"The dish was served to me by one of your servers! Don’t think you can just push the blame onto me and claim I’m falsely accusing you! Everyone knows that money can make the devil turn the millstones, for all I know, you may have already bribed the County Government. Even if they come to inspect, and even if they find mice, they’ll still say there are no mice in your restaurant!"
Upon hearing the words of the bearded and burly man, everyone else found the reasoning sound and began to waver once more.
That’s when Wang Youbao became frantic. It didn’t matter whether everyone fully believed there were mice in his restaurant, or just believed it a little, or even if they merely harbored doubts—any suspicion of mice was a deathblow to his establishment.
No one would ever want to dine in a restaurant where there might be mice!
"The disgust of eating such foul food was enough to make me sick," the bearded and burly man continued angrily, not giving Wang Youbao a chance to speak, "and seeing such a disgusting proprietor like you just adds to it! I have other business to attend to and do not have the time to argue with you further. Consider me unlucky today, but don’t ever think I’ll dine in your restaurant again!"
With that, the bearded and burly man attempted to leave.
But he had only taken one step when he tripped over a foot that Xiao Changyi had suddenly extended, sending him sprawling forward, and then crashing heavily to the ground.
"Changyi!" Wang Youbao only then noticed that Xiao Changyi and An Jing were also present, and his surprise turned to elation as if he had found a pillar of support.
"Who’s the bastard that dared trip me?!"
The bearded and burly man, completely unprepared, fell to the ground. It was painful; he propped himself up on his hands, intending to retaliate against the person who had tripped him. But as he lifted himself slightly, Xiao Changyi stepped on his right hand.
Xiao Changyi pressed down on the back of the man’s right hand, seemingly without much force, and then ground it a bit, causing the man to cry out in pain. He wanted to strike back with his other hand, but before he could reach Xiao Changyi’s leg, Xiao’s other foot pressed down on his shoulder, smashing him back to the ground.
The weight on his shoulder was like a nail, pinning him firmly to the ground, making it impossible for him to rise again.
With his right hand still pinned, he tried to pull it free to no avail.
The pain from his shoulder and right hand made him hiss in agony; even though his left hand could move, it was to no avail.
An Jing walked over to the other side of the bearded and burly man, then slowly and deliberately raised her foot and pressed it onto the man’s left hand.
Caught off-guard once again, the man cried out in pain when An Jing stepped heavily on his hand.
The onlookers winced as if they felt the pain in their own hands.
Ignoring those around her, An Jing kept her foot on the man’s left hand, then slowly squatted down and said with a smile, "Call me ’Grandma’."
The bearded and burly man knew he had met his match and, fearing more suffering, had no choice but to obey, immediately crying out, "Grandma, Grandma, Grandma, I beg Grandma to spare your grandson!"
"Call him ’Grandpa’." An Jing indicated with her chin for the bearded and burly man to look at Xiao Changyi.
The man immediately turned his face towards Xiao Changyi, who had one foot on his right hand and the other on his shoulder, standing as immovable as Mount Tai, and shouted repeatedly, "Grandpa, Grandpa, I was wrong to not recognize you just now, please, Grandpa, show mercy and spare your grandson!"
An Jing seemed satisfied and stood up straight, collecting herself. She ground her heel into the hand of the bearded and burly man a bit more, causing him to scream in pain again.