Chapter 707 - 737: Just in Case
"Oh, my life is so hard! That food was so expensive. We figured it must be especially delicious, so we saved up just to eat there once. Who would have thought they’d put... *that stuff* in the food! My poor husband... if something happens to him, how will I go on?"
The woman’s gestures and expressions were extremely exaggerated, and her voice was very loud. And this was her being somewhat restrained, considering she was in a hospital.
Otherwise, you could have heard her from a mile away.
Sun Lili stood to the side with a grim expression, patiently negotiating with the police officers. Next to her was a man, also speaking calmly about something.
But the woman was too hysterical, frequently interrupting their conversation.
Finally, the woman sat on the floor and started throwing a fit. "I don’t care! They nearly poisoned my husband to death! Not only do they have to pay up, but their restaurant needs to be shut down, and the owner thrown in jail!"
The police officer beside her looked helpless.
Qin Jiao stepped forward and said, "What if the poison was something your husband brought into the restaurant himself and ingested?"
The woman making a scene first saw a pair of small, brown leather boots, then looked up to see a young, beautiful woman. Though she was smiling, she had a powerful presence and her eyes were sharp.
It was as if her gaze could see right through to the filth in a person’s heart.
The woman subconsciously shrank back and muttered, "Who are you? Mind your own business!"
Qin Jiao said, "Oh, I’m the owner you were saying should be thrown in jail."
"You..." The woman realized who she was and immediately grew bold again. "So you’re the owner! Officer, get over here! Arrest her, quick!"
Sun Lili had been suppressing her anger for a while now. She flared up, "Arrest who? Will you ever stop? There’s a limit to this nonsense, you know! Nothing’s even been cleared up yet, who are they going to arrest?"
The woman retorted, "What’s not clear? My husband ate at your restaurant and was nearly poisoned to death, wasn’t he? I don’t care, you have to pay up! If I don’t get 500,000, this isn’t over!"
Sun Lili’s eyes went wide. "Five hundred thousand? Why don’t you just rob a bank?!"
The man in the suit was trying to calm Sun Lili down, but Qin Jiao also took a step forward. "Lili, calm down. Actually, the matter is already clear."
Everyone looked at her.
Sun Lili and the man were stunned. The police officers also looked over, while a triumphant smirk appeared on the woman’s face.
Qin Jiao said to the police, "This woman and her husband were incited by someone else to engage in malicious competition against my restaurant. They brought the substance into the restaurant themselves, secretly consumed it, and are now using it for extortion."
Li Man stepped forward from the side, handed a chip to the police officers, and said, "This is the evidence."
"Hey, wait, what’s the meaning of this? My husband had his accident in their restaurant! What can a tiny little thing like that prove?"
Seeing how Qin Jiao remained calm and composed the entire time, and considering the woman had been causing an unreasonable scene, the scales of justice in the officers’ minds were already tipping in Qin Jiao’s favor.
Now, all that was left was to examine the evidence.
One of the officers carefully put the chip away. He asked in surprise, "You actually have these installed in your restaurant?"
Qin Jiao glanced at the completely dumbfounded woman with a meaningful expression. "To be prepared for unforeseen needs."
’And now, haven’t they come in handy?’
Leaving one officer behind to watch over the man with food poisoning at the hospital, the rest relocated to the police station to view the video chip on a computer.
The video clearly recorded the truth. At that moment, the woman’s knees buckled, and she collapsed to the floor.
Qin Jiao looked down at her. "Who put you up to this?"