The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 141: Pointed Red Lips (5)

Leaving aside the weird things we encountered, there was a murder case in the Yanzhi shop of the Qi family, and this was something Bu Ying had to deal with.When Bu Ying went to Qi's house, Lao Yan was confirmed dead by the doctor, and now his body was sent back to Yan's house, so we are going to Yan's house right now.

On the way there, I asked Bu Ying, "Has the cause of Lao Yan's death been found out?"

"I haven't seen the corpse yet, but according to the Qi family, the doctor found out that he died of poisoning." Bu Ying replied, "As for the poison, the doctor can't find out."

"Don't you think this matter is too strange?" I pondered, "Although Lao Yan died of poisoning, it was when Mrs. Qi shot him feint, and just when she said 'bang 'When I said that word, the timing was exactly the same. If it is said that Mrs. Qi's death is related to Mrs. Qi, how did she manage the timing?"

"She didn't grasp this scale, because this kind of thing can't be grasped at all." Bu Ying said confidently, "Everyone's constitution is different, and their tolerance to poison is also different. You can last for a quarter of an hour with the same poison. It can last for half an hour. So this matter cannot be calculated, Lao Yan died of poison at the moment Mrs. Qi said the word 'bang', so far it can only be attributed to a coincidence."

"If this is just a coincidence, wouldn't Mrs. Qi's suspicion be removed a lot?" Ji Mingmei said.

"That's right, that's the only way to think at the moment." Bu Ying said, "At least as far as Lao Yan's death is concerned, everyone present at the time was suspected, including the two of you."

What he said was not wrong, so Ji Mingmei and I didn't get angry.We inquired all the way to Yan's house, where the mourning hall had already been built. The doorkeeper heard that we asked to see the head of Yan's house, and thought we were guests who came to express condolences, so they led us to the mourning hall.

Mrs. Yan, the housewife of the Yan family, greeted us and asked with tears if we were old Yan's friends.We were all silent for a while, and then Bu Ying said: "I am a policeman from the county, here to investigate the case of shopkeeper Yan being poisoned and killed."

When Mrs. Yan heard that he was a policeman, she was taken aback for a moment and said, "The policemen from the county came so quickly?"

Bu Ying told her that he was going to Yanzhi Town, but happened to meet Lao Yan's murder just after arriving.As he said that, he asked Mrs. Yan to take him to see Lao Yan's body, because Ji Mingmei didn't want to see the body, so I stayed in the yard with her.

Bu Ying inspected the corpse for a very short time, and soon walked out of the mourning hall, and then stood in the courtyard and asked Mrs. Yan some things.For example, whether Lao Yan had friction with anyone during this period, or had any conflicts of interest with anyone.Mrs. Yan answered him one by one, saying that these days he has been coordinating with Shopkeeper Qi and others to redistribute the share of rouge and gouache for the coming year.

Because of some problems with the suppliers, the supply in the coming year will be reduced by [-]%.Although there are dozens of shops in Yanzhi Town, there are actually only five bosses behind the scenes, and they are the five people who had a meeting at Qi's house at that time.Over the years, due to the sufficient supply, the five people have always shared the shares equally in previous years.

But now the supply is reduced by [-]%, which is equal to the amount that one person can get in previous years.Naturally, they were in a hurry, so they held a meeting to coordinate how to distribute the remaining share.The result of the coordination was not very good. The other four companies believed that Lao Yan's shipments had been the slowest over the years, and unanimously decided to reduce the share of the Yan family.

Specifically, the Yan family will reduce their share by [-]%, and the remaining [-]% will be shared by the other four.Lao Yan is naturally unwilling, so he has been making noise these days.On the day of Lao Yan's death, he came out of the other hospital angrily because they made the final decision to reduce the Yan family's share.So Mrs. Yan insisted that it was the other four who murdered Lao Yan.

"However, since they have already decided to reduce the share of the Yan family, why are they poisoning him?" Bu Ying stared at Mrs. Yan and said.

"Naturally, they were afraid that Old Yan would not obey, so they simply got rid of him." Mrs. Yan said through gritted teeth.

"It also makes sense." Bu Ying was noncommittal, thanked her and left, saying that he would go to the other houses to check the details of the situation at that time.Mrs. Yan sent us out of the door, and Bu Ying asked abruptly: "The five families including the Yan family and the Qi family were not originally from Caoxi Town, why did they suddenly move here?"

"We are not from the province. We just left our hometown due to the war. When we came here, we found that the place was empty, so we settled down here." Madam Yan opened her mouth and replied.

