In the shop on the first floor of Xia Ji Tea House, Xia Zilin, Lu and Cheng Tianyu stood in a row in front of Nie Xiaohu, Xia Zilin and Lu were all wearing filial piety clothes, their eyes were slightly red and swollen, and the other people gathered in a corner of the room.

"I'm really embarrassed to disturb you so late," Nie Xiaohu said with a slight apology.

"It's okay! Don't worry! Xia Zilin waved his hand again and again, his head shaking like a rattle.

Nie Xiaohu nodded slightly and said, "Then I'll give you an analysis of who is the murderer who poisoned Old Man Xia!" ”

As soon as they heard this, Xia Zilin, Lu Shi and Cheng Tianyu all became nervous, and the three of them glanced at each other and lowered their heads.

"First of all, Xia Zilin, let me talk about you first!"

"Me?" , Xia Zilin raised his head and looked at Nie Xiaohu with puzzled eyes.

"You are the second young master of the Xia family, if the old man Xia dies, then most of the family property will be inherited by you, and you are addicted to casinos and owe a lot of gambling debts, so you have a good reason to kill the old man Xia."

"This?" , Xia Zilin's expression became frightened, and he opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak.

"And you often complain in the casino that your father gave him less money, wishing he would die sooner."

When Xia Zilin heard this, his head lowered again.

"The most important thing is that arsenic was found in your room, and arsenic was also found in the medicine boiled for Master Xia!"

"Nope! That's...", Xia Zilin hurriedly raised his head with an aggrieved expression.

Nie Xiaohu interrupted his words with a wave of his hand, and at the same time observed Lu Shi and Cheng Tianyu from the corner of his eye, and the two of them were still standing there with their heads down, silent.

"I didn't say you were the murderer", Nie Xiaohu smiled slightly.

"Oh", Xia Zilin replied in a low voice, no longer speaking.

"I'll talk about the Lu family again", Nie Xiaohu looked at the Lu family and said, "Although you married into the Xia family, you are still secretly in contact with your childhood sweetheart Tian Xiaotang, and was later discovered by Master Xia, so you begged bitterly, and also wrote an oath, vowing to sever contact with Tian Xiaotang before your father-in-law died, otherwise you will automatically leave the house, can there be such a thing?" ”

Lu nodded and did not speak.

"I think your move is nothing more than wanting to stay in the Xia family, and after Master Xia passes away, you, as the eldest daughter-in-law, can more or less share some family property, so that you will not have a poor life when you are with Tian Xiaotang in the future, and it is impossible for you to cut off contact with Tian Xiaotang, so you came up with a way to hide people's eyes, that is, you took advantage of the good impression of Zhuo Ruhai, the owner of the jewelry store, to pretend to be good with him, and met with him in the tavern every two days.

The reason why you chose to meet him in the tavern is nothing more than to let people know that your good friend is Zhuo Ruhai, especially the Xia family, so that you have not broken your oath and you can have an excuse to go out. Every time you go out, it's at noon, and you meet Zhuo Ruhai in the evening, so where are you from noon to evening? The answer is obvious, with Tian Xiaotang.

Although Master Xia is not in good health, he will not die soon, and it should not be a problem to live for another three or five years, but you can't wait that long, because this kind of sneaky hook is worried that sooner or later there will be a leak, therefore, you also have a good reason to kill Old Man Xia, and the medicine is also made by you, isn't it? ”

"You're right, but I really didn't poison it, it's not me!" , Lu Shi said with a panicked face.

Nie Xiaohu smiled slightly, "I didn't say that you were the murderer, I just talked about the matter." ”

"So, I'll talk about who the murderer is!"

As soon as these words came out, all the people of the Xia family in the room became nervous, while Shi Yuning and the others had excited expressions on their faces.

"Tang Yibin!"

After the Pose was set, Nie Xiaohu began his opening remarks.

"As long as it's a crime, there will be loopholes, and all I do is find out the loopholes," Nie Xiaohu said with a smile as he tapped his fingers on his thighs.

