Then a few people with pointed faces and monkey-like features stepped forward and said, "Yes, we bought it too. We felt there was something wrong with it at the time. After eating it, we felt uncomfortable in our stomachs. We never thought it was because the stuff was unclean."
However, some people believed Yin Lan and stood up to refute her, saying, "Everyone saw the items clearly when they bought them. They were all clean. You can't go against your conscience and call black white."
They started arguing immediately, neither willing to give in.
Chen Yourun blocked Yin Lan's way.
He spoke for a long time before finally speaking, quieting everyone down.
But how could people who were arguing heatedly at the scene listen to him?
Until Chen Yourun shouted loudly, the powerful sound emanating from the bottom of his abdomen instantly silenced the noisy and bustling scene.
The people present looked at each other, their voices gradually fading until they all fell silent and looked at Chen Yourun.
Chen Yourun looked at the man who had initially caused trouble and asked, "Of all the food you bought, only two pork hocks were left?"
The man tilted his head back and said, "Yes."
Chen Yourun smiled and said, "According to what you just said, you bought a total of 4 catties of meat from here. Just you and your wife ate 4 catties in one meal?"
Leaving aside the fact that the quantity is enormous, and whether anyone can finish it, what's more, given what this man just said...
The man was momentarily speechless at the question, but he quickly found a reason and became quite assertive.
"It's only 4 pounds. I could eat 6 or 8 pounds if you gave me that. Why can't I eat more? Can't I have a bigger appetite?"
The man sneered, thinking that the other party's way of picking a fight was really low-level.
Chen Yourun laughed.
“But you just said that your family was very poor, that you were a poor peasant who carried your belt to buy food, buying 4 catties at a time and eating it all. You really were poor.”
The man was stunned by the sarcastic remark and his face turned red.
The people around them also realized that this man was unreliable and that his words were clearly untrue, so their attitudes began to lean towards the "Liangfen Xishi" (a type of cold noodle dish).
There were poor people present; even if they weren't poor themselves, everyone had a poor relative.
Truly poor people will indeed tighten their belts to buy meat, but they won't buy offal; they'll buy fatty meat, pork fat, and pork back fat.
Okay, even if someone heard about the fame of pig offal and wanted to buy some to try, it's impossible to buy 4 pounds at once and eat it all in one meal. That's just too unbelievable.
"Then...then...then we didn't finish it in one meal, I remembered wrong," the man hurriedly changed his story, trying to save face. "We didn't finish it in one meal, we ate it for two or three days."
Now you're out of options, aren't you?
Yin Lan almost laughed. If they wanted to find fault, couldn't they have found someone with a better brain? This person was full of lies and his story was full of holes.
She stepped forward.
"But according to what you just said, your wife vomited and had diarrhea immediately after eating it. Then I have to ask you, if she felt unwell immediately after eating it, why did you continue to eat it? Even for two or three days in a row?"
Yin Lan's playful tone made everyone around her burst into laughter. The man's face flushed red, completely unprepared for the fact that he had been wrong whether he went forward or retreated, and had been thoroughly outmaneuvered by this couple.
But he still thought of a rebuttal: "If we feel unwell after eating something, we can't immediately determine that it's your food that's the cause. So it wasn't until two days later that we discovered it was caused by your unclean offal, which almost killed my wife."
That makes some sense.
The people around them began to waver again, turning their attention back to Yin Lan and Chen Yourun.
Yin Lan smiled, her bright and radiant appearance dazzling those around her. What a beautiful and charming woman! No wonder she is Xi Shi.
Good-looking people have this advantage; even without saying a word, they can make people believe them to some extent.
"Since you discovered the problem was with pig offal on the second day, why didn't you come looking for it then? Why did you wait until the fifth day, which is today, to come?"
The man hesitated for a moment before understanding Yin Lan's meaning.
Yes, why? He couldn't even figure it out himself, because his orders were to come and cause trouble today.
Yin Lan smiled and said, "Let me tell you. The person who asked you to do this probably only considered it as his second step. So he asked you to come to me to buy pig offal beforehand, and then he tried to implement his first step plan. But the first step failed, so he asked you to come. In the end, even he didn't consider the time difference. As for you, you are just someone who follows orders, so naturally you can't answer this question clearly."
The man, enraged that he had been seen through, retorted, "Nonsense! There's no one behind this! Don't try to scare me..."
Yin Lan interrupted him, "Where did you hear the phrase 'alarmist'? Do you even know what it means? Have you ever been to school and read books?"
People around him laughed. "He's just a petty hoodlum. He's never even touched a pen, let alone studied. I wonder where he heard such elegant words."
Yin Lan smiled. This person is a typical example of self-destruction.
The man began to stammer, "You...you...who said that just because I haven't been to school, I can't say those four words? Who do you look down on? Your own things are having problems, and you're still rambling on about other things."
"Don't think that just because you're trying to dodge the question here, I'll fall for your trick and let this matter go. No way, let me tell you, if you don't pay me back today, this isn't over between us."
"Now I don't want 200 taels anymore, I want 500 taels! If you don't give me 500 taels, I'm not leaving today."
Yin Lan also became serious and looked at the people around her. "Everyone heard it. This person is clearly here to cause trouble. I can assure you that everything my family sells is absolutely clean and there is no way he could have the problem he mentioned."
The man picked up the remaining pig's trotters and pointed to the things on them, saying, "Look, these are worms. You're still lying through your teeth. If you don't admit it, I'll report you to the authorities and you'll be in big trouble."
Chen Yourun picked up the pig's trotter, then picked up the worm, and suddenly laughed.
"Everyone come and take a look, is this really a bug?"
The man's expression changed, but then he remembered the matter of the insects. The shopkeeper had personally handled it, so there was no way anything could have gone wrong. He felt relieved again.
Chen Yourun showed the braised pig's trotters to the onlookers, and their expressions became very complicated, their gazes towards the man filled with complex disdain.
The man then realized something was wrong.
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