Wanjin Lady

Chapter 146 Catching the mole

Wen Wan raised her hand, pressed the wine bowl, and laughed, "No, just dip your finger in it and taste it. Be careful not to get poisoned."

Ma Changshun immediately retorted with a smile, "Hey, Young Master, which winemaker doesn't taste the wine?"

Wen Wan insisted, which was rare. "No. Write it into our winery's 'Ten Rules for Wine'."

Knowing that Wen Wan had good intentions and was thinking about their fellows, Master Ma's heart was burning with passion, but he said awkwardly, "How could you be so delicate? The young master is really..."

The slightly raised corner of his lips betrayed him, "Then Young Master...are we still making wine?"

"Don't panic." Wen Wan said slowly, glancing at the golden sunset in the distance, then curled her lips slightly, "Let's do something big tonight."

Ma Changshun and Feng Shuigen looked over at the same time.

She smiled gently but said nothing.

The night grows darker.

A thin figure approached the path in the backyard of the winery.

The moonlight was sparse, and the hillside in the backyard was obscured by tall trees, so no light could be seen at all. In addition, the back door of the winery was closed all year round, so the path was overgrown with weeds and difficult to walk on.

The figure walked very slowly and stealthily, without any fire, holding only a sickle in his hand, and moving forward in the dark as he cut his way through the mountains.

The mountain wind howled, the trees swayed, and the moon hung low.

In the distance, there were sounds of dogs barking and wolves howling.

After a rustling sound, he finally saw the dark and deserted door of the winery. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and finally smiled with relief.

Although Zhang Jiping has left the Wen family winery, his home is not far from the winery. He is always the first to hear about any movement in the winery.

A while ago, the winery went bankrupt, and when the Wen family defeated the Yuan family, Wen Wan had no choice but to send the employees home. Now, there were only two or three people living in the winery. It just so happened that Feng Shuigen and another person went into the city on business today, which meant... Ma Changshun was the only one in the winery now!

Zhang Jiping climbed to the back door of the winery panting, listened by the door for a while, then fumbled for the key at his waist to unlock it.

"Click" sound.

The lock was turned and the door opened.

The backyard was empty, pitch black, dead silent, with not a single person in sight.

Zhang Jiping was not afraid. He had been working in the winery for more than ten years and was very familiar with it.

I just don't know where the evidence that Hongmei mentioned is.

He was clearly extremely careful that day and only left the winery after making sure nothing was left out. So how come Hongmei said that Wen Wan had found evidence and locked it in the backyard and would report it to the police tomorrow?
Zhang Jiping walked in the yard in the dark. After taking two steps, he heard the sound of the doorman locking the door with a "click". Then the whole backyard was brightly lit. Dozens of torches illuminated the entire backyard, and the blazing fire was as bright as daylight.

The guys from Wen's Winery rushed out from all directions and surrounded him in an instant.

Zhang Jiping's face changed drastically, and he tried to slip away, but he heard a smiling female voice.

"Why is Master Zhang coming to my winery so late at night?"

As they spoke, a gentle woman in a dark dress with a red triangular scarf tied around her head slowly entered, surrounded by Ma Changshun, Master Tu, and others. She stepped onto the stairs and looked down at Zhang Jiping. Zhang Jiping's eyelids twitched, but he only smiled and said, "I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep, so I came to check on the winery. What brings the young master here?"

Shouldn't she... be at home?
Wenwan's gaze fell on the key hanging around Zhang Jiping's waist.

I missed it!
When Zhang Jiping left, he actually didn't realize that he still had a key to the backyard!

"Can't sleep?" The woman's skin was fair, and her eyes were bright in the firelight, revealing a murderous aura even colder than the autumn night. "Since you're coming back to my winery, why don't you go through the front door? Instead, you sneak in through the backyard?!"

On a late autumn night, a cool breeze blew in through the open door in the backyard.

Zhang Jiping's forehead was covered in cold sweat.

He looked at the bodyguards on both sides of Wen Wan, stammering and unable to say anything, and then heard a chuckle above his head.

In the darkness, the laughter was like a ghost.

"Master Zhang refused to speak, so I spoke for him."

The woman spoke slowly, with a hint of leisure. "I'm sure everyone knows that Hongmei collected everyone's foot measurements a few days ago and made winter shoes for everyone. And just this morning, Hongmei, under the guise of delivering new shoes to Master Zhang's family, hinted that the winery had found clues to the arson and was hiding them in the backyard. They would report them to the police tomorrow morning."

Wen Wan's words made the faces of the guys present change!
Ma Changshun said angrily, "It's you! It's you who set fire to our winery!"

Zhang Jiping refused to admit it, dropping to his knees on the bluestone slab with a plop, crying out in injustice, "Young Master! Injustice! I admit, I... I accidentally heard that the winery was brewing new wine, and out of curiosity I decided to come and take a look in the dark! You know, I'm a wine lover, and I've been making wine all my life. Now that the winery is closed, they have to make new wine. I was itching to do so, but I was afraid that the Young Master would become suspicious, so I could only come here at night... just to take a look, but I definitely didn't mean to steal your recipe!"

Zhang Jiping called out hesitantly, "Young Master, I've worked with the Master for over a decade, he knows what kind of person I am! Even if we have some disagreements in the end, I...how could I bear to burn down the Wen Family Winery? This is the fruit of half my life's work—"

Wen Wan frowned lightly.

They kept the fact that they were making new wine a secret, and none of the other guys in the winery knew about it. How come old man Zhang Jiping got to know about it?

Could it be that this old guy comes to the winery every now and then to take a look?

Ma Changshun and Feng Shuigen also looked nervous.

As expected, upon hearing that the winery was going to make new wine, the other guys all looked at Wen Wan curiously. Wen Wan was about to speak when Feng Shuigen glared at her with his copper bell-like eyes and shouted, "Bullshit! What do you mean by making new wine? I just had a sudden impulse to improve the taste of Bifang wine. But you, even though you've left the winery, still climb over the wall every day to spy on us making wine! Zhang Jiping, what are you up to?"

Zhang Jiping was speechless after being questioned. He stopped explaining and just kept crying out for injustice.

"Unjust?" Wen Wan sneered, and with a flick of her hand, a piece of yellow paper with half a footprint painted on it appeared before everyone. "Everyone, look carefully! These are the footprints left by the arsonist that day! Everyone remembers that it was raining heavily that autumn, and the road in the back mountain was muddy. The arsonist climbed up from the back mountain and accidentally left these muddy footprints in the backyard."

Wenwan walked forward, using the light of the torch to allow everyone to see clearly.

"And the size of this footprint... is an exact match to Master Zhang's!" The young woman's sharp gaze fell heavily on Zhang Jiping's face like a sword. "And the key to the backyard... is hanging on your waist!"

——Wow.

Everyone gasped!
Then everyone looked at Zhang Jiping's waist. Wasn't that shiny string the key to the backyard?

Zhang Jiping left, but he didn't even hand over the keys?!

As soon as Wen Wan finished speaking, the guys started talking at once.

(End of this chapter)