Song Yi

Chapter 154 All For Food

Shopkeeper Ni of the "Shanhai Medicinal Material Firm" in Beijing married his daughter-in-law today. There was a whole street filled with flowing water mats, and there were a lot of guests. People who came to give gifts came in and out with their burdens. It was very lively, and Ni's house was even more crowded.

Shopkeeper Ni was taking his son to toast the distinguished guests and relatives and friends of the woman's family in the front hall.

The bridal chamber in the back hall was very quiet, the bride was wearing a red hijab, sitting on the big red wedding bed, her heart was beating wildly, wondering what her future husband-in-law would look like.

In ancient times, the marriage of a man and a woman was decided by the parents, and children had to obey. Only when they got married and entered the bridal chamber did they know what their other half was like.

Therefore, the bride kept praying to God in her heart to let her marry a good-looking man with good features.However, as a wife from now on, the beauty and ugliness of the husband is secondary, the most important thing is to be kind to yourself, as long as you have a good heart, being ugly is more practical.

The bride was thinking wildly, when suddenly there was a squeak, the door was pushed open, the bride was a little surprised, if the groom came, it must have been sent by someone, there should be a lot of people boisterously at the door, but the door was quiet Quietly, the voice in the front hall can only be heard faintly, who could come in?Is it the old maid?

The bride didn't dare to ask random questions, but she heard the footsteps approaching and stopped beside her. From the hem of the hijab, the bride vaguely saw a pair of embroidered shoes.

Coupled with the soft footsteps heard earlier, the bride concluded that the person who came must be a woman, and, judging from the style of the embroidered shoes, she should be an elderly woman.

Before she could ask, she suddenly felt a pain in the back of her ear, and then felt her head spinning, she fell on her back on the bed, and the red hijab fell to the side.

An old woman standing in front of the bed, holding a long golden needle between her fingers, looked at the unconscious bride, snorted coldly, inserted the golden needle into the needle barrel and put it back into her pocket, and took out a golden needle from her bosom. A small piece of gold took a step forward, knelt on the bed with one knee, pinched the bride's cheeks with one hand, made her open her red lips, held the gold piece with two fingers, and stuffed it into the bride's mouth.

Suddenly, with a whoosh, a vermilion marble flashed towards the woman's wrist.

The old woman let out a scream, and her right wrist was already shattered by the marble.The gold nugget in his fingers also fell on the bed.

The old woman reacted very quickly. From the strength and accuracy of the marbles, she knew that the person coming was a master. As far as this hidden weapon was concerned, she was no match.

Without even thinking about it, she stretched out her left hand, trying to pinch the bride's neck on the bed, and was about to take her hostage, but before she could pinch the bride's throat, three marbles struck her left elbow, and two knees.

This time the old woman was prepared and dodged two of them, but the third one still hit her knee, and she fell on the bed with a scream.

Enduring the pain, she got up and wanted to grab the bride again. At this moment, a cold short knife was placed on her neck, and she dared not move as if she had been frozen.

It was Lin Qingdai who restrained the old woman.

Then the doors and windows were pushed open, and several yamen policemen rushed in with steel knives and pointed at her.

The one rushing to the front is none other than Detective Dong from Kaifeng Mansion.

Detective Dong quickly pointed at the old woman with a thick-backed machete, and said sharply:

"You old hag! Did you trick my son into swallowing gold nuggets and kill my son? Tell me!"

The old woman was not flustered, she turned her head and glanced at Lin Qingdai: "Your honor is so handsome!"

Lin Qingdai said coldly: "I'm overwhelmed! Xiangyun Shroud Store is looking for the shopkeeper!"

"you know me?"

"I just met you. It took a lot of hard work to find you after Shopkeeper Zhao used gold nuggets to kill people. Your martial arts are not bad. However, kung fu is used to strengthen the body and eliminate violence, not to use it like you. Harm others, even children of a few years old!"

The old woman looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, her voice was extremely ear-piercing, and she took a break for a while:

"That's right, I stole the gold nugget for the catcher's son, because he's damned!"

Detective Dong laughed back angrily: "My son is only four years old, is there a damn fault?"

"It doesn't matter how old you are, and it doesn't matter how young you are if you make mistakes! Remember? On Laba Festival, your family went to the night market. How much food was wasted by your four-year-old son?!"

Officer Dong was taken aback for a moment. The couple doted on their children and bought whatever they wanted to eat. They often bought a lot of food when they went shopping, but the son often pushed away after he couldn't eat a few bites, and finally had to throw it away.Catcher Dong was puzzled and asked:
"What my son eats, we bought with money, we spent money, we are happy to eat and throw away! What waste is there! Are you going to kill my son just because of this?"

"Is this crime still small? Do you know how many people can be fed by the food your son dumped?! People like your son who don't care about food are not worthy of living in this world! So, I want to feed you gold nuggets , Aren’t you rich? Don’t you care about food? Well, let gold nuggets be your food, and let you die on money that you don’t care about!”

