The man who had spoken earlier in the crowd took the lead, saying, "That's right! Brother is thinking of both our interests. Without Brother, this boss's reputation would surely have been damaged!"
The surrounding crowd echoed the sentiment of the leading man with various voices.
Chen Fan was getting a little annoyed. He had only come out for a meal, and he had more important matters to attend to later. Did he really have time to argue with them here? Were they deliberately trying to upset him?
"So, according to you, if you're traveling, you don't understand that when people are bullied in a foreign land, they should call the police? Aren't you afraid the owner will just call people to beat you up? We're all tourists, so why would you care about this boss's reputation being affected? Besides, aren't you afraid your trip will be unpleasant? Tell me, does your current approach make your future travels in Hongri Country more enjoyable??" Chen Fan threw out a series of critical questions, calmly watching the leading man prepare his response.
In fact, when Chen Fan first entered the restaurant and saw the leading man criticizing, he thought the man was genuinely concerned for the public and held him in high regard.
As the leading man continued to incite the crowd against the restaurant owner, Chen Fan felt there was a slight discrepancy but didn't say anything.
It wasn't until the leading man mentioned a place nearby where they could eat and suggested they all go together that Chen Fan thought he might just be a kind person, unwilling for him to get food poisoning. Chen Fan didn't think much of it. When the leading man then said that the other people in the crowd would also be going, and that he had a van, only then did Chen Fan start to suspect that the man simply couldn't stand the owner's business being better than his.
Or perhaps he was just an accomplice hired by the owner fifteen kilometers away.
However, it was when Chen Fan directly saw the leading man subtly signal to the man in the crowd that he began to seriously suspect the leading man.
After all, why would an ordinary tourist signal to someone in the crowd? This was a perplexing question.
After Chen Fan finished his thoughts, he directly posed these questions one by one.
The leading man was immediately rendered speechless.
The surrounding crowd nodded continuously as they heard Chen Fan's analysis, and even the person recording the video began to aim their camera at Chen Fan.
Seeing that the situation was getting out of his control, the leading man, still trying to maintain his composure, insisted,
"Other than diarrhea, nothing else can diminish the joy of traveling! And I only recommend this place after eating at a restaurant fifteen kilometers away at noon. This man in the crowd and I are friends, so what if I winked at him? Who said I couldn't!"
Chen Fan heard the man speak like this.
"Truly weak and pathetic!"
"If you were friends, why wouldn't you be open about it? Why the subtle signals? Is it fun? Standing on a moral high ground, leading these people who haven't even experienced food poisoning to fiercely attack the owner, leaving him unable to speak. Is that fun? Is that your explanation? It's so weak it's pathetic! If that's your logic, then apart from diarrhea, you have no bad memories. Do you get diarrhea every time you travel, that's why you feel that way???" Chen Fan's questions were posed again.
This time, the leading man truly seemed to have nothing left to say and lowered his head silently.
The surrounding crowd, hearing Chen Fan's words and realizing they had been manipulated by the leading man, began to condemn him and the man in the crowd fiercely.
Chen Fan then began to scold the surrounding crowd. Pointing at them, he said,
"You people are really strange. Your own food was perfectly fine, so why are you coming out to make a scene? Is it for the views on your websites? Or are you just keyboard warriors who only criticize and follow the trend online? Seeing that I'm gaining the upper hand now, you're following me to condemn this leading man? The way you behave truly makes me feel like society is completely sick. It's as if in this world, whoever starts arguing and has their phone out recording is in the right."
The crowd, hearing Chen Fan's criticism, lowered their heads in shame, their eyes not daring to meet Chen Fan's.
The leading man and the instigator in the crowd then left dejectedly.
The restaurant owner, seeing Chen Fan single-handedly turn the tide with just a few words, was so astonished that he couldn't speak.
Seeing the crowd's shame, Chen Fan, in the spirit of seeing a good deed through to the end, said,
"You're all adults who have come out to travel, so you should have the ability to distinguish right from wrong, rather than indiscriminately attacking."