Liang Chen immediately linked the death of chef Lao Zheng to this poisoning incident, could it be that Lao Zheng was also poisoned after eating these seafood?

Liang Chen's face was pale, paler than the hearty face lying on the hospital bed.

Seeing this, Nan Zhiqiao asked, "Liang Chen, what's wrong?"

Liang Chen's mobile phone was still in his hand, and when he heard Nan Zhiqiao's question, he came back to his senses, "Lao Zheng, the chef of Liang Ji Restaurant, is dead!"

Nan Zhiqiao frowned slightly, "Dead, where is dead, what are the symptoms?"

"I don't know, the lobby manager Xiao Guo just called me to inform me. ”

"You ask him about it. ”

Liang Chen asked Xiao Guo, the lobby manager, through his mobile phone, "How did Lao Zheng die, and what were the symptoms before he died?"

Xiao Guo's voice trembled, obviously not recovering from the fright, and said with a slight stammer: "After the ambulance left just now, someone in the store went to the staff to use the bathroom and found Lao Zheng lying on the toilet floor, trying to breathe, and he was out of breath." I don't know the symptoms before death, but the symptoms after death are miserable, and there is vomiting everywhere on my body, in the bathroom, and on the floor. ”

Speaking of which, Xiao Guo also felt like retching.

Nan Zhiqiao whispered beside Liang Chen, "Ask him, has Lao Zheng eaten seafood from Liang Ji Restaurant today?"

Liang Chen repeated Nan Zhiqiao's question.

Xiao Guo, the lobby manager, replied with certainty, "Lao Zheng has always had the habit of tasting dishes, and before the dishes come out of the pot, he will pick some to taste salty, and he should have tasted today's seafood platter." ”

Nan Zhiqiao continued to remind in a whisper, "Ask him, where is Lao Zheng's body now?"

Liang Chen repeated the question, and Xiao Guo breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was just taken away by the police, and the scene was also blocked by the police. ”

"What? Liang Kee Restaurant has been sealed?"

Although Liang Chen used a questioning tone, he also knew in his heart that someone had died, and before the investigation was clear, Liang Kee Restaurant would definitely be sealed and rectified.

Xiao Guo's tone became a little slurred, "Well, the seal has been pasted, the cordon isolation belt has been pulled up, the police haven't left yet, they are being questioned one by one, and it is estimated that they will look for you in a while." ”

Liang Chen tried to calm down and made arrangements, "Xiao Guo, you look at the restaurant first, and contact me in time if there is any situation." ”

"Yes. ”

Hanging up the phone, Liang Chen immediately asked Nan Zhiqiao for help, "Zhiqiao, you quickly help me find out, what happened to this poisoning? ”

Nan Zhiqiao asked: "Is the seafood that you just arrived at Liangji Restaurant this afternoon purchased through regular channels?"

"Yes, there is also a seafood quarantine certificate, about the purchase channel, you can rest assured, it is all regular. Liang Chen confidently assured Nan Zhiqiao.

Nan Zhiqiao frowned slightly.

Liang Chen asked rhetorically: "Is it really a problem with today's seafood?"

"My suspicion is that to be sure, we have to wait for the results of the laboratory tests. ”

"Is it the reason why the seafood is not fresh? Is it a long bacteria, I know that there will be bacteria like Vibrio parahaemolyticus in seafood, people will vomit and diarrhea and have a high fever after eating, last month, there was a food poisoning incident in the Li family restaurant next door, the CDC detected this Vibrio parahaemolyticus in their meals, is it also Liang Kee Restaurant this time?"

Nan Zhiqiao shook his head, "It's not a bacterial infection, if it's bacterial food poisoning, because bacteria have a multiplication process in the body, and it takes at least two hours from eating to showing symptoms." ”

Liang Chen remembered the situation of eating just now, "In this poisoning incident at Liang Kee Restaurant, customers all showed symptoms after eating seafood for a few minutes, so it wasn't a bacterial infection, so what could it be?"

"I suspect it's a marine biotoxin. ”

"Marine biotoxins? Is it pufferfish toxin?"

Liang Chen has heard that among the poisonous river and seafood products, the most famous is pufferfish toxin.

Nan Zhiqiao shook his head, "Pufferfish toxin is just one type of marine biotoxin, there are many kinds of marine biotoxins, according to the chemical structure, divided into three categories, according to the toxic mechanism of action, divided into four categories. ”

Liang Chen couldn't listen to too much professional knowledge now, and asked: "No matter which one it is, but my seafood comes from regular channels, how can there be marine biotoxins in it? ”

Liang Chen was puzzled, and Nan Zhiqiao was the same, "I also feel strange, several common marine biological toxins are within the scope of the quarantine department's inspection, how can there be poisoning incidents? ”

The focus of the two was on the seafood vendor, and they were still thinking about continuing the investigation, when a knock on the door suddenly came from outside the hospital room.

There were two policemen standing at the door of the ward, and the policemen showed their work cards and wanted to take Liang Chen back to the police station to cooperate with the investigation.

Liang Chen was mentally prepared, and he was not much surprised, but looked at Nan Zhiqiao, who understood and said, "Don't worry, I will find out as soon as possible." ”

You Kexin was not at ease, struggling to sit up from the hospital bed, Liang Chen saw this, and hurriedly comforted: "Kexin, I'm fine, just go and go back, here are Zhiqiao and Zhen Zhen's sisters, if there is anything to find them." ”

You Ke wanted to say something, but he didn't want to add to Liang Chen's psychological burden, so he held back for a long time, and in the end, he didn't say anything, just nodded.

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After Liang Chen was taken away by the police, Ye Zhenzhen returned to Kexin's ordinary ward from the door of the intensive care unit and accompanied Kexin, while Nan Zhiqiao went out to investigate the poisoning.

Nan Zhiqiao first called the staff of the district CDC who was responsible for the detection of the cause of the poisoning, said his speculation, and made the test more targeted, and then found the second person in charge of Liang Kee Restaurant to investigate the source of the seafood.

By the time everything had been investigated, it was already the second half of the night.

Ye Zhenzhen stayed by the bedside of Kexin's sick, covered with a coat, and fell asleep.

Nan Zhiqiao found the quilt on the bed, changed Zhen Zhen's comfortable position, and ran to the doctor to understand the situation.

was chatting with the doctor on duty about Gao Xiaowei's condition, when someone from the district disease control called and the test results had come out.

After testing, the seafood of Liang Kee Restaurant contains Shifang clam toxin!

Saxitoxin, an alkaloid toxin in marine biotoxins, is also a paralytic shellfish poison, named after the earliest extraction and purification from Alaskan saxitoxin. Saxitoxin is produced by marine algae, especially when marine algae erupt and form red tides, marine shellfish ingest these algae in large quantities, resulting in high concentration of toxins in the body, and accidentally ingesting these toxic shellfish, it will be poisoned.

Saxitoxin is related to "red tide"!

Thinking of the ocean red tide that I saw with Zhen Zhen at the beach in the morning, could this poisoning incident be related to the ocean red tide not far away?

Could it be that the seafood at Leung Kee Restaurant is brought from the red tide area?