Xiang Xi and Liu Ersha were having a great time beating people up when Manager He of Youran Residence heard the commotion and hurried over.
When he saw that the main hall of Feiyun Pavilion had been smashed to pieces, the waiters and manager were lying on the floor covered in blood and unable to move, while Xiang Xi and Liu Ersha seemed completely unharmed, his eyes went wide.
These two… were way too fierce!
“Miss!” To keep others from recognizing Xiang Xi, Manager He didn’t even dare call her by her surname. “Someone has already gone to call the constables. You two should hurry and leave!”
Xiang Xi chuckled.
Leave?
Why should they leave?
The real show had only just begun!
“Manager He, this place is going to get dangerous soon. You should leave.”
“Huh?” Manager He was stunned. Clearly, I was the one telling you to leave. How did it become the other way around? “Then you two…”
“My husband ate here and got a bad stomach. Do you think we’re just going to let that go?”
Manager He understood.
Earlier, when he saw this girl smiling apologetically and compensating those troublemakers with money, he had thought she was simply afraid of getting into trouble.
But it turned out she hadn’t taken those two troublemakers seriously at all.
She had come straight for the real culprit!
She had even smashed the dragon’s palace itself!
And now she was going to make them pay!
He had never seen such a fierce woman in his entire life!
“Then be careful, Miss. I also have some influence with the constables, so I can put in a few words for you.”
After Manager He left, Xiang Xi grabbed Manager Qi by the head and asked, “Manager, my husband ate here, and you actually had someone put poison in his food! Tell me, what are you going to do about it?”
Manager Qi finally realized who these two were.
They must be the two people who had been selling eels!
They had come here for revenge!
But would that help them?
The constables were coming soon. He refused to believe that these two would dare fight the constables too!
“Hmph.” Manager Qi snorted coldly. “You think you’re very impressive? Do you know who the owner of Feiyun Pavilion is?”
“I don’t care who your owner is,” Xiang Xi said coldly. “If you dare refuse to compensate us, I’ll bring him here to eat every day. He’s a fool, he eats a lot, and he often has to go to the toilet right after eating.”
Manager Qi: “…”
“Ersha,” Xiang Xi said, “go use the toilet and show Manager Qi!”
“Okay!”
Manager Qi turned his head and saw Liu Ersha standing on top of the counter, already taking off his pants.
“What are you doing?”
Liu Ersha gave him an eye roll.
Was this old man stupid?
What else could he possibly do after taking off his pants?
Obviously, he was going to the toilet!
“Old man, give me some toilet paper!”
Manager Qi was nearly furious enough to faint.
This guy wanted to relieve himself on his counter and was even asking him for paper?
What kind of people were these?
“Put your pants back on!”
“No! Give me toilet paper!”
“Put them on!”
“I won’t!”
…
While Liu Ersha and Manager Qi were struggling over the matter, a patrol constable finally arrived at the entrance of the restaurant.
Manager He immediately went to greet him.
“Constable Zhang.”
“Manager He,” Constable Zhang asked, “what happened here?”
“Actually, it’s nothing major…”
Manager He pulled Constable Zhang aside and carefully explained everything that had happened.
However, as Feiyun Pavilion’s sworn rival, he naturally took Xiang Xi and Liu Ersha’s side.
“That Manager Qi really went too far!” he concluded. “Seeing that their business was doing well, he sent people to smash their stall! Causing trouble in broad daylight—does he even take you seriously?”
Constable Zhang nodded.
The manager of Feiyun Pavilion did indeed tend to look down on others because his boss was rich and powerful.
“Constable Zhang, you have to stand up for this girl,” Manager He continued. “Her husband is a fool. She works so hard by herself just to catch some eels and make a little money to support her family. How difficult is that? And then she gets bullied on top of it. Ah, it’s truly heartbreaking just to see it and hear about it!”
Listening from inside the restaurant, Xiang Xi’s face twitched.
Manager He, you really know how to exaggerate things.
Still, this was convenient. It saved her the trouble of explaining everything herself.
