Su Xiaoning stared intently at Ru Xing, who was still hurling insults.
Ru Xing was startled, but she still forced herself not to show any weakness in front of Su Xiaoning.
She pointed at the fish in Su Xiaoning's hand and shouted, "Nonsense! This was clearly picked out from the fish you delivered. If it's not yours, whose is it? I can't believe you would lie like this to shirk responsibility!"
"Really? It's still too early to tell who's lying." Su Xiaoning raised an eyebrow, casually grabbed a live fish from the school, and placed it in front of the restaurant owner along with the dead fish.
“I already told the boss that all the fish we delivered today were pomfret, but this dead fish is clearly a yellow croaker. Everyone can recognize fish, you know the difference between these two types of fish without me having to tell you, right? It’s strange, we clearly delivered pomfret, how come a dead fish turned into a yellow croaker? Miss Ruxing, don’t you have an explanation?”
Su Xiaoning looked at Ruxing with a half-smile, but that faint smile made Ruxing feel uneasy.
"I..." Ru Xing stared wide-eyed at the fish on the ground that were not much different but were two different species, and stammered, unable to speak.
Since Su Qingcai wasn't delivering the fish today, she was distracted and didn't really look at it properly. After a quick glance, she took a similar-looking dead fish from the kitchen, only to find that the fish in the kitchen and the delivered fish were not the same species at all!
Seeing Ru Xing speechless, Su Xiaoning had already guessed what had happened. Her expression gradually turned cold, and she said coolly, "A perfectly good pomfret can't suddenly turn into a yellow croaker. This dead fish of unknown origin was picked out by you, Miss Ru Xing. After picking it out, you started cursing without even asking any questions. Could it be that this whole thing was your doing, Miss Ru Xing?"
"No! I didn't!" Ru Xing broke out in a cold sweat and subconsciously retorted, but her flustered appearance made it easy for anyone to see that she was lying.
When the truth came out, the restaurant owner was shocked and felt that his daughter was a complete stranger.
"You! How could you do something so foolish!"
Sister-in-law Zhang watched the whole thing from the side and muttered, "From the moment we arrived, Miss Ruxing has been giving Xiaoni a cold shoulder, and we haven't said anything. Why are you, a young lady, causing trouble for her? Just because Xiaoni's brother is usually nice to her and he didn't come today doesn't mean you can take your anger out on Xiaoni!"
To the restaurant owner, these words sounded as if Ru Xing was jealous of the man she admired's sister.
The restaurant owner was furious, trembling with rage.
"I raised you to this age, teaching you to read and behave, not so you could compete with others for favors! If you had just thought about it, that would have been one thing, but how could you do such a despicable thing!"
The restaurant owner angrily berated Ruxing, who was sobbing uncontrollably but dared not argue back. After a tirade, the restaurant owner still felt it wasn't enough and shouted at the waiter, "Someone, take the young lady to her room! She's not allowed to come out for the time being, so she can learn proper manners!"
Upon receiving the order, the servants swarmed forward and dragged Ruxing back to her room. Ruxing cried and screamed all the way, but she was still pushed and shoved into the room.
The farce came to an end. Su Xiaoning had no interest in watching Ruxing being lectured by others. After accepting the restaurant owner's apology, she returned to Carp Village with Zhang Dasao.
Although Su Qingcai was angry, he felt uneasy being away from Su Xiaoning for so long, so he still obediently went to greet her when she returned.
Aunt Zhang was still concerned about the seemingly unusual relationship between Su Qingcai and Ruxing. Fearing that Su Qingcai might harbor resentment if Ruxing was imprisoned, she pulled Su Qingcai aside and told him everything that had happened in the restaurant.
Upon hearing this, Su Qingcai couldn't help but laugh out loud.
The news of his non-existent ambiguous relationship with Ru Xing had just reached Su Xiaoning's ears when Ru Xing got into trouble so quickly. It seems that Su Xiaoning was not indifferent to this matter at all. Perhaps everything that happened in the restaurant was orchestrated by her to suppress Ru Xing!
Yes, that must be exactly what he thought.
Su Qingcai became more and more excited as he thought about it, and was in a great mood. He even stopped finding Zhang Dasao's words, which told him to take good care of Ruxing, offensive.
After Aunt Zhang left, Su Xiaoning asked curiously, "What did Aunt Zhang say to you? Why are you so happy again?"
"It's just a small matter, you don't need to know," Su Qingcai said casually, unable to suppress his smile. He was completely different from the man who had thrown a tantrum that morning.
Su Xiaoning gave Su Qingcai a strange look, shook her head, and remained noncommittal.
This person is really strange; one minute he's unhappy, the next he's happy. I can't figure him out.
...
Su Qingcai and Su Xiaoning reconciled. Now that Ru Xing was imprisoned, he could no longer see that annoying woman, so he continued to help the villagers of Carp Village deliver fish to the restaurant as usual. Su Xiaoning was very satisfied, and their relationship was even better than before.
The fish sent from Carp Village to the restaurants were all carefully selected by Su Xiaoning; they were top-quality ingredients. The restaurant owners were very satisfied and promoted them extensively among their peers, creating a craze for buying Carp Village fish in Qinghe Town. Su Xiaoning was too busy to handle everything herself, so she asked some villagers to sell the fish in town, which also worked very well.
These peaceful and happy days lasted for a while, until one day, a fisherman from the village returned from town with injuries and collapsed at the village entrance.
The news caused a great uproar in the village. As soon as Su Xiaoning heard the news, she and Su Qingcai rushed to visit the injured villagers.
The villager lay motionless in bed, covered in injuries, struggling to breathe. Su Xiaoning regarded the villager as family, and seeing him beaten to such a state, she was immediately filled with rage.
"Uncle, what exactly happened? Tell me, and I will definitely get justice for you!"
"Sigh, it's no use you going..."
The villager sighed and began to recount his experiences with a sense of helplessness.
It turned out that when he went to Qinghe Town to sell fish that day, the owner of a new restaurant tried to lower the price. The owner, surnamed Wang, had a relative who was a high-ranking official in the capital. He wanted to use his power to gain some benefits by opening a restaurant in Qinghe Town. The villagers, unaware of the implications, insisted on not lowering the price. As a result, Mr. Wang had his men beat him up and thrown him out, but he forcibly kept the fish.
After listening to the villagers recount the whole story, Su Xiaoning's eyes widened, and she was so angry that she couldn't speak.
After a long silence, she gritted her teeth, grabbed Su Qingcai, and rushed out.
"This is outrageous! This is utterly lawless! Let's go find this boss and demand an explanation!"
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