Before Lin Wanwan could even open her mouth, Liu Xiaoli, at the neighboring workstation, set down the document in her hand first and refuted with a frown:
“Song Jiaman, what you’re saying is wrong. Just because you ate it and had no issues doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong with the food from that shop!”
“Going by your logic, it could also just be that your stomach is unusually tough! That’s why you didn’t get diarrhea!”
Liu Xiaoli had always looked out for Lin Wanwan quite a bit, and ever since the two of them won the lottery at the same time, their relationship had grown even closer.
At this moment, seeing Song Jiaman—whom she disliked the most on regular days—making sarcastic and passive-aggressive remarks over there, she naturally would not stand by and watch.
“Besides, the fact that she’s willing to spend time running tests is also for everyone’s good!”
“In case there really is a problem, it’s always better than waiting for more people to ruin their stomachs, right?”
“Sister Li is right!”
A colleague who had previously bought concealer from Lin Wanwan also chimed in:
“When Wanwan sold us cosmetics yesterday, she calculated everything at a fifty percent discount off the regular price.”
“If she were really greedy for money, why would she sell them to us so cheaply!”
Another girl went so far as to take out her phone directly:
“Just now, I even scrolled past a post where someone said eating at this raw-marinated shop made them feel unwell. It’s just that there wasn’t solid proof yet!”
Seeing everyone backing Lin Wanwan up, Wang Man’s expression turned somewhat unsightly. She curled her lips and stopped talking.
Lin Wanwan felt a surge of warmth in her heart and smiled at the colleagues who had spoken up for her:
“Thank you, everyone, for believing in me.”
“Tomorrow! Tomorrow afternoon’s afternoon tea is on me! Send whatever you want to eat directly to the group chat!”
As soon as these words were uttered, a cheer instantly erupted from the surroundings, and even the atmosphere that had been slightly awkward earlier became lively.
Carrying the raw-marinated food, Lin Wanwan walked briskly toward the pantry. The space there was spacious, and there was security camera coverage to record the testing process, making it the most suitable place to conduct the tests.
She arranged the raw-marinated food one by one on the counter.
With the experience from this morning, conducting the tests this time went even faster than in the morning.
In just a few minutes, all the testing steps were completed.
The wall clock in the pantry ticked away, and Lin Wanwan’s gaze remained firmly locked onto the test strips.
Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye.
One test kit after another revealed its test results.
A single line.
A single line.
…
Reading all the way down, Lin Wanwan’s brows gradually knitted together.
Could it be…
Was it not this batch of raw-marinated food either? Just as she was feeling increasingly discouraged, she casually picked up the next test kit.
It was not until her gaze fell onto the test strip of the twelfth box—the raw-marinated blood clams—that she sharply held her breath.
Beside the control line, a faint pink reaction line was slowly bleeding outward. Although not intense, it was so real that it could not be ignored.
Two lines!
Positive!
She quickly moved to the neighboring test kits, her heart giving a sudden leap.
The final box of raw-marinated flower crabs likewise showed two lines!
“Found it!” Lin Wanwan could not help letting out a low exclamation, her voice carrying an undisguised excitement.
However, she quickly forced herself to calm down. What if it was a mistake with the test strips?
She immediately conducted a retest.
The five minutes of waiting felt as long as a century. She stared intently at the test strips, not even daring to blink too hard.
When the two lines clearly appeared once again on the test kits for the blood clams and the flower crabs, Lin Wanwan finally let out a long breath of relief. Her heart, which had been hanging in suspense for two days, finally found a place to settle.
She immediately pulled out her phone, her fingers dancing swiftly over the dial pad to pull up the report hotline for the Food and Drug Administration that she had looked up beforehand.
The moment the call went through, she took a deep breath, trying her best to keep her tone steady:
“Hello! I would like to report a Chaoshan raw-marinated food shop located right at the main entrance of Starlight Shopping Mall, named ‘Chaoweixian Raw-Marinated Foods’!”
