"Is it all here? How many kilograms of ribs did you get yesterday?" Xia Yingying turned around and asked Lu Dahai.

"Seventy-five jin, I remember that clearly," Lu Dahai answered directly.

Xia Yingying lifted one side of the large basin with one hand and weighed it back and forth.

"Seventy-five pounds of pork ribs?" Even though Xia Yingying had never cooked large-pot meals before, she could tell something was wrong.

“This doesn’t seem enough. How can seventy-five pounds of pork ribs be contained in just one basin, and the basin isn’t even full,” Liu Ping added.

"Where's the scale? I want to weigh myself," said the blond-haired man, stepping out to check his weight.

"No, you don't understand. Your scale is useless. It's already cooked, so it's bound to shrink."

"What, would I hide your spare ribs? It's not like I bought them, or I'm eating them. I'm just a cook. You guys are really something, sigh." Aunt Wang said, looking wronged.

"Okay, how about the green beans? How many kilograms are they?" Xia Yingying continued to ask.

"Green beans... I can't remember exactly, I picked them all here," Aunt Wang said, stretching out her hand.

"Seventy catties of green beans, I know that, the purchase order is still in my truck," Lu Dahai said quickly.

"Weigh him." Xia Yingying didn't waste any words and directly told Huang Mao to do it.

"No, hey, all the green beans have been picked, so they must have been underweight. You can't charge me for this. I can't just cook them without picking them first," Aunt Wang said anxiously, patting her apron.

"Sister Xia, I peeled the beans in the basin, and even with the water, these green beans are still seven pounds short," Huang Mao said, looking at the scale.

"Where did the other green beans go?" Xia Yingying crossed her arms and looked coldly at Aunt Wang.

"No, the green beans were trimmed, the ends were removed, and some of the rotten ones were thrown away. They're all here. I didn't take any. If you don't believe me, ask them if there were any rotten ones," Aunt Wang said, pointing to the other women.

The older women didn't dare to speak at that moment; they all kept their heads down, washing vegetables, and dared not say a word.

"If you remove the ends, the rotten green beans will weigh about seven pounds?"

"What, you mean this batch of green beans was all rotten?" Xia Yingying said calmly.

"Don't be ridiculous, speak properly. When I bought the green beans, I checked each bag one by one. They were all good. Even if there were some rotten ones, it was only one or two. How could there be seven pounds? Do you know how much seven pounds is!"

Lu Dahai was furious when he heard this and loudly questioned Aunt Wang. If he didn't speak up, the blame would be placed on him.

"That's not rotten. You don't believe me? Look, isn't this rotten? Look at this!"

As Aunt Wang spoke, she went straight to rummage through the trash can, but after searching for a long time, she only found four or five slightly damaged ones, not nearly that many.

"I'm looking at chicken feathers, where are they? Where are they? There are only a few here. Who can say that none of the vegetables they buy are bad? And there are so many! Didn't you say there were seven or eight pounds? Where are they? You probably don't even have an ounce!"

Lu Dahai picked at the few green beans and shouted.

"I don't know, I don't know where those went. If you check the beginning and end, that's all you'll find. Stop accusing an innocent person. Besides, I didn't weigh the vegetables when they arrived, so how would I know if there were enough?"

Aunt Wang didn't dare to shout at Xia Yingying, so she focused all her anger on Lu Dahai.

"Go to hell!" Lu Dahai was so angry that his nose almost twisted. The key point was that every time he bought groceries, he would just leave them there without weighing them. Now he had no proof.

"Go find someone to search and see if it's here," Xia Yingying said to the blond-haired man.

"Okay." The blond-haired man said, then went out and called two of his underlings, and they immediately began searching the cafeteria.

The cafeteria doesn't have much of a place to hide things; you can find everything with a simple search.

After searching, Huang Mao looked at Xia Yingying but didn't say anything. He just shook his head; he hadn't found anything.

"Look, where are the green beans? Let me tell you, if I were to take even a single thing from the cafeteria, I'd be hit by a car and die. I came here to work, why would I do something like this?" Aunt Wang shouted, looking extremely angry.

"That's not right either. Even if the ribs have shrunk, they shouldn't have shrunk this much. It's only a little over forty pounds, almost half of what it used to be." Liu Ping put the basin on the scale and frowned as she looked at the weight.

“Whoever took this, return it to me now, and I can let it go and pretend it never happened. But if I catch you later, this matter will be over.” Xia Yingying said to the four of them.

Aunt Wang and the other three people remained silent, as if to say, "I definitely didn't take it."

"Take them out one by one and ask them one by one." Xia Yingying was determined; she had to find all the missing vegetables today.

It is said that if the cook does not steal, the harvest will not be good. Xia Yingying is not an unreasonable person.

If you take a pound or two home to stew, Xia Yingying won't say anything; it's just a normal thing.

However, Xia Yingying discovered that she had recently purchased a full third more groceries than at the beginning of the month.

There are only seven or eight more people, and you're buying dozens of kilograms more vegetables? Are you kidding me? Who can eat that much?

If this continues, the workers will probably eat less than they steal.

Seeing the older women being taken away by the blond-haired man for questioning, Liu Ping called Lu Dahai aside.

"Dahai, tell the truth, did you really not take this? If you did, just say so. It's okay to take it back and eat some."

"The key is that this matter is now in a predicament. What if it turns out to be a real blunder? My wife would be so embarrassed then," Liu Ping asked earnestly.

"Sister, believe me, I really didn't take a single thing. If I had, I would have told Fengzi. I just asked him for two pounds of pork ribs, and he wouldn't have said no to me. Besides, two pounds of pork ribs are hardly worth anything."

"Don't even mention that I earn a lot of money delivering goods for Fengzi now. Even when I used to run a small shop, I would never steal two pounds of ribs to eat. People would laugh at me if they found out." Lu Dahai was practically swearing an oath, stamping his feet anxiously.

"I know, it's alright, Dahai. Even if we can't find it today, I can't suspect you. I guess it was that guy surnamed Wang who stole it." Liu Ping brought up the topic.

"It's her! This old woman is blaming me! What the hell is she?" Lu Dahai was furious.

Huang Mao went around scaring and questioning people, and when he finally got to the last old lady, she hesitated before speaking.

"I told you, but please don't say I told you. I really can't afford to mess with her. That old woman is too unreasonable," the woman said, still shaken.

"Don't worry, only the two of us know about this today. Tell me where it's hidden," the blond-haired man whispered as he assured him.

"Actually, I don't know either, but we don't start work that early, right? Wang Hua is always the first one to arrive every day, carrying a bag."

"And every time she leaves, she's the last one to leave, saying she'll tidy up a bit more."