Zhao Qian was completely stunned. He looked at Qian Qiu Wan Dai in confusion, only to find that the two women had the same expression as him. He didn't dare to think any further and quickly followed the two women.
"Madam, where are you going? I'll make arrangements."
"Go to a place that can make custom molds."
Yan Xiao got into the carriage while talking, his mind and eyes full of the big business behind him, so he didn't see a beautiful young woman standing in a corner not far from the gate of the General's Mansion.
The woman's gaze toward where she stood was filled with extreme resentment, as if she wished she could pounce on her and bite her.
Zhao Qian was the last to board the carriage. As soon as he looked up, he saw the woman and their eyes met.
Upon realizing they had been discovered, the other person immediately panicked, composed themselves, and then put on an innocent-looking smile.
Zhao Qian frowned slightly, then drove the carriage past the woman on the main road. He gave her a warning look before speeding up the carriage.
After the woman was out of sight, Zhao Qian hesitated for a moment, then turned back to the carriage and said:
"Madam, I just saw Miss Qiao at the gate of the mansion."
"Miss Qiao? Who is that?"
Yanxiao is currently planning how to run a soap business, dreaming of a wonderful life where she'll count money until her hands cramp.
Upon hearing Zhao Qian's words, she couldn't immediately recall who the Miss Qiao Zhao Qian was referring to was.
Fortunately, Chiaki reminded her:
“Madam, the one Guard Zhao is referring to should be Miss Qiao, who moved out of the General’s Mansion with Granny Li some time ago.”
"Oh, you mean her? What happened to her?"
Upon hearing Yan Xiao's question, Zhao Qian's lips stiffened for a moment. He wasn't sure if this lady was truly carefree or simply didn't take Qiao Jiaojiao seriously, but he still honestly replied:
"I just saw her sneaking around in the shadows, watching the General's Mansion. I'm worried that she hasn't given up yet and might cause some more trouble later."
Yan Xiao didn't take the mother and daughter seriously at all. As long as they didn't provoke her, they could do whatever they wanted. She had no interest in wasting time playing any kind of domestic power struggle with them, so she simply replied indifferently:
"Let her go. After all, she's someone your general is protecting. Maybe she just wants to revisit the place she used to visit."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Qian, worried that Yan Xiao might misunderstand, quickly explained on Shen Muzhi's behalf:
"Madam, please don't overthink it. The general is only showing them some favor out of respect for her deceased brother. It has nothing to do with Miss Qiao herself."
Yan Xiao was somewhat speechless.
"Why are you so nervous? I didn't mean anything by it. He's just an insignificant person. If he dares to mess with me, I'll just slap him into submission. Why would I bother with him?"
"Hurry up and focus on your journey; my clinic still has business to attend to this afternoon."
Zhao Qian felt a cold sweat break out on his back as he listened, thinking that this lady was too fierce, and he didn't know if she was serious or just saying it out of anger.
But he dared not continue to defend his general, since it was indeed something his general had done that needed to be considered.
If this mother and daughter cause any more trouble in the future, and make the lady unhappy and hold the general accountable, then the general deserves it, it has nothing to do with him, he has done his best.
Zhao Qian sped up the carriage and took Yan Xiao directly to Craftsman's Shop Street.
It's called Craftsman's Street because the street is full of shops that sell or make custom-made ironware, woodenware, and the like.
After getting off the carriage, Yan Xiao glanced around and headed straight for a shop that combined ironware and woodenware.
She's unsure whether she wants something made of iron or wood, so she's decided to make a template of both to try it out.
As soon as she led her people into the shop, a young man who looked like an apprentice came up to them and said enthusiastically:
What would the customer like to buy?
"I don't want to buy ready-made products; I want to have some custom-made."
Yan Xiao looked into the shop as she spoke and asked:
Can you answer it?
"Oh, so it's made to order. Please wait here for a moment, sir."
As the man spoke, he brought over a wooden stool for Yan Xiao to sit on, explaining:
"If it's custom-made, my master will have to make the decision. He's working inside right now, I'll go get him for you."
Yan Xiao nodded to indicate that she understood, and then sat on the wooden stool to wait.
Not long after, she heard footsteps approaching, and then she saw the man from before leading a man in his fifties over.
The man was very thin, almost skin and bones, with a slightly hunched back, a scar between his eyebrows, and burns covering most of the left side of his face. His ugly appearance could stop a child from crying.
When Qianqiu Wandai saw that person's appearance, they couldn't help but gasp in shock, while Yan Xiao was momentarily stunned.
She wasn't frightened, nor was she prejudiced against people based on their appearance. Rather, seeing this person's face suddenly reminded her of a character from a book.
Mo Antong, a mechanical engineer.
Yanxiao remembered this person because this person was extremely miserable, very, very miserable.
In his youth, he was a handsome young man, but his hobbies were somewhat different. He was unwilling to follow his family's arrangements to study and take the imperial examinations, and instead became obsessed with various mechanical arts.
Later, disregarding his family's objections, he ran away from home and sought out masters to learn martial arts. In the end, his family found him and brought him back.
Later, unable to resist his parents' wishes, he married the woman they had arranged for him. They gradually developed feelings for each other and had a son and a daughter.
He had settled down and was living a very comfortable life when someone approached him and offered him a large sum of money to build a secret room mechanism.
The other party offered too much, and he agreed on a whim. But after he finished the job, the other party not only refused to pay the balance, but also tried to kill him to silence him.
He barely managed to escape using some homemade hidden weapons, but when he returned home, he found his house engulfed in flames, and his wife, children, and elderly parents had all been brutally murdered.
The only surviving youngest daughter was too young at the time and was hidden in a dry well by her wife. She survived, but was left mentally impaired from the shock.
Seeing this scene, it goes without saying how much pain and regret he felt.
He was determined to get revenge, but his opponent had no intention of giving him a chance and relentlessly pursued him.
He was a ruthless man. In the end, in order to escape the pursuit, he placed his mentally challenged youngest daughter in a nunnery and only left after seeing her being carried inside.
With no worries about the future, he burned most of his face to disguise himself as a beggar, then hid in the shadows to secretly plot his revenge.
After finding out who was behind it, he used his mechanical skills to secretly plan and scheme for three years.
Then, on the day when their enemy family was reunited for the Mid-Autumn Festival, they slaughtered the entire family, leaving no one alive.
His enemy was no nobody, but the Duke of the Duke's Mansion.
His move caused quite a stir back then. Everyone knew that the Duke's mansion had been wiped out during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but no one knew who had done it, causing widespread panic.
After doing this, he went to the nunnery, secretly gave the nunnery some money, and then took his daughter away to another place to live under an assumed name, focusing only on curing his daughter and raising her well.
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