"Brothers, smash this shady shop!" the scarred man shouted. "Avenge Brother Hou!"

As soon as the scarred man finished shouting, several burly men behind him responded immediately and rushed towards the kitchen and worktable.

Liu Tong and his apprentices were already on high alert. As soon as the scarred man finished speaking, Liu Tong and his apprentices could no longer stand still and immediately blocked the path of the burly men.

Just as the two sides were about to fight, Lu Qiqi suddenly stood up and shouted sharply, "This man is dead!"

The scarred man stood there motionless in astonishment, while the burly men exchanged bewildered glances, their eyes filled with shock and doubt.

Lu Qiqi saw everyone's reactions and seized the opportunity to say, "Zhu Zi, hurry up and go to the east of the city to buy a coffin, and get a few more people to carry it. We'll bury this person today!"

"Someone's dead! Someone's really dead! Run!"

As soon as Lu Qiqi spoke, many of the people standing at the entrance of the noodle shop looking inside ran away.

Some busybodies were also watching from the doorway, and for a moment the area outside the noodle shop was in an uproar.

"What a rip-off! Someone died and they didn't report it to the authorities; they're trying to cover it up!"

Are there any coffin shops in the east of the city?

"Whether it's true or not, this noodle shop poisoned someone, everyone involved should go to jail!"

Zhu Zi stood there for a moment, then saw Lu Qiqi close her eyes and sigh softly before rushing out of the noodle shop.

When Liu Tong heard that the man Lu Qiqi had determined to be dead was dead and that Zhu Zi had been sent to buy a coffin, his legs went weak.

Wednesday was also so frightened that he turned pale.

Needless to say, Dunzi made the noodles, and now that the person is dead, he'll have to pay with his life.

Suddenly, Dunzi lost his grip, and the chair he was holding crashed to the ground, one of its legs breaking off and rolling to the woman's feet.

The woman, who had been kneeling on the ground crying, seemed to suddenly realize that her husband was dead. Ignoring the pain in her hand, she staggered to her feet, rushed to the scarred man, and suddenly grabbed his elbow and bit down hard.

The scarred man screamed in pain and said to the several dumbfounded burly men, "What are you all standing there for?! Quickly drag this crazy woman away."

Once a woman gets angry, she can be ruthless. No matter how hard several strong men pulled, they couldn't get the woman to let go.

"You bitch, how dare you bite me! I'll beat you to death!" The scarred man, his face contorted with rage from the bite, raised a hand to strike the woman's head.

"ah!"

The woman was knocked to the ground by the man's force, letting out painful screams.

The onlookers were stunned by this sudden turn of events, completely bewildered as to what had happened.

After the woman finished wailing on the ground, she pointed at the scarred man and cursed, "Big Scarface, you told my man to pretend to be poisoned, and now my man is really dead! You have to compensate my man!"

"Shut up! Shut up!" The scarred man never expected that this woman would be so stupid as to reveal their conspiracy to frame the noodle shop.

Immediately, the scarred man rushed forward angrily, grabbed the woman by the neck, and said, "I'll kill you, you crazy woman, so you can stop talking nonsense."

The woman's face turned red as the scarred man choked her, and she was on the verge of losing her breath.

"Snap—".

A chair slammed into the back of the scarred man's head.

The scarred man was hit by the chair, his eyes widened instantly, his grip suddenly loosened, and he fell straight to the ground.

The man who was lying dead on the ground threw down the chair and immediately squatted down to check on his wife, "Juanzi's mother, are you alright?"

Juanzi's mother gasped for breath a few times, and seeing that her husband was not dead, she threw herself into his arms and cried bitterly.

Upon seeing this, several burly men immediately surrounded the scarred man to check on him.

The crowd outside was not only in an uproar, but so indignant that they wanted to tear the roof off.

"This was a staged death; they're just trying to scam money!"

"No wonder he didn't report it to the authorities or seek medical help; his first thought was to smash up the shop!"

"Report to the authorities and have the officials in the prefectural government arrest all these scoundrels to prevent them from harming other shops."

"That's right! This has never happened in our Qingshui Town before. These must be refugees who have fled here. They'll do any dirty thing."

"The government officials have arrived!"

Someone outside the noodle shop shouted something, and then two paths were cleared in front of the shop as a dozen or so soldiers, carrying knives, walked into the noodle shop in unison.

Following behind were Zhu Zi and an official dressed in official robes and wearing an official hat.

Lu Qiqi recognized him at a glance; this official was Chen, the registrar who had arranged for them to enter the city when they fled to Luzhou Prefecture.

Lu Qiqi stepped forward a few steps and clasped her hands in a salute.

Registrar Chen glanced at the group of people lying on the ground, sitting on the ground burying their heads in their hands and crying, and frozen in fear, and said, "Tell me what happened in real time!"

Lu Qiqi recounted the events in detail.

Registrar Chen frowned and asked, "And how did you discover that?"

Lu Qiqi said, "As soon as I returned to the shop, I saw this woman kneeling on the ground crying, while those big men were saying they wanted to smash the shop to take revenge."

Registrar Chen asked, "Can you tell from this alone that they're trying to extort you?"

Lu Qiqi knew that Chen Zhubu wanted to get to the bottom of things, so she said, "Yes, when these people found that someone had collapsed while eating noodles, their first thought was not to call a doctor to save their life, nor to report to the authorities to bring us to justice. Their only thought was to smash up the shop. Such a reaction is too abnormal."

"After that, I deliberately said that the man who had fallen to the ground was dead, and asked Zhu Zi to report it to the authorities. I guess the woman didn't expect her husband to actually be dead, which was different from what they had planned, so she started to attack Scarface."

"Therefore, I am certain that these people's purpose is to make my shop infamous."

Chen, the registrar, gradually turned his gaze to admiration. He said, "This young lady is both intelligent and resourceful. No wonder she has managed to make this noodle shop a household name in Qingshui Town in just over a month."

"Guards, take all these troublemakers back to the government office."

At Chen's command, the soldiers took away what Scarface and his men could carry, and carried away what they couldn't.

Lu Qiqi had already explained the whole story at the noodle shop, and all she needed to do after that was find someone to sign a statement at the government office.

After seeing off Chief Clerk Chen and his soldiers, Lu Qiqi told Zhu Zi to close the shop.

Lu Qiqi felt somewhat exhausted, so she casually pulled up a chair and sat down.

Liu Tong was completely bewildered by this sudden reversal. He said, "Seventh Girl, who on earth is so vicious as to want to kill us?"