"Everyone, please remain calm. I will head to the county town to investigate, and if it’s indeed related to the workshop, I will definitely give everyone an explanation!"
Having left these words, Yang Ming hurriedly left with Xiaoxiao.
Xiaoxiao was also very anxious. The female workers had been taken away; she didn’t know if her sisters-in-law were still at ho.
Upon arriving ho, she found that the eldest sister-in-law was there, but the second one was not. This was troubleso. If the second sister-in-law had been captured, the recipe for the spicy pickled cabbage was definitely compromised. The female workers had only been making the spicy pickled cabbage for a few days and were not too clear about the thod; only the sisters-in-law knew it.
"Yang Ming, this must be the work of that stupid classmate of yours! Even a fool could figure it out."
"..." How could sothing so serious be so comical when his wife ntioned it?
"Yang Ming, let’s report this to the officials! So many people being taken, this is a cri!" Xiaoxiao didn’t know what the local governnt office was like, having had no chance to deal with them since arriving.
"That won’t do, the local magistrate is a corrupt official. If the governnt office gets involved, the other party just needs to pay them off with silver, which would be to our disadvantage."
"..." Why are there corrupt officials everywhere? Money talks, she thought, wanting to earn lots and lots of it to crush them, "So what do we do now?"
"We’ll head to the Dongfeng Restaurant first!"
At this ti, the female workers had been brought to a small courtyard in the county town. Everyone was frightened, not knowing whom they had offended. There they waited in the room, until suddenly, the door opened and a man walked in.
"Why is it you? When you ca to my ho looking for my younger brother, I even showed you the way! Why have you captured us?" The second sister-in-law recognized the man as the one who was looking for Yang Ming.
"As long as you tell the thod of making spicy pickled cabbage, I will release you."
The female workers, upon seeing soone enter, were shaking with fear. Hearing that the man wanted the recipe for the spicy pickled cabbage, they calculated amongst themselves; they hadn’t been involved in the making for long, it was primarily the two daughters-in-law of the Yang Family. If the second daughter-in-law were to reveal it, then it had nothing to do with them.
Therefore, one of the female workers spoke up, "We didn’t follow through with making the spicy pickled cabbage, we don’t really know how. You should ask her; she’s the one who made it! Please let go!" she said while pointing at the second sister-in-law!
Once one spoke, a second followed, then a third, "Yes, yes, ask her, I don’t know, please let go."
The second sister-in-law never imagined that these people, scared as they were, would betray her so quickly.
"I see, then you tell us! After you do, I will let all of you go!" Li Fugui was saying this when he saw his subordinate casually walk in.
"Young master, there’s sothing we need to discuss. Let’s step outside." He was thoroughly convinced by his young master’s actions; he had only suggested that information might be obtained from the female workers. But, then his young master stupidly captured them all.
It was the sa with the purchase of the cabbages before; all his own presumptuous actions, stupidly carried out.
"What’s the matter?"
After the two stepped out, "Young master, if you blatantly capture people like this, if the lord finds out..."
"I haven’t been blatant, have I? Didn’t I bring them here to this small courtyard?"
"..." Communicating with his young master was so difficult. Capturing eleven people in one go was pretty blatant, wasn’t it? Now all the villagers would know; why couldn’t he have covertly taken just one person?
Inside, the second sister-in-law watched the situation outside; the two n were whispering and seed to be discussing sothing. After a while, they ca back in and pointed at her, "You stay, the rest of you can go!"
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