After a short time, all the participants went to the banquet on time, Ning Zhiheng looked around and secretly looked at it, the lineup of people attending the banquet this time was strong, including almost all the Japanese military and political dignitaries in Nanjing at this time.

On the Japanese side, almost all of the Central China troops were present, except for a few high-ranking generals stationed in Wuhan.

As for the so-called ministers, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Appeasement, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Education, and ......... Ministry of Education, a large number of them were countless, and the entire banquet hall was full.

The banquet began at seven o'clock, Consul General Hori Gong Yichun as the host, first came to the stage to give a welcome speech, welcomed the visit of Shimizu and his party, and then invited Shimizu Hideshou to come to the stage to speak, and then several military and political leaders came to the stage to speak.

This set of procedures took a lot of time, it took a long time to complete the formalities, the banquet officially began, and the prince beckoned everyone to raise a glass to celebrate, and then they staggered, the sound of cups and plates, the jade food was full, and the wine was delicious.

At this time, in the kitchen room of the consulate, Zhan Yuanliang was busy working, everything was as he expected, because of this banquet, the workload in the kitchen was very large, and there was a serious shortage of chefs, and in the past, Zhan Yuanliang was the chef of the consulate, but later he was trusted by the Japanese, and because of his culture, he was transferred to be a clerk, and now Zhan Yuanliang offered to help in the kitchen, and the consulate was naturally full of promises.

Fortunately, soon after the banquet began, all the dishes were cooked and served to the table by the waiters, and after the intense work, the people in the kitchen took a breath.

Zhan Yuanliang finished the work at hand, and he was also relieved, took off the chef's hat and chef's skirt, came to the kitchen door, found a place to rest, took out a cigarette, lit one, held it in his mouth, and secretly observed the surrounding movements while smoking.

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

But when he was preparing to poison, there were some problems, it turned out that he wanted to poison the dishes, but after thinking about it again, he felt that the effect was not good, because many people have different eating habits and different tastes they like to taste, so that the time for the entrance of the dishes will be different, and even some people will not move on some dishes, once someone has symptoms of poisoning, it will alarm others, so there will not be too many people who are poisoned.

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

In the end, he decided to poison the wine, because the wine is for everyone to drink, and there is a habit of toasting and drinking at the same time, and the drinking time is more consistent, so as to ensure that most people will be poisoned at the same time.

But the place where the drinks were placed was not in the kitchen, so Zhan Yuanliang could only slowly look for opportunities.

At this time, the banquet has begun for half an hour, with the dishes and drinks, the atmosphere of the banquet hall is slowly warm, and the consulate has also specially arranged singing and dancing to help the fun, sheng and song are boiling, and all kinds of voices are noisy together, which seems to be very lively.

Zhan Yuanliang looked at the time, knew that the heat was almost over, saw that no one around him was paying attention to him, threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground, gently stepped on it with his foot, breathed a sigh of relief, calmed down, and then got up and came to the door of the storage room not far from the kitchen.

This is the place where the consulate stores drinks, which are usually locked, but today because the banquet requires too much alcohol, it is opened so that the waiter can take it at any time and serve the banquet.

Zhan Yuanliang looked left and right, made sure that there was no one around, and hurriedly took a step forward to push open the door of the storage room, dodged in, and closed the door tightly.

This storage room is not very large, and there are jars and bottles full of various drinks, and the most common sake is naturally the most popular among Japanese people.

There is also a small part of rice wine, because there are many Chinese guests to entertain, and at this time, rice wine is the most high-end wine in the Chinese banquet.

Zhan Yuanliang quickly walked to the outermost wine shelf, picked up a bottle of sake, which is the most valuable brand of sake, he quickly uncorked the bottle with his hands and feet, and took out a small bottle containing potassium cyanide from his arms.

He opened the small bottle, poured some of the poison into the bottle, shook it, and was about to recycle the sake bottle, but the smell of bitter almonds came to his nose, and he felt dizzy, and almost sat on the ground.

Not good!

At this time, he recalled that potassium cyanide would have a very volatile bitter almond taste when it was wet and water, and he had not entered the Japanese consulate before, and he had also carried out a poisoning mission, using potassium cyanide poison, but that time it was placed in liquor, because the dose was very small, and the alcohol content of liquor was very high, and the taste was strong, covering up the taste of bitter almonds, so it did not attract the attention of the target and successfully completed the task.

However, the alcohol content of Japanese sake is very low, and the taste is as light as water, and the bitter almond taste is suddenly unbearable, and if this sake is served, Japanese people who are familiar with the taste of sake will immediately realize that something is wrong.

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

However, he turned his brain, and immediately opened several other bottles of sake, and quickly mixed this bottle of sake with several other bottles, and then smelled the sake, the taste was almost invisible, and it should be able to confuse it, but in this way, the concentration of potassium cyanide was reduced, and the toxicity was greatly reduced, but time was tight, and he couldn't care about it so much.

The remaining potassium cyanide, he didn't dare to put it in the sake anymore, but chose the nearest jar of rice wine, poured all the poison into it, the taste of the rice wine was mellow, and it was a whole jar of rice wine, these potassium cyanide were poured in, and he couldn't smell the bitter almonds.

Just as he was scrambling to process the traces, there was a sound of footsteps from outside.

Someone's coming! Zhan Yuanliang was taken aback, and a layer of cold sweat oozed from his forehead, because at this time he had no time to get out, and he delayed a lot of time in order to mix a few bottles of sake, and was blocked in the storage room.

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

"Zhan Jun, what are you doing here?"

A Japanese waiter looked at Zhan Yuanliang in the storage room and couldn't help but ask a little strangely.

The waiters at today's banquet are all service staff of the Japanese consulate, because of the lack of manpower, some embassy staff have also been called, all of whom are Japanese, and they are also familiar with Zhan Yuanliang.

At this time, Zhan Yuanliang was still holding the bottle of sake in his hand, and before he could put it back in place, when he heard the waiter asking, he had an idea, turned around and replied, "Oh! Just now, Consul Uchida explained to me that there was a shortage of people in the banquet hall, so he asked me to finish the kitchen work and go to the banquet hall to help. ”

After speaking, he shook the wine bottle in his hand at the waiter, and pretended to hold another bottle of sake in his hand.

In addition to Kozujun Hori, the consulate also had two vice consuls, and one of them, the vice consul named Uchida, was in charge of the banquet preparation.

Hearing Zhan Yuanliang say this, the waiter did not doubt him, because they also came to the storage room to get wine because of the lack of wine.

Another waiter smiled and said, "Then it's troublesome for Zhan Jun, there are too many people attending the banquet today, and we are too busy to be busy,"

"Where, you're welcome, come, Xiaoshan-kun, I'll bring it to you!"

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

Another waiter saw that they had already taken sake, looked left and right, and picked up the nearest jar of rice wine, there were also many Chinese in the banquet hall, these people generally drink rice wine, so the consumption is also very fast, and some need to be replenished.

Zhan Yuanliang looked at the wine jar that the waiter had picked up, it was the rice wine jar that he had just poisoned, and he was secretly happy in his heart, he didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

"Let's go, let's send it over quickly, the guests are in a hurry!"

The three of them took the drinks and walked towards the banquet hall together, through a corridor, to the banquet hall.