Tang Liu came to the house to find someone to take a few special materials.

  He sauntered into the courtyard, only to see someone hanging from a pillar. He took another two glances and found that it was actually Hua Rou. He immediately rushed over.

  "We had twenty-four bottles of poison in the warehouse, but somehow they turned into five. I tried to explain, and the person in charge simply ordered someone to hang me here..."

  "This is another bullying!" Tang Liu'er heard Hua Rou's statement, angrily scolded a sentence, and immediately took action to untie the rope to put Hua Rou down.

  "Hua Ruo saw this and became uneasy, saying: 'Don't bother about me, don't offend the House of Jiang for my sake. You'd better leave quickly!'"

  "Offended?" Tang Liu laughed: "Hua Rou, listen up, in the Tang Sect, except for the sect leader and Ji Ge, I'm not afraid of anyone!"

  Tang Liu finished speaking, and the rope had already been untied. He pulled Hua Rou's arm: "Let's go!"

  At this time, the disciples of the family business who were standing around the courtyard immediately surrounded and blocked the way to the entrance of the yard.

  Hua Rou hastily went forward to block Tang Liu's path - she couldn't let the person helping her get into trouble, but Tang Liu instead pulled her back and shouted loudly: "Who dares to block me? I'll have Ji Ge beat him up!"

  With a threatening tone, he shouted loudly and with great momentum. The disciples of the House of Industry heard this and swallowed their saliva one by one, then looked at each other and retreated in disarray.

  Hua Ruo was shocked, she really didn't think there would be anyone who dared to be so arrogant in the family's ancestral home?

  "Go!" Tang Liu dragged Hua Rou, who had a shocked expression, and walked out directly.

  "Sixth Brother Liù, is this really... alright?" Huā Róu was very uncertain, because although the disciples of those family houses had retreated, they were all staring at them with wide eyes.

  "Don't worry, Ji Ge is a person from the Soul Snatching Room. No one dares to go against the Soul Snatching Room, not even the Family Business Room! Let's go, I'll send you back!"

  Like this, Tang Liu'er openly took Hua Rou away under the watchful eyes of everyone, and the disciples of Jia Ye Fang looked at each other, no one daring to say anything.

  "Ah-choo! Ah-choo!" Tang Ji, who was practicing in the martial arts arena, let out a series of sneezes and then muttered uneasily: "I hope Liu Er isn't causing me trouble again?"

  Muttering to himself, he didn't neglect his practice. Tang Jing shook his head and continued to wield the three-inch short blade in his hand, leaving mark after mark on the standing pillar.

  ……

  "Where did you put the poison we matched?"

  Hua Rou rubbed her arm and had just returned to the poison house when she saw Zi Qi standing in the yard with her hands on her hips, staring at her and questioning loudly.

  "I don't know, I was full when I handed it in..."

  "Full? How can we be full when we don't even have a single point?!" Zi Qi excitedly rushed in front of Hua Rou: "Do you know or not, because of you, our leading advantage is gone! When the time comes and we can't get enough materials, what do you want us to practice with? And where will the face of the poisonous house and Master be put?"

  "I didn't expect it to be like this!" Hua Rou defended herself with a wronged expression: "It's really inexplicable..."

  "Hua Rou, listen to me!" Zi Qi's voice was somewhat shrill: "There are only four of us disciples in the Poison House. If you really can't bear the weight, then please get out of the Poison House and stop dragging us down!"

  Zi Qi finished speaking and turned back to her room, Hua Rou felt wronged but couldn't explain herself. She took several deep breaths before feeling a bit better, then she quickly ran back to the west wing house without noticing Tang Jiu Er and Lin Lin standing at the entrance of the main hall.

  "The poison was mine, I'm sure it was full when Hua Rou took it out, but how could there be so much less inside? Someone must have been tampering with it!"

  Linlin said, looking at Tang Jiuer: "This matter is really not blaming Hua Rou."

  "Mind your own business."

  "That flower is soft..."

  "That's her business." Tangerine finished speaking and turned back to the main hall, Linlin furrowed her brow and looked towards the west wing, with a helpless expression.

  At dusk, the fierce sun has lost its edge, and red clouds fill the sky.

  I was searching for materials by the river creek behind the Poison House, carrying a burlap sack. I had just dug up two pieces of saltpeter and tossed them into the sack when I saw Hua Rou rushing into the woods by the creek.

  My eyes rolled and I quietly followed him without making a sound.

  Hua Ruo held a small ceramic jar in her hand, stooping and squatting along the way to flip over some stones and search.

  Admiring you from afar, I keep a distance and watch Flower Soft's every move, wondering what she is looking for.

  After Hua Rou overturned several large stones, she finally saw a big red centipede. She immediately aimed the jar at the centipede, used leaves to sweep it into the jar, and then sealed the mouth of the jar, continuing her search.

  Mu Jun saw the situation and her eyebrows and eyes first flashed with suspicion, but then she smiled knowingly, her expression somewhat relieved.

  Soon, Hua Rou caught another centipede and muttered to herself as she tapped the mouth of the jar: "I can only rely on you!"

  ……

  The next day, Hua Rou volunteered to go and deliver the goods. Zi Qi had been working hard on painting and was eager to take a rest, so she let her go.

  Hua Rou went to the poison room only after checking the products in front of them, and yesterday she was fined by her superior. She fearlessly took the initiative to propose a face-to-face audit, but the superior didn't care about her and walked away.

  "Why don't you count it in front of me?" Hua Rou stared at the person in charge, without any politeness.

  "Family rules in family houses, come back after lunch! Next one!"

  Hua Ruo stepped aside, but she didn't leave; instead, she stood waiting in this very room.

  In the afternoon, the person in charge held a sheet of paper to the scoreboard to modify the score, but when he finished modifying, the poisonous house's score was still only 25 points and had not changed.

  "Today, most of the materials you handed in have completed their daily tasks, and only one household in the government building exceeded it. But what's going on with the poisonous house?" The person in charge looked at Hua Rou: "This is the second time they haven't completed it!"

  "It's impossible, we've made a match!" Hua Rou stepped forward with big strides. At this time, the person in charge raised his hand and had a disciple bring over a box. Hua Rou opened it and found that there were only seven porcelain bottles inside.

  "Is this all you've got?"

  Hua Rou, facing the person in charge with an undisguised mocking expression, raised her head and said loudly: "I applied poison to the ceramic bottle containing the poisonous substance. I believe that whoever took away the poisonous substance inside must have their hands swollen and blistered by now? You'd better come out and tell the truth, or else..."

  "Hua Rou turned around and swept her eyes over the crowd: 'Missed the best time for detoxification, both hands will be crippled and disabled, don't blame me then!'"

  Huā Róu's words caused everyone to be astonished, and they couldn't help but look around and discuss it in a flurry, while Mù Jūn Wú, standing among the crowd, was watching Huā Róu with great interest.

  At this moment, Zheng Feng, who was standing in a corner of the crowd and didn't draw attention to himself, had his hands tucked into his sleeves.

  His hand was burning and aching, the scorching sensation had actually appeared before Hua Rou Dao Ming, he didn't think much of it, thinking that it was just because he accidentally touched something when stealing the poison, never expecting it to be this girl's doing.

  But...

  You think you can catch me? I can take this much pain! Just wait till we get past this, and you'll be the one who's sorry!