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Tang Qiqi scolded the worker with a stern face. The worker, feeling embarrassed, said sullenly, "Qiqi, I'm only thinking of your family's interests. Why are you arguing with me like this? I didn't even get any benefits!"
"But this is wrong in the first place!" Tang Qiqi refused to budge!
Upon hearing this, Xu Lanzhi came over and said, "Sister-in-law, your idea is for our good, thank you. But Qiqi is right, the chicken died suspiciously, we can't sell such a chicken to Boss Sai!"
The worker sighed and said, "Mrs. Xu, you're just too honest. Since you've said so, let's do as you say!"
These words reached Li Degui's ears without him missing a single one, and he admired Xu Lanzhi even more!
After Li Degui left, Xu Lanzhi and Tang Qiqi began to investigate the cause of the chicken's death.
When Tang Qiqi returned, she immediately discovered that the chicken had been poisoned. This was her specialty, so she knew it at a glance.
However, the others were not very clear about it, so Tang Qiqi had to guide them little by little to discover the problem!
She first asked Tang Qiumei, "Third Aunt, was there anything unusual about this chicken before?"
Tang Qiumei said with certainty, "No, the chickens were still lively and jumping around the night before, but a lot of them died this morning. The ones that didn't die had white, watery droppings."
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"I wonder if this chicken ate something bad," Tang Qiqi said thoughtfully.
Tang Qiqi picked up a dead chicken and handed it to Erzhuzi, saying, "Uncle Erzhuzi, cut this chicken open and see what's inside."
Without saying a word, Erzhuzi took the chicken and used the knife to cut it open.
The cut-open chicken emitted a foul odor, and its entrails were corroded.
Erzhu frowned and said, "Sister-in-law, something's not right! This chicken doesn't seem sick?"
Everyone found it strange, and Xu Lanzhi said, "Let's cut open two more and see if they're the same."
Erzhuzi gutted several more chickens, and without exception, they all showed symptoms of poisoning.
Upon realizing the chicken was poisoned, Tang Qiumei suddenly burst into tears. When asked what was wrong, she remained silent for a long time.
Tang Qiqi noticed her third aunt's unusual behavior and quietly whispered a few words to Xu Lanzhi.
Xu Lanzhi understood and, as Tang Qiqi had instructed, told Erzhuzi and Liu Jianchang to dig deep pits and bury all the chickens to prevent them from rotting and becoming breeding grounds for bacteria.
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She helped Tang Qiumei up and said to her, "Third Sister, you're too tired. Let me help you inside to rest for a while!"
As soon as she entered the room, Xu Lanzhi asked seriously, "Third Sister, what exactly happened? Tell me everything you know!"
"I don't know, I really don't know!" Tang Qiumei couldn't explain anything except for crying!
Tang Qiqi then asked, "Third Aunt, the moment you found out the chicken was poisoned, you clearly showed signs of panic. There must be something you haven't told us!"
Tang Qiumei panicked even more: "Lanzhi, Qiqi, it really wasn't me, I don't know what happened!"
Xu Lanzhi paused, then said sternly, "Third Sister, tell me everything you know. You know how serious this is. We lost over a thousand taels of silver worth of chickens this time! And you're still hiding it from me? That's really unacceptable!"
Tang Qiumei said shamefully, "Lanzhi, I really don't know what happened. I was away for several hours the day before the incident at the chicken farm, and I don't know what happened during that time."
Under persistent questioning from Xu Lanzhi and Tang Qiqi, Tang Qiumei finally revealed what had happened.
That night, she had just lain down when she heard Li Caie calling her from outside.
She went out and asked, and Li Caie said that her relatives came from Zhaojiatun today and brought news about Tang Qiumei!
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Tang Qiumei felt lingering fear upon hearing the name Zhao Jiatun and told Li Caie that she had nothing to do with Zhao Jiatun anymore and didn't want to hear it!
Li Cai'e wouldn't let go of her, saying that her husband Zhao Hongcai was going to take another wife!
