Volume 1 The Money Bag Case Chapter 33 What is the truth?
The murder is not trivial, since Mrs. Lu committed the murder, it should not be that she did not identify the other party, but that she confirmed the identity of the other party. But the sky is dark and the moon is dark, and it is difficult to distinguish people's faces, how does she determine the identity of the person she wants to kill? It occurred to me that I could not see the face clearly, and I might be able to recognize the body. If the figure of the person that Old Madam Lu wants to kill has obvious characteristics, even if the moonlight is dim, it is enough for her to confirm the identity of the other party, and Lu Suyun's obvious characteristics. is that she is six months pregnant, and her belly is conspicuous. And the person who has the same characteristics as Lu Suyun and is related to the Lu family is Mrs. Lu.
That night, Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu went out to the infirmary, and in the dim moonlight, Mrs. Lu saw Lu Suyun in the courtyard, thinking that Mrs. Lu had come back from the infirmary. Old Madam Lu saw that there was no one before and after, and the opportunity was rare, so she shouldn't have thought too much, why didn't Gongzi Lu and the maid go back to the house with Mrs. Lu? decided to kill someone, but she never expected that the person she killed was not Mrs. Lu, but her own daughter who suddenly returned to her parents' house to surprise her. ”
Mrs. Lu was no longer able to stand firmly, so she sat on the ground, hugged her head and cried. Everyone looked at Mrs. Lu, with mixed feelings in their hearts, not only feeling that Mrs. Lu was hateful, but also feeling that she was pitiful, Lu Shangwen and Mrs. Lu looked at Mrs. Lu and were stunned, their faces were stupid, and they didn't know how to react.
After Mrs. Lu eased up a bit, Qu Zaichen continued: "But why did Mrs. Lu kill her daughter-in-law, even if their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are not in harmony, Mrs. Lu will not kill her grandson, right?" Unless.. Mrs. Lu thinks that the child in Mrs. Lu's womb is not the flesh and blood of the Lu family. And Mrs. Lu is killing people at this moment, which shows that she should have recently started to kill, and it should be some of Mrs. Lu's recent behaviors, which made Mrs. Lu think that she was fornicating with outsiders. I immediately thought that if Mrs. Lu went to Jin Hui's house alone late at night to deliver money, if Mrs. Lu noticed and followed her, Mrs. Lu might mistakenly think that Mrs. Lu was having an affair with Jin Hui, and even suspect that the child was also Jin Hui's. Mrs. Lu was extremely angry and hateful, and she cared about the reputation of the Lu family, so she didn't dare to expose the publicity, so she secretly had murderous intentions against Mrs. Lu and wanted to find an opportunity to kill Mrs. Lu at home. The string of beads during the day was deliberately torn off by Mrs. Lu, just to make Mrs. Lu's death more like an accident. ”
Qu Zaichen paused for a moment and said: "However, all of the above are my inferences, and they are not sure to be facts, and even if they are facts, we have neither evidence that Mrs. Lu has been to Jin Hui's house, nor has there been evidence that Mrs. Lu killed Lu Suyun, so we set up this game today." If Mrs. Lu didn't know that Mrs. Lu was having an affair with someone else, and when she saw the note during the day, even if she guessed that Mrs. Lu had left it, she would only follow Mrs. Lu first to find out the truth of the matter. If, as previously inferred, Mrs. Lu had already decided that Mrs. Lu had fornicated with someone and had murderous intentions, and because of this, she had killed her daughter by mistake, and she would have been furious and painful, if there was a chance, Mrs. Lu would never let Mrs. Lu live again, and she would definitely kill Mrs. Lu again tonight.
