Chapter 152.1 – Punishment
“Are you guys the owner of this restaurant?”
It wasn’t until An Zi Ran and Fu Wu Tian walked right in front of them did Bao Xin Chun and her husband came back to their sense. Wanting to gain the upper hand by a show of strength, Bao Xin Chun immediately spoke before them, hoping to gain the initiative by striking first.
The husband and wife pair was mainly active in the West District, so they’ve never seen Fu Wu Tian before. They could feel that the two men’s temperaments were different from ordinary people, but they didn’t take it seriously. Their reasoning was that since these two were running a restaurant and was also showing their faces inside the establishment, then they must be lowly businessmen.
The Zhuo family was the leader of the Chamber of Commerce. There wasn’t a single businessman with enough strength to compete against the Zhuo family, so everyone had to give the Zhuo family some face.
An Zi Ran looked at the husband and wife pair. After a long while, he said, “I am. I heard that you two found cockroaches in my restaurant’s food.”
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Bao Xin Chun puffed up with false bravado and sneered. Then she threw the hamburger with a cockroach in it in front of An Zi Ran. “Look, this the hamburger from your restaurant. You see the cockroach on it? How do you explain it?”
An Zi Ran looked down at the dead cockroach.
Without him opening his mouth, Fu Wu Tian knew what he was thinking, so he picked up the cockroach.
An Zi Ran glanced at it, and suddenly said something inexplicable, “This cockroach is really big.”
Everyone heard this and was confused.
Zhuo Gao Ming and his wife didn’t know what he meant.
An Zi Ran was not afraid of getting dirty. He picked up the cockroach by the antenna and swung it back and forth in front of the husband and wife pair. He added, “Moreover, it’s a cockroach that was trampled on purpose.”
The expressions on Zhuo Gao Ming and Bao Xin Chun’s faces changed. They finally realized what An Zi Ran wanted to say.
Zhuo Gao Ming immediately shouted in a stern voice, “What do you mean? Are you trying to say that we deliberately trampled on this cockroach to death and then put it in the food?”
An Zi Ran ignored his rebuttal. With a calm expression, he continued to speak, “You may not be very clear about the process of making hamburgers. Two slices of steamed buns are baked in the oven. Then a beef patty is placed between the two slices of bread and paired with other ingredients. If a cockroach really ran in, the cockroach should not have been trampled. Moreover, it’s such a big cockroach that even an old man in his sixties or seventies would not miss it.”
Upon hearing his explanation, everyone felt that it made sense.
This cockroach was twice as big as what they usually saw. It was impossible for an old man to overlook it, let along a young and healthy young man working in the kitchen.
Furthermore, the kitchen was a place that needed to be kept the cleanest. Today was the An Family Restaurant’s grand opening day. How could they be so stupid that they would miss a cockroach of this size? And who could be so stupid as to put a squashed cockroach in a hamburger?
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Everyone couldn’t help but recall what Shopkeeper Liu had said before, and then they thought about how picky the couple was being as soon as they sat down, and suddenly they felt like they knew the truth. The gazes looking at Zhuo Gao Ming and his wife began to change one by one.
Ugh, the couple was obviously envious of this restaurant, but why did they have to come here and make everyone feel disgusted with their farce? The other customers almost lost their appetite because of them.
Zhuo Gao Ming and his wife were annoyed to find that the situation had been reversed by just a few words from An Zi Ran.
The two became angry and Bao Xin Chun even scolded, “What evidence do you have to prove that we did it? If you don’t have evidence, don’t frame us. Our Zhuo family is not easily bullied.”
Zhuo family?
Are they trying to tell him that he couldn’t afford to offend them because they have such a big backer?
An Zi Ran looked at them with ridicule in his eyes.
“Ha ha, you are indeed not an ordinary person.”
Pang Zhong’s energetic voice suddenly rang out, breaking the increasingly quiet atmosphere of the main lobby. Some people were even startled by his interjection.
Only then did An Zi Ran recall that there were two lively old men sitting in the corner. When he turned his head to look, the two old men had already walked over.
“The elder who laughed is Pang Zhong, the minister of the Ministry of Officials, and the one behind him is Wan Xi Chuan, a great calligrapher. His level of mastery in literature is comparable to Grandfather.” Fu Wu Tian told An Zi Ran.
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Contrarily, An Zi Ran’s attention was on the last sentence, but at the moment there was obviously no chance for him to ask about it, because the two old men had already arrived in front of them.
Pang Zhong looked him up and down, nodded with a smile, and then shifted his gaze to Fu Wu Tian. He cupped his hands in salute and said to the two: “Pang Zhong greats junwang and junwangfei.”
A single stone stirs up a thousand waves.
The crowd became noisy right away.
These two outstanding-looking men were actually the rumored junwang and junwangfei?
The people in the West District have only ever heard of the junwang and junwangfei, but they’ve never actually seen the two in person. Suddenly seeing these two lordly figures in front of them, the people were obviously shocked to their core.
“It has been a long time. Elder Pang and Mr. Wan are both hale and hearty despite your golden years. You’re still as lively as ever.” Fu Wu Tian nodded at the two elders with his hands behind his back. Both elders were friends with his grandfather. It wasn’t to the point where they opened their hearts and poured their guts out to each other, but their relationship was still good.
Wan Xi Chuan was pleased by what he saw. He has always heard rumors about Fu Wu Tian that spoke of him as an arrogant jerk who considered everyone else beneath him. Only by seeing Fu Wu Tian with his own eyes did he know that the man was different from the rumors.
