The next morning, Lu Qiqi had Qingdai lead the way to a shop that sold yellow paper.

After visiting several shops, she finally understood Qian Duoduo's plan.

The shops selling yellow paper were all located near the study, and these shops were either cloth shops or shops selling women's jewelry or cosmetics.

They all have one thing in common: they are places that students who buy bamboo paper would not easily set foot in.

When yellow paper became a household name, these students belatedly realized that the bamboo paper they were using was exactly the same as yellow paper.

Lu Qiqi explained her guesses one by one.

After listening to the whole thing, Qingdai gritted her teeth and said, "What a dirty business war!"

One sentence almost made Lu Qiqi burst out laughing.

She reached out and tapped Qingdai's forehead. "You've learned that phrase. From now on, Haitang will hardly understand what you're saying."

Qingdai reached out and touched her forehead, a little worried. "Miss, we know they're doing this, what can we do to stop them?"

Lu Qiqi breathed a sigh of relief, "They can't cause any trouble. We can just wait for them to leave."

Our most important thing right now is to go to a restaurant for a meal, and then go back and take a nap.

After her reminder, Qingdai instantly understood and flashed a set of white teeth, saying, "Miss, do you mean we should ignore them for now?"

Once the Tianlang Escort Agency delivers the soft bamboo paper to the capital, they'll be out of the picture, right?

Lu Qiqi smiled and said, "Yes, that's exactly the point."

The master and servant were on their way to Chen's Restaurant when they passed a study and heard a noisy commotion inside.

As the noise grew louder, more and more people gathered to watch the spectacle.

Lu Qiqi and Qingdai were pushed to the front of the study by the crowd.

Qingdai was eager to protect her mistress and tried to stop people from touching Lu Qiqi, but she was too weak and no match for Ren Liu.

Seeing this, the Shadow Guards, who were hiding in the shadows, were about to step forward to clear the area for Lu Qiqi when they saw her give them a look, and then they continued to hide in the shadows to protect her.

Just as Lu Qiqi was about to pull Qingdai out of the crowd, she saw several people walking out of the study before she could turn around.

Several scholars were pushed out of the study by the shop assistants.

A portly man looked down at the scholars and said, "If it weren't for the fact that you are all students of Fenghua Academy, I would have taken you all to the government office and asked the officials to lock you all up!"

The waiter chimed in, “Our manager is kind-hearted and won’t hold it against you. You are all scholars, so please show some respect and don’t make things difficult for the study.”

Several students were pushed out of the study, landing on their bottoms. They grimaced in pain and couldn't argue back. They could only listen to what the shopkeeper and the waiter said.

As more and more people gathered to watch, a few insiders began to discuss the matter.

"Have you heard? Yesterday, students from Fenghua Academy got into a fight in the school hall, which even alarmed the officials."

I suppose that's why they came.

"What does the fight between students of Fenghua Academy have to do with the study? Surely the study couldn't have started it, could it?"

"How would I know about this? I just passed by Fenghua Academy yesterday and saw officials escorting a lot of students to the yamen."

Is this true?

Upon hearing this, the man who had witnessed it firsthand immediately became displeased, his words tinged with anger, "If it's not true, I'm a dog!"

Having said that, everyone chose to believe the man's words, and even Qingdai, who was standing to the side, nodded repeatedly, believing it to be true.

At this moment, the students who had fallen to the ground helped each other to their feet.

They argued stubbornly with the shopkeeper.

"Manager, it was your study that was dishonest!"

"In the Great Jin Dynasty, who did not know that the magistrate of Kang Le County cared for poor students and specially produced high-quality and inexpensive bamboo paper?"

You guys are really something, using bamboo paper as straw paper.

This resulted in over a dozen students from the academy being imprisoned by the government.

The shopkeeper's name made him angry. He shouted, "You mean that worthless coarse paper? This shop has never heard of it before."

Not to mention that we caused the students of the academy to be imprisoned.

Such a grand title is too much for my study to bear!

Hearing the argument between the students and the shopkeeper, Lu Qiqi and Qingdai exchanged a glance and tacitly prepared to leave the crowd.

Someone with a loose tongue shouted from the crowd, "Isn't that Princess Kang Le?"

Instantly, everyone's gaze, like a beam of intense light, was fixed on her and Qingdai.

The students were all taken aback when they heard the voice. After they realized what was happening, they remembered that all the bamboo paper came from the fiefdom of the County Lord of Kang Le.

Therefore, he felt that the Princess of Kang Le County must know something about this matter.

Lin Wuyang stepped forward, walked up to Lu Qiqi, and clasped his hands in a salute.

He said, "May I ask the Princess of Kang Le, was your original intention in making bamboo paper not to record the thoughts of poor students?"

Why have you lost your original intention and turned bamboo paper into straw paper, thus humiliating all the students?

Lu Qiqi sifted through the words of the crowd, piecing together the key information. She could guess most of it, if not be completely wrong.

She said, "Have you ever thought that whether it's Xuan paper or bamboo paper, it's just a business to make a living?"

This one sentence left Lin Wuyang speechless.

Another student stepped forward and said, "So, could the county princess be the one who started this whole thing?"

Lu Qiqi publicly rejected the moral shackles and looked at the students who looked like angry young men, saying, "Since you know that I make bamboo paper and strictly control the price of bamboo paper, eighty coins per ream."

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