Chapter 74: Poisoning at a party in the same year (Part 1)
"Everyone, don't panic. Try to stay where you are and don't move around, so as not to destroy the evidence at the scene! Brothers sitting at the door, please call the servants outside in and have them watch over everyone in this restaurant, so that the murderer won't escape!"
Although this was the first time in two lifetimes that Sun Shaozong encountered a situation where someone died of poisoning in front of him, his strong professional qualities allowed him to step forward in the first moment and control the scene.
When faced with such an emergency, people tend to blindly follow others. Moreover, with Zhu Peng's death, Sun Shaozong should have been respected at the scene, so most people acted as they were told.
However, a few people at Zhu Peng's table found it difficult to calm down. Some of them picked their throats and retched, trying to spit out the wine they had drunk; some excitedly grabbed Wang Bingxian and forced him to ask why he had used poisoned wine to entertain the guests!
"Don't worry, there shouldn't be any poison in the wine."
Sun Shaozong walked towards the corpse and said comfortingly, "If the wine was poisoned, at least half of the people at your table should be dead by now."
Having said that, without caring about those people's reactions, he squatted beside Zhu Peng's body and began to examine it carefully.
Zhu Peng's pupils were constricted, his muscles were tense, his limbs were twisted and twitched violently, and there was a small amount of milky white foamy vomit at the corners of his mouth...
Judging from all these signs, he did die from a deadly poison. As for what kind of poison it was, it was impossible to tell with the naked eye.
In addition, Zhu Peng's facial expression was extremely distorted, probably due to acute suffocation after poisoning - this also made his expression before death unrecognizable.
In addition, a lot of wine was spilled on Zhu Peng's chest and left sleeve. It seemed that he had a poisoning reaction when he was halfway through drinking, so he accidentally spilled the remaining poisonous wine on his body.
After a preliminary inspection of the body, Sun Shaozong tore off a strip of the table skirt [a silk decoration that covers the edge of the dining table], carefully picked up two pieces of the wine bowl fragments, placed them next to the candlestick and examined them carefully, and found that there was some milky white gelatinous residue faintly sticking to the bottom of the bowl.
He asked Zhu Hu to hold the wine jar, poured some rice wine on the fragments, and shook it slightly. He saw that the milky white residue had dissolved for the most part.
Seeing this scene, Sun Shaozong frowned even more.
"Brother Sun."
Zhu Hu asked with concern: "Have you figured out anything? Who murdered my brother?!"
Everyone stretched their necks and pricked up their ears, waiting to hear how Sun Shaozong would answer.
Sun Shaozong frowned and shook his head slightly, saying, "It's hard for me to tell who the murderer is right now - but the poison should have been put in the wine bowl, because this kind of poison can be quickly dissolved in wine. If it was put somewhere else, there would be no poison residue at the bottom of the bowl."
"In the wine bowl..."
Zhu Hu repeated what he said, and suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Wang Bingxian's collar, gritting his teeth and asking, "Wang Bingxian, did you do this? You have long been resentful of my third brother. Besides, this restaurant is owned by your family. Who else could have poisoned him without anyone noticing except you?!"
"Brother Zhu...Brother Zhu Zhu Zhu, please stop slandering me!"
Wang Bingxian was so panicked that his hands and feet were shaking. His eyes kept wandering and he was hesitant in his words: "I... I have never... I have ever hated Zhu Peng?"
Just by looking so flustered, more than half of the people present began to doubt him.
"Have you ever harbored any resentment?"
Seeing this, Zhu Hu naturally became more and more angry. He no longer cared to hide anything and said angrily: "He got drunk and pretended to be crazy at your house that day, and forcibly insulted your first wife. Do you dare to say that you don't hate him in your heart?!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone on the field was shocked and at the same time seemed to realize something - with such an irreconcilable hatred, it was no wonder that Wang Bingxian would poison Zhu Peng to death!
"I...it's true that I hate him, but I really didn't poison him!"
Wang Bingxian shouted in panic, but no one was willing to listen to his explanation.
Zhu Hu sneered and said, "Did you poison my brother? Just call the kitchen staff and ask them and we'll know!"
As he said this, he winked at the servants of the Zhu family, and they immediately went to the back kitchen and brought the chefs, handymen, and wine waiters who had been under surveillance for a long time to the hall.
Zhu Hu looked at everyone coldly, and everyone was silent. Then he suddenly asked, "Who brought the wine bowl to the chairman?"
Plop~
A shop assistant immediately fell to his knees and shouted in panic, "I am innocent! I went to the kitchen with others to fetch the wine jars and bowls. How could I have the chance to poison the bowls in front of everyone?!"
The shop assistant's explanation was much clearer and more organized than Wang Bingxian's.
However, someone in the crowd immediately refuted: "You may have poisoned others halfway through the journey when they were not prepared! It was a mess at the time, who would have noticed what you did on the way?!"
When everyone heard this, they all agreed with it.
Zhu Hu's face became even gloomier, and he was about to ask him if he was instructed by Wang Bingxian.
The waiter hurriedly said, "You are wronged, sir! That wine jar weighs at least 10 pounds, plus there are 15 wine bowls on each table. It is very difficult for me to hold the wooden tray with both hands. How can I free my hands to poison it?!"
Because it was a gathering of warriors, they didn't prepare any wine jugs or anything like that. They just used ten-jin wine jars. Adding the weight of the wooden tray and the wine bowl, I'm afraid the total weight was more than twenty jin.
In particular, it is difficult to keep the balance between the wine jar and the wine bowl, so it is indeed unlikely that he would be able to free up his hands and feet halfway and secretly poison Zhu Peng's bowl.
While everyone was thinking silently, the clever fellow seemed to remember something and said hurriedly: "My Lords, I know who poisoned you!"
As he said that, he stood up and pointed at Wang Bingxian's personal servant : "It's him, it must be him! When the young master called everyone in the kitchen out to give them a lecture, I saw him sneaking into the kitchen with my own eyes!"
The servant's face immediately changed, and he also cried out in injustice: "Don't slander me, it was the master who asked me to guard the kitchen door to see if anyone would sneak in! I didn't even go in at that time, how could I have poisoned the bowl?!"
This case is really full of twists and turns!
Everyone focused their attention on Wang Bingxian again, but after seeing his expression change several times, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, it was indeed me who asked him to guard the door! Because a few days ago, I suddenly received an anonymous letter saying that if I was willing to call everyone in the kitchen out that day, someone would take the opportunity to teach Zhu Peng a lesson!"
At this point, he quickly defended himself, "I didn't know that man would poison him. I thought he just wanted to punish Zhu Peng!"
Zhu Hu ignored his explanation, but just frowned and waited for the servant, asking: "You said you were guarding the door at that time, then did you see anyone sneaking in?"
"Yes, yes! I did see someone sneaking into the kitchen!"
As the waiter spoke, he tiptoed through the crowd and suddenly pointed at someone in the corner and shouted in surprise, "It's him! It's him! I saw him sneak into the kitchen with my own eyes. He must have poisoned me!"
