Chapter 174

“What was it?” Walter and Jared asked in unison.

“It was a reishi mushroom. It was gigantic and resembled a reishi mushroom yet a bit different from the usual ones. My wife was convinced that it would fetch a high price, so she brought it home,” Kieran confessed with embarrassment written all over his face.

“Where is it? Let me have a look at it,” Jared ordered.

Nodding, Kieran left the room. Shortly after, he came back in with a huge glass bottle in his hands.

Indeed, something that resembled a reishi mushroom lay in the glass bottle. However, it didn’t at all appear to be a plant.

“This is no reishi mushroom. It’s clearly a piece of rotten meat!”

When Josephine saw the item in the glass bottle, she almost hurled.

rotten meat. It’s indeed a plant that grows on

opened the glass bottle and took it

Walter promptly cried out upon noticing that Kieran was

it back then, so I would’ve been poisoned

at all afraid, blithely taking

can’t possibly have been poisoned by

holding it, his wife couldn’t possibly have been poisoned

contact with it is fine, but taking a bite out of

Kieran and turned it over in his hands gently. Subsequently, he glimpsed a tiny portion missing at the bottom, making

 

that tiny missing portion, surprise inundated him. “I told her not to simply eat it when its exact nature is yet uncertain. I never thought that she’d actually take a bite out of it furtively. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have allowed her to

 

regret flooded him, and

Kieran. I’m sure Mr.

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