Chapter 1415: 234. Another Incident (31)
The chubby-faced man nodded impatiently. Lin Yuan went on to ask, “Then, dear custors, have any of you seen a fly in the grand hall of Dong Tian?” No! The diners in the hall shook their heads one after another, not to ntion flies, there was no dirt to be seen. It was strange indeed. Even the Drunken Immortal Tower sotis had one or two flies that slipped through, yet Dong Tian’s hall was devoid of them. This was witnessed by everyone. Even if those troublemakers told bold-faced lies, it would be impossible to fool anyone. The two boorish n didn’t notice anything, but the two refined n seed to vaguely sense that sothing was amiss. They wanted to speak up but didn’t know what to say. All they heard was Lin Yuan chuckling and saying, “You didn’t find this fly while eating, only halfway through the al, indicating that the fly must have co from the kitchen, right?” The chubby-faced man agreed, “Yes, it ca from the kitchen!” “You all should know that our dishes are covered when served, so nothing could have fallen in on the way here. But if you say it fell in while the dish was being stir-fried, this fly would have been cooked along with the braised pork.” Lin Yuan pointed her chin at the dead fly, “However, based on the color of this fly, it is clearly raw. It must have fallen in here in the hall. So, where did the fly in the hall co from?” The chubby-faced man stamred, “Well, it fell in the hall, nobody noticed, and it just flew in!” The others at his table echoed in agreent. However, this ti there was no need for Lin Yuan to speak, as custors who could no longer bear it and had figured out the truth spoke up: “What fly? None of us in the grand hall saw a fly. How co only you did?” “They say flies are drawn to stink, perhaps this fly preferred these few people! Ha ha.” With everyone mocking and jeering at them, the troublemakers’ faces twitched angrily as they shot glares all around. But with Magistrate Pingxi presiding over them, nobody was afraid. Seeing that they still refused to admit anything, Lin Yuan shook her head secretly and pointed to the fly: “Since you still refuse to admit it, let’s examine the fly. Look, one wing is normal, and one is broken and bent forward over its body. Also, its abdon is clearly much flatter. What does this tell us? It indicates that the fly was swatted dead before it fell in. Heh, I’ve said it so clearly, do you gentlen still not understand?” The n swallowed hard. Who would have thought Lin Yuan would observe a fly so ticulously? In fact, these n had miscalculated today. If it would have been any other noble daughter from any family in the Capital city, this sche might have succeeded. Unfortunately, Lin Yuan grew up in the Lin family’s stronghold, and more than flies and mosquitoes, she had dealt with frogs, toads, and snakes. Without Lin Yuan ntioning it, those present truly hadn’t noticed that a dead fly looked like this. The nearby diners couldn’t help but move closer to see the fly, finding it was indeed so. Hey! Indeed! But the troublemaking n now looked displeased—how could things not unfold as they had anticipated? The course of events was now clear, but these few still stubbornly refused to admit anything. One of the more refined n complained loudly, “Just because you say the fly is raw, it is raw? No way, we ate sothing unclean here today. If we feel unwell, where can we seek justice?” “Oh, my stomach!” Lin Yuan, keen-eyed, noticed that after this person finished speaking, he quickly kicked the man next to him. Then, very cooperatively, the kicked man groaned, clutching his stomach with a pained expression. Now the group had more to argue about, “Regardless of how the fly got in, now that we’ve eaten your food, we’ve started feeling pain in our stomachs. You need to give us an explanation!” “My friend has the most delicate constitution; he can’t eat anything dirty at all. Now that his stomach hurts this much, it must be because he ate sothing terrible!” “Right, right, a fly alone couldn’t have made him this uncomfortable! Could there be sothing else in the food?” Lin Yuan’s gaze slightly darkened. Could these n have another trick up their sleeve? Lost in thought, the n were already shouting and going out to find a doctor. Chilled to the core, Lin Yuan quickly had the doorman stop them. Regardless of whether there was sothing in the food, she couldn’t let them leave now. If, as she suspected, these n had caused all the trouble, then they must have evidence on them that they hadn’t yet had the chance to destroy. If they remained under her watchful eye, it would be impossible for them to get rid of the evidence. “Shopkeeper Liu, go call for a doctor! Get the best one in the city, and call for several!” To block the argunt of the troublemakers, Lin Yuan specifically instructed to bring several doctors, which left the n speechless. However, the refined man who tried to run out anxiously had his hands hidden in his sleeves, scared to reveal anything. Lin Yuan knew clearly; he really wanted to dispose of the evidence under the pretext of finding a doctor. Her gaze shifted, and Lin Yuan had a server go to the Yan to fetch Sir Jingzhao. “Such an incident at Dong Tian naturally has to go through the Yan. Have Sir Jingzhao co here. If it is our fault, we will surely compensate properly. But if it isn’t, then we need the Sir to judge for us.” She deliberately said this for the troublemakers to hear, but they clearly weren’t taking it seriously. Lin Yuan understood that the person behind them was of a higher rank than Sir Jingzhao. Who could it be? Drunken Immortal Tower? Possibly. Even without ntioning the Second Prince, just the stature of Yan Ruchun’s father, Yan Xiangkai, in the Capital city, wasn’t sothing ordinary people could compare with. Though the Yan family was now in business, with a mber like Consort Liu, the Second Prince’s mother within the family, and other relatives holding official positions in the governnt, their family indeed ranked above Sir Jingzhao. No matter what their status was, as long as it was under Sir Jingzhao’s jurisdiction, everyone was treated equally. She had to seize the opportunity and prevent these people from tarnishing the reputation of Dong Tian that she had worked so hard to establish! While waiting for the doctors and Sir Jingzhao to arrive, Lin Yuan also asked everyone to keep a close watch on the troublemakers. Additionally, everyone kept their distance from them, in case they had brought accomplices who might take advantage of the chaos to secretly pass the evidence to soone else.
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