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"Cough cough..." After Shen Man spit out the water, his first reaction was to reach for his purse. Fortunately, it did not fall into the river like a fan.

Not all of his classmates were gloating over his misfortune. Some of them asked him if he wanted to call a car and go back to change clothes.

Of course Shen Man was willing, as his sister loved quietness. If he went on board in his current state, he would spend a lot of money but would receive more sidelong glances and ridicule.

When he hurried back to the city, he didn't know that Huang Zongqi had found Mr. He and mobilized their energy to find out that the scholar who sent the bellows was indeed him in just one hour.

Moreover, the two also found out that Cai Yuansheng had not left the Xicheng Carpenter Shop since he entered it.

"Brother Huang, it seems your business has attracted people's attention and they've taken action." Mr. He and his nephew and uncle stood at the entrance of the alley behind the carpenter's shop and said, "With so much stuff to sell, there must be more than one Feng who can take it apart and learn how to make it."

"My target is not him, but the bellows that Cai brought." Huang Zongqi was planning to knock on the door and launch a surprise attack.

Mr. He stopped him and said, "Do you want to think of a way to force him out?

Then you take the opportunity to go in and see what's going on. If you knock on the door, they'll have plenty of time to hide."

The back door of the shop is closest to the alley entrance.

"Okay." Huang Zongsheng and Shen Lingzhu exchanged glances and nodded, and she said, "I'll go in and take a look."

Huang Zongqi: "I don't need you."

But Shen Lingzhu had a good reason: "Uncle, I am a child, and I was a witness when the boss signed the contract, so I know the layout of his workshop.

Even if you don't have time to come out, you can still ask the boss to see if he has any walnut wood.

If you don't come out in time, you'll definitely be mistaken for a thief."

"No..." Huang Zongqi was about to object, but Mr. He agreed: "Brother Huang, he is more suitable to go in than you."

"Uncle He has good taste." Shen Lingzhu gave him a thumbs up.

Mr. He chuckled, took out a whistle and blew it instantly, then shouted loudly: "Fire! There's a fire! Put out the fire!"

Huang Zongqi: "I thought you had some good ideas, but you're still using the same old tricks."

"Don't worry about the tricks, as long as they work." Mr. He blew the whistle again.

It is indeed very effective. Nowadays, if a fire breaks out, it will easily affect all the houses nearby.

Anyone who heard the alarm would run out, either carrying or holding water, including the owner of the carpentry shop and his guests.

The reason why I fetched water myself was because the boss had given all the employees a day off this afternoon.

Shen Lingzhu took advantage of the fact that many people were crowding at the alley entrance asking questions and used his short stature to squeeze into the yard.

This shop was a small workshop with a front shop and back workers. The place was not very big. As soon as she came in, she met Mr. Cai who was standing in the yard.

The latter recognized her at once, after all, she had been selling goods in the East Market these past two days: "It's you?" Why are you here?

Shen Lingzhu had already seen that he was holding a sketch of the internal structure of the bellows in his hand. It seemed that this man was not only looking for cooperation, but also planning to stab someone in the back at any time.

She glanced at the other person's position, which was quite close to the workshop, and her mind raced: "Who are you? What's that Uncle Feng holding in your hand?"

Before she finished speaking, she had already pounced on the other party.

How could Cai Yuansheng just stand there? He dodged to the side, allowing Shen Lingzhu, who had missed his target, to rush into the workshop.

Everything was within Shen Lingzhu's calculations, and she was the first to see the disassembled bellows on the table. She picked up the side panel with the secret mark on it, and then turned over the bottom panel, where there was also a secret mark.

Cai Yuansheng felt a flash of guilt. Just when he thought she had no idea where the bellows came from, Shen Lingzhu turned around and asked, "What did you use to make my tenth uncle give you the bellows?"

"What...what...what do you mean?" Ms. Cai was shocked. Shouldn't she have thought that the bellows was bought at her stall?

Shen Lingzhu approached him step by step: "Master Cai, let's be frank, why are you targeting my family's business?"

"I don't understand what you are saying." Cai Yuansheng took a step back and rolled the drawing into his sleeve.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, two carpenter shop owners brought water in, muttering: The person who falsely reported the fire must be caught and beaten.

Then he looked up and saw Shen Lingzhu looking over with the wind board. They both put down their buckets in unison and said, "Miss Shen, where is your master?"

"Here." Huang Zongqi and He Dafu appeared outside the door. After they stepped into the door, they closed the door tacitly.

He crossed his arms and said, "I remember when we signed the contract and paid the money, we said that after the Ghost Festival, our carpenters would bring the wood and teach you how to make bellows.

Unexpectedly, you two are so eager to get one and open it right away."

"We also want to know in advance so that the goods we deliver in the future can pass inspection." The two bosses never expected that they would be caught before they even started.

Huang Zongqi sneered and waved to Shen Lingzhu to come to his side. Silly girl, standing at the innermost part, aren't you afraid of becoming a hostage?

Shen Lingzhu didn't know what her uncle was thinking. She obediently moved to his side and said, "We are already partners. If you two want to learn how to assemble the bellows in advance, you can come to Laojun Temple to find us.

Why spend money to buy it from someone else?

"This……"

"If you really want to cooperate, you can withdraw now."

"No, no, no." The two bosses could never afford to pay fifty taels of silver to the person who tore up the contract before anything happened.

They both looked at Huang Zongqi, and one of them said, "Uncle Huang, you see, we don't have any other intentions."

Another said, “We didn’t buy the bellows either; they belonged to Master Cai Wu.

He lent it to us for demolition, hoping to start this business in the future."

"Shopkeeper Feng, don't talk nonsense. I gave it to you reluctantly because you wanted to borrow it..." Mr. Cai didn't expect that these two cowards would sell him out in a blink of an eye.

Shen Lingzhu didn't want to listen to them arguing with each other anymore, so she said, "We can continue to cooperate, but Master Cai can't participate."

"He wasn't involved anyway." The two bosses turned around and were about to send Cai Yuansheng away.

He snorted coldly and walked towards the front alley, allowing everyone to leave through the shop.

Unfortunately, Huang Zongqi blocked his way with a few quick steps, "You haven't answered yet, why are you targeting the Shen family?

Don't you know that Fifth Master Shen Huai is the only Jinshi who has passed the imperial examination in Shun County in the past ten years?"

"Mr. Shen? The one whose property was confiscated?" The two bosses were shocked. They were so greedy that they didn't ask more about the man's background. Instead, they did something small just to get work every month in the future.

Even if Mr. Shen's property was confiscated, he was still a Jinshi, and I, a small merchant, could not afford to offend him.

So the two of them were quicker than each other and sold out Cai Shengyuan completely, without paying any attention to his gnashing teeth and dark face.

Shen Lingzhu, from the messy information given by the two, sorted out one thing: Cai Yuansheng was not only a branch of the Cai family, he also had a brother-in-law who was the chief clerk in the criminal department of the county government.

If she remembered correctly, her uncle once said that the head of the criminal department was a relative of Xia Tongsheng's family.

Could it be that the Xia family instigated this again?