"I wonder if this big brother has ever heard of the saying, 'There are always people who are better than you, and there are always things that are better than you.'" Jiang Miao looked at Xu Sheng who was speaking, "Just because you can't make delicious buns doesn't mean others can't make them either. It's easy to wrongly accuse others, so let me ask you, can you provide evidence to prove that I put meat in it?"
The stall owner Xu Sheng said, "Of course I can't produce any evidence, but this customer just took one bite and exposed you, so I'm sure he can produce evidence."
"That's right. You want to hide it from others, but you can't hide it from me!" The guest naturally took over the conversation, "I grew up by the sea. My family is engaged in fishing. Naturally, I eat a lot of things caught from the sea, especially shrimps!"
Jiang Miao and Daniu were both shocked. This person specifically mentioned the word "shrimp" when he spoke, which showed that he was well prepared. It was probably because someone heard what they said in the morning. Daniu felt a little ashamed. If he hadn't asked, Jiang Xiaoge wouldn't have answered, and he wouldn't have let others hear it, so there wouldn't have been this trouble.
Jiang Miao didn't think so. He felt that these people dared to set up a trap to harm him just because they overheard a few words, which showed that they had bad intentions towards him. Now that he knew how they would deal with him, he felt relieved. He had just thought that these people would hide some meat in his bag!
"You mean I put shrimps in it?" Jiang Miao asked, his lips curled slightly in a playful smile.
Xu Sheng, who was standing by, saw that he was not panicked, and suddenly felt something was wrong. He must be pretending! Xu Sheng comforted himself, seeing that his friend looked guilty, he must have let him go.
"Of course, didn't you secretly put shrimps in there because you thought that Liangjing is not near the sea and people don't often eat shrimps? You thought people couldn't taste it, but I happened to be the one to do it today! It's okay for you to put these shrimps in normally, but you really shouldn't have put them in these few days. Everyone comes to worship Buddha with a pious heart, and you still give everyone meat. What's your intention?" The guest said it with righteousness, as if he was exposing some unforgivable social cancer for everyone.
At this time, the customers who had bought the buns but had not finished eating them tore the buns apart, wanting to see if there were really shrimps inside, but there was nothing else filling inside except dried tofu and radish.
Seeing everyone's questioning looks, the customer said, "Of course he didn't put in a whole shrimp. He put in shrimp powder. Isn't this the same as the noodle stall owner who used animal oil to make noodles two years ago?"
"No wonder, these past two days I saw him taking a small paper bag and pouring something into the stuffing, it turned out to be shrimp powder. You deliberately ground the shrimp into powder and put it in the buns for people to eat, so that everyone would commit a taboo and fail to achieve enlightenment!" Xu Sheng had a look of sudden enlightenment on his face, and stood up righteously to expose Jiang Miao. As soon as he finished speaking, there was a booing sound from the crowd.
"This is too immoral!"
"Yes, how can one's heart be so bad?"
"What are you waiting for? Go up and knock down his stall. Let's see if he dares to set up a stall here again."
Jiang Miao sneered, maybe the noodle stall owner two years ago was framed by this routine.
He looked around and saw that the people around him seemed to be ready to make a move, as if they had been persuaded. He immediately said loudly: "Everyone, don't get excited. Even in a court trial, the criminal has the opportunity to defend himself. How can they overturn my stall just based on a few words from the two of them? People say that there are gods above your heads. You are afraid of taboos when eating meat, but now you are doing such a conscienceless thing at the foot of Puling Temple, in front of the Buddha. Why aren't you afraid of angering the Buddha?!"
He looked at the guest and Xu Sheng, his black and white eyes exuding a sense of oppression, and the two people who were being stared at and questioned by him instantly felt a little uncomfortable. The other guests were also intimidated by his powerful words, and no one dared to come forward for a while.
"Don't be so unreasonable. What you put in it was shrimp powder. If you want everyone to believe it, you have to take out the powder and show it to us!" the customer said with difficulty.
"Okay, I can take the things out. But I can't suffer in vain. Tell me, if I can prove that I didn't put any meat in there, what will you do?"
"..." The guest glanced at Xu Sheng obscurely and said, "If you didn't release it, I would apologize to you."
"It's ridiculous. Do you think your words are worth a thousand gold? You have tarnished my reputation, and an apology is not worth anything. Why don't you bet something actual, ten taels of silver? If I let you go, I will give you ten taels of silver on the spot and promise not to set up a stall here again. However, if it is proved that you have wronged me, you must compensate me ten taels of silver. The guests present are all witnesses between you and me. How about it, do you dare to bet with me?" Jiang Miao had a smile on his face, but there was a frost in his eyes.
