Chapter 15: Grievances (I)
"Yes...... It's poisoned. Zhang Zhong also tried to feel Mr. Chen's pulse, and Mr. Chen, who was lying on the ground at this time, had naturally lost his life. It was fine just now, how could it be poisoned? β
Zhang Zhong was not here the night before, and he didn't see the strange appearance of the old horse when he died, but today he witnessed the death of a person so directly, I think even if he has a lot of experience, he will inevitably panic.
"That's weird." I'm also confused. "And how the hell was he poisoned?"
"I remember that Mr. Chen didn't touch his chopsticks at all tonight." Yu Ge slowly stood up, and his strength had already fully recovered. "He seems to have only taken a sip of juice tonight."
When Zhang Zhong heard this, he hurriedly ran back to the house to check the bottle of drink, only remembering that he had poured the drink for Mr. Chen just now.
"This shouldn't be, we all drank the drink just now, and if we want to be poisoned, everyone should be poisoned."
Han Ke frowned, she said that she had roughly learned some simple medical knowledge before, and she might be able to spy on one or two of them, she slowly picked up the glass that Mr. Chen had landed on the deck by the pool, and looked at it carefully, her eyes showing a solemnity.
"Potassium cyanide." Han Ke said softly.
"Potassium cyanide?" People with a little common sense of this substance will have heard of it, it is a colorless and odorless poison, generally in the shape of a white ball, similar to the mothballs we usually see, although inconspicuous, the toxicity is surprisingly strong, not to mention inhalation in the body, even a little contamination in the wound is enough to kill.
In addition to this intense toxicity, I am more curious about how this substance could be present in Mr. Chen's body, knowing that this chemical is very difficult to see in daily life.
"Xiao Ke?" Zhang Zhong said hesitantly. "How can we have such a thing in our house?"
"This is not our house, everything in this mountain bottom house is taken care of by me, I can be sure that there is no such poison here, so the possibility of Mr. Chen accidentally inhaling it is zero." Han Ke's face turned pale, and his expression became extremely serious. "You must have brought this thing in from outside, I think someone is really murdering this time."
Yu Ge and I glanced at each other, and then shifted our gaze to Jing Jing.
Jing Jing looked at us with a look of astonishment, which didn't seem to be something that could be disguised. "What do you think I'm doing? I don't know this person well, so I think it's me who can't do it. β
It's really unlikely, Jing Jing has hardly spoken to Mr. Chen all the way, so why should she hurt an almost complete stranger?
At this time, the answer in my mind is only one Mrs. Chen, in fact, the first thing I thought of was Mrs. Chen, because today she just quarreled with Mr. Chen, and was slapped by Mr. Chen, could it be that she killed her husband for this reason, this really sounds more and more absurd the more I think about it, how can two couples who have lived together for more than ten years start to fight for a dispute?
While we were all struggling, we heard a heart-rending cry coming from the railing on the second floor. I looked up and saw a dazzling light in the heights, and a few drops of water fell on my face, while Mrs. Chen on the floor was leaning against the railing and twitching weakly, tears flowing into the air one by one.
"Don't doubt him, he ...... He was killed by me. "This sentence is like a hammer, striking everyone's heart." I planted the poison. β
Mrs. Chen limped down the stairs slowly, and stood next to Mr. Chen's corpse, looking at her husband with an extremely indifferent look, I don't know if I was too sensitive or dazzled, although she was already in tears, but she could not feel any sadness for her husband.
The pain didn't seem to come from the man who had fallen to the ground, and that vision had already penetrated the corpse.
"I just knocked his glass over on purpose, and when I picked it up, I put a potassium cyanide in it. This thing is colorless and odorless, especially when melted in this thick juice, and you can't find any clues. Mrs. Chen wiped her tears and looked extraordinarily calm, no! It shouldn't be called calm, it should be more like a kind of deathly despair. "One bite is enough to kill him."
I recalled this scene, and it was indeed completely in harmony with what she said. Mrs. Chen...... You? β
"Mrs. Chen, your husband was indeed a little reckless just now, but this is far from forcing you to take his life!" Zhang Zhong was puzzled, but also with a kind of accusation.
"You won't understand these things." Mrs. Chen's calmness made people feel a chill in their hearts. "Who knew that Mrs. Chen, who was so warm on the surface, could do something to poison her husband.
Yu Ge looked at Mrs. Chen and thought for a long time, I hadn't seen her look so anxious for a long time. "It's impossible to find this poison at the bottom of the mountain, are you always carrying it with you?"
