Chapter 373 There is rat poison in the noodles
Bai Xi was carrying a bag in front and back.
The three of them left the airport together and then split into two cars heading in the same direction but to different places.
At that time, in order to facilitate travel, the hotel was booked ten kilometers away from the research base.
Because they didn't rent a car on the road, they planned to arrive near the institute at seven o'clock. Considering that the two had not eaten breakfast, they did not report to the institute immediately, but went to a small noodle restaurant nearby to eat first.
The noodle shop and the research institute are across the street from each other, not very far away, just five or six minutes' walk.
The noodle shop is not very big. It is a small shop under a residential building in the community. The kitchen is at the innermost part of the room, and there are eight or nine tables outside. It is now the peak dining time, and the tables in the store are almost full.
The noodle shop owner was a middle-aged man in his fifties, with a portly build and a clean-shaven head. He had just received a payment when he turned around and saw Lin Ting and Bai Xi walking in. "Welcome, you two can take a look at what to eat first. I'll clear the table in a moment. You can sit here. The pickles on the shelf are free."
The store is not big and there is no separate menu. All the items in the store are posted on the wall.
"What do you want to eat, sister?" Bai Xi asked politely.
Lin Ting glanced at the menu on the wall and said, "I want a bowl of ramen with an egg."
"I want the same thing, too."
"Okay, add eggs to both servings of ramen." The boss shouted to the kitchen after clearing the table, and walked in with the leftover bowls of the guests at the front table.
"Little girls, please sit down first. The noodles will be ready in a while. There are drinks in the cabinet next to you. You can take a look and see what you want to drink." The boss took the initiative to invite Lin Ting to look at the drinks cabinet next to him.
In this kind of small shop, the most profitable item is drinks, which are 10% more expensive than outside.
She didn't have the habit of drinking beverages in the morning, so she just said thank you.
Seeing that Lin Ting didn't order a drink, the noodle shop owner turned back to the kitchen unhappily. After he had taken a few steps, a three-legged horse ran out from the kitchen and stopped directly at the man's feet.
Woo
"I caught the mouse for you and put it next to the trash can in the back room. Where are the cans and cat food you promised me?"
The noodle shop owner didn't understand what Sanhua was shouting, so he just kept walking forward.
Sanhua refused to give in and walked forward, biting the man's trouser leg with her mouth.
"You're not going to default on your debt, are you? Before you caught the mouse, you agreed that if I could help you catch the mouse, you'd give me two cans and two cat strips as a reward. I've already caught the mouse."
The noodle shop owner looked at Sanhua at his feet and kicked it impatiently, "Where did you come from? Get out of here, get out of here, don't get in the way, or I'll beat you to death if you don't get out of here quickly."
Sanhua reacted quickly and jumped to the side to avoid the man's kick.
Sanhua stood beside the table, his body sideways, his hair standing on end. He looked not because he was afraid, but more because he was angry.
"Bad guy, he's really a deadbeat."
"When you called meow to catch mice, you called meow little meow. Now that you don't need meow anymore, you're calling meow dead cat. Meow, you're the shameless dead human being who tricked me into working for you and didn't even pay me."
'Everyone, please don't eat noodles here. The boss is very mean. Not only does he use leftover soup as the base of the pot, he even uses stale meat as the sauce. The meat in that broken pot has been cooked for who knows how many days. A cat wouldn't eat it even if you gave it to it.
The flour scattered on the ground was scooped up and poured into the flour bag. Miao saw that there were not only flies on the flour, but also the feces and hair of dead mice.
"If you don't pay me, I'll expose your secrets."
'No one should have an easy time.'
The calico cat stood on the table and meowed fiercely at the room where no one was, and its wagging tail almost swept into one of the guests' bowl of noodles.
The man stood up instantly, no longer wanting to eat the noodles. "Boss, what's wrong with you? How can I eat it?"
Most of the customers in the noodle shop are regular customers from the nearby community, with only a very small number of tourists from other places.
This place is close to the nature reserve. Although there is a red-headed document from above that no one is allowed to enter the nature reserve without permission, there are always a few fearless tourists who go to the vicinity of the nature reserve to join in the fun, hoping to see if they can encounter golden monkeys and red-bellied pheasants outside the nature reserve.
Only a very small number of tourists choose to stay nearby for the convenience of entering the mountains.
The noodle shop owner forced a smile and apologized, "Sorry, I'll take care of it right now. Please sit down and enjoy your noodles."
"The cat's tail almost fell into the noodles, how can I eat it?" The man looked fierce and angry.
The noodle shop owner continued, "I'll have someone make you another batch."
As the noodle shop owner spoke, he was about to go forward and catch the cat.
The calico cat was agile and immediately dodged the man's outstretched hand. It stretched out its claws and even scratched the man's hand twice.
"Get your dirty hands off meow, you idiot!"
"Don't eat here. I saw some bad guys mix rat poison with flour scattered on the ground and pour it into the newly opened flour. Be careful, you might die from it."
Hearing this, Lin Ting's eyes dropped instantly. This was no longer just dirty or filthy, it was truly fatal.
The noodle stall owner became furious when the cat scratched him, veins popped out on his forehead, and he immediately pounced towards Sanhua. Sanhua was agile and could dodge it, and even gave the noodle stall owner a fatal blow.
Just as the man and the cat were chasing each other, the proprietress who was in charge of cooking noodles in the kitchen came out with two bowls of noodles and placed them in front of Lin Ting and Bai Xi respectively.
Bai Xi picked up the chopsticks on the table, removed the outer packaging and prepared to eat.
Just before the noodles reached his mouth, Lin Ting raised his hand and knocked the chopsticks out of Bai Xi's hand, saying sternly, "Don't eat it."
Lin Ting stood up and looked at everyone in the noodle shop. "Everyone, don't eat this. There's rat hair, rat feces, and even rat poison in the flour."
The moment Lin Ting's voice fell, the entire noodle shop fell silent.
Bai Xi looked at the ramen in front of him with horror. He was just thankful that Lin Ting reacted quickly and he didn't have time to eat it.
After experiencing so many things, Bai Xi believed Lin Ting's words 100%, especially when Xiao Sanhua behaved abnormally just now. However, he couldn't understand what the cat said, so he didn't investigate further into the matter.
The young man who was slurping noodles didn't swallow a mouthful of noodles, but spat them directly into the bowl in front of him. He stood up and looked in the direction of Lin Ting, "Little girl, you are not talking nonsense, are you? I have already eaten half of it. What should I do now?"
Others who were eating, or about to eat, stopped eating and looked in the direction of Lin Ting in confusion, either out of fear or out of curiosity about whether what Lin Ting said was true or not.
However, the moment Lin Ting finished speaking, the noodle shop owner who was chasing the cat stopped and looked in Lin Ting's direction with a fierce look on his face.
The noodle shop owner looked as if he wanted to hit someone. Bai Xi quickly stood up and protected Lin Ting behind him. The calico cat, who was chased by the noodle shop owner to the refrigerator, jumped down and came to Lin Ting, and its animal eyes scanned Lin Ting curiously.
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