CHAPTER 293: CHAPTER 290: CINDERELLA’S COMEBACK 35

Ren Family is involved in the catering and food industry.

In Qing City, Ren Family’s company is quite renowned.

Especially their restaurants, known for their good taste, are very popular and often require reservations in advance.

Anning first entered Ren Family’s restaurant.

She attached an Invisibility Talisman and wandered around the kitchen but didn’t find anything suspicious.

The restaurant’s kitchen was clean, the ingredients used were good, and the oils looked decent.

Anning waited for a while and saw that the chefs were well-trained and were very cautious about hygiene, realizing nothing untoward here, she quickly left.

Then, she went to Ren Family’s food factory.

There, Anning indeed discovered some irregularities.

At first glance, Ren Family’s food factory seemed alright, clean, and workers were disinfected before entering the workshop and wore clean attire, but the flour used for making cookies was subpar and the oil used looked dirty. Additionally, Anning noticed the workers adding some things into the cookies during production.

Anning quickly signaled An Xin to record this scene.

She then took another round through various corners of the food factory.

Heading towards the storeroom later.

Upon reaching the storeroom, Anning was truly shocked.

The storeroom was piled up with bags of flour, large barrels of cooking oil, and some additives.

However, the cleanliness of the storeroom needed improvement.

There was a layer of dust on the floor with many paw prints.

After waiting for a while, Anning saw fat rats crawling on the bags of flour.

Some insects fell into the oil barrels that weren’t covered promptly, and some bags of additives were torn, but no pests crawled over to them.

In another corner where sugar and the like were stored, many sugar bags were gnawed open by some animal, and sugar was spilled all over, attracting lots of small insects and ants, making Anning feel extremely disgusted.

She recorded the entire scene and then hastily retreated.

Anning then used the Godspeed Talisman to visit all the factories operated by Ren Family.

After returning, Anning smiled.

An Xin also felt especially exhilarated.

She said to Anning, "Ningning, this time we have to make sure Ren Family can’t recover. If Ren Family collapses, what will happen to Ren Jiayao? Isn’t she just bullying you because of her family background? Without a good family, what else can she have?"

Anning thought about something thoughtfully.

She immediately asked An Xin to investigate Qin Minghao’s mother’s character.

After checking, Anning felt completely relieved.

She went into the study room and had An Xin transfer the recorded content into the computer for Anning to edit.

Meanwhile; An Xin was checking on Ren Family’s financial records.

A few days later

A video appeared on the country’s largest video website.

Somehow, the video went viral as soon as it appeared, garnering an astonishing number of views and shares.

The video showed a factory storeroom that wasn’t cleaned regularly, with flour scattered on the ground attracting rats to nest there, and rats crawling over the bags of flour, as well as other insects in the storeroom, made people feel particularly disgusted.

As it switched to the factory workshop, when it showed workers adding obviously substandard coloring and additives to the cookies, countless people cursed.

Then, it showed the condiment production workshop, where a layer of maggots in the soy sauce tanks made viewers with trypophobia shiver, and friends watching while eating felt so nauseated they couldn’t continue their meals.

Those especially clean families almost wanted to throw out all the soy sauce at home.

At the end of the video, it detailed the factory locations, production brands, and other information.

An hour later, this video became even more popular.

Various short video platforms, microblogs, and social circles massively shared it.

Many elderly people in the group forwarded messages, warning the younger ones to be cautious when making purchases.

Suddenly, the Ren Family’s factory became notorious.

The Ren Family’s products in various malls and supermarkets were no longer bought, and the supermarkets immediately demanded their removal from shelves.

That wasn’t the end of it; Qingcheng City’s government, along with the commercial and tax authorities, received evidence of the Ren Family’s tax evasion and of them causing the death of a journalist two years ago.

Two years ago, a journalist infiltrated the Ren Family factory intending to secretly record various issues that occurred during the food production process, only to be discovered. Mr. Ren bribed the journalist, attempting to destroy the evidence.

However, the journalist was new on the job and full of passionate dedication, refusing to comply.

In a fit of anger, Mr. Ren had the journalist kidnapped and during the scuffle, the journalist was killed.

Later, his family paid to settle the matter.

Now, these issues have resurfaced.

Moreover, the evidence wasn’t just delivered to one place; all relevant institutions in Qingcheng City received it.

Besides Qingcheng City, evidence of various illegal activities by the Ren Family also suddenly appeared at the provincial government level.

What could be done?

With the video going viral like this, they couldn’t just let it be; they had to act, and act more vigorously.

Soon, an investigative team ordered from above began to settle into the Ren Family factory, and the commercial and tax authorities started probing the Ren Family’s financials.

The Ren Family was panicking all day long.

Mr. Ren was so worried he almost went grey overnight.

Jiayao dared not go to school anymore.

Going to school, she faced finger-pointing and whispers; sitting in the classroom, every whisper from her classmates felt like a personal attack, completely terrifying her.

Yet, she found no peace at home either.

Mrs. Ren was also incredibly tense; yet, having never involved herself in the company’s affairs, she was powerless to do anything in this crisis.

All she could do was constantly urge Jiayao.

"Yaoyao, have you called Ming Hao? Ask Ming Hao to plead with his dad to help out; our family can’t collapse, it just can’t..."

Jiayao’s face was pale, her lips tightly sealed.

She dared not call Qin Minghao.

She feared that not only would she fail to gain help, but she might also hear talks of calling off the engagement.

"Mom..."

Jiayao sat there, tears dropping continuously: "I, I haven’t called."

"Then call him now."

Mrs. Ren pressed urgently: "Hurry, ask Ming Hao to talk to his father; tell him to help us, once we get through this tough time, we definitely will need to repay their family."

Mrs. Ren evaluated Jiayao: "Ming Hao really likes you, doesn’t he? Beg him properly; no, don’t call. Hurry and find him in person."

Jiayao shook her head persistently: "I don’t want to, I don’t want to go... Mom, please don’t force me."

How could Jiayao dare to seek out Qin Minghao?

She didn’t dare go to school; to find Qin Minghao she would have to go to the Qin home.

But Mrs. Qin was not an easy person to deal with.

She was a typical snob; if Jiayao went to seek help, she’d likely not only refuse assistance but it would be merciful if she didn’t kick her when she was down.

Moreover, Jiayao feared that going there might lead to being told that Qin Minghao should break off their engagement.

She couldn’t afford to lose Qin Minghao, especially not at this time; she needed to cling to him desperately.

But Mrs. Ren didn’t understand Jiayao.

It was the first time she hit Jiayao.

Mrs. Ren, furious, slapped her across the face: "You... all the luxuries we’ve given you, and now when the family is in trouble and you’re asked to beg for help, you refuse. What use are you to us?"