Chapter 78
Something big happened? Not to mention Xiao Yue, the customers in the store were also attracted by this sentence...
Something big happened?
Not to mention Xiao Yue, even the customers in the store were attracted by these words and looked over, with expressions of surprise, doubt, gossip and curiosity.
"What happened?" Xiao Yue walked over and asked what everyone was thinking.
The man looked anxious, panting, pointing his finger at something and stammering, "Someone at Yanting Noodle House has a problem with the food!"
It was not the peak time for Yueting Buffet at this moment, so there were neither too many nor too few people. I was even more confused when I heard this.
Someone asked: "What does the incident at Yanting Noodle House have to do with Madam Xiao?"
Xiao Yue's eyes flickered slightly, and she heard the man continue -
"They said that Madam Xiao sent someone to drug the noodle shop, which caused the noodle shop staff to have problems! Anyway, Madam Xiao, go and take a look!"
Just one sentence made Yue Ting explode.
"What?!"
"What drug? What drug?"
"How can you talk nonsense like that? Madam Xiao has never left the store!"
Listening to the sounds around him, Xiao Yue frowned slightly, looked at Fang Sanhong and others who came over after hearing the noise, and made up his mind.
"I'll go over and take a look. Sister Sanhong, you guys..."
"I'll go with you." Fang Sanhong took the plate from her hand and handed it to Su Xiaoxiao beside her: "The dishes are all served, you keep an eye on the restaurant."
After Fang Sanhong finished speaking, she walked out first. There was no expression on her face, but one could see the suppressed anger.
Xiao Yue nodded to Su Xiaoxiao and followed.
After walking a few steps, she noticed that many customers followed her out, probably to watch the fun.
Next to Xiao Yue was the man who reported the incident, who was following her and talking at the same time.
"Madam Xiao! I went to see my cousin after dinner here, but he insisted on going to that noodle shop. As soon as I went over, I saw someone lying on the ground. The owner of the noodle shop caught someone who drugged him, and that person said, you ordered it..."
Zhou Xin's voice was trembling and angry, so he was unable to make his words clear all at once. Fortunately, he supplemented it in time.
Xiao Yue could tell from his trust that she smiled and said, "Thank you. Please come and tell me."
The two stores are very close to each other and we can reach them in no time.
Xiao Yue looked up and saw a sturdy man hurriedly carrying a pale-faced person on his back. It turned out to be the person who had something wrong with the food.
The opposite side of the street, which was usually deserted, was now crowded with people. Discussions could be heard constantly, and cries of grief could be heard coming from the middle.
"Madam Xiao is here!"
Someone saw her and immediately made way for her.
Xiao Yue and Fang Sanhong walked in. As they saw the situation of the store clearly, the crying sounds became clearer in their ears.
"…God damn it! How could she do such a thing? How could she have such a cruel heart! Is she just not happy with me making something for her shop? But aren't those things the customers like? I only made this one dish! Not only did I not make any money, but now she is targeting me like this. I can't keep my noodle shop open!"
In the small courtyard of the noodle shop, Mrs. Tao, who had not been seen for a long time, was crying and looked like she was crying because of anger.
On the ground in front of her, a young man in plain clothes was tied up, and a fierce man stood next to him, staring at him.
The young man in plain clothes dared not move, his face was pale and sweaty, and his eyes were full of guilt.
Madam Tao kicked him in anger and said harshly, "She gave you money and you did it against your conscience. Do you know how harmful this kind of thing is? I'm just running a small business. How can she go after the Si family? Didn't they cook so many dishes? Why are they taking it out on me? Don't they have any status or background and only dare to pick on the weak?"
Every word she said made sense, as if she was the biggest victim.
Madam Tao wiped the tears from her face with a handkerchief, raised her eyes and seemed to have just noticed Xiao Yue coming.
"You!" Madam Tao rushed over with her eyes wide open. "You vicious woman, how dare you do this to me! What did I do wrong? You said that others can learn to cook! Now I just made one dish, and you sent someone to my shop to drug it? So Madam Xiao, who is kind and generous in other people's eyes, is this kind of person! I'm afraid that if ordinary people learn to cook and eat at home, you will also come to their homes to poison them!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the onlookers changed.
Xiao Yue withdrew his gaze from the cloth-clothed young man on the ground and looked at her calmly, the clear and pleasant voice he spoke in sharp contrast to her.
"First of all, I never sent anyone to your store to put drugs in it. I don't know him. Secondly, whether this matter is true or not, Madam Tao's words have clearly affected my store and reputation."
After just a few words, the onlookers looked a little relieved. After all, most of them came here on their own.
After talking for a long time, Madam Tao almost fainted. She pointed at the young man in plain clothes on the ground and said, "You don't know him, but he pointed you out! If you didn't do it, how can he say it was you?"
The young man in cloth on the ground trembled, raised his head and looked over, looking extremely flustered.
"Madam Xiao, please save me! We agreed to help you with the matter, but now that it's exposed, you can't just ignore me! I have an old mother and a younger brother to support at home, please save me!"
The young man in plain clothes spoke in a hoarse voice with great emotion, as if he really knew Xiao Yue and had found a life-saving straw.
"I just took the money to do the job. Madam Xiao, don't blame me for being careless. Neither you nor I want the truth to be exposed! But now I really regret it! Madam Xiao, we are in this together. Please save me...ah!"
"Try to say that nonsense again and who will be with you?!" Fang Sanhong suddenly kicked him and made him fall to the ground.
