Chapter 359
Hospital.
"What kind of parents are you? The child has food poisoning and you are only bringing him in now. Do you not know how dangerous this is?"
As soon as the doctor walked out, he caught sight of Si Nian and started scolding her.
Si Nian replied calmly, "I am not his parent, I am his teacher."
The doctor choked on his words. "Uh... I am sorry. Where are the child's parents?"
Si Nian said, "The school has already been asked to contact the child's parent. Do not worry, when she gets here, please do not hold back. Scold her as much as you want."
Doctor: "..."
You have said everything, what else is there for me to say?
"Mom, what is food poisoning? It will not be like what happened to me before, right?" Hearing about food poisoning, Second Child's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he looked at Si Nian in terror.
Seeing his fear, Si Nian just remembered that when the child was little, he had been poisoned by Zhou Yueshen's deranged ex-wife. He had almost died.
She quickly comforted him, "Of course it is not exactly the same. Food poisoning can happen from eating spoiled and unclean food."
Second Child's gaze fell on Fang Bowen on the hospital bed, and he asked in confusion, "Then why did he eat bad food?"
Si Nian shook her head. "Mom does not know either."
Although Fang Hui was strict with this child, she should not be treating him too poorly. How could he get food poisoning?
She wanted to ask the doctor a few more questions, but then she saw a group of people rushing over carrying children.
These children all had similar symptoms: vomiting, diarrhea, and a purplish complexion.
Seeing so many children, the doctor's face turned green. "This is clearly food poisoning. What is going on today? Why are there so many children with food poisoning? What did they eat?"
"Boohoo, doctor, please save our children. They only ate a few pieces of pork and became like this, boohoo..."
"What, pork? Quick, bring them in."
Si Nian pulled the two children aside to make way, watching as the group of children was sent into the emergency room.
Second Child just took a curious glance and was shocked. He pulled Si Nian's hand and said, "Mom, it is Da Zhuang and Little Pig and the others!"
Si Nian had not noticed at first, but after her son said that, she realized that these children were exactly the group that often played together in the apartment building.
Everyone also noticed her and immediately cast hateful glares in her direction.
"Damn those black-hearted pork vendors, actually selling us meat from pigs that died of swine fever. Si Nian, is this your husband's shady business? You will all die a horrible death!"
"Yesterday, her son ran over to show off his meat to my son, and when my son got home, he threw a tantrum demanding to eat meat. It is all their fault!"
"You pay for my son!"
Hearing this, Si Nian's face darkened. Just as she was about to speak, Fang Hui, who had received the news, hurried over.
Hearing the curses from Da Zhuang's mother and the others, Fang Hui's face immediately fell. "I was wondering how my son could get food poisoning. It must be because you, Si Nian, gave him meat yesterday, right!"
When she just received the call from the school saying her son had fainted from food poisoning, Fang Hui almost passed out herself.
How could her perfectly fine son get food poisoning? She remembered that yesterday afternoon, the Zhou family was having a barbecue in the yard. It smelled so good that her son barely ate anything at home. Later, when she came out of the study, she saw her son returning from outside looking guilty, but she did not think much of it at the time.
Looking at it now, it must have been when she was not around that he was given something unclean to eat.
Fang Hui's face looked extremely awful.
Fang Hui's words made the crowd cast even more hostile glares at Si Nian.
Second Child grew anxious hearing her blame Si Nian, and quickly said, "We did not give him anything to eat! I offered it to him, but he did not want it! Our meat is good meat!"
Fang Hui, with bloodshot eyes, did not believe it. "Who knows if you gave it to him or not."
Si Nian stopped her agitated son and slowly said, "Do you know why I did not sell you meat yesterday when you offered to pay for it?"
Fang Hui frowned. "What do you mean?"
Si Nian said, "Because I wanted to prevent exactly this kind of thing from happening."
Fang Hui's face darkened.
"If your son had eaten our meat yesterday afternoon, something would have happened last night. It is impossible for him to only faint this afternoon. You should understand this basic common sense."
Si Nian calmly stated the facts, then looked at the group of aunties from the apartment building.
"If you suspect my husband, please take the proper legal channels and report it to the police station. We are willing to accept an investigation. But once it is proven that we are innocent, please be prepared in advance to pay the subsequent compensation fees."
She originally thought that since they were all neighbors, she would tolerate it if she could and did not want to make a big fuss.
But these people were really going too far, actually blaming this on them.
It was truly bizarre.
Hearing her tell them to call the police, the group of women suddenly fell silent.
They indeed had never seen the Zhou family selling pork around here.
Previously, some people from the apartment building wanted to find Zhou Yueshen, thinking that since they were all neighbors, they could get it a little cheaper.
But then they found out that Zhou Yueshen's farm was too far from here, so he had no intention of selling here.
Because of this, everyone was still gossiping privately, saying that the Zhou family was probably afraid they would haggle, so they deliberately did not open a shop here.
Privately, they all said the Zhou family was stingy.
Moreover, there were so many pig farmers in the city, who knew who it actually was?
If it was really a misunderstanding, would they not have to pay compensation?
Besides, everyone saw Si Nian's family eating barbecue yesterday, and their two children were perfectly fine...
For a moment, the whole group stopped talking.
Fang Hui, however, felt that Si Nian was just bluffing.
She was not as timid and afraid of trouble as these people from the apartment building.
Moreover, she never bought those messy junk foods outside for her son to eat, and her son had always been fine before.
For him to suddenly be like this now, it could only be because he ate something he should not have at the Zhou family's place yesterday afternoon.
Fang Hui stubbornly insisted and was determined to have it checked.
"I have not bought any pork recently. My son has food poisoning now, and I really cannot think of anyone else but you."
She said coldly, "Do not worry, if it has nothing to do with you, I will definitely apologize to you. But if it really is you, then please, Teacher Si, prepare in advance to compensate us and kneel down to apologize."
Her son was so excellent and had now entered the genius class. She heard that Si Nian's eldest son had also gotten in.
Maybe these two children were secretly jealous of her son's excellence and secretly forced him to eat something he should not have, causing this to happen.
Otherwise, how could her son inexplicably get food poisoning?
The more Fang Hui thought about it, the gloomier her face became.
Hearing this, Si Nian laughed out of anger. "Alright. By the same logic, I accept your proposal. But if the test results show it was not because of us, then please, Miss Fang Hui, kneel down to apologize and compensate us as well."
Fang Hui looked disdainful. For a moment, sparks flew between the two of them, neither willing to back down.
Everyone held their breath.
After waiting for who knows how long, the doctor finally came out.
Fang Hui hurried forward and said, "Doctor, doctor, how is my son? Was he also poisoned by swine fever meat?"
The doctor froze for a moment and asked in confusion, "You are?"
Fang Hui said, "I am Fang Bowen's parent. I just received a message from the school saying my son has food poisoning, and I suspect he also ate sick pork."
After saying that, she turned her head and cast a cold look at Si Nian.