Before Wen Xu could say anything...
Song Xia continued, "The dishes you mentioned were clearly ordered. Our prepared dishes today don't include freshly fried crispy pork or vegetable and tofu soup. Regardless of your family background, our dishes are all prepared at the same time and sold out quickly. If there were a problem with the food to the point of making people sick, how could the others be completely unaffected?"
Upon hearing this...
Wen Xu coughed a few times and said, "How would I know why the others are fine? Anyway, it's because I ate your food that my stomach started to feel uncomfortable."
"Son, are you alright? Don't talk to her anymore, sit down and rest."
Mrs. Liang dragged a chair over for him to sit on.
Wen Xu coughed and waved his hand.
Although he was a scholar who could not kneel before an official, he could not sit.
Liang had no idea about any of this and simply pressed him down.
Wen Xu quickly stood up.
The town magistrate said in a loud voice, "Wen Xu, it's alright. If you're not feeling well, just sit down for a while."
"Thank you, sir."
Wen Xu cupped his hands in greeting and sat down with a clear conscience.
His classmate brought it back a quarter of an hour later.
The town magistrate sized him up as he asked, "Who goes there?"
Wen Xu's classmate calmly replied, "Sir, my name is Song Jiang, and I am a scholar studying at Zhang's private school."
His clothes were better than Wen Xu's, but they were only about 50% new.
It's obvious that their family isn't well-off.
The town magistrate pointed at Wen Xu and asked, "Do you know him?"
Song Jiang nodded: "I know him. His name is Wen Xu. He was my classmate. We even had dinner together today."
Listen to him finish speaking.
The town magistrate looked directly at him and asked, "Did Wen Xu feel unwell as soon as he left Song's Fast Food Restaurant today?"
"right!"
Song Jiang responded, "When I saw Wen Xu with cold sweat on his head and clutching his stomach looking like he was in a lot of pain, I immediately took him to the clinic I usually go to and then notified his family. I only left after his family arrived."
Song Xia remarked from the side, "They arrived quickly enough."
She had barely finished speaking.
Song Jiang said, "You don't know this, but Wen Xu's parents work in town and his two younger sisters are apprentices in an embroidery shop, so they came shortly after I notified them."
"I see."
"Sir, please continue with your question."
Song Xia did not forget that the town magistrate was asking questions.
The town magistrate immediately asked, "Song Jiang, what did you eat before you went to Song's Fast Food Restaurant with Wen Xu?"
"Grilled meat skewers."
Song Jiang explained, "It's like this: Wen Xu saw that the kebabs were grilled to a golden brown color and thought they looked delicious, so he asked me to go up and buy six kebabs together. We each ate three kebabs."
Their family wasn't well-off, but they were quite willing to spend money on food.
The town magistrate continued, "He was fine after eating the barbecue skewers, but Wen Xu's stomach started hurting after eating food from Song's Fast Food Restaurant?"
Song Jiang nodded.
Song Xia couldn't remember where there were any barbecue skewers in town.
She spoke up, "Do you remember the location?"
Song Jiang and Wen Xu both shook their heads.
Wen Xu originally thought that Song Xia had no way to deal with them, but to his surprise, she suggested that they induce vomiting.
His face darkened instantly: "You think I'm not suffering enough? Are you trying to kill me?"
"that is!"
Song Jiang glared angrily at Song Xia.
Song Xia said loudly, "If I don't do this, how will I know if you're lying? After all, you can't even tell me where that barbecue stall is."
"You wish!"
The Liang family and the others disagreed.
Song Xia then said, "If you don't agree, then go outside and explain things clearly. Don't let everyone think that Wen Xu's stomach upset was caused by our fast food restaurant..."
"impossible!"
The Liang family shouted in unison, as if they had practiced.
Song Xia stopped talking to them and turned to the town magistrate, asking, "Sir, what do you say?"
"Induce vomiting!"
The town magistrate agreed for two reasons: first, he could tell that Wen Xu and his group had a problem; second, he had also eaten the food prepared by Song Xia and his group more than once, and had never had any problems with it.
Fang said angrily, "Sir, how could you aid and abet the wicked? My son's health is so poor..."
"Someone, fetch two more doctors!"
The town magistrate sent for two more doctors, so now with four doctors on duty, surely Wen Xu would be alright.
He did this for another reason: he planned to have them show it to Wen Xu after they arrived.
It has been confirmed that inducing vomiting is not a major problem.
The town magistrate had them prescribe medicine to induce vomiting in Wen Xu and Song Jiang.
"I won't induce vomiting!"
Wen Xu stubbornly refused to drink.
In full view of everyone, Song Xia grabbed his collar, pulled him over, pressed him against a pillar, and poured the medicine into his mouth.
"You brat, how dare you! Let go of my grandson right now!"
Even after Liang shouted for Song Xia, she didn't let go of Wen Xu.
The Liang family and their entire group rushed over.
It was at this time that...
Song Xia dislocated Wen Xu's jaw.
"You, you..."
Liang was so angry that she couldn't speak.
Song Xia fed the remaining medicine in the bowl, and then poured some more in because she felt it wasn't enough.
When Liang and the others tried to stop her, she said, "You're all in such a hurry, do you know something and are afraid that things will be exposed?"
"What nonsense are you spouting!"
Fang said, clenching her hands.
"Whether that's true or not, you yourselves know."
With a forceful movement, Song Xia put Wen Xu's dislocated jaw back in place.
Wen Xu didn't dare to say anything more this time. He took several steps back and stopped when he was some distance away from Song Xia.
He had intended to hold back from vomiting, but he overestimated himself.
As soon as Song Jiang vomited, he couldn't hold it in any longer and squatted down to the side, vomiting violently into the prepared wooden bucket.
He somewhat regretted doing that.
After they vomited, the town magistrate ordered the coroner to examine them. The examination revealed that the kebabs Wen Xu ate had a problem, while those Song Jiang ate were fine.
Song Xia covered her nose and stepped forward to take a look, then returned to her original position and said, "Wen Xu, how can you eat such rotten meat? Has your nose gone numb and your sense of taste gone too?"
"The stall owner used so many seasonings, how could I smell or taste them?"
Wen Xu vomited again as soon as he finished speaking.
Song Xia stepped forward and said, "Sir, does this prove our fast food restaurant's innocence?"
"Um."
The town magistrate nodded.
Song Xia continued, "Sir, I want to sue Wen Xu and his gang for damaging the reputation of our fast food restaurant..."
This little girl is not to be trifled with.
The town magistrate accepted the case and, after questioning the suspects, ordered Wen Xu and Song Jiang to stand in the place where they usually executed criminals in their town to clarify the matter, and ordered the other person to compensate Song Xia with five taels of silver.
Five taels of silver.
Where would he get so much?
Song Jiang protested, "Sir, this has nothing to do with me! Wen Xu invited me, and he told me that if anyone at the private school asks, I should say he got food poisoning at Song's Fast Food Restaurant, which is why he didn't come to school. Oh, and I just remembered something..."
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