He dared not put the remaining potassium cyanide into the sake. Instead, he chose the nearest jar of rice wine and poured the poison into it. The rice wine had a mellow flavor, and since it was a whole jar of rice wine, the potassium cyanide did not have a bitter almond smell.
Just as he was frantically trying to cover up the traces, he heard footsteps coming from outside.
Someone's here! Zhan Yuanliang was startled, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, because at this moment he had no time to get away. He had wasted a lot of time trying to mix a few bottles of sake, and as a result, he was cornered in the storage room.
In a moment of urgency, he quickly packed up the paper package and put everything back in its place. Just as he put the sake bottle back on the shelf, the door to the storage room was pushed open from the outside, and two waiters walked in.
"Zhan Jun, what are you doing here?"
A Japanese waiter, seeing Zhan Yuanliang in the storage room, asked him with some surprise.
The waiters at today's banquet are all staff members from the Japanese consulate. Because there wasn't enough manpower, some embassy employees were also called in. They are all Japanese and they are acquainted with Zhan Yuanliang.
At this moment, Zhan Yuanliang was still holding the bottle of sake in his hand and had not yet put it back in its place. When he heard the waiter ask, he had a sudden idea and turned around to answer: "Oh! Consul Uchida just told me that there was a shortage of staff in the banquet hall, so he asked me to finish my work in the kitchen and also go to the banquet hall to help. I saw that the drinks in the banquet hall were almost gone, so I was going to get some drinks to take over."
After saying that, he shook the bottle in his hand at the waiter and pretended to take another bottle of sake with him.
Besides Hori Koichi, the consulate also had two vice consuls, one of whom, Uchida, was in charge of organizing the banquet.
Hearing Zhan Yuanliang say this, the waiter had no doubts, because they had also come to the storeroom to get more wine because they were running low on supplies.
Another waiter smiled and said, "Then we'll have to trouble you, Mr. Zhan. There are so many people attending the banquet today; we're just struggling to keep up."
"No, don't be shy. Here, Little Mountain, let me get it for you!"
After Zhan Yuanliang finished speaking, he handed the sake bottle in his hand to the waiter Xiaoshan, and then turned around and picked up the two bottles of sake that had been tampered with earlier.
Another waiter, seeing that they had already taken the sake, looked around and then picked up the nearest jar of rice wine. There were also many Chinese people in the banquet hall, and these people usually drank rice wine, so they consumed it quickly and needed to replenish it.
Zhan Yuanliang looked at the wine jar that the waiter was carrying, and it was the yellow wine jar that he had just poisoned. He was secretly pleased, not expecting things to go so smoothly.
"Let's go, let's deliver it over quickly, the guests are getting impatient!"
The three men, carrying drinks, walked together toward the banquet hall, passing through a corridor and arriving inside.
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