The luncheon hall was set up in the property management area. When Tan Xiu's group arrived, nearly a hundred guests had already taken their seats. As the staff led them to the innermost table in the middle, Wang Xuegang, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately got up and smilingly said, "Boss Tang, Miss Zhang, please take a seat."
Zhang Xinyue gently sat down, but Tan Xiu didn't immediately take a seat. The moment he entered the luncheon hall, he faintly smelled a faintly discernible fragrance. The fragrance was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't recall where he had smelled it before. He looked around and found that nearly a hundred guests were chatting merrily and wittily. Many of them were looking in his direction, causing him to furrow his brows involuntarily.
He couldn't find the source of the fragrance, but he was somewhat vigilant inwardly. It was as though his sixth sense was playing tricks on him, giving him a vague feeling that danger was approaching.
"What's wrong, Boss Tang?"
Wang Xuegang looked around in surprise and then looked at Tan Xiu with a suspicious expression.
Tan Xiu was silent for a moment before he slowly sat down and shook his head. "It's nothing. I just smelled something familiar."
Wang Xuegang couldn't help but burst into laughter. After taking a seat, he said, "Since Boss Tang thinks that my place smells familiar, it means that you find this place familiar. If you don't mind, Boss Tang, you can choose one of the several villas in my Golden Goblet Emperor Gauze villa complex as your residence. Consider it a gift to thank you for coming here. "
"Thank you for your kindness, Boss Wang." Tan Xiu shook his head. "But I won't be staying here for long. I don't have much time to live in a villa, so I'll pass."
Wang Xuegang nodded with a smile and no longer talked about this topic.
Shortly after …
Zhang Xinyue, who sat next to Tan Xiu, was invited to the temporary stage and sang three songs for everyone. Her voice was very beautiful. Although her singing skills were slightly inferior to her older sister's, there were no great musicians present, so they naturally couldn't distinguish it.
The performance ended.
As the other supporting singers came on the stage, Zhang Xinyue returned to Tan Xiu's side and sat down. A strange light flashed in her bright eyes as she took advantage of the fact that no one at the table paid attention to her and whispered, "What's wrong with you, Tan Xiu? Why do I feel that you're a bit absent-minded after coming here? "
"Do you smell a special fragrance?" asked Tan Xiu with a frown.
Fragrance?
"You and Boss Wang also said that you smelled a familiar fragrance, but I didn't smell any fragrance at all!" said Zhang Xinyue. Now that the cold dish has just been sent over, perhaps your sense of smell is so sharp that you smelled it from the cold dish? "
"Absolutely not." Tan Xiu shook his head and said, "When we just entered the luncheon hall, there was that fragrance. There was a strong smell of medicinal herbs in this fragrance. In the past, even if one smelled a well-brewed medicinal soup, one would be able to distinguish the medicinal herbs used in the soup. But today, I don't know what's going on, but I can't tell what medicinal herb it is. I just feel that it's very familiar. "
"It's that strange?" Zhang Xinyue was surprised.
Tan Xiu was silent for a moment, and the vigilance in his heart grew stronger. After a moment of silence, he responded to the toast of his table mates. Just as he was about to find an excuse to wander around, his expression suddenly changed, and his eyes instantly looked towards the door of the side hall.
There.
More than a dozen staff members were carrying stew over. As they approached, the smell became stronger and stronger. They didn't even need to breathe for the smell to enter their nostrils.
"You smell it, don't you?"
Tan Xiu turned to look at Zhang Xinyue and said in a low voice.
Zhang Xinyue looked at Tan Xiu with a confused expression and said, "Smell what? Is it that familiar smell you mentioned? I don't see it. How come I don't smell it? "
Tan Xiu's expression changed. He suddenly got up and quickly stood in front of the staff member who was delivering the dishes. Under the astonished eyes of nearly a hundred guests in the hall, Tan Xiu then said in a deep voice, "Can I taste this stew first?"
"Huh?"
The staff member knew Tan Xiu's identity, but he never expected that the famous Divine Doctor Tan Xiu would make such a strange request.
Wang Xuegang was clueless about what happened, but he strode to Tan Xiu's side and asked, "What's wrong with you, Boss Tang?"
"I want to taste this stew first," said Tan Xiu.
Wang Xuegang was at a loss whether he had to cry or laugh. "Boss Tang, you don't have to be in such a hurry even if you're hungry, right? I'll have someone send a few more pots later if you like this stew. "
Tan Xiu shook his head and casually lifted the lid of the clay pot. When white smoke came out of the pot, Tan Xiu was startled and instantly smelled the scent of several medicinal herbs.
"Dark Zen Seed, Carrion Grass, Scorpion Fruit …"
All of a sudden …
Tan Xiu's expression drastically changed and he shouted in horror, "There's poison in this stew!"
"What?"
