klisemfg Chapter 583 I am a warm person, Master Li, please don’t be polite
Chapter 583 I am a warm person, Master Li, please don’t be polite
Bai Wanwan tapped her fingertips on the menu, her eyes sweeping over the names of dishes like crystal shrimp dumplings and braised prawns. A smile curled up at the corner of her lips: "One serving of steam pot chicken, and two pounds of braised prawns. I want fresh prawns."
She paused, then pointed at the "Eight Treasure Duck" and said, "Bring this duck in too, and remember to remove the bones."
The boss rubbed his hands and responded repeatedly:
"Girl, you have a good eye! Our shrimps are shipped from the dock every morning, and they are all lively and energetic.
The Eight Treasure Duck is even more time-consuming and labor-intensive, as the duck's cavity must be stuffed with glutinous rice, scallops, and mushrooms, and then simmered for three hours to fully absorb the flavor!
After saying that, he shouted towards the door, and the waiter immediately ran to the kitchen to pass on the message.
The steamed chicken was still steaming when it was served on the table. Bai Wanwan looked at the chicken soup bubbling in the ceramic pot and quickly filled a bowl.
The taste was exactly the same as what she had eaten when she was traveling in Yunnan. The chicken was stewed until soft and tender, with red dates and wolfberries floating in the air. It was mouth-watering just by smelling it.
Shen Tao came over and swallowed: "Can we eat it now?"
The waiter brought over a few more plates of fresh mushrooms. Bai Wanwan picked up a piece of purple mushroom, her face instantly darkening.
This is a poisonous herb that can kill people if not handled properly.
When he looked at another plate of umbrella-shaped mushrooms, his pupils shrank even more. Eating this thing would cause hallucinations.
She sneered, "Were these mushrooms dug from the mountains today?"
The waiter wiped his sweat and nodded. Bai Wanwan put down her chopsticks and said, "You can just throw green on the dishes? Your chef in the kitchen is quite capable!"
The waiter fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowed, and shouted, "I don't know! Master Li prepared all this!"
Bai Wanwan moved her chair forward, a smile on her face but no warmth in her eyes: "Go, call Master Li over, I'll ask him to try this pot of chicken."
Bai Wanwan directly poured all the mushrooms into the steamed chicken.
As soon as Master Li entered the room, he rubbed his hands and asked, "What do you want from me?"
Bai Wanwan stared at him and slowly opened her fan. "What do you think? I heard you cut the mushrooms in the steam pot chicken, so I saved some for you to try."
Master Li's face turned pale and he took a half step back: "No, no, I'm full."
"Even if you're full, you have to eat." Bai Wanwan's eyes narrowed as she smiled, but it made people feel cold all over. "I'm a warm person, so don't be polite, Master Li."
She glanced at the bubbles bubbling in the pot and said, "Let's wait for the water to boil a little more so we can have a taste."
Master Li's legs went limp as he knelt on the ground, kowtowed furiously, "I was wrong! Someone told me to release it!"
Shen Tao stood up suddenly: "Did you really poison me?"
Master Li was so anxious that he kept wiping his sweat. "No poison! They just put some poisonous mushrooms in it. At most, it will make people dazed for a while, but it won't kill anyone!"
The originally clear chicken soup suddenly turned a strange bluish-purple color, dark red juice began to seep out of the edges of the mushrooms, and the bubbling sound became harsh.
Bai Wanwan raised her chin towards her subordinates and said, "When the soup cools down, give it to Master Li." Master Li turned pale with fear and waved his hands and shook his head, "No! I don't want to drink it!"
Just as they were arguing, the boss rushed in with a sullen face. Master Li kowtowed and said, "Boss, I was wrong! Spare my life!"
The boss was so angry that he kicked him:
"You traitor! Do you know who you've offended?
If anything happens to these two here, we'll all lose our heads!"
Master Li was shaking like a sieve, his face covered with snot and tears.
The boss yelled, "Tell the truth now!"
He wiped his face and sobbed:
"Tonight a young man came to the kitchen and gave me a hundred taels of silver, asking me to put poisonous mushrooms in the steamed chicken.
He said that if any customer ordered steam pot chicken in the private room on the top floor, he would bring this pot up...
I, I was just greedy for money, and was temporarily bewildered..."
Bai Wanwan looked at him and said, "Since you want to poison us, this bowl of soup has been cooking for a while. As long as you drink it, I will let you go."
Master Li slammed his knees against the blue brick floor and kowtowed repeatedly to Bai Wanwan, his forehead soon oozing blood. "Miss Bai! I have an eighty-year-old mother and a nursing baby. Please be kind! I really know I was wrong!"
His tears and blood on his forehead made him look particularly miserable in the candlelight.
Bai Wanwan snapped her folding fan shut and placed it against his trembling chin.
"Afraid of death? Why aren't you afraid when you're collecting money?
Before putting these poisonous mushrooms into the pot, your hands were shaking so much that you couldn't even hold the kitchen knife. Now you think of your wife and children?"
Before he could finish his words, the two guards beside Shen Tao had already lifted Master Li up like a chicken and forcibly pried open his teeth.
The boiling poisonous soup poured into his mouth. Master Li overturned the bowl and cup while struggling violently, and the porcelain pieces shattered on the ground.
Wang Jingheng's face turned pale, and he subconsciously took a half step back: "Doing this...isn't it too cruel?"
Bai Wanwan turned around abruptly, her eyes as cold as ice: "Cruel? When he put his hand in the soup and it turned blue, why didn't he think about whether we were cruel or not?"
She kicked away the broken porcelain at her feet, her voice filled with uncontrollable anger:
"If this soup had gone into our stomachs, we would be the three of us lying on the ground foaming at the mouth!
You want to be a saint? You drink this half bowl of poisonous soup for him!"
Master Li suddenly roared in pain, curled up on the ground and twitched, with blue-black juice oozing from the corners of his mouth.
Bai Wanwan looked down at him, tapping the table with her folding fan. "Now you know how powerful this poison is, right?"
Looking at Master Li lying on the ground, his face turned blue and purple, and his lips turned black.
Bai Jingheng's voice trembled: "Is this really poison? If we drank it just now..."
Bai Wanwan snorted, "He's still alive after drinking it? Even a child would suffer more than this poisonous soup."
As soon as he finished speaking, Master Li kicked his hands and feet wildly, foaming at the mouth. After a while, he collapsed to the ground, motionless, with his eyes half open.
Shen Tao swallowed hard, cold sweat breaking out on his back: "How cruel! Who wants to harm us?"
Bai Wanwan stared at Master Li's body with a cold tone:
"Who else could it be? It's most likely Xiao Yi.
He lost money today and walked away in disgrace. He must be very upset about this."
The room suddenly became eerily quiet; even breathing could be heard.
There was still some singing going on on the stage outside, the tune was high-pitched and long, like someone was crying at a funeral in the middle of the night.
If you listen carefully, you can hear that the song is the scene in "The Case of the Chopping of the Beauty" where Qin Xianglian cries out for justice. The beating of gongs and drums makes people feel uneasy, and the erhu sounds like a ghost's cry.
Bai Jingheng's face was as pale as paper and his lips were bloodless.
Shen Tao stared at Master Li's body on the ground. The hairs on the back of his neck stood up and the cold sweat on his back soaked his clothes.
The boss was so scared that his legs went weak and he fell directly into the chair, muttering "It's over, it's over" over and over.
In the theater, the actors sang in a mournful voice, and the tune was so sad that it made people feel heartbroken.
The people on the stage cried bitterly, and the people watching below sighed along with them.