Transmigrating into a peasant family to fight against the best, leading my parents to earn gold and

Chapter 323 A Murder Occurs and the Person Is Framed

Wu Yu and Shui Sheng spent three days delivering supplies to the restaurant, each morning with a waiter in a horse-drawn carriage.

The new employees quickly memorized the route and were able to deliver supplies to the restaurant independently, so they were no longer allowed to follow along.

With more staff at the pig's trotter shop, business was booming, with a monthly net profit of over a thousand taels of silver. Lin Xiaotang and her father were overjoyed.

The two of them carefully checked the accounts, deducted costs, settled the wages of the shop assistants and female workers, as well as those of Shui Sheng, Wu Yu, and Liu Cai'er, and then the wages of the father and daughter. After deducting these, they still received several hundred taels of silver.

Lin Qingchuan said happily and excitedly, "Tang'er, back when we were still in Qinghe Town, you always said you wanted to open a pig's trotter shop. I thought you were just talking big, so I didn't take it seriously. I never expected that I would open a pig's trotter shop with you without really understanding what was going on, and we actually made so much money. We are really living a good life now."

Lin Xiaotang smiled faintly, "Yes, Dad, we're really living a good life now. As long as we work hard, we can open a branch in the future. We can learn from Manager Su and hire people to help manage it. The manager will direct the employees to work, and we just need to wait to collect the money."

Waiting to collect the money is out of the question, since they sell braised pig's trotters, and each batch needs to be simmered for a sufficient amount of time before it's ready.

The more pig trotters they sell, the more they improve the flavor, and the more complicated the process of adding seasonings and braising becomes. They can't really hand over the entire pig trotter shop to the manager and the staff to manage.

Lin Qingchuan said with a smile, "Sigh, let's save the manager's salary for now. Anyway, we're just sitting around doing nothing. It's better for me to watch everyone do the work."

He looked around to make sure no one was watching before whispering, "Tang'er, before, there were only a few of us at the pig's trotter shop. We were all on the same side, so we didn't hide anything when we were braising the pig's trotters. But now we not only have two female workers, but we've also hired two new assistants. From now on, when we're braising pig's trotters, we should still..."

Lin Xiaotang was also struggling with this matter. What if someone with ill intentions applied for the job and became a waiter? Wouldn't their recipe be leaked?

Of course, judging from the current situation, both Sun Xing and Zheng Feng are honest and capable people, but appearances can be deceiving, and no one can guarantee that they are truly honest and capable or just good at pretending.

"Father, that's exactly what I was thinking. Why don't we find a room and turn it into a braised meat workshop? That way, we won't have to braise pig's trotters in the yard anymore, and we won't have to worry about cloudy or rainy weather. We can braise them with peace of mind, without fear of others stealing our recipes."

This is not a bad idea!

Lin Qingchuan was initially happy and excited, but then immediately became dejected.

"This pig's trotter shop is only so big. The entire first floor has been converted into shops, people live on the second floor, and the backyard is also full of people living there. The small kitchen is not big, but we still have to cook three meals a day. How can we transform it into a braised meat workshop?"

Lin Xiaotang sighed and said, "Dad, don't worry, let me think of a way."

Before she could come up with a solution, the shop suddenly became lively.

Outside the shop, people were banging drums and gongs, accusing the shop of killing people with their braised pig's trotters.

Outside the store.

"Everyone come and take a look! This is the pig's trotter shop! Oh my god, it made my husband eat so much of it, waaaaah..."

My life is so miserable. I lost my husband at such a young age. I have an eighty-year-old mother to support, several young children to feed, and my husband's younger brother and sister to raise. I can't live like this anymore, sob sob sob..."

A man lay on the ground nearby, covered with a white sheet. He was dressed in tattered clothes, and his exposed skin was grayish-white, indicating that he had been dead for several days.

The woman who was crying so pitifully brought several relatives with her. The woman knelt before her husband's body and wept, while the relatives arrested Liu Cai'er and the female workers in the shop.

One of them said angrily, "These heartless bastards actually made poisonous food for everyone to eat, causing my brother to die at a young age, leaving a bunch of children at home without anyone to raise them. They have no conscience, they are not human. Let's arrest them today and report them to the authorities."

"Yes, this isn't a braised pig's trotters shop, it's a black market, a black market that can kill people. We must report it to the authorities."

Someone added, "No, just reporting it to the authorities is too lenient on them. We must first smash their shop to vent our anger, then drag them to the authorities and make them pay for our brothers' lives."

