Chapter 836: Winning Hearts and Minds
Lin Tian looked at Huang Shitou sprawled on the ground with great interest and said with a smile, "You say your leg is broken from a fall, but I’m not so sure about that."
Huang Shitou’s expression changed, then he pretended to be calm and said, "You just looked at me for a few seconds without even touching me, and you dare to make a diagnosis?"
The reporters were also baffled, thinking, wasn’t there supposed to be a diagnosis? Why hasn’t anything started yet?
Although Bai Shishi and Mei Ruyan didn’t know what Lin Tian was up to, they fully trusted him. This guy had never let anyone down.
"Ancient medicine is profound, the so-called four diagnostics start with the eyes. Too much academic explanation will be lost on you." Lin Tian said with a faint smile, "Now roll up your pants on both sides, just to the knees."
Huang Shitou frowned and said, "In this cold weather? You want me to roll up my pants?"
Lin Tian replied, "You’ve been lying in the snow for half a day. If you’re freezing, who can you blame? Now I just ask you to roll up your pants to check your wound. If I really did hit you, I’ll compensate you with twenty thousand right away."
Hearing the figure ’twenty thousand’, Huang Shitou’s eyes instantly lit up. He shouted, "Alright! You said it, everyone here is a witness!"
After he finished speaking, he immediately began rolling up his pant legs.
In this winter, when going out, who hasn’t dressed in layers? Rolling them up proved quite difficult.
Due to the fracture, pulling up his pants would inevitably tug at the wound, but the thought of twenty thousand renewed his motivation.
After a while, he finally managed to roll up his pants, grimacing in pain and occasionally letting out a few screams. The reporters wanted to help but feared being wrongfully accused, so they could only verbally suggest he should go to the hospital for a check-up.
Afraid of changes, Huang Shitou ignored them and stubbornly pulled up his pants legs.
Lin Tian’s smile deepened as he addressed all the reporters, "Everyone, push your cameras in for a close-up and take a look at Mr. Huang’s legs."
Although the reporters didn’t know what Lin Tian was up to, they did as he said.
Huang Shitou thought the reporters were helping him gather evidence and didn’t stop them. Instead, he shouted, "Everyone can see, right? These bruises on my leg were caused by this guy! Pay up!"
Lin Tian smiled and asked, "I’m afraid you won’t get that money."
"Why?" Huang Shitou was anxious.
"Because these injuries aren’t from a car accident at all." Lin Tian pointed at the bruises on both his legs and said, "Everyone look. The bruises on Mr. Huang’s legs are patchy, clearly from heavy blows. If it was a fall from a car accident, would there be bruises like this?"
Huang Shitou’s expression changed instantly, realizing he had been tricked by this guy!
Everyone took a good look and sure enough, the large patches of bruising couldn’t possibly result from a fall.
Clearly, Huang Shitou was full of lies. His previous exposé and claims of Lin Tian intentionally hitting him were probably unreliable too.
Mei Ruyan glanced at Lin Tian sideways. Perhaps she hadn’t realized it herself, but there was a hint of admiration and infatuation in her gaze. It seemed that no matter the difficulty, with this guy around, everything could be easily solved.
"Breaking your own leg to scam money, this thought was a good one. Pity the flaw was too large," Lin Tian said with a proud smile.
"Using a broken leg for twenty thousand, your leg is quite precious, isn’t it?" Mei Ruyan didn’t hold back in her sarcasm, enjoying the opportunity to kick a man when he’s down.
Huang Shitou’s face was grim, dark enough to wring water from it.
Such a scheme of breaking one’s own leg and then staging a crash, unless absolutely desperate, no one would do such a thing. It’s not just self-harm, but brainless!
Actually, Huang Shitou’s leg wasn’t broken by himself, but by someone else.
He was hiding in the nearby flowerbed earlier, and when Lin Tian’s car passed by, someone threw him out.
This was done not for any other reason but to securely frame Bai Shishi! To tarnish Qiansimei!
From beginning to end, Huang Shitou was merely a pathetic pawn!
No one would willingly do this, and Huang Shitou was also helpless. If he didn’t do as that person said, he would end up dead in the wild.
"I suddenly recall you saying you saw me and then hit you intentionally. I happen to have a dashcam in my car. I can show everyone that this guy was practically setting himself up, intentionally colliding with my car. My car hood was dented by you, shouldn’t you pay for that?"
Lin Tian, like a victor, smiled at Huang Shitou lying on the ground.
Having learned from past lessons, Bai Shishi’s cars were all bulletproof, naturally impossible to dent from a collision. Lin Tian said this merely to intimidate the guy.
Huang Shitou’s face was hard to look at. He hated Lin Tian’s victorious attitude and tone and disliked the looks from those around him, as if they were disdainful.
Huang Shitou wanted to be like an ostrich and leave this place, hiding away. But his leg was broken, how could he possibly run?
Suddenly, a sentence echoed in his mind.
"If you can’t ruin Qiansimei, then make a big scene! I don’t care how you do it!"
Not having succeeded in sullying Qiansimei, the only option left was indeed to make waves!
At this moment, Bai Shishi suddenly said, "Forget it, send him to the hospital."
Mei Ruyan immediately protested, "Shishi! After all this he’s done to us, you’re just letting him go? And sending him to the hospital?"
Bai Shishi looked at Huang Shitou with eyes full of pity and sighed, "After all, he was an employee at our factory. Sending him to the hospital counts as doing our due diligence."
These words reached Huang Shitou’s ears and completely changed meaning.
"I don’t need your pretense!" he shouted angrily.
"Hey, I really don’t get it. Have we ever wronged you? Why do you hate us so much? You’re nothing but an ungrateful wretch!" If not for the reporters present, Mei Ruyan would have walked up and stomped hard right on his broken shin!
"Hmph!" Huang Shitou let out a heavy grunt, turned away, his expression disgusting enough to gulp.
"Lin Tian, help him into the car and take him to the hospital, pay for his medical expenses, after which it doesn’t matter if this person lives or dies," Bai Shishi said firmly.
Lin Tian’s eyes met Bai Shishi’s momentarily, instantly understanding her intent.
She used to be Xianglong Tea House’s boss; how could she truly show mercy to such ingrates? Killing them wouldn’t even be excessive.
Simply because reporters were present, even pretenses couldn’t be sloppy.
Probably in a few hours, both the netizens and Qiansimei’s employees would know their boss, aside from being beautiful, also has a heart of gold towards her staff. It’s a great opportunity for winning hearts.