"I've always had it with me, and I've been preparing this pill for many years."
"Then you had a plan to kill Mr. Chen a long time ago, right?" Yu Ge scolded. "You ruthless woman."
"Hmph." Madame Chen let out an icy sigh, but that sigh seemed to be comparable to the bleak wind of this cold winter. Tickle at every nerve in me.
"It seems that what I guessed is true, you really have inextricable feelings with Boss Ma, you seem innocent on the surface, but I didn't expect you to be a water-based Yanghua person!" The more Yu Ge said, the more angry he became, and the more aggressive his demeanor became.
Mrs. Chen was not afraid of anything at all, but when she heard Yu Ge's few words just now, tears appeared in the corners of her eyes. "My tears are only for him."
"You!"
I hurriedly stopped Yu Ge, it was difficult for her to let Mrs. Chen tell the cause and effect of her continuous questioning, Mrs. Chen was already in a very broken mood now, and the most important thing to do now was to let her ease down and say what she really thought in her heart.
"Mrs. Chen, I don't know much about you, but I know that you must not be an ungrateful and heartless person, and as a woman, she must have experienced something unimaginable to us to get to the point of killing her husband with her own hands." I looked at Mrs. Chen quietly, hoping that what she had just said would move her and resonate.
Mrs. Chen's originally indifferent face suddenly melted, her lips twitched, and then her body collapsed to the ground. "Hmm......"
"Mrs. Chen, we also saw Mr. Chen's appearance just now, is he hurting you all the time, please tell us."
If it was just tears just now, then it can be regarded as a rain of tears at this moment, and the wanton tears poured down, costing her makeup.
"I'm ......" Mrs. Chen lay on the ground, clutching the wooden deck on the shore of the water, leaving scratches one after another, and her fingertips were oozing blood.
"Murder is intolerable, Mrs. Chen, you may not be able to escape the punishment of the law, but maybe saying your heart knot can make you feel better." Seeing that Mrs. Chen's relationship had reached the point of frequent rupture, I said something further to try to influence her.
"Good...... I won't live long anyway, so I'll tell you all this. Mrs. Chen took a deep breath and struggled to control her emotions.
Shaken by the series of things that had just burst in, everyone on the deck was silent at this moment, and a cool breeze blew through it, blowing the black hair on Mrs. Chen's cheeks.
"Ma Yuan and I were classmates in high school, which is something that everyone knows, but no one knows that we actually liked each other at that time." When Mrs. Chen said this, I felt a sense of sudden enlightenment, which really matched Yu Ge's guess.
"Then why do you have Mr. Chen together?"
At that time, my father was a local government official, and his family was relatively better than the average person, and Ma Yuan's parents were ordinary employees of the textile factory at that time, and the level was barely able to pay the tuition and afford to eat."
"So, your parents don't approve of you being with Ma Yuan."
"My father should have been more or less aware of this matter, and also insinuated that I was too naΓ―ve, but the reason why the love between me and Ma Yuan would end at that time was more because of Ma Yuan's own thoughts, he always felt inferior at that time, and knew that my father would definitely not agree to such a marriage, so he gave up." Mrs. Chen's mournful eyes were particularly sad in the moonlight. "But the more important reason is that at that time, Dad and his boss made a matchmaker."
"Is it Mr. Chen who made the engagement to you?"
Mrs. Chen nodded. "At a family dinner, Chen Ming noticed me, I was young at the time, and my family was good, so I dressed differently from ordinary girls, so he mentioned to my father the idea of marrying me, Chen Ming's father happened to be my father's top boss, my father took a fancy to his family background, if I was with Chen Ming, then my father's career would be smooth sailing, in fact, at that time, this kind of thing is normal common sense, On the contrary, the story of Cinderella vs the prince or the poor boy vs the princess is the real fantasy. β
She is indeed right, many times the family background is like your fate, it is not easy to break free, this naked reality I believe everyone must understand.
"There was no relationship between me and Chen Ming at all, there was really no emotion at all, but at that time, no one was willing to listen to my opinion, and my father hurriedly decided on this marriage." Mrs. Chen said. "At that time, I felt that people in this world were too selfish, and in front of my father's future, I was like an ornament, a piece of furniture, and I could send it away if I wanted to."
Everyone didn't speak, there was really nothing to say, in fact, this kind of story should be considered strange, in the early days, many marriages were settled in such a way in the ambiguous way, and what is even more embarrassing is that many people have spent their lives in compromise with a person they don't like.