538 Chapter Idea

How could he not know? When someone coveted the dye recipe before, he had reported it to the family head, who had indicated that a noble patron in the capital city was interested, and it was not appropriate for the family to intervene.

Such words could be used to appease an uninformed person like the Wang Family Young Lady, but Shopkeeper Wu had also spent time in the capital city and was clear about the underlying mechanics. Where was the difficulty in intervening?

The family head had already seen the enormous potential behind the dye recipe provided by Wang Yongzhu and felt that the twenty-eighty profit split they had agreed upon was too generous. Therefore, they wanted to use the opportunity of the coveting of the recipe either to have Wang Yongzhu voluntarily offer to sell the recipe outright for a sum of silver, settling the matter once and for all,

without having to share twenty percent of the profits from future earnings with Wang Yongzhu.

So they used this excuse.