The cart pusher wanted to say something, but when he saw Su Yao's expression, he swallowed it back down. He turned to glance at the old man, who was also looking at him, but the old man said nothing. The cart pusher gritted his teeth and pushed the flatbed cart back the way he had come.
Before long, the Zhao Family Iron Shop's goods arrived as well, and Su Yao stopped them in the same way, saying there were quality issues and they needed to be inspected.
The people from the Zhao Family Iron Shop had a bit more backbone than the people from the Liu Family Shop. They stood at the island landing and argued for a while, but Su Yao stood to the side without saying a word, only watching them. After arguing for some time and seeing it was useless, they could only push the goods back.
The Sun Family Shop's goods did not arrive until the afternoon, taking the eastern island landing. Su Yao was not there, but Lin Taichu was guarding that side, and he stopped the goods all the same. The people from the Sun Family Shop said nothing and silently pushed the goods back.
Three batches of goods, all stopped.
Lin Taichu and Su Yao waited at the island landing for the entire day, until the sun went down, and never saw the goods from those three Forging Workshops come out again.
The two of them stood on the stone platform at the western island landing, watching the last smear of light vanish over the sea.
"We stopped all the goods, but this isn't a long-term solution."
"I know. Stop them for three days first. After three days, they'll definitely think of another way."
Right now, they could only go to the Island