Chapter 342 The Secret of Seafood Porridge
It's quiet at night.
The few lights in the dilapidated mansion had all been turned off.
Youya carefully opened the door a crack, looked in, listened for a while, and whispered, "They should all be asleep, let's go."
After saying that, he bent down and tiptoed out of the door, with Miyano Shiho following closely behind him.
The two of them sneaked around the mansion. Although they were not familiar with the place, they had been to the Suzuki family's villas and mansions many times and were familiar with the general layout of the mansions, so they quickly found the kitchen.
Unlike the shabby outbuildings, the kitchen is very clean and tidy. It seems that Watanabe cares a lot about his workplace.
The two searched the kitchen, but after a long time they still didn't find anything suspicious. All they could see were things that should be in a kitchen.
"Didn't he put the things in the kitchen?" Miyano Shiho couldn't help but ask.
Youya touched his chin and scanned the dim kitchen, and suddenly found a piece of food fallen on the ground in the corner.
He walked over, picked it up and took a look, and found that it was a piece of red mushroom residue.
Looking around, his sight fell on a piece of wall tile without any joints. He bent his fingers and knocked on it, and found that it was indeed empty inside.
Just as Youya was about to say something, a tender white hand reached out with a pair of nail clippers.
Youye smiled, took the nail clippers, inserted the polished piece of iron into the gap between the wall tiles, and gently lifted it up. The brick loosened and fell off.
Youye was startled, and quickly caught the wall tile, then heaved a long sigh of relief.
Carefully placing the brick on the ground, Youya took out his phone and shone a light on it, revealing a ceramic jar inside.
"It seems that this is what we are looking for." Yuye raised the corner of his mouth slightly, took out the jar, opened the lid, and took a look. It was full of red mushrooms.
"Take a look?" Yuya pushed the jar in front of Miyano Shiho.
Miyano Shiho squatted down, put on plastic gloves, took out a mushroom, observed it with the light of her mobile phone, smelled it, and her expression became solemn.
"This is a hallucinogenic mushroom. Although it tastes delicious, it is poisonous. If consumed for a long time, in addition to being addictive, it will also deplete a person's physical strength and make the body worse and worse. When the toxins accumulate to a certain level, the person will die."
"Judging from the appearance of the Nakajima couple, I'm afraid they have been eating for quite some time."
Youya frowned, "There is indeed a problem."
"Now that we have found the evidence, should we call the police?" Miyano Shiho asked tentatively.
Yuya touched his chin and said, "Not yet. We have no way to prove that the mushroom belongs to Watanabe. We have to find a way to make him admit it himself..."
Miyano Shiho asked: "What do you want to do?"
Yuya thought for a moment and said, his lips curled up slightly: "Shiho, you are a doctor of medicine, is there any way to temporarily suppress this toxin and wake up the Nakajima couple?"
Miyano Shiho pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "I've come across this kind of mushroom before when I was doing experiments, and I know some ways to deal with it, but the stuff I need is in the trunk of the car..."
"I'll get it." Yuya said, thinking for a moment before taking something out of his pocket and stuffing it into Miyano Shiho's hand, "Take this to protect yourself, just in case."
Miyano Shiho glanced at the thing in her hand, her eyes suddenly widened: "Hey, hey, hey, you're carrying this thing? Do you have a certificate?"
Youye smiled and said, "No, but if you don't tell me and I don't tell you, who would know?"
Miyano Shiho rolled her eyes at him and said, "You're a bad detective."
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The next day
Watanabe came over and knocked on the door.
Yuya opened the door and said in a daze, "What's the matter?"
Watanabe observed Yuya's condition and flashed a sinister smile: "Breakfast is ready, do you want to eat? Oh, and there is seafood porridge as well."
Hearing about seafood porridge, Youya's expression perked up, and he said with a little excitement: "Okay, I'll come after I wash my face."
Watanabe bowed slightly and left.
Looking at Watanabe's receding back, Youya sneered silently, closed the door and asked, "Is it done?"
Miyano Shiho yawned loudly, stood up and stretched: "Just in time. I'm so tired, I feel like I can fall asleep as soon as I touch the pillow."
As he said this he handed over a small bottle.
Yuya lifted the small bottle and took a look, there was some clear liquid inside.
"I spent an entire night making this. Although it's not an antidote, it can react with the mushroom toxins. It will temporarily suppress the toxins in their bodies and make them feel sick to their stomachs because of the taste of mushrooms."
Youye smiled and said, "As expected of my Shiho, you're so awesome!" Then he kissed her hard on the face.
