Not long after, all the participants attended the banquet on time. Ning Zhiheng looked around and looked at him secretly. The lineup of the people attending the banquet this time was strong, almost covering all the Japanese and puppet military and political officials in Nanjing at this time.

In the Japanese side, almost all of the Central China Expeditionary Forces were present except for several senior generals stationed in Wuhan.

As for the pseudo-government in Nanjing, except for Wang Baihai who was not present due to physical reasons, several other deans attended. As for the so-called ministers, such as the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Appeasement, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Education..., there are countless, and the entire banquet hall is full.

At seven o'clock in the banquet, Consul General Hirou Ichijun, as the host, first came on stage to deliver a welcome speech, welcomed Qingshui and his group of people to visit, and then invited Qingshui to give a speech. Next, several military and political leaders came on stage to speak. Naturally, everyone in the audience did not dare to neglect them, and they all supported them, with warm applause and thunderous cheers.

This program took a lot of time, and it took a long time to finish the formality. The banquet officially began. Gong Yichun of Kuo asked everyone to raise their glasses to celebrate. Then he chucked and chucked, the sound of the cup and plates sounded, and the food was filled with delicious food, and the wine was just in full bloom.

At this time, in the kitchen of the consulate, Zhan Yuanliang was working very hard and busy. Everything was as he expected. Because of this banquet, the kitchen was very work-intensive and the chef was seriously insufficient. In the past, Zhan Yuanliang was the chef of the consulate. However, he later gained the trust of the Japanese and was transferred to be a clerk because of his education. Now Zhan Yuanliang has taken the initiative to help in the kitchen, and the consulate naturally agrees.

Fortunately, shortly after the banquet began, all the dishes were cooked and served on the dining table by the waiter. After the intense work, the people in the kitchen took a breath.

Zhan Yuanliang finished the work at hand and relaxed his energy. He took off the chef's hat and chef's skirt, went outside the kitchen door, found a place to rest, took out a cigarette, lit a piece of it, held it in his mouth, and secretly observed the movements around him while smoking.

The security work at this banquet was very strict, and all the staff involved must be strictly inspected when entering. However, because Zhan Yuanliang is an old employee of the consulate, he did not search at all and easily brought the potassium chloride poison in.

However, when he was preparing to poison, some problems arose. It turned out that he wanted to poison the dishes, but after thinking about it, he felt that this effect was not good, because many people have different eating habits and different tastes they like to taste. In this way, the time for the dishes to be eaten will be different. Some people even keep their mouths to certain dishes. Once someone has symptoms of poisoning, they will alarm others, so there will not be too many people who will kill them.

What's more, he didn't know the preferences of those Japanese officials, because he didn't have time to inquire because of the tight time.

In the end, he decided to poison the wine because everyone should drink it, and he had the habit of toasting and drinking at the banquet at the same time, and the drinking time was relatively consistent, which ensured that most people would be poisoned at the same time.

However, the place where the wine is placed is not in the kitchen, so Zhan Yuanliang could only slowly look for opportunities.

At this time, the banquet had already started for half an hour. As the dishes and wine were eaten, the atmosphere in the banquet hall gradually became warmer. The consulate also specially arranged singing and dancing to cheer up the fun. The music and singing were buzzing, and all kinds of sounds were noisy, which seemed very lively.

Zhan Yuanliang looked at the time and knew that the temperature was almost done. Seeing that no one around paid attention to him, he threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground, gently stepped on it with his feet, relaxed, calmed down, and then stood up and came to the door of the storage room not far from the kitchen.

This is the place where the consulate stores wine and is usually locked. Today, because the banquet requires too much wine, it is opened so that the waiter can use it at any time and provide it with the banquet.

Zhan Yuanliang looked around and confirmed that there was no one around. He quickly pushed open the door of the storage room, flashed into it, and closed the door tightly.

This storage room is not large in size, with wine jars and bottles filled with various wines. The most common sake is naturally the sake that Japanese people drink the most.

There are also a small number of rice wines, because they have to entertain many Chinese guests. At this time, rice wine is the highest-end wine type at the Chinese banquet.

