Chapter 250 The murderer is him
After dawn, the news of the Pei family's extermination spread throughout the village.
Some people who wanted to join in the fun came to take a look before they even had their meal, but no one dared to go in.
Around noon, Xie Xun and Li Yunchao returned, followed by yamen runners.
Gu Jian glanced at the horses they were riding, then just glanced at Xie Xun without saying anything.
Soon the county magistrate arrived. He was supposed to ride in a sedan chair, but when he heard that so many people had died, he was so scared that he came on horseback.
Coroners and bailiffs rushed into the scene to investigate.
County Magistrate Sun Jiusheng also questioned Qin Ling and the Gu family.
He had some impression of the Gu family, and they were pretty good. After talking to Gu Mingyu for a while, he looked at Li Mumu who was dozing off in his arms.
Li Mumu felt from his eyes that he seemed familiar with her.
But the business was important, so Su Jiusheng went to ask Jiang Xinyue again.
Jiang Xinyue was mad at first, but suddenly she seemed to be fine. She pointed at the Gu family angrily and said, "It was them. They must have poisoned me."
"You... stop biting people randomly. Why would the Gu family poison you?" Old Master Qin stood up for the Gu family.
"It's them, sir. Please avenge us."
No matter what others said, she would cling to the Gu family.
"Sir, this little girl in their family knows medicine, so it's normal for her to poison. It must be them. Ever since Gu Lan and Pei Yuanqing divorced, they have been at odds with us. That's right, there is no one else but them."
However, the people have sharp eyes.
Not to mention that they don't think they are members of the Gu family. Even if they really are, they would rather sign a blood oath to plead for the Gu family. There is no other reason. The Gu family is really all good people.
Sun Jiusheng looked at Li Mumu, "Just because she knows medicine, she's the one who poisoned your family? Then why would she save you?"
While asking everyone one by one, he already knew that Jiang Xinyue was poisoned when she came out to ask for help, and she felt better after Li Mumu gave her an antidote.
Now the coroner has examined her and found that the poison in her body has not been completely eliminated.
"This... Sir, our family doesn't associate with anyone except those we have a grudge against. Who else could it be besides their family?"
Jiang Xinyue is not crazy now.
But Sun Jiusheng would not believe everything she said.
"They, they are all accomplices, they all protect the murderer."
When Old Master Qin heard this, he got angry. "We are just telling the truth. You really don't know what's good for you. If it weren't for the Gu family, you would be dead."
"My family is all dead, what's the point of me living?"
She would take a few people down with her even if she had to risk her life.
In fact, she doesn't know who the real murderer is now, she just thinks that the Gu family is most likely to be the murderer.
"grown ups……"
Sun Jiusheng raised his hand and said, "Not yet. You'll know soon."
About half an hour later, a yamen runner came with a middle-aged man.
Everyone in the village knows him. He is the person who dispenses medicine at the Heshan Hall in the town.
"Your Excellency, this is the doctor in charge of dispensing medicine. He said someone bought arsenic from them yesterday morning."
When the man saw the county magistrate, he was so scared that he knelt on the ground.
"Do you still remember what that person looks like?"
"Remember... remember. Because he bought a large quantity, I was originally reluctant to sell it to him and told him to come next time. He said it wasn't easy for him to come here. The elderly man at home had a bedsore and needed to have the dead flesh removed and the new flesh regenerated. Seeing his filial piety, I gave it to him. I also reminded him not to do evil things."
"Sir, I'm just doing business. Although this thing is poisonous, it is very effective in treating some diseases. I'm not harming anyone."
"I didn't say you were harming anyone. If you have the intention to harm someone, anything can hurt them. Selling knives, selling shovels, even stones on the roadside is wrong. This doesn't make sense. Don't panic. Look here. Is that person here?"
The man glanced at the people present and shook his head. "That guy is so tall and looks a bit thin, but he has a noble temperament. He doesn't look like someone who does farm work."
If you don’t do farm work, you can only take care of your family.
But the Gu family members are not thin,
But there is no fixed standard for being fat or thin.
"Have all the men in the village come?" Sun Jiusheng asked.
Qin Ling looked at the people present. Some of them had not yet arrived. "I will go and call for help."
Sun Jiusheng nodded. If the person is not from the village, then they will have to check other villages.
But first we have to start with the men in the village.
Soon, all the men in the village came, including the teenage children.
After looking at it, the people in the pharmacy all shook their heads.
"Impossible, it's the Gu family. How much money did they give you?" Jiang Xinyue roared.
The man was terrified. "Sir, it's true. Human life is at stake. I dare not lie."
"How could there not be any? It's impossible that there aren't any. Your eyesight is not good, you must have seen it wrong, right? Look again, are they them?"
Jiang Xinyue pulled the man over to the Gu family again, "Look, look!"
"No, really not."
Sun Jiusheng took a deep breath and said, "Start investigating the nearby villages."
"Sir, we haven't finished investigating our village yet!" Li Mumu was afraid that they would make a fuss, which was totally unnecessary.
"Aren't they all here?" Sun Jiusheng asked Qin Ling.
"Yeah, they're all here, Twilight. There are some children too, but they're all young. Aren't they supposed to be grown men?"
The man in the drugstore nodded. "It's so tall, it's not a child."
Sun Jiusheng glanced at Li Mumu and did not blame her for being ignorant.
But Li Mumu nodded inside, "Sir, where are they?"
Su Jiusheng took a deep breath and looked at Li Mumu suddenly. Although he felt that it was too rare for an entire family to be destroyed by their own efforts, it was not impossible.
He nodded, "I forgot. Go take him to identify him."
"yes!"
The yamen runners took the man who came to get the medicine to lift the white cloth one by one to look at it, because the faces of the living and the dead are different, and people who are not familiar with them would not be able to tell them apart.
"What nonsense are you talking about? It's clearly your family that destroyed my family..."
"Were we?" Li Mumu asked, "But you said it all last night. Grandpa Qin was there too. You confessed your crime yourself!"
"How could I...how could I harm my own children?"
The next moment, the man exclaimed, "Sir, it's him, it's him, I recognized him, there's no mistake."
Everyone looked over. Pei Yuanqing's face looked rather hideous under the white cloth, and he must have suffered a lot when he died.
"Are you sure it's him?"
The man who dispensed the medicine nodded. "It was him! I swear, if I lie, I'll be struck by lightning! He was injured, and I reminded him if he wanted some wine for injuries, but he said no."
"If you don't believe me, look, there's a wound on his arm, right here."
The coroner lifted Pei Yuanqing's sleeve and found the wound, and the yamen runner was sure that he had not let the man who had dispensed the medicine see it.
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