Cui Rou searched the vicinity, then picked it up. Upon opening it, she found some remaining medicine on it. To confirm whether it was poison, she quickly took the crumpled paper to find someone.

"Knock knock knock!"

Everyone was already resting at this point, and the knocking on the door annoyed them, but they still patiently asked, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Aunt Cui. I've come to show you something!"

Cui Rou stated her purpose directly, but didn't say anything else. Tie Xiong inside the room was even more annoyed, but since she had already come, he sighed and decided to open the door.

After putting on an outer robe, Tie Xiong opened his door, and Cui Rou quickly came in, looking nervous. She told Zhou Wan to light the lamp and sit down.

Fearing that someone else might harm Tianxianglou, Tiexiong decided to stay there.

Seeing Cui Rou now, his face turned even uglier: "What are you doing up so late at night instead of sleeping?"

Because Cui Rou hadn't treated Xu Yuehuai well before, everyone was only letting her stay here to recover from her injuries out of pity. However, they were still unhappy about her disturbing them, so their tone became a bit harsher.

However, Cui Rou didn't care. She understood that she had made mistakes in the past, and now she just wanted to help her daughter.

"You should put on more clothes and wear more layers, so you don't catch a cold," Cui Rou said with concern when she saw Zhou Wan's thin clothing.

Tie Xiong quickly draped a coat over Zhou Wan's shoulders, and said impatiently, "Alright, just say what you need to say, I'm going back to sleep now."

Urged by the others, Cui Rou took out the crumpled paper. The others didn't think much of it when they saw it, but what Tie Xiong said next surprised her greatly, and they couldn't believe it.

"What did you say? Someone poisoned someone in the middle of the night, and you just happened to catch them?" Tie Xiong was clearly skeptical. "If you say that, where's the evidence? Is this little crumpled piece of paper all you have to say?"

“If anyone doesn’t believe me, they can try it on something. They’ll know once they eat it. Of course, I wouldn’t joke about something like this.” Cui Rou immediately became serious.

Seeing that Cui Rou wasn't joking, Te Xiong finally took it seriously.

"Okay, I understand. You go back and rest now. I'll handle this."

Before Cui Rou was about to leave, Zhou Wan asked her to wait a while: "Wait here."

As she spoke, she hugged her coat tighter, then knocked on the door next door: "Third Sister, it's me, Zhou Wan. Are you asleep yet?"

"Not yet, wait a moment." Third Sister had already heard the noise and immediately opened the door. "I heard everything. You wait here, I'll go check it out."

After she finished speaking, she put on her clothes, went out to the well, and drew a bucket of water.

There was a thin layer of something floating on the surface of the water, which was probably something that hadn't had time to dissolve yet.

"Holy crap, how could this person be so outrageous as to actually do something like that?"

Because of this incident, everyone rushed to call Aunt Meng that very night.

To confirm the truth of the matter, the two even pretended to faint, so that they could confirm whether it was the other party who did it. Although Cui Rou had said something, they wanted to be more direct and faster.

Soon, Aunt Meng heard someone calling for her. Upon learning that two people had fainted, she immediately offered to help, displaying her kind heart.

Upon entering the room, she saw two people lying on the floor, seemingly having just fainted. She also noticed the water in the basin. Finally, Aunt Meng couldn't hold back any longer. She had endured so much, all for the sake of poisoning the animals; now that she had succeeded, she no longer needed to endure it.

"Hahaha, you've finally been poisoned. It took me a long time and a lot of effort to gain your trust. You have no idea how hard it was and how much of my precious time I wasted. But it's good to see you're all done now. It's all worth it for me to have arranged all this."

Because of his long period of forbearance, he was naturally overjoyed that the matter had succeeded and immediately revealed his true colors, no longer wanting to hide them.

Taking advantage of this moment, Cui Rou left and found the soldier outside. She told him about the situation and, upon learning that someone had committed a crime, quickly followed her towards this location.

Upon entering, he heard the other person's arrogant self-praise, so he immediately went up to him and twisted him up.

When Tie Xiong learned of this, he was furious.

"How dare you, you wicked woman! You've wasted everyone's trust in you; you're truly ungrateful!" These words were spoken with righteous indignation.

"Heh, you all deserve it, what does it have to do with me!"

Seeing that the other party was still in this terrible state, they were utterly disappointed and stopped pretending altogether.

You miscalculated!

To the other party's shock, the two men immediately took the man to the yamen (government office).

Because it was too late, the people in the county government only detained the other party at that time.

"You may go back now. It's getting late. You can come back tomorrow for the interrogation."

The two men were colleagues, so they were quite polite and knew the proper etiquette. Thinking of the woman waiting at home, they didn't hesitate, said a few words of farewell, and headed straight home.

When he got back, he saw Zhou Wan waiting in the courtyard from afar, her face full of worry, which was clearly visible even in the moonlight.

"Alright, the person has been sent over. She can go for the trial tomorrow. Since she had the guts, she'll have to pay the price for what she did. Don't worry too much, go back and rest, and don't catch a cold." Tie Xiong adjusted the person's coat again.

Hearing her husband's concern, she finally felt a little happy. Anyone would be upset if they encountered such a vicious thing; after all, this matter could be serious or minor, and if something really happened, even a god couldn't help.

"Let's go back and rest. You've been tired all night."

And so the two of them helped each other back to their room to rest.

Early in the morning, the roosters crowed, signaling the start of their work schedules. They should have left by then as well. A whole night had passed; they still didn't know if the other person had come to a decision, or what they might get out of him later—what could have driven him to such a heinous act?

However, an unexpected incident also occurred at the county government office.

The next morning, just as Lord Wu was about to take the prisoner in for interrogation, he learned that the prisoner had already committed suicide by biting his tongue.

"What? This guy really seems guilty!"

Upon learning that the other party had actually died, Lord Wu had no choice but to arrange for someone to come and claim the body according to procedure.