Chapter 52 The Living King of Hell

The chicken smelled really good, so I expected it to taste good too.

Jiang Ning thanked Grandma Shi and was about to pick up her chopsticks to eat when suddenly a fat cat jumped onto her legs and pressed its melon seeds onto the chicken legs in her bowl. Jiang Ning looked down at the fat cat, and the delicate cat's meow turned into a very down-to-earth female voice in her ears.

"Don't eat chicken, sister! It's poisonous and can kill you!"

Jiang Ning's hand tightened when she tried to hug the fat cat. She didn't know whether to be happy that she was a civet cat and still had the ability to understand animals' speech, or to be surprised that the chicken was poisonous.

The health club adds ingredients to the food to make their business better, but since she saved Shi Beibei, Grandma Shi wouldn't make a pot of drugged chicken as a thank you, right?

She looked up at everyone, probably wanting to try the seafood she caught. The guests were mostly eating seafood and hadn't touched the chicken yet.

Before it was confirmed that the chicken contained drugs that could kill people, Jiang Ning couldn't tell people not to eat it.

[Huh? There really is medicine in this chicken, or is it rat poison?!] Jiang Ning glanced at the melon-eating system, his eyes widening a little.

Guests: “!!”

Shi Beibei and Grandma Shi: “!!”

Sun Yanfeng, who had eaten a few shrimps and was reaching for the chicken with his chopsticks, was so scared that his chopsticks flew away and he stuttered.

"It's in the chicken. Is it poisonous?"

This sentence caused an uproar in the live broadcast room. A warm thank-you banquet instantly turned into a suspenseful murder game. The barrage of comments was so frightened that it stopped for a few seconds, and then quickly refreshed.

[Huh? I just blinked. Did I miss something? How come the guests were happily eating just now, and now they're saying the chicken is poisonous?]

[I was also completely bewildered as I was staring at the livestream. No, why are the guests on this show always so weird? Just like the last time at the health club, all the female guests suddenly escorted Jiang Qing out. Oh, and they even called Song Yao over at the end. It felt like they suddenly discovered something and ran away.]

[Why bother worrying about it being weird at this point? The guests are all so terrified. They must have discovered something deadly in the chicken. Shouldn't the production team call the police?]

[Do you really believe what Sun Yanfeng said? Grandma Shi's gratitude to everyone doesn't seem like an act. How could she intentionally harm the guests? It's not like she wants to go in and accompany that Gao.]

Amidst the audience's doubts, the guests believed Jiang Ning's words, especially Jiang Qing and others who had experienced the health club. They put down their chopsticks and stood up hurriedly, with surprise and confusion on their faces.

No, Jiang Ning saved Shi Beibei, and the program crew also helped call the police to catch the vicious stepfather. Grandma Shi’s way of thanking them was to make food with rat poison in it for them to eat!

What does this mean? Is it because you think the stepfather was right and you want to avenge him for being in jail?

The group looked at Grandma Shi, their hearts in turmoil. There was something wrong with the look in the eyes of this kind-looking old woman.

"Grandma Shi, we helped Beibei, and you gave us some meat that was spiced up and would eat the dead. What does this mean?" Jiang Qing asked, his hand hidden in his pocket ready to press the shortcut key to call the police at any time.

Seeing that they were all puzzled or staring at her angrily, Grandma Shi was confused at first, then she thought of something and slapped her thigh and mumbled.

"There's no poison in the chicken. It's rat poison. The doctor only said people can't eat rat poison, not that people can't eat chickens that have been killed by rat poison."

These words left the guests and the audience who were doubting the guests' thoughts speechless for a moment.

[Ah, Grandma Shi is such a genius at logic. Holy shit, the chicken that ate rat poison isn't poisonous. Is this a case of eating one and giving one away?]

[From what I hear, he was hospitalized after eating it? Then why would he dare to give it to the guests? Is he really retaliating against the production team for sending that vicious stepfather Gao to jail?]

[Luckily, one of the guests noticed the rat poison in the chicken beforehand, otherwise, everyone would have been foaming at the mouth and lying on the floor.]

[Is there no one here who knows this? It's obvious that Granny Shi didn't know about this, she just couldn't bear to part with the chicken. Luckily, someone noticed this time. If no one notices next time, the guest will be lying on the board, and Granny Shi will be held accountable by the guests. She will have to go to jail for a while.]

"The chicken that ate rat poison was poisoned to death. The poison is in the chicken. People who eat the chicken will also be in trouble. How can we eat it?" Jiang Qing, who almost ate the chicken, felt his heart beating fast. He felt as if he had passed through the gates of hell.

"I can't eat it, but there are so many chickens, they are all meat." Grandma Shi's pale face showed deep reluctance.

Jiang Qing and his friends appealed to Grandma Shi's emotions and explained to her rationally that after eating the chicken, she would have to go to the hospital and spend a lot of money on treatment, or she would die if she ate too much. The money spent was much more expensive than these chickens, so it was really not cost-effective to eat the chicken.

Even though Grandma Shi still had a look of reluctance in her eyes, she was gradually convinced by the words. Tang Li couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

"Why did Grandma Shi feed rat poison to the chickens? Isn't rat poison used to kill mice?"

When asked this question, Grandma Shi's pale face turned red, her lips trembled, and she wanted to say something but didn't.

Seeing her like this, and seeing that everyone's chicken crisis was inexplicably resolved, Jiang Ning put aside his doubts about how they knew there was rat poison in the chicken, and opened the melon-eating system to find out the reason.

Oh, Grandma Shi was planning to put rat poison in the rice jar yesterday, but it accidentally fell into the rats' mouths. Unwilling to dump the rice, she washed it several times and cooked it for herself and her husband. They were poisoned and went to the hospital for a gastric lavage. Grandpa ate too much and is still lying in the hospital. He hasn't returned yet.

[As for Grandma Shi, she came back from the hospital and was worried about the pot of rice. She wanted to avoid wasting it, so she poured it out to the chickens in the coop. Unexpectedly, more than a dozen chickens in the coop died.]

After hearing this, the guests' mouths twitched, and they probably knew why the chicken was on the table.

Sure enough, the next second, Jiang Ning's voice came again.

So many chickens were only for meat, and Grandma Shi was so worried. Her husband was still in the hospital and couldn't eat. He'd recently had his stomach pumped, so he couldn't eat greasy food. And the dead chickens couldn't be sold. Just as she was worrying, the production team found the Shi family. When they learned we'd saved Beibei and saw how many of us there were, they slapped their thighs and decided to make some chicken to show their gratitude!

[Uh, thank you is unnecessary. Grandma Shi is the modern-day King of Hell. A packet of rat poison can kill a whole group of people, and even the King of Hell would say it's good. Isn't this much more cost-effective than the Black and White Impermanence?]

Jiang Qing and the others agreed in their hearts.

Isn't she the modern King of Hell? This has happened twice in a row, causing trouble for the old man. If it weren't for Jiang Ning, they would have also been admitted to the hospital, but Grandma Shi is still fine. With this development, I'm afraid even the King of Hell would have to say something. Grandma Shi is really hard to kill.

Everyone looked at Grandma Shi and sighed in their hearts, because they knew why she was so difficult to explain.

Although Grandma Shi did not mean to harm them, they were still scared when they saw the full pot of chicken on the table. They did not stay at the Shi family for long. After eating the seafood they brought and chatting with Grandma Shi and Beibei for a while, they said goodbye to the two of them on the pretext of recording a program.

Jiang Ning also quietly said goodbye to Fat Cat and fed him some meat and seafood as a thank you.