"Compensation?" Wei Dongling let out a cold laugh. She glanced at the three people on the ground and then said loudly to the onlookers, "As the steward of the Listening Wind Pavilion, I dare to guarantee in front of all of you that if there is any safety issue with any cup of milk tea in our pavilion, I will not only compensate a hundredfold but also cover the medical expenses!"
Compensate a hundredfold? The onlookers started to murmur at this statement.
The short and fat man leaning against the door, covering his abdomen and moaning in pain, roared angrily, "It's clearly your milk tea that's unclean, which has made us suffer from severe abdominal pain! You're spouting nonsense and distorting the truth, making things sound better than they are. Then why don't you just pay up?"
The other two people on the ground echoed him one after another.
Wei Dongling scoffed loudly, "If you have abdominal pain because of the quality of our milk tea, I'll give you a hundred times the money without a second word! But if you ate something bad outside and are trying to frame us and deliberately disrupt our store's reputation, then don't blame me for reporting you to the authorities. You'll have to face the consequences for extortion!"
The onlookers outside started to murmur again.
The faces of the three people on the ground changed slightly. The short and fat man snorted coldly, "Why would we deliberately extort you? It's clearly your store's milk tea that has problems!"
Wei Dongling loudly asked A Cheng behind her, "A Cheng, how many cups of milk tea have we sold today?"
A Cheng held the record book and bowed, answering, "Miss, we've sold seventy - six cups today."
Wei Dongling glanced at the people on the ground and said coldly, "Did you hear that clearly? Since our store opened, we've sold so many cups of milk tea, and not a single one had a quality problem! Among the seventy - six cups sold today, only you three have objections, while the others are all fine! Isn't this extortion?"
The face of the short and fat man on the ground changed. He shouted, "You're just being unreasonable! How can you guarantee that the others who drank the milk tea today are all okay?"
Wei Dongling bowed to the onlookers outside and loudly asked, "Among the folks here, is there anyone who has drunk our store's milk tea today?"
"Yes!" A person squeezed out from the crowd.
Wei Dongling took a closer look and saw that it was the fat son of Boss Yang from the Changyun Cloth Store opposite! Wei Dongling smiled slightly and asked, "Which kind of milk tea did you drink in our store today, sir?"
Young Master Yang replied honestly in a proper manner, "I didn't want to have breakfast today, so I came here and bought a cup of bubble milk tea."
Wei Dongling asked, "Did you feel severe abdominal pain after drinking it, sir?"
Young Master Yang shook his head and said, "I come here to drink milk tea every day, and I've never had any discomfort! Today's cup of milk tea was extremely delicious. I even felt that one cup wasn't enough."
Hearing this, the onlookers couldn't help but burst into laughter.
The faces of the three people on the ground looked quite unpleasant.
Wei Dongling waved her hand and told A Cheng, "From now on, this sir can get free refills on milk tea whenever he comes."
"Yes!"
The crowd gasped in surprise. Free refills for life! How could there be such an offer?
Young Master Yang quickly bowed to express his gratitude and happily squeezed back into the crowd.
Wei Dongling looked at the three people lying crookedly on the ground, spread her hands, and shouted, "Others didn't have any problems after drinking it, but only you feel uncomfortable. Isn't this extortion?"
Another thin man on the ground covered his stomach and shouted, "Who knows if that person is your accomplice? I started to have severe abdominal cramps right after drinking your milk tea. I can hardly stand! Your milk tea does taste good, but who knows if you've added something addictive to it? You want to make a fortune unscrupulously while doing such a deceptive thing!" The other two beside him echoed him.
Added something addictive? Did this mean that the Listening Wind Pavilion had added a slow - acting poison to make the milk tea taste good?
Seeing this, the onlookers started to whisper to each other again.
"If you keep spouting nonsense, do you believe I'll sue you for slander!" Wei Dongling looked fierce and sneered coldly, "You claim to be suffering from severe abdominal pain, but your voice sounds full of energy! Could it be that your abdominal pain is just an act?"
The onlookers were in an uproar.
Seeing the onlookers discussing animatedly, the short and fat man on the ground covered his stomach and moaned, "Ouch, I'm having such severe abdominal cramps. I'm about to die! This milk tea is undrinkable. It's poisonous! Folks, don't buy it!"
Hearing this, the other two on the ground also started to moan one after another. For a moment, the moans were continuous, which made the onlookers discuss heatedly.
"Seeing how much pain they seem to be in, could it be that the milk tea really has problems?"
"Hey! Who knows! For safety's sake, let's not drink it in the future."
Hearing the whispers in the crowd, Wei Dongling's face instantly turned unpleasant. If this rumor spread, the business of the Listening Wind Pavilion would probably plummet. The branch store in Lanshan might not be able to stay stable in the public opinion and might not even be able to open normally.
Wei Dongling knew in her heart that the more under the public eye, the less she could back down. Otherwise, the claim that the milk tea had problems would be confirmed.
She took a step forward and said coldly, "Since you all insist that it's our store's milk tea that has problems and has caused your continuous abdominal pain, our store, following the principle of being magnanimous and repaying evil with kindness, will invite a doctor to treat you! I'll say it again. If our store's milk tea has problems, I'm willing to compensate a hundredfold and close the store for good. But if you're maliciously slandering us and trying to extort money, justice will prevail. You'll end up in jail!"
Seeing Wei Dongling speak so righteously and firmly, the onlookers didn't know which side to believe for a moment.
At this time, Cui Huan pushed through the crowd and shouted to Wei Dongling, "Make way! Make way! Miss Wei, I've invited Doctor Feng from the East Gate Medical Hall!" With that, she led an old man with white hair and a rosy complexion in.
Wei Dongling quickly curtsied to Doctor Feng and said loudly, "Thank you for making this trip, Doctor Feng. These three people are lying in our store and claiming that they've had continuous abdominal cramps after drinking our store's milk tea. Please help to treat them."
"Sure thing." Doctor Feng put down his medicine box and immediately started to examine the patients by observing, listening, asking, and feeling their pulses.
The onlookers recognized that this old man was indeed the highly - respected Doctor Feng from the East Gate Medical Hall. They all craned their necks to watch more closely.
After a while, after examining all three people, Doctor Feng stood up and replied, "These three people have the same symptoms. It's indeed caused by eating the wrong thing."
The onlookers, who had been quiet for a long time, instantly burst into a frenzy.
The thin man on the ground shouted to the crowd, "It's because we drank their milk tea! Everyone, don't be deceived by them!"
Wei Dongling remained calm and asked rhetorically, "You're so sure that our store's milk tea has problems. Then let me ask you, which kind of milk tea did you drink today?"
The thin man on the ground replied, "I drank your taro ball milk tea."
Wei Dongling waved her hand and told A Cheng, "Ask someone to bring out all the ingredients and the taro ball milk tea!"