Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 489: Another Branch

After a while, the eight people, including the Shao father and son, the Dugu father and son, the Gao father and daughter, as well as Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, actually put two tables together and sat together.

This scene also confused the other people who were eating around.

However, someone soon made his own judgment - it seemed that Dong Xie Xi Du relied on his own reputation to act as a peacemaker and made the three sects, which had originally had a little conflict, sit down and negotiate peace.

This conclusion seemed reasonable at first glance to outsiders who did not know the inside story, so it quickly spread from whispers to word of mouth, and then became a consensus.

But what are the people involved thinking?

First of all, the four people from the Dugu family and the Gao family had similar ideas to those of the passers-by, because they could not think of any other reasonable explanation for this situation.

Even though they did guess at the beginning that Shao Shanhu was going to cause trouble, they didn't guess it would be something as LOW as "administering laxatives". Later, with the intrusion of Shuang Xie, the situation escalated to... oh no... it was downgraded to the level of a "laxative game" between a famous drug-using family in the martial arts world and the leadership of the four sects and three gangs, and at the same time, an old sect in Cangzhou and the prestigious Sword King's Mansion were involved, which was a development that no one could have guessed.

Furthermore, Sun and Huang's acting skills, which had long since merged with their character, were too deceptive. Apart from each other, anyone else, even their "friendly forces", could easily be fooled by them.

Therefore, at least the four people at this table really thought that Sun Huang wanted to help them and act as a peacemaker between them and the Xingyi Sect, so they gave him face and agreed to "share the table".

Secondly, let’s talk about the Shao family father and son…

Shao Shanhu is the one who has the most information among the eight people at the two tables. In theory, he has a huge advantage in terms of wits. Unfortunately, his personal ability is a bit lacking... Although he has temporarily escaped from the dilemma of swallowing laxatives by thinking quickly, he still has not completely escaped the threat of Huang Donglai's poisoning.

As for Shao Dejin, since he did not see Sun Yixie switching the food with Shao Shanhu, and was not sure whether Shao Shanhu's laxative was successful or not, he was quite puzzled by his son's sudden suggestion of "sharing the table". He even wondered: Has my son really reconciled with the other party?

Finally, there are Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai.

Originally, they both had the mentality of sitting back and waiting, wanting to have a good time with the two monkeys, the Shao family father and son.

But Shao Shanhu's brief hesitation and the seemingly forced words "Why don't we share a table with Brother Dugu and the others and eat together" also caught them off guard.

At this moment, the two of them also vaguely realized that something was wrong, but when the time came, if they suddenly lost their composure here, all their previous efforts would be wasted, and the Shao father and son would escape.

Furthermore, Sun Huang was not sure whether Shao Shanhu saw through them or just had an "inspiration", because they did not see whether Shao Shanhu took the "vitamin C" or not. They just assumed that he had taken it and judged that "Shao Shanhu thought he had taken a laxative".

Therefore, it is difficult to understand the logic of Shao Shanhu's sudden proposal to make a comeback and dine at the same table with someone who is suspected to have been drugged by him.

To sum up, in line with the principle of "no venture, no gain"... although Sun Huang did not have complete information, they relied on their stronger abilities in "controlling the situation" and "poisoning", and followed Shao Shanhu's wishes and came forward to facilitate this table sharing.

They also wanted to see what Shao Shanhu was up to.

Thus, a strange scene arose with eight people, each with their own thoughts, sitting at the same table.

"Uh... my son has offended many of you a few days ago. I, Shao, would like to offer you a drink to express my apology." After sitting down, it was Shao Dejin who spoke first.

He was actually very embarrassed when he said this. From his point of view, he was forcibly dragged here by his son and Shuangxie. But since he was already here, he should at least show some respect for the sake of face, even if he had no sincerity in his heart.

On the other hand, Dugu Sheng, as a person who cares about the occasion, smiled awkwardly and prepared to raise his glass.

Old Gao was one step faster than Dugu Sheng. After all, he was the local leader, and Shao Shanhu was humiliated on the stage where he organized the "martial arts competition to win a bride". He should express his attitude first: "Master Shao, you are too polite. In fact, the young people have already talked it out themselves. It was all a misunderstanding. Why do you need to come here in person? Come on... Gao will accompany you for a drink..."

"Wait a minute!"

Just as Shao Dejin and Gao Shengyue both raised their glasses and Dugu Sheng was about to drink with them, Shao Shanhu and Huang Donglai shouted in unison.

The two men's shouting actually scared the old men, and no one understood what they were doing.

Here is a hint in our book...

Shao Shanhu's idea was actually very simple: the wine jug his father was using to pour the wine was taken from their own table, and it might have been poisoned by Huang Donglai, so it was not drinkable.

