Inside the restaurant box.
The waiter looked at You Yifan nervously, nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, the person who served your group before is on vacation today, so I'm here to take his place. Brother, I didn't sleep well after watching the game last night. I didn't mean to..."
You Yifan looked at the waiter and saw that he was not very old, probably around twenty years old, thin, with pimples all over his face, and he looked unfriendly.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…!” The waiter saw that everyone was looking at him, and he became even more nervous, and kept bowing and apologizing.
You Yifan paused, waved his hand and said, "Okay, it's okay, you can go."
"Okay, okay, enjoy your meal." The waiter nodded immediately, turned around and left without even clearing the napkins and used snack plates on the table.
After the waiter left the box, You Chengcheng frowned and looked at You Yifan and said, "This person is weird, he doesn't look normal."
You Yifan slowly withdrew his gaze, glanced at the dining table, and finally stopped his eyes on the bowl of wontons.
"I'm going to the bathroom, Xiaosan, come with me." You Yifan suddenly stood up and greeted.
…
Five minutes later.
In the stairwell at the back kitchen of the hotel, a waiter stood by the wall with sweat on his forehead. He lowered his head and took out a folded paper bag from the gap in his belt. He then glanced around and immediately opened it and prepared to scatter it under the wall.
“Bang!”
With a muffled sound, the door of the stairwell was pushed open and three extremely strong men rushed in.
The waiter turned around in panic and looked at the three people: "You... ?!"
“Bang!”
The sturdy man who was facing him knocked the waiter to the ground with one punch, and waved his hands and shouted, "Don't make a sound, take him back secretly."
After a while, in the sea view business suite on the 16th floor of the Cabin Hotel, the waiter was lying on the ground twitching with his mouth sealed with tape and his body tied with ropes.
Around them, three strong men were holding steel batons and hitting the waiter's knees hard. Every time they hit him, you could hear the crackling sound of the batons hitting the bones, as well as the friction sound of the waiter struggling on the ground.
In the bathroom.
You Yifan scratched his throat three or four times in a row, vomited out all the food he had eaten in the morning, and gulped down two large bottles of water. Although he guessed that the waiter should not have had time to do it, otherwise he should have reacted long ago, but he still vomited cautiously, and his heart was full of fear.
After all the trouble, You Yifan's face turned pale and he walked out of the bathroom feeling somewhat uncomfortable.
On the sofa, Jing Yan, You Chengcheng and others sat quietly, looking indifferently at the waiter struggling on the ground.
"Are you okay, brother? Why don't we go to the hospital?" When You Chengcheng saw his elder brother walking out of the bathroom, he immediately stood up and asked.
"No need." You Yifan waved his hand and shouted at the three strong men, "Stop as well. Remove the tape on his mouth."
The three of them nodded, bent down and started working.
You Yifan sat on the sofa, picked up the cigarette box, crossed his legs, and looked at the waiter with a gloomy look.
After a few seconds, the tape on the waiter's mouth was torn off, but he was still in a daze. The pain in his legs made him twitch all over and curl up.
You Yifan took a deep puff of his cigarette, looked at the waiter and asked, "Can you communicate? If not, let them help you again."
When the waiter heard this, he was so frightened that his pores burst. He slowly raised his head and replied in a trembling voice: "Brother...Brother, I was wrong."
"It's fine as long as we can communicate." You Yifan looked at him, slowly picked up the small folded paper bag on the coffee table, and asked in a hoarse voice: "What's in it?"
The waiter swallowed, his eyes struggling.
"Are you still keeping your mouth shut?" The sturdy man picked up a stick and was about to hit him.
"I... I said!" The waiter immediately shouted back, "It's Aconitum carmichaelii... It's poison."
You Yifan looked at him; "Did you give it to me?"
"Yes, someone asked me to put it in the wonton soup." The waiter lowered his head and his voice trembled: "But I have never done this before. I was too nervous."
"There was no poison in the food I ate before, right?" You Yifan asked again.
"I can't poison steamed buns, fried dough sticks, etc. It can't be diluted." The waiter immediately replied: "I... I'm a delivery man, not in the back kitchen, and I can't touch these things. I can only poison the wonton soup."
You Yifan's face became even gloomier when he heard this: "Why didn't you finish this packet of Wutoujian?!"
"The person who hired me said that I can't take all of this stuff, otherwise it will kill me." The waiter immediately replied: "They only let me take about one milligram."
Everyone was a little confused when they heard this. If it was poison, it must be intended to kill people, so why would there be a limit on the quantity
You Yifan looked at the other person and said, "You don't intend to poison me to death?"
"Yes, the person who hired me said that you only need to have a slight reaction and go to the hospital." The waiter nodded: "But he was also worried that I would not know how to use the dosage and waste the poison, so he prepared some extra for me."
When You Yifan heard this, he looked at Jing Yan and then asked, "Who hired you?"
"It's... a gangster in Hanoi named Wu Zheng. We met when we were gambling. I owed some money, and he found me and said that if I did this job, he could forgive the debt and give me 100,000 yuan..." The waiter explained logically: "I was short of money, so I agreed. But... but I really haven't done this, I'm too nervous, brother... I'm just a gangster, please let me go."
You Yifan stared at him: "Besides poisoning, did he make any other requests?"
"He asked me to observe and see when you will go to the hospital after you have a reaction," the waiter replied.
You Yifan looked up at Jing Yan: "Damn it, I almost lost my life over this meal. Brother Jing, what do you think about this?"
"If we want to move, they can't just wait to be beaten." Jing Yan interrupted and replied, "The other side also wants to make the first move."
You Yifan frowned and fell silent.
"Boss, why don't you just hand him over to the island's officials and let them follow this line of investigation?" The burly man holding a baton pointed at the waiter on the ground and said.
You Yifan waved his hand directly: "They still want me to be poisoned, but they don't want me to die. Brother Jing, what do you think they are going to do?"
"The island is full of Tai's people and military personnel. They don't dare to take action here." Jing Yan replied: "Besides, this place is surrounded by water. Even if they take action, they can't take you away."
"Haha, that's why we have to..." You Yifan smiled grimly.
…
Half an hour later.
The waiter called the person who hired him: "Hello, Brother Wu, I... I didn't have a chance this morning, and You Yifan didn't drink the soup, so I have to wait until the evening."
The other party was silent for a while: "Anyway, I have told you, if you can't do it, you have to pay back the loan shark."