Constable Zhang walked to the entrance of Feiyun Pavilion and shouted, “Everyone inside, come out!”
As soon as he called out, Xiang Xi and Liu Ersha ran outside.
Seeing that Liu Ersha really did look like a fool, even putting his pants back on while running, Constable Zhang knew that Manager He hadn’t lied to him.
Before long, Manager Qi came out too, his face covered in blood. Behind him were more than a dozen workers from Feiyun Pavilion, all of them battered and bruised to the point that even their own mothers might not recognize them.
Seeing that the constable had finally arrived, Manager Qi looked aggrieved.
“Constable Zhang, arrest these two immediately!”
“Why should I arrest them?”
“This…” Manager Qi panicked. “They smashed my restaurant and injured me and my workers…”
At this point, Manager Qi angrily pointed at Liu Ersha and gnashed his teeth.
“What’s most infuriating is that he even tried to use my counter as a toilet! Constable Zhang, if you’re not going to arrest them for this, then what exactly does someone have to do before you’ll arrest them?”
“Hmph.” Constable Zhang snorted. “I’ll tell you what kind of people deserve to be arrested.”
Manager Qi froze.
“What… what kind?”
“People who go smash someone else’s stall and then extort five hundred copper coins from them deserve to be arrested!” Constable Zhang said. “People whose food makes someone sick, who refuse to compensate them, and instead send more than a dozen people to beat them up deserve to be arrested!”
Then Constable Zhang gave him a cold smile.
“Manager Qi, tell me, should I take someone like that to the county office, give him fifty strokes of the cane first, and then let the magistrate have a proper interrogation?”
Manager Qi’s face had been bright red with anger, but it instantly turned green.
When he saw Manager He standing nearby trying not to laugh, he immediately understood what had happened.
He had been set up by his old rival!
As the saying went, a wise man knew when to submit.
Manager Qi’s eyes darted around.
He knew there was no way he could gain the upper hand today, so admitting fault was the only sensible choice.
“Constable Zhang, it’s all the fault of my workers!” Manager Qi said. “I’ll definitely discipline them properly when we get back!”
“How you discipline your workers is your business.” Constable Zhang pointed at Xiang Xi. “What about this victim? How are you going to compensate her?”
“Compensate her!” Manager Qi gritted his teeth. “We’ll return the five hundred copper coins and pay another five hundred on top of that!”
Xiang Xi scoffed inwardly.
She had gone completely crazy over this whole mess today, and this was all they were offering?
“My husband is a fool, you know,” she said. “And he loves to eat. The food at Feiyun Pavilion is pretty good, so he might come by every few days for a meal or two, you know~~~”
Manager Qi’s expression stiffened.
This fool had caused such a huge disturbance today that the entire main hall had been wrecked.
For the next few days, customers probably wouldn’t even dare come here.
If this fool came back every two or three days, what the hell would happen to his restaurant?
And if he ruined the owner’s business, even growing two more heads wouldn’t be enough to compensate for the losses.
He could only grit his teeth and say, “Then another one thousand copper coins. A total of one thousand five hundred!”
One thousand five hundred copper coins was one and a half taels of silver, roughly the value of a hundred pounds of eels.
Xiang Xi nodded.
Manager Qi immediately felt relieved and hurriedly sent someone to fetch the money.
The sooner he could send these two plague gods away, the better.
As for how to get revenge, that could wait until later.
Who had the time to think about that now?
“This matter is settled,” Constable Zhang said. “Everyone disperse. Disperse!”
Manager He immediately invited him warmly.
“Constable Zhang, why don’t you come over to my restaurant for a while? The young lady is going to teach me how to cook these eels anyway. Come and have a taste.”
Constable Zhang’s eyes lit up.
“You mean the kind of eels that were being sold on the street today?”
“Exactly.”
“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go, let’s go!”
Xiang Xi felt that this young constable seemed like a pretty decent person.
In that case, this young lady would graciously grant him the pleasure of enjoying a good meal.