Shi Yuning and the others looked embarrassed, not knowing who the murderer was, the three of them glanced at each other, and simply stood behind Xia Zilin and the Lu family

"Cheng Tianyu, now I'll tell you where your loopholes are", Xiaohu looked at Cheng Tianyu mockingly.

Shi Yuning and the three of them were stunned, pursed their lips, and moved behind Cheng Tianyu, while Xia Zilin and Lu looked at Cheng Tianyu in surprise, while Cheng Tianyu stood quietly in place, his face unwavering.

"Master Xia was poisoned, and the arsenic was Xia Zilin's, if Xia Zilin was convicted of the murderer, and the Lu family had a private meeting with Tian Xiaotang, and you had an oath written by her in your hand, you could naturally kick him out of the Xia family, so that the Xia family's property would fall into your hands, what a good plan!" , Nie Xiaohu looked at Cheng Tianyu with a smile.

"Nie Zhutou, do you really guess, can I be convicted of a murderer just by your baseless imagination?" , Cheng Tianyu snorted coldly.

"Let me tell you a story!"

Nie Xiaohu's index finger and middle finger of his right hand quickly clicked on his thigh a few times, and continued: "There used to be a snake catcher in Huaxi Village in Song County, his wife died of hemorrhage after giving birth, leaving a daughter, just more than 20 years ago, for some reason, his daughter suddenly committed suicide by hanging a beam one night, and after that, the snake catcher left Huaxi Village and disappeared.

But just a month ago, the snake catcher returned to Huaxi Village, and went to the mountains to catch a five-step snake, and then lost his trace, but his whereabouts were seen by several old people in the village, because the five-step snake he caught was very peculiar, the general five-step snake is brown, and the one he caught is out of the brown, there is a red line on the back, so the impression of the old man is very deep.

Xia Zilin said that because of the rats at home, he bought arsenic to prepare the medicine rats, and then somehow, the rats at home were reduced, so they were not used, at first I also thought that the reason here was really far-fetched, difficult to believe, but then I found out that what Xia Zilin said was the truth, and it turned out that the rats were eaten by it! ”

As soon as Nie Xiaohu shook his head, Liu Zhenxiao understood, walked quickly to the door, took a bamboo basket placed at the door, and fell down in front of everyone.

With a "snap", a dead snake more than a meter long fell on the floor, the snake was brown and had a red line on its back.

"This five-step snake was caught from Master Xia's room, at first you thought about putting the snake into Master Xia's room and using this highly poisonous five-step snake to kill Master Xia, so that Master Xia died of a poisonous snake, it was just an accident, no one would suspect your head, you just need to kick the Lu family out of the Xia family, and Xia Zilin is addicted to the casino, and the property of the Xia family will still fall into your hands sooner or later.

But people are not as good as heaven, you can't imagine that the rat of the Xia family saved the life of Master Xia, this poisonous snake has a mouse to eat, so naturally it will not attack Master Xia, which is why the rat suddenly decreased.

After waiting for nearly a month, you really couldn't sit still, so you took advantage of Lu's outing, stole a little arsenic from Xia Zilin's room, sprinkled it into Lu's boiled medicine jar, and prepared to feed it to Master Xia, but at this time, you found that Master Xia was bitten to death by a poisonous snake......"

"Enough! Say no more! ”

Cheng Tianyu suddenly shouted angrily, the muscles on his face became distorted, his hands were clenched into fists tightly, and his eyes were red.

"Just twenty-three years ago, while catching snakes in the mountains, I rescued a man who had been bitten by a poisonous snake and brought him home to recuperate, but this man was not as good as a beast, and when I returned home three days later from a snake hunt, I found that he had fled and gave my fifteen-year-old daughter to ......."

Cheng Tianyu closed his eyes in pain, and two lines of tears slipped down the corners of his eyes, as if he was caught in a memory.

After a while, Cheng Tianyu suddenly opened his eyes, and said with tears in his eyes: "At that time, the man was in a coma, and did not see my face, after my daughter committed suicide in anger, I left the house, looking for this person everywhere, the sky has eyes, twenty years ago, I finally let me find him, he owes me, I want him to repay me tenfold!" ……”