隔天一早，芭樂村的天空意外晴朗。
陽光像什麼事都沒發生一樣，灑在村口的芒果樹上，麻雀在屋簷下叽叽喳喳，完全不知道昨晚多少人腸胃翻江倒海。
就在這個矛盾而寧靜的早晨，一通急促的電話聲「亮亮亮」地響起，硬生生切開了清晨。接電話的是阿英姨。
她揉著眼睛，半夢半醒：「喂…？」
電話那頭是班長阿姨——。
但她的聲音今天急得完全不像平常。
「阿英！妳昨晚還好嗎？有沒有不舒服？有沒有拉肚子？有沒有去看醫生？」
阿英姨還搞不清楚狀況：「我？我沒事啊。到底怎麼了？」
班長阿姨深吸一口氣，語速又快又亂：
「昨晚——事情鬧大了！不只是芭樂村，連草莓里、蘋果里的學員，也都中招！大家吃完那份早點後，一個接一個狂拉肚子，嚴重的送急診，有些吊點滴，有些直接住院！現在至少二、三十人掛病號，家屬全部來找我！」
阿英姨瞬間清醒：「什麼！？怎麼會這樣？」
班長阿姨壓低聲音，像在講不可思議的秘密：
「大家把嘔吐物和排泄物拿去化驗了……
醫院初步判斷——最有可能出問題的，就是昨早那份『豆漿』。」 「來源都是同一家早餐店，但正式檢驗報告還要等。」
阿英姨沉了口氣，說出一句讓班長阿姨倒抽一口氣的話：
「我沒事……但我女兒，出事了。」
English (Revised Version)
The next morning, the sky over Balele Village was unexpectedly bright.
Sunlight poured over the mango trees as if nothing terrible had happened, while sparrows chirped happily, unaware that many villagers had spent the entire night battling violent stomach pain.
Then suddenly, a sharp phone ringtone Lling Lling Lling shattered the calm morning air.
Aunt A-ying answered the call, still half-asleep.
“Hello…?”
It was the village monitor—
But today, her usually elegant voice was filled with panic.
“A-ying! Are you okay? Did you get sick last night? Any stomach issues? Diarrhea? Did you go to the doctor?”
A-ying frowned, confused.
“Me? I’m fine. What happened?”
She took a shaky breath and spoke rapidly:
“It’s bad—really bad! Not only people from Balele Village, but even residents from Strawberry Ward, and Apple Ward got sick! After eating that breakfast, everyone started having severe diarrhea. Some were sent to the ER, some put on IV drips, some were hospitalized! More than twenty to thirty people are down, and all their families came to question me!”
A-ying shot up fully awake.
“What? How could this happen?”
She lowered her voice:
“They sent all the vomit and stool samples for lab tests…
The initial hospital report says the most likely culprit is the soy milk from yesterday’s breakfast.”
“It all came from the same local breakfast shop, but the official report isn’t out yet.”
A-ying inhaled and said a sentence that made She fall silent:
“I’m fine… but my daughter is not.”