Old Madame Lu's actions tonight, and her opening remarks, have proved my inference correct. The truth of this series of murders is that Lu Shangwen killed Yu Zhenzhen, and was seen by Jin Hui by chance, Jin Hui extorted money from Lu Shangwen, and Mrs. Lu helped her husband kill Jin Hui, but Mrs. Lu misunderstood that Mrs. Lu had an affair with Jin Hui, and when she wanted to kill Mrs. Lu, she accidentally killed Lu Suyun. ”
Qu Zaichen glanced at Mrs. Lu, who was glazed-eyed, and paused and said, "Mrs. Lu, I'm a little curious, what did you say to Jin Hui at that time to make Old Madam Lu misunderstand this?" ”
Mrs. Lu's body was stiff and sluggish, and she slowly spoke after half a sound: "Jin Hui asked for a thousand taels of silver, but we don't have so much cash in our room, I only brought two hundred taels, Jin Hui asked me why I only have this bit of silver, I coaxed him and said that we can't make up a thousand taels for a while, I will definitely come to the door again tomorrow and send him the rest of the silver." I told him to put the two hundred taels away first, and when he turned around to store the silver, I secretly spilled arsenic into the teapot. When Jin Hui returned, he wanted to do something to me, and I coaxed him to get out. Say I'm pregnant now. After all, it is inconvenient, and when the child is born, I will often come to his house to look for him. ”
Qu Zaichen sighed unconsciously, so it was, Qu Zaichen paused and looked at Old Madam Lu and said, "Old Madam Lu, you killed Yan Lin because of your guilt for Lu Suyun, in order to compensate Lu Suyun, let Yan Lin accompany her below, right?" ”
Old Madam Lu muttered weakly: "Yes, how did you guess that Yan Lin was killed by me?" ”
Qu Zaichen: "When you killed Yan Lin, although you deliberately made Yan Lin martyrdom and self-judgment, according to our previous contact with Yan Lin and Chen Fei's description of Yan Lin, Yan Lin should not commit suicide at this time. It is very likely that he was murdered, and then the real murderer disguised himself as a strict neighbor. Yan Lin's left hand was covered with blood, but only his thumb was stained with blood on his right hand. At that time, I felt strange that if Yan Lin was suddenly stabbed, he would either cover the wound with his hands and fall down, and his hands would be covered with blood. Or if you fall with your left hand covered by the wound, your left hand will be covered with blood, but your right hand will not be bloody. Or if he covers the wound with his left hand and covers his left hand with his right hand, there will be less blood on his right hand, but there will be blood on the rest of his right hand, not only on the thumb of his right hand. I guessed, or Yan Lin fell to the ground with his left hand covering the wound, the murderer was in front, and he was no longer able to shout, what would he do in the end? If the murderer were standing on his right side, it was not impossible for him to stain his right hand with his own blood before he died, and then touch the real murderer and leave a dying testimony?
There are no traces of a fight in the mourning hall, and we speculate that the murderer of Yan Lin is very likely to be someone who Yan Lin is familiar with, but he never expected to kill him. Chen Fei and the others also counted on Yan Lin to take on the dart bureau, and they walked with Yan Lin all the way, and there was an opportunity to kill Yan Lin, not necessarily in the Lu family, when the government was investigating the case. Therefore, the real culprit who killed Yan Lin should be the Lu family. Although no one in the Lu family has a grudge against Yan Lin, but Old Madam Lu must be extremely guilty of Lu Suyun for killing her daughter, what will Old Madam Lu do to compensate Lu Suyun, that is, give her what she cares about the most, right? Lu Suyun is desperate to marry Yan Lin, how can Mrs. Lu be willing to let her daughter go to Huangquan Road alone? Therefore, Mrs. Lu killed Yan Lin, not because she hated Yan Lin, but because she let Yan Lin go to the underworld to accompany Lu Suyun.
Originally, these were just my speculations, and I couldn't even talk about inference, but when Mrs. Lu fell to the ground just now, I saw blood stains looming in the hem of your skirt, so I was sure that my inference was made, the blood stains on your skirt were dyed and smeared by Yan Lin before he died, right? ”
Old Madam Lu glanced down at the hem of her skirt and said stiffly: "Is my Lu family going to be destroyed?" How much sin did we do in our last life? ”
Qu Zaichen didn't answer, and Old Madam Lu shouldn't expect others to give her an answer.
Congxi couldn't help sighing and said: "Not really, it's not necessarily the fault of the previous life, Old Madam Lu, when you did it to Mrs. Lu, did you ever think that no matter what, the child in her womb was innocent, even if the Lu family couldn't tolerate Mrs. Lu anymore, wouldn't it be good to directly find a reason to divorce her?" Why do you have to kill? ”
Old Madam Lu bowed her head and said nothing.
Congxi looked at Lu Shangwen and said, "Lu Shangwen, why did you kill Yu Zhenzhen, the child in her womb is your flesh and blood?" ”
Lu Shangwen exhaled a long breath, and said with a hint of relief in his misery: "One evening five months ago, I had something to do to go to Qi Ruyuan's house to find Qi Ruyuan, but Qi Ruyuan was not there, only Yu Zhenzhen was carrying a bucket by the well to draw water. Yu Zhenzhen said that her sister-in-law Liu took leave of absence, she was the only one left in the hospital, she had never done housework, she was weak and weak, it was difficult to carry water, and asked me if I could help her fetch a few buckets of water. I agreed, and then she said that she had cooked a meal, and that it was lonely to eat alone, and asked me if I could have a few drinks with her, and I didn't know what to think at the time. Then a few more drinks on.. I didn't leave until the next day, and Yu Zhenzhen was looking forward to Qi Ruyuan marrying her at that time, and she never looked for me again.
