After learning about these developments, Mo Yan deliberately brought Lizhong to the teahouse opposite Zhang Ji's rice shop and booked a private room on the second floor. From the window, they could easily see Zhang Ji's rice shop.
They watched for a long time and saw that the normally unspectacular business of Zhang Ji's rice shop had become even more desolate. Many people who knew the inside story pointed fingers and talked about it, dissuading uninformed customers who wanted to enter to buy rice. They then spilled all the misdeeds of the Zhang Family, and those who had wanted to buy rice fled hastily upon hearing them, not daring to enter the shop!
Upon seeing this, Lizhong muttered the word "retribution" to himself. The word was not only for his poor daughter but also for those others poisoned by the moldy rice.
