Chapter 2382 - 2190: Stay Away from That Young Lady_4
Chapter 2382: Chapter 2190: Stay Away from That Young Lady_4
"Yes, they all took leave this morning, and the reason was the same—they’ve had diarrhea since last night. I suspect there might be an issue with the cafeteria food." The factory supervisor said to Song Xiaodong.
"Then why are you okay? Everyone ate the cafeteria food. Did you eat special meals?" Song Xiaodong asked the factory supervisor.
"There are no special meals. I don’t know why either; I ate the same food as everyone else in the cafeteria." The factory supervisor replied to Song Xiaodong.
"Alright, you go ahead and get busy. With no one around in the factory, you need to pay extra attention." Song Xiaodong instructed the factory supervisor.
"Yes, yes, absolutely." The factory supervisor then left.
Song Xiaodong and Su Xiaoliu went together to visit the cafeteria’s kitchen.
There weren’t many people in the kitchen, just a chef and a little apprentice.
"Mr. Su!" The head chef greeted Su Xiaoliu.
"Since the kitchen knows you, it means you’ve been here quite often, huh?" Song Xiaodong asked Su Xiaoliu with a smile.
"Hehehe." Su Xiaoliu laughed while rubbing his hands.
"Are the kitchen staff also sick?" Song Xiaodong inquired.
"Yes, it’s only the two of us who are fine." The head chef pointed at his apprentice and replied to Song Xiaodong.
"Why are you two fine?" Song Xiaodong asked.
"We don’t know either." The head chef shook his head in confusion.
"Dining in the same cafeteria, some people experience diarrhea while others remain fine. This implies that the issue might not be with the food." Song Xiaodong analyzed the situation.
"So what went wrong?" Su Xiaoliu asked puzzled.
"If it’s not the food, then perhaps it’s the drinks. Could it be a water issue?" Song Xiaodong wondered aloud.
"It shouldn’t be. The water here is directly supplied by the Beishan District Development Zone’s water plant, and our factory has filters, so there shouldn’t be any problems." The head chef explained to Song Xiaodong.
"Let’s go and inspect the water dispenser." Song Xiaodong said to Su Xiaoliu.
Song Xiaodong and Su Xiaoliu went to the water dispenser in the factory. Song Xiaodong took a cup and filled it with water, then lightly dipped a silver needle in it to observe its reaction.
The silver needle showed no reaction.
Song Xiaodong scratched his head and said, "There’s no issue with the water."
Suddenly, Su Xiaoliu recalled something and said to Song Xiaodong, "The water from the dispenser is barely consumed by anyone, except those who enjoy tea. Most of the factory staff drink the beverages produced on our production line."
Song Xiaodong heard the possibility he least wanted to hear.
"Go find a bottle of the beverage produced yesterday." Song Xiaodong instructed Su Xiaoliu.
Su Xiaoliu went to find the factory supervisor, who then went to the quality control department, and shortly after brought a bottle of beverage produced yesterday to Song Xiaodong.
Upon opening the bottle, Song Xiaodong could smell a faint odor mixed with the originally fragrant slimming tea.
It wasn’t a common stench but rather the smell of decaying corpses.
Moreover, it was the smell of corpses that had been decomposing for some time.
Song Xiaodong took out his silver needle, dipped it slightly in the beverage, and noticed the part touching the liquid turned completely black.
"Family Head, how could this happen?" Su Xiaoliu asked.
"Someone tampered with our beverages." Song Xiaodong replied.
"Who would stoop so low?" Su Xiaoliu was furious upon hearing this.
"Certainly, visible and invisible competitors alike." Song Xiaodong remarked.
"Family Head, what should we do?" Su Xiaoliu asked Song Xiaodong.
"The beverage ingredients aren’t particularly dangerous. I estimate they’ll recover and return to work tomorrow after a day of discomfort today." Song Xiaodong assured Su Xiaoliu.
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"Oh."
"Inform them not to drink the beverage for now, and then sample one bottle from each day of the past week’s beverages by date. I need to know from which day our beverages began to get contaminated, causing diarrhea if consumed. If others find out, our slimming tea factory won’t be able to operate." Song Xiaodong instructed Su Xiaoliu.
"Alright, I’ll get right on it." Su Xiaoliu hurriedly arranged for people to get to work.
Soon, the remaining factory staff brought seven bottles of slimming tea, randomly sampled from the past week’s production, one bottle per day.
Song Xiaodong opened each of the seven bottles and tested them with the silver needle, finding only yesterday’s bottle problematic, as the silver needle turned black.
Actually, Song Xiaodong overthought the situation. As the factory staff seldom drinks water, and Song Xiaodong’s slimming tea is genuinely tasty—being lightly flavored, aromatic, and refreshing—they almost drink it daily. If the beverage ingredients had been tampered with, it would have been immediately noticeable.
This incident likely occurred yesterday during the day or the previous night.
Ultimately, it’s because Song Xiaodong opened the slimming tea factory too hastily. The factory’s infrastructure hasn’t been perfected yet. The most critical factor missing is a comprehensive surveillance system. Although the production workshop and the raw material storage are guarded, they don’t provide 24-hour tight surveillance, leaving room for ill-intentioned individuals to exploit.