Chapter 106 - Chapter 106: Chapter 106: Dont Overreach (Jin Ling Shan rewards 10,000 coins, seventh update) (1/2)

Chapter 106: Chapter 106: Don’t Overreach (Jin Ling Shan rewards 10,000 coins, seventh update)

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“Hmm, go ahead.” Mrs. Ruo lifted her hand from the water and used the handkerchief handed to her by the serving girl to dry the droplets, probed the jade vase besides her with a silver pick to scoop out some white jade ointment, polishing it evenly over her ten fingers, palms, and the back of her hands.

She fanned her delicate hands, now more tender and glistening like green onions, emitting a subtle perfume.

Mrs. Ruo delightedly sniffed her hand placed under her nose.

“Your Highness,” Bi Tao came forward, holding a small brocade box. “Here is the item you requested. The messenger insisted that you should examine it personally.”

All for a few strands of hair, to enable a Taoist master’to set some kind of spell to keep that whelp in check, to make him weaker by the day, perhaps to slip away unnoticed, all these fuss seems excessive to her.

Unimpressed, Mrs. Ruo scoffed inwardly but still opened the brocade box.

A white silk handkerchief wrapped the contents neatly inside.

Such pandering is unnecessary. She should be reprimanded even if the task was done well.

A slight impatience drew Mrs. Ruo to unfolding the corners of the handkerchief.

With a sharp scream, the color drained from her face. The box was knocked over to the floor, a shiver washed over her, followed by an angry outcry.

“What is this disgusting thing that has been brought into my house!”

Bi Tao was also taken aback, she quickly examined the fallen object from the floor.

Wrapped inside the handkerchief was not hair belonging to Chu Jinzhou, but a finger, obviously severed brutally.

To avoid decay and odor due to warmer weather, it had been frozen with ice, making it pale, bruised and horrifying.

Bi Tao’s face drained of color, she knelt down, repeatedly pleading. “Please calm down, Your Highness. This alarm is the servant’s incompetence. I will have them all punished.”

Though her terror was unabated, Mrs. Ruo’s countenance seemed to darken.

A finger was delivered, which means?

Had it been discovered by Chu Jinnian, and he purposely sent this as a warning not to overstep her boundary, lest she end up the same way?

Damn, truly ruthless!

Mrs. Ruo almost ground her silver teeth to bits.

Just you wait Chu Jinnian, your end will arrive one day!

At dawn, Zhuang Qingning had started to prepare and load the tofu into the cart.

The tofu quantity for the county town had increased to two hundred and eighty catties, while at the town’s end, because Changji tofu shop was no longer in a business, Zhuang Qingning increased her production by twenty percent, so did Zhuang Yonghe.

Therefore, they had to fill both tofu pots daily to cater to everyone’s needs. If production increased, they might run out of resources at the tofu shop.

Seemed like some solutions needed to be brainstormed.

While taking the bullock cart around the town, Zhuang Qingning had been thinking about this.

But till setting up the stall in the town, she hadn’t come up with a better solution.

She was soon greeting customers buying tofu, so had no spare time to think further.

“Miss Zhuang, could you give me ten pounds of tofu?”