Two minutes earlier.
After President Yamazaki reminded her secretary to go get the medicinal wine, she turned and went upstairs.
Thinking of the alcohol content of those two bottles, she smiled faintly.
"Though they're called medicinal wine, those two bottles are my special blend. Their proof is much higher than normal, and I softened the flavor too, so they can get people drunk without them even realizing it."
"Mayor Hachimaki has always treasured this local specialty wine. If I can get that old bastard drunk and coax him into signing the contract, that would be perfect."
As she thought, she walked into the study room, shut the door out of habit, and picked up the phone. On the other side of the phone, however, there was no sound. Only after she said "Hello?" did the caller hang up.
"Wrong number?"
President Yamazaki set down the receiver and did not care. She continued thinking about her own business. "Besides, although Jiang Xia is an underage boy who can't drink, I remember that back at the red wine winery, he seemed very eager to try the wine there.
"If he gets drunk too, then these two bottles of mine will really have been worth making."
Just now, she had tried to ask Jiang Xia about cooperation, and Jiang Xia had replied. That meant the string of murder cases really was not so simple behind the scenes.
"Though I can be considered to have muddled my way onto this car, cooperating with such a brutal group is really unsettling when I know nothing about them."
Mrs. Yamazaki secretly pondered, "If Jiang Xia drinks that wine too, and gets drunk, then I can use the chance to extract some information from him. At least I'll be able to learn a little relevant news."
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