Lotus Tower is the second best in the world

Chapter 124 Li Lianhua’s mysterious case

Fortunately, I have the previous words of Li Lianpeng as the basis.

Everyone present was shocked for a moment and then came to their senses, but they didn't dare to look at the person on the couch again.

The doctor who had treated Qin Pengyun before fell to his knees with a plop, his forehead hitting the ground with a thud.
"Dong, boss, I was in a hurry just now and didn't notice that the young master was..."

"Get up." Qin Huai interrupted him.His voice was very hoarse. Instead of looking at him, he looked at Li Lianhua and asked, "Master, do you know what kind of poison my son is poisoned with?"

Li Lianhua pondered for a moment and said:
"Mr. Qin, please let us go to Mr. Qin's wedding room to find out what's going on, so that we can determine what kind of poison Mr. Qin has."

Everyone moved to the wedding room and looked at the joyful new room that was originally decorated, and couldn't help but darken their faces.

Several middle-aged women working in the Qin Mansion could not help but sob.

They have watched the young master grow up, and they know the young master's temper very well.

The young master lost his mother when he was young. The old master never remarried and stayed with the young master to help him study and gain fame.

The young master also strives for success, studies diligently, and was admitted as a scholar at a young age. It is said that he is also well-known in the county. This time he returned home to marry a wife, in compliance with the master's words of "getting married first, then establishing a career."

The Qin family is thin and needs to expand its branches. As for fame and career, after the young master gets married and has children, it will be smoother with the support of the Su family.

Who would have known that this trip home to marry a wife would cost him his life.

After arriving at the wedding room, Li Lianhua looked at the room carefully again, especially the wooden table in front of the bed, as well as the wine bottle and wine glasses on it.

Everyone saw him pick up an empty wine glass, sniff it between the wings of his nose, and frown. Then he picked up a wedding candy scattered on the wooden table, peeled off the sugar coating, lowered his head and sniffed it, and continued to frown.

Walking to the wedding bed, it was March in spring, and the temperature here in Qingqiu had risen, and it was not too cold. However, the two quilts scattered on the bed were both thick winter quilts. Li Lianhua looked at it twice but did not reach out to open it.

From a distance, the strong smell of alcohol could be clearly smelled on the quilt.

In addition, there is a slightly pungent smell.

Li Lianhua, who had completely recovered from the poison of Bitcha, had also recovered his sense of smell. He could not ignore the smells that ordinary people could easily ignore.

It was also after smelling the smell that was masked by the alcohol that Li Lianhua's frown slowly relaxed.

He had already come to the wedding room once before when everyone was away. That time he only checked the doors and windows and did not carefully turn over anything in the new house.

At that time, Qin Pengyun was not poisoned to death, but a newlywed couple disappeared. If he touched things in the house, he would leave traces. If someone from the government came, it would inevitably cause misunderstanding.

But now, the bride is missing and the groom has been poisoned and died, and the two things are connected in series.

Why did the bride disappear for no reason?Who poisoned the groom?
Is the missing bride the culprit behind the scenes?

Or is it that someone poisoned the groom and then abducted the bride who had just passed away through a scheming trick?
What is the purpose?
Robbery of wealth or sex, or seeking revenge?

Is there a third person here?
These questions have been lingering in Li Lianhua's mind since she learned that the groom had died.

However, some answers to the questions have now been found.

The source of Qin Pengyun's poison was found.

"Mr. Qin, have you ever heard of Shi Tingzhi?"

Li Lianhua asked softly.

He no longer looks that sick and sick. Although his appearance is no longer the same as before, he still has a certain demeanor and speaks with gentleness and strength, which is quite worthy of people's attention.

Qin Huai, who was supported by the old housekeeper, was slightly startled and said:
"Shitingzhi? The old man's family is in the medicinal herb business. He knows that Shitingzhi is a traditional Chinese medicine. But what does this medicine have to do with my son's death?"

Li Lianhua Mou Ding said: "As I expected, the cause of Master Qin's poisoning and death was caused by this Shitingzhi, or in other words, it was refined Shitingzhi."

Li Lianpeng on the side looked confused and asked Su Xiaoyong in a low voice:

"What is this Shitingzhi?"

Fang Duobing joined in like a curious baby. He didn't know it either, so he wanted to get the answer from Su Xiaoyong.

Su Xiaoyong glared at them, as if he was dissatisfied with the two of them who desperately lacked common sense in life.

Facing the two pairs of eyes full of curiosity, he lowered his voice and explained:

"Shitingzhi, also known as sulfur, can be used to prepare medicine and treat diseases..."

Li Lianpeng suddenly realized, "It turns out to be sulfur!"

Fang Duobing also groaned. The young man obviously knew about sulfur.