"What are you doing!" Mrs. Tao saw this and shouted, "As expected, you Yueting people are a bunch of snakes and rats! Are you threatening him and not letting him speak? Is there any justice or law left? Look, everyone!"
The people around couldn't help but get agitated upon hearing the noise, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.
Madam Tao cried out in a shrill voice, accusing Fang Sanhong of threatening behavior and Yue Ting of being overbearing and oppressive.
The young man in plain clothes struggled to get up, and said fearfully that he was only doing the work for money...
More and more people gathered around, and the people in the front didn't understand the situation at all, which caused the people coming later to be confused as well.
So somehow, the crowd was suddenly misled and thought that Yue Ting had really done the drugging.
"What's going on? It's actually true?"
"I encountered this kind of thing after learning how to make a noodle dish. I won't dare to learn it again..."
"The food at Yueting Buffet is so delicious, why is the boss such a person?"
"The food is delicious, but the people are not necessarily good people."
"No, can the people behind stop talking nonsense? Madam Xiao said she didn't know the person who drugged her, so they are obviously setting a trap!"
"This Madam Tao is indifferent to her own daughter. Maybe she is the one directing and acting this out herself!"
“…”
Xiao Yue looked around at the chaotic scene led by Madam Tao, patted Fang Sanhong's shoulder, who looked unhappy, and suddenly took a few steps forward.
"What are you going to do!"
Madam Tao, who was originally crying, became alert and stared at her. The fierce man next to her also stood forward.
"What are you afraid of?" Xiao Yue glanced at her, then walked up to the cloth-clothed young man without stopping, and pulled him up while he was still struggling: "You said I ordered you to do it, where is the evidence?"
Xiao Yue looked calm and composed, without any behavior revealing the anger or guilt that he should have.
The surroundings gradually became quiet.
The young man in plain clothes was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "You, you gave me a purse last time, and the purse inside was the money you used to bribe me. Why are you asking me back?"
Purse?
"What kind of purse?" Xiao Yue's eyelids twitched, and as he asked, he already had an idea in his mind.
As expected, the young man in plain clothes said, "A green purse! It's on me, with pear blossoms embroidered on it. You gave it to me, so don't deny it!"
In a flash, Xiao Yue knew what was going on today and glanced at him with an ambiguous smile.
But before he could take any action, Fang Sanhong came forward.
Everyone watched her stretch out her hand and take out a green purse from the tied-up young man in plain clothes.
——The appearance is exactly the same as he said!
There were sounds of people gasping for breath all around. Except for some old customers of Yueting Buffet, many people looked at them with suspicion.
Mrs. Tao laughed angrily and pointed at the purse and said, "Look, isn't this your purse?"
"You haven't even seen it, how do you know it's mine?" Xiao Yue glanced at her, not missing the flash of panic in her eyes.
Xiao Yue snorted lightly, loosened his grip, and let go of the young man in cloth who was being pulled, causing him to fall back to the ground.
He was so calm that people around him were confused. Could this not be Madam Xiao's purse?
Just then, a woman in the crowd exclaimed.
"This is indeed Madam Xiao's purse. I remember seeing it a long time ago, and I even asked her where she bought it..." Seeing that everyone was looking at her, the woman stammered, "But, but she said that someone in the store gave it to her, so I didn't ask."
But these words clearly show that this purse belongs to Xiao Yue.
Madam Tao seized the opportunity and said immediately, "Now we have all the evidence! How can you still argue in front of so many people?"
"Quibbling?" Xiao Yue stared at her with an unchanged expression: "Since I came here, haven't you been the one talking all the time? I'm afraid I haven't said half as much as you have, right?"
"But now that you've given me time to speak, let me finish my speech and give an explanation to the customers, how about that?"
Following these words, the originally noisy scene was subtly controlled by Xiao Yue.
Seeing this, Madam Tao became anxious and wanted to say something else, but Xiao Yue didn't give her the chance at all.
"This purse is indeed mine. I don't deny it." Xiao Yue picked up the green purse, ignored the voices of doubt around him, and said calmly, "It's a pity that there were too many people at the Lantern Festival last time, and it was stolen without my noticing. I didn't expect to see it here again."
I didn't expect, I really didn't expect that something that happened almost ten days ago would have a follow-up.
Xiao Yue gave a smile that didn't reach his eyes, looked at the young man in plain clothes, and asked in confusion but sincerity.
"You said you had seen me, but I have never seen you before. I don't even know your name. In that case, can you tell me on which day and at what time and in what place and under what circumstances I ordered you to do so? And what kind of conversation did we have?"
With so many questions, not only the people around him, but even the young man in plain clothes was unable to react at once.
"I..." He paused for a long time before saying, "My name is Wang Chang. You took the initiative to find me. Yesterday in the alley at midnight, you gave me money and asked me to drug the Yan Ting Noodle House across the street! You said that you didn't like Madam Tao and that she had to pay the price for daring to steal your dishes!"
Xiao Yue listened carefully. When he stopped, she raised her eyebrows and asked, "Really? What drug did I give you?"
"Laxative!" The young man in plain clothes became tough at this time, and said secretly: "You asked me to take more. I have never seen such a cruel person!"
Xiao Yue nodded in agreement: "I asked you to take more, which means there is a large bag of laxatives. So, have you taken all of it?"
"I..." Wang Chang hesitated for a moment, then answered firmly, "Of course not. So many people could die! You said you just wanted to teach Yan Ting Noodle House a lesson, so that people who ate the chicken cold noodles would get into trouble and end up back at your shop!"
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