Miyano Shiho pushed Yuya away in disgust: "Go away, your breath smells bad because you didn't brush your teeth."
"Ah?" Youye was stunned for a moment, blew into his palm and sniffed, "What? It stinks!"
When he looked up and saw Miyano Shiho trying to hold back her laughter, he immediately understood: "How dare you play tricks on me! Watch out!"
"Ouch! Stop making trouble!"
The two played around for a while, washed up briefly, and then went to the restaurant.
Because they hadn't slept all night, Yuya and Miyano Shiho both looked listless, just like the Nakajima couple, saving the energy to act.
Furukawa Ryuya staggered over and sat down dejectedly.
Youye glanced at him. This guy paid full attention to the warning look he gave him last night and drank up the bowl of porridge directly. He must have been slightly infected with the toxin and his mind is full of seafood porridge, right?
You didn't feel guilty. This guy was a little thoughtless in doing things. Eating a small amount of these mushrooms would not be life-threatening. He just wanted to teach him a lesson.
Then the Nakajima couple came. Just like last night, they sat slumped in their chairs with lifeless eyes.
After waiting for a while, Watanabe came with a food cart, and there was nothing on it except a big bowl.
It seemed that he felt that everyone present had been infected by the poisonous mushrooms and had become a trapped beast in his jar, so there was no need to waste energy making other dishes.
Watanabe had a gentle smile on his face and served everyone a bowl of seafood porridge.
Just as everyone was about to drink the porridge, Youye suddenly stood up.
"Sir, is there anything I can help you with?" Watanabe looked at Yuya puzzledly.
Yuya smiled and said, "I suddenly came here to stay overnight last night. I was worried about disturbing Mr. and Mrs. Nakajima. Actually, my girlfriend can cook a little bit.
But I thought that Mr. Watanabe is the chef here, and it would be inappropriate to take your job, so I brought some homemade drinks for everyone to try. "
As soon as she finished speaking, Miyano Shiho suddenly took out a glass bottle filled with transparent liquid from under the table.
Watanabe was a little confused. What was going on? Why did he suddenly take out the drinks?
But he didn't say much. Once you have tasted his seafood porridge, you will not be interested in other things, and you are not afraid of Youye doing anything wrong.
"No, we can just have porridge." The Nakajima couple had no interest in any drinks.
"Don't say that. This is made by my girlfriend. You can't get it outside." Youye enthusiastically poured a glass for everyone and then sat down with a smile on his face.
The Nakajima couple looked at the "white water" in the glass, a trace of impatience flashed across their faces, but in the end they took a symbolic sip, then put down the cup and prepared to drink the porridge.
Furukawa Ryu was very curious, so he took a big sip and smacked his lips and said, "What kind of drink is this? Why is it tasteless?"
Youye smiled faintly: "Maybe it's because I just woke up and my sense of taste is a little dull. Drink some porridge first to stimulate it, and then drink the drink and you will be able to taste it."
Furukawa Ryu said "oh" and without thinking too much, focused his attention on the seafood porridge.
Watanabe watched all this quietly, with a look of disdain flashing across his face.
The Nakajima couple couldn't wait to scoop a big spoonful of porridge into their mouths. Before they could taste it, they felt a disgusting taste in their mouths, as if they had eaten rotten pork. Their faces suddenly changed and they vomited the porridge with a "wow" sound.
Furukawa Ryu next to him was even more exaggerated. He directly sprayed the porridge in his mouth into the big bowl in the middle of the table.
He shouted loudly: "What is this? Is the porridge bad? Why does it smell so disgusting?"
Watanabe's face suddenly changed: "What? How is this possible? I just made this this morning!"
As he said that, he ran over, scooped up some porridge with a spoon and smelled it, and immediately showed a puzzled expression: "No problem?"
"Really, this porridge seems to be spoiled." Yuya also had a disgusted expression, with a deliberately dropped seafood porridge in front of him, and said to Watanabe, "Mr. Watanabe, why don't you taste it yourself? Maybe it smells fine, but it really doesn't taste right?"
The Nakajima couple's eyes regained a bit of clarity. Although they were still a little confused, their desire for seafood porridge still made them look at Watanabe with unfriendly expressions.
"..." Watanabe's expression froze. He looked at the porridge in the spoon and didn't dare to eat it at all. A drop of cold sweat slowly flowed from his forehead.
Yuya narrowed his eyes and asked coldly, "What's wrong? Why don't you eat? Mr. Watanabe."
"Is it because it's poisonous?"