Several relatives were filled with righteous indignation. A few people held Liu Cai'er and two female workers down, while the rest rolled up their sleeves and started smashing the shop.

Liu Cai'er said angrily, "Stop! Your people are dead. Why do you say they died from eating our braised pig's trotters? Our pig's trotter shop has been open for so long, selling from morning till night every day. Why hasn't anyone said there's anything wrong with our pig's trotters? Just because you say it's our braised pig's trotters doesn't mean it's our braised pig's trotters."

"It's good that you're reporting this to the authorities. I was afraid you wouldn't, and would just make baseless accusations against us. If you dare to vandalize our shop, once the authorities have investigated, you'll be made to compensate us double for our losses."

She knew better than anyone how they made their braised pig's trotters, because she personally worked on it every day. The raw pig's trotters were always fresh, and they were washed again and again during cleaning, for fear of not getting them clean enough. The seasonings they used were also top-quality. How could she not know whether they could kill someone?

These people attacked her as soon as they arrived, giving her no chance to speak. They didn't even tell her when she came to buy the goods or how much she bought. It was clearly a frame-up.

She was normally mild-mannered, but these people's behavior infuriated her, so she was unusually tough today.

Those people were intimidated for a moment, but then, without thinking twice, they went straight into the store and started smashing things.

Because of the commotion in front of the pig's trotter shop, a crowd of pedestrians quickly gathered around, and everyone was talking about it.

"Look, the person is dead. It's such a pity that he was so young."

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at this woman, she looks to be in her twenties or thirties. Her dead husband must have been very young. He died from eating a braised pig's trotter. It's such a shame."

"It's hard to say exactly how he died. Without a coroner's examination, it's impossible to draw a conclusion based on mere words."

"Hey, the person's already dead, are you trying to extort money from them?"

"I didn't say they were extorting money, but many people have eaten the braised pig's trotters from this shop and none of them had any problems. How come he died from eating them? But if it really was these braised pig's trotters that killed him, we won't dare to buy them again in the future. It's too scary."

"What you said makes sense. Let's just watch the show and see how it ends."

The onlookers outside were talking amongst themselves, while the store was smashed to pieces and left in a mess.

Lin Xiaotang and her father immediately ran out upon hearing the commotion, and Shuisheng and Wu Yu also rushed out together.

Lin Qingchuan was instantly enraged when he saw the store smashed to pieces. Veins bulged on his forehead as he roared, "Stop! All of you, stop!"

Shui Sheng and Wu Yu immediately stepped forward and stood next to him, glaring angrily at those who were still holding broken tables and legs.

Shui Sheng said angrily, "Brother Qingchuan, these people actually dared to cause trouble at our pig's trotter shop. I think they're probably here on purpose to pick a fight. I'm going to teach them a lesson first and let them know that our pig's trotter shop is not to be trifled with."

Wu Yu had lived in the county for several years and had seen the world. He was more composed than Shui Sheng in dealing with things. He immediately stopped Shui Sheng and advised, "Shui Sheng, don't be impulsive. These people came to cause trouble, so they must have come prepared. They have already smashed our shop. Even if we fight back, we won't gain much. What if the government officials come and determine that it was a fight between the two sides and they don't make them compensate us?"

Shui said angrily, "They've already smashed our shop to this mess, are we not allowed to fight back? Is there no law in this world?"

Lin Qingchuan waved his hand and said, "Shuisheng, these bastards are not worth your time. If you beat them badly, we might end up doing them a favor and they could take the opportunity to send us to jail. These people are up to no good and are definitely not just causing trouble."

Shui Sheng said sullenly, "Are we just going to let them get away with this so easily?"

"Hmph, they certainly won't get away with this."

Because Lin Xiaotang had already slipped out to report to the authorities when no one was looking.

But these people are far too arrogant. They dare to smash up their pig's trotter shop in broad daylight, openly looking for trouble.

He shouted sternly, "Tell me, who sent you? How dare you come and smash our pig's trotter shop in broad daylight? Do you think everyone in our shop is dead?"

One of them said with a hostile expression, "I wish everyone in your shop were dead. My brother died from eating your braised pig's trotters. He was so young and he passed away. Why are you all still alive and well?"

What?

Did someone die from eating braised pig's trotters?

Do not!

Absolutely impossible!

Lin Qingchuan immediately retorted, "Our shop has been open for more than just a few days. Customers come and go every day. So many people who buy our braised pig's trotters are perfectly fine. Why did your brother die from eating them? Do you have any witnesses or evidence?"

