Chapter 296: Chapter 275: New Grudges and Old Scores

Xianyu Village is right by the sea. In recent years, with the vigorous development of tourism, the seafood here has gained some fame.

As soon as Boss Xiao Zhou mentioned Old Sun’s fish, the few remaining villagers watching on understood.

The Sun Family is one of the wealthiest in the nearby villages. Old Sun only started his aquaculture business at the beginning of the year. His son-in-law has connections in the city, and Old Sun himself is capable and smart. From the beginning of the year until now, it’s been running quite well. They’ve even hired a lot of people to help, paying them wages. Now, whenever someone comes to the village to buy goods, they first go to the Sun Family.

The village’s impression of Old Sun is quite good, except for Sun Chong, who Xiao Zhou just mentioned.

Sun Chong is Old Sun’s son. He was spoiled by his grandmother, Granny Sun, from a young age. After finally graduating from college, Sun Chong dismisses this and doesn’t want that, never going out to find a job, and just loafs around the nearby villages.

Sun Chong always talks about how he’ll inherit the family business in the future and doesn’t need to work. At night, he occasionally comes to eat at Xiao Zhou’s restaurant. Over time, their relationship has improved a lot.

This time, Xiao Zhou wanted to get fish from Sun Chong, banking on this relationship.

The Sun Family usually boasts about the fish they raise as if they’re something special. This time, Xiao Zhou encountered a celebrity live-stream, so of course, he wanted to ride the wave of popularity. He gave Sun Chong five hundred yuan to get a big fish from home.

The five hundred wasn’t just for buying the fish, it was also for marketing, and for smoothing relations with Sun Chong.

Now, with more tourists in the area, once the show “Life Experience” airs on TV, and people know this handsome guy named Zhu Xiu’an ate fish here, won’t everyone come to try it? Then, he’ll surely face more urgent times like this, and by maintaining good relations with Sun Chong, he could get anything he needs.

Xiao Zhou even secretly took several photos of Zhu Xiu’an, just waiting to order large banners to hang at his store entrance to attract customers.

The only thing he didn’t anticipate was that Zhu Xiu’an encountered an incident before he could even implement his marketing strategy.

At this point, Xiao Zhou didn’t dare to hide anything. To clear any suspicion, he told Ji Xizhi everything.

Ji Xizhi initially asked casually, habitually trying to understand the details.

The incident happened in the restaurant with Zhu Xiu’an, and as “Life Experience” is a live program, she went in to ask about the situation, also giving the owner a chance to buffer the explanation. Otherwise, the restaurant’s details might have already been exposed before Zhu Xiu’an’s test results came out. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novelꞁire.net

Ji Xizhi had just finished studying online violence and was particularly sensitive about this. So she came in.

She had just heard Xiao Zhou talking about putting Zhu Xiu’an’s photos at the entrance to attract customers and instinctively frowned.

“Regardless of everything else, using a celebrity’s picture without permission for advertising to mislead consumers is illegal.”

As soon as Ji Xizhi said the word illegal.

Xiao Zhou’s face turned white on the spot, and he waved his hands repeatedly: “No, no, I just thought about it, I won’t dare to use them, I won’t dare to do it in the future either!”

Only then did Ji Xizhi nod.

After Xiao Zhou said this, he continued to murmur: “I’m aware of my own restaurant. Your program team also came to check it before, the hygiene is definitely up to standard, and there’s really no problem with the ingredients. Not once has there been an issue, and it sure isn’t our problem this time! Or maybe it’s still…”

Xiao Zhou was about to say that maybe it was the handsome guy’s own physical problem.

But before he could finish, a young man suddenly jumped out from the crowd.

The newcomer was Sun Chong.

Sun Chong immediately cursed out loud: “Bullshit! What kind of nonsense is this? If you have no issues, then are you saying there’s a problem with our family’s fish? I’m the one who caught it for you under the cover of darkness, and here you are slandering our fish?”

Xiao Zhou: “No… That’s not what I meant! Ah!”

Sun Chong: “What do you mean, ’that’s not what you meant’? When she asked you about the fish, you just…”

Sun Chong turned around and pointed at Ji Xizhi, who had moved to the side.

He was about to continue his argument when he noticed Ji Xizhi’s beautiful eyes.

Sun Chong: “Were you the one answering questions in the afternoon?”

In the afternoon, Ji Xizhi had her face shielded from the sun, and when Sun Chong first participated in the competition, he didn’t clearly see what Ji Xizhi looked like. But after the law-awareness event, he overheard someone say that the celebrity, who came to shoot the program and helped Granny Zheng win the competition, was her.

This past few days, there’s only been one program team shooting, and Ji Xizhi’s eyes are quite distinctive, so Sun Chong recognized her right away.

Now, he’s stacking up both new grudges and old grievances.

That afternoon, Sun Chong lost five hundred and the dignity of being the family’s only college graduate. That night his family’s fish was defamed, and he exploded on the spot, pointing at Ji Xizhi and the camera following her, he said:

“Come, come, everybody, check this out. These celebrities will do anything for their image. Participating in law-awareness events this afternoon, now here spreading baseless accusations. This is malicious slander, defamation! Who knows if they’ll lead their fans to cyberbully our villages afterward! Everybody in the village knows our fish is good. We deliver to city restaurants every month, and there’s never been a problem. So why would this program team have an issue? Could it be for show effects, and they deliberately stirred something up?!”

“Also, this afternoon, when the village officials were organizing activities for the elderly, the 500 yuan first-prize bonus was sponsored for our villages. These celebrities who earn 208k a day have the nerve to snatch it, it’s really shameless!”

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