When Cheng Zongyang rushed to the County Magistrate's Office, he found out that Li Lu had also fallen into a deep sleep.
When Zhao the Seventh saw Cheng Zongyang arrive, he quickly said,
"This stuff is terrifying. Lord Li ingested it and collapsed just moments later. He ground them all into a powder and mixed it into the wine. They first drank the untainted stuff, then the doctored batch. After that, they all passed out."
Cheng Zongyang's brow furrowed. Ignoring Zhao the Seventh's rambling, nonsensical explanation, he walked to the table and picked up the wine jug.
'Ground into a powder?'
'That makes it a bit harder to gauge the timing.'
He picked up the wine jug and poured some into a cup. It was a bit cloudy, but most wine these days was like that, so it wasn't noticeable.
Besides, the wine they had now was all old stock, making it even harder to spot anything unusual in the cloudy liquid.
And with Li Lu drinking alongside them, they naturally wouldn't have been suspicious.
