Chapter 263 — Who Dies First
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"There's no cilantro in the dishes, and no celery either. The owner isn't lying." By now Wei Zhao had walked over to the table where An Liwen had been sitting, examining what the three of them had eaten. "But in this vegetable soup, there's some garland chrysanthemum. If I'm not mistaken, An Liwen should be allergic to vegetables with these pungent flavors—eating them would trigger his epilepsy."
"Garland chrysanthemum?" Su Taizao was startled at Wei Zhao's words and looked at the restaurant owner. "There's garland chrysanthemum in this?"
"Yes, there is garland chrysanthemum," the owner nodded. "We always add garland chrysanthemum to our soup—it clears heat and relieves summer heat..."
Su Taizao frowned. "Why didn't you say so earlier?" Though he knew it wasn't the restaurant owner's fault—he himself hadn't mentioned it when ordering. But in the north, garland chrysanthemum is rarely used in soup, not as frequently as celery or cilantro, so Su Taizao hadn't thought much of it when ordering. Who would have known that garland chrysanthemum would actually be in the soup!
With that, Wei Zhao walked back to his own seat and sat down, ready to eat his fast food. The reason he had gone over to look earlier was that he didn't have a good impression of An Liwen, and he didn't want the man's troubles to drag the restaurant owner down with them.
The restaurant owner cast Wei Zhao a grateful look. If Wei Zhao had not spotted the problem in time, and his restaurant had been stuck with a charge of food poisoning, he would never have been able to keep running it in peace.
"Wei Zhao, can you save Brother Jianwen?" Gu Mengyao knew well the hostility that had passed between An Liwen and Wei Zhao, but An Liwen was, after all, the elder brother of her childhood, and their families had always been on good terms. If something truly happened to him right before her eyes, her conscience would never let her rest.
Hearing Wei Zhao state An Liwen's condition and the cause of his attack with such precision, she instinctively pinned her hopes on him. She could not say when it had begun, but Gu Mengyao had come to regard the Wei Zhao beside her as an all-powerful presence...
Cooking, parking, driving off the local thugs—even when little Shu had gotten wedged between the iron railings, she had gone straight to Wei Zhao for help! Whatever she asked of him, Wei Zhao always managed to deliver, and that had bred in Gu Mengyao a dependence on him!
"Oh, I can. But I don't want to." Wei Zhao glanced at An Liwen.
"You—" Su Taizao was roused to anger by his words. "What kind of person are you? Watching a man die and refusing to help? Let me tell you, do you have any idea what the An family does? If they learn you stood by and let him die, you may as well start waiting for your own funeral!"
"Oh, then you can all wait for the ambulance. I'd say the man has a good ten minutes left in him." Wei Zhao regarded Su Taizao as though he were an idiot. "In that case, I won't save him—and we'll see who ends up waiting for whose funeral first!"
"You—" Su Taizao choked on Wei Zhao's retort, left with no words. He was used to throwing his weight around, and the threat had simply slipped out; he had not expected Wei Zhao to refuse to play by his rules at all.