"What? What what?" Li Qian got up from the ground and asked hurriedly, "What do you mean? What family property? Do you doubt me?"
"You were the first to discover the scene, right?" Xu Zhen asked, "Now tell us, how did you discover the scene?"
"I...I have already told Li Zheng," Li Qian pointed at Li Zheng and Meng Zhicai and said, "I came back too late today and found the door of my house open. When I came to the living room, I saw this terrifying scene. I was shocked. ...I was so scared that I lost my soul, so I hurriedly went to find Li Zheng, wuwu..."
Li Qian seemed to realize that he was lacking some emotion, and quickly cried: "My poor family, they died so tragically, ugh..."
This time, he finally squeezed out tears.
"Why did you come back too late?" Xu Zhen continued to ask questions calmly.
"I..." Li Qian hesitated for a moment and said, "I went to push a few rounds of Pai Gow."
"Really?" Xu Zhen raised his voice, "Where did you play, who did you play with, and how long did you play?"
"This... um..." Li Qian hesitated a lot and replied hesitantly, "At a friend's house in Thin Willow Town, the people we played with were all regulars, and we played until... um... It’s just after the end of the day, right? Yes... it’s just after midnight..."
"You mean, you came back from town in the middle of the night? How did you come back? On horseback or on foot?" Xu Zhen asked again.
"This..." As a result, Li Qian hesitated again and didn't even give an answer for a while.
Seeing Li Qian's hesitation, everyone present couldn't help but become suspicious.
"I...I walked back, yes, walked back." Li Qian quickly answered.
"How dare you, Li Qian!" Xu Zhen shouted suddenly, "How dare you lie! The snow on the road is melting and the road is muddy, but your shoes are so clean, and you still say you walked back?"
"This...I..." Li Qian looked at his feet, suddenly became anxious, and quickly defended, "I went home and changed a pair of shoes, changed a pair of shoes..."
"Your home?" Xu Zhen asked, "Isn't this your home?"
"This..." Li Qian suddenly turned red and couldn't answer.
"Let me explain it," Li Zheng Meng Zhicai couldn't stand it anymore and immediately said, "Li Qian has been kicked out of the house by Shaojun's aunt because he is addicted to gambling and is heavily in debt!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone at the scene looked at Li Qian with even more suspicion.
In fact, in Yaochang Village, this is no longer a secret. Everyone knows that Li Qian once asked people from Wansheng Gambling House to chase debts back to his home, causing Meng Shaojun to lose a large sum of money.
Since then, Li Qian has been kicked out of the Meng family and lives alone in a broken house near the cemetery.
So, what he said about coming home in the middle of the night and finding the crime scene was obviously very interesting.
"Li Qian, are you...recently being debt-collected and unable to survive?" Xu Zhen said, "So, you came up with the idea of your mother-in-law's family. As long as you kill them and blame others, you can You’ve inherited your mother-in-law’s huge fortune, right?”
"Ah? You... don't talk nonsense! How dare I kill someone?" Li Qian was anxious and hurriedly defended himself.
"Li Qian," Li Zheng Meng Zhicai said in surprise, "it can't really be you, can it? Don't tell me... without a formal divorce letter, you really have to inherit Aunt Shaojun's family property! You..."
"No, no, no, no, no ..." Li Qian was completely frightened and hurriedly shouted, saying, "It's really not me, I tell you, I really owe debt I just wanted to come over and get something!"
After hearing this, everyone focused their attention on Li Qian again.
"I used to do this all the time," Li Qian said eagerly, "My mother-in-law didn't recognize me, and my daughter-in-law didn't give me any money, so I could only sneak in, secretly get some medicinal materials, and then sell them for some money.
"So...I am tonight...I am here to get medicinal materials!"
As he spoke, he pointed to the medicinal materials piled up in the courtyard and said: "I climbed over the wall and came in. I wanted to find some valuable medicinal materials, but I saw the lights on in the living room and the figures of people.
"The figure didn't move for a long time and there was no sound. I just went in to check. Everything else I told is the truth!"
"Truth?" Xu Zhen said, "Then did you come back on foot?"
"No," Li Qian said, "I took a ride back. I came back in the afternoon, and then I hid at home, preparing to get some good stuff tonight!"
"Oh..." Xu Zhen pointed at Li Qian and said, "In other words, no one can prove where you were from Youshi to Xushi today?"
"Yes," Li Qian asked, "You're all staying at home, what's wrong?"
"What's wrong?" Xu Zhen pointed to the living room, "The deceased's death time was exactly within this time period, which was dinner time!"
"Ah? This..." Li Qian felt more and more uncomfortable.
"Next, let's talk about the most critical point," Xu Zhen pointed at the man and woman and asked everyone, "I ask you, who was the first person to raise suspicion and poison Meng Shaojun's family? Two people?"
The kneeling man is the son of Meng Qinghui, the former richest man in Yaochang Village, named Meng Zhichao, and the woman is his wife, named Yuniang.
After hearing the question, everyone was startled again.
"It's...it's you!" The first one to speak was Li Zheng Meng Zhicai. He pointed at Li Qian and said in surprise, "It was you who asked us to arrest Meng Zhichao!"
"No...isn't it?" Li Qian defended, "I just mentioned it, I was just suspicious, but...I didn't...didn't I tell you to really arrest Meng Zhichao?"
"Wait...wait..." At this time, Li Zhengmeng Zhicai asked Xu Zhen, "Hero, let me ask, we clearly found arsenic from the home of Meng Zhichao and his wife, but what you mean seems to me Do you think these two are not the murderers?"
"If you were the murderer and you had an obvious conflict with the deceased," Xu Zhen asked, "then would you put arsenic in your home? And put it in a place where you can find it easily?"
"Yes, yes..." After hearing this, everyone nodded frequently.
In particular, Meng Zhichao and his wife ordered harder, obviously very grateful to Xu Zhen.
At the same time, Li Chaner looked at Xu Zhen with a slightly strange look.
"Let me tell you one more thing," Xu Zhen pointed to the crime scene in the living room and said, "If these people were poisoned, how could they die so neatly?
"Poisoning will cause severe pain, and the natural sign of death will be twitching and twisting, falling to the ground and dying. Then the food, cups and plates on the table will inevitably be overturned and smashed. It should be a mess, right?"
"That's right," said a young man from behind, "That's what I just said. Could it be that you are really possessed by evil spirits?"
Oops...
As soon as he said he was possessed, the scene suddenly became tense.
"It's not because of evil spirits," Xu Zhen said, "The reason why the crime scene is like this is because the murderer was always present during the entire poisoning process!
"It was after he poisoned everyone one by one that he became like this!"
Oops...
At this time, the crowd was in an uproar again, and everyone was surprised.
“The seven bodies all died at different times, first and then later.
"There are some bruises on Meng Shaojun's body, indicating that he was bound or struggled before his death.
"And on Meng Shaojun's daughter's cheek, there are obvious pinch marks." Xu Zhen gestured to his cheek, "It means someone pinched her mouth and forced her to drink poison!"
Oops...
The crowd was excited again. Such murderous crimes were simply appalling.
When mentioning Meng Shaojun's daughter, people naturally think of Li Qian, because Meng Shaojun's daughter is Li Qian's wife.
ah……
At this time, Li Qian's face was pale and he was completely paralyzed with fear...
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(End of chapter)
