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... sweat broke out immediately.

He had thought it was just a simple matter of a missing carpenter, tricky though it was, but as long as they summoned the articulate Zheng Yakuai, it could be handled properly. Unexpectedly, it had turned into a domestic affair!

Such matters were always the hardest to deal with, not even a clear-headed official could resolve them, let alone him, a mere scholar and a newly-appointed shopkeeper thrust into position. How was he to cope?

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