The place was bustling with noise and filled with delicious aromas.
Zhou Yang entered high-speed operation mode, quickly stirring and flipping the food, while Xu Yao took over the task of packing and handing things over.
Business was booming, and everything seemed to be going so smoothly.
Just then—
"oops!"
A piercing scream suddenly shattered the lively atmosphere!
The crowd in line stirred and turned to look in the direction of the sound.
There was an old woman dressed in a floral dress, holding a little girl who looked about four or five years old. Her face was pale and her voice was trembling.
"My dear girl! My dear girl, what's wrong?! Don't scare Grandma!"
Everyone looked closely and saw that the little girl's face had turned blue and purple, and her eyes were rolling back.
She clutched her throat in vain with her small hands, seemingly unable to breathe and unable to make a sound!
"Did he choke?!"
Someone exclaimed in surprise.
When Xu Yao saw this, her heart jumped into her throat, and her face turned pale.
She instinctively shouted, "Call 120 quickly! I'll go online and look up how to provide first aid!"
As she spoke, she reached for her phone.
"Why call 120! By the time the ambulance arrives, my granddaughter will be dead!"
The old woman slapped Xu Yao's phone away, then turned around abruptly, pointing at Zhou Yang and yelling insults.
"It's all your fault! What kind of rubbish did you sell?! It made my granddaughter sick! You have to pay me back! You absolutely have to pay me back!!"
She cried and screamed while holding her child tightly, even blocking people around her who wanted to help.
That attitude clearly showed they wanted to cling to Zhou Yang!
Zhou Yang's heart skipped a beat as he looked at the girl's increasingly pale face.
Is this old woman trying to extort money from me?!
But saving lives is the priority right now!
He didn't have time to argue with the old lady; he rushed forward in one stride!
"What are you doing?! Don't touch my granddaughter!"
The old woman screamed and tried to stop her.
Zhou Yang ignored her completely, snatched the girl away with lightning speed, and hugged her from behind.
He quickly adjusted his posture, making a fist with one hand and placing the side of his thumb against the girl's upper abdomen, above her navel and below her sternum, while his other hand tightly gripped the fist.
Heimlich maneuver!
The next second, Zhou Yang suddenly exerted force in his arm, rapidly thrusting inward and upward.
once!
twice!
three times!
"puff--"
With a soft sound, a round pebble, still covered in sauce, was ejected from the little girl's mouth and fell to the ground.
"Cough cough... cough cough cough..."
The blockage was expelled, fresh air rushed into her lungs, and the little girl coughed violently.
We're saved!
The pebble flew out, rolled a few times on the ground, and got covered in dust.
The little girl was so frightened that she burst into Zhou Yang's arms with a "waaaaa," clutching his clothes tightly with her little hands and crying her heart out. She was so pitiful!
Zhou Yang gently patted her trembling back, his voice soft: "It's okay, it's okay, you'll feel better once you've thrown up, don't cry, don't cry."
However, his raised eyes were devoid of warmth; his gaze was like lightning, shooting straight at the old woman who was still standing there, stunned and unsettled.
"Old man!"
Zhou Yang's voice suddenly turned cold, filled with barely suppressed anger.
"You did this on purpose, didn't you?! You'd risk your own granddaughter's life just to extort money?!"
These words caused another uproar among the crowd who had just breathed a sigh of relief!
"Exactly! He was just stopping me from saving him!"
"Doesn't the little girl know that you can't eat stones? It's all because her parents didn't watch her properly. Can you blame Mr. Zhou for this?"
"That old lady is so wicked, she's trying to extort money from me, isn't she?"
The old lady was startled by Zhou Yang's sharp gaze and the accusations from the crowd.
Then, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, it suddenly jumped up.
"What nonsense are you spouting! It was clearly you who nearly choked my daughter to death with the fried stones you sold! And you dare to accuse me first?!"
"Stop talking nonsense and pay up! If you don't pay me ten thousand or eight thousand today, I'm not done with you! Otherwise, I'll call the police right now and have you arrested, you heartless vendor!"
She insisted that Zhou Yang's snacks were the culprit, clearly determined to extort money from him.
"Pay back? You old hag, you're dreaming!"
Zhou Yang sneered, his anger flaring within him.
Xu Yao looked at the little girl in his arms, crying so hard she could barely breathe, and felt incredibly sorry for her.
She took out a tissue and gently wiped away the little girl's tears and snot, coaxing her softly.
"Sweetie, don't cry. Tell your sister how you choked. Did you accidentally swallow something?"
Perhaps soothed by Xu Yao's gentleness, the little girl raised her head, sobbing slightly.
With tears welling in her eyes, she looked timidly at her grandmother and said in a childish voice.
"Grandma told me to swallow it, but I can't swallow it. My throat hurts so much, waaaah..."
Knowing full well that pebbles should not be swallowed, why did he still make his ignorant granddaughter swallow them?
These words were like a thunderbolt!
The entire scene fell silent for a moment, then erupted into an even more intense discussion than before.
"My God! That old hag made the child swallow stones?!"
"No wonder he wouldn't let anyone touch the child earlier. He was trying to extort money from Boss Zhou by using the child's life. He's so heartless!"
"Call the police! We must call the police! This is blatant murder for money!"
The onlookers' gazes instantly shifted from sympathy for the little girl to contempt and anger towards the old woman!
Those sharp gazes almost pierced through the old woman!
The old lady was completely dumbfounded.
She never expected that her little granddaughter would reveal the truth!
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