<h4>Chapter 199: Problems About The Milk Tea Shop Comes One After Another</h4>


    Since the little monsters never ate or drank, they did not have excrement. They would never get through the urine or feces test.


    When Deeny told Su Yang about the test results with a blushing face, it reminded him of thements he saw on TikTok, one of which was [I can’t imagine a cute girl like you going to the toilet. It breaks my heart.]


    ‘Great. You people might want to know that your cute little Deeny really doesn’t need to go to the toilet.’


    Other than Deeny and Pool, the other little monsters also went through the health checkup but their vitals were drastically different from normal humans.


    Little Hus did not even have blood, let alone excrement. When he went through the X-ray machine, the machine did not even detect anything from his body. He was the first one to be disqualified.


    Sanque and Gru were more or less the same. Their bodies were basically nts, so they were not even close to an animal.


    Even Little Lady Knife, who gained a humanoid body with the second point, shared no simrities with a human body. The X-ray result showed that the des that she had as limbs were actually connected to her bones. Aside from that, the blood test results were drastically different from that of a human being’s either.


    Su Yang did not know what caused her vitals to be this different. Maybe it was because of her Life Evolution or something else entirely.


    After the tests, he heaved a sigh of relief because Pool should be able to get his health certificate.


    ‘What about the urine and feces test? I guess I’ll have to step in! The health checkup isn’t all that strict either. No one will wait in front of the toilet anyway! If he can pass the X-ray and the blood test, it should be fine.’


    With that in mind, Su Yang gave his father a call and said that he had a friend who was an unregistered citizen, so he wanted his father to ask around the vige to see whether he could be registered in their vige.


    His father asked with a slightly worried tone, “Is your friend...clean? I mean it’s safe, right?”


    Su Yang smiled and said, “Don’t worry, Dad. He lost his family when he’s young and has been begging in the city since then. He’s got a job recently, so he needs the credentials. He’s a nice guy.”


    His father remained suspicious, but he agreed to ask the vige chief for help.


    Su Yang knew his father well. Since his father said he would help, he would do it.


    After the phone call, Pool came to Su Yang with a long face. “Lord Su Yang, thendlord came again tonight.”


    “Did he recognize you?” Su Yang asked.


    Pool shook his head. “He’s suspicious, but I said the younger one is my brother, so he let me off.”


    “Is it about the rent again?” asked Su Yang.


    Pool nodded. “He was fiercer than thest visit. He said if we don’t agree to the increased rent, he will get hiswyer to sue us!”


    Su Yang frowned. “Sue us? For what?”


    “He said the rent we asked for is below the market price, and he said he was deceived into signing the agreement, so it is invalid. He will seek legal help to invalidate the agreement.”


    Some thoughtster, Su Yang said, “Okay, I’ll take care of it. I’ll go talk to thendlord tomorrow.”


    ...


    The next day, Su Yang called thendlord and asked him out for a meeting. Thendlord agreed. The two of them met up at a coffee shop near the campus.


    Su Yang arrived at the coffee shop early and ordered a cup of coffee while waiting for thendlord.


    Half an hourter, thendlord finally showed up.


    Thendlord was a man in his 50s who spoke in an authentic Shanghainese ent. As for whether or not he was a local Shanghainese, no one knew because most of the outsiders could speak better Shanghai dialect than the locals.


    Thendlord grinned when he saw Su Yang. “Su! There you are. I’ve been trying to get to you in the past few days, but you are a busy man.”


    Su Yang answered in a neutral tone, “Uncle Fang, you have my contact number. You could’ve just given me a call if you wanted to.”


    Surprised, thendlord apped his forehead and said, “Oh my goodness. I’m getting old. My brain is not functioning as well. I don’t even remember I have your contact.”


    Su Yang smiled but did not reply to the question. He said, “Uncle Fang, we are all adults here, so let’s be honest. What do you want with our shop?”


    Thendlord suddenly looked embarrassed. “My, my, it’s not about what I want. It’s about what I feel. I have a feeling that the rent you are paying is a little too low.”


    Su Yang took the agreement out and said, “I have the agreement here and your signature is on it. I don’t think it’s appropriate for you to vite the agreement like this.”


    Thendlord replied with slight hesitance, “Su, I might have signed a ck-and-white with you, but the rent is half of the current market price and I might not have been in a clear state of mind then. I think thew allows us to negotiate further.”


