Among the three brothers of the Xia family, the second branch was the least competitive. But the death of Xia Dingshan turned the tide.
Xia Dinghai took Yu'er away and mastered the technique of burning tiles, making him the future head of the Xia family. But now that she has taken Yu'er back, Xia Dinghai has no successor, so he is busy dividing the family.
In fact, it is not necessary to divide the family. Xia Dinghai is still young and can marry a concubine to help him bear a son. As far as she knows, Xia Dinghai is not a man who is afraid of his wife.
Unless he has something on the Song family, this handle must be very big.
Could it be related to Xia Dingshan’s death? No one can find him alive, and no one can find his body after he died. Whether he is dead or not depends entirely on Xia Dinghai’s words.
And what should she do to uncover the truth
Xia Qianqian tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, thinking about this matter all the time, until she fell into a drowsy sleep just before dawn.
Xia Qianqian woke up late the next day. She looked at the time and ran to the kitchen in a hurry.
Xia Yu called her: "Sister, have breakfast."
"I don't want to eat anymore. I have to go steam sweet potatoes..." Xia Qianqian stopped talking in the middle of her sentence, wondering, "Who made breakfast?"
"Mom made it." Xia Yu handed over the chopsticks with a smile, "Big sister, you have breakfast first. Mom has steamed the sweet potatoes and potatoes and is peeling them now."
Xia Qianqian breathed a sigh of relief: "Then let's eat quickly. We can do business later, but you can't be late for school."
While she was having breakfast, Qin Xue had helped prepare the raw materials. Xia Qianqian mixed and kneaded the dough according to the proportions, and then hurriedly took Xia Yu to the town.
The weather is fine and everything is normal.
Xia Qianqian’s meatballs are mainly ordered by customers in restaurants, and her business is very stable.
But at noon, something unexpected happened. The guests at two tables who ordered meatballs all had abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Soon after, several residents of the town came with their children to cause trouble: "Miss Xia, what's wrong with your meatballs? My child has a stomachache after eating them."
"It happens to me too. I get diarrhea after eating it. Could it be poisonous?"
Xia Qianqian was shocked: "This is impossible."
"But several of our children developed symptoms after eating your meatballs. We went to see the doctor, and he said it was food poisoning."
"How could it be poisonous?" Xia Qianqian's face turned pale, she had a bad feeling.
If only one person came to ask for trouble, it might be blackmail, but if so many people came, then there must be something wrong with the thing.
Today's ingredients were prepared by Qin Xue, but everything was readily available at home and could not be poisonous.
"Miss Xia, you are not making money against your conscience. You need to give an explanation for what happened today, otherwise we will report it to the police."
"Yes, fortunately the child just had a stomachache. If he had been poisoned to death, how would you compensate us?"
The victims' families were arguing with each other and surrounded Xia Qianqian's stall, making it impossible for her to run the business.
In order to verify whether there is any problem with the meatballs, Xia Qianqian ate more than ten meatballs in public: "Don't panic, I will verify it myself. If there is any problem with my meatballs, I will definitely give you an explanation!"
"Okay, we'll wait. You must give us an explanation today!"
"If you can't explain it today, don't even think about leaving Pingning Town!"
Those villagers who were in a hurry took their children to see a doctor first, while those who were not in a hurry or came to watch the fun waited outside the Jingxia Restaurant.
Manager Liu had good eyesight and told Gu Changsheng when he heard something was wrong. Gu Changsheng was shocked and hurried out to see what was going on.
(End of this chapter)