“I just used professional test strips and detected that their raw-marinated blood clams and raw-marinated flower crabs contain Salmonella and Vibrio parahaemolyticus!”
The staff member on the other end of the line was initially just taking routine records, but upon hearing “Salmonella” and “Vibrio parahaemolyticus,” their tone instantly turned serious:
“Ma’am, are you sure the test results are accurate? The danger posed by these two pathogenic bacteria is very severe, and we need to verify this clearly.”
“I am sure!”
Lin Wanwan immediately said:
“I ate their raw-marinated flower crabs yesterday and ended up with diarrhea five times in under an hour, almost to the point of collapse! I suspected there was something wrong with their raw-marinated food, so I specially searched for… Right now, the shop is still operating normally, and I am worried more people will fall victim, especially the elderly and children…”
“Please wait a moment. We will arrange for law enforcement officers to go over immediately, arriving in about twenty minutes. Could you please wait at the scene to cooperate with us in performing further testing?”
The staff member’s speaking speed noticeably quickened, and it was evident that emergency coordination was already taking place on that end.
“No problem! I will head over right now!”
Hanging up the phone, Lin Wanwan packed all the test kits into a transparent document bag, picked up the two bags of problem-plagued raw-marinated food, and strode quickly out of the office.
When passing by Liu Xiaoli’s workstation, Liu Xiaoli happened to look up. Seeing her hurried expression, she immediately asked in a low voice:
“How did it go? Did the results come out?”
“They’re out! Two of the boxes have Salmonella and Vibrio parahaemolyticus!”
“I’ve already reported it to the Food and Drug Administration, and now I’m heading to the shop to wait for them.”
Lin Wanwan did not stop her stride and added another sentence:
“I’ve already requested leave from Sister Zhang.”
Liu Xiaoli nodded hastily:
“Be careful! If anything comes up, call me anytime!”
Lin Wanwan rode her electric scooter and rushed toward Starlight Shopping Mall.
Ten minutes later, she successfully arrived near Chaoweixian Raw-Marinated Foods.
Considering that the personnel from the Food and Drug Administration had not arrived yet, coupled with the fact that no one was buying outside the shop at this moment, Lin Wanwan did not rashly approach.
Originally, she had intended to wait for the people from the Food and Drug Administration before going over together.
However, she had only waited for two minutes on her end when two slow-moving figures broke into her field of vision.
The woman was wearing a loose cream-yellow dress, one hand gently protecting her protruding lower abdomen, while her other hand held a four- or five-year-old little girl.
Just as Lin Wanwan froze, the two had already stepped right in front of Chaoweixian Raw-Marinated Foods.
Seeing this scene, her heart suddenly constricted.
In merely a single instant, a possibility crossed her mind.
It was her!
The woman right before her eyes!
She was the pregnant woman mentioned in the email who suffered a miscarriage from eating raw-marinated food!
The people from the Food and Drug Administration had not arrived yet, but waiting even a second longer could result in a disaster!
Lin Wanwan almost leaped off her electric scooter, sprinting all the way to the entrance of Chaoweixian Raw-Marinated Foods in a 100-meter dash.
“Excuse me, beautiful lady! You absolutely cannot buy the raw-marinated food from this shop!”
She rushed in front of the woman, and before she could even catch her breath, she spoke up to stop her.
“There’s something wrong with the raw-marinated food from this shop! Yesterday after I ate it, I got diarrhea to the point of total collapse, and I just detected Salmonella and Vibrio parahaemolyticus in it!”
The pregnant woman was startled by Lin Wanwan, who had suddenly rushed over. She instinctively protected her belly even tighter and took half a step back, her eyes filled with confusion:
“Ah? How is that possible? I saw the reviews were quite good, so I only…”
“What kind of nonsense is this!”
Hearing the commotion, the owner of the raw-marinated food shop lifted the door curtain and walked out.
When he saw Lin Wanwan, a confused look appeared on his face.
After all, it was something that had happened just this morning.
Therefore, he clearly recognized that Lin Wanwan was the customer who had patronized his shop with a large order right as he opened for business today.