204 Chapter 204 Looking For The Blueprint
“What’s the matter?” Zhou Ying asked as she sat opposite him.
Manager Liu, on the other hand, walked to Zhou Huaiming and poured a cup of tea for each of them before sitting down.
“There are two main things. First, I just missed your cooking and want to come over to satisfy my craving, but I don’t want to have hot pot this time.
“The other thing is about the waterwheel. The north of the Ming dynasty is short of water, so I hope you can sell the drawings to me. You can name a price.” Zhou Huaiming stated.
Zhou Ying shook her head with a smile and said, “I’m not selling the blueprint, as this is a good thing for the country and the people. If you can use it well, feel free to take it.
“But there is one thing, you have to leave some waterwheels for us.
“The whole village is working overtime, and I don’t want them to work for nothing.”
Zhou Huaiming gave her a thumbs up and said, “Such selflessness, then this matter is settled. I’ll see if I can get you some rewards later.
“As for the waterwheel in your village, they’re selling it too expensively. I’ll discuss it with them, and I won’t ask them to sell at a loss.”
“Alright, do as you see fit.” Zhou Ying didn’t say anything more after hearing that.
After asking them to rest, she went to the kitchen to work. First, she made the base sauce and dipping sauce for the hot pot and began to prepare some dishes.
As there were just a few people, she prepared six dishes and a soup.
They were four-flavor meatballs, braised pork with pickled vegetables, stew beef, cumin mutton, stir-fried shiitake mushrooms with vegetables, bean sprouts in vinegar sauce, and fish ball soup.
While preparing the dishes, Manager Liu reported to General Zhou what had happened recently.
Zhou Huaiming nodded. “I didn’t expect them to know how to protect themselves. I’m relieved.”
Manager Liu added, “The key is that they have a variety of things in their hands. Putting the knockout powder out of the equation, who would have thought they would make chili and mustard powder into weapons?
“Surprisingly, the effect was quite good too. One of them almost went blind from that.
“If our people didn’t go in time, those two attackers would have either frozen to death or been stung to death by bees at night.
“No matter how we interrogated or tortured them, they didn’t speak. But what’s funny is that the sugar on their wounds attracted ants, and the attackers spilled everything they knew.” Manager Liu burst out laughing.
“Doesn’t this also provide us with a means of interrogation?” With a smile, Zhou Huaiming stated.
“Since you’re almost done with the investigation, let’s wrap things up. Otherwise, it’ll threaten the couple if we continue this.
���They’re already on guard, so the next time the attackers’ strike, it’ll be much more brutal than the previous two times.”
“Alright, I’ll make arrangements.”
“It’s fine. We’ll go after dinner. Otherwise, it’s boring for me to have lunch alone.”
“Alright, it seems that I’m in for a treat today.”
After the food was served, the two ate to their hearts’ content and then went off to do their tasks.
They agreed to go together in the evening to get the blueprints.
On the other hand, Qiao Lansheng had also found the source of the blueprint. He had initially planned to get someone to steal it but changed his mind when he received the news that Zhou Huaiming had gone to Grassland Taste Restaurant.
At night, he immediately reported the matter to his superior, “Young master, I heard Zhou Huaiming didn’t bring many people with him this time. Why don’t we…? We can know their limit then.”
“You’ve forgotten about the four people we lost. Although assassinations would vent our anger, it’s the stupidest method.
“Don’t forget that many of their people are already stationed here.
“What you need to do now is find everyone and capture them all in one fell swoop, do you understand?”