"Dare to ask, which province, city, county, and township?" Bu Ying still asked.

He asked a bit blatantly, clearly suspecting that their origins were unknown, but Mrs. Yan showed no sign of panic, and opened her mouth to say a place name.Hearing this, Bu Ying thanked her again calmly, and then walked out of Yan's house with us.

"What kind of poison did Lao Yan die from?" I asked him as soon as I left Yan's house.

"I don't know." Bu Ying shrugged and said, "Do you know how many steps it takes to find out exactly what kind of poison a person has been poisoned with? I'm not Song Ci. I can tell how he died just by looking at it."

"Then why are you going to see the corpse?" Ji Mingmei asked puzzled.

"At least I can make sure that he was indeed poisoned to death." Bu Ying said, "Oh, there is another reason that you might not like too much after hearing it."

"What?" I asked incredulously.

"I think you two are too annoying to be alive. You have to go to see the dead to get over it."

As Bu Ying said, he took a few steps forward in a hurry.Ji Mingmei and I looked at each other, and felt that most people have gaps in their chests, but this person's gaps may be in his head.According to Bu Ying's plan, he would visit all the people in Qi's house at that time, find out the specific situation at that time, and infer the circumstances under which Lao Yan was poisoned.

The remaining three families were named Feng, Chu, and Quan. When we went to their houses, the three shopkeepers were all at home.Bu Ying asked them basically the same questions, and got similar answers.At that time in the Qi family, five people were discussing matters in another courtyard, and Lao Yan was furious because of the reduction of the share, and left the meeting angrily.

At that time, shopkeeper Qi led the three of them to chase them out, and met Mrs. Qi, me, and Ji Mingmei in the yard where rose flowers were planted.After Mrs. Qi made a joke with Lao Yan, Lao Yan fell to the ground.These are things that both Ji Mingmei and I know, and Bu Ying asked what Lao Yan had eaten during the discussion.

All three replied that although there were melons and fruit snacks on the table at that time, none of them touched them.At that time, the five people all drank a cup of tea. The tea was brought in by the Qi family's buddy, but the shopkeeper Qi poured it for them.And there is another detail that the three of them also mentioned at the same time.

Because there was a lot of noise during the discussion, and the shopkeeper Qi was sitting next to Lao Yan, so after saying a word, he once drank the tea in Lao Yan's cup by mistake.

Originally, when we heard that shopkeeper Qi poured the tea, we all thought that he could do something during the pouring process, such as secretly poisoning Lao Yan's cup.But now all three of them said that the shopkeeper Qi had drunk the tea in Lao Yan's cup by mistake, so this can prove that the tea in Lao Yan's cup was not poisonous at that time, otherwise shopkeeper Qi should have been poisoned.

Since there was no poison in the tea, and Lao Yan hadn't eaten anything else at that time, how did he get poisoned?Because Lao Yan did die of poisoning, none of the four families suspected Mrs. Qi, but attributed Mrs. Qi's gesticulation and Lao Yan's death to a coincidence.

We walked out after inquiring about the three companies respectively, all confused.Right now we have already visited four families, and the next step is naturally to go to the Qi family.On the way to Qi's house, Ji Mingmei asked: "These four families said in unison that they are from other provinces, and they mentioned a place, do you want someone to check?"

"No need." Bu Ying said lightly, "It's been so many years, the county must have asked people to go to the place they said to check. Since the people in the county didn't tell me, then there must be nothing found in this place, presumably also Like Caoxi Town, it was destroyed long ago and can be used by others."

I nodded my head in agreement, and Ji Mingmei stopped talking after hearing this.We walked all the way to Qi's house, when the Qi's man saw us appearing together, he smiled and said to Bu Ying: "It turns out that the guests have already found them, and I was worried that you would not be able to find them."

It seems that he was the one who instructed Bu Ying to find us at the hotel.Bu Ying also smiled at him and said, "Thank you very much. Are Shopkeeper Qi and Madam here?"

The guy must have known that he was a policeman, so after answering "all there", he graciously led us all into the backyard.Surprisingly, when we entered the backyard, we found that Mrs. Qi was actually painting, and the shopkeeper Qi was sitting aside and watching her with love in his eyes.

It seems that the Qi family couple are in a good relationship, I thought to myself.At this time Madam Qi heard someone walking in, so she stopped writing.Ji Mingmei said in surprise: "Madam Qi, so you can paint!"

