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"Yu Family Sichuan Restaurant? I remember that. It's probably a buffet now, right?"
Wang Yao nodded. "Do you remember anything from when you used to eat at his house?"
"Impression? What impression? It's just an ordinary restaurant."
Wang Yao rephrased the question, "So what do you think is not good about his restaurant?"
If Niu Ling didn't know why Wang Yao was asking these questions before, she had already figured it out. She hesitated for a moment, then lowered her voice and asked, "Wang Yao, is all the trouble your restaurant is going through because of the owner of Yu Family Sichuan Restaurant?"
Wang Yao didn't intend to hide it and admitted directly, "Yes, ever since our family started selling buffets, their family also switched to buffets. In order to steal business, they deliberately lowered their prices. With lower prices, profits are thinner, so in order to make up for it, they can only cut costs. So the vegetables they use are all rotten vegetables that people in the countryside don't want. I didn't make this up; many people on Dingyuan Road know this."
"My God, my God, is this for real? That's so shady!" Niu Ling's eyes widened as she looked around. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, she continued, "Then how can you be so sure that the Yu family is behind your troubles?"
“Because there’s no one else besides his family.” Wang Yao said with certainty, “My mother and I haven’t been living in the county for long. We only have competition with his family. We haven’t offended anyone else, and we’ve never even had a verbal argument. Think about it, if his family can do something like buying rotten vegetables, what else can’t they do?”
Okay, so if that's the case, the Yu family is indeed highly suspicious.
Wang Yao continued, "So I wanted to cause some trouble for his family, so that he wouldn't have time to keep an eye on us."
Ideally, we should kill that bastard in one fell swoop!
Niu Ling completely understands Wang Yao. If she were Wang Yao, she probably wouldn't just cause trouble, but would directly gather a group of friends to go and attack her.
Speaking of friends, Niu Ling recalled a few things.
"I've only been to his house once, and I've never been back since. Do you know why?"
Wang Yao guessed: "It doesn't taste good?"
Niu Ling shook her head, "Their chef is actually quite skilled, but their house is unhygienic, and I can't stand dirt the most."
As he spoke, he frowned, looking quite disgusted.
How dirty is it?
"I remember that time I went to his house I ordered shredded pork with garlic sauce rice. Shredded pork with garlic sauce, oh my god, I actually found sand in it. I don't even know which side dish could have sand in it."
Wang Yao thought for a moment and said, "Wood ear fungus? No, wood ear fungus needs to be soaked, and any sand should be washed away."
“Who knows! Anyway, I felt disgusted at the time,” Niu Ling said, frowning again. “If you’ve been to his shop, you’ll know that there’s a tea mug on his counter. That tea mug, yum~ to be honest, my toilet is cleaner than that tea mug.”
Wang Yao had no appetite in the morning, so she grabbed a hard-boiled egg and went out, but didn't eat it, just put it in her schoolbag. Now her stomach was empty, and seeing Niu Ling's expression as if she were thinking of "poop," she felt nauseous too.
But Niu Ling hadn't finished speaking. She looked around again and then whispered in Wang Yao's ear, "I heard from a friend that she once found two curved hairs in her food while eating at the Yu family's house."
Curly hair? Or human hair?
Seeing that Wang Yao didn't understand, he pulled her closer and whispered in her ear, "It's the hair down there."
Wang Yao felt truly nauseous now, yuck~
Seeing her like this, Niu Ling couldn't help herself either, and vomited.
"What's wrong with you two? Are you feeling unwell?" The Chinese teacher saw that the two of them had been chirping for a while and was about to go over to remind them when she saw that they started vomiting head to head again.
Niu Ling waved her hand, "Teacher, don't worry about us, it'll be done soon."
Wang Yao was exhausted both physically and mentally from one morning self-study session, but fortunately, it was fruitful.
The first class in the afternoon was physical education, but Wang Yao asked for leave because she was not feeling well.
She didn't go to the hospital, but went to the health and epidemic prevention station instead.
"Hello, I want to report a restaurant. Which department should I contact?"
There was no other way; there was no unified hotline for reporting violations at that time, and she didn't have the contact number for the health and epidemic prevention station. Writing a letter would be too slow, so she had no choice but to report it on the spot.
Yu Daqiang, who was grinning from ear to ear, had no idea that trouble was quietly approaching. He was still immersed in the joy of counting his money.
Starting yesterday, he put a large basket of vegetables at the entrance, all of which were the freshest ones he bought from the market. Then he used a loudspeaker to tell passersby that the vegetables used in the restaurant were the same as those in the basket.
This trick was also learned from Liu Xiangmei, but Liu Xiangmei did it to deal with excess vegetables, while he was just trying to make a name for himself.
Although many neighbors still didn't believe it, many students did.
With the Haozailai Restaurant temporarily closed, the number of people coming to Yu Daqiang's house for meals suddenly increased.
After the lunch break ended, Yu Daqiang was happily counting his money. "Haha, great! It feels so good to be the only one in charge. I made over two hundred yuan in just one lunch break, which is almost enough to buy a big restaurant meal. It's tiring, but it's worth it!"
Ma Zhen stuffed a handful of sunflower seeds into her pocket and said with a laugh, "This is nothing. We'll make a lot of money in the future. Alright, I'm going out to talk to those old women!"
