"It's so hot, so hot! I'm dying of heat!"

"Ugh—"

"Quick, give it to me, give it to me—"

"It's so hot!"

The three men had never seen such a scene before. Zuo Li and Yan Hecheng turned their heads away, unable to bear to look.

Liu Chunxi was at a loss. He couldn't just stand there dumbfounded.

"It's so hot!"

"Brother Yan, please hug me, I want you to hug me—"

"Brother Yan, will you marry me? I'll give you a son—"

Sun Xiangxiang writhed on the ground.

Her thin body made her look like a large snake with bones.

The outer clothes have already been taken off.

With only a faded, yellowed undergarment left, Liu Chunxi dared not stand there any longer. He grabbed Sun Xiangxiang's clothes, preventing her from taking them off any further.

But who knew the medicine would be so potent?

Sun Xiangxiang's eyes became cloudy, and she could no longer distinguish between Yan Hecheng and Liu Chunxi.

Feeling the cold object touch her body, she actually climbed up it.

This made Liu Chunxi's face flush.

He shoved Sun Xiangxiang to the ground.

"Whoosh—"

at the same time.

Zuo Li entered the room, carrying a pot of tea, and splashed it all over Sun Xiangxiang's face.

Unfortunately, the tea was only lukewarm.

It doesn't alleviate anything.

Sun Xiangxiang continued to lie on the ground, moving around.

"Look carefully at who I am! I'm Chunxi, Mother—"

Liu Chunxi dared not touch it again and could only stand anxiously to the side, shouting.

They tried to bring Sun Xiangxiang to her senses.

"What's going on?" The commotion attracted the guests in the lobby on the first floor and the private rooms on the second floor, as well as the restaurant manager and two other waiters.

Many people went up the stairs to see what was going on.

It was packed to the brim.

Seeing this scene, Zuo Li understood what was going on.

The white powder I just saw wasn't poison, but rather an aphrodisiac administered by the waiter!

The mother and son worked together to get Uncle Yan to eat the food laced with aphrodisiacs, hoping that Uncle Yan would have sex with the woman on the ground, so that she could marry Uncle Yan legitimately.

Zuo Li sneered.

He walked up to Liu Chunxi and knocked him down.

Then he pulled out his belt.

Tie his hands and feet together.

"Waiter, go to the county office and report to the authorities. I'm an official. Tell them I'm here and have the county office send a few people over!"

Zuo Li alone couldn't take Liu Chunxi and Sun Xiangxiang, who was lying on the ground, with him.

He called over a waiter.

Identify yourself.

Tell the waiter to report to the county government.

"Liu Chunxi, you're really something! You actually poisoned the food! Get out of here! Starting tomorrow, you're not allowed to come to this restaurant again! Otherwise, I'll beat you up every time I see you!"

The manager of Fulai Restaurant was furious and fired Liu Chunxi on the spot.

They didn't even bother to listen to any explanation.

After all, what restaurants fear most is food safety issues.

If others find out that his restaurant's waiters like to poison the food, who would dare to come here again?

"Look at that woman on the ground! She's almost naked! My goodness, she's as thin as a skeleton! Is she a prostitute from a brothel? How could she be like this?"

"Haha, I read the whole thing without spending a single penny."

"Tsk tsk, stripping like that in public, she's obviously not a respectable woman. And she even dared to plot against Old Master Yan. You don't know, do you? This old master is the father of the owner of Yan's Pastry Shop!"

"Ah? So it's him. Manager Yan is the richest merchant in Shuangqiao Town. No wonder this woman is clinging to this old man. Look at the clothes she took off, they're all faded from washing, and her undergarments have two patches. She probably wants to marry into the Yan family and live a good life, right? Tsk tsk, she'll do anything for money. And her own son isn't any better. He's pushing his own mother towards someone else just to live a better life."

"I heard that this waiter's father died a long time ago, and the woman on the ground is probably a widow. No wonder she's so flirtatious. She probably spends a lot of time with the men next door at night. Otherwise, how could she do such a shameless thing?"

The onlookers pointed at the mother and child on the ground and gossiped.

Zuo Li turned around and saw that Sun Xiangxiang was almost naked. He quickly slapped her on the back of the neck, knocking her unconscious.

That stopped her from doing so.

Zuo Li then draped the clothes on the ground over her body, covering her exposed skin.

Even if this woman is vicious, she cannot allow anyone to see her body for nothing.

Zuo Li's actions gave Sun Xiangxiang a final moment of dignity.

As for Yan Hecheng...

He stood to the side, watching in stunned silence.

So, he almost fell into the trap just now?

Oh my god!

This woman surnamed Sun really went to great lengths to marry him.

"No wonder you told me the second-floor private rooms were all booked. So you deliberately brought me to the third-floor private room. There's a bed in this room. You wanted to make me eat this food laced with drugs, so that, like your mother, I'd end up in bed with her while unconscious, and then you could force me into marriage, right? Fine, fine, what charm do I, Yan Hecheng, have that makes you scheme against me like this! Zuo Li! Take them to jail and interrogate them properly! If it weren't for you, I would have almost fallen for your trap today!"

Sun Xiangxiang fainted, so Yan Hecheng could only speak to Liu Chunxi.

He learned that he had almost been assassinated.

Naturally, I won't be soft-hearted anymore.

So he ordered Zoli to interrogate them rigorously.

"Yes, I will definitely interrogate him properly, Uncle Yan." Zuo Li's attitude towards Yan Hecheng was completely different from his attitude when he spoke to Liu Chunxi just now.

How to deal with Yan Hecheng.

He spoke as if he were talking to an elder in his family.

They adopted a very humble attitude.

This farce ended after five officials from the county government arrived.

It's completely over.

Yan Hecheng went to the county government office with them and explained the whole story from beginning to end.

When I came out, it was already dark outside.

Zuo Li is not on duty today.

He then left the county government office with Yan Hecheng.

He planned to send Yan Hecheng home first, and then go home himself.

Unexpectedly, when the two arrived at the entrance of the Yan residence, they ran into Yan Xia and her entourage who had just gotten off their carriage.

"Dad? Xiaoli? What's going on here?" Yan Xia was a little confused when she saw her father standing with Zuo Li.

Judging from the direction they were walking, they must have come back from the street.

How did these two end up hanging out together?

Yan Xia asked curiously.

"Ah, Xia'er, it's a long story, Father..."

Yan Hecheng sighed, just about to slowly explain to his daughter.

Unexpectedly, Zuo Li made things clear first.

"Uncle Yan was having dinner with Madam Sun when, unbeknownst to him, Madam Sun's son was working as a waiter at the restaurant. He slipped aphrodisiacs into the food, hoping that your father and Madam Sun would consummate their marriage so he could bring his family in and threaten Uncle Yan into marrying Madam Sun. However, I happened to see the waiter slipping the drugs. I arrived just in time, before Uncle Yan had even eaten, and I arrested Madam Sun's family and took them to the county government. Uncle Yan was questioned by us as a witness and only just returned. It's getting late, and I was worried about Uncle Yan, so I thought I'd send him back first."