Got you.
When Xing Bengt heard from the yamen, he was so shocked that his world started to swing around. At first, he was confused as to why things became like this, though it was true that he and his family used substandard wood in their furniture but that was only for the poor! The one who had no connections and no authority as for the high officials, the wood that they used has always been fine so how can the bed that was sent to the Huo family be substandard? There was no possibility of something like this happening unless someone tried to make things difficult for him deliberately.