Huang Donglai's thoughts were more complicated: I just went to help Brother Sun to cover up and block Shao Dejin's sight, so I didn't see what happened at their table, but there must be a reason why Shao Shanhu suddenly asked to share the table. Maybe Brother Sun messed up something and caused us to be discovered by him; besides, now that I think about it...what if the package of things that we swapped with Shao Shanhu was not a laxative or a mild poison? What if this guy didn't know how to do things and got a package of something else, then if Shao Dejin drank it and poisoned him, wouldn't I also be responsible for it? Besides, there are eight people at the table now. If someone gets into trouble, the other four may also be dragged into the water...

Even in this situation, each with their own ulterior motives, the two of them cried out at the same time.

But when they found that each other was "calling for a stop", they each came up with new ideas.

"Hmm? It's okay for me, but why did this Huang guy stop my dad from drinking with the other two? Did he see through me and him? So he wants to do something new?" Shao Shanhu thought to himself.

Huang Donglai thought to himself, "Oh shit! Could it be that this guy has really seen through us and knows that I poisoned the wine glasses for him and his son? Then it does make sense for this Shao to let us share a table... Maybe we were tricked?"

At this moment, both of their faces changed color.

Sun Yixie noticed something was going on and started to wonder, "What's going on? Have we been exposed? Wait... maybe the thing I just swapped was deliberately asked to do by that guy? He's actually on the third floor? Maybe he has some other poison hidden on him, planning to make a big one, and then put the blame on us, and finally escape…"

Thinking of this, Sun and Huang immediately exchanged glances.

Only a second later, Huang Donglai immediately followed up with the previous sentence "Wait a minute", and said with a smile: "Haha... Now we have two tables of people combined into one table. If we drink two pots of wine separately, it will seem strange..." As he said that, he turned around and shouted, "Hey, bring us another pot of good wine, and add a few more hard dishes."

"Okay~" Wuying Duzun, who was watching the show on the side, responded and turned away.

The Poison Lord was a little confused about what these people were thinking at the moment, but he still understood Huang Donglai's move of "re-serving the jar of wine". In their jargon, this is called "turning over the stuffing bag"; the general meaning of this move is... when there are multiple poisoners on the scene, and no one is sure which things on the table are poisonous, one of them will find a reason to RESET the existing things so that he can do something about the reset things.

"The dishes are here~ and there's a jar of top-quality daughter's red wine~" Du Zun quickly brought all the things Huang Donglai ordered, and was ready to deliberately show off his poison in front of Huang Donglai, "I'll open the wine for you guys right now."

"Okay." Huang Donglai was so focused on Shao Shanhu that he didn't notice Du Zun. "Oh, by the way, man, take away these cups and bring a few bowls. Such good wine should be drunk with bowls."

Huang Donglai took advantage of this critical moment to intercept the wine glasses of the Shao father and son. In order to avoid suspicion and just in case, he and Brother Sun also exchanged their wine glasses.

"Okay~" Du Zun had just put away the cups, and within ten seconds, he came back with the bowls, "I've brought them all for you. Good wine goes with big bowls~"

As he was an expert, he knew that if Huang Donglai wanted to "turn over the filling bag", he would definitely change the wine glass as well, so he had prepared the bowl just now.

Then, everyone saw... this very diligent waiter, together with the somewhat "overly enthusiastic" Huang Donglai and Shao Shanhu, began to rush to pour wine, put bowls, and adjust the placement of dishes on the table...

The clinking of cups and plates, the moving of things here and there, you scattering and I smearing... It was like cheating at the gambling table. There were countless seemingly unintentional and lightning-fast little movements, but who knows how much rivalry and confrontation were hidden in secret.

Dugu Sheng, Dugu Yong, Gao Shengyue, Gao Yadian and Shao Dejin, who were sitting there watching this scene, felt that the two guys were too attentive, so attentive that it made everyone feel a little uncomfortable.

Only Sun Yixie sat there, sucking his teeth, thinking that it would be difficult to finish today's meal properly.

The Poison Lord only laughed in his heart at this time: "Young Master Huangmen is like this? I deliberately poisoned you in various ways in front of you, and you didn't notice it at all. Haha... When someone got poisoned, you probably suspected that you had put it in the wrong place, right?"

It is obvious that when it comes to the skill of using poison, Du Zun is indeed at the master level, and Huang Donglai is far behind him. The confrontation between the two can be regarded as a "guiding chess move" at most.

To make a long story short, after a while, after several people worked around the table, everything on the table was finally rearranged.

At this time, Huang Donglai, who thought he was in control of the situation, took the lead and picked up a piece of braised pork ribs with chopsticks and put it into Shao Dejin's bowl: "Uncle, have a hot piece, it's delicious."

When Shao Dejin saw it, he was flattered and thought to himself, you are closer to me than my own son, why are you picking up food for me?

