Transmigration: The Little Chef Calls The Shots-Chapter 1415 - 234. Another Incident (31)

The chubby-faced man nodded impatiently. Lin Yuan went on to ask, "Then, dear customers, 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 mention flies, there was no dirt to be seen. It was strange indeed. Even the Drunken Immortal Tower sometimes 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 men didn’t notice anything, but the two refined men seemed to vaguely sense that something 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 meal, indicating that the fly must have come from the kitchen, right?" The chubby-faced man agreed, "Yes, it came 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 come from?" The chubby-faced man stammered, "Well, it fell in the hall, nobody noticed, and it just flew in!" The others at his table echoed in agreement. However, this time there was no need for Lin Yuan to speak, as customers 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 come 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 abdomen 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 gentlemen still not understand?" The men swallowed hard. Who would have thought Lin Yuan would observe a fly so meticulously? In fact, these men had miscalculated today. If it would have been any other noble daughter from any family in the Capital city, this scheme 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 mentioning 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 men 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 men complained loudly, "Just because you say the fly is raw, it is raw? No way, we ate something 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 something terrible!" "Right, right, a fly alone couldn’t have made him this uncomfortable! Could there be something else in the food?" Lin Yuan’s gaze slightly darkened. Could these men have another trick up their sleeve? Lost in thought, the men 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 something in the food, she couldn’t let them leave now. If, as she suspected, these men 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 argument of the troublemakers, Lin Yuan specifically instructed to bring several doctors, which left the men 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 Yamen to fetch Sir Jingzhao. "Such an incident at Dong Tian naturally has to go through the Yamen. Have Sir Jingzhao come 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 mentioning the Second Prince, just the stature of Yan Ruchun’s father, Yan Xiangkai, in the Capital city, wasn’t something ordinary people could compare with. Though the Yan family was now in business, with a member like Consort Liu, the Second Prince’s mother within the family, and other relatives holding official positions in the government, 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 someone else.