears of regret again.

At this point, Li Ling and others already knew what happened later. It was nothing more than the desperate Gu Kui happened to meet people from the Wan family, and then they "kind and generous" they paid off their debts to the gambling house for him. In return, he could only disclose some commercial secrets of the Gu family bookstore to the other party.

After understanding all this, Li Ling could only sigh. After all, gambling was harmful to others. His irresponsible and cheap father was like this, and Gu Kui in front of him was also average. Manager Wu was so angry that his face turned pale and pointed at Gu Kui who was kneeling on the ground and wanted to scold him, but he didn't know where to start.

However, the person involved, Gu Yuezi, after his face changed several times, came forward to support Gu Kui: "You made a serious mistake this time, but at the end of the day, you just wanted to be filial and were deceived by others, so you fell to this point."

When he said this, Gu Kui felt even more guilty and ashamed, and gritted his teeth and said, "Master, I know that I have done a big mistake, which has caused our store to be about to... I will atone for my sins. I will go to the county government to confess my guilt and tell everyone their despicable tricks..."

"Is this useful? Not to mention that even if everyone believes in this matter, it will be useless. Even if you and I, the Gu family, can prove it, you will not be able to believe your words. Wan Family can say that this is me, Gu, who is deliberately slandering them. If you make a comeback, we will only be more passive!"

Even at this time, Gu Yuezi still maintained a clear idea, which made Li Ling feel a little more respect for him. He nodded and said, "Brother Gu, you said it well, you can't solve the problem at all. In fact, they dared to do this because they saw the right thing and even if we found out the problem, they couldn't do anything to them."

"So that's all? Let them keep suppressing our bookstore until we squeezed us out?" the old shopkeeper asked angrily.

Li Ling immediately shook his head: "Of course we can't just forget it, and I think Gu Kui can also atone for his merits. Are you willing?"

When Li Ling looked down at him, Gu Kui nodded without hesitation and responded: "As long as I can make up for the mistakes I made, I will not retreat even if I kill me."

"It's not that exaggerating. As long as you do what I want, then." Li Ling smiled. If he thought it was a bit too much to use methods to deal with the Wan family before, then now he has no worries. After all, they didn't follow the rules for now. It's obvious that Gu Kui was set up by them in conjunction with the dealer.

Gu Yuezi was also excited when he saw this: "Brother, have you really decided on the countermeasure?"

"That's right, let's go into the house and talk in detail." Li Ling smiled with a confident face, then looked at Gu Kui, who was still nervous: "As I said, just do what you do as usual. Also, if someone from the Wan family looks for you, what you were like before and what you will do in the future. They have a request. You should first respond verbally, and then we will find a way."

Although his heart was still full of ups and downs, Gu Kui didn't have any more questions when he saw that his master nodded to him, so he nodded and agreed, and then left the workplace absent-mindedly.

In the next two hours, Li Ling and the other two had a long negotiation in the room. It was not until it was completely dark that the three of them walked out tiredly. At this time, Gu Yuezi and the old shopkeeper had a hint of excitement and confusion in their eyes. They couldn't understand how young Li Ling had these many ideas. It looked even smarter than those who had been running a bookstore for many years and had been in the shopping mall for decades.

Maybe this is called genius...

It was not until the two of them left the store that Li Ling took two steps before he stopped turning back and smiled at them: "Brother Gu, don't forget. He also called me when he invited the bookstore owners to meet in two days. Some words were more appropriate for me."

"I understand. Brother, don't worry. Also, you have to write the fourth volume of the Gods. This is what you said yourself, and that is the key to this battle."
Chapter completed!