He was not yet finished being surprised, Sun Yixie followed suit and picked up another piece for Shao Shanhu with his chopsticks: "Come on, come on, Brother Hu, have a piece too."

"Oh! Brother Sun, you are too polite. You should try it too!" Shao Shanhu was thinking of Alpaca in his heart, and secretly said that they should die together. He reached back and wanted to take a piece for Sun Yixie as well.

As a result, Brother Sun intercepted the food with his flying chopsticks and pushed it back: "No, no! I've eaten too much meat these days and I'm a little sick of it. Well... I... I prefer fish, hehe..."

As he spoke, Sun Yixie turned to look at Huang Donglai and said with a smile: "This fish... is it okay?"

"Okay..." Huang Donglai took a deep breath.

Sun Yixie had already picked up a piece of fish and put it in his bowl.

"...What if it's not possible?" Then Huang Donglai said the second half of the sentence.

"Fuck you..." Sun Yixie cursed in his heart, "Huang, you are trying to trick me, aren't you?"

But he couldn't get angry on the surface, so he could only squeeze out another sentence from between his teeth: "You have such a sensitive nose, this is not okay...don't you know?"

"I... um... I was a little confused just now... maybe I was a little drunk."

Huang Donglai was definitely not drunk, he just said that to make up for the fact that he was “a bit confused”.

In fact, at this moment, Huang Donglai realized a little late that something was wrong.

Shao Shanhu certainly didn't have the ability to "compete" with him, but when Huang Donglai was "operating" just now, he clearly sensed something strange, as if he was not the only one poisoning the things on the table. And recalling carefully, what Shao Shanhu was doing was nothing more than "trying to prevent Huang Donglai from touching the tableware and dishes in front of the Shao father and son", and he did it very poorly.

So… the feeling that there seemed to be a master present, interfering with my poisoning, was it an illusion or…

"Then you should eat something to sober up..." Sun Yixie reminded him the next second.

"Ah... then..." Huang Donglai thought for a moment, his eyes sweeping across the pile of dishes on the table, "I'll have some vegetarian food to clear my stomach..."

As he said this, he picked up a plate of shredded potatoes from the table.

"Potatoes are good!" When Shao Shanhu saw Huang Donglai eating that, he knew that it was "good" and quickly stretched out his chopsticks to pick it up. "Dad, let's have some vegetarian food too. Vegetarian food is better!" As he said this, he picked up two pieces for Shao Dejin and himself respectively.

And Shao Dejin seemed to have come to his senses at this time...

As the saying goes, no one knows a son better than his father. Perhaps Shao Dejin could not see through the secret game at the table, but he understood his son's moral character better than anyone else.

Seeing that Shao Shanhu's acting skills were gradually getting worse, he began to get impatient, and thought: My son doesn't let me drink, and doesn't let me eat the food that Sun Huang brought, and he only dares to eat what they have eaten. Could it be...

"Haha... yes, shredded potatoes are delicious." Huang Donglai replied with a smile, and then suddenly attacked with a cold arrow, raising his hand to pick up a vinegar dish, "Adding a few drops of vinegar can make it more delicious, you two should try it too..."

Before he finished speaking, he had already "pointed" the small dish of vinegar into the bowls of the Shao father and son, which were already filled with some shredded potatoes.

Seeing that the other party was pressing him step by step, Shao Shanhu could only think of another way quickly: "Hey? Hey, why are you all just watching? Eat too."

The "few people" he was referring to were naturally the Gao father and daughter, and the Dugu father and son, who were already stunned at this moment.

The four of them were stunned at the moment, thinking, what are you guys doing here? Didn't you just say you wanted to have a drink or something, why did you come back to see the four of you feeding each other food in all kinds of "fatherly love and filial piety"? And that kind of cheesy energy... Is that the style of people in the martial arts world?

And the Poison Lord was laughing so hard that he could hardly contain himself. This might be the funniest scene he had ever seen in his life. This wave of "inspiration" was really worth it.

But some people laugh, while others can't.

There was another person at the scene at the moment. He had actually been paying attention to the developments here. He had even figured out the identity of the Poison Lord, but because of this, he could no longer laugh.

That person is Wu Mingzi.

Because Wu Mingzi knew in advance that Du Zun would attack Dugu Sheng during the competition, he had been waiting backstage during the morning, observing and guessing which person here was Du Zun in disguise.

For a brave and resourceful master like Wu Mingzi, finding the Poison Lord is not that difficult if he has mastered this key information.

The problem is, according to his observation, the Poison Lord had already poisoned Dugu Sheng just now, and 90% of the task had been done, and all that was left was to retreat.

But what is this circus performance now? I'm afraid it will cause trouble!
(End of this chapter)