Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

Li Yu didn't wait for Boss Hu's friends to arrive, but instead waited for other people who were looking for trouble.

Some people said that they got sick after eating her braised meat, and now they are surrounding her stall, yelling at her to pay compensation.

Han Xiaomei had never seen such a scene before and was trembling with fear. The man selling sesame cakes next door was afraid something might happen, so he hurriedly called Li Yu out of the teahouse.

When Li Yu rushed back, a middle-aged man in front of the stall was yelling, "My son was fine, but after eating your braised meat, he became unwell and is now lying in bed unable to get up. You must pay compensation, or I will sue you for murder."

An old lady stood next to the middle-aged man, holding a piece of oil paper that had been used to wrap meat, crying miserably, "Look, everyone, this braised meat has killed my grandson."

A lot of people gathered at the scene. Customers who often came to Li Yu's stall to buy braised meat didn't say anything, after all, they often ate it and nothing happened. Those who didn't know Li Yu were influenced by the two people's words and pointed at Li Yu's stall.

"This girl looks nice, how could she do something to hurt others?"

"You can know a person's face but not his heart!"

"I won't dare buy anything from their stall anymore."

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Li Yu watched the performance of the middle-aged man and the old lady for a while, and felt that it was about time, so he called out to them.

"You said your child got sick after eating my braised meat. So when did you buy the braised meat?"

"Yesterday." The old lady said anxiously, "Everyone praised your braised meat, so I bought some."

Li Yu hummed, then asked, "Who ate the braised meat?"

The middle-aged man said, "Our whole family ate it."

Li Yu raised her finger. "Did your whole family eat it? But from what you two said, it seems that only your son is feeling unwell, so have you ever thought that he got sick because he ate something else? Otherwise, why is he the only one who is sick, but you are all fine?"

The onlookers also noticed this and their trust in the man immediately dropped.

"Yeah, if everyone eats it, it doesn't make sense for only one person to get sick."

"Has he made a mistake?"

The middle-aged man listened to what everyone said and immediately said, "We didn't feel well after eating either, but we ate less, so we weren't as sick as he was!"

Li Yu snorted and laughed, "Really?"

"Why would we lie to you?" The old lady tried to make amends for her son: "Our family has only one son for three generations, and you killed him. You have such a cruel heart."

Li Yu remained calm and not affected by their words at all. "I think there is nothing wrong with my braised meat. Since you insist on saying it is my fault, let's ask the adults who manage the market to come and let them help us make the judgment."

The man shuddered when he heard the name of the government, and then said fiercely: "It's useless to call anyone. If you still want to continue selling things, you have to pay me!"

"Yes, pay the money!"

Li Yu said: "How much silver do you want?"

The man thought there was hope and held up five fingers. "Fifty taels."

"What a big mouth!" Li Yu laughed, "How dare you ask for it, but I'm sorry, you never bought braised meat from me, and I won't compensate you. But in case you don't believe me, I've asked someone to invite the adults to judge for justice."

The man and the old lady didn't expect Li Yu to be so tough, but they were not in a hurry.

The braised meat was indeed not bought from Li Yu, but from the stall of the two brothers who were stealing Li Yu's business. The meat was not clean and the child got sick after eating it. They were angry but did not dare to cause trouble to the brothers, so they thought of a dirty way: let Li Yu, who also sold braised meat, take the blame.

But Li Yu didn't take the bait.

The two men glanced at each other. The meat was gone, and even if the government officials came, they would not be able to find out where it was bought, so they didn't need to be afraid.

*

When Li Yu came out of the teahouse, she spent two cents to ask a little boy on the roadside to help her invite the market manager. After a while, the man didn't come, but the mayor came first.

The mayor, who was in his sixties and highly respected, walked over slowly with his hands behind his back. After listening to the explanation, he asked the man and the old lady, "You two said you bought the meat from her stall. Do you have any evidence?"

"Yes." The man looked at the old lady and handed her the crumpled oil paper. "This is the paper she used to wrap the meat."

The mayor turned around and asked Li Yu, "Do you have evidence that they don't buy meat from your stall?"

"Yes." Li Yu bowed, "Mayor, please unfold the oil paper yourself."

The mayor followed her words and opened the paper.

The oil paper was intact and not torn. Li Yu stared at it for a while and asked the man and the old lady, "Are you sure this is the paper I used to wrap the meat for you?"

The old lady slapped her thigh and said, "Of course, who else could it be but you? Don't try to make excuses!"

After waiting for what they wanted to hear, Li Yu bowed to everyone and said, "I think everyone has heard what this person said just now. She said this is the paper I use to wrap meat, but I don't use this kind of oil paper to wrap meat. Everyone, please look..."

Li Yu turned around and pulled out two pieces of oil paper from his stall, motioning everyone to look at the lower right corner of the paper, "To prevent someone from impersonating me and ruining the reputation of the stall, I have been using this kind of oil paper with a special logo since ten days ago."

Everyone stepped forward to take a look, and sure enough, there was a small piece of meat on the lower right corner of Li Yu's paper, but there was nothing on the oil paper provided by the man.

At this point, the man still wanted to argue, "You used ordinary oil paper yesterday."

Before Li Yu could speak, a woman on the side of the road said, "I can testify that Boss Li uses special paper."

Everyone looked towards the source of the sound and recognized that it was the wife of Mr. Fang, the oil paper seller in town.

The woman swallowed her saliva. "Boss Li bought all the oil paper from my house. She bought 100 ordinary sheets at first. Ten days ago, she asked our boss to order 500 sheets of paper with meat characters written on it. She ordered a lot, so I remember it very clearly."

"Did you buy her meat? How do you know she didn't mix the two types of paper?" The man's brain worked quickly and he keenly discovered the loophole.

The woman said calmly, "Because our boss has been ill recently, the oil paper is slow to be made, and Boss Li wants a lot, so we can't give her all at once. The oil paper that Boss Li has used in the past five days was delivered to her by me early in the morning every day."

At this point, it's clear who is lying.

The mayor said coldly, "Tell the truth about what happened, or I will lock you up."

The man's eyes rolled around, not wanting to give up just like that.

The mayor did not give him the chance to argue. "Why don't you tell the truth? If you don't, I will have someone on the board!"

The man was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed while telling the whole story.

After hearing this, the mayor was annoyed and said, "This is ridiculous. You are deliberately blackmailing for your own selfish interests. If we condone this kind of trend, it will ruin the reputation of Huangmei Town."

Just then, a subordinate came by and the mayor immediately ordered them to take the man and the old lady away for punishment.

*

The matter was resolved, the crowd dispersed, and Li Yu thanked the mayor.

She felt fortunate that the village chief and town mayor she met after traveling through time were both upright people, otherwise, based on the behavior of the man and the old lady, they would definitely have to fight for a while.

"I've heard about you." The mayor admired Li Yu and praised him generously. "You can support your family with your craft, which is great. As the head of the town, I will never let them bully you."

Li Yu thanked him again.

After seeing off the mayor, Boss Hu came back with his friend, and Li Yu went back to the teahouse with them to discuss selling the recipe.