CHAPTER 867: CHAPTER 867: A MOTHER’S FAULT FOR NOT DISCIPLINING HER CHILD (7)

A few rows apart.

The family of the poisoned guest immediately called the police.

Once the police arrived, they decided to lock down the restaurant immediately.

The restaurant doors began to close tightly, guarded by restaurant security and police officers.

Everyone inside the restaurant couldn’t leave in time.

Xiao Shuju and Kang Yueting were also unable to leave.

For this, Xiao Shuju was dumbfounded.

How could someone be poisoned right now? Also, they had just eaten here too!

Thus, Xiao Shuju, along with other customers eager to leave, confronted the restaurant staff, protesting: "We’re victims too, why aren’t you letting us leave?!"

The restaurant staff called the police over to explain.

The police said: "Keeping everyone here is also for your safety. If someone else gets poisoned here, having doctors present can minimize incidents on the way."

Of course, Xiao Shuju and the others found this explanation unacceptable.

Because, according to the arriving doctors and police with criminal investigation experience, the poison was intentionally placed and only on a single dish, which was a fruit platter.

The evidence being that other guests who ordered fruit platters at the same time did not show symptoms of poisoning. Only an elderly lady at this table started convulsing after eating a piece of apple.

They said if the tableware for this table had issues, then those who didn’t eat the fruit wouldn’t have been affected.

For this, the son who served the apple to the elderly lady, out of filial piety, cried tears like a river, shouting: "Mom, Mom—"

Ou Shihua and Ou Chunhua were terrified, their eyes returning to their fruit platter that fortunately no one had touched.

Even though they didn’t know if their fruit platter was problematic, it felt like they had narrowly escaped death.

Gu Nuan sat there, seemingly calm in the face of danger, only observing with her eyes. Suddenly, she spoke, her voice becoming very sharp and clear.

"It seems to be the daughters of the Third Miss and the Second Miss."

Ou Shihua and Ou Chunhua quickly turned their heads and saw Xiao Shuju standing among the protesters, while Kang Yueting loitered on the outskirts of the crowd, her eyes and gestures resembling a mouse trying to find a place to hide.

Almost simultaneously, a similar thought flashed through the minds of Ou Shihua and Ou Chunhua.

What if that mad person knew they were dining here, saw them dining here, and planned to poison their meal, assuming the last dish would certainly be a fruit platter, and decided to tamper with the fruit platter?

They just didn’t know where the mistake occurred midway that led to the poisoned fruit not being delivered to them, but instead to the next table, making the elderly lady there suffer in their place.

This thought wasn’t wrong at all.

In fact, Kang Yueting was speechless when she saw Ou Yanan taking Zhao Mengjin out of the restaurant.

She had indeed used the poison, but why hadn’t they eaten it?

Zhao Mengjin loves maintaining her figure the most, so she should have eaten a lot of fruit.

What she didn’t know was that because Ou Yanan prevented Gu Nuan from eating, Zhao Mengjin also lost the chance to reach for the fruit.

Not only that, the poisoned fruit platter was indeed originally intended to be sent to Gu Nuan’s table. However, the next table’s diners, anxious to leave, rushed the server to serve it. The server, thinking the dishes were the same, made a quick decision and sent Gu Nuan’s platter to the next table instead.