The shopkeeper took two deep breaths and prepared his words.
Seeing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seemed very satisfied with the work of the medical team, he did not dare to complain.
However, since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has such a good attitude and Lord Fang is also here, I might as well vent all my dissatisfaction today.
He had long since given up on tolerating those bastards in the medical team, who were swindling people everywhere under the banner of the prince!
The shopkeeper bowed first, then said aggrievedly: "Your Highness! Look at this kitchen renovation, it's really good, right?"
“But we paid too much for the kitchen.”
"Not to mention the ingredients, in order to look fresh and meet the requirements of the health team, not counting the ingredients they take away, we discard nearly 20% every day! Although those things that are thrown away may not look good, they are all good things that can be eaten!"
"The discarded vegetables will be collected by the sanitation team at night. As for whether they were really thrown away or taken home, I don't know!"
This shopkeeper was quite thoughtful. Fang Zheng secretly gave him a thumbs up.
Li Yuanzhao looked thoughtful.
The shopkeeper continued, "Also, the kitchen used to be one whole room, so it was very convenient for everything. Now it's divided into so many rooms, and to make a dish you have to open and close several doors repeatedly, which wastes a lot of time."
Fang Zhengyi asked, "Then why don't you just open all the doors?"
The shopkeeper immediately cried, "No, sir! We can't open them. The health team said that if these doors are left open, they will contaminate each other. We must not open the doors. We must close the doors every time we go in and out. Otherwise, we will be fined on the spot if we are caught! They said this is an order from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and we dare not disobey!"
Li Yuanzhao's face gradually turned red.
Upon seeing this, Fang Zheng pressed him, "Keep going. Is there anything else? Tell me everything!"
The shopkeeper observed the expressions of the two people, sorted out his thoughts, and said after a while: "Yes!"
"Sir, you should understand that no matter how well we do, they can always find trouble. No matter what we do, we can't meet the standards that satisfy the health team. In other words, there is no standard for what we should do! So at first, we were fined every few days."
"Later, the sanitation team offered to help us sort out the mess and identify any problems to avoid fines, but they wouldn't work for free. They needed to be paid! Five taels a month for my little shop!"
“If their help is not needed, then the health team will come to check frequently.”
"Your Highness! They are not the original sanitation team at all! They are now just a bunch of fucking hooligans!!! The Fenghuo Gang even helps me take out the trash! They don't know how to do anything else except getting money from me! We have no business to do now! You must teach them a lesson!" As he spoke, the shopkeeper suddenly became emotional and excited.
At this moment, Li Yuanzhao's face was already flushed.
Seeing the shopkeeper crying on the ground, I didn't know what to say.
After holding it in for a long time, he squeezed out a sentence: "I know about this matter, Lao Fang, let's go!"
Fang Zheng nodded slightly, paid the meal fee to the shopkeeper, and walked out of the restaurant with Li Yuanzhao.
When the shopkeeper heard that the two were leaving, he didn't dare to say anything more and had no choice but to see them off. When he reached the door, he stared at their backs with tears in his eyes...
When they got to the street, Li Yuanzhao let out a long sigh and said in disappointment, "Impossible? How could it become like this!"
"Didn't Your Highness say that he would personally take care of everything? How could you not know?" Fang Zheng asked.
Li Yuanzhao stammered, "Yes... I didn't ask them to do so much at first. I just asked them to check whether the kitchens of the restaurants used rotten ingredients."
"Later, the people below came up with suggestions one by one, and I thought there was no problem, so I let them do it."
"But that's not what the medical team told me!"
"What did they say?" Fang Zhengyi asked again.
"It is said that the rectification has been very effective and has not had much impact on the people. It was even discovered that many restaurants and vendors used rotten meat and vegetables to cook and sell dishes, and these have been stopped. Could it be that this palace has done something wrong?"
"Maybe... maybe... the shopkeeper just now has a grudge against the health team?! I can't just listen to him complaining alone. Wasn't the kitchen tidy just now? Everything was spotless!"
"Maybe." Fang Zheng smiled and said, "Your Highness, why don't you suspect that there is something wrong with the medical team?"
"I know the people in the medical team well! I drank and ate with them. How could they turn evil into revenge and deceive me? This is impossible!"
Seeing Li Yuanzhao's confident look, Fang Zheng fell silent.
"Your Highness, since you think so, why don't we go to a few more places and ask what's going on."
"If everyone agrees, then we can be sure that the problem lies with the health team."
Li Yuanzhao said helplessly: "Yes...you are right, let's go and have another look. How could my medical team extort the people?!"
The two then went to several restaurants to inquire, but the answers they gave were all similar.
With each question he asked, Li Yuanzhao's face became darker.
When they arrived at the door of Laoliu Restaurant, Zhang Laoliu saw Fang Zheng coming and immediately went out to greet him warmly.
Fang Zheng got straight to the point and asked, "What about the things I asked you to collect? Have you finished collecting them?"
Zhang Laoliu reacted quickly, ran back to the restaurant, took out two pieces of paper and handed them to Fang Zheng, "Master, everything you want is here!"
"This is the information I collected. It was told to me by the nearby restaurants, as well as the list of the health team members who committed crimes."
Fang Zhengyi handed the paper to Li Yuanzhao, and then asked: "Why are you asking other restaurants? Is there nothing wrong with you?"
Li Yuanzhao lowered his head to look through the documents. Zhang Laoliu glanced at him and whispered, "Master, no one dares to cause trouble here! Since you came last time, I have been using your name! How dare those bastards mess with me!"
"I recently heard that several restaurants in the area had closed down, so I took the opportunity to buy them at a low price. It was all thanks to the master... hehe..."
Those who can come out of the county are all smart people!
Fang Zheng laughed in silence: "Good for you, Old Six! Now go and do your work."
Zhang Laoliu saluted and turned to leave.
At this time, Li Yuanzhao looked at the contents on the paper with a miserable look on his face.
She murmured, "This...this is all true, how is it possible? Why would they lie to me..."
"Your Highness, if you have any questions, why don't we go back to the newspaper office and talk about it slowly?" Fang Zheng said.
Li Yuanzhao had mixed feelings. He was in a good mood in the morning, but he fell to the bottom by noon.
Failed decisions, people’s complaints, and the medical team’s deception, all kinds of negative emotions flooded my mind.
Even Fang Zhengyi's words in his ear were unclear to him, and he replied in a daze: "Let's go...return to the newspaper..."
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