Until two months ago, she was kicked out by the Qi family. She came to me and said she was pregnant with my child and asked me to marry her. I shirked and said that the child was not necessarily mine, and my mother would not agree to me marrying her, so she said that when the child was born, I would be allowed to take a blood test with the child, and if I was the biological father of the child, I would marry her as a concubine, and I agreed perfunctorily at that time.
But a few days ago, I passed by Mingxiangzhai and went in to help Youqin choose to buy rouge gouache, and when I came out, I met Yu Zhenzhen in front of the door. When Yu Zhenzhen saw me, she took two steps closer and whispered to let me go to her at night, if I didn't go, she would spread the news about me and her all over Jinzhou. After she finished speaking, she went directly into Mingxiangzhai, I am a person who cares about face, and my mother cares most about the reputation of the Lu family, I am worried that she will really publicize our affairs, so I went for a long time.
When I arrived at Chang's house, I saw a bedroom with lights on, thinking that it should be Yu Zhenzhen's room, so I pushed the door in directly. Yu Zhenzhen sat on the edge of the bed, holding a piece of paper in her hand, saying that she was worried that I would not keep my promise, and asked me to sign a contract, she was relieved, I took it and read it, and she actually wrote that if it is confirmed that I am the biological father of the child in the future, let me divorce Youqin and marry her as a wife, if I break the contract, I must give her half of the family property.
I naturally refused, and my mother categorically would not agree, I wanted to discuss with her, but she suddenly grabbed my hand and said that if I did not sign the contract, she would shout and scream, saying that I had broken down the wall in the middle of the night and insulted her as a pregnant woman. I was very anxious and angry, grabbed a cotton pillow next to the bed and pressed it on her face, pressed her the bed, and waited for me to calm down and found that. She's dead.
I was afraid of being in a hurry, so I grabbed the contract that fell next to the bed to leave, but I accidentally caught a glimpse of a few silk threads in Yu Zhenzhen's broken nails. I turned my head to look at the left shoulder of my robe, which had a scratch on it. I was afraid that the government would find out about me, so I hurriedly pulled out the silk thread from Yu Zhenzhen's nails. When I was extracting the silk thread, I had an idea and felt that I could blame my family in the same way. With the murderer, I don't have to worry about the government finding me. When I entered the courtyard of Chang's house, I saw clothes hanging outside, so I quietly walked to the courtyard, and by the moonlight, I identified a man's robe, took it back to the edge of the bed, pressed Yu Zhenzhen's broken nails on the clothes, and scratched them twice, leaving two threads of the shirt on Yu Zhenzhen's nails. I dried my clothes in the courtyard as they were, and I wanted to leave quickly, but I suddenly thought that if the Chang family killed someone, it seemed unreasonable to put the corpse in such a big and open place, and it was easy to make people suspicious. went back to the house and hung Yu Zhenzhen up, hoping that others would think that the Chang family had killed Yu Zhenzhen, and deliberately disguised himself as Yu Zhenzhen to hang himself as a cover-up.
I thought I was able to get away with murder, and I was still a little happy in my heart. Who knew that as soon as I walked to the entrance of Qingzhu Lane, a young man suddenly appeared next to me, looked at me and smiled and said, "Lu Gongzi, I just saw that you killed someone, I don't want to resist my life, tomorrow I will send a thousand taels of silver to the second house on the left side of Huaimei Lane, if I can't collect the silver, you just wait for the little beauty to die." Then he turned and walked away, and I was so frightened that I had to go home first.
I was at home all night in a state of panic, thinking that a thousand taels of silver might be just the beginning, and that the man might be a bottomless pit. Moreover, as soon as he told the story of the murder, I still had to resist my life, so I decided to kill him. I secretly exchanged flour for arsenic while Feng Ning was not in the room, and when I wanted to go to the man's house at night, I secretly poisoned him. Who knew that when I went out at night, I accidentally tripped over the threshold and sprained my ankle, and my foot couldn't pass through as soon as I touched the ground. Youqin saw that I was burning clothes again, and I was panicking, and I was going out with the silver, and insisted on asking me why, but I couldn't resist her, so I told the truth. Youqin panicked and hesitated, saying that she couldn't let our children have no father, so she went to Jin Hui's house to poison and kill Jin Hui for me. You all know the rest. ”