Chapter 106: Pull Out the Spy

Chapter 106

Zheng Ruqian suddenly let out a silly laugh.

His four elder and younger brothers and sisters were all frightened and shuddered.

Chang Yan stretched out her hand and gingerly poked his cheek, just about to open her mouth to speak, when Ergou hugged her up.

"I'm fine, Xiaowu." Zheng Ruqian put Chang Yan down, and hugged each of his other siblings in turn, finally embracing Jiang Sheng, "I'm really okay."

After letting go of Jiang Sheng, he said in a deep voice, "Eldest brother is right, we've only just started on this journey, it's normal to encounter setbacks. If I get knocked down by a mere workshop business, how can I become Master Zheng in the future?"

Xu Mo heaved a sigh of relief and nodded in agreement.

Fang Heng lifted his arm-thick stick, "Second brother, I can't help you with anything, but whoever leaked your sausage recipe, I can get revenge for you and break their legs."

Seeing this, Zhang Qiquan's eyes lit up. He hurried back to the workshop, presumably to fetch Third Master Fang's stick to threaten people.

"Who leaked the recipe is unimportant," Xu Mo tapped the table, "What's important is that the Wang family no longer focuses solely on dealing with third brother, but has included all of us as adversaries."

It takes more than twenty days from brining, drying, and smoking to sell sausages.

Twenty days ago, the Wangs were still wholeheartedly helping Young Master Sun vie for the position of the next county magistrate.

At that time, the Xu siblings all thought they wouldn't act rashly again, but the sausage recipe leak proved that although the Wangs were plotting to seize the Anshui county magistrate position, they had not relaxed their efforts against them, and even wanted to take them all down at once.

Just now, Sun died, and Zheng Ruqian's sausage recipe was leaked out.

Who would be next?

Wen Zhiyun who helps fetch medicine? Or the only girl Jiang Sheng?

Or perhaps it would be Xu Mo, the county teacher of Xieyang county.

No matter who it was, they didn’t have the energy to deal with such continuous dirty tricks, nor the energy to be anxious every day.

Only thieves can steal for a thousand days, not guards defending for a thousand days.

Since the Wangs didn't want to let them off easily, they could only make sure the Wangs didn't have it easy either. Fôllôw new stories at novelhall.com

Xu Mo threw the package he had just packed onto the table, and said in a deep voice, "Let's not leave for now, contact Wang Fufeng."

The people present were all surprised.

Only Jiang Sheng's eyes were bright, and she happily said, "It's great we're not leaving. Just now I was telling Fifth Brother that I wanted to see Sister Qin."

Qin was the daughter of Qiao Yuhe and half a year older than Jiang Sheng.

Zhang Qiquan frowned, trying to remember, "She should be from Dafu Village. She said her parents and in-laws had all died, with only her husband paralyzed in bed, and she was the only one busy working inside and outside the home. I felt she had a bitter life so made an exception to hire her."

The village allocated land based on the number of people. Although the gaunt woman was capable, with only two mouths but just one mu of land, after finishing the farm work there was nothing else to do. The grain produced after paying taxes was not enough to eat either. Working at the workshop to earn a few pennies a day was already heavenly.

Yet now, she was completely unafraid of losing this good job, clearly relying on something.

Zheng Ruqian nodded at Zhang Qiquan.

Zhang Qiquan walked over to the gaunt woman with a darkened face and opened his mouth, "When you worked at the workshop you signed a contract, no matter whether you leave the workshop in the future or not, you cannot divulge workshop recipes. Divulging them is punishable by beheading."

In fact it wasn't that serious, at most paying some money.

But the gaunt woman didn't know. Beheading had the greatest impact on her and could frighten her the most.

Sure enough, the previously cold woman turned to shock and hoarsely asked, "This, is this true? Don't spout nonsense!"

"Nonsense?" Zhang Qiquan laughed. "Not to mention there really are such provisions in the contract, with our Eldest Young Master's and the county magistrate's relationships, beheading a commoner like you is easy as waving a hand!"

Everyone at Hairpin Courtyard knew that Xu Mo had quite a close relationship with the Anshui county magistrate.

Although Teacher Xu was fair and upright, and would never bully others by relying on power.

But the gaunt woman didn't know!

She was flustered and out of control.

Zhang Qiquan's wicked heart made him add, "Not only you, even your family won't escape!"

The gaunt woman finally collapsed, kneeling on the ground telling everything about selling the sausage recipe.

Indeed it was the Wangs who found her and gave her ten taels of silver, asking her to divulge the sausage recipe.

Ten taels of silver was enough for her livelihood for the rest of her life, and enough to treat her husband's illness.

So the gaunt woman felt no remorse at all for selling out Zheng Ruqian.

Of course now she regretted it, with tears and snot covering her face, kowtowing repeatedly, "I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, please don't behead me, don't behead my husband."

But it was too late.

Zheng Ruqian couldn't take her life, but could make her get lost from the workshop, and even make her pay until she was destitute.

But before he could say this,

Xu Mo hurriedly ran over, pressed his arm, and whispered to his ear, "Don't deal with this spy yet, I can't contact Wang Fufeng..."