Chapter 680 - 680: Someone is Stirring Up Trouble

Seeing the commotion inside getting worse, Zhao Yuan said, "Ling'Er, you wait outside with the teachers for a bit. I'm going in to see what's going on."

"Okay," Zhao Ling nodded.

Chen Xuezhi, Xu Yang, and the other teachers all knew how capable he was. They said, "Saving someone is what's important. You should hurry."

Zhao Yuan nodded, wasted no more time, and headed back into the prefabricated restaurant, striding toward the scene of the incident.

The site of the incident was already surrounded three-deep by a crowd of gawkers. Left with no choice, Zhao Yuan had to shout, "Excuse me, let me through! I'm a doctor, let me get in to check on the patient!" while forcefully pushing his way through the crowd.

Most people moved aside voluntarily when they heard he was a doctor. The few who were too engrossed in the spectacle to move were simply shoved aside by Zhao Yuan.

When he finally made it into the center of the crowd, he saw a woman in her late twenties clutching her stomach, her face contorted in pain. Beside her on the floor was a pool of vomit, which she had clearly just thrown up.

A man in his thirties, who looked like her husband, stood beside her, anxiously making a call for an ambulance on his phone.

"I'm a doctor. Can you tell me what's wrong?" Zhao Yuan approached, asking the question as he activated his Qi Observation Technique and Truth Recognition Technique. Simultaneously, he placed his hand on the woman's wrist to check her pulse.

The woman was in too much pain to answer. After finishing the emergency call, the man spoke for her, "While we were eating, my wife suddenly cried out that her stomach was bloating and hurting. Then she just curled into a ball in agony, breaking out in a cold sweat from the pain. You're a doctor? Please, do something, help my wife!"

Zhao Yuan nodded, but before he could reply, a clamor rose from the surrounding crowd.

"It must be a problem with the food!"

"Stomach pain and vomiting? If this isn't food poisoning, I don't know what is!"

"I can't believe Lakefront House uses bad ingredients. This is a reckless disregard for human life! We have to find their manager today and demand an explanation!"

Zhao Yuan's brow twitched. Others might not have noticed anything, but he immediately detected a strong, deliberate, and inflammatory tone in their shouts.

'It's obvious,' he thought, 'these people aren't speaking from genuine concern, but have some ulterior motive.'

Without turning his head, Zhao Yuan glanced at them from the corner of his eye, memorizing their features.

The other diners in the prefabricated restaurant, including the sick woman's husband, were all convinced it was food poisoning, believing the ingredients at Lakefront House were to blame. People were not only shouting for Lakefront House to give an explanation and compensation, but some of the more agitated ones had even grabbed a waiter and started cursing them out.

Seeing that the situation was about to spiral out of control, Zhao Yuan suddenly roared, "All of you, shut up!"

His shout was like a clap of thunder, stunning everyone into silence. The once-raucous restaurant fell suddenly quiet.

All eyes turned to him.

At that moment, Zhao Yuan offered his diagnosis. "The patient did indeed get sick from eating the wrong thing. But it has nothing to do with the quality of the food at Lakefront House."

"What do you mean by that?"

The crowd was astonished, and the troublemakers who had been fanning the flames spoke up again, shouting:

"I remember now! The waiter said you're a good friend of the owner. You're definitely on their side, trying to twist the truth!"

"You admitted she got sick from eating something, so why are you saying it has nothing to do with the food at Lakefront House? Did she get sick from eating something dirty outside? How could you possibly determine it was something she ate outside? Just by asking a few questions and checking her pulse? No wonder people say Traditional Chinese Medicine is a scam. It really is true!"

"And you call yourself a doctor? You have no medical ethics whatsoever! And this Lakefront House, not only do they poison their customers with bad ingredients, but after it happens, they don't even try to handle it. They just find a fraud to help them shirk responsibility. With an attitude like that, how can they stay in business? They should just shut down!"

Hearing their words, Zhao Yuan became even more certain they were here to stir up trouble. Otherwise, their words wouldn't be so targeted, and they wouldn't keep mentioning Lakefront House by name, as if afraid people would forget where they were.

After studying them for a few moments, Zhao Yuan made another discovery. A few of them were secretly recording with micro-cameras.

'These guys really are up to no good. They came prepared.'

'However, based on the reactions of the sick woman and her husband, they're not in on it with this group. I bet these troublemakers had some other plan, but before they could act, this incident happened. They seized the opportunity, hoping to use it to cause a scene.'

If this situation wasn't handled properly and they recorded it and spread it online, Lakefront House's reputation would undoubtedly take a huge hit!

But right now, saving the patient was the priority. As for these troublemakers, he could deal with them after the patient was treated. It wasn't like they could escape him, not when he had his Tracking Technique.

However, the sick woman's husband had been swayed by their words. He now suspected Zhao Yuan was in cahoots with Lakefront House and refused to trust him, even rejecting his offer to treat his wife.

Zhao Yuan explained, "I don't deny that I'm good friends with the owner of Lakefront House. But I never had any intention of covering for them. The reason this woman is suffering from abdominal pain, bloating, and vomiting is because she ate persimmons before her meal, and then ate crab."

Everyone turned to look at the table. There was indeed a plate of crab; the meat and roe had been eaten, leaving only a few empty shells piled on the discard plate.

They couldn't help but wonder, how did Zhao Yuan know the sick woman had eaten persimmons before coming here? And could eating persimmons and crab together really cause food poisoning? It seemed too incredible. He had to be making it up, right?

The sick woman's husband was also stunned for a moment, but then he asked in astonishment, "How did you know my wife ate persimmons before we came here to eat?"

"Huh?!"

The crowd gasped in unison.

"No way! She really ate persimmons?"

"How did this kid know she ate persimmons? Does he have x-ray vision or something?"

"They're not in on this together, are they? Putting on a show for us?"