What Kind of Video
Shen Yiqiu composed herself and said to Sun Miao: “Don’t you worry, I definitely won’t let you be bullied for nothing. That person is really too much. I definitely won’t let him bully you again!”
Sun Miao didn’t know what Shen Yiqiu was going to do, but her dress and speech showed she was not an ordinary person; perhaps she was also in the upper echelons of the research institute. But for that troublemaking man to be the contractor at the research institute for so long, there must be someone behind him. So Sun Miao just shook her head: “It’s fine, it’s really not a big deal. There’s no need to do this for me.”
Most importantly, Sun Miao didn’t want Shen Yiqiu to go up against others because of her. She neither wanted to owe a favor, nor did she want this very gentle auntie, who bore some resemblance to Su Ruixi, to get into trouble because of her own affairs.
Seeing her expression, Shen Yiqiu knew what Sun Miao was thinking. She smiled: “You don’t need to worry. For me, it’s nothing more than the effort of raising a hand. You don’t need to take it to heart either. Yesterday he also cut in my line and bumped into me. Even if it’s for my own sake, I have to make some trouble for him.”
Sun Miao had tried to persuade her, but Shen Yiqiu’s mind was made up, so she didn’t say any more, just asked her: “Then how many today?”
Shen Yiqiu bought four more and also asked about Sun Miao’s stall hours. She answered truthfully: “It’s from 6 in the morning to 6 in the evening. If I sell out, I’ll close early. The day before yesterday, I sold out by noon. But there are more people setting up stalls today, so maybe I’ll stay a little later.”
Shen Yiqiu nodded, holding the yangyu potato cake, and left first. She entered the research institute, and before she could even sit down, she received a message from her daughter. This was all public information; it could be found with a little checking, didn’t involve personal privacy at all, and wasn’t illegal.
It was worth mentioning that this contractor had previously been in the food business in another district, but was repeatedly criticized and ordered to suspend business for rectification due to hygiene issues. He had also been detained several times for fighting. To put it simply, he had piled-up previous convictions1. Whether in terms of character or in the food business, he was an untrustworthy fellow.
Inside there was also a video, downloaded from the internet, with the blogger’s mark in the upper right corner. It was clear that it was from the official account of the food supervision department in another district. Official personnel conducted an investigation after receiving a report, and then this video was made.
The official account filmed the entire back kitchen environment. Shen Yiqiu took one look and felt her stomach churning. She closed the video without hesitation, deciding to watch it after she finished her breakfast.
This also made Shen Yiqiu’s eyebrows immediately knit together. She actually did eat lunch at the research institute. However, she didn’t go to the cafeteria, but had her assistant bring it over for her. It looked reasonably hygienic and tasty, but the moment she thought that the restaurant in the video was opened by the contractor, she didn’t feel the cafeteria could be any better.
After Shen Yiqiu finished her breakfast and felt her stomach had been soothed, she once again mustered her courage and clicked on the video. She watched the entire thing with a frown: the refrigerator wasn’t cooling, bloody water flowed all over the floor, there were cockroaches and rats flying everywhere, food was placed on top of the squat toilet… Even though Shen Yiqiu had imagined it would be bad, she hadn’t expected it to be bad to this degree.
This time she didn’t hesitate, and directly forwarded the video to the research institute’s high-level management group chat.
As everyone started typing question marks, Shen Yiqiu said directly: This is the video of our research institute’s cafeteria contractor being investigated on the spot before. With this kind of thing, it’s very hard for me to feel at ease.
This time, it really stirred up a huge wave. Many of the research institute’s leaders ate in the cafeteria. After they saw the video, they couldn’t help but feel a bout of turning rivers and overturning seas2. The final result was two words: investigate thoroughly, and they also requested a similar video to be filmed. As it concerned their own food safety, the video was reported back very quickly. Before it was even time for lunch, it had already been sent to the group chat.
It could be seen that the person who filmed the video had a bit of petty cleverness. It was a kind of undercover filming, capturing the situation of the cafeteria’s back kitchen in full detail.
How to put it… after Shen Yiqiu finished watching, she didn’t want to eat lunch today. Even the yangyu potato cake made by Sun Miao couldn’t arouse Shen Yiqiu’s appetite. It was slightly better, but not by much. Things like green vegetables were just rinsed a bit before being directly chopped and put in the pot, and meat dishes were just frozen products. In the back kitchen, where bloody water should flow on the floor, it still flowed on the floor. A mop that had been used to mop up the bloody water was placed directly into the sink, and then they continued to wash green vegetables in it.
She didn’t know what the other leaders thought, but anyway, Shen Yiqiu estimated it would be very difficult for her to eat in the research institute’s cafeteria again.
The leader in charge of finance even started cursing loudly: “How much do we allocate to the cafeteria every year, and this is the result we get in return?! It’s too outrageous! If the researchers eat this kind of thing, how can they still do research? They might as well just squat in the toilet all day!”
The head of logistics stammered, unable to speak for a long time.
Shen Yiqiu snorted. Seeing the leaders’ chat in the group and their decision to hold a meeting in the afternoon, she knew that the troublemaking man could no longer get by in the research institute.
Her mood became good again, but she definitely couldn’t eat lunch. When it was evening, Shen Yiqiu still held a bit of hope, wishing she could eat some yangyu potato cake. But Shen Yiqiu was clearly thinking too much. Although she had no appetite for lunch, everyone else did. Sun Miao’s little stall closed early; it sold out by high noon and she went straight home.
