coobybook Chapter 123 Mystery Case
Chapter 123 Mystery Case
Wen Bo took his servant to check the charred body. As it was already late autumn and the body was charred, there was no particularly strong smell of decay.
Wen Bo found a large bruise on Zheng Xiaozi's forehead. It seemed that he had collided with something hard and fainted, and was probably awakened by the fire. The body showed obvious signs of struggle and twisting, and his face was very hideous.
After examining Zheng Dacai's body again, they found something very strange: there was no cigarette ash in his mouth or nasal cavity, and there were no signs of struggle, as if he had been dead before being burned.
Wen Bo then inquired about the location of the two bodies. The first person to discover the scene provided the following information: "Zheng Dacai's body was lying on a bed of straw in the woodshed, and Zheng Yongan's body had struggled to the door."
It seems that Zheng Yongan wanted to escape after waking up, but the fire was too big and his body was burned too badly to run.
Wen Bo was even more certain that Zheng Dacai had no external injuries and must have died of poisoning. However, after testing with silver, he found that it was not a poison like arsenic. So what other poison could Zheng Dacai have swallowed without warning?
Wenbo decided to interrogate them one by one.
Both Mrs. He and the second son of the Zheng family said that they slept very soundly that night until the fire in the woodshed became so big that it was discovered by the neighbors and woke them up.
When asked if anything had happened at home recently, they both shook their heads and said everything was the same as usual.
When asked about the younger sister of the Zheng family, she looked innocent and said that she had not been able to fall asleep since she was woken up by her parents' quarrel that night. She only saw her eldest brother going to the woodshed with a kerosene lamp.
I asked her again if she had noticed any difference between her mother and brothers recently. The little sister shook her head and finally remembered something. She said that a chicken died at home the day before the fire.
"How did the chicken die?"
Wen Bo felt something was amiss, but he finally found a clue.
The younger sister said, "We had two chickens at home. My eldest brother sold one for money, and the other one died from something he ate. My eldest brother told me it was poisoned and couldn't be eaten, and he wouldn't let me tell my mother and my second brother. But he secretly cooked a pot of chicken and wouldn't let my mother, my second brother, and me eat it."
After hearing this, Wen Bo immediately went to check the plants that were used to feed the chickens that day, until he found a plant that looked very much like taro, a poisonous herb called calla lily.
It turned out that Zheng Yongan had accidentally cooked calla lily fruit while feeding it to his chickens. The chickens died an hour later from the poison. Zheng Yongan was curious: could this taro-like thing actually be poisonous? No wonder so many of them grew by the mountain streams, yet no one bothered to pick them.
For this reason, Zheng Yongan thought of using this chicken and calla lily fruits to stew soup for Zheng Dacai to drink.
To this end, he made an excuse that he would go to the woodshed to eat secretly so as not to be discovered by his mother and others. He also specially carried Zheng Laoer back to the room where his sister slept.
Zheng Dacai had drunk too much and his mind was not very clear. When he heard that Zheng Dacai had killed the only old hen in the house to make soup for him and waited for him to come back in the evening to drink it, he was very touched and praised Zheng Yongan as his favorite son.
He finished the bowl of soup in one gulp. He then noticed an itchy throat and tongue, a headache, and fatigue. Zheng Yongan attributed the problem to the alcohol and poured him another large bowl. Zheng Dacai felt nauseous and vomited after finishing the second bowl. He began to suspect his eldest son had poisoned him, so he stood up and pushed Zheng Yongan hard, sending his head crashing onto a nearby grindstone.
Unfortunately, Zheng Dacai no longer had the strength to finish off the opponent. He had been poisoned and was completely powerless. He fell on the straw and eventually suffocated from convulsions. He died of cardiac arrest soon after.
He never imagined until his death that this murder had been planned by Zheng Yongan for a long time.
It was just because he had no opportunities that Zheng Yongan suddenly changed his mind and turned to his father, making his father completely stop questioning him and affirm him, so that he could repay his father in his own way.
He hated his mother and hated his father even more. If possible, he hoped not to be born in such a family. Because of his mother's cowardice and incompetence, they were completely unable to resist.
From childhood to adulthood, he never had a piece of clothing that fit him, and never had a meal that could fill his stomach. At the age of fifteen, he was much shorter than his peers and was so thin that he was just skin and bones.
The second child's temperament is like his mother's, cowardly and incompetent. He just cries when he is beaten and cries when he is bullied. As a man, he dare not resist and can only cry. Zheng Yongan becomes even more irritated when he hears him crying.
Although Zheng Xiaomei is small, she has a very strong temper. Whenever her father beats her mother, she will help her mother and even bite her father's wrist, but in return she will be beaten more times.
She naturally hated her father and wished he would die soon. Because every time he beat her mother, he would beat her again. Her second brother would protect her, but her eldest brother would pretend not to see it and only try to please her father.
She hates such a father and elder brother.
So that night, she waited for a long time, but when she didn't see her elder brother and father come out, she secretly got out of bed and tiptoed to the woodshed.
Then she saw her father sleeping on the straw, foaming at the mouth, and her eldest brother seemed to have hit his head on a rock and fainted.
The little sister was a little scared. She was afraid that her father would suddenly wake up and beat her and her mother again.
She didn't know what kind of argument had taken place between her father and her elder brother, but she was afraid that after her father woke up, he would vent his resentment towards her elder brother on her and her mother.
So, when my younger sister left, she gently pushed over the burning kerosene lamp beside her.
She didn't like her father, nor did she like her eldest brother who was in cahoots with her father. If they were all burned to death, would life be much better for her, her mother, and her second brother in the future?
She doesn't need to be that good, as long as she has enough food to eat every day and her father doesn't beat her.
Wen Bo only found out that the father and son killed each other. Perhaps the kerosene lamp that was about ten feet away was accidentally touched by a wild cat that came to steal food.
Wen Bo didn't know whether the six-year-old girl had any evil in her heart, but he hoped that the little girl would not lose her way because of hatred.
To this end, Wenbo specifically explained his ideas to He.
The six-year-old child was not asleep at the time and did not call for help when he noticed the fire. Therefore, Wenbo suspected that the wild cat might be Zheng Xiaomei. However, he had no evidence. He only hoped that He would protect the child well and not let the hatred and resentment in her heart grow.
After reading the first story, Zhu Jinyou sealed the book.
The final murderer was actually different from what he thought.
The subsequent reversal made people angry and a little sympathetic to Zheng Yongan who was murdered. What happened?
The Zheng family's eldest son, a man of courage and foresight, endured humiliation and hardship, only to be murdered by his young and naive sister. Is it because murder is punishable by death that his death is the most fitting conclusion to this suspenseful case? Is there no way to have the best of both worlds?
Zhu Jinyou found it even harder to fall asleep.
If this book was really written by Qin Luoqi, what exactly is she trying to express?
Does it mean that the imperfect laws also need to be strengthened and improved?
This woman is really not simple.