Chapter 342 - 336_1
Although her suspicions were confirmed, Lin Yue only felt more perplexed. The recipe she had initially provided was faulty; not only were the production steps incorrect, but even the ingredients added were haphazard. Her intention had been to make fun of the Wei Family patriarch, making him waste his time and resources on a wild goose chase. She couldn’t comprehend how he had managed to successfully research it. If he had such capabilities, why had he been so fixated on stealing their family’s recipe from the start?
"Brother Erhu, are you sure that your Manager really said that the Wei Residence has put out the same ingredients as our family?" Lin Yue, unable to make sense of it, began to doubt whether Zhao Erhu had made a mistake.
"No mistake, Manager Li indeed said so. If he wasn’t certain, Master Li wouldn’t have decided to switch to the Wei Family for supplying goods to his residence. One reason is that the Wei Family offers a cheaper price for the same ingredients, and also because the servants have accepted bribes from the Wei Family patriarch, leading Master Li to decide to terminate the contract with our family. The situations in the other residences are more or less the same." Zhao Erhu replied with certainty.
"How is this possible?" Lin Yue truly couldn’t understand and furrowed her brows slightly, appearing troubled.
Zhao Erhu could understand his wife’s current thoughts. Of course, he had discussed those actions with her beforehand. So when he heard what Manager Li said, he had felt it somewhat implausible. Now seeing Lin Yue asking this question, he asked uncertainly, "Wife, the recipe you let Li Chang’an steal back then, was there a mistake? It wasn’t the real recipe, was it?"
Lin Yue gave Zhao Erhu a disdainful look. "Do you think that’s possible? Only an idiot would write down the real recipe. This is truly bizarre."
"If you can’t figure it out, don’t dwell on it. Anyway, we have made quite a bit of silver these days. Collaborating with the Jiang Family in the future, these matters won’t count for much. Besides, haven’t we also produced sweet potato vermicelli and sweet potato sheets, which the Wei Family patriarch doesn’t have? Right now, the priority is to finish the batch of goods requested by the Jiang Residence and deliver it on time." Zhao Erhu consoled Lin Yue with these words. Had he truly been unconcerned, he wouldn’t have spent every day running around town gathering information.
"That’s all we can do now, since the contract has already been terminated. It’s useless to think too much about it. Better to concentrate on future business matters and how we should build our house." Lin Yue said as she took out some blueprints she had recently drawn and invited Zhao Erhu to study them with her.
While Zhao Erhu and Lin Yue set aside their concerns, the mood of the Wei Family patriarch inside the Wei Residence was quite volatile. Having earned a substantial amount from the bean sprout recipe he got from Zhao Lingxiang was a sweet deal, and now with several more recipes on hand, he was eager and impatient to make a fortune before the New Year. Therefore, before even attempting to make anything from the recipes, he had already had people pull the business from Zhao Erhu to his side.