Chapter 018 Who is