Half a month later, a group of seven or eight people entered the restaurant again to eat.
The waiter, who was already a habitual offender, saw that the other party was a stranger, so he used the same trick again and ordered a table full of half-cooked food for them. The shopkeeper then deliberately overcharged them when the bill came.
I thought this group would just curse at me like everyone else, but they showed me their official token and said, "Someone is suing your store for cheating customers, deliberately cooking food half-cooked and then recycling it, and maliciously raising prices to gouge customers."
We have just personally verified it, and now the evidence is irrefutable, so surrender!"
The shopkeeper, the waiter and the strong man standing at the door protesting were caught on the spot.
When the yamen runners broke into the kitchen, the proprietress was enjoying the roast chicken and big piece of meat that had just been collected. She thought they were the shopkeeper and the waiter who had come in, so she opened her mouth and invited them to come and eat without even turning her head.
After a long time of no movement behind him, he turned around to look, but when he turned around, he saw that the people standing at the door were all officials, so he turned around and was about to run.
The officer who had been keeping an eye on her stepped forward and pinned her to the ground.
Seeing this, the rest of the chefs and helpers had no choice but to surrender. In the end, everyone in the restaurant was taken back to the yamen, except for the old lady who went out to the Buddhist temple to burn incense.
When the old lady came back in the evening, she found that her restaurant was sealed everywhere.
Although she was illiterate, she had lived in the capital for so many years and had seen seals before, and her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
She knew her family's situation very well. Could it be that she had offended an important person this time?
With the only maidservant by her side, she carefully crawled in through a dog hole at the corner door. She wanted to sneak into the room to find the box where she hid her silver, but she didn't expect the room to be in chaos. Even the secret chamber under her bed was turned upside down.
"It's over, it's really over now." The old woman with gray hair and a trembling gait suddenly knelt on the ground and muttered in despair.
Originally, she thought that after getting the money, she could find someone to ask about family matters. At the very least, she could use some connections to let her see her son and then think of a solution.
But in the current situation, let alone saving his son, it would be difficult for him to even survive.
Although she has been in the capital for so long, the old woman is usually mean and has offended many people. Now that her family is in trouble, there is no one willing to help.
It was late at night and there was no one around. The old woman had nowhere to go, so she simply stayed in the restaurant, preparing to go into the city at dawn tomorrow to check on her son's whereabouts, and then slowly think of a solution.
But in the middle of the night, the master and servant suddenly heard someone outside the room.
She thought that the police had come to arrest her, the one who had escaped the net, so she quickly hid under the bed.
But I didn't expect to hear someone outside say:
"Boss, this restaurant has been searched like this, is there really any money left?"
The man called the eldest brother swore confidently, "There must be more. I heard that the old woman in this house is the most mean-spirited. People like her are the best at hiding silver. She was away during the day, so she must not have had time to take the silver. If we look carefully, we will definitely find the silver that the old woman hid."
"Then, what places should we look for?"
The eldest brother thought for a moment and said, "It could be under the beams, the cabinets, or even under the bed. This restaurant has been sealed off by the government. We should just keep searching and we'll definitely find it."
"Boss, you're wise. Let's start looking from the innermost room! Most elderly people like to live in the inner rooms."
The old woman was frightened by the noise outside the house. She shivered and shrank back. When she heard the footsteps outside the door going away, she hurriedly asked the maid to help her go out and escape.
In order to avoid making any noise, she didn't even take her crutches, and prepared to crawl out through the dog hole she came in through in the dark.
Those people are obviously bandits who came to rob money. If they catch me, I might be harmed by them since I have no money now.
After the old woman crawled out of the dog hole, she didn't even care about the maid behind her, and ran forward in a panic, rolling and crawling, without noticing Yuntian and Shitou who were looking at her in such a miserable state with a look of satisfaction on their faces.
"Boss, this old hag is so heartless. After all, the maid has taken good care of her for so long. Now that she is in great need of someone, she actually abandons her like that." Shitou spat on the ground.
Yun Tian looked coldly at the figure that was about to disappear into the darkness and said, "This is nothing. The evil she has done is nothing compared to this."
"Huh? How does the boss know so much about this family?" Shi Tou asked in confusion. He thought that what they did today was just to vent their anger from that day.
But I heard Yuntian say: "How can I not understand the enemy who killed my father and mother?"
"What……"
Half a month passed. The old woman had no relatives in the capital and did not dare to go back to the restaurant. In addition, the prices in the capital were high. The little money she had, including the few taels of silver she got from selling her maid, had long been spent. However, she still did not know where her son and his family were being held.
The owner and his family in the prison originally thought that they would be released at most by being fined, but now that the restaurant has been closed, they are still staying in prison, and the case has even become more complicated.
During the interrogation today, the officer even asked about the death of his elder brother and sister-in-law.
Although they had done this secretly at the beginning and so many years had passed, he was still uneasy and felt that he might not be able to get through this time.
Sure enough, the police did not disappoint him. Within two days, they caught the thugs he had hired to pretend to be bandits and kill his elder brother and sister-in-law.
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