(176) The heart of the bridge (25)
"Joke, can I be condemned by this? All the things I bought for the baby and his father were burned and sent over, and I don't know where the paper money came from. Aunt You sneered and swept the paper money to the ground.
Cai Yu looked at Aunt You's eyes, sighed suddenly, squatted down and picked up the paper money that had been swept to the ground again.
"Four days ago, Liu Wen's son Liu Xingwang was killed, was it your hand?" Cai Yu lifted his clothes and sat opposite Aunt You, "Everyone in this village knows that Liu Xingwang will get drunk in the Chen Ji Tavern every day, and he won't go home until late at night, so you put on your daughter-in-law's clothes, put on a hat and lead Liu Xingwang to the Posa Temple, and then hack him to death with an axe hidden there." ”
"It's really more and more outrageous, so when did Liu Xingwang go back to Liu's house and there was no little guy to follow, and I led him to the temple? What skills do I have to make him follow me? ”
"Liu Xingwang is a good drinker and lustful, and his personal servant naturally knows what to do." Cai Yu ignored Aunt You's ridicule and continued, "Auntie, when you were young, you must have been graceful, right? ”
"It was dark that day, Liu Xingwang was drunk again, you dress up a little, and then bring a hat, who can tell that you are a sixty-year-old man?"
"It's all your stuff." Aunt You clenched her fists and glared at Cai Yu with a tense face.
"What did you burn yesterday?" Cai Yu asked quickly.
"My daughter-in-law's old clothes ......"
"Yes, your daughter-in-law's old clothes." Cai Yu's eyes sank slightly, "Blood-stained old clothes." ”
"After you killed Liu Xingwang, you couldn't bear your daughter-in-law's old clothes, and there was nowhere to wash them, so you just hid them, but now that things have made a fuss, you know that keeping that old clothes will only be a scourge, so you burned it under the pretext of 'seeing things hurt'."
"Nonsense!" Aunt You drank hard, but she couldn't say anything else.
Cai Yu saw that Aunt You's face turned white, and he stopped for a while to wait for Aunt You's emotions to calm down a little.
After a while, Cai Yu hesitated and said, "Auntie, if you are not feeling well now, we can talk again tomorrow...... You still have to take care of your body. ”
Aunt You secretly wiped her tears with her face behind her back, then poured in a sip of tea, and said to Cai Yu with her eyes, "No, I have this old bone, there is nothing to take care of!" ”
Cai Yu suddenly felt that the work he took was sometimes really a hot potato, just like in this situation, did he continue to talk regardless of his aunt's feelings, or did he delay it and slow down in order to take into account her feelings?
But no matter what, none of the injuries that should be borne and should be suffered will be less.
"Auntie, you made a big fuss in the Liu Family Lingtang that day, you should still remember what Liu Xingwang looked like when he died, right? But what I have always wondered is, why is he holding a piece of clothing in his hand? Could it be that your daughter-in-law......"
"You don't want to ruin my daughter-in-law's reputation!" When Aunt You heard Cai Yu's words, she immediately sank her face and scolded loudly, "What is in the hands of that beast is clearly the little goblin raised by Liu Wen, an old bald donkey, what does it have to do with my daughter-in-law?" If you harm my daughter-in-law's reputation like this, I'm going to drive people out! ”
"Auntie, don't worry." Cai Yu picked up the teapot and filled the tea for Aunt You, "Actually, I know that the clothes have nothing to do with your daughter-in-law." ”
"What are you talking about? Since you know, why do you ......" Aunt You suddenly paused.
"Because when you went to Liu's house to make trouble that day, Liu Xingwang's body had already entered the coffin, and it was impossible for you to see what he was holding in his hand, and the person who found out that Liu Xingwang was killed was his personal servant, who had been warned and sealed by Mrs. Liu, so how did you know that the clothes Liu Xingwang was holding in his hand were the concubines of Village Chief Liu?"
"I ......"
"That piece of underwear from my daughter's family is actually not the concubine of Village Chief Liu, right?" Cai Yu said, "Almost all the clothes of this concubine of Village Chief Liu are customized in Dye Yun Village, and the proprietress of Dye Yun Village has a very good relationship with you, it shouldn't be difficult for you to ask her for a piece of clothing that is exactly the same as that of Village Chief Liu's concubine, right?" ”
"After you killed Liu Xingwang that day, you stuffed the same clothes as the concubine that you had prepared early in the morning into Liu Xingwang's hands, in order to expose the affair between Liu Xingwang and his little mother, but you didn't expect Mrs. Liu's methods to be so ruthless, this matter has not spread at all, and not many people know about it."
Aunt You didn't say anything to refute Cai Yu this time, just looked at him, her dull and broken eyes were full of anger and pain.
She seemed to have endured it for a long time before she didn't cry on the spot.
