"That was not my initial plan..."
In the courtyard, Meng Zhicai opened his palm, and the thing in his hand fell to the ground silently. It was a blood-stained gown.
At this moment, in addition to Xu Zhen and Li Chan'er, other villagers also came to the scene one after another, including Meng Zhichao and his wife, the accompanying bodyguards, and Li Qian, who was regarded as an important suspect.
Meng Zhicai knew that his crime had been exposed and any further arguments would be in vain, so he told the story of his crime.
"Who would have thought that Li Qian could go to Meng Shaojun's house to steal things in the middle of the night!" Meng Zhicai said with a grimace, "My original plan was to wait until daybreak and someone found out that something happened at Meng Shaojun's house, and then I would stand up and take charge. , proposed a village-wide search.
"From this, Meng Zhichao and his wife were gradually led to think that they were the two who poisoned Meng Shaojun's family. So from the beginning, I didn't think about Li Qian.
"As you said, even if Meng Shaojun's family is all dead, with me here, Li Qian will never get his family's inheritance.
"I really didn't expect that after Li Qian bumped into the crime scene, he proposed to search Meng Zhichao's home first in front of everyone, because he also felt that Meng Zhichao was the most suspicious.
"Of course I secretly rejoiced, so I immediately followed the trend and arrested Meng Zhichao and his wife, and dug out the arsenic that had been prepared long ago, in order to force them to confess..."
"You...ah...you are so vicious!" Li Qian was furious, "My mother-in-law is so kind to you, and yet you do such an unscrupulous thing. You are really a beast, a beast!"
"You are all right," Meng Zhicai said to Xu Zhen again, "I prepared all this carefully. I prepared the poison in advance and came to Meng Shaojun's house on the pretext of talking about something.
"I first took advantage of their unpreparedness, drugged the kitchen, poisoned the housekeeper and his wife, and then used force to poison the others separately!
"After everything was done, I saw that the vegetables were not yet cooked, so I went to cook myself and prepared the remaining meals..."
Hearing this scene, everyone felt extremely horrified. What kind of vicious and numb person must be to be able to calmly cook after killing people?
“After it was done, I put the food on the dining table, lifted all the dead people onto the dining chairs, and arranged them as if they were enjoying dinner, so that people could think of someone taking revenge just by looking at them.
“Finally, I cleaned up and dealt with the blood stains, and I didn’t leave until ten minutes into the night...
"Yes..." He pointed to the clothes on the ground, "As you expected, the clothes were indeed dirty, but they were part of my plan. So when I committed the crime, I didn't let anyone see me going to Meng Shaojun's house. , and secondly, he deliberately changed into clothes that he had never worn before.
"After committing the crime, I went to Meng Zhichao's house to frame the case. The clothes were supposed to be burned, but before I could light the fire, Li Qian came to my house and knocked on the door!
"In desperation, I had no choice but to hide the clothes first, alas..." Meng Zhicai said angrily, "It's all my fault that I was too greedy and fell into your trap. I wanted to come to Li Qian's house to frame him.
"Li Qian and I have a similar appearance. If I follow what you said, as long as I find the bloody clothes here, I can successfully frame the blame on Li Qian. Not only can I completely get rid of the suspicion, but I can also eliminate another person who shares the property.
"Now the village is no longer competitive," Meng Zhicai said excitedly, "As long as I can get Meng Shaojun's approval, I can take over all her business. I can do better than her! Do better!"
"Madman, madman..." Li Qian was extremely sad and angry, his eyes were red, "You killed my whole family, killed my son, I want to avenge them, I want to kill you, kill you..."
As he said that, he was about to rush over and fight Meng Zhicai, but the villagers nearby quickly stopped him.
"What a damned evil." Although the villagers stopped Li Qian, they were still filled with anger and indignation. "He is simply worse than a beast, a murderous demon..."
"Yes, such a person must be sent to the government for trial, and it will only be happy if he is cut into pieces with a thousand knives!"
Among the crowd, there were two young men who were Meng Zhicai's subordinates.
They were previously responsible for monitoring Xu Zhen and the two, but they were knocked unconscious by Li Chan'er in the kitchen of Meng Shaojun's house.
At this moment, seeing that the person they were following turned out to be a murderous demon, the two of them were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground, trembling...
"We..." At this time, Meng Zhichao's wife Yuniang also cried, "We have been harmed so miserably, why... why don't you let us go?
"Do you think we wanted the disaster three years ago to happen? Look at it...look at it," she pointed at her monster-like husband, "Zhi Chao has become like this. We are really in dire straits, please be kind and don’t make things difficult for us anymore, woo woo..."
After saying that, the couple hugged each other and cried, crying extremely miserably...
It can be seen that since the accident three years ago, Meng Zhichao's family has not only been ruined and lost all their property, but also been bullied by the villagers.
"Uuuu... my whole family was fine yesterday, but today they are all gone. It's so unreasonable. My son is only thirteen years old. Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Li Qian followed beside him, also losing his voice. Cry bitterly...
"Alas..." Seeing such a miserable situation, an old man behind him shook his head and sighed, "The old people have long said that the feng shui of our village is bad, and we need to find someone to look at it, but you just don't believe it. What happens now? It has come true. Bar?"
The old man's words suddenly reminded Li Chan'er of the white fox again. Although she felt it was too superstitious, she still felt sad.
So, she couldn't help but ask Meng Zhicai: "Since you are facing a death penalty, why not tell me, was it you who did the poisoning three years ago?"
Hearing this, all the villagers present looked at Meng Zhicai.
"Don't, don't... don't push this matter on me!" Meng Zhicai quickly shook his head, "Three years ago, I went to Qingyuan County to sell goods for Shaojun's aunt, and I happened to miss Meng Zhichao's wedding. We spent five years together. All six guys can testify!"
"..." Li Chan'er stared at Meng Zhicai closely, her sharp eyes full of oppression.
"Really, really," Meng Zhicai said, "As you said, I am now mortal, so there is no need to lie to you. I have no enmity with Uncle Qinghui, so why did I poison him?
"Yes, yes," he suddenly remembered something and explained again, "the two poisons are completely different. If I had done what happened three years ago, then I wouldn't use arsenic now! Right?"
Hearing this, Li Chan'er looked at Meng Zhichao and others, but saw that they were all hideous and ugly. Such strange poison was indeed rare in the world, and she had never heard of it.
So, she glanced at Xu Zhen and wanted to ask Xu Zhen, the "poison expert", whether that poison was related to the Duangchang Powder developed by his father?
However, she found that Xu Zhen was contemplating, as if thinking about something, so she had to give up.
In fact, Xu Zhen was just pretending to be serious. He was not Mr. Luo at all, so how could he answer Li Chan'er's question?
However, through the knowledge Xu Zhen had in his previous life, he still had some guesses. He felt that the poison in the collective poisoning incident in Yaochang Village was more like a highly toxic substance similar to cyanide.
However, in this ancient society where science was not developed, how could cyanide be refined?
It seems that when I go back, I have to study "The Way of Demons" carefully to see if there are any records in it.
At this moment, Xu Zhen could also see that Li Chan'er seemed to still have unfulfilled intentions. Although the real culprit who poisoned Meng Shaojun's family had been caught, she still hoped to find the culprit of the poisoning three years ago.
However, without photos, videos and forensic technology, how easy is it to solve such an unsolved case?
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