Shen Lingzhu looked at Chen Xiaoge again. He only nodded at her and her senior sister, then clasped his fists towards Huang Zongqi and said, "Do you need any help?"

Huang Zongqi replied: "No need, the two kids just greeted each other when they saw an acquaintance.

You have made quite a few bellows, and the three carpenters in the city, Lu, Zhu and Yuan, are all selling them.

They are located in the east, west and north cities respectively."

At the beginning, Dazhuzi deliberately chose different urban areas, saying that he wanted to retain the maximum number of customers and maintain their interests.

"It won't affect our sales in Nancheng." Chen Xiaoge didn't think that selling a bellows could make money at first, but he didn't expect that his fifth uncle would ask many people to go to the temple's kitchen to try out the stove in just two or three days.

My family brothers made this for three consecutive days. They sold twenty of them yesterday afternoon and earned more than two taels of silver in a short time.

Many people are lining up to place orders for the specially made bamboo rocking chairs. Uncle Five said that the bulk of his profits come from chairs of various shapes. He has already started asking Uncle Four, who specializes in carpentry, to make rocking chairs out of solid wood.

The capital can be recovered within a month.

“You don’t have to sell only in the city. The nearby villages may not be as wealthy as your Daliudian, but they can trade wheat, millet, or sorghum for a bellows that boils water quickly and saves firewood.

My family sells goods through barter at the market, and it's quite popular." Shen Lingzhu gave sincere advice.

Chen Xiaoge naturally understood, and finally suppressed his worries and thanked her for the advice.

When the two sides exchanged a brief greeting and parted ways, Shen Lingzhu gave Shao Zi a bag of the dried meat she had brought with her and whispered to him, "Is it possible for the people who sell food at Daluo Store to pay for the secret recipe?"

"It depends on what kind of food it is." Shao Zi also took the initiative to lower his voice and replied to her.

Shen Lingzhu: "Vegetarian three-fresh buns."

“No, the farmers in Dalidian are reluctant to give up their buns.

Most of them are sold to passing merchants. Everyone likes the big meat buns, so no one buys vegetarian ones.

Only the wealthy families in the capital city like to eat vegetarian buns.

It would be easier for you to find a shop in the capital city to sell the recipe.” Shao Zi often walked around the streets and observed carefully.

Shen Lingzhu was of course aware that the Dashuang store was small, "Are you familiar with the prefectural capital?"

"Brother Chen knows. I'll go ask for you." Shao Zi was still very agile and Shen Lingzhu couldn't stop him in time.

When she retracted her outstretched hand, Shen Miaozhu felt her pulse and said, "Now you know how we feel every time you don't listen to what we say and run away, right?"

"Well, try to listen before you leave next time." Shen Lingzhu thought to herself that the habit she had developed since childhood could only be changed slowly.

The two had just exchanged a few words when Shao Zi ran back and said three store names and addresses, which Shen Lingzhu memorized.

Shen Miaozhu asked again: "Have you found the little bean from the Cao family?"

"No, they sold the person to the master without asking any questions. When the police found the hideout Wu Gou had given them, no one was there.

I have to go now. We'll talk next time." Shao Li saw Chen Xiaoge waving his whip to urge him on, and he ran away quickly.

After watching them leave, Shen Lingzhu scratched his head and said, "It seems that selling food recipes is not the best option."

"It's just a small amount of money. It doesn't matter to us whether we have it or not now." Shen Miaozhu reminded her to be careful, as her uncle was not far away from them.

Shen Lingzhu: "It's so boring, why don't we draw a chessboard on the ground and play checkers."

After saying that, she slapped her thigh and looked at her senior sister: "Make checkers and sell them."

"What are you selling?" Huang Zongqi came back after checking the mule cart and only heard the last two words.

Just as Shen Lingzhu said something about a different kind of horizontal trading, her senior sister said from the side: "Here it comes."