Cai Yu can understand the pain in Aunt You's heart at the moment, but he still has to continue to say what he should say. Kiss
"When you were young, you were good friends with Aunt Xu in the bridge, so you know the unique secret recipe for Aunt Xu to make pumpkin cakes, the pumpkin cakes made by Aunt Xu have always been only given away and not sold, and every time only when she sacrifices to the princess, she will put a large box of pumpkin cakes made by herself in front of the stone statue of the princess."
"The rules of Posa Village, after the sacrifice to Posa Jun, the sacrifices should be given to Village Chief Liu to pick a few pieces and put them in the ancestral hall at home for worship, in the hope that the wind and rain in Bosa Village will be smooth in the coming year, and the villagers will be able to live and work in peace and contentment, the village chief's concubine loves to eat pumpkin cakes, and pumpkin cakes are the best made by Aunt Xu, and the selfish Village Chief Liu will secretly leave some for his concubines every time."
"So you seized this opportunity to secretly swap the pumpkin cake made by Aunt Xu with the one you made, so that not only can you attract everyone's suspicion to Aunt Xu, but also let Village Chief Liu's concubine eat the highly poisonous pumpkin cake you made without knowing it."
"But the only one who can grow pumpkins in this season is Aunt Xu, this is the secret she figured out in her later years, I don't know what the reason is, after marriage, you fell out with Aunt Xu, so you don't know how to grow this kind of pumpkin, you can only steal it late at night, and when I first came to Posa Village, Aunt Xu claimed that my cousin and I stole her melons because of the reason you stole the melons."
After saying so many words at once, Cai Yu was also a little overwhelmed, he paused, and then continued, "I admit that everything I said before is just my speculation, and it is indeed far-fetched to find you guilty, but today I have found the strongest evidence to prove all my previous speculations." ”
He took out a small wooden box from his sleeve and pushed it in front of Aunt You.
Aunt You looked at Cai Yu in a daze, and then opened the jade box under Cai Yu's gaze.
It's a half-bitten pumpkin cake.
"This is the pumpkin cake that Concubine Liu Wen was poisoned."
After speaking, Cai Yu took out a snack wrapped in oil paper out of nowhere, but he didn't push this to Aunt You, but took it upon himself to open the oil paper.
"She did it?" Aunt You's voice had begun to be hoarse, but when it came to Aunt Xu, she couldn't help but open her mouth.
"Yes." Cai Yu nodded: "Yesterday, Aunt Xu gave it to us when she was not sick." ”
Aunt You paused, and forcibly held back the surging emotions in her heart.
"What does this mean?" She asked, hoarse.
"This is the evidence that you exchanged tribute." Cai Yu looked at her.
"The pumpkin pie you made is almost exactly the same as that made by Aunt Xu, the only difference is this." Cai Yu pointed to the small cake that was missing half of it, and if you looked closely, you could see a few dark green colors from the gap, "This is what you gave your cousin when we first came, it is a flavored herb, and its name is Xiangchun Cao." ”
"That's it? Then it is impossible for to be interested in it by accident and sprinkle this thing inside? Although she knew that she couldn't escape the charge of murder, if it was because of this, it would make her too unwilling.
Cai Yu glanced up at Aunt You and shook her head silently.
Aunt You was a little confused by Cai Yu: "What do you mean?" ”
"In Posa Village, except for your son, no one knows Xiang Chuncao at all." Cai Yu said amazingly: "Xiangchun grass is extremely precious, and the method of picking it is also very complicated, and only people who are quite accomplished in herbal medicine have the ability to recognize it and pick it." ”
"There are only two doctors in the whole Posa Village, one is your son, and the other is Dr. Chen, Dr. Chen has already tried it, he doesn't know anything about the grass that has passed away, in other words, in this village, only you will have the grass left by your son."
"If you want to poison Liu Wen's concubine, it will definitely be impossible to swagger to Dr. Chen to buy the poison and go back, you can only find another way. Your son is a well-known doctor in the village, but you don't know much about medicine, so the only way to do this is to rely on the medical books left by your son to dispense medicine. ”
"But you are really not familiar with this aspect of things, and you don't know if the medicine prepared can harm the life of Concubine Liu Wen in the end, so you can only add Xiang Chuncao to make the pumpkin cake you make more delicious, so that she will eat more, and the chance of killing her is greater, but it is precisely because of your eagerness that you have left the most deadly evidence."
After saying everything, Cai Yu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but he also understood that all the pressure he had just taken on did not make him feel even more powerless by the situation he was going to face next.
"You're right." Aunt You no longer argued, and showed a weak and tired look on her face, "Those people in the Liu family were all killed by me, and the methods used are all as you said, now you want to arrest me and go to the Liu family, or lock me up here, and call the people of the Liu family, it's up to you." ”
"Auntie......"
Cai Yu looked at her and stopped talking.
Aunt You waved her hand, but did not speak again.