Married the Tough Guy After Transmigrating

Chapter 113: Chapter 114: Hot Oil Flying Everywhere, Injuries Sustained

Xu Ying heard the noise and turned her head to see a basin of water hurtling toward her. With items placed all around, she had nowhere to run.

“Hurry and run! What are you spacing out for?” Before Xu Ying could react, a pair of large hands lifted her into the air—yes, lifted her straight up.

Then, in a swift motion, Xu Ying was cradled in Huo Chen’s arms.

The kitchen was already small, cluttered with items, and it was crowded that day, squeezing them tightly together.

Huo Chen’s face turned as red as blood.

Xu Ying blinked in confusion as the hot oil instantly splattered.

She felt the hero’s broad chest and firm muscles and couldn’t help but sneakily poke them a few times.

Huo Chen, as if having his Achilles’ heel touched, struggled to restrain his body’s reaction and said hoarsely, “Don’t move around.”

Xu Ying had no idea how enticing she was at that moment, her eyes shimmering with moisture, her lips rosy, and every smile and frown tugging at his heart.

Xu Ying obediently withdrew her fingers.

Huo Chen swallowed hard and finally, with great care, set her down.

The cacophony of crackles burst open in the kitchen. Liu Guohua, leaning forward, happened to be where Xu Ying had just been cooking.

The hot oil splashed onto him, leaving several red marks in just a moment.

He cried out in pain and staggered backward toward the exit, but his foot slipped, and with a “bang,” he fell to the ground: “Ouch~”

In pain, Liu Guohua moaned and heard a crack from his elbow: “My arm is broken.”

Panic flashed across Zhang Youquan’s face as he quickly helped Liu Guohua up from the ground and reprimanded angrily, “How could you be so careless and clumsy?

It’s fortunate this man saved Xu Ying, otherwise, she would be the one lying here now.”

Xu Ying touched her arm and looked up at Zhang Youquan with suspicions filling her heart. Remembering the earlier joke, she still felt a chill. If she had been the one who had fallen, it would be her with the broken arm.

“How could he fall? The floor isn’t even slippery!” Xu Ying said, looking down. She reached out and swiped her hand across the floor, touching something greasy. She sniffed it and her face contorted with anger: “Who spilled this oil on the floor?”

The commotion in the kitchen had already attracted attention. Several people from the front hall came over, and upon hearing about the oil on the floor, Gao Guihua and the others shook their heads: “We were fine, we didn’t touch the oil at all. This has nothing to do with us.”

Zhang Youquan frowned: “There’s oil on the floor? How can there be oil in such a critical place as the kitchen? No wonder Guohua couldn’t even walk steadily.”

“It’s not that. I felt someone push me, and that’s why I couldn’t keep my balance.

I don’t know anything about the oil on the ground. I just got here and started washing potatoes, I never touched the oil,” Liu Guohua rushed to explain.

Zhang Youquan became furious: “I was standing right next to you a moment ago. Are you saying I pushed you?”

Liu Guohua, too, had a dark expression. He had just started the job and was already facing this issue; offending the master chef would not make his life easy.

Looking at Zhang Youquan, he steeled his nerve and told the truth: “I just felt like someone pushed me, and you were the only one close to me. Who knows!”

Zhang Youquan flat out denied it: “I didn’t.”

Liu Guohua trembled with rage. How could this man be like this? It was him who pushed himself. If it was accidental and he admitted it, there would be no problem.

Chef Ge was older than everyone else by so many years, having consumed more salt than the rice they all had eaten.

The restaurant always checked for cleanliness every night, so it couldn’t possibly be from the previous evening. Since the doors opened in the morning, the people in the front hall wouldn’t know where the oil was. Only Chef Xu, Xu Ying, and Zhang Youquan were in the back kitchen.

Liu Guohua was a newcomer who had been washing potatoes all morning. Surely Xu Ying wouldn’t pour oil on the floor herself, especially right behind her.

He didn’t do it, the suspect came out directly.

“Come with me to the back.” Chef Ge said with a darkened face, he truly couldn’t imagine Zhang Youquan doing such a thing.

His face was somber as he called Zhang Youquan away.

Liu Guohua was still explaining to Xu Ying, “Chef Xu, I really didn’t mean to harm you.”

Xu Ying nodded and urged him to quickly get a medical examination.

She had pretty much guessed what Zhang Youquan’s intentions were.

He just wanted to prevent her from working so he could continue to stay on, huh? His thoughts were truly vicious—with such a large pot of hot oil, it had just splattered chaotically.

If Huo Chen hadn’t saved her, wouldn’t she be covered in scars? And if it had reached her face, wouldn’t she be disfigured?

The more Xu Ying thought about it, the angrier she became.

“Are you alright?” asked Huo Chen, noticing her agitated state.

Xu Ying didn’t hold back in commanding Huo Chen, “Go call the police for me.

I must find out who is trying to harm me.”

Huo Chen nodded, agreeing that it was indeed necessary. The perpetrator’s actions were extremely cruel. If he hadn’t arrived in time, Xu Ying would definitely have been burned all over by now.

Huo Chen, with his strong legs, quickly left the restaurant and soon returned with a bunch of police officers.

Initially, Zhang Youquan adamantly denied everything, but Chef Ge, with a face full of disappointment, simply handed him over to the police.

After a final round of inspection and interrogation, it turned out Zhang Youquan was indeed behind the sabotage.

It wasn’t until the end that Zhang Youquan began to panic and plead, “Xu Ying, I’m sorry, I really had no other way out.

Director Hong said he would transfer me elsewhere, but I’d still have to start from the bottom as an apprentice, and my wife is about to give birth.

It costs a lot to raise a child, I have no money, how can I support the baby? Please, I beg you to let me go!

What will my wife and child do if I end up in jail?”

Zhang Youquan cried out with an appearance of utter misery.

Gao Guihua, feeling somewhat soft-hearted, turned to Xu Ying and said, “Xu Ying, since you’re fine, look at how pitiable Zhang Youquan is, why don’t you forgive him?”

Gao Xianghong echoed the sentiment, “Yeah, Xu Ying, if he gets arrested, what will his wife and child do?”

Sun Lifang sneered slightly, and without needing Xu Ying to speak, she retorted, “It’s easy for the two of you to say, just open your mouths and advocate for releasing him.

Haven’t you two thought about what would have happened if Xu Ying hadn’t been saved just now? With that large pot of hot oil going everywhere, Xu Ying was the closest to it, she would’ve been disfigured with serious injuries all over her body.

Would you pay for her treatment or scar your own faces!”

Gao Guihua quickly covered her face, looking at Sun Lifang with a face full of anger, “But she didn’t get hurt, did she?”

“Doing wrong should be punished; otherwise, a simple ‘sorry’ and it’s all done—what’s the point of having police then!

If Sister Gao, you’re so kind-hearted, why don’t you spend your earnings on his wife? That would also save his family!” Xu Ying stated with a cold face.

As soon as Gao Guihua heard her salary might go toward supporting someone else, she exploded, “Why don’t you use your salary to support his wife? Why should it come from mine.”

“I’m not as foolishly kind-hearted as you are, wasn’t it you who said you felt pity for Zhang Youquan and wanted to help him?” Xu Ying’s eyes were exceptionally bright; Gao Guihua glanced at them and quickly averted her gaze, not daring to say another word.