midnight.
Inside the old residence of Meng Qinghui's family.
In the corner of the courtyard, Meng Qingxi knelt on the ground, had already lit incense candles and yellow paper, and was kowtowing sincerely in repentance as if pounding garlic.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it was me who hurt you, everyone, and the whole village! It was all me venting my personal anger without considering the consequences. I am willing to sacrifice my life and repent and make a new start. Please forgive me, woo woo ...I know I'm wrong, I really know I'm wrong... Wuwuwu..."
Meng Qingxi bowed sincerely and cried bitterly. While he was repenting, he kept looking into the distance, waiting for the arrival of the beautiful fox fairy.
"Why...are you doing this?"
Suddenly, a female voice came from behind.
"Ah!?" Meng Qingxi was startled at first, and when she looked back, she realized that the beautiful fox fairy had arrived beside her at some unknown time.
Although the fox fairy had no halo, Meng Qingxi still believed in it and immediately defended:
"I really didn't expect it to be that serious! That person lied to me. He said that the poison he gave me would only cause them to be slightly poisoned, not fatal!
"I just wanted to take revenge on Meng Qinghui and embarrass him, but I never imagined... that it would have such serious consequences!"
"Then why do you want to take revenge on Meng Qinghui?" As a result, the question turned into a man's voice.
"Ah?" Meng Qingxi was suddenly startled. He followed the sound and saw that a fence beside him had been moved away, and there were a lot of people standing behind it!
In addition to the three Li Zhengs of their village, there are also Baozheng Li Youcai, Meng Zhichao and his wife, Li Qian and Xu Zhen himself.
The person who asked the question was naturally Xu Zhen.
"This..." Meng Qingxi hurriedly looked at the Fox Fairy, but saw that the Fox Fairy wiped off the disguise on her face and turned out to be the female scribe Qin Yin who followed Xu Zhen.
"ah?"
Only then did Meng Qingxi realize that he had been deceived, and he collapsed to the ground in fear.
For a moment, the scene was completely silent, except for the sizzling sound of the burning red candle.
"It turns out..." Yu Niang raised her hand and pointed at Meng Qingxi with full of resentment, "It's you!!!"
"I...not...not..." Meng Qingxi shook her head helplessly, her face twitched and her whole body trembled...
"Why!?" A man stood up and yelled, "Why did you do that? Why on earth?"
"It seems... the reason is quite simple, right?" At this time, Li Qian complained from behind, "Isn't it Meng Qinghui who robbed his daughter-in-law? He was the first suspect at the beginning. If he had been interrogated properly at that time , hum…”
"I...I..." Meng Qingxi still didn't recover. When he recalled what happened about the Fox Fairy just now, he still felt it was so real.
Wow...
Xu Zhen took out a water bag and poured the water in the water bag onto Meng Qingxi's face.
"Ah!?" Meng Qingxi was shocked by the cold water, and finally came to her senses, her eyes brighter than before.
It turned out that he had been addicted to incense before.
At this moment, looking at everything in front of him, Meng Qingxi was completely awake:
"You...you teamed up to lie to me!? No...that's not right, you...how did you find out there was something wrong with me? It's impossible?"
"When I was recreating the scene here a few days ago," Xu Zhen said, "I paid special attention to you. At that time, your eyebrows were lowered and your eyes were evasive. You were out of tune with the curious expressions of others. You were obviously harboring evil intentions.
"After I deliberately lit the firecrackers, the others were so frightened that their faces turned pale, their bodies trembled, and they wanted to escape, but your reaction was slower than them, and you stood still without moving at all.
"This is called the non-stress response under stimulation. It means that your heart has reached its peak of tension. If you are stimulated again at this time, you will appear calmer than others."
Xu Zhen's super professional explanation made everyone look at each other in shock.
"Just... based on this? But..." Meng Qingxi was obviously not convinced, "My son also drank poisonous wine, shouldn't you doubt me?"
"This is also very simple," Xu Zhen answered. "In criminal investigation, you need to talk about the original motive. After I screened everyone in the village, only your motive was at the forefront, so I decided to give it a try. Psychologically, I checked you carefully.
"It is true that your son also drank poisonous wine, but this does not serve as a reason to exclude you," Xu Zhen said. "You said that you did not attend the wedding banquet of Meng Qinghui's family due to illness. However, I asked many people, but there was no answer. One knows exactly what disease you have.
"Your home is only a few dozen meters away from the wedding banquet of Meng Qinghui's family, and you are his uncle and brother. What disease can prevent you from attending the wedding banquet?"
"Then...then I..." Meng Qingxi said, "Just because I didn't go to the wedding banquet, you shouldn't doubt me? I don't have the chance to poison you?"
"Wrong," Xu Zhen corrected, "This is the illusion you gave everyone. Just because there was a poisoning incident at the wedding banquet, everyone will naturally think that the poisoning murderer was at the wedding banquet.
"But in fact, you had already poisoned those two jars of wine before the wedding banquet!"
"Ah!?" Meng Qingxi was startled, obviously Xu Zhen was right.
"Do you think I'm all pretending when I ask the parties involved one by one?" Xu Zhen said seductively, "Meng Qinghui's family is so proud, and the wine cellar is full of fine wines. Who knows which jars he uses to entertain guests? Probably not much.
"You are Meng Qinghui's uncle and brother, and because you have been away from home all the time and have rich experience, Meng Qinghui has many things to discuss with you, and his son's wedding is no exception.
"So you must know that he will eventually use the two jars of yellow-sealed wine to entertain guests, so he put the poison into the wine early."
"This...this..." Meng Qingxi still wanted to argue, but couldn't think of a reason for a while.
"After I suspected you, I took the opportunity to sneak into your house and observe quietly." Xu Zhen said again, "Xuan Dao burns incense and worships in accordance with the time, but you kneel before the statue all day long. This clearly shows that you have a guilty conscience. ah!
"Meng Qingxi," Xu Zhen said, "I came up with this plan after I saw that you like to read books about cultivating immortals and ascension. Now, the gods you believe in have become enlightened, and they have given you the clearest hint—— Atone for your sins!”
"Ah..." As soon as he said this, Meng Qingxi fell to his knees and cried loudly.
"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo in are don't on me." But when everyone hears it, they feel even more angry.
"Speak!" one of them shouted loudly, "What is going on? Meng Qinghui treats you so well, why do you want to harm him like this?"
"Is he good to me?" After hearing this, Meng Qingxi stopped crying suddenly and shouted angrily, "He has never treated me as a human being since he was a child!"
oh?
Everyone was surprised.
"Because his family is rich, no matter what mistakes he makes, he asks me to take the blame for him!" Meng Qingxi said bitterly, "After that, he gave me some small favors. My parents died early and my family was poor, so I could only Cling to him and live on his charity.
"The same thing happened when I grew up. Although I organized a delivery fleet, all my business still depended on him and I still had to look at his face.
"But his problems have not changed, and they are getting worse. One day, he gave me a woman and asked me to marry her, and that woman..." Meng Qingxi said tremblingly, "It's Zhixiao's mother!"
ah?
Xu Zhen grinned and realized what was the root cause of the disaster?
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