Chapter 75: Poisoning at a party in the same year (Part 2)
Everyone looked in the direction the servant had pointed out, and saw a skinny, hunched-backed man sitting at the last seat in the southwest, trying his best to hide in the shadow of someone else.
"Jiang Yunhe? How could it be you?!"
Seeing the man's appearance clearly, Zhu Hu couldn't help but ask, "My third brother is working hard for your reinstatement, why did you poison him?!"
“Ha…hahaha…hahahaha…”
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Yunhe laughed wildly and sadly: "Reinstatement? Running around? Hahaha... Bah! I was blind to believe the lies of this bastard, and ended up being cheated out of my entire fortune by him, and even ended up with a bunch of bad debts for no apparent reason!"
"I went to him a few days ago to ask for an explanation, but he refused to even show his face. He just had his servants give me a bunch of copper coins, saying it was 'a reward for me playing the clown to amuse him these days'!"
"That's not all. He even has his eyes on my two children and wants to take them into his room as playthings!"
"Ha...haha...that's right, I poisoned his wine bowl, but he asked for it! He deserves to die, he should have died long ago!"
He roared and screamed, and his hunched body gradually straightened up. It was only then that everyone realized that the man who was so gloomy a moment ago was actually a tall and strong man with broad shoulders, thin waist and eight feet tall!
Think about it, Jiang Yunhe is really unlucky. He practiced martial arts for many years and finally got a position as an official. However, first his subordinates framed him and put him in jail. Then his savings were swindled away by his classmate. Finally, he was inexplicably burdened with a bunch of bad debts - if this happened to anyone, they would probably want to take revenge, right?
Therefore, everyone remained silent, even Zhu Hu, who didn't know whether he should step forward to seek "justice" for Zhu Peng.
"So it was you who poisoned me!"
At this time, someone stepped forward, pointed at Jiang Yunpeng's nose, and shouted angrily: "If you want to kill Zhu Peng, just do it. Why do you have to involve me?!"
This person was none other than Wang Bingxian.
When everyone heard this, they remembered the incident of the "anonymous letter". It seemed that Wang Bingxian was indeed being used by someone.
"ha……"
Jiang Yunhe laughed strangely, looked at Wang Bingxian with contempt, and said with disdain: "Wang Bingxian, you are really good at making a complaint first! Look at this, what is this?!"
As he said this, he took out a handkerchief covered with words from his arms and threw it at Wang Bingxian.
Wang Bingxian was about to take it in his hand, but Zhu Hu grabbed the handkerchief first and read it from beginning to end.
It turned out to be an anonymous letter, full of angry words. It first scolded Zhu Peng, and then revealed that Zhu Peng was coveting Jiang Yunhe's twin children, and planned to use the debt collector to take the seven-year-old brother and sister into his room as playthings!
Then the anonymous person changed the subject and expressed his hope to work together with Jiang Yunhe to get rid of Zhu Peng, who was worse than a beast. He also attached a bottle of poison and an action plan to the letter.
Although it is called an action plan, the content is actually quite simple.
It just meant that he had a way to lure away the people in the kitchen before the reunion of the same year began, and Jiang Yunhe only needed to sneak in and smear the poison on the wine bowl next to the jar of Thirty Years No. 1 Red Wine, and then someone would naturally bring the poisoned bowl to Zhu Peng.
After Zhu Hu finished reading the "anonymous letter", Jiang Yunhe sneered again: "I was only half-believing and half-doubting at first, but the next day someone really came to my house and forced me to sell my children to pay off the debt! It was because Zhu Peng was really too bullying that I risked my life and planned to act according to Wang Bingxian's plan..."
Wang Bingxian hurriedly explained: "What do you mean by my plan? Don't spit blood on me!"
Jiang Yunhe ignored him and continued, "In the evening, I was waiting near the kitchen early. As expected, I found that everyone in the kitchen was called out by Wang Bingxian for a lecture. So I sneaked into the kitchen and found that there was a jar of Zhuangyuanhong in the most conspicuous position, and the other jars were all ten-year-old daughter's red!"
After saying these two "ifs" in a row, Jiang Yunhe's eyes became fierce, and he shouted aggressively: "Wang Bingxian, apart from you, the young master of the restaurant, who else can arrange these two things so perfectly?!"
"I...I I I...I didn't! I really didn't!"
Wang Bingxian panicked again, shouting in a panic, and tried to go forward and struggle with Jiang Yunhe. However, before he could succeed, Zhu Hu grabbed his wrist.
"My dear brothers!"
Zhu Hu said in a deep voice: "No matter who is the leader and who is the follower, the fact that they conspired to poison my brother to death is now irrefutable - I ask all the brothers to be my witnesses and send these two to the Ministry of Justice for trial!"
Although Zhu Peng is unpopular, he has to serve as a witness for the sake of his step-father.
Therefore, everyone agreed and waited to arrest Jiang Yunhe and Wang Bingxian and send them to the Ministry of Justice to face justice.
Who would have thought that at this moment, someone suddenly said in a loud voice from behind: "Brothers, please stay!"
