Transmigration: The Little Chef Calls The Shots-Chapter 823 - 108 Wang Hong

Lin Yuan looked at him with an amused smile and stood up to comfort him, "Don’t be afraid. With the Boss here, everything can be solved."

The young waiter lifted his tearful eyes to glance at Lin Yuan and, with a sob, sniffed, nodding and saying, "Boss, Boss, why did you only just arrive? The Shopkeeper, the Shopkeeper is going to be beheaded, boo-hoo."

It seemed that the young waiter had been terrified by what the Government Official had just said.

"Rest assured, no one’s beheading anyone." Lin Yuan patted his shoulder gently and reassured him, "We’re here, and we definitely won’t let anything happen to Shopkeeper Wu. Now, tell us what exactly happened."

Perhaps Lin Yuan’s gentle voice had given the young waiter a dose of courage; he sniffled, wiped away his tears, and began to tell his story slowly.

It all started with a common occurrence, a gentleman came to the Fragrant Full Building to dine, but before he could finish his meal, he suddenly clutched his chest, gasping for breath.

The people dining with the gentleman immediately called for a doctor, who diagnosed him with poisoning. Fortunately, the gentleman was not seriously harmed and recovered after taking some medicine. However, the incident of poisoning managed to scare all the diners in the Fragrant Full Building. There were no less than a hundred people dining at the time, and the question arose: was the food in the Fragrant Full Building poisoned, or did someone intentionally try to poison that gentleman?

Lin Yuan and Xia Zheng exchanged looks, thinking of the crux of the matter.

But Master Magistrate had not thought of that; he insisted that someone from the Fragrant Full Building was responsible for the poisoning and immediately had Shopkeeper Wu arrested and thrown into the prison.

"Was the food of that gentleman really poisoned? What kind of poison did they find in the food?" Lin Yuan asked gravely.

The young waiter pursed his lips, "Poison? The doctor examined it in front of everyone, there was no poison in the food. Shopkeeper Wu even tasted it himself and he was fine."

"What poison affected that gentleman?" Xia Zheng, who had been silent all this while, suddenly asked.

The young waiter, who still remembered Xia Zheng’s earlier scolding, trembled nervously and shook his head, "I don’t know. The doctor only said it was poisoning, but he did not identify the poison."

No identification of the poison? So was it truly poisoning?

There were many doubts about this matter.

After glancing at the sorry state of the doorway, Lin Yuan turned and asked, "What about the scene outside, what’s that about?"

On mention of this, the thin body of the young waiter trembled slightly, and his voice shook as he said, "That, that was done by the townspeople. Boo-hoo, Master Magistrate has forbidden us from doing business, and all the staff have been driven out. I had nowhere to go, so the Second Shopkeeper let me stay and watch over the shop, but early this morning, I was awakened by rotten vegetable leaves being thrown at me, boo-hoo."

"You were pelted and just hid away to cry?" Seeing that the young waiter was on the verge of tears again, Xia Zheng responded irritably with a sneer, glaring at him disapprovingly. Sure enough, his gaze alone managed to push the waiter’s tears back.

Lin Yuan felt both exasperated and amused as she tugged at Xia Zheng’s sleeve and shook her head at him; the young waiter seemed to be only around fourteen or fifteen, not much older than herself. But, having lived a full life once already, she knew this waiter was still just a child, whose fear facing such an incident was only natural.

The young waiter pouted and sobbed, "I, I don’t want to cry... but, but just as I finished cleaning up outside, those people came back to throw things again. I have to clean up four or five times a day. Once, when I was cleaning, an old lady chased me, trying to pelt me with rotten eggs! Boo-hoo, luckily, I ran fast or my head would be covered in eggs."

Xia Zheng muttered under his breath in annoyance, "If you can’t even outrun an old lady, then you’ve lived these past ten or so years for nothing."

Pfft.

Lin Yuan couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Xia Zheng glanced sidelong at her, his expression asking, At a time like this, you still feel like laughing?

Lin Yuan shrugged, unable to help it, asking for him not to mind!

As the two exchanged silent communication, the young waiter tentatively asked, "Um, both Bosses, since we just fought those Government Officials, they will definitely file a complaint when they go back. Shouldn’t you two go into hiding for a while?"

"Hide?"

Xia Zheng let out a loud exclamation, his eyes bulging in disbelief, as if hiding was something he could never contemplate doing.