The Marquis' Wife
Adelia took him to court

Adelia, Lu Niang, Lu Tao and her sisters walked quickly towards the store from the back door and heard the angry voices of people shouting furiously.

Adelia looked at so many people present and whispered and pointed towards the store with a suspicious look and Lu Kai who was trying to hold back the people who wanted to enter the store but his eyebrows were raised when not found a member of the Miao family.

"What's really going on?" Adelia's calm and cold voice caused the attention of many to be distracted.

"You're the owner of this cake shop?! How do you bus...".

"I'm the manager" Cut Adelia expressionless.

"The owner and manager are the same. How can you sell a junk cake like this!!".

"Yes. When we cut the cake we found a cockroach. Is this how you sell cakes? By putting cockroaches in!!".

"We'll just destroy the cake shop!!" Some people were trying to push Lu Kai to force their way in.

"Calm down! How can I solve your problems if you are not calm?! Do I want to call the security guard?!" Adelia shouted but remained with a face that showed no expression.

The faces of those people panicked a little at the word of the security guard then their anger eased a little.

"Say, when did you buy the cake? Don't yell mad at me if you don't want me to assume that you guys want to slander the cake shop I run".

A man looked at his friend and replied. "Yesterday".

"What time?"

"I forgot what time I bought the cake. Why do you ask so much? Do you want to distract us?".

Adelia smiled cynically. "Want me to call the security guard?".

The man was silent too.

"Whose name did you buy it from?"

The man was stunned.

"Whose name did you buy it from? Can't you forget your own name?". Adelia stared increasingly sharply.

"A-on behalf of Zheng Hui".

"Lu Niang's. Get invoice bonds and sales records".

"Alright madam" Seeing his master who was not panicking, Lu Niang felt even calmer.

The man became more panicked. "It's no business on whose behalf I bought it but the cake. Why don't you answer my question first, why did you put a cockroach in this cake?" The man showed me a random piece of two-season chocolate cake and threw it to the ground so everyone could see.

The circumstances that initially sided with Adelia again sided with the nearly 30-year-old.

Adelia let out a long sigh and rolled her eyeballs in a careless manner without feeling worried about her image in the eyes of others. "I want to see if the cake you bought came from my shop".

"Of course this cake came from your store. Who else would sell a cake like this if not this shop!!".

"This is the invoice bon and the sales data of the mistress"

Adelia received those two small and large books. He deliberately made invoice bonds and customer data to look the best service while preventing things like this from happening.

Adelia opened the invoice bon and looked at Zheng Hui's name and closed the invoice bon then nodded.

"You did buy this cake but...".

"I'm not ready to talk. Do you want me to take this matter to court?".

Again the man was silent.

"But are you sure that cockroach is in this cake? Didn't you put it?".

"of course! What do you think I'm trying so hard to do and wasting time just to slander people I don't know".

"really? But I wonder where the money you got to buy this cake? You know one piece is 1 silver coin". Adelia looked at the shabby clothes the men were wearing.

"You don't need to know. All you have to know is that your cake has cockroaches in it".

"Lu Niang, get the cake". Adelia paid no heed to Zheng Hui's cry and focused on the cake.

Lu Niang immediately lifted the cake box and gave it to Adelia.

"You may not be aware or even understand. To make this cake I had to bake it first before pouring liquid chocolate on it".

"What do you mean say that?" Zheng Hui began to hesitate.

Adelia held the cockroach and smelled the scent and put it back on the cake. "You see for yourself, this cockroach doesn't roast in the least. It's just a dead cockroach, what do you mean slandering our cake shop? Did someone pay you to do it?".

People gasped and looked at the cockroach and realized that it was just a dead cockroach that had some crumbs of tart and cream.

"Lu Niang quickly call the security guard. Lu Tao, Lu Kai caught the man". Adelia did not give Zheng Hui and her friends a chance to dodge.

Realizing that they could not turn things around, Zheng Hui and his friends tried to escape but he and one of his friends were captured by Lu Tao and Lu Kai while the others escaped.

"Take me off. I don't know why the cockroach wasn't roasted but it was in the cake. You can't be with me!!". Zheng Hui rebelled violently but still lost to Lu Kai who could martial arts.

"Whispering" Adelia hit the slightly thick customer data book to the nape of Zheng Hui tightly to make the man faint.

"I will make you regret accepting the task of destroying teacher Zhao Fan's reputation. You don't know if he's a Juren?!".

Zheng Hui's friend was stunned. They only received orders to destroy the reputation of the cake shop, why did this woman associate her with Juren Zhao?!. His face turned pale and panicked.

"Take them to Cheng's court office". Adelia went home to change clothes with a more formal one and went with Lu Niang to the court office.

Lu Tao and Lu Kai teamed up to tie the hands and feet of Zheng Hui and his friend and took him to Cheng's court office.

The people watching also joined Adelia because they were very curious about the continuation of Zhao Fan's reputation pollution case as the girl said.

The court was shocked to see the crowd coming and momentarily panicked. Rarely does anyone report a case with many people like this.

"What's this about? Why did you guys come with such a big group, do you want to make a troublemaker?".

People gave way to Adelia's group and after permission from the girl, Lu Tao and Lu Kai threw Zheng Hui and his friend before the court.

Adelia inhaled a deep breath and knelt unwillingly. The low status of women makes them have to kneel in greeting people who work in government even though they are not scholars.

"Master. I'd like to report a case about the damage to the reputation of scholar Juren Zhao Fan".

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The man who asked turned pale instantly as this concerned about Juren Zhao Fan, a status equivalent to that of the mayor. They reported the incident to their superiors.