It's ironic that the Gao couple's fate had brought them to this point, and they just happened to cook a pot of bitter ginseng and pork rib soup.
The aroma of the bone broth was identical to that of the rat poison, and when mixed together, they were impossible to distinguish.
Sophora flavescens has a bitter taste, and even if it is mixed with a similarly bitter substance called rat poison, it is still difficult to distinguish the taste if you drink it quickly. By the time you discover the problem, it is too late.
Besides, Li Xiulan is used to being frugal. Today, she finally gets to drink a sip of her favorite meat soup. Even if she finds something wrong, she would never be willing to spit it out.
Unfortunately, life is unpredictable, and everything happened so coincidentally, as if it were all preordained.
Gao Siming and her siblings were both unfortunate and fortunate.
That day, if they hadn't gone out to buy gifts for their parents, and if their parents hadn't been tempted to try the food first, the whole family would have gone together.
If they hadn't gone out and had stayed by the stove, would the tragedy have been avoided?
There aren't that many "what ifs" in the world!
Although it was a death case, the location was in a rural area with insufficient surveillance coverage and limited patrol capabilities.
Even though the patrol guards had done their best and worked for two months, they still couldn't find out the truth.
Whether the Gao couple accidentally ingested rat poison or were deliberately poisoned remains inconclusive.
Everyone knows the truth of the matter, but the patrol officers have to follow the law. Without solid evidence, they cannot conclude that it was a homicide or murder.
In a place without surveillance, in a bustling village, in front of a window that is almost open to everyone, in a place where every household has three or five packets of rat poison.
Finding out the truth is extremely difficult!
Everyone is innocent; everyone has the opportunity to poison someone and could be the murderer!
However, no one has any evidence!
Upon hearing the news, the manufacturer of the rat poison rushed from Tanhua City to handle the funeral arrangements for Gao Siming's parents in a grand manner. At the request of the market supervision and agricultural departments, they adjusted the formula and dosage of the rat poison to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
The manufacturer of the rat poison originally planned to give Gao Siming and his sister 100,000 yuan in compensation, which was a huge sum of money in 2003.
Unfortunately, because the patrol officer was unable to provide a satisfactory conclusion for the siblings, the two siblings became angry and resentful, and refused the manufacturer's compensation offer.
Their reply was: "Thank you for your generosity. This is not your fault. You have already taken care of our parents' funeral arrangements, so you don't owe us anything."
After everything was over, in the empty house, Gao Zimin said to her younger brother, "Brother, now it's just the two of us left in the family. We must live well! You must study hard!"
That night, Gao Zimin carefully put away her admission notice and made a firm decision—a crucial decision that changed both herself and Gao Siming!
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