Hearing this, Jie Jingjue breathed a sigh of relief. He patted his chest and promised, "That's easy. I'll go buy it right away."
"Buy?" Qin Mei raised an eyebrow. Jie Jingjue wasn't the sharpest, so he wouldn't understand if she beat around the bush. She raised a hand and pointed at the rooster in the courtyard. "Why look far for what's right here? Look over there. Doesn't that look like a rooster?"
Jie Jingjue didn't even turn around. He just slapped his forehead. 'It doesn't just *look* like a rooster—it clearly is one.' He had a perfectly reasonable suspicion about Qin Mei's motive. "Sister-in-law, the medicinal ingredient is just an excuse. The truth is you want to use me to kill this rooster."
'He's gotten smarter,' Qin Mei thought, but she refused to admit her true purpose. "Wrong. The medicinal ingredient is real, and so is killing this rooster. It crows its head off before the sun is even up. Don't you think it deserves to be butchered?"
