He Miaoyin's expression shifted for a moment, then she took two steps back and said, "Come in and let's talk!"

Wang Qian and Ren Xiaoqiao entered the room and sat down on the chairs by the bed.

Only Ren Xiaoqiao remained standing, her eyes red and swollen, her lips tightly clenched, her hands gripping the hem of her clothes as if she wouldn't stop until she tore it apart.

He Miaoyin didn't mind. After sitting down on the edge of the bed, she sighed, "Xiaoqiao, you're not young anymore. You should be able to tell that your father has a problem, right?"

Ren Xiaoqiao's body trembled slightly.

After a moment, she nodded, and a deep voice came from her mouth, "Yes, I can see it."

Then she pressed on, "Can you tell me the result?"

He Miaoyin and Wang Qian exchanged a glance before nodding. "Let me put it this way, your father... voluntarily took the poison."

"What?"

Ren Xiaoqiao trembled slightly and violently.

She exchanged a glance with He Miaoyin, then suddenly uttered a low shout, "Impossible!"

“I knew you wouldn’t believe it, but it’s true.”

He Miaoyin sighed, "I know this is a huge blow to you, and you can't accept it or bear it right now, but you should still remember the questions I asked you yesterday, right?"

Ren Xiaoqiao remained silent.

In fact, even if He Miaoyin hadn't asked, she had already made the connection herself.

But that person was her father, her only relative in the world, and she refused to admit that her father had a problem.

But now, her father is dead.

No matter how unwilling she was to accept it, she needed to find out the whole story; she couldn't let her father die without knowing why.

"Then why did my dad take poison?"

She forced back her grief and asked, her voice choked with sobs.

"I need more evidence to determine the specific reasons."

He Miaoyin said, "However, the only thing I can be sure of so far is that your father took the poison voluntarily."

"How did you know?" Ren Xiaoqiao asked.

Although Wang Qian didn't say anything, his face was also full of curiosity.

He didn't know how to investigate the case, but he really wanted to see how He Miaoyin found out this.

"Although I don't want to go into too much detail about these things, since you want to understand, I'll go through it all for you from beginning to end."

He Miaoyin carefully considered her words before speaking eloquently: "First of all, because you were born with leukemia, your family's financial situation has always been very bad, and your father has always been very frugal."

"In this situation, it's impossible for him to spend five yuan to buy a bottle of roasted green pepper sauce."

"What he did was abnormal!"

Hearing this, Ren Xiaoqiao nodded, "I noticed that a long time ago too. I even asked my dad why he bought such expensive luxury goods."

"So what was his answer?" Wang Qian asked.

He said, "I've been frugal all my life, but today I'm going to have a big spending spree."

"And then?" Wang Qian pressed.

"Then, he ate some himself. I wanted to eat some too, but he said I wasn't healthy and couldn't eat that kind of thing, so he hid it. Then he sat next to me and watched me study, talking and crying at the same time."

At this point, Ren Xiaoqiao's tears flowed again. "Back then, I should have realized that something was wrong. Although my dad worked hard, he never complained about being tired, and he would never cry in front of me for no reason."

She wiped away her tears and looked at He Miaoyin again, "But based on just this, how can you be sure that my dad took the poison voluntarily, and that someone harmed him, or that there was something wrong with that bottle of roasted green pepper sauce?"

"Because I went to your house to investigate the scene."

He Miaoyin said, "I got the bottle of roasted green pepper sauce that your dad ate from. After testing, I found that it contained a chemical called fluoroacetamide."

"Fluoroacetamide?" Ren Xiaoqiao was stunned.

"It's a very strong poison, commonly known as rat poison."

"Rat poison?"

Ren Xiaoqiao was still somewhat unwilling to believe it, "Even if there was rat poison in that bottle of roasted green pepper sauce, it doesn't prove it was my dad himself..."

His explanation faded halfway through.

She suddenly realized that her father's purchase of that bottle of roasted green pepper sauce, and the words he spoke to her before his illness, were actually a premonition that something bad was about to happen.

Since it was anticipated, then the fact that her father voluntarily took poison must be true.

but,

Why would her father voluntarily take poison?

This is the truth she most wants to find out right now.

"I remember you said yesterday that your dad said he bought a lottery ticket and if he won, his friend would give you the money, right?" He Miaoyin asked again.

"right!"

Ren Xiaoqiao nodded. "My dad did say that to me."

"That's right!"

He Miaoyin said, "The so-called lottery is probably fake, because there are so many people buying lottery tickets in the world, but very few win. Before the lottery is drawn, it is impossible for him to know that he will win."

There is only one possibility for why he is so certain.

"That means he was bought off for a high price."

“Someone offered him a large sum of money to take that poison and frame Niangui Grilled Green Pepper Sauce Company.”

"And after he dies, someone will give you that money in the same way he won the lottery!"

"This way, you won't arouse the suspicion of the police, and you'll feel even more gratified. It's the best of both worlds."

"Who bribed my dad?" Ren Xiaoqiao asked urgently. "How much money did they pay to make my dad commit suicide by poisoning himself?"

He Miaoyin did not answer, but instead gave Wang Qian a questioning look.

Wang Qian understood immediately and stepped forward, saying, "Although I don't have concrete evidence yet, I can guess who it is."

Who is it?

Ren Xiaoqiao stared intently at Wang Qian, her eyes filled with deep resentment.

However, Wang Qian hesitated to speak.

A child should not be blinded by hatred.

"tell me!"

Ren Xiaoqiao said in a deep voice, "I want to know, who is so capable that they can use money to make my father voluntarily give up his life!"

"I'm sorry, I have no comment!"

The more Ren Xiaoqiao wanted to know the answer, the more unwilling Wang Qian became to tell her. "I can only promise you that once I have the chance, I will make the murderer pay a heavy price, but..."

He then changed the subject, saying, "You shouldn't be troubled by hatred right now; you're about to take the college entrance exam."

"Heh, the college entrance exam?"

Ren Xiaoqiao suddenly laughed, her laughter filled with sarcasm. "I did take the college entrance exam as my biggest goal in life before, but now, it has no meaning for me anymore."

Wang Qian opened his mouth, but didn't know how to comfort Ren Xiaoqiao.

Ren Xiaoqiao continued, "I try my best to get into a good university so that my dad can feel proud and that his efforts have not been in vain and that I have not let him down."

"Now that my father is gone, what's the point of my efforts?"

"Even if I get into a great university, he won't be able to see it."