    Su Yang frowned. He did use the [Elementary Verbal Canon] to persuade thendlord during the initial negotiation and thendlord had fallen for it, thus the 10% discount on the rent. However, the ims about the current rent being half of the current market price or thendlord not being in a clear state of mind was pure nonsense.


    ‘I remember that thendlord almost knelt down and worshipped me as God! If I hadn’t stopped him then, he might have been myckey now!’


    Su Yang tapped his fingers on the arm of the couch. A whileter, he asked, “Uncle Fang, how much rent are you asking for now?”


    Thendlord smiled. “I’m not asking for much. Just the market price will be fine. I’m currently taking 6,000 yuan per month from you, so if you can pay up to 12,000 per month, we will be good.”


    “12K?! Are you out of your mind, Uncle Fang? Is your spot worth that much? Are you kidding me?” Su Yang was shocked.


    Thendlord grinned. “Of course. My location is right outside the east gate, so it packs a ton ofmercial value!”


    “Besides...the feng shui there is good for business,” whispered thendlord, “You guys have moved in for two weeks and your business has skyrocketed! It’s an auspicious spot! Am I right?”


    ‘Auspicious, my a*s! I did all the advertising myself!’


    Thendlord leaned back on the couch since Su Yang was not moved by his words. He said with a nd tone, “There are many other milk tea shops eyeing my location, and they are willing to pay triple the price. Please don’t get it wrong.”


    Su Yang’s heart was filled with disgust when he saw thendlord’s face. ‘This kind of blood-suckingndlord that preys onmon citizens and small businesses is the worst kind! When business is good, you raise the rent. When people get a sry increase, you raise the rent...B*stard!’


    Su Yang remembered seeing a post online saying that when working in Shanghai, a third of the sry earned had to go to rent and the rise of rent would follow!


    However, Su Yang’s businesses were still in the growing stage. The ‘Monster Family’ series and the milk tea shop had only just started, and Su Yang had a ton of matters to attend to, so he did not have time to argue with thendlord.


    ‘Fine! I’ll ept the raise if it’s not too bad! Just you wait, you old b*stard! In two months, I’ll buy a shop there and you will cry in your ‘auspicious’ shop!’


    Su Yang activated the [Verbal Canon] and started negotiating.


    In the end, his silver tongue managed to lower thendlord’s 12,000 yuan to only 8,000 yuan, which was a 2,000 yuan increment to the previous 6,000 yuan rent.


    Su Yang realized that one’s will was the determining factor of [Verbal Canon]. He was able to persuade thendlord to give a 10% discount thest time, but this time around, even after he activated [Intermediate Verbal Canon] and negotiated for two minutes, he could barely move thendlord.


    Thendlord fixed the rent at 8,000 yuan and showed no signs ofpromising.


    ‘Fine! 8,000 it is!’ Su Yang epted his fate.


    After they signed an additional agreement, Su Yang stormed out of the coffee shop. He was fed up with thendlord’s disgusting smirk.


    Su Yang was still grumpy after he went home. It was then that he received a call from Wang Dong. “Mr. Su, Junqing is pressuring me to arrange a meeting with you. I can barely hold them off for any longer.”


    “Why can’t you? Just tell them I’m not meeting them and not negotiating about anything! We aren’t even taking jobs from them anymore, so just ignore them!” Su Yang bellowed.


    After he hung up the phone, he went to the bathroom for a shower to calm his grumpiness. He lost almost 10,000 over the negotiation which impacted his mood. He had the urge to break into thendlord’s house at night to smash his face with the brick.


    On the next day, which was a Sunday, something worse came.


    At night, when Pool came back from work, he looked at Su Yang with a depressed gaze and said, “Lord Su Yang, thendlord came by again and said he wants another raise! This time, he even started to disturb our customers and sent them away. Thankfully, it was near closing time. Otherwise, we might not have been able to do business.”


    Su Yang frowned hard. “He did that? I thought I talked to him yesterday afternoon!”


    Then, his ringtone echoed throughout the living room. Su Yang summoned the panel and noticed that the call was from the agent that had helped him register hispanies.


    He answered the phone and the agent said, “Mr. Su, someone from the SAMR (State Administration for Market Regtion) is dropping by tomorrow for an inspection. I got the notice today and I almost forget to inform you.”


    ‘What the f*ck? Is he calling me on a Sunday night to tell me about an inspection tomorrow morning? What is going on?! What’s with the problems popping up one after another?!’