Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 117: Poisonous Deliciousness

The neighborhood head Chen Biaozi was a neighbor of Lao Wang, so when he heard the news, he was the first to rush over.

Then, the neighbors who heard the shouting came one after another, and soon the Wang family’s house was packed with people.

Chen Biaozi asked anxiously, "What's wrong with Wang Yafan? Is he having a seizure?"

"Epileptic patients wouldn't be able to move even after being roasted for so long."

An elderly neighbor said as he lifted the lid of the pot and saw a fish stewing in it.

His eyes fell on the half bowl of soup served next to him.

The bowl should have been full of soup, as evidenced by the traces of soup on the bowl wall, but now there was only half a bowl left.

The old man frowned and scooped out a few pieces of fish from the pot with a spoon to identify them: "Hiss~~, Chen Fangzheng, I'm afraid something is wrong."

"How to say?"

"Wang Yafan is stewing pigfish. He must have not cleaned it up properly, so he drank the pigfish soup and got poisoned."

Puffer fish is highly poisonous, but its meat is extremely delicious.

Therefore, there are always people in the Jiangnan region who take the risk of eating puffer fish just for its delicious taste.

Therefore, there are several cases of death from porpoise poisoning in Lin'an every year.

Chen Biaozi was shocked. That's right! No wonder Wang Jinbo couldn't move or speak. Half of his face was burnt and he couldn't even struggle. Isn't this the symptom of porgy poisoning?
Chen Biaozi had heard of a folk remedy that said boiling two or three pounds of pumpkin roots into a bowl of thick soup and drinking it could detoxify the pig poison.

But, in such a short period of time, where can I dig a few pounds of pumpkin roots and wait for them to boil a pot of water into a bowl of soup?

Chen Biaozi was so anxious that he was spinning around: "What should I do?"

The old neighbor stroked his beard and said, "I heard that if you pour dung or mud or something like that into the patient to induce vomiting, there might be hope for recovery."

Chen Biaozi frowned. "Dung juice? It stinks. No one would be willing to scoop it out no matter who you ask him to.

Chen Biaozi ordered, "Quick, quick, all of you, go to the yard and get some mud, add water to make mud, and pour it down his throat."

Immediately, a few enthusiastic neighbors hurriedly scooped up a few buckets of water, ran to the yard with basins, scooped in a few handfuls of soil, mixed it into mud, and then ran back.

As the head of the neighborhood, Chen Biaozi had no choice but to do his duty. He rolled up his sleeves and rushed forward.

He did not dare to look at Wang Jinbo's burnt face. He turned away and used his hands to hook Wang Jinbo's cheeks and force his mouth open: "Hurry up, hurry up, pour it in!"

The man holding the mud basin squatted, stepped over Wang Jinbo and poured the mud into his mouth.

At this time, Wang Jinbo's whole body was paralyzed, his muscles were loose, and he even had difficulty swallowing, let alone speaking a word.

But he is still conscious now.

He knew he was about to die, and he also knew what the people around him were doing and saying.

But he couldn't do anything, that kind of desperate fear...

When the mud poured into his mouth, he felt choking and suffocating, which made him extremely painful.

But his throat muscles were completely unable to react with spasms.

The feeling of suffocation was completely unable to drive his body to struggle or twist.

He wanted to die, but he couldn't die for a moment.

Blood was dripping down his face, mud was pouring out of his nostrils, and tears were flowing uncontrollably from his eyes.

Suddenly, Chen Biaozi used too much force and his fingers came out of his burnt cheek...

Wang Jinbo still had no reaction, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

Suddenly, he recalled that rainy day...

He stood in front of the door of Longshan Warehouse, suddenly pulled out his knife, and stabbed the unsuspecting imperial soldier in the stomach.

One knife, two knives, three knives...

With just three strikes, the imperial soldier fell backwards with a look of astonishment on his face, before he could even change it into an angry expression.

Wang Jinbo now envies the soldier in the imperial city. That soldier in the imperial city died so easily!
He wants to die now, but he can't...

...The puffer fish contains highly poisonous liver, roe and blood. Brother Ya got them from the fisherman Xu Danian. Yang Yuan had never even been to the fish market.

Yang Yuan escaped from the "Shuiyunjian" restaurant by first taking a boat and then a car, and quickly got to Tongli Bridge. The car and boat were also arranged by Ya Ge.

Brother Ya was only responsible for carrying a can of puffer fish meat, as well as the separately packaged liver, seeds, and blood containing the highly toxic substance, and handed them all over to Yang Yuan.

He was only responsible for pretending to be a boatman and giving Yang Yuan a ride, and he also arranged a car for Yang Yuan in advance at the pier outside Yongjin Gate.

But he didn't care or ask what Yang Yuan was going to do with these things.

He is like the peddler who delivers shrimps, crabs and vegetables to the Shuiyunjian restaurant.

Brother Yang is the chef in the kitchen of the "Shuiyunjian" restaurant.

What delicious dish the chef finally serves to the guests has nothing to do with him.

……

Wang Jinbo made a wrong judgment.

Many of the details he saw and used for analysis were intentional misleadings by Yang Yuan.

Yang Yuan deliberately covered his face to make him think that he had no intention of silencing him.

Yang Yuan deliberately wore a pair of official boots and let him see them.

Yang Yuan deliberately used the grappling technique that his elder brother had taught him, which was mastered by the talents in the public office...

As a result, Wang Jinbo mistakenly judged that he was from the Imperial City Bureau.

If he is from the Imperial City Bureau, then he must be alive, only then will he be useful.

If he is from the Imperial City Bureau, then his confession must be conclusive and cannot be denied...

But he never thought that Yang Yuan only needed one word from him.

He personally admitted that Guo Xinsuo was the real culprit behind the deaths of twenty-one imperial soldiers!
All Yang Yuan wanted to know was who killed his elder brother.

He doesn't need ironclad evidence to convince the murderer.

He does not need to make public judgments to warn people to abide by the law.

He doesn't need to use canonical executions to prove that the law is strict and impartial!

You are wandering around like a corpse!

I just want to avenge my elder brother!

……

However, Wang Jinbo was just a small shrimp.

It's not worth exposing yourself to this.

Yang Yuan wanted to live as long as possible so that the Grim Reaper's scythe could reap more victims.

So, he used very covert means.

"Everyone says beauty is limitless, who says death is like hemp?"

For a foodie, puffer fish is a delicacy that they cannot resist.

Mei Yaochen, Fan Zhongyan, Su Shi and others have all said for the deliciousness of pig and fish, “My life is hanging by a thread, and dying with a full stomach is better than dying hungry and drooling.”

It is reasonable that Wang Jinbo was a glutton and sacrificed his life for the delicious pig and fish.

When people from the National Information Bureau heard the news, they sent personnel to Wang's home under Tongli Bridge, but Wang Jinbo was still alive.

But he struggled hard for a long time, but only spit out some mud from his mouth in vain, and he didn't utter a word in the end.

The poison had paralyzed his nerves and muscles.
As his consciousness finally faded into darkness, one last thought flashed through his mind:
How many more can that person kill?

If I'm the only one, I'd be at a loss!

(End of this chapter)