In the blink of an eye, a path was cleared in the place that was originally blocked by people.

Hua Shi was attracted by the movement here and turned her head frequently to look. She saw that under the coercion of the two big men, the path vacated also allowed her to see clearly the situation inside...

There was a woman kneeling on the ground, weeping and covering her face, while another woman of similar age was sitting in front of the table and chairs, but that woman had a gloomy face, looked impatient, and looked a little sarcastic.

"Alright, alright, stop crying. Cry, cry, cry. You just cry all day long. This is how we, the Lin family, have cried away all our blessings!"

The woman with a mean face scolded impatiently.

The woman kneeling on the ground, weeping, her hair disheveled and her clothes in disarray, raised her tear-stained face, her eyes bloodshot, her pupils wide open, as she stared at the woman sitting high above, sobbing and growling:

"My children... Both of my children are missing! Sister-in-law, please don't let me cry... I just went out for a while, and when I came back, my children were gone! Did you lose my children...?"

The mean woman impatiently slapped away the hand pointing at her, "Enough! Stop pointing at me. You can't take care of your own children, why are you blaming me? Didn't I tell you I didn't see them? They ran away on their own out of mischief. Instead of crying here, why don't you go out and look for them on the street? While the night market is still open, maybe you can still find them!"

While the two were talking, the two big men squeezed into the crowd and blocked the table with a gloomy look on their faces.

Shrouded in a huge shadow, the sour-looking woman was stunned for a moment before she realized that the crowd that had gathered to watch the excitement had retreated far away, and were replaced by two tall and strong men with stern looks.

The mean woman only dared to yell at her sister-in-law. She was very powerful at home and didn't dare to cause trouble in front of outsiders, especially the two big men who looked ferocious and unfriendly. She was so frightened that she shrank her neck and dared not breathe.

She looked up at the two men weakly, frightened to the point of trembling. She asked weakly, "Brothers... what's going on...?"

The two big men glanced at the empty table and realized that the two men did not order food in the inn, but occupied the seats, made a lot of noise in the lobby, and caused trouble. Their expressions became more and more unfriendly.

"What are you two arguing about here?! If you want to cause trouble, go outside and do it. If you keep arguing under our noses, don't blame us two brothers for being rude!"

One of the big men, with a rough voice and a sullen face, warned sternly.

The sarcastic woman immediately responded with a retort, "It's unfair! We didn't cause any trouble, we just spoke a little loudly. You don't know, my sister-in-law's two children were fine during the day, but for some reason, they were nowhere to be found when they came home at night..."

Before she could finish her sophistry, the woman who was kneeling on the ground and crying suddenly jumped up. She looked at the two big men with her eyes wide and bright, and asked hurriedly and anxiously, "You two are from the inn. You have been here all day and have not left. Have you seen my two children, a boy and a girl, this tall, one ten years old and the other seven years old, their names are..."

The woman seemed extremely anxious, as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw. She rushed forward and grabbed the collar of one of the big men. Her dark eyes were filled with red bloodshot.

She looked delirious, mumbling incomprehensible words, like a mad woman.

The two big men, who had little patience to begin with, looked at each other and saw cruelty in each other's eyes.

“Crack!”

There was a sound of broken bones, and the hand of the woman who rushed forward was grabbed hard by one of the big men and broken just like that.

“Ahhh…!!”

The woman, who looked somewhat crazy, was numb for a moment, and the pain that swept over her spread throughout her body. She screamed and shouted in agony.

"Listen to her nonsense and throw everyone and everything out!"

As soon as these words fell, two big men, one grabbing another person, picked up the two bundles on the stool, grabbed the two women who were causing trouble, and dragged them out of the inn.

"Hey! What are you doing?! What are you doing! Let me go! We are also guests of the inn. Is this how you treat your guests in your inn?!"

The mean woman, being treated so mercilessly, immediately started to cry out in anger.

The crowd that gathered to watch the excitement didn't think it was a big deal and followed behind, sighing from a distance.

The big man snorted coldly, "What do you mean by guests or not? If I remember correctly, the room you two booked last night expired this morning. You've been staying in the inn, refusing to come out. We were kicked out of your room and put into the lobby, where you stayed until the evening. Now you're still making trouble inside. We'd be giving you face if we didn't teach you a lesson! Get out of here right now! Otherwise, if we get upset, we won't be so easy to talk to."

The rough warning voice came from the direction of the main door, not too far away. When the two of them walked back into the lobby, the remaining onlookers had already shrunk their necks and dispersed in twos and threes.

In the corner, Hua Shi watched the entire scene...

"...These are our signature dishes. What would you like?"

When Hua Shi came to his senses, he heard the waiter say this.

Meeting the waiter's smiling eyes, Hua Shi collected his thoughts and said, "Could you please repeat it again? I was distracted just now and didn't hear it."

The waiter did not feel impatient and patiently introduced the names of the dishes to the two of them again.

Hua Shi listened to the tongue-twisting dish name and thought for a long time before sorting it out. He said, "Give me a cucumber, shark fin, and two pounds of beef..."

He paused and turned to look at Xie Mingchi beside him with an inquiring look.

Xie Mingchi blinked and looked back at her, saying, "Just watch over me. I can eat anything."

"Then order these first, and two bowls of rice. You can add more if it's not enough." Hua Shiwei paused and nodded in confirmation.

"Okay, one serving of shredded chicken and cucumber, anchovies and shark's fin, two pounds of beef, and two bowls of white rice, right?"

The waiter readily repeated the name of the dish that Hua Shi had just announced.

Only after Hua Shi nodded did he turn around with satisfaction and head towards the kitchen.

Watching the waiter disappear, Hua Shi breathed a sigh of relief, placed the black cat he had been holding in his arms on a chair beside him, loosened his somewhat limp hands, looked at Xie Mingchi, and asked in a low voice:

"Could we be fooled? The dishes the waiter just announced are mostly meat dishes."

When Xie Mingchi heard her question, he was stunned, as if he didn't expect her to ask this question.

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