Chapter 33

Mu Jinyuan ignored Chen Dali’s clamoring and turned a cold gaze toward the manager. "Manager, my mother was in poor health before, so she let Wan Niang manage the shops on her behalf. But you had no right to use such dirty tactics to embezzle the shops' funds! You served spoiled ingredients that made customers sick, and then used the reputation of the State Protector Estate to threaten those victims into silence. On the other hand, you would go to my mother to demand five hundred taels of compensation per victim. Year-round, you reported eight or nine cases of food poisoning to the estate. The difference in price between quality and spoiled ingredients, combined with the compensation money, all ended up in your own pocket!" "That is a minor offense compared to the rest. By using the influence of the State Protector Estate to frighten victims into silence, you have committed the grave crime of showing a callous disregard for human life, should any of those victims suffer long-term consequences!" "Falsely implicating the State Protector Estate is an even greater crime of defamation!"