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He Shi closed his eyes and listened as the group finalized his method of death in just a few words. He found it amusing, but also felt a sense of unease.

What exactly was written in that letter? What were the stewards plotting that would drive them to risk everything to assassinate him, the last disciple of the Chu Clan Manor's master?

Smelling the strong smell of alcohol on Steward Chang, He Shi pondered quietly.

Suddenly, he felt the steward stop, and then his body spun around and he was placed on a hard wooden board. He Shi felt that it must have been the carriage he had come in.

The car door closed, and Steward Chang's voice rang out from outside: "Take him back, lock him in the right wing of the backyard first, and give him his medicine every three hours, understand?"

The coachman replied, "I've got it."

Manager Chang said, "Alright, go ahead, but be careful not to let the news leak out."

"Yes."

As the coachman finished speaking, the once quiet carriage suddenly lurched and then began to sway from side to side. He Shi knew that they were on the road. He opened his eyes and slowly sat up.

Afraid of attracting the attention of the driver outside, He Shi didn't make a sound. He carefully moved himself from the floor to the stool.

Meanwhile, He Yu had already exited the [Immersive] mode and switched back to the original [Mobile Game] version, following He Shi's perspective all the way back to the Chang residence.

The driver stuffed He Shi into a sack, tied the opening tightly, and carried it into the west wing of the backyard.

Two maids saw him on the road, assuming that the sack contained the master's new favorite. They exchanged a knowing glance and then went about their business.

The driver threw He Shi onto the bed, carefully checked that he showed no signs of waking up, tied his arms behind his back with hemp rope, and left with peace of mind.

With the door locked from the outside, the room fell silent.

After a long while, a dark figure slowly emerged from beside the bed, with only his hands not covered by black covering his entire body. It was He Yu.

He Shi, who had been staring blankly into the void, suddenly focused his lifeless eyes upon seeing her arrive, his gaze landing on the quietly hanging pure black gauze curtain. He whispered, "You've finally arrived."

He Yu nodded but did not go forward to untie the rope for him.

Who knows if the coachman made any markings? If he accidentally breaks them and finds out that He Shi is faking unconsciousness, then we'll be in trouble.

She reached into her pocket and pulled out a bottle of freshly squeezed watermelon juice. She inserted a straw and held it to He Shi's lips: "Hold it in your mouth and suck."

He Shi's gaze swept over her well-tailored and flattering clothes at her chest with awe. It was hard to imagine that such a large bottle could be hidden there. Perhaps this was the magic of a deity, something like a hidden universe in one's sleeve...

He Shi lowered his head and obediently put the transparent tube in his mouth. With a slight effort, a cool and sweet juice flowed into his mouth, which was delicious and thirst-quenching.

He could taste that it was watermelon juice, and he couldn't help but recall the scene of sitting around in his master's courtyard with his senior brothers and sisters on a summer night, eating watermelon. He couldn't help but take a few more sips, and most of the juice was gone in no time.

He Shi put down the straw and smiled at He Yu, revealing his dimples.

He Yu looked helplessly at this silly boy. He was tied up and thrown into a dark room, where he was about to die, yet he was still laughing so happily.

She couldn't resist reaching out and giving his head a hard pat.

He Shi didn't care that his hair was messed up. He swayed around on the bed a few times, adjusted to a more comfortable position, and blinked at He Yu: "Sister, is Steward Chang plotting something bad with those three people? He seems very afraid of being found out by Master."

He Yu removed the straw from the glass bottle and finished the rest of the juice in a few gulps: "You're quite clever. They are indeed plotting something bad, planning to pass off inferior goods as superior ones and embezzle a large amount of money, grain, cloth, and medicine that are being collected for disaster relief."

After she finished speaking, she looked down at He Shi's reaction and found that he was staring blankly at the glass bottle in his hand.

He Yu: ?

This silly boy probably has never seen such a fine and clear glass bottle before, but now is not the time to study it, he's about to lose his life!

He Yu calmly placed the glass bottle into the [storeroom].

He Shi was stunned for a moment when she flipped her hand and the bottle they had both drunk from disappeared. He then came to his senses.

He had actually heard what He Yu had just said, and quickly replied, "Gathering grain for disaster relief? Is that what the merchant caravan we met at the post station today was talking about?"

He Yu nodded: "Jinzhou suffered from floods this year. The imperial court encouraged major merchants to donate grain and silver to aid the disaster area. The Chu family was one of the first to respond. When other merchants saw that Chu Zheng took the lead in donating money and grain, they followed in his footsteps and donated things as well."

"However, the journey to Jinzhou is long and the numerous merchants are too scattered and not safe enough. The money, grain and medicine donated to the disaster area will not be able to play their maximum role. Therefore, Manager Zhou of Chu's Grain Store joined forces with major merchants to launch a grain collection and disaster relief campaign, allowing merchants in Yunzhou and surrounding areas to concentrate disaster relief supplies in Dingyun City, which were then escorted to Jinzhou by Chu's family."

"In this way, we can reduce the losses of various merchants, and at the same time concentrate our efforts on major tasks. With the cooperation of the Chu family and the local government of Jinzhou, we can distribute a large amount of supplies in a unified manner, which will help alleviate the losses caused by the flood more quickly and effectively."

"And that military advisor Hou set his sights on the large amount of money, grain, cloth, medicine and other supplies that were being continuously sent into Dingyun City. He secretly joined forces with Manager Chang, who was in charge of collecting and transporting the supplies, Magistrate Wang, who was in charge of signing and stamping the documents, and Captain Liu, who was in charge of guarding the city gates. They planned to replace these supplies with a small amount of inferior goods mixed with sand, gravel and wood from the Yunzhou warehouse, in order to make huge profits."

After listening attentively to the whole story, He Shi pondered and said, "Then Master must have written to Steward Chang in his letter instructing him to properly escort this batch of supplies to Jinzhou."

He Yu nodded: "That's roughly the idea. We also arranged the locations of several Chu family support points along the way, so they could help Steward Chang transport supplies safely."

He Shi frowned slightly: "Steward Chang was willing to kill me to keep this secret, which means he must have already been in contact with this so-called military advisor and county magistrate in private, and may have even done quite a bit before, but we just didn't notice..."

He suddenly looked up: "I need to hurry and send a message to my master, telling him about this person's betrayal, so as not to affect the delivery of supplies and delay the flood control efforts in the prefecture."

He Yu looked at him approvingly, her voice tinged with laughter: "I've already informed Chu Zheng. Don't worry, they can't cause any trouble."

She looked He Shi up and down: "It's just that we'll have to trouble our young master He to continue pretending to be unconscious here in order to keep them calm."

Hearing her address, He Shi lowered his eyes and remained silent, but a blush quietly rose to his ears and quickly spread across his entire face.