Tang Qiumei said she didn't care, but she was actually sad inside.
Li Caie kept talking about how Zhao Hongcai was going to marry a maid from his second sister-in-law's family, and that it was said that his second sister-in-law had arranged the marriage!
Upon hearing this, Tang Qiumei could only weep silently. Li Caie, standing nearby, fanned the flames, saying, "What's the use of just crying? Zhao Hongcai is going to propose tomorrow. Why don't you hurry back and stop him!"
Tang Qiumei was heartbroken and said blankly, "Let him marry whoever he wants. I just want to raise my two children and live a good life!"
Li Caie then added fuel to the fire, saying, "Qiu Mei, my relatives said that the new bride can't have children. They plan to take your two sons away as soon as the wedding, saying that there's no one to do the housework and they want them to go back and do the work!"
"Then what use would I be if I went back!" Tang Qiumei cried. Li Caie truly believed what she said; Ziqiang and Zili had always done hard labor in the Zhao family.
"You should go back and stop them from proposing marriage, otherwise your two children will be bullied to death by their stepmother!" Li Caie advised her.
Tang Qiumei was honest by nature, and her two children were her weakness. After being fooled by Li Caie, she actually went back to Zhao Jiatun in secret.
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Hearing this, Xu Lanzhi was both angry and worried: "You just went back like that? Did they beat you up?"
Tang Qiumei said heartbrokenly, "I got to the door, but I didn't go in!"
"Why?" Tang Qiqi didn't understand Tang Qiumei's thought process. "You're already there, why didn't you go inside?"
Tang Qiumei said with a mournful face, "I left behind the house where we lived. I wanted to quietly wake Zhao Hongcai up and beg him not to take Ziqiang Zili away!"
But there was already a woman inside, and the two of them were doing *that*. That bastard Zhao Hongcai, trying to win her favor, even offered to take Ziqiang Zili back to be her servant! Tang Qiumei started sobbing again.
Xu Lanzhi said angrily, "You came back without giving that scoundrel a good scolding?"
Tang Qiumei innocently said, "No, I just dressed up as a ghost and scared them once!"
Tang Qiqi and Xu Lanzhi instantly turned into onlookers, forgetting to ask about the chicken poisoning. Instead, they asked curiously, "What scared you? Tell us about it!"
Previously, only Hongcai's grandmother would protect me, so I imitated her voice and said, "Hongcai, Hongcai, Qiumei is such a good child, how could you make her so angry? The one in your bed has a face that looks like she's bringing bad luck to her husband, she's here to take your life, and you're still holding her, are you trying to kill yourself!"
Zhao Hongcai trembled with fear, pushed the woman off the bed, and said tremblingly, "Grandma, this wasn't my idea, it was my mother's idea!"
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“Your mother is so ruthless. If I hadn’t stopped her, she would have been dragged away by that brat long ago. Tell her that if she dares to bully Qiu Mei and those two children again, I will come and get her myself!”
Hongcai's mother, who was sleeping next door, was so frightened she almost peed herself. She quickly scrambled up and kowtowed, saying, "Grandma, please have mercy! I'll never do it again!"
Tang Qiumei imitated the scene so vividly that Xu Lanzhi and Tang Qiqi almost burst out laughing. The mother and daughter both said, "You've finally done something to look good!"
Tang Qiumei knelt down with a thud: "Lanzhi, someone must have poisoned me after I left. I could never repay this thousand taels of silver in several lifetimes!"
Xu Lanzhi said with a stern face, "Knowing that you can't repay the debt even in several lifetimes, you should work hard for me to pay it off. Be self-reliant and you'll have to pay off the debt. No one can take them away!"
"Lanzhi, I was wrong!" Qiu Mei kowtowed several more times before she realized that Xu Lanzhi meant that even if the Zhao family came, she would not let Ziqiang and Zili suffer.
"Lanzhi, don't you blame me?" Tang Qiumei asked pitifully.
Xu Lanzhi said with a stern face, "Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt its debtor. Why blame you? Let's go find Li Cai'e!"
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