"Once it's weighed, I'll settle the payment for you. It won't be delayed."
Without hesitation, the servants carried the jars into the courtyard.
The Song family panicked. What would they do if they poured it out and saw the wood chips?
It's okay at night, but in daylight, you can still see the difference.
They could only hope that after what they had just seen, the Han family wouldn't examine it in any further detail.
Otherwise, there will really be problems.
Mrs. Han followed them inside, but she felt that something was off about this family no matter how she looked at it.
It looks like they've done something wrong and are desperately trying to hide it.
She not only wanted to investigate thoroughly, but she also wanted to investigate personally.
It's okay for her to suffer a small loss here, but if there's a problem with the things she sends out, then she'll be in real trouble.
Upon entering the weighing warehouse, the contents of the jars were poured into a basin. They were all dark brown, in small strips and chunks, and indeed looked no different from termite mushrooms.
However, this time, Madam Han did not smell that tantalizing fragrance.
The jar was open at the front, and she could still smell a faint fragrance, but now, she couldn't smell anything at all.
Mrs. Han couldn't help but sniffle.
I still can't smell it.
She stared intently at these things again; they seemed much harder than the matsutake mushrooms that the Qiao family girl had sent, and the edges were even prickly.
Mrs. Han picked it up, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt something was wrong. She took a bite, but it was completely inedible; it felt like wood.
"These are... sawdust?"
Mrs. Han wasn't quite sure, after all, she had never been up in the mountains to do farm work.
Upon hearing this, the butler grabbed some, examined them carefully, and his expression immediately changed.
Then he poured out the contents of the other jars, which were all wood chips.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, we've been fooled by this family again."
“Madam, I’m absolutely certain it’s sawdust. This family bought a few pounds of matsutake mushrooms from the Qiao family and put them on the mouth of the jar, trying to deceive everyone. No wonder they said they wanted to keep the jar. I was thinking, why would farmers be willing to part with such large jars? There’s definitely something fishy going on.”
Madam Han turned pale with anger; no one had ever dared to deceive her like this before.
"Arrest them, arrest them all and send them to the county government office."
The butler, with a dark expression, led his men out.
Only Song Dahua was at the door; the other members of the Song family were nowhere to be seen.
Seeing the Han family's servants carrying guns and sticks, looking like they were about to fight and teach people a lesson, Song Dahua was so frightened that her legs trembled.
"Why is it just you? Where are your family members?" Butler Zhou said angrily.
Song Dahua's lips trembled; she knew that in this situation, her deeds were almost exposed.
Just now, her father and uncle sensed something was wrong, so just in case, the three of them hid, thinking that the Han family wouldn't make things difficult for a girl like her.
But she was afraid.
"They have a lot of things to do at home and are busy with work, so they've gone back first. You can just give me the money." Song Dahua still held onto a sliver of hope.
They kept her around to collect money; if the Han family didn't recognize the wood chips, wouldn't they be able to make a huge profit?
"Hmph, using these wood chips to make up the numbers, they'll disappear without a trace once the truth comes out." The butler sneered, his voice suddenly rising eight octaves, startling Song Dahua so much that she fell to the ground.
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