The Poison Cultivator Married the Crippled Heir novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Pantry Ledger
She went up the keeper's back stair with the stock book clutched to her chest.
It led to the drying terrace on the Pavilion's roof, where racks of roots and bark hung in rows under the open sky.
She crouched behind the nearest rack and listened to the door below break open.
Boots crossed the rooms underneath.
Someone knocked a shelf over, and a jar rolled and smashed.
"She came in," said the hard voice. "Find her."
Then wheels hissed on stone, and a different voice spoke, calm and clear, from the Pavilion's front gate.
"Which of you is touching my wife's door?"
The boots stopped.
"Young Master." The man sounded careful. "The Executor's order."
"My contract gives her a full seat in this sect and the sect's protection. I sealed it myself.
"A seat-holder is not taken from a building at night. Not by anyone. Leave, and tell the Executor he may ask me in the morning."
A long pause followed.
Then the boots went down the steps one by one, and the lanterns dimmed along the terrace wall.
Wanqing relaxed after holding her breath for some time.
The wheels came up the cart ramp at the side of the building, steady and unhurried.
He had designed that ramp, she remembered, years ago, back when the Pavilion first learned to carry its own herbs.
He rolled out between the racks and stopped in front of her.
"You said you'd talk to the wall," she said.
"The wall was a poor listener."
His hair was out of order, and his hands were tight on the wheels.
He looked at her for a long moment in the dim light.
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