The Ultimate Prodigal Son - Chapter 184

[Chapter 184 Hot Pot Addiction]

Seeing his master’s serious tone, Lin Kang also realized the seriousness of the matter. Together with the other two servants, he carried the man to the woodshed and tied him up.

The man was still howling, and Lin Kang stuffed a cloth into his mouth.

Lin Tian stood there thinking, this man’s symptoms looked extremely like a drug addiction.

There was nothing wrong with his formula. These were all ordinary medicinal materials. There was no reaction when they were put together. At most, it would make people feel a little hot.

But the current situation is not simple. It is not a small matter to be addicted to hot pot.

“Lin Kang, go check if the hot pot restaurant is our branch, and then go to the clinic to see if there are other people with similar symptoms!”

Lin Tian raised his head and said to Lin Kang more seriously.

“Also, if it is our branch, take a portion of the hot pot base for that day and send it back!”

“Okay, Master, I’ll go right away!”

It was the first time that Lin Kang saw his master so anxious, and he subconsciously became worried.

Did something really happen?

Lin Kang ran out in a hurry.

And Lin Tian came to the servant and checked it out.

The servant had lost consciousness and was twitching. If he hadn’t stuffed his mouth with a cloth strip, his tongue would have been bitten off.

Lin Tian took his pulse and observed his vital signs. Combining what he had just said, he could be sure that it was a drug addiction.

But he couldn’t think of where the poison came from. He could only find out when Lin Kang came back.

Lin Tian summoned all the servants to question them.

“Have any of you eaten hot pot outside in recent days?”

However, the servants looked at each other, wondering why Lin Tian suddenly asked this.

Could it be that he wanted to punish them?

“Those who have eaten it had better stand up, don’t wait for this young master to check it out personally!”

Lin Tian emphasized his tone, and soon three people stood up.

“Well, you three stay, and the others should do what they should do!”

Lin Tian looked at the others, nodded slightly in his heart, and kept them.

“Where did you eat hot pot, and when?”

Lin Tian asked the three people.

The three people didn’t seem to have a tendency to have a drug addiction attack. It was probably not the time yet, or it might be that the hot pot they ate was not problematic.

“Reporting to the young master, the two of us went together. We went to the Lin family’s own branch. We went there two days ago when the opening discount was on.”

Two of them seemed to have a good relationship. One of them spoke up, and the other one also agreed.

“What about you?”

Lin Tian asked the remaining person.

The man wanted to say something but didn’t dare to say it. He didn’t go to his own branch to eat, but to someone else’s store.

Because it only takes a few taels of silver to have a delicious hot pot, while other places, no matter how cheap, will cost twenty or thirty taels of silver.

Lin Tian also guessed something and continued to say softly: “Speak, this young master just wants to understand the situation. Just answer truthfully!”

“Young master, I… I was at the one on Yongxing Street. I was greedy for cheapness. Our branch is too expensive!”

The servant was about to kneel down and admit his mistake, but Lin Tian stopped him.

“It doesn’t matter. It’s a small matter. Did you feel anything wrong when you went to eat there?”

Lin Tian was not the kind of person who cared about every penny. It was not a big deal that he didn’t spend money at his own store.

“Master, I felt it was very fragrant when I ate it. The more I ate, the more I wanted to eat. Later, I couldn’t eat anymore, so I left!”

The servant answered truthfully.

“When did you eat it? Do you feel strange now?”

Lin Tian asked and reminded him not to be afraid, otherwise he would not get more accurate information.

“Master, I went there after work last night. Now I still feel a little greedy when I think about it, and I want to eat it again!”

The servant didn’t know why, but he felt itchy in his heart when he heard about hot pot and thought of the taste.

But he kept holding it in, after all, he still had to work, and his master was asking questions in front of him.

“Well, okay, you go down!”

Lin Tian said to the two people, and then turned to the other person: “If you have any symptoms of addiction, come to me immediately!”

This person should eat less, or have a stronger resistance, and has no symptoms of addiction for the time being.

So he can only observe it for a while.

The three people responded to Lin Tian and went back to work.

After a while, Lin Kang ran back panting, holding a food box in his hand.

“Master, something terrible has happened!”

Before I saw him, I heard his voice coming in.

“Why are you making such a fuss? Tell me, what did you find out?”

Lin Tian said, while asking someone to pour him a glass of water and asked him to take a rest and speak slowly.

“Master, I went to the store on Yongxing Street and saw that there were a lot of people there, and the business was very good. And that was all owned by Zhu’s Company!”

Lin Kang took a sip of water, calmed down a little, and continued.

“There are seven or eight hot pot restaurants like this, and they are all busy, and the business is very good!”

Lin Tian nodded, motioning him to continue.

“Then our own branch also has very good business, but not so exaggerated. The queues at the door of the store over there are stretched out the door!”

Lin Tian was the first to propose the queuing mechanism, and other businesses followed suit.

“By the way, Master, I spent a lot of money to exchange seats with the first person in front of me, so that I could eat hot pot. This is what I took back.”

Lin Kang pointed to the food box he brought back and said.

“Did you eat that hot pot?”

When Lin Tian heard him say he ate hot pot, his eyebrows were raised and he stared at him.

“Master, I was wrong. I smelled that hot pot was so fragrant that I couldn’t help it. But I ate it very quickly and didn’t delay what you told me to do!”

Seeing that his master was angry, Lin Kang quickly admitted his mistake.

Lin Tian ignored him and opened the food box. A very fragrant smell came to his face.

Just one sniff and he found the problem.

“It’s really opium. Zhu Jinquan is simply unscrupulous!”

Lin Tian whispered.

“Master, what is opium?”

Lin Kang asked. Is it some new seasoning? As soon as he smelled the hot pot, he felt like eating it again.

“Master, are you eating this hot pot? I want to eat it!”

Lin Kang reached out and was about to pick up the chopsticks to eat the hot pot, but was knocked down by one hand.

“Eat, you dare to eat it, this is something that will kill you, can’t you see the appearance of the servant just now?”

Lin Tian was also very angry. He asked him to investigate, but he got infected himself!

When Lin Kang heard that the opium was something that could kill him, and thought of the appearance of the servant just now, he suddenly felt a fear in his heart.

All of a sudden, the urge to eat hot pot disappeared, and his face was full of horror: “Master, please save me, I don’t want to die!”