Clues

When Liu Shi heard Sun Shaozong ask about her son, her expression changed drastically. She tried to hide it in her panic, but even Chen Jingde spotted the flaw.

He immediately began glowering and blustering beside her, subjecting her to a round of threats and inducements.

Sure enough, a woman like Liu Shi, with little worldly experience, fell right for it. In tears and snot, she immediately confessed the truth.

It turned out that on the day of the incident, seeing the sky turning gloomy, Liu Shi had planned to call her children back from their playing outside and tidy up the stove to prepare dinner.

But when she reached the door, she ran into two men who claimed that they had opened a new restaurant called the Myriad Fragrance Pavilion and wanted to hire Wang Erhu as their head cook.

Because of Lu Mingsi's case, Qinghong Restaurant had been unable to open for seven or eight days, and it was unlikely that it could continue operating in the future.

Wang Erhu had not been too worried, but Liu Shi had been frantic. Hearing that a new restaurant wanted to hire her husband, she beamed with delight and, without giving it much thought, led the two men inside.

Who would have thought that, once they entered the main room, Wang Erhu took one look at the pair and reacted as though a mouse had seen a cat? He turned and darted into the inner room, intending to jump out the window and scale the wall to escape.

But just as he pushed open the window, one of the visitors rushed forward, grabbed him by the nape, and dragged Wang Erhu back like a chick.

Hearing this, Chen Jingde instinctively wanted to ask a question, but Sun Shaozong stopped him and