Demon detective

Chapter 115 Poisoning
"What? What what?" Li Qian got up from the ground and asked hastily, "What do you mean? What property? Could it be...you doubt me?"

"You were the first to discover the scene, right?" Xu Zhen asked, "Then tell us now, how did you discover the scene?"

"I...I have already told Li Zheng," Li Qian said, pointing to Li Zheng and Meng Zhicai, "I came back too late today and found the door of the house was open. When I came to the living room, I saw this horrible scene. ...I was so frightened that I lost my soul, so I hurried to find Lizheng, woo woo..."

Li Qian seemed to think of something missing, so he hurriedly cried: "My poor family, they died so badly, oh..."

This time, he finally squeezed out tears.

"Why did you come back so late?" Xu Zhen kept his composure and continued to ask questions.

"I..." Li Qian hesitated for a moment, then said, "I went to push a few rounds of Pai Gow."

"Really?" Xu Zhen raised his voice, "Where did you play, who did you play with, and when did you play?"

"This... um..." Li Qian hesitated a lot, and replied hesitantly, "At my friend's house in Slender Willow Town, all the people who hang out with me are regular customers, and we play until... until... um... midnight Is it just past the end? That's right... it's just after midnight..."

"You mean, you came back from town in the middle of the night? How did you come back? On horseback, or on foot?" Xu Zhen asked again.

"This..." As a result, Li Qian fell into hesitation again, and did not say the answer for a while.

Seeing Li Qian's hesitation, everyone present couldn't help becoming suspicious.

"I... I came back on foot, yes, I walked back." Li Qian hurriedly said the answer.

"Bold Li Qian!" Xu Zhen shouted suddenly, "How dare you lie! The snow on the road is melting and the road is muddy, but your shoes are so clean, and you still say you walked back?"

"This... I..." Li Qian looked at his feet, became anxious, and quickly defended himself, "I changed my shoes when I went home, I changed my shoes..."

"Your home?" Xu Zhen asked, "Isn't this your home?"

"This..." Li Qian blushed suddenly, unable to answer.

"Let me explain." At this moment, Li Zheng and Meng Zhicai couldn't stand it any longer, and immediately said, "Li Qian has already been kicked out of the house by Aunt Shaojun because of his gambling habit and heavy debts!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone at the scene looked at Li Qian with even more suspicion.

In Yaochang Village, this is no secret. Everyone knows that Li Qian once asked the people from Wansheng Gambling to chase his debts to his home, and made Meng Shaojun lose a lot of money.

Since then, Li Qian was kicked out of Meng's house and lived alone in a dilapidated house near the cemetery.

So, what he said came home in the middle of the night and found the scene of the crime, obviously a lot of water.

"Li Qian, isn't it... Recently, someone has been chasing debts and can't make it through?" Xu Zhen said, "So, you came up with the idea of ​​your mother-in-law's family, as long as you kill them and put the blame on others, you can get away with it." Inherited mother-in-law's huge family property, right?"

"Ah? You...don't talk nonsense! How dare I kill someone?" Li Qian was in a hurry and defended himself.

"Li Qian," Li Zheng and Meng Zhicai said in surprise, "it can't really be you, can it? Don't say... without a formal divorce letter, you really have to inherit Aunt Shaojun's family property? You..."

"No, no, no, no, no..." Li Qian was completely frightened, and hurriedly called out his grievances, and said, "It's really not me, let me tell you, I did, I did owe debts again, but... I just I just want to come and get something!"

Hearing this, everyone once again focused their attention on Li Qian.

"I used to do this a lot," Li Qian said anxiously, "my mother-in-law doesn't recognize me, and my daughter-in-law doesn't give me money, so I can only sneak in, get some medicinal materials secretly, and then sell them for some money.

"So... tonight, I'm... I'm here to buy medicinal materials!"

As he spoke, he pointed to the medicinal materials piled up in the courtyard, and said, "I climbed over the wall and came in, intending to find some valuable medicinal materials, but I saw lights in the living room and there were still people.

"The figure didn't move for a long time, and there was no sound. I just went in to check, and everything else I said was the truth!"

"The truth?" Xu Zhen said, "Then did you walk back?"

"No," Li Qian said, "I came back by car, and I came back in the afternoon, and then I have been hiding at home, planning to get some good stuff tonight!"

"Oh..." Xu Zhen pointed to Li Qian and said, "That is to say, no one can prove where you were between Youshi and Xushi today?"

"Yes," Li Qian asked, "you are all staying at home, what's the matter?"

"What's the matter?" Xu Zhenyi pointed to the living room, "The time of death of the deceased is exactly during this time period, which is dinner time!"

"Ah? This..." Li Qian felt even worse.

"Next, let's talk about the most important point." Xu Zhen pointed to the man and woman and asked everyone, "I ask you, who was the first to raise suspicions and poison Meng Shaojun's family? Two people?"

The kneeling man is the son of Meng Qinghui, the former richest man in Yaochang Village, named Meng Zhichao, and the woman is his wife, named Yuniang.

Hearing the question, everyone was startled again.

"It's...it's you!" Li Zheng Meng Zhicai was the first to speak. He pointed at Li Qian and said in surprise, "You told us to catch Meng Zhichao!"

"No...isn't it?" Li Qian defended, "I just mentioned something, I was just skeptical, but... I didn't... didn't let you really arrest Meng Zhichao?"

"Wait...wait..." At this moment, Lizheng Meng Zhicai turned to Xu Zhen and asked, "Hero, let me ask, we obviously found arsenic from the home of Meng Zhichao and his wife, but from what you mean, it seems Do you think these two people are not murderers?"

"If you were the murderer, and you had obvious conflicts with the deceased," Xu Zhen asked, "would you put the arsenic in your home? And put it in a place where you can find it if you look for it?"

"Yes, yes..." Hearing this, everyone nodded frequently.

Meng Zhichao and his wife clicked harder, obviously full of gratitude to Xu Zhen.

"Let me tell you one more thing," Xu Zhen pointed to the crime scene in the living room and said, "If these people were all poisoned, how could they die so neatly?

"Poisoning will cause severe pain, and the state of death will naturally be convulsions and twisting, and you will fall to the ground and die. The food cups and plates on the table will inevitably be overturned and smashed. It should be a mess, right?"

"That's right," said a young man behind, "I just said that, is it really bewitched?"

ho...

As soon as he said he was possessed by evil spirits, there was an uproar at the scene.

"It's not bewitched," Xu Zhen said, "The reason why the crime scene is like this is because the murderer was always there during the entire poisoning process!
"It was he who poisoned people one by one and made them look like this!"

ho...

This time, the crowd was in an uproar again, and everyone was surprised.

"The time of death of the seven corpses was all different, some first and some later.

"There are some bruises on Meng Shaojun's body, indicating that he was bound or wrestled before his death.

"On the cheek of Meng Shaojun's daughter, there are obvious pinch marks." Xu Zhen stroked his cheek, "It means that someone pinched her mouth and forcibly poured poison on her!"

ho...

The crowd boiled again, such a murderous crime was simply appalling.

When Meng Shaojun's daughter was mentioned, people naturally thought of Li Qian again, because Meng Shaojun's daughter was Li Qian's wife.

what……

At this moment, Li Qian's face was pale, completely paralyzed from fright...

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(End of this chapter)