When she got home, she took a nap. When she woke up, she saw that the lawyer xiaojiejie3 had sent her the latest information, telling her not to worry, that everything was under control. She also asked if Sun Miao wanted her little cart back first. Because she had a spare one, Sun Miao wasn’t in a hurry, so she told the lawyer to leave it there; it would be fine to get it back after everything was over.
The next day, which was the fourth day Sun Miao was selling yangyu potato cake, she was still waiting for the other members of the contractor’s team to come and make trouble for them, the small stall bosses. As a result, for the entire day, she didn’t see a single person come over. Sun Miao went home and told Su Ruixi about this. Su Ruixi just smiled and said to her: “Maybe they themselves are unable to attend to everything.”
Sun Miao was a little curious about what exactly was going on. Su Ruixi told her to put her ear close to listen, and she heard Su Ruixi’s voice say softly: “It’s just that he had a video that was filmed by the official food supervision department before, and for some reason, it reached the ears of the research institute’s leaders. They found someone internally to film the back kitchen, and as a result, there was still a whole bunch of problems.”
“Now that the contractor is not here, the second-in-command of their team is temporarily taking the blame. How would they have the time to go find trouble with those stall keepers.” Su Ruixi’s smile carried a hint of maliciousness: “Maybe they won’t be able to get by here at all.”
“What kind of video?”
Hearing Sun Miao’s question, Su Ruixi felt a little bit angry. She had said so much, yet Sun Miao was most concerned about the video. Su Ruixi pouted: “If you watch it, you might just throw up the dinner you just ate.”
“I won’t, Susu-jie, let me see.”
Su Ruixi had always been helpless against a coquettish Sun Miao, especially when she looked at her with doggy eyes. Su Ruixi only wished she could present all the good things in the world to Sun Miao, let alone a garbage video? It was just that this garbage video was indeed a bit too garbage.
Sun Miao was a child who grew up among poor people, so she naturally knew very well how dirty some fly restaurants4 could be. But the price corresponding to their dirtiness was just that; it was indeed cheap. At that price, what bicycle do you still want5? Not clean not dirty, eat without getting sick6. Just comfort yourself and it would pass.
But this one was not okay. Looking at its storefront, it seemed quite high-end, and there were many food delivery guys going in and out. One portion would cost at least 20-something yuan, yet the back kitchen environment was made into this? Even Sun Miao felt disgusted looking at it, let alone Su Ruixi who was a bit of a neat freak?
After she realized this, she closed the video, turned off the phone screen, leaned over towards Su Ruixi, and then hugged Su Ruixi and started being coquettish: “Susu-jie, tell me honestly, for this matter to ferment so quickly, did you help?”
This sentence made Su Ruixi stiffen slightly. The two of them were leaning so close, this small change in Su Ruixi couldn’t be hidden from Sun Miao at all. She immediately realized: that’s right, Su Ruixi did it for her. She found the troublemaking man unpleasant to the eye, so she also found trouble for him.
But Su Ruixi still had to pretend like nothing happened, appearing as if the wind is light and the clouds are pale7, saying: “I didn’t do much.” After a while, she added in a small voice: “Will you hate it?”
“What?”
Her voice became even lighter: “Me doing this behind your back, will you hate it?”
Sun Miao smiled even more happily. She straightened up a little, and planted a big kiss on the cheek of Su Ruixi who was sitting on the sofa: “Susu-jie, how can you be so cute!”
She really displayed both the ‘ao’ and ‘jiao’ of aojiao8 vividly and thoroughly. Hearing herself being called cute, she was still a little awkward: “I’m being serious.”
“How could I possibly hate it? I’m too happy to have time for that!”
With this sentence, the corners of Su Ruixi’s mouth also unconsciously curled up.
The two of them didn’t need to worry about the troublemaking man’s matter; things would naturally move towards a good result. Sun Miao then shifted the topic to something else: “Susu-jie, the plum rain season is coming soon. I’m going to rest for many days.”
This was not the first time Su Ruixi had heard Sun Miao say this, but this time she realized that Sun Miao wanted to discuss with her what they should do. If Su Ruixi indicated that she was busy, she would make her own arrangements. Su Ruixi had been thinking about taking Sun Miao out to have fun, and it just so happened that her recent work had also come to an end.
In the previous period, she was mainly busy with the collaboration case after parting on bad terms9 with Zhang Qiang. After such a long time, it was finally wrapping up. She rarely had time, and Sun Miao was also going to rest. It was a rare opportunity for the two of them to spend a long time together.
According to Su Ruixi’s thoughts, she… she was a little bit not suitable for children. She wanted to fool around with Sun Miao in bed. After all, she was the receiving party and didn’t need to expend much effort. The two of them were also passionately in love, so naturally, she wanted to pull Sun Miao along every day and just live a shameful world for two.
But Sun Miao probably didn’t want to do that… After all, Sun Miao was usually quite busy. If she was pulled into doing hard labor10 during a rare long vacation, even if Sun Miao was very willing, Su Ruixi would feel bad for her. Plus, they had talked about going out to have fun before, so Su Ruixi still decided: go out, take a trip.
Su Ruixi leaned over and chatted with Sun Miao in a low voice: “Let’s not hang around here. During the plum rain season in the south, it’s always dripping and pattering non-stop. Let’s go up north. Is there any place you want to go?”
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