Back when Heath ran his own restaurant, he had seen a similar case. It had not been quite this extreme, but it had still scared the owner of the Japanese restaurant next door half to death. That day, a girl had rushed into the man's restaurant just before closing to buy some sushi, and the set she wanted was the cheapest one, relatively speaking. Old Li next door had felt it was not worth the trouble and simply turned her down. After all, anyone who had worked in food service knew that once you thought there would be no more customers and started closing up, it often really was not a good time to serve anyone. Serving them would be a hassle, and all the utensils you had put away and cleaned would have to be dealt with all over again. It was incredibly annoying, so restaurants generally did not take many customers at closing time, and there had been nothing wrong with what Old Li did. But who could have known that the girl would fall apart after hearing his refusal? She neither cried nor made a scene, just left quietly. Old Li had not thought much of it, either, but when he shut the door and turned around, he saw that the girl had walked into the street and lain down right in the middle of the road. He nearly jumped out of his skin.
He hurried over with some passersby to pull the girl away, and then she started crying loudly, pouring out all the ways things had been going wrong for her lately and all the problems she had, before finally dissolving into sobs. Only then did Old Li realize that his refusal to sell her sushi, seemingly such an ordinary little thing, had been the