Having apparently found a powerful backer, Chen Danian dropped the pretense and directly stated that Master Zhao wanted the prescription, advising them not to fight a losing battle and to hand over the prescription as soon as possible.
They also said that if they didn't hand over the secret recipe, they would send Gan Mingli to the county government and have him imprisoned.
“We are all honest and law-abiding people. If we go to jail, will we even survive?” Zhao sobbed, then pleaded with Gan Li, “Sister-in-law, you must save your brother!”
Sun watched their anxiety with cold eyes, secretly delighted, and couldn't help but speak up:
"What's so difficult about that? Just send the prescription to them, right? This is to save lives, so I'm sure my sister-in-law won't hesitate, okay?"
She seemed to be offering advice, but in reality, she had ulterior motives.
Old Man Gan said angrily, "What are you saying? This was not our fault in the first place. The way you're saying it is because of Ali that Mingli is in this state?"
Seeing her father-in-law's anger, Madam Sun was somewhat frightened, but she was also resentful. She pouted and whispered:
"What I said isn't wrong. She's closer to money than to you. Let's see if she's willing to give away that formula."
Ganli asked, "Why can't I bear to part with it?"
Everyone couldn't help but turn to look at her, only to see her with a cold smile, her voice sounding like it was coming out from between her teeth.
"Since they want it so badly, we'll give it to them, but they have to pay in silver. Anything less than two thousand taels of silver is out of the question."
Exchange it for silver?
Gan Mingyi looked at his sister in surprise.
Others may not know, but he does. His sister had just presented the ice-making method to the county magistrate, who had already written to the emperor to inform him that the method would soon be promoted!
Asking the Zhao family to exchange silver at this time would be... Gan Mingyi suddenly realized what his sister was up to and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
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