TSBFL Chapter 73
Chapter 73.1: 真相
[The Truth]
After a long wait, only after Chen Xing and the others had hastily eaten lunch did Qiu Shi return with the news he had inquired about.
“How is it?” As soon as he saw Qiu Shi coming in, Chen Xing, who had been waiting impatiently, immediately greeted him and asked eagerly.
Looking at the anxious Chen Xing, Qiu Shi also did not keep people guessing. After taking a mouthful of tea, he immediately told the news he had enquired about, “The one who died was the head of a family surnamed Xu in the north of the city. He said he ate dinner in our restaurant and died on the way back. His wife is always rude and unreasonable or shrewish, so after the man died, his wife made a noise, only then did everyone around knew that her man died because he ate our food here.”
Talking to this point, Qiu Shi paused for a moment, looked at Chen Xing whose expression was not so good as he continued: “Next morning, that woman looked for a group of helpers to carry her husband’s body, all the way to the Yamen.”
Chen Xing silently pursed his lips, the ancient news spread slowly, so even if the woman made such a big noise, he has not yet received the news here but how big is this city? It wouldn’t take more than a few days for the news that the woman’s husband had been poisoned by their restaurant to spread throughout the city, so how could they still continue to open this restaurant?
Thinking of this, Chen Xing gritted his teeth. He really can’t understand that this shop opened properly and every ingredient is strictly controlled, how could such a thing happen?
Qiu Shi looked at the ‘not so good expression Chen Xing’ and hesitated whether to say the next words or not.
Fortunately, Chen Xing also knows that now is not the time to act out of anger (let emotions affect one’s decisions), after taking two deep breaths, he calmed down, and looked at Qiu Shi next to him again, seeing that he looked like he was about to say something but then hesitate, he directly said: ”Is there anything else? If there is something, just say it.”
Hearing this, Qiu Shi no longer hesitated, directly speaking out the other news he had inquired about, “Isn’t Little Boss asking us to inquire about what that family really wants? As far as I know, her husband spent a lot of money on medical treatment, and the family doesn’t have any decent livelihood.”
The most likely compensation that that family will want today is the silver money, if we can come up with enough silver money, it’s not impossible for them to give up pursuing our family’s responsibility. Of course, the best way is still to clear our shop from any suspicion, or else it will be troublesome to have something like this happen again in the future!”
Chen Xing nodded in agreement, how could he not know this, this was just the worst plan he had made. If possible, it was best for them to clear the implication with this matter, otherwise this reputation of their restaurant that causes a person to die from eating food here would always follow them. This would greatly affect their business in the future, even if the shop could still remain open.
Just as Chen Xing was brainstorming (drawing on collective wisdom and absorbing all useful ideas) on how to resolve this matter in the most secure way, Qiu Jiu, who had gone out to enquire about the grocery shop that supplied them, also returned.
As soon as he came in, Qiu Jiu saw Chen Xing and said, “Little Boss, I went to check on that shop, their business is the same as usual, there is nothing different, and there are no door-to-door troublemakers.”
Chen Xing frowned, since that was the case, there were two possibilities; one, those who had also taken the poisoned goods had yet to find out, so there was no door-to-door trouble. Two, they were the only family shop that had taken the poisoned goods, so there was no possibility that other shops would go through the same problem.
Chen Xing’s heart skipped a beat, not knowing why, he always felt that the second possibility was the right one.
***
Outside the door of Chen’s small restaurant.
Liao Hui looked at the closed restaurant, looked up at the sky, determined that it should be opening time now, and was a little puzzled as to why this shop was closed?
Liao Hui has not been here for a long time, so this time, he has been constructed his heart for a long time, when he finally gathered up his courage to come; on seeing the small restaurant closed, he first froze for a moment, and then looked for a hawker doing business in the neighborhood to inquire about it.p
“Boss, do you know why that Chen Family restaurant across the street isn’t open today?” As Liao Hui inquired, he bought a packet of melon seeds from this hawker’s stall in passing.
That hawker saw that Liao Hui bought a packet of his things and looked at the clothes he was wearing were worth a lot of money. For him, he inquired about this matter; it made him also very happy to inform him so he cheerfully said: “That shop ah, today, just now is open, but suddenly a group of officials came, took away their bookkeeper, so they closed their shop!”
Liao Hui originally just asked casually, but did not think that he would ask for this kind of news, and immediately the look on his face changed. An image flashed in his mind, the last time he was dragged by a friend to see the market where he met a man who was drunk and bragging, when he thought of that man bragging, Liao Hui’s heart jumped.
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