Everyone in the entire luncheon hall was shocked and stood up from their seats. Upon hearing Tan Xiu's words, Wang Xuegang looked incredulous and hurriedly said, "I think you're mistaken, Boss Tang. How can there be poison in this stew? I invited all the chefs from the county with a lot of money, so there's no need for them to poison people! "
Zhang Xinyue quickly ran to Tan Xiu's side and said, "Don't talk nonsense, Tan Xiu. Can you really determine that there's poison in this stew?"
"Yeah! You can't joke about this, Big Brother Tang. "
Wang Tao also quickly ran over and said.
A murderous glint flashed in Tan Xiu's eyes as he coldly said, "When I stepped into the luncheon hall, I faintly smelled a familiar smell. I wasn't sure where this smell came from, but now I finally figured it out. It's from the stew in front of me. "
"Dark Zen Seed is a very poisonous thing that grows in cold and yin places. Just one Dark Zen Seed can poison a whale to death."
"Carrion Grass is a plant that grows on decaying corpses and grows from the heart of a decaying corpse. To make this Carrion Grass thrive, it needs to be watered with fresh blood every seven days, and it needs to be watered 49 times. "
"Scorpion Fruit is a highly poisonous fruit. It's grayish-black in color and somewhat similar in appearance to a scorpion. The place where this fruit grows is extremely harsh and can only be found in extremely cold places. "
Speaking up to here, Tan Xiu clenched his fists and was silent for more than ten seconds before he continued, "These three kinds of highly poisonous herbs are enough to poison thousands of people to death. But in addition to these three kinds of highly poisonous herbs, there should also be dozens of highly poisonous herbs mixed in this stew. However, the most terrifying thing is not these, but … the flood dragon's heart blood. "
Wang Tao incredulously said, "Big Brother Tang, isn't what you said too amazing? Let alone those highly poisonous things that I've never heard of, just this flood dragon's heart blood alone is impossible to exist! How could there be a flood dragon in this world? "
Tan Xiu indifferently glanced at him and said, "You haven't seen or heard of it, but that doesn't mean that flood dragons don't exist. I've seen the introduction of this poison in an ancient medical book and know its name: Drunken Dragon Powder. I can tell you that even if a drop of Drunken Dragon Powder is mixed into a bowl of water and then poured into these stew pots, it's enough to poison all of us here. "
Gasp …
Everyone in the entire luncheon hall instantly looked extremely unsightly. Many of them looked at the stew pots carried by the staff with lingering fear, as though they had seen a terrifying snake or scorpion.
"Go find an animal, be it a cat, a dog, a chicken, a duck, or a sheep. Hurry up!" Tan Xiu ordered in a deep voice.
"Understood!"
When a staff member heard this, he immediately ran out in a hurry. Not long after, he came back with a live chicken and a live sheep.
"Pour a spoonful of the stew soup into their mouths," ordered Tan Xiu.
"Understood!"
Several staff members quickly came over and poured a spoonful of the soup into the chicken and the sheep's mouths. Then, they loosened them according to Tan Xiu's order.
Two minutes later.
Wang Tao looked confused as he looked at the chicken and the sheep and asked in surprise, "Are they alright?"
"Are you going to use them to test the poison, Boss Tang?" asked Wang Xuegang hurriedly. "No problem!"
Tan Xiu didn't speak and just stared at the chicken and the sheep on the ground. Half a minute later, the chicken that was trying to escape suddenly fell to the ground.
"What? There's blood flowing out of its mouth. And … and its eyes, why are they so red? "Someone beside him shouted in horror.
Someone nearby exclaimed in horror.
Everyone's body turned cold as though they were looking at the chicken that twitched a few times and then died with fear on their faces.
After seeing the chicken's condition, Tan Xiu's eyes then fell on the sheep. A minute later, the sheep also slowly fell to the ground and then twitched and died.
"They … they're all dead."
If the chicken had been poisoned to death, everyone's hearts were filled with fear. However, when the sheep was poisoned to death, everyone couldn't help but shiver. They subconsciously wanted to escape from this place.
Wang Xuegang's heart was like falling into an ice cave. With a confused look on his face, he murmured, "Who poisoned the stew? Who would be so ruthless as to poison all of us here to death? "
"Boss Wang, have you offended anyone recently?" Tan Xiu frowned.
Wang Xuegang opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to answer. His business was so big, and even if he didn't offend anyone recently, he must have offended a lot of people in the past! How could a businessman, especially one with such a big business, not offend anyone?
Tan Xiu was silent for a moment and then slowly said, "Call the police! This matter is too serious. If we can't find the real culprit, I'm afraid we won't have the appetite to eat anymore. "
A grateful look appeared on Wang Xuegang's face as he looked at Tan Xiu and said, "I'll call the police right away, Boss Tang. It's all thanks to you being here today. Otherwise, all of us … "
He didn't finish his words.
But everyone in the luncheon hall was as clear as a mirror. If it weren't for Tang Xiu, they would have all been poisoned to death here today.
It was him!
He was everyone's savior!
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