A strange glint flashed in Xu An’s eyes. He thought to himself, not everyone in this southern base is an idiot.
But why would the boss buy the meat for his daughter if he already knew there was something wrong with it?
Before Xu An could voice his doubts, the boss began to speak on his own.
“Later, Sixth Brother told me to eat less of that stuff. Then, my daughter, well, she slowly developed a liking for barbecued meat, but the price of barbecued meat remained high.”
“I would only buy one skewer and take it back to process it, dividing it into several portions for my daughter. She only liked the taste of it, but she didn't seem particularly addicted. I’ve seen many people become addicted to this stuff.”
Xu An looked at the boss, his expression not like he was lying, so he smiled and said no more.
It seemed this boss didn’t know the inside story of the barbecued meat.
But whether the man kneeling on the ground knew the inside story of the barbecued meat was another matter.
Just as everyone was looking at the man on the ground with disgust.
In an instant, disaster struck.
The man called Sixth Brother suddenly pulled a dagger from his chest, slashed three people, and rushed to the barbecue stall.
He grabbed the slightly plump body of the boss’s wife and held the dagger against her neck.
With blood-red eyes, he said to the woman.
“Bring me the meat!”
For a moment, no one reacted. By the time they did, it was too late.
The injured people were the ones who had been cursing the man the most fiercely at the beginning.
Fear filled the boss’s wife’s eyes. Although Sixth Brother was thin, he had some martial arts background.
His physical condition was still good, and his movements were fluid.
Even Xu An and Zhou Haimei were caught off guard.
“Old Six! You bastard, let go of my wife, damn it!”
A short,猥琐 man poked his head out from behind the barbecue grill.
His voice trembled as he looked at the scene, his eyes filled more with the fear of implicating himself than the worry for his wife’s predicament.
“I’m a bastard? When you two begged me to promote your business, you didn’t have this look.”
“I not only lost money but also my reputation, and helped you get your business up and running. Now you’re kicking me aside, and you won’t even give me a bite of meat?”
The woman was so scared she could barely speak, but compared to her husband’s petrified appearance, the woman seemed a bit calmer.
“Sixth Brother, let’s talk this through properly. Why do we need to escalate things to this point?”
Sixth Brother’s eyes had already turned an eerie blood-red.
“Talk properly? You ruined me, and now you want to talk properly. When I asked you for meat, why didn’t you want to talk properly?”
The barbecue stall owner, as if unwilling to concede, retorted, “How many times have you bought on credit? It’s only because we are kind-hearted that you get to eat anything. You have no money, and you blame us. I think you are the one who is insatiably greedy.”
Sixth Brother, instead of getting angry, laughed, but the dagger in his hand kept applying pressure to his daughter’s neck.
Gradually, red blood beads seeped out, forming a bloodline that flowed down the woman’s neck.
“If you kill me now, you’ll never get to eat barbecued meat!”
The woman, unable to hold back any longer, screamed loudly.
Her voice was filled with suppressed sobs and fear.
She knew she couldn’t count on her husband in this situation; she had to rely on herself.
And the only thing she could use to negotiate with Sixth Brother was the barbecued meat.
Sixth Brother’s lips curved into a wicked smile, like a vengeful spirit from hell.
He looked at the woman disdainfully. “Before I die, dragging you down with me doesn’t sound too bad.”
“Guess what? After you die, will your dwarf husband happily marry another woman?”
The woman did not doubt his words at all.
Because her husband was exactly as Sixth Brother described.
“As long as you don’t kill me, name your price,” the woman said, resigned.
Little did she know, this was exactly what Sixth Brother was waiting for.
“Anything?”
“Anything.”
Sixth Brother smiled. “Then your life is quite valuable.”
As the woman looked at him in confusion and was about to question him, Sixth Brother revealed his condition.
“I want your secret recipe for barbecued meat.”
Not only the woman, but even the onlookers who were bravely watching out of curiosity were shocked.
It was the first time someone had publicly threatened to reveal the secret recipe of a thriving business.
A strange look flashed across the boss’s wife’s face. Just as she was about to speak.
The man’s sinister and chilling voice echoed in her ears.
“You’d better not try to fool me with the old recipe. You know, I know about your new recipe.”
The boss’s wife’s teeth were almost ground to dust.
She cursed herself for being so foolish as to reveal the development of the new recipe to Sixth Brother without reservation.
He lowered his voice, speaking softly into his daughter’s ear so only they could hear, “You’d better not play any tricks. Don’t forget what kind of harmful stuff this barbecued meat is. If you don’t want to be executed by the Judicial Department, you’d better behave.”
Hearing this, a look of shock flashed in the woman’s pupils, and her voice was filled with terror.
“You… how do you know this?”
The man didn’t reply. The only answer she received was the steadily approaching dagger.
The woman finally relented, gritting her teeth, and said, “Okay.”
Seeing his wife agree to hand over the secret recipe for the barbecued meat, the man immediately forgot his fear.
He poked his head out from behind the barbecue grill and pointed at his wife.
“You slut, how could you agree to give away the secret recipe? Are you tired of living!”
The man was happy to watch the couple fight.
The woman also seemed to have completely dropped all pretense.
“You dog, shut up. You couldn’t save me, so I saved myself, and you’re still spouting nonsense here.”
“What, are you waiting for me to die so you can openly be with another woman?”
“Go look in the mirror and see what you look like.”
“I’m tired of living? If I die, I’ll drag you down with me.”
“If I can’t survive today, you’ll be buried with me.”
After this outburst, the man could only stare resentfully as Sixth Brother, with the knife at his wife’s neck, left the night market.
Then, while the boss hadn’t reacted yet, everyone rushed forward and snatched all the remaining barbecued meat.
Even the boss beside Xu An, after entrusting his daughter to Xu An, rushed into the crowd to grab barbecued meat.
When one person rushes forward, it’s considered taking advantage of a crisis.
But when countless people rush forward, the boss could only fall to the ground, weeping without tears.
Just as things were about to settle down, and everyone had left with their free barbecued meat, satisfied.
Chu Yu arrived slowly with the enforcement team.
As soon as he arrived, the barbecue stall owner knelt down and hugged Chu Yu’s leg.
“Captain Chu Yu, you must help me get justice.”
Meanwhile, after the boss took his daughter back, Xu An pulled Zhou Haimei and followed Sixth Brother and the woman.
They took the opportunity to tail them.