Chapter 848 - The Savior (1/2)

Chapter 848: The Savior

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

The hall for the lunch banquet was set up in the property management area. Nearly 100 guests had already taken a seat when Tang Xiu’s group came in. The staff directly took them to the table at the very center where Wang Xuegang had been waiting for a long time. The latter then immediately got up and smilingly said, “Boss Tang, Miss Zhang, please take a seat.”

Zhang Xinyue took a seat gracefully, but Tang Xiu didn’t immediately sit down. He had faintly smelled a familiar scent when he had just entered the hall, but he couldn’t remember what it was immediately. He took a glance around and found that the nearly 100 guests were having a merry time, yet he couldn’t help but crease his brows deeply.

He hadn’t yet discovered the source of the scent, but it somehow made him faintly vigilant inside, as if his sixth sense found something amiss, causing him to feel the looming danger.

“Something wrong, Boss Tang?”

With a surprised yet strange expression, Wang Xuegang looked at Tang Xiu with inquiry and suspicious eyes.

Tang Xiu was silent for a short while before he slowly took a seat. Then he shook his head and said, “It’s nothing; I just smelled a familiar scent.”

Wang Xuegang couldn’t help but laugh and said after taking a seat, “Mr. Tang feels a kind of familiar feeling with something here; that means that you have taken a liking to my place. If so, I’ll reserve several villas of my Golden Goblet Emperor Gauze villa complex. You can pick the one you like as a present for your support in coming here.”

“Nevermind it, but thanks for your good intention, Mr. Wang.” Tang Xiu shook his head. “If anything, I can only stay in this place for a short time, so I have no time to occupy it even if I have a villa here.”

Wang Xuegang smilingly nodded and no longer continued the topic.

A short while after, Zhang Xinya, who sat next to Tang Xiu, was invited to the temporary stage. She sang three songs for all the guests. Her voice was very beautiful, and even though her singing technique was slightly different from her older sister, Zhang Xinya, nobody could tell since there were no skilled musicians among the audience.

As the singing session ended, other extra singers came on stage and Zhang Xinyue returned to Tang Xiu’s side and sat down again. However, there was something different in the looks of her eyes, as she whispered when no one noticed them, “What happened, Tang Xiu? I can tell that you were somewhat distracted when you came here.”

“Did you smell a particular scent?” asked Tang Xiu with a frown.

…A scent or fragrance?

“You also said to Mr. Wang that you smelled a familiar scent a while ago,” said Zhang Xinyue. “But I didn’t smell any. If anything, it’s maybe because the cold dish was just delivered, so you probably smelled it because your sense of smell is too sharp?”

“That’s absolutely not it.” Tang Xiu shook his head and said, “There was the scent when we just entered the lunch banquet hall. The scent has a very strong medicinal herb fragrance, and I usually can tell the herbs used in a medicinal herb soup. I don’t know what happened or why I can’t tell what the medicinal herb is, just that there is a very familiar feeling to that scent.”

“How come it’s so bizarre?” Zhang Xinyue was surprised.

Tang Xiu was silent for a moment but the vigilance he felt inside was getting stronger. After that moment of silence and exchange of toasts from everyone at the table, and just as he was about to find an excuse to wander around, his expression suddenly changed and his eyes instantly shifted towards the hall entrance.

There were more than a dozen staff there carrying the stews, and the scent was getting stronger as they approached. The scent was even drilling into his nostrils even without inhaling it.

“Do you smell it?” Tang Xiu turned to look at Zhang Xinyue and asked in a low voice.

“What smell?” Zhang Xinyue asked back as he looked at Tang Xiu with a confused face, “What exactly did you smell? Is it the familiar scent you mentioned before? No… why don’t I smell anything?”

Tang Xi’s expression changed and he abruptly got up. He quickly blocked the path of the staff who delivered the dishes, whereas nearly 100 guests in the hall were surprised and turned silent, as he asked, “Can I taste this stew first?”

“Uh, what?” The staff knew Tang Xiu’s identity but was at a loss that the famous divine doctor Tang Xiu would make such a bizarre request.

Wang Xuegang didn’t know what happened but he strode up and came to Tang Xiu’s side to ask, “What’s going on, Mr. Tang?”

“I have to taste this stew first,” said Tang Xiu.

“Mr. Tang, even if you’re starving, there’s no need for you to be this ardent, right?” said Wang Xuegang with a smile. “I’ll send more pots for you if you like this stew later.”

Tang Xiu shook his head and opened the casserole lid. His heart trembled as he instantly smelled the scent of some medicinal herbs from the billowing mist of vapor.

“Black Zen seeds, Carrion Reed, Scorpion Fruit…”

Tang Xiu’s complexion abruptly changed and he exclaimed, “This dish is poisonous!”

“What?”

Everyone in the entire banquet hall was shocked and got up from their seat, whereas disbelief covered Wang Xuegang’s face after hearing Tang Xiu’s exclamation, and he spoke hastily, “Are you perhaps making a mistake, Mr. Tang? How come this dish is poisonous? I invited all the chefs today from the county town; there’s no way they would poison people!”