Zhan Yuanliang quickly walked to the wine rack placed on the outermost side and picked up a bottle of sake, which was the most expensive sake brand. He quickly opened the bottle plug and took out a small bottle containing potassium cyanide from his arms.

He opened the small bottle, poured some poison into the sake bottle, shook it for a while, and was about to restore the sake bottle, but a bitter almond smell came to his nose, and he felt dizzy and almost sat on the ground.

not good!

At this time, he recalled that potassium cyanide was damp and exposed to water, and it would have a very volatile bitter almond taste. Before he entered the Japanese consulate, he had performed a poisoning task and used potassium cyanide poison. But that time it was put into white wine. Because the dose was very small, and the alcohol content of the white wine was very high and the taste was strong, covering up the taste of bitter almonds, so he did not attract the target's attention and successfully completed the task.

However, the alcohol content of Japanese sake is very low and the taste is as light as water. The bitter almond taste can no longer be suppressed. If this wine is on the mat, Japanese people familiar with the taste of sake will immediately realize something is wrong.

Too careless! This made Zhan Yuanliang react immediately, and he secretly regretted that he had not performed such a task for so many years, and many of his skills were unfamiliar, but there were still problems with the details.

However, he thought about it and immediately opened several other bottles of sake. He quickly mixed the bottle of sake with other bottles. After smelling the taste of sake, the smell was almost impossible and he could get away with it. However, in this way, the concentration of potassium cyanide decreased and the toxicity was greatly reduced. However, time was tight, so he didn't care about so much.

He didn't dare to put some of the remaining potassium cyanide in the sake wine, but chose to place the nearest jar of rice wine and poured all the poison in it. The yellow wine tasted mellow, and another whole jar of rice wine. When the potassium cyanide was poured in, he couldn't smell the bitter almonds.

Just as he was in a hurry to deal with the traces, a sound of footsteps came from outside.

Someone came! Zhan Yuanliang was shocked and a layer of cold sweat oozed out of his forehead, because he had no time to get out at this time. In order to mix a few bottles of sake, he was delayed for a long time, but he was blocked in the storage room.

In an emergency, he quickly packed the paper bag and restored all the items as soon as possible. Just as he put the sake bottle on the wine rack, the door of the storage room was pushed open from outside, and two waiters walked in.

"Jun Zhan, what are you doing here?"

A Japanese waiter couldn't help asking strangely when he saw Zhan Yuanliang actually in the storage room.

The waiters at the banquet today were all service staff at the Japanese consulate. Because they were not equipped with enough staff, they also called some embassy staff, all of which were Japanese, and they were also familiar with Zhan Yuanliang.

At this time, Zhan Yuanliang was still holding the bottle of sake in his hand. Before he could put it back on his original position, he heard the waiter asking, and turned around and replied: "Oh! Consul Uchida just told me that the banquet hall was tight and asked me to complete the kitchen work and go to the banquet hall to help. I saw that the wine in the banquet hall had almost been drunk, so I was going to take some wine to deliver it."

After saying that, he shook the bottle in his hand at the waiter, pretending to hold another bottle of sake in his hand.

In addition to Hiroshi Ichijun, the consulate also has two deputy consuls, and the deputy consul named Uchida is the person in charge of the banquet preparation.

Hearing Zhan Yuanliang say this, the waiter did not suspect that he was because they also came to the pantry to get the wine because they lacked alcohol.

Another waiter smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble Mr. Zhan. There are too many people attending the banquet today, and we are worried about being too busy."

"Where, you're welcome, come, Xiaoshanjun, I'll get it for you!"

After Zhan Yuanliang finished speaking, he handed the bottle in his hand to the waiter Xiaoshan, then turned around and picked up the two bottles of sake that had just been tampered with.

Another waiter saw that they had already taken sake, looked around and picked up the jar of rice wine closest to the side. There were also many Chinese people in the banquet hall. These people usually drink rice wine, so they consumed very quickly and needed some supplements.

Zhan Yuanliang looked at the wine jar that the waiter picked up. It was the rice wine jar that he had just put poison. He was secretly happy and did not expect things to go so smoothly.

"Let's go, let's take it over quickly, and the guests are anxious!"
Chapter completed!