Everyone looked back in confusion, only to see that Sun Shaozong had sat in Zhu Peng's original seat at some point, with a sixth-rank captain named Xu Shouye standing next to him.
"ah!"
Everyone was wondering what Sun Shaozong was up to, so Zhu Hu slapped his forehead and bowed apologetically, saying, "Brother Sun, please don't blame me. I was in a hurry just now and acted beyond my authority. These two prisoners should have been sent to the Ministry of Justice by Brother Sun, so that it would be justified."
After hearing this, everyone suddenly realized what was going on, and then they all felt a little disdainful.
Sun Shaozong was just like a transparent man. Apart from proving that the poison was put in the bowl, he didn't say anything useful. How dare he still have the nerve to take credit for it!
Could it be that in previous cases, the same thing happened where someone else took advantage of the situation?
Facing the contemptuous gazes of the crowd, Sun Shaozong smiled and spread his hands, saying, "There is no need to rush to send the criminal to the Ministry of Justice. Why don't you ask Brother Zhu to help me solve some of the questions in my heart first?"
Zhu Hu hesitated and asked, "But I don't know what the question is?"
“That’s easy!”
Sun Shaozong reached out and fiddled with the wine bowl on the table, and asked with a smile: "The first thing I want to know is how Zhu Peng chose this wine bowl coated with poison? You know, he divided this bowl himself, and the one he gave himself was the second bowl!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then they couldn't help but feel confused - Zhu Peng's initiative to share the bowl was obviously a sudden impulse, could it be that Wang Bingxian and Jiang Yunhe could have anticipated such a thing in advance? !
Zhu Hu also frowned and asked tentatively: "In your opinion, Brother Sun, what is the mechanism behind this?"
Seeing that he did not interrogate Wang Bingxian and Jiang Yunhe, but asked him directly, Sun Shaozong's smile deepened, and then he said calmly: "According to my guess, the mastermind behind this poisoning plan is probably not a sophisticated person!"
"He naturally thought that Brother Jiang would put poison in the first wine bowl. In this way, the poisoned wine bowl would naturally be sent to the person in the most respected position!"
"Unfortunately, his plan had some unexpected errors - Brother Jiang did not put the poison in the first bowl, but in the second bowl!"
"As for the reason for choosing the second bowl..."
Sun Shaozong turned his gaze to Jiang Yunhe and asked with a smile, "It's probably because the poison is a bit conspicuous under the light, and Brother Jiang is afraid of being discovered in advance, so he had to do it - Brother Jiang, am I right?"
Jiang Yunhe nodded and said, "That's true! It's not noticeable outside, but when it's reflected by the stove next to it, the poison is very conspicuous, so I had to swap the poisoned wine bowl with the one below."
After a pause, he added, "Because the letter said that someone would bring the poisoned wine to Zhu Peng, I thought there was an insider at the table - but in the end, it was Zhu Peng who took the initiative to share the bowl. At that time, I thought he was definitely going to harm others!"
"Haha, that's why I said that the person behind the scenes was not careful!" Sun Shaozong laughed and said, "Because of this unexpected situation, the person behind the scenes had no choice but to temporarily change the plan and took the initiative to stand up and put the poison bowl in front of Zhu Peng."
"etc!"
Zhu Hu shouted in astonishment: "Wasn't it my third brother who took the initiative to stand up and share the bowl?! You...you mean to say..."
Sun Shaozong said confidently: "That's right! The person who planned all this behind the scenes was Zhu Peng himself! Because at that time, apart from him, no one could accurately choose the wine bowl coated with poison! And only he could guide Wang Bingxian and Jiang Yunhe so accurately and force them to poison together!"
"What?!"
"How can this be?!"
"Zhu Peng actually committed suicide?!"
"Did he go through so much trouble just to die at the hands of Wang Bingxian and Jiang Yunhe?!"
There was an uproar in the hall, and everyone found it unbelievable. However, apart from this speculation, there was no other explanation for what had just happened!
Wang Bingxian and Jiang Yunhe were also confused for a moment.
The two couldn't help but ask in unison: "Why did he...why did he do this?!"
“Ah~!”
This time, the one who responded was not Sun Shaozong, but Zhu Hu who was beside them.
Zhu Hu sighed and said leisurely, "You all know what my brother has been through in recent years. On the one hand, he has become erratic and domineering , venting all his dissatisfaction on others; on the other hand, he feels guilty about it, and occasionally mentions it to me, saying that he is possessed by a demon and can't control himself from committing evil."
"At that time, I already felt that he was living a very miserable life, but I didn't expect that he would end up... would end up..."
This time he only spoke half of the sentence, but everyone present had already guessed what he hadn't said.
It was simply that Zhu Peng could not stand the condemnation of his conscience, and finally came up with this crazy plan, so that he could die at the hands of the two people he felt most sorry for in his life.
I have to say, this is really an absurd farce!
"Since Brother Zhu believes that your brother committed suicide."
However, just when everyone thought the truth had been revealed, Sun Shaozong smiled and said, "I still have a few doubts, so I would like to ask Brother Zhu for advice!"