He left a sentence in a panic: "Madman, who wants to bet with you? You know whether you let it go or not!" After saying that, he waved away the crowd and ran away like his butt was on fire. Everyone was still clear about it and felt a little ashamed.
"I swear in front of the Buddha that I, Jiang Miao, have definitely not added any meat to the buns these past two days. If I'm lying, I'll have my intestines pierced and my stomach ruptured, and I'll die a miserable death!" Jiang Miao didn't want to be stained by any dirty water, so he swore in front of everyone. Then he turned to face Xu Sheng and said, "This stall owner seemed to have some doubts about me just now. Do you want to bet with me too?"
Xu Sheng immediately frowned, pretending to be heartbroken, and sincerely apologized to Jiang Miao: "Oh, I was blinded today. I didn't expect to be deceived by that villain and almost misunderstood you, Jiang Xiaoge. I'm so sorry! I believe there are many people like me who have been deceived by that person. I suggest that everyone come out and apologize to Jiang Xiaoge. After all, we almost wronged him."
"..." This guy is still shameless. Jiang Miao was almost laughed out of anger. What's the matter? Not only did he just perform a double act, but now he wants to make the law not punish everyone
Jiang Miao said: "Even if the others had doubts, they didn't say it out loud. Only you just echoed what the customer said, as if you would not give up unless I accepted the punishment. I also know that there is such a thing as peer contempt, but I have never thought of ruining someone's reputation and destroying their livelihood. Of course, you can also insist that you were cheated, but I still want to remind you that if you encounter the same thing again in the future, don't trust others as easily as you did today and rush to be the first to do it!"
Xu Sheng's face turned red and white. Looking back, it was extremely embarrassing to be scolded like a grandson by a young boy like Jiang Miao in front of everyone. But in this situation, he had to obey.
"Hey, this guy selling buns speaks very clearly."
Everyone was so busy watching the farce that no one noticed a carriage quietly parked on a steep slope not far away. The carriage had no unique patterns and was the same as the ones that ordinary people ride. But judging by the curtains on the windows and doors, it was not something that ordinary people could afford.
The person who was speaking was surnamed Han, with a given name of Qin. Just like his name, he had a pair of affectionate peach blossom eyes. No matter who he looked at, he seemed to be filled with lingering love, which made people blush unconsciously. He was lazily leaning on the seat, his slender fingers lifted a corner of the curtain, and he was watching the scene below the slope with interest.
The person he was talking to was sitting on the other side. He was dressed in a blue shirt, very plainly. Even in the carriage, he kept his back straight, like a pine tree on a snowy mountain, unwilling to relax even a little. He was holding a chess book in his hand, and seemed to be concentrating on studying the solution to the endgame in it. But if you look closely, his eyes are not on the book, but following the corner that Han Qin opened, looking at the steamed bun boy who was talking in the crowd.
"Ah Che, I'm talking to you!" Han Qin didn't get a response, so he reached out and tried to take the book from Pei Che's hand, but Pei Che dodged it and slapped Han Qin's outstretched paw with the book.
Hearing Han Qin's cry that he was too cruel, Pei Che frowned slightly and finally put down the book he had been holding all the way.
"Am I too cruel? What you said along the way was all nonsense, making people's ears restless. You should be thankful that I was the one going down the mountain with you. If it were Su Jin, I would have gagged you and thrown you out of the carriage long ago." As if he remembered something, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a faint smile. With this smile, it was as if a beam of light was shining into the carriage, and it was much brighter than before.
People all say that Master Pei of the Duke Zhongguo's Mansion is good-looking, but whether to describe him as handsome or gentle as jade, it is too shallow. Once a master painter wanted to paint him, but after looking at him for a long time, he could only put down his brush listlessly, sighing that his brush was not strong enough, and he was afraid that the painting could only show a little bit of Master Pei's grace. If that was the case, it would be better not to paint him.
Han Qin held his hurt hand, and was somewhat dazed by his smile. After coming to his senses, he sighed in his heart, when will this guy stop being so venomous? How could such a handsome face happen to be on him, and he was also an unromantic person. He was willing to accompany him down the mountain just to avoid the beauty. It was such a waste of this face!
Jiang Miao didn't know that the person he tried so hard to see yesterday was now a little above him. Even if he knew, he didn't have the mood to look at him again.
Because of the two people, one big and one small, in front of him, he was a little at a loss at the moment.
"You are Brother Sanshui, right? Why don't you go back? Little Shitou is about to be sold!"
(End of this chapter)