"I learned some furs when I was in my boudoir, but I left them behind when I went to the provincial capital to study. Since I got married here, I picked them up again because I had nothing to do to kill some time." Mrs. Qi replied, The eyes turned around our faces, "So the three of you are in the same group. Is this Mr. Policeman here to inquire about something?"

"We'll talk about our matter later. We're here today to investigate the cause of Shopkeeper Yan's death." Bu Ying stared at her, "Mrs. Qi used to study in the provincial capital, how did I meet Shopkeeper Qi?"

"Is this related to Lao Yan's death?" Mrs. Qi was a little surprised, and said immediately, "I came here to visit after the Yanzhi Town was built, and I met Lao Qi at that time."

Lao Yan died under her feint, so it is inevitable to make people wonder whether she is related to the dead man and woman in Caoxi Town.If there is a relationship between them, then as long as her background is found out, the identities of the couple can be found out.

"I don't know Madam Qi's maiden name, but where is it from?" Bu Ying still asked unhurriedly.

This was a fairly obvious cross-examination, but Mrs. Qi still didn't realize it, and calmly replied: "My maiden name is Cao, and all my family members have died in the war, leaving me alone in the world, lonely. If it weren't for Lao Qi takes him in, I'm afraid he's still wandering in the world right now."

She admitted that her surname was Cao, Cao from Caoxi Town.Moreover, Caoxi Town was also destroyed by the flames of war, and what happened to her family had to be matched!We all looked at her in surprise, Mrs. Qi was also surprised when she saw us looking at her like this, and wondered: "What's wrong?"

We shook our heads quickly, and only then did we think that if she was really related to the dead man and woman, and her surname was Cao, how could shopkeeper Qi not notice it and marry her as his wife.Just as Lao Yan died when she said that "bang", her surname Cao might just be a coincidence.

It's just a coincidence followed by another coincidence, which makes people suspicious.Besides, when Lao Yan fell to the ground, although Mrs. Qi was panicked, Ji Mingmei noticed that her body's reaction was completely opposite to this.If what Ji Mingmei sensed was true, then Mrs. Qi probably knew that her "bang" would kill Lao Yan.

Or maybe, that's exactly what she wanted.

"You five families have a good relationship, why is Lao Yan dead, and the other four seem to be a little indifferent." Bu Ying rubbed his nose and asked with a smile.

We all have the same feeling. Old Yan Tingling was at home, but no one from the other four families came to help, which is unreasonable.What's more, when we found the Qi family, the Qi family and his wife were still in the mood to paint.However, out of politeness, this question should not have been asked.

Shopkeeper Qi was silent for a while when he heard Bu Ying's question, and suddenly laughed out loud: "This policeman is straightforward. In the coming year, the share of rouge and gouache in the town will be reduced by [-]%, which happens to be the quota for one family. Now that the time is gone, the share of our four families will not be less. I don’t have anything, but the other three families may be clapping their hands at this moment, so I don’t know.”

Bu Ying asked bluntly, and he spoke more bluntly, which shocked us all.Ji Mingmei frowned and said, "Although shopkeeper Yan is gone, the Yan family is still there. Could it be that you won't give them any shares in the coming year?"

Shopkeeper Qi looked at Ji Mingmei, as if he had heard something funny, and slowly said, "If Lao Yan is still here, he can still fight with us. If Lao Yan is gone, what will the women and children of the Yan family do with us?" Fight? With tears and snot?"

There are stories of people taking tea to cool down everywhere, but shopkeeper Qi never expected that he could speak so frankly.Bu Ying murmured: "It's amazing! It's amazing!"

"What's so great?" Shopkeeper Qi asked him.

"It's amazing to have a thick skin and a dark heart!" Bu Ying gave him a thumbs up, "I've seen many villains, but it's rare to see someone as honest as you, and I'm so respectful. Aren't you afraid that Lao Yan will come back to find you?"

"If he can really come back, I'll make the decision. There will be no reduction in the share of the Yan family in the coming year." Shopkeeper Qi said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, then I'll thank you for him first." Bu Ying said nonsense, as if he had discussed this matter with Lao Yan, and then changed the subject, "You are so frank, It makes people a little suspicious, is it because the few of you ganged up to murder Lao Yan for the sake of the next year's share. I didn't slander you, Shopkeeper Qi, this thing looks very similar."

"It's really similar." Shopkeeper Qi nodded and said, but changed the subject, "But what's the use of resemblance. There must be evidence to prove that we did it before we can be brought to justice, right?"

(End of this chapter)