"The dish was served to me by one of your servers! Don't think you can just push the blame onto me and claim I'm falsely accusing you! Everyone knows that money can make the devil turn the millstones, for all I know, you may have already bribed the County Government. Even if they come to inspect, and even if they find mice, they'll still say there are no mice in your restaurant!"
Upon hearing the words of the bearded and burly man, everyone else found the reasoning sound and began to waver once more.
That's when Wang Youbao became frantic. It didn't matter whether everyone fully believed there were mice in his restaurant, or just believed it a little, or even if they merely harbored doubts—any suspicion of mice was a deathblow to his establishment.
No one would ever want to dine in a restaurant where there might be mice!