The man immediately retorted confidently, "My sister-in-law watched her husband die right in front of her, and after he had eaten your braised pig's trotters. How could that be a lie?"

"Of course there will be fakes!"

Lin Qingchuan finally understood why these people had come to vandalize their pig's trotter shop.

It turns out that someone died, and they blamed their pig trotter shop for the death. But their braised pig trotters are always clean and have never had any problems. How could they possibly kill someone?

He immediately retorted, "Impossible. Our braised pig trotters are all cooked together. We braise more or less every day and sell them all. So many customers have eaten them and are fine. Why would your people die after eating them?"

People need evidence to speak. It's impossible for someone to die and then come to our shop and smash things up, claiming our braised pig's trotters poisoned them. Without any proof, do you think we're fools based on just one sentence?

One of them, enraged, slammed the smashed stool in his hand onto the ground. He roared, "Bullshit! My brother is dead! This is a living, breathing human being. Do you think we deliberately caused a death just to extort money from you?"

"That's right. Just because you've made money from your shop doesn't mean everyone is like you, valuing money more than life. If my brother hadn't died, we wouldn't bother with you."

Shui Sheng retorted, "You say the person died from eating our braised pig's trotters, then you should provide evidence! Are our braised pig's trotters poisonous or what? You don't provide any evidence, you just keep pinning the cause of death on our shop, we definitely won't accept that!"

Who knows how the person died? These people are completely unreasonable. They don't even provide any evidence, yet they claim they're being framed. No one can just accept this without knowing the truth.

Wu Yu followed up, “We run a shop and supply braised pig trotters to restaurants in several counties every day. We sell at least seven or eight hundred trotters, if not a thousand. Could it be that people who bought our braised pig trotters died for various reasons and are all blaming our shop?”

If that were true, our shop would have closed long ago, and everyone would be in jail. What right would you have to come here and cause trouble?

Shui Sheng couldn't help but secretly admire Wu Yu's eloquence and his ability to get to the point when he spoke.

He straightened his back, adding a touch of arrogance, and chimed in, "That's right. If that's the case, then more than half of the people in Dushui County have eaten our braised pig's trotters. Dushui County is so big, when hasn't someone died or a funeral been held? Are we supposed to take the blame for all of them?"

Lin Qingchuan's eyes suddenly turned cold. He snorted coldly, "We won't take the blame for this. Since they've come to cause trouble today, we'll settle things properly. If our braised pig's trotters can really kill people, we'll close down without them causing trouble. But if they're deliberately trying to provoke us, I won't let them off easily!"

Those people were all self-righteous and didn't take Lin Qingchuan and his two companions seriously at all.

He turned his head and saw a long stick lying on the ground. He kicked the stick up, grabbed it, and strode forward, driving the people out of the pig's trotter shop. Shui Sheng and Wu Yu followed him.

After smashing everything and venting their anger, those people wanted to go out and make a big fuss in front of everyone, so they didn't struggle and retreated from the pig's trotter shop step by step.

The onlookers craned their necks to see the appalling dilapidated state of the shop and couldn't help but gasp in shock.

"My God, what kind of deep-seated grudge could someone have committed to vandalize the store like this?"

"Since someone has died, it's an irreconcilable feud. It's already good enough that they only smashed the shop and didn't take out a knife to kill anyone."

"Hey, you can't say that. I've been watching this for a while now. These people came in and started smashing things up, saying that someone died from eating braised pig's trotters, but no one has come up with any evidence to prove that the person died from eating braised pig's trotters."

"Yes, yes, hurry up and produce the evidence! If it can really be proven that there is something wrong with the braised pig's trotters in this shop, then none of us will dare to buy them anymore. How can they sell something that could kill people? We must report them to the authorities and shut the shop down."

"Yes, quickly produce the evidence."

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The area in front of the pig's trotters shop was bustling with activity, quickly becoming a sea of ​​people, all talking at once.

Lin Qingchuan, Shui Sheng, and Wu Yu stood up straight, their uprightness unconcerned, stalling for time until Lin Xiaotang summoned the soldiers.

The woman was wiping away tears and crying her heart out. She looked extremely pitiful. Most people sympathize with the weak, so they began to speak to the widow.

"Look how pitifully that woman is crying. Her husband is dead. Surely she wouldn't blame the pig's trotter shop for her husband's death?"

"Look how heartbroken the woman is. She wouldn't make such a big deal out of her husband's death. I bet the pig's trotter shop ate him to death."