Sulfur has a wide range of uses among the people. It can be used as traditional Chinese medicine, taken internally or externally, and can even be made into sulfur soap for...

The next moment, Fang Duobing's head was filled with questions.

Such a thing can actually be used to poison and kill people?
Li Lianpeng looked at Li Lianhua thoughtfully, waiting for his answer.

Li Lianhua looked around and explained: "This sulfur itself has a certain degree of toxicity. Although it can be used as medicine to treat diseases, it can be highly toxic after being heated and refined. People who accidentally inhale it will be poisoned."

"Mr. Qin carefully thought about Mr. Qin's symptoms at that time."

Qin Huai frowned and thought, "At that time, the old man was talking to someone, so he mobilized the people in the house to find my daughter-in-law who had just passed away..."

At that time, there were only Qin Huai and his son in the house. There were servants of the Qin family waiting outside the door, but they were unaware of what happened in the house and rushed in after hearing the noise.

Qin Huai only remembered that his son, who had encountered a change and his face was a little pale, suddenly fell to the ground with his hands on his chest and a ferocious look on his face, but he did not remember other details.

Li Lianhua pointed out the key.

"Covering my chest, I dare to ask Mr. Qin. I heard that you had two sons, the eldest and the third. When did they die?"

Qin Huai sighed, "My eldest brother was also of the same age. When he was going to a nearby village to buy medicinal materials, he suddenly suffered from a heart attack. He didn't have a doctor to treat him in time, so he died on the way."

"As for the third child, he drowned and was only eight years old when he died..."

The third eldest son of the Qin family and the second eldest son Qin Pengyun are twins, the same age.

It's a pity that the third child was naughty and loved to play in water. In the summer when he was eight years old, he drowned in Qingqiu Lake outside Qingqiu Town.

"Heart disease...that's what happened."

Li Lianhua said: "Shiting fat is ground into powder and then heated to produce a highly toxic colorless smoke. Inhaling it will cause difficulty breathing and induce the heart disease inherited by Mr. Qin. His face will look ferocious..."

Li Lianhua has often dealt with dead bodies in the past six years, and has never given up reading books that record anecdotes about the world. Therefore, his knowledge is completely beyond the comparison of ordinary people.

It can be called a well-educated sentence.

After listening to his explanation, everyone present, including Li Lianpeng, couldn't help but marvel.

Li Lianhua is indeed Li Lianhua. She is simply a mobile question and answer library. This kind of strange and weird knowledge is really eye-opening.Su Xiaoyong was also ashamed of herself. She was known as the best inquirer in the world. In terms of knowledge, she was still not as good as Li Lianhua. She didn't know where he got all these things that no one usually noticed.

No wonder Miss He always calls him Divine Doctor Li. Not to mention how good he is in treating diseases, his extensive knowledge alone is much higher than that of many doctors.

However, the cause of Qin Pengyun's death was found.

But who is the person who poisoned it?
And why would you attack such a frail scholar who has no power, has never done any evil, and is an honest and honest person?

According to Li Lianhua, the person who poisoned him probably knew a lot about the Qin family, otherwise he would not have caused a sudden illness and made him die in front of Mr. Qin.

"Mr. Qin, if you think about it carefully, who have you offended in these years?"

Li Lianhua frowned and asked.

Right now, the groom is dying of heart disease caused by poisoning, and the bride is missing... Wait, is the bride Su Mingyue really missing?
There were no problems with the doors and windows of the house, and the only place where people could go in and out of the house was where two maids were waiting outside all night long. Could it be that they were haunted by ghosts?

Li Lianhua has been traveling around the world for many years, but he has not seen a ghost, but he has seen a lot of people who pretend to be gods.

For example, he used to pass by a village that was used to temporarily park ownerless corpses. It had been abandoned for a long time because it was haunted.

Later, when the truth came out, people nearby learned that it was haunted. It was clearly someone who was greedy for money and specially found a good martial artist to pretend to be a resentful spirit to scare people.

The reason is that there is an ancient tomb below the righteous village, and a wealthy family is buried in the tomb. There are too many gold, silver and jewels buried with him, and they cannot be moved in a while. So a group of local masters who discovered the ancient tomb made up a righteous man. The story of the village being occupied by ghosts.

Seeing the old man Qin Huai deep in thought, Li Lianpeng and others looked at each other, knowing that there might be something hidden in this matter.

After a long time, Mr. Qin sighed and said:

"How can a businessman not offend anyone? To be honest with you, my Qin family did do some forced buying and selling in the past when we were doing business, but that was not considered to be harmful to nature, let alone because of that incident. And it’s killed people.”

Mr. Qin Huai shook his head with a lonely expression.

"Besides, more than 20 years have passed since that incident. Someone shouldn't be looking for revenge just now!"

