Chapter 263 — Let's See Who Dies First
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"I didn't put any in. I specifically asked the kitchen — there's none of that in the dishes..." the owner said cautiously.
"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 Jianwen had been sitting, examining what the three of them had eaten. "But this vegetable soup has some crown daisy in it. If I'm not mistaken, An Jianwen should be allergic to these pungent vegetables — eating them triggers his epilepsy."
"Crown daisy?" Su Taizao was taken aback at Wei Zhao's words, and looked at the restaurant owner. "There's crown daisy in this?"
"Yes, there is crown daisy," the owner nodded. "We always add crown daisy to our soup. In summer it clears heat and relieves the summer's damp..."
Su Taizao frowned. "Why didn't you say so earlier?" But he knew it was not the restaurant owner's fault — it was he himself who had not mentioned it when ordering. In the north, however, crown daisy was rarely used in soup, not nearly as commonly added as celery or cilantro, so Su Taizao had not thought that much of it when ordering. Who would have guessed that the soup would happen to contain crown daisy after all!
Having said his piece, Wei Zhao walked back to his own seat and sat down, preparing to eat his fast food. The reason he had gone to look earlier was simply that he did not have a good impression of An Jianwen, and did not want his 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, then if his restaurant were branded with the crime of food poisoning, he would never be able to run it in peace again.
"Wei Zhao, can you save Brother Jianwen?" Gu Mengyao knew of the earlier clash between An Jianwen and Wei Zhao, but An Jianwen was, after all, the big brother of her childhood, and their family and hers had always been on good terms. If something really happened to An Jianwen right before her eyes, her conscience would never be at ease.
Hearing Wei Zhao accurately name An Jianwen's illness and its cause, she instinctively pinned her hopes on him. She did not know when it had begun, but Gu Mengyao had come to regard the Wei Zhao by her side as an omnipotent presence...
Cooking, parking, clearing out thugs and ruffians — even when Little Shu got wedged between the iron railings, she would go to Wei Zhao for help at the first moment! So long as she had a request, Wei Zhao could always fulfill it, and this had bred in Gu Mengyao a dependence on him.
"Oh, I can. But I don't want to," Wei Zhao said, glancing at An Jianwen.
"You—" Su Taizao was enraged at Wei Zhao's words. "What kind of person are you? Refusing to save a dying man? I'm telling you, do you know what An Jianwen's family does? If they find out you stood by and let him die, you can just wait to die yourself!"
"Oh, then you all wait for the ambulance. I'd say within ten minutes, this man won't die." Wei Zhao looked at Su Taizao as though he were an idiot. "In that case, I won't save him. Let's see whether he dies first, or I die first!"
"You—" Su Taizao was choked off by Wei Zhao's retort, at a loss for words. He was used to throwing his weight around, and the threat had slipped out of habit, but he had not expected Wei Zhao to refuse to play along at all.
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