Border Cook

Chapter 230 Forced to Help

"Since this person has such a dirty idea, he will definitely not admit it now. But it doesn't matter. I have a way to find out who it is."

Xia Mingyue said, calling out to the doghouse next to her, "Come here, Wu Jin."

"Woof!" When Wu Jin saw Xia Mingyue calling him, he hurried over and squatted beside her.

"I think everyone knows Wu Jin in our family. He is smart, powerful, and a good protector of our family. He once helped catch a thief and bit the thief's butt so hard that he almost became disabled."

Xia Mingyue said, "But this is not Wu Jin's most powerful point. Wu Jin's most powerful point is its extremely sensitive sense of smell. As long as it has smelled a smell, it will never be wrong. Even if it is a difference that humans can't even detect, Wu Jin can still smell it."

"The person who poured the coptis water into the water tank must have been in a panic. She was afraid that the uneven mixing of the coptis water in the water tank would be noticed immediately, so she must have used a ladle to stir the water in the entire tank. In other words, the person who poured the coptis water must have touched the thickest coptis water first, and the coptis smell on her hands was also the strongest."

"If Wu Jin were to sniff each of your hands, he would be able to easily identify the culprit."

"It's getting late now. Da Hu and Er Hu have already gone to the county government to report to the authorities. Let's start now and try to catch the person before the government officials come. This will also save the government officials from a lot of trouble."

"But having said that, the yamen runners came to arrest people, but you all work for me, you get paid by me, and you get along very well with me on weekdays. I am not happy that you suddenly did something like this."

Xia Mingyue patted Wu Jin's head and said, "When you smell that person later, don't be polite and bite him. You did a great job. I'll stew some meat and bones for you at noon!"

Meat bones!
Still stewed!

Wu Jin's eyes suddenly burst into light as bright as stars. The whole dog stood straight and barked twice at Xia Mingyue.

He looked determined to win.

This made everyone present look at each other.

Is it too hasty to rely on a dog to find the murderer?

But Wu Jin is indeed much smarter than ordinary dogs, and sometimes even seems smarter than humans.

I guess Wu Jin can really find the murderer?
Just when everyone was in doubt, Wu Jin had already smelled the hands of the five people one by one according to the order in which they stood.

And everyone has spread out their hands one by one, waiting for Wu Jin to make the judgment.

Only Wang's hands were kept in her sleeves until Wu Jin came up to her. Then she slowly took her folded hands out of her sleeves and stretched them tremblingly in front of Wu Jin, her body involuntarily leaning back slightly.

When Wu Jin just came closer and his wet nose just touched Wang's fingers, Wang's mind was full of the bloody scene when Wu Jin's fangs pierced into her palm. She hurriedly retracted her hand, and with a "wow", she collapsed to the ground.

Just as everyone was shocked, Wang burst into tears and rushed to Xia Mingyue at lightning speed, kneeling down with a plop. "Madam Xia, please forgive me, please forgive me..."

"Then you are admitting that it was you who put the Coptis chinensis water in the water tank?" Xia Mingyue asked with a frown.

Wang shuddered and her crying became quieter. "I was the one who let it go."

"But I was forced..." Wang sobbed again.

"Then tell me clearly how you were forced to do it." Xia Mingyue's tone was cold, she lowered her head and looked down with great dignity, her awe-inspiring without even getting angry.

This made Wang shudder again. After stuttering for a long time, she finally spoke, "It was Zhao Guangfu from Yueran Restaurant who found me and gave me twenty taels of silver to ask me to use the coptis water. He also said that the coptis water would not harm people, and at most it would make people suffer. Those who go to Xiaji to buy food will definitely not be happy if they eat bitter food, and they will definitely not go to Xiaji to buy food in the future."

"Madam Xia, I really didn't mean to harm anyone. I even tasted the coptis water to make sure it wouldn't kill anyone before I put it in the water tank."

"My son became lame due to a high fever when he was a child. Now he is almost twenty years old and still has no marriage. With this twenty taels of silver, I can find a wife for my son so that he will have someone to take care of him in the future. I really have no choice. My husband died early and I am the only one supporting the family. If I don't make this money and don't find a wife for my son, how can I face my husband after I die?"

"Madam Xia, I put it out today on the first day. You found it early, so no one else got it. It didn't affect Xia's reputation, and it didn't cause any big losses to Xia. Can you please forgive me this time?"

"If I were really arrested by the government, my family would be broken up..."

"Madam Xia, you are a good person, please have pity on me. I will bow to you and kowtow to you. I will work like a slave for you in my next life to repay your kindness..."

Wang spoke so pitifully that she was crying so hard that she was out of breath.

His face was covered with tears and snot, and he was begging, looking very pitiful.

But these could not impress Xia Mingyue at all, instead, they made her look more and more disgusted.

"Since you know your family is in financial difficulty, why don't you work hard and cherish everything you have, but do some evil things instead? Before doing these evil things, didn't you think about what you would face after what you did was exposed, or did you think that what you did would not be discovered at all?"

"You keep saying that you are pitiful and have no choice, but have you ever thought about how many Xia Ji franchisees will be spurned and scolded after your actions ruin the reputation of the entire Xia Ji? How will they live after their business fails?"

"If Xia Ji can't continue, the central kitchen will naturally decline quickly. Then where will the people who finally have jobs here go to work and earn money? Which of these people doesn't come from poor families and rely on these wages to make ends meet every day?"

Xia Mingyue took a deep breath and spoke slowly, "You didn't think about it. You just wanted to get the twenty taels of silver. After your deeds were exposed, you didn't feel the slightest bit of guilt towards anyone. Instead, you talked about your difficulties in detail and forced me to forgive you. This is pure moral kidnapping."

"You said I was a good person. I admit that, to a certain extent, I did a good job and was kind to the people around me. But this kindness was based on the fact that they were also kind to me, not because I felt pity for the people who hurt me."