Li Lianpeng's expression remained unchanged, and he cupped his hands and said, "Please tell me carefully, Mr. Qin, so that we can help Mr. Qin make a judgment as to whether Mr. Qin's death and Miss Su's unexplained disappearance are related to this matter. "

Maybe it was because he was old, or maybe he had suffered repeated blows, but Mr. Qin just hesitated for a while and then told the truth.

The Qin family in Qingqiu Town has been in the medicinal herb business for three generations. There are many mountains near Qingqiu Town, and most of the people in the mountains are farming and collecting medicinal herbs to make a living.

Before the Qin family's business was so big, they relied on the business experience passed down from their ancestors, purchasing medicinal materials at low prices in villages with a radius of hundreds of miles, and then reselling them to big medical clinics in the city. Thanks to the relationships and channels established, the Qin family has grown bigger and bigger. Now, there are several medicine gardens outside Qingqiu Town, employing many people who specialize in growing medicine.

According to Mr. Qin, this forced buying and selling happened 20 years ago when there was a severe drought in Qingqiu. The medicine garden they planted was the first to be affected. The Qin family could not deliver the two medicines they had agreed on in the city. In order to maintain integrity, we can only send people to the village to purchase.

The price set at the beginning was so high that many farmers gave up farming and went deep into the mountains to collect herbs.

Later, the medicine was collected, but the Qin family calculated the income and expenditure and found that the business was a huge loss. When paying, they temporarily changed their words and lowered the originally agreed price by nearly [-]%.

Many farmers resisted and refused to buy, but the Qin family hired a large number of evil servants to beat people and take the medicine away.

Although no one was killed, many people were injured.

Afterwards, Mr. Qin felt bad about his conscience. After the Qin family's money was replenished, he went to make up for the farmers who had been deceived by him.

After listening to his words, several people present fell silent.

Especially the women in the Qin Mansion, they didn't expect that Mr. Qin, who was known to be a kind family in the town and had high morals, would actually do such greedy things.

Li Lianpeng, Li Lianhua and others also fell silent.

Fang Duobing was young and could not hold his temper. After listening to Qin Huai's words, his eyes looked at him full of anger.

He could already imagine how desperate those farmers who abandoned their fields and went deep into the mountains to collect herbs, regardless of the danger, to buy them at a good price to survive the disaster years, felt so desperate after learning that they had been cheated.

Maybe a whole family is living on this little money for collecting herbs. Who knows, the other party will not keep their word, change their mind at the last moment, and actually buy it from them, and if they don't sell it, they will be beaten severely.

Such things are simply a loss of conscience and cannot be tolerated by the world.

Fang Duobing, who had a strong ability to empathize, would get angrier the more he thought about it. If he couldn't help it, he would point at Mr. Qin Huai and yell at him.

Then he was pulled back by Li Lianpeng, who noticed in time that the boy was not in a good mood.

"Fang Xiaobao, please be patient."

Hearing Li Lianpeng's voice in his ear, the young man took a deep breath, held back his anger, and did not speak.

After talking about these old things from 20 years ago, Mr. Qin Huai looked even more aged. Seeing that several people looked at him with something wrong, the old man shook his head with a sad expression.

"This is something I did wrong. Over the years, I have been trying to find ways to make up for my mistakes, build schools, pave roads and build bridges..."

"I know I was wrong, especially when Yun'er's body is placed here, I..."

Qin Huai's body trembled slightly, and two lines of tears rolled down from his eyes.

"Ah~"

After another long sigh, the old man said:
"When the murderer who poisoned my son is found this time, I will scatter the wealth accumulated by the Qin family for several generations, and I will also go to the government to plead guilty and punish him."

Fang Duobing's face looked better now.

Li Lianhua looked complicated and shook her head secretly.

He sighed: "No one is a saint, and no one can make mistakes."

"Since Mr. Qin knows his fault, it can be considered a good deed."

Li Lianpeng murmured in her heart that if she was wrong, she was wrong. If her daughter-in-law hadn't disappeared and her son had been poisoned, the truth about this matter would never have come to light.

When everyone mentions the Qin family, they always say it is a kind family.

Although I heard such a secret from 20 years ago, it has little to do with the 'disappearance in the secret room' and 'poison murder' cases that are now in front of me.

At least that's what it looks like on the surface.

Apart from the people involved, probably not many people remember what happened 20 years ago.

Li Lianhua pondered for a moment, looked at Li Lianpeng and said:
"We're afraid we need to go to Nasu's house."

Such a thing cannot be concealed. The Qin family's bride is missing and someone is dead. Although the entire Qin residence has been sealed off, the whole town must have known about it by now.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Lianhua finished speaking, the Qin family's servants ran in from outside in a panic.

"Lao, Master, Na Su, the Su family's master has brought someone to the door!!"

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