Chapter 147 Not Wanting to Get My Hands Dirty
"But he is, after all, your father, and a man. With your abilities, you can't kill him."
"You don't want to get your hands dirty either."
"Just when you were tossing and turning, not knowing what to do, Li Guangzhu appeared."
"He hasn't gotten married all these years because the girls with good conditions don't want him, and he doesn't want the girls with poor conditions. Moreover, three years have passed, and his life has gotten worse and worse. Not only does he have little money, but he has also become more and more slovenly. You are even a little glad that your father broke up the couple back then, otherwise you don't know how much suffering you would be in now."
“Unlike him, three years have passed and you have become more and more beautiful. After Li Guangzhu met you again by chance, he had a thought and wanted you to abandon your family and be with him.”
"You despise his wild ideas in your heart, and think he doesn't deserve to be called a husband? But on the surface, you flatter him, saying that you are indeed not doing well now, and that you are very tired of your husband, and that you want to leave him. But you don't dare, because you are afraid of your father."
Li Guangzhu was furious upon hearing this: "So, you're all smiles on the surface, but you're actually cursing me in your heart?"
Wang Chunjuan hid behind the constables, feeling somewhat guilty: "I...I didn't."
Regardless of whether she admitted it or not, Yu Zhiyi continued, "After your father forced you and your lover apart back then, Li Guangzhu hated your father to the core. Now, hearing you talk about what happened back then, and hearing that your father was the only obstacle between you, he immediately felt murderous intent."
"So he did it."
Li Guangzhu immediately denied it: "Don't talk nonsense! I didn't!"
Yu Zhiyi acted as if she couldn't hear his denial and said indifferently, "You first asked Wang Chunjuan for fifty copper coins to buy sleeping pills and wine, then jumped over the wall into the Wang family's courtyard and put the wine bottle on Old Man Wang's table."
"Old Wang was a heavy drinker. When he saw the wine on the table, he found it strange but didn't think much of it. He assumed that one of his two daughters had brought it to him, and he ate dinner with the wine that night."
"Not long after, the drug took effect, and he passed out."
“You’ve been lying in wait all along. When you saw Old Man Wang fall to the ground, you cleared away all the food on the table, carried him into the bedroom, and laid him on the cold floor. You then stabbed him eighteen times.”
Lord Sun frowned: "Why did he go to all that trouble? Faced with an unconscious person, wouldn't it have been enough to just slash him once or twice? Besides, wouldn't it have been much more time-saving and labor-saving to kill him right there at the dinner table?"
Lord Peng agreed with Lord Sun's question: "Yes, the more he does, the more likely he is to be exposed."
Yu Zhiyi said, "Because he knows that no one will visit Old Man Wang. Ever since Old Man Wang's two daughters got married, he has become increasingly fond of drinking, and he no longer tries to hide it. Outsiders just think that it's because his wife died and now he's all alone, so he's irritable and that's why he drinks. When he drinks too much, he's prone to arguing with people."
“At first, people would come over to visit, but after he got drunk, he started arguing with people more and more often, and gradually, no one came to his house at night anymore.”
Yu Zhiyi continued, "That's only one reason. The second reason is that he often went outside the teahouse to listen to storytellers. Sometimes the storytellers would tell suspenseful stories, such as stories about solving cases or ghosts. Li Guangzhu listened to them a lot and wrote them down."
“He was planning this long before the murder. He knew that if he simply killed Old Man Wang, the authorities would likely investigate and find him. The best way was to create a crime scene. For example… a locked room.”
"Yes," said Lord Peng, "wasn't the room where Old Man Wang was killed a secret room?"
Lord Sun also said, "We have already investigated; the doors and windows of the room are all locked. If he really did kill someone, how did he get out?"
Li Guangzhu nodded frantically: "That's right, that's right. I don't have invisibility magic, and I can't fly. If I really kill someone, I won't be able to get out at all."
Yu Zhiyi shook her head: "You do not have invisibility or can fly, but... who said that room was really a secret room?"
Everyone: "What do you mean?"
Li Guangzhu's expression changed: "The government has already investigated, don't talk nonsense!"
Yu Zhiyi gave him a cool look: "You were the one who was responsible for breaking down the door. You pretended to be struggling, but you had actually practiced this move many times. Besides, there were too many people around, so no one paid attention to your movements."
She looked at Lord Peng and said, “This is how Li Guangzhu committed the crime. He first bought sleeping pills and wine and put them in Old Man Wang’s room. Then he went home, partly to wait for the poison to take effect, and partly to break the bolt on the door.”
"After Old Man Wang was drugged, he first took all the clothes from Old Man Wang's closet to the yard to make it look like someone had broken into the house and robbed him, and then went into the house and killed Old Man Wang."
"Then, you removed the bolt from Old Man Wang's courtyard gate and used it to block the door, keeping it appearing closed to deceive the neighbors and make everyone think that Old Man Wang had locked the door and was resting."
"Then, get up early the next day and push open the courtyard gate. Hide in the nearby alley and wait for someone to notice something is wrong in the courtyard. Then, rush out and get to the door before everyone else. Pretend you can't open the door, making everyone think it's locked from the inside, and then break it open."
"Everyone knows you do physical labor and are very strong, so no one thought it was strange that you could break down the door so easily."
Li Guangzhu's face turned pale instantly.
He couldn't understand why this woman spoke as if she had witnessed his crime, describing it with perfect accuracy.
She could even guess his thoughts perfectly!
However, he will not admit it.
"You're lying! I didn't do any of that. You've made it all up!"
Yu Zhiyi sneered: "Without evidence, how could I possibly accuse you?"
She could feel the stench emanating from the soul of such a cold-hearted person who treated human life as worthless.
“I told you, you bought wine and sleeping pills, and you buried the wine jug under the old locust tree in your yard. Although it’s covered with soil, the sleeping pills on it won’t disappear. Just pour some water on it and have an experienced coroner examine it, and they’ll be able to detect it.”
"Most importantly, the knife you used to kill Old Man Wang was the same knife you had in your bag."
"As long as the shape of the knife and the blade is verified, we can obtain irrefutable evidence."
Lord Peng commanded in a deep voice: "Men, seize this suspect!"
Li Guangzhu turned and ran.
Unfortunately, the constables in the arena were all seasoned veterans. Although their martial arts skills might not be exceptional, they were still quick to react when faced with a murderer.
Li Guangzhu was quickly pinned to the ground.
The subsequent search for evidence and verification had nothing to do with Yu Zhiyi.
She returned to her residence.
Meanwhile, inside the Prime Minister's residence.
A furtive figure sneaked into Du Ziheng's Mingxi Garden.
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