Chapter 1002.
“It smells so good!”
Sun Zhengheng, who was sitting on the woolen blanket, couldn’t help but exclaim as he smelled the aroma of the roasted meat.
He smiled and said to Wang Duan, “This Hanhai County doesn’t have many specialties, but the taste of the beach sheep is one of the best, I ate it once before in Daye and it’s still fresh in my mind!”
The Gobi beach sheep produced in Hanhai County had always been a tribute to the royal family.
Due to the long distance traveled, the number of beach goats that ended up being able to be sent alive to the Imperial Capital was very small, and naturally very precious.
And the beach sheep that could be eaten in this Hanhai City were undoubtedly the freshest and most delicious.
A chef wielded a sharp curved knife and skillfully cut off two large pieces of nourishing and oily bone-in lamb, which was served on a silver plate and personally delivered to Wang Duan and Sun Zhengheng by that fat merchant.
“Please use it, two lords.”
The fat merchant respectfully knelt on the ground and lifted the silver plate with both hands.
Sun Zhengheng laughed, “Taobao Wang, you go first.”
Wang Dust didn’t push, and directly reached out and grabbed a piece of fatty mutton that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, putting it to his mouth and taking a bite.
Just as Sun Zhengheng said, this barbecued beach goat flavor was not generally good, not only did it not have the slightest bit of fishy and stinky air, but the meat was fatty and full of juice, chewing in the mouth exploded the taste buds!
And sprinkled on the skin of the lamb spices, and a very special flavor, and lamb complement each other.
Let a person eat, hate to swallow their tongue together!
However, after chewing two mouthfuls, Wang Dust not only didn’t swallow it, but instead, he burst into a rage and slammed the lamb in his hand on the face of the fat merchant kneeling on the ground.
Snap!
This fawning merchant was smashed to the eyeballs and was completely dumbfounded.
“Good guts!”
Wang Chen droned in a deep voice, “How dare you drug the meat and conspire to murder a close guard of the Son of Heaven!”
His voice instantly spread throughout the entire palace hall, and all the Featherwood Guards all heard it clearly!
Sun Zhengheng was furious at his words, and as he lifted the fat merchant on the ground, he threw the other party two slaps hard from left to right.
“Say! Who told you to poison?”
After the battle at the West Sea Prairie, this Featherwood Guard Commander’s trust in Wang Chen could be said to have reached its peak.
Therefore, he did not doubt Wang Dust’s words in the slightest, and the anger in his heart was about to spew out of his eyes.
The fat merchant ate two slaps, his teeth were slapped away several times, and blood spilled from his mouth, nose, eyes and ears.
Fortunately, Sun Zhengheng didn’t mess up even under the agitation, otherwise it would have been simple to directly slap the other party’s head.
“Injustice, unjust ah!”
Under the severe pain, the fat merchant instead snapped out of it and cried out, “Great, Lord Mingjian, I ate the bear heart and leopard’s gall and would not dare to conspire to harm all the Lords ah!”
His guts were almost broken.
This merchant was a big shopkeeper of a chamber of commerce in Hanhai City, usually mainly doing business with Great Yan, so when he learned that the peace procession would be coming to the border county, he tried his best to get through to the county government, and took on the job of treating the troops.
He originally thought that he could take this opportunity to climb a little relationship with Princess Qing Yun, even if it is just a word of appreciation, and wait until the future Princess Qing Yun became the Crown Princess of Yan or even the Queen, then he can certainly follow the light.
Never thought that the evening carefully prepared this feast even went wrong!
“How dare you argue!”
Sun Zhengheng became even more furious, his hand used force to choke the fat merchant’s throat, ready to make the other party taste a life worse than death.
“Wait.”
Wang Dust waved his hand to stop Sun Zhengheng and droned, “Where is the Imperial Doctor?”
As soon as his words fell, three physicians who had followed the peace procession immediately rushed over.
At this moment, all the cooks, cooks and handymen were controlled by the Featherwood Guards, and the atmosphere at the scene was extremely tense.
Wang Dust pointed to the material jar next to the grill in front of him and said, “Check the spices, I feel something is wrong.”
How sharp his perception was, he sensed that the flavor was not right just now when the mutton entered the mouth.
Although the flavor of the mutton and spices was extremely strong, completely concealing the hint of abnormality that existed inside, ordinary people were unable to discern it, but it could not be concealed from Wang Dust’s oral knowledge!
One of the physicians immediately brought over the spice jar and took out a pinch of spices from it before distributing it to the other two physicians.
These three accompanying physicians were all imperial physicians in the palace, their medical skills were very superb, and naturally, they were also proficient in pharmacology.
They also took out various tools to test the spice, and conferred with each other for a while, then one of the physicians arched his hand to Wang Duan and said, “Sir Wang, my humble servant and my two colleagues believe that this spice is most likely laced with a hundred years’ portion of Rosemary Grass!”
“Rosemary grass?”
Wang Duan raised his eyebrows.
Rosemary grass was a wild herb with a slight hallucinogenic effect that could be used as an ingredient in spices and mixed into food to add flavor.
Ordinary rosemary grass was harmless to people, and even if they ate a lot of it at once, they would at most experience some hallucinations.
It was similar to eating a low-toxicity fungus.
However, for rosemary grass that has grown for more than a hundred years, its medicinal power is so strong that even a third or fourth ranked martial artist would not be able to carry it!
It was considered a high-level psychedelic drug.
Only a hundred years of psychedelic grass was very rare, and could not be bought on the market at all. The three physicians were able to recognize it, and their experience in the pharmacology of herbs was undoubtedly very strong.
Wang Chen turned his head to look at the fat merchant who had just been released by Sun Zhengheng and said indifferently, “What else do you have to say?”
The merchant had collapsed to the ground, and immediately slumped down and kowtowed desperately, “My lord, my lord, I don’t know anything ah, I’m really innocent ah ……”
Life and death hangs in the balance, he kowtowed extremely hard, forehead has been skin open flesh bloom blood flow more than.
But the fat merchant is oblivious, continue to knock hard to knock.
Wang dust watched for a moment, suddenly said, “I believe you.”
The other party’s acting skills are no longer strong, it is impossible to hide from his perceptual insight, since its words from the heart, I think it is being used as a backstabber.
The fat merchant knocked several more before coming back to his senses, and immediately howled with tears.
He was really too wronged!
Wang Dust frowned: “Take him down, everyone locked up in the side hall, anyone who dares to act rashly will be killed!”
The incident happened suddenly, Wang Chen already had no time to distinguish who was good and who was evil in the people brought by the fat merchant.
Simply imprisoning them was already considered his greatest mercy!
At Wang Chen’s command, the wolf-like Feather Forest Guards immediately rushed all these people to the side hall for custody.
Sun Zhengheng’s face turned blue as he asked, “Lord Wang, what should we do now?”
This matter was not trivial, if it was some rats who couldn’t see the light of day who were making waves, then the situation was not bad.
But if it involves the Hanhai county government, or even the Hanhai army stationed in the pass ……
But if it involves the Hanhai county government, or even the Hanhai army stationed in the pass, it will be a big deal.
You have to know that the Hanhai army is the elite of the border army, there are as many as 50,000 people!