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Grandma Qi and Wang Shuping looked at He Tiantian with great confusion.

"Why can't we eat them?" Wang Shuping asked. To be honest, the sugar pancakes that Liu Lingli made looked pretty good, and they should taste delicious.

"Yes, the person who can make such pancakes must be a skillful girl," Grandma Qi San praised.

He Tiantian was anxious; they had no idea of ​​Liu Lingli's wickedness.

She knew all of this from the Snake King, and she didn't know how to explain it.

“I’ve heard Liu Lingli talking badly about me behind my back, and she’s said more than once that she’s jealous of me. You can’t judge a book by its cover, who knows if Liu Lingli might have poisoned these candies?” He Tiantian said, adding that what she said was true and she wasn’t framing Liu Lingli.

Grandma Qi frowned but didn't say anything.

Wang Shuping listened with a wry smile, clearly not believing it: "Aren't you overthinking it? It's just a young girl's competitive mentality. Liu Lingli isn't a child, would she really do something like poisoning?"

"Mom, you told me before to be careful. Food isn't just anything; if there's a problem, even if you vomit it up, it will still harm your body," He Tiantian said anxiously. "Have you forgotten that as soon as the peach orchard was finished, people came to cause trouble? Even though Hu Erlai and Hu Gou Dan are dead, think about it, the peach orchard was empty, there were no peaches. Why would these hooligans come and destroy the peach orchard?"

Wang Shuping was taken aback, then nodded and said, "Yes, your father and I have never been able to understand it either!"

"If you can't figure it out, there must be something fishy going on! The key is that, coincidentally, both of them are dead. How can there be so many coincidences in the world? So I've always felt that the person who wants to harm us is still around, we just don't know who it is yet!"

“But we have no grudge against Liu Lingli…” Wang Shuping didn’t believe it.

At this moment, Grandma Qi slowly said, "Shuping, let's not eat this pancake."

“Godmother, Tian Tian is just like a child, you think the same way!” Wang Shuping was both amused and exasperated, not expecting even her godmother to say that.

"Better safe than sorry!" Grandma Qi said. "I remember when I was little, one time my father's friend brought us a Western chocolate cake from Shanghai. At that time, my father had a concubine who snatched the cake. It was my father's birthday that day, and he celebrated it at that concubine's house, where he ate some cake. Unexpectedly, when he woke up, my father and his concubine had been kidnapped and taken to the mountains. Later, we found out that the kidnappers had kidnapped my father's friend's son, and since he didn't have the money for the ransom, he came up with this plan to participate in the kidnapping of my father."

Wang Shuping was taken aback. Her daughter was still young, and she might not believe what she said. But Grandma Qi was an elder, and she had experienced it firsthand, which made her change her previous insistence.

"Then we won't eat it!" Wang Shuping said. "We can't be too careful!"

He Tiantian carried a few sugar cakes to the backyard.

"Sweetie, what are you doing?" Wang Shuping asked, puzzled. If you're not going to eat it, you can just throw it away.

"I'll break a piece of the cake into pieces and feed it to a chicken to see if there's anything wrong with it." After saying that, He Tiantian went to the backyard, tore the sugar cake into small pieces, put them in a separate chicken coop, and then put a rooster into the coop.

Wrap up the rest and keep it as evidence.

He Tiantian washed her hands before coming over to eat.

Wang Shuping didn't take it to heart. After eating and resting for a while, she went up the mountain with He Tiantian.

Grandma Qi, who always stayed at home, would stroll around the backyard when she had nothing to do. In the afternoon, she noticed that her family's domineering rooster was listless, as if it hadn't woken up yet.

The rooster was kept alone, and there were some crumbs in the cage. The rooster ate the crumbs.

Could it really be the problem with that big pancake?

Grandma Qi took a small stick and poked the rooster a few times, and the rooster immediately became energetic.

Seeing this, Grandma Qi breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Although she was on guard, she still didn't want this to happen!

That evening, He Tiantian tore off half a pancake and gave it to the rooster.

The next morning, when the rooster crowed, He Tiantian and Grandma Qi both noticed that the rooster's voice wasn't as loud as before.

He Tiantian feeds the rooster with sugar cakes three times a day.

On the morning of the third day, the rooster's crow was noticeably lower, and it seemed weak. It would only jump when poked with a stick, but it wouldn't jump very high.

There's something wrong with this pancake!

Grandma Qi, He Jingyu, and Wang Shuping all noticed it.

"Shuping, is there something wrong with this pancake?" Grandma Qi asked, half believing and half doubting. "This rooster of mine has been raised for several years and is the strongest. It wouldn't be like this for no reason."

Wang Shuping also felt a lingering fear and said, "Yes, if Tian Tian hadn't overthought things that day, we would have eaten those few pieces of bread, and we would be the ones sick and weak now. I just don't understand, how could a young girl dare to poison someone just because of jealousy?"

Wang Shuping couldn't understand why Liu Lingli was so vicious!

"Who knows what that little girl is thinking!" Grandma Qi said. "Maybe someone else was behind it!"

Grandma Qi's words made He Tiantian think of even more.

There is indeed someone who instigated Liu Lingli, but who exactly is this person?

He Tiantian racked her brains but couldn't figure out who would do such a cruel thing.

This is practically a fight to the death!

He Jingyu thought for a moment and said, "Let's do this, don't alert them yet. Tomorrow, go to Huai City and secretly give this pancake to Qi Ling, ask him to help us find out what's inside!"

"Yes, that's a good idea." Wang Shuping nodded and said, "We'll report the case after we've found out the truth."

Grandma Qi looked at the rooster and said, "Jingyu, bring this rooster along too, and check it together to see what kind of toxic effects those medicines have."

“Yes, Godmother, I’ll take her with me,” He Jingyu said. “While I’m gone, Shuping, don’t go to the back mountain. Tiantian, go work at the livestock team, stay with the others, don’t go alone.”

Although his daughter was more capable than he had imagined, He Jingyu still couldn't help but explain.

"Okay, Dad," He Tiantian replied.

The next morning, He Jingyu took the few pieces of flatbread and the rooster, borrowed Secretary Qi's bicycle, went to the county town, and then took a bus to Huai City.

Qi Ling personally came to greet He Jingyu upon seeing him.

"Uncle He, is there something you need in Huai City?" Qi Ling knew that He Jingyu had always personally managed the peach orchard experimental field in Qijia Village. He Jingyu wouldn't leave there unless it was something important.

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I recommend my friend's novels: *He Yu's Farming Diary*, *Rebirth of a Wise and Intelligent Mind*, and *Bao Mei is Not to be Trifled With*. All are completed novels. (To be continued.)