Detective Dong and the others were dumbfounded for a moment, they didn't expect this old woman to kill a three or four-year-old child because of wasting food for her son!
A man behind Du Wenhao said in a deep voice:

"Wasting food is indeed very inappropriate, but it is not a crime to die, let alone a child of three or four years old! Presumably, the old mother of Mr. Zhan Tizhan, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, is also wasting food, so you also give her Gold nugget, let her die over money, right?"

The old lady gave the man a big hug: "Are you Du Wenhao, the doctor in charge of Fuyun Hall?"

This person is Du Wenhao, upon hearing this, he wondered, "You know me?"

"Of course, the gold nugget under the old man killed so many people, and only three survived - this is the son of Catcher Dong, the old mother of Zhan Ti, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, and Feng's son Feng Da. They If you can survive, you are the one who saved it. ——Your medical skills are not bad! If the person who swallowed gold can be saved, you are probably the only one in the world!"

"How do you know I saved it?"

"If you don't want people to know, you have to do nothing!" The old woman pointed at Lin Qingdai: "Although the old man's martial arts are not as good as this girl's, but the old man's lightness kungfu is still good. After the old man has a gold nugget, he will always follow the result, so, When you rescued Detective Dong’s son, I saw everything. Also, I knew all about the spies you placed near Detective Dong’s house! You can fool others by pretending to be fools, but you can’t fool me!”

Captain Dong was very surprised, and looked at Du Wenhao: "Doctor Wen, you... are you the genius doctor who saved my son's life?"

Du Wenhao hurriedly laughed and said, "Don't listen to her, she's talking nonsense."

"I'm talking nonsense? Haha, don't you know it best in your heart!"

Du Wenhao quickly changed the subject: "Why did you kill Zhan Ti's mother? She has no grudges against you!"

"There are too many people who have no grievances or enmities with the old body, just like this old mother of Zhan Ti, this old godmother! How much food and drink was wasted at this old immortal's birthday banquet, and countless tables of chicken, duck and fish were thrown away in vain If you don’t know how to cherish food, such a person should die! What’s more, people from rich families should cherish money even more!”

Du Wenhao said again: "Even if you hate the rich, but Feng's son, Feng Da, mother and son make a living by picking up waste, not to mention wasting it, even wishing to cut up a piece of rice and eat it, what are they worthy of your Dong?" Lao Jin is going to murder?"

"Him? Huh! Damn it even more! Since life has become so bitter, he even poured out two bowls full of dumplings! Don't you deserve to die!"

Du Wenhao was stunned for a moment: "Dump two bowls of dumplings? Impossible!"

"It's impossible, I saw it with my own eyes! By the way, there is something I have never understood, can you tell me?"

"Just say what you have to say!"

"how did you find me?"

"I told you, would you like to answer a question for me?"

"Okay! I promise you."

"Well, it's actually very simple. You use gold nuggets to poison, which means that you don't care about money at all. And you don't care about big money. When you entered the roof of Feng's house, the rope you used was the waist silk of the shroud. This narrowed the scope to There are several large shroud shops in the city.

In addition, when you poisoned Feng's son Ada, when you went up to the roof beam and prepared to sneak in, unexpectedly, it was freezing cold, and Feng had an acute attack of asthma, but Feng believed it. , have asthma, intermittent attack.There was a brief attack, which was heard by Mr. Feng in the house and told me. I checked Feng's ear root point carefully and found a small needle hole. "

"Small needle eye?" The old woman was taken aback, "What can you do if you see it?"

"Although the eye of the needle is small, it is enough for me to find you!"

"is it?"

Of course Du Wenhao knows that under the skin of the base of the human ear, there are multiple nerve branches overlapping and distributed, such as the greater auricular nerve and the lesser occipital nerve.Therefore, the root of the ear is an extremely sensitive part, and pinching the root of the ear will cause severe soreness, and pinching it hard can make people faint.

Du Wenhao said: "Yes, this small needle hole shows that the person who did it is probably good at acupuncture, and the fact that he can sneak into Feng Da's house without anyone noticing already shows that the murderer is good at martial arts! Sure enough! So I sent someone to wait in your Yunxiang sewing shop, and I followed you here today. When I saw the resentment in your eyes when you saw those people who were wasting their feasts at the big tables, I knew you were going to kill me .”

"Great! It turns out that Kaifeng Mansion still has such a clear-headed figure as Dr. Du, I admire it!"

Du Wenhao smiled faintly: "Now it's your turn to answer my question, can you?"

"Okay! You ask."

"Why do you want to kill people who waste food?"

The old woman smiled sadly: "Because my son starved to death!"

Du Wenhao wondered: "No way! You are so rich, how could you let your son starve to death?"

"At that time I had no money, the house was flooded, the crops were submerged, and my husband was drowned. I took my son to flee the famine to beg for food, but many people would rather pour out the wine and meat than give us beggars some food. Yes! I watched my son starve to death in my arms, and at that time I swore that I would kill everyone who wasted food!"

(End of this chapter)