She saw the driver who had taken Shen Man earlier, swaying towards her from the fork in the road. "Uncle, please stop him. We'll use courtesy first and then force. I'll ask him first."

There were many carriages and horses on the road at this moment, and the coachman was driving slowly. He was extremely alert to Huang Zongqi who was running diagonally.

Sure enough, the next moment, he grabbed the reins and forced the mule cart to pull over. The driver jumped off the shaft and said, "You, what are you doing? In broad daylight..."

Huang Zongqi didn't say anything to him at all. He quickly lifted the car curtain and came face to face with Shen Man who was secretly pulling the curtain up from inside the car.

At this moment, he was not as gentle as he was in the city, "Shen Man, get out of the car, don't let me do it."

"Brother Huang..." Shen Man held the small wicker box containing the luggage, his mind racing.

Huang Zongqi: "Stop talking nonsense." As soon as he finished speaking, he extended his hand towards him.

"No, I'll get off by myself." Shen Man had already seen Shen Lingzhu and her sister approaching, and he felt a little relieved.

But he never expected that after sending the driver away and getting on Huang Zongqi's carriage, the first person to challenge him was Xiao Zhuzi: "Uncle Shi, where are the other pieces of chicken blood stone besides the one you have on you?"

"I didn't." Shen Man denied it of course.

Shen Miaozhu walked closer to him and said in a cold voice: "Uncle is going to search me."

"You dare." As soon as Shen Man finished speaking, he felt a sudden pain on the back of his hand.

Looking down, Shen Miaozhu was holding a long needle and pricking the back of her hand. She said, "Uncle Shi, look carefully. My needle is poisonous. If you don't take the antidote within a quarter of an hour, your right hand will no longer be able to write smoothly."

Shen Lingzhu also said: "Uncle Shi, since we found you, we naturally have sufficient evidence.

How could you, a scholar who relies on your third uncle's farming for support, get a top-quality chicken blood stone seal?

You don't want to go to court, do you?"

When she said this, not only Shen Man trembled with fear, but Huang Zongqi, who was driving the car, stopped the car in shock and stopped again, "Dazhuzi, do you have the antidote with you? Stop fooling around and give it to him quickly."

"Uncle Ten, tell me the truth. I will give you the antidote right away." Shen Lingzhu took out a small red box from the flowered cloth bag on her body and opened it. A red antidote as big as her little finger appeared in front of her.

Huang Zongqi saw the "antidote" she was holding and thought to himself: Preserved fruit candy? When did Xiao Zhuzi get a box to put it in?

Of course, when he went to the inn to tell his brothers about his whereabouts, Shen Lingzhu asked the innkeeper about the rouge box she had bought.

But Shen Man was frightened. He was just an ordinary village kid. At most he learned some knowledge about eating, drinking and having fun in the county town. He had never seen such a rough action.

He didn't even look closely at the "antidote" that Shen Lingzhu put away. He wanted to jump out of the car, but his legs were too weak to move. "Give me the antidote quickly, and I'll tell you everything."

"I'll tell you what happened and give it to you to eat. Where is the seal stone? Please take it out, uncle." Shen Miaozhu held up a long needle in front of him and twisted it.

Shen Man immediately looked at the rattan box, "The small box inside."

Shen Lingzhu quickly opened it and found it, then took it out and looked at the name on it: "Second sister, I can't see the words clearly."

After handing it to Shen Miaozhu, she asked Shen Man, "Did you erase my aunt's name and then re-engraved it?"

"No, the piece that belongs to my fifth sister-in-law is not in my hand." Shen Man's right hand was shaking violently.

Shen Lingzhu asked, "Did you sell it?"

"I didn't take it. This is the only piece I got." Shen Man began to sweat. He stared at his hands, which were shaking more and more, and was terrified. "Xiao Zhuzi, give me the antidote."

"Who took it?" Shen Miaozhu took the box from her junior sister, held the "antidote" in her hand and raised it up.

"Uncle Ten better tell the truth, otherwise the only antidote will shatter."

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