In the years of famine, I led a comfortable life with my husband

The new crisis came quietly, but Su Zhizhi knew nothing about it. She was now reconciling the accounts with Meng in the restaurant. After Meng's hard training these days, Su Zhizhi was able to understand some of the accounts.

It was already midnight when the mother and daughter finished looking at the account books. Just as Su Zhizhi was about to pack up and go to bed, there was a knock on the restaurant's door.

"Boom boom boom——"

Su Zhizhi and Meng looked at each other, and Meng instantly became nervous. It was so late at night that the other party came with bad intentions.

Su Zhizhi noticed the vigilance in Meng's eyes. She patted Meng soothingly to indicate that she was fine, and then she strode to the door.

"Who is it? What's wrong? Is there something wrong?" Su Zhizhi asked from behind the door.

A man's voice came from outside the door, "I... I want to find a job to make a living. Boss, can I do some odd jobs for you?"

The man stammered.

Su Zhizhi did not answer the other party immediately. Instead, she thought about it. She felt that the restaurant was indeed very busy recently and she was a little too busy. It would be okay to find a part-time worker to help share the work of other waiters in the store. So Su Zhizhi nodded and agreed without hesitation.

"Okay, our shop is in need of a helper to do odd jobs. You just need to come to the shop before noon tomorrow morning to help with the work."

Hearing that Su Zhizhi agreed to his request to work, the man immediately smiled and said, "Okay, okay, please rest assured, boss lady, I will be here on time tomorrow."

"Okay, I don't have anything to do. It's getting late. You should go home and rest early. We still have to work tomorrow." Su Zhizhi yawned.

"Okay." The man said and left.

In this way, the man started working in the restaurant, and Su Zhizhi lived a peaceful life.

A week later.

Just when Su Zhizhi was busy and worried, Su Peizhi suddenly appeared.

Su Zhizhi was very happy to see Su Peizhi and immediately stepped forward to greet him, "Brother, you're back!"

Su Peizhi looked at Su Zhizhi angrily and said, "Sister, why didn't you tell me about such a big thing as our move? Not only did you not come to pick me up, but you also made me run away to the countryside alone. When I returned home full of joy, I found out that there were other people living in our house. It took me a while to find out that you moved into the restaurant."

Su Peizhi said angrily.

Su Zhizhi's eyes flashed with guilt when she heard that. She explained to Su Peizhi with deep guilt, "I'm sorry, brother. It was my fault for neglecting it. My mother, Cheng Jin, and I stayed in the restaurant to take care of the business. This way, we can get up early to work and check the accounts."

"Look, our restaurant has only just opened. Business is booming, and there's a lot to prepare. I was so busy that I forgot about it. Today, I asked the chef in the kitchen to cook you some delicious dishes to reward you. It's also my way of making amends for you. Do you think this is okay?"

Seeing Su Zhizhi's sincerity, Su Peizhi waved his hand and said that he would not pursue the matter. "Okay! Then let's do as you say!"

He had been running back and forth all day and was tired.

After a while, the kitchen brought out several hard dishes that were all based on Su Peizhi's taste, such as fried beef, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and braised pork ribs. These made the hungry Su Peizhi very greedy.

He didn't care about anything else and immediately picked up the food from the plate with chopsticks and tasted it.

"How is it? Is the food to your liking?" Su Zhizhi asked.

"Sure, sure. It's delicious!" Su Peizhi mumbled with his mouth full of rice.

Seeing this, Su Zhizhi nodded with satisfaction, and then went about her own business.

An hour later, Su Peizhi came out of the toilet with a painful look on his face. This was his tenth time going to the toilet that day. He felt exhausted from all the defecation and his legs were numb from squatting.

After realizing that something was wrong, Su Peizhi hurried to find Su Zhizhi.

Su Zhizhi was also shocked when she saw Su Peizhi, and asked quickly, "What's wrong with you? Why do you look so bad?"

Seeing this, Su Peizhi said helplessly, "Sister, I don't know what's going on. I've been having diarrhea for a long time. I didn't eat anything else today except the food at the restaurant. Could it be... that there's something wrong with the food at the restaurant?"

Su Peizhi spoke as if he remembered something.

Su Zhizhi frowned when she heard the voice. Fortunately, these days were the wheat harvest days, and basically no one came to the restaurant to eat. Otherwise, if the customers got sick from eating, their restaurant's business would be completely over.

Su Zhizhi quickly ran to the kitchen and told the chefs to stop cooking and wait for her notification.

At the same time, Xie Chengjin also called a doctor.

Su Zhizhi first asked the doctor to feel Su Peizhi's pulse. After the doctor carefully felt Su Peizhi's pulse, Su Zhizhi quickly asked, "Doctor, what's wrong with my brother? What did he eat? Why does he have diarrhea?"

The doctor frowned upon hearing this and said, "He looks very weak, but he doesn't show any signs of food poisoning. Instead, he looks like he's taken a laxative. Bring me the food he's eaten and I'll know for sure."

Upon hearing the sound, Su Zhizhi hurriedly brought out the unfinished meal that Su Peizhi had eaten at noon for the doctor to check.

The doctor's brows knitted into the shape of the Chinese character "川" after reading it. "If I'm not mistaken, someone put a lot of laxatives in this food."

The doctor replied.

After these words were spoken, everyone present fell silent, especially Su Zhizhi, who fell into deep thought.

During the days when she ran the restaurant, Su Zhizhi felt very sorry for her old colleagues. Their salary, rest time and welfare benefits were much better than those in other restaurants, so it was impossible for them to do something like giving laxatives.

From this perspective, there was only one possibility: it was the temporary worker who did it. But why would he do this to her? Her family had only been in Zhenshan for a short time? Unless... someone was envious of her restaurant's success? Someone sent by a rival!

Thinking of this, Su Zhizhi remembered the temporary worker she had hired some time ago. She quickly said to Xie Chengjin, "Go and find the temporary worker I hired some time ago."

Xie Chengjin nodded, and soon he came back alone.

Su Zhizhi was very confused about this, "Where is that temporary worker?"

"He ran away. He was here yesterday, but he disappeared today. Everyone thought he asked for leave today for something and told you." Xie Chengjin said helplessly.

As soon as these words were spoken, Su Zhizhi became extremely angry. She didn't expect that she was careless this time and ended up falling into the other party's trap.