"He... what exactly does he want to do?" In the yard, the bodyguard looked at Xu Zhen in the room and said to Li Chan'er with a big mouth, "Those people are obviously dead!"
Li Chan'er didn't respond, but just like the escort, she looked at Xu Zhen in the room.
At this moment, Xu Zhen was observing something carefully around the scary dining table. He was observing so carefully that he even had to get closer to smell the food on the plate.
"Miss," the escort advised, "How about we withdraw? This Mr. Luo is probably stimulated and has gone crazy. Let's not waste time with him, right?"
"That sentence..." Unexpectedly, Li Chan'er suddenly asked, "What did you say? About the white fox?"
"What? White fox?" The escort was startled at first, then understood what Li Chan'er meant, and said quickly, "When you see the white fox rising from thousands of graves, this is... This is what we say in Yanping area. After all, white foxes are rarely seen in the plains. .Miss, you won’t..."
Having said this, the escort didn't know what to say next.
Seeing this, Li Chan'er was already wondering whether the dead people in front of her were related to the appearance of the white fox?
But the bodyguard knew that the white fox was just a superstitious legend, and the dead people in front of him were just a coincidence.
At this moment, the two of them were surprised to see Xu Zhen squatting in front of one of the corpses and observing the corpse face to face. He even reached out to pry open the corpse's mouth...
"Oh..." The bodyguard felt his hairs standing on end and said tremblingly, "Look, do I think he is crazy? Is it possible to treat a dead person? Why don't you feel the pulse?"
Li Chan'er also felt uncomfortable looking at it. However, her strong curiosity still drove her to have no intention of leaving.
At the same time, the old man and the two young people were also frightened and overwhelmed by Xu Zhen's behavior. They wanted to stop it, but they did not dare to say anything.
"Old man," Li Chan'er asked upon seeing this, "where is this place?"
"This is called Yaochang Village," the old man said before he could answer. The escort on the side introduced him first, "Every household makes a living by growing, processing and selling medicinal materials."
"Yes, yes," the old man nodded quickly.
"Then what's going on with this family?"
When asking questions, Li Chan'er observed the old man carefully and saw that although the old man also had a crooked mouth and squinting eyes, he seemed to be slightly better than the others.
The old man only suffered from facial paralysis, while others were completely disfigured.
"This is the family of Meng Shaojun, the largest household in our village," the old man introduced. "Her medicinal materials have the best sales... We don't know... why it suddenly became like this..."
"When did this happen?" Li Chan'er asked again.
"Well... it was about half an hour ago, right?" the old man said, "Someone reported to Li Zheng that something happened to Meng Shaojun's family. Our whole village was alarmed. When we came over and took a look, oh well... then... That’s it now…
"That... this Taoist nun, this um... girl, heroine..." The old man was a little incoherent, "What on earth is your friend doing? Is there anyone in Meng Shaojun's family still alive? It should... it should have been long ago Are you dead?"
"Yes," a young man behind him couldn't help but agree, "Looking like this, Aunt Meng's family must have been poisoned when they had dinner!"
"Is it poisoning?" another young man said, "Can poisoning be like this? Sitting neatly? Could it be that you were twisting your stomach, throbbing in pain, and rolling on the ground?"
"My orifices are bleeding, isn't it poisoning?" the young man from before argued, "We are all in the field of medicinal materials, don't you understand this? Arsenic, someone must have given it to you!"
Li Chan'er looked at the two young men, but they had regular facial features without any signs of distortion.
Moreover, through their conversation, Li Chaner knew that Meng Shaojun was a woman.
"Look, this is not poisoning, but evil!" Another young man refused to accept it and pointed to the back room and said, "You can't die like this if you are poisoned!"
"Okay, okay, you two, stop arguing," the old man quickly stopped, "I don't even look at where this place is. I'm really possessed. I'm taking you two with me."
The old man threatened, and the two young men immediately covered their mouths in fear.
"Old man," at this moment, Xu Zhen stood at the door and asked the old man, "I don't understand, who discovered the scene first? It was already midnight half an hour ago, who would be there in the middle of the night? come here?"
"I don't know?" the old man answered simply.
"I know," one of the young men said quickly, "I heard from Li Zheng that the person who found the scene was Aunt Meng's son-in-law. The son-in-law seemed to have gone to play cards and came back late, and then he saw the scene..."
"Son-in-law?" the old man said, "Li Qian? Hasn't he been kicked out of the Meng family by Meng Shaojun?"
"Old man," Xu Zhen waved his hand and said, "Come here and introduce these people to me. Which one is Meng Shaojun you are talking about?"
"The one at the far end," the old man dared to go in, pointing to the room from a distance, "the one facing the door is Meng Shaojun. On her left is her daughter Meng Qianqian, who is Li Qian's wife. On the right is her son Meng Zhichao, and on the right It’s my daughter-in-law…”
The old man introduced one by one that there were seven deceased people in front of the dining table, including Meng Shaojun's family of five, a housekeeper and a maid.
The family of five includes Meng Shaojun himself, Meng Shaojun’s daughter, son, daughter-in-law and grandson who is only 13 years old.
Later, the old man told some about Meng Shaojun's family situation. For example, the housekeeper and the maid were a couple. In addition to handling daily housework, the two of them were also in charge of grocery shopping and cooking...
"That's enough, that's enough for you?"
Just when Xu Zhen asked for details, the escort who was accompanying him couldn't bear it anymore.
He pointed at Xu Zhen and yelled:
"Do you think you are a policeman from the Yamen? Do you still want to solve this case? I ask you, are you still leaving? If you don't leave, we will go back!"
After speaking, he looked at Li Chan'er again, wanting Li Chan'er to say a few words to Xu Zhen.
However, at this moment, Li Chan'er frowned and seemed to be thinking about something.
"It is indeed arsenic poisoning," Xu Zhen said without talking to the bodyguard, but walked down the steps, "It's just that... the arsenic has been improved and processed, and its effect is more powerful than before.
"So, the person who poisoned must be someone who is proficient in pharmacology!"
"Poison?" The old man was surprised.
"What do you think?" The young man from before clapped his hands and said, "I said someone must have poisoned me, right? This is too obvious!"
"But..." Another young man frowned, "Who wants to poison Aunt Meng's family? Our village is full of people who are proficient in pharmacology!"
"Arsenic..." The old man suddenly thought of something, "Not everyone can get this arsenic. Although we are in the medicinal materials business, no one has ever gotten arsenic, right..."
"By the way," Xu Zhen asked, "that son-in-law Li Qian you just mentioned, where did he go?"
"I don't know?" the old man replied simply again.
The two young men also shook their heads repeatedly, and one of them said: "Perhaps you went to report to the official position with Li Zheng?"
"Yes," the other one nodded, "I didn't see Li Zheng either!"
The words stopped abruptly, and the courtyard fell silent.
"Mr. Luo," at this time, Li Chan'er finally came to Xu Zhen and asked, "Have you discovered anything else?"
"No, no more..." Xu Zhen shook his head.
"In that case..." Li Chan'er was obviously a little disappointed and said, "Then let's continue on our way! I have to rush to the escort office before dawn, so don't delay here."
"Okay, okay." Xu Zhen nodded and was about to leave.
"Humph, you're wasting your time!" the escort complained and walked out the door first.
However, he had just taken a few steps when he heard someone outside shouting: "Oh, Li Zheng is coming, Li Zheng is coming..."
Following the shouting, a large group of people came in outside, and some of them shouted excitedly:
"The murderer was caught, the murderer was caught, it turned out to be the two of them who poisoned me!"
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