Yu Daqiang instructed, "Remember to make it sound serious, so they'll all be scared. Also, subtly mention that Liu Xiangmei has powerful connections at the health and epidemic prevention station. It's normal for a pretty woman to find a powerful backer."
Ma Zhen was unhappy and muttered, "I don't see how pretty she is, you men..."
"Alright," Yu Daqiang interrupted her impatiently. "What are you thinking about? All you hear is how pretty she is. The important thing is to tell others that Liu Xiangmei has connections at the health and epidemic prevention station. If that happens, even if the test results come out in a few days and they say she's fine, how many people will believe it?"
Yu Daqiang couldn't help but laugh out loud just thinking about that scene.
"Alright, alright, go ahead, I need to talk to Old Baozi next door too."
The "talking" they were talking about was not just casual conversation; one of them was spreading false information to smear Liu Xiangmei, and the other was listening to flattery.
The owner of the steamed bun shop next door is surnamed Bao, and everyone calls him Old Baozi. Yu Daqiang likes to chat with Old Baozi the most because he thinks that the man speaks in a pleasant way.
Yu Daqiang was still basking in Lao Baozi's compliments when a woman carrying a child approached the shop entrance. "Is the boss in? Boss~"
Yu Daqiang replied, "There's no food left. Come back tonight."
Honestly, if you're going to eat, why don't you come earlier? It's past mealtime, what are you going to eat? Just go hungry!
Unexpectedly, an old woman suddenly rushed out from behind the woman, stepped forward and started cursing: "Eat your grandma's legs! Who wants to eat your dirty food? We ate at your house for lunch, and now my grandson has an upset stomach. What are you going to do about it!"
Yu Daqiang instinctively retorted, "Impossible! How could my family's food make them sick? Did your child eat something unclean?"
Seeing that Yu Daqiang was still trying to shirk responsibility, the old woman became even angrier and stepped forward to fight him.
At this moment, the child, who had been whimpering, suddenly burst into tears, complaining of a stomachache and needing to poop.
The woman felt sorry for her son and immediately took off his pants.
The next moment, a nauseating smell filled the air in front of Yu Daqiang's shop.
Yu Daqiang was going crazy. What were these people trying to do?
The restaurant owners and employees were all idle at the moment, and when they heard the commotion, they all gathered around.
Hearing the commotion, Ma Zhen ignored her old friends' "talking" and rushed back, trying to drive them away, but was completely overpowered by the old woman.
Wang Yao led the inspectors to Dingyuan Road and saw the commotion from afar. She stopped at the right moment and, under the pretext of fearing retaliation from the shop owners, pointed to the center of the commotion.
"It's that restaurant that's surrounded by a lot of people, called 'Yu Family Sichuan Restaurant.' You guys go ahead first, I... I won't show myself."
Actually, when the inspectors received the report, they were initially worried – was this girl here to cause trouble?
It wasn't until Wang Yao pulled out her student ID from the county's No. 1 High School and began to explain logically and clearly: recently, many students had found sand, hair, and other foreign objects in their food at that shop; the shop was visibly dirty and messy... Most importantly, she could even describe in detail where the owner bought the stale ingredients.
“If I’m lying,” Wang Yao added at the end, her tone resolute, “you can come to the school to find my teacher anytime.”
When it comes to this, especially since it concerns the food safety of many students, the nature of the matter changes. The staff at the health and epidemic prevention station quickly filled out a case filing application form—this matter must be investigated immediately.
As soon as the inspectors approached Yu's Sichuan restaurant, they smelled the nauseating odor.
"Make way, make way!"
Upon seeing someone in uniform, everyone immediately made way for them, making several meters of space.
“What’s going on?” one of the inspectors asked.
Before Yu Daqiang could speak, the old woman burst into tears and began to recount her story, from lunchtime to the boss's attempt to shirk responsibility, shouting everything out loud.
The inspectors looked at each other in surprise, not expecting it to be such a coincidence. They had just received a report and someone had actually gotten food poisoning.
At this moment, the woman holding the child suddenly exclaimed, "Mom, Mom, feel it, isn't Xiaojun even hotter?"
The inspectors standing nearby reached out and touched it; it was indeed extremely hot.
At the same time, another inspector asked, "Was this pile of feces from this child?"
Ma Zhen, who had already been given a good beating by the old woman, eagerly answered, "That's right! You should arrest them right now! Who are they? They urinate and defecate anywhere, and they beat people up at will..."
But the inspectors completely ignored her accusations and instead told the woman holding the child, "Get the child to the hospital right away, quickly, don't delay. Tell the doctor, never mind, we'll send someone to go with you."
Then he loudly told the onlookers, "This child may have dysentery. Everyone, please don't gather here. Dysentery is contagious."
"Huh? How can it be passed on to people?"
"Run! Run! We're going to die..."
Everyone scattered in panic. Although they knew that dysentery was unlikely to kill anyone if treated in time, the moment they heard that the disease was transmissible between humans, a high alert immediately went off in their minds.
Wang Yao, who had just walked over, saw the pile of feces on the ground through the gaps in the crowd. It was bloody stool with red and white color and mucus. Coupled with the child's high fever, it was indeed possible that it was dysentery.
Although she really wanted to see what happened next, Wang Yao, having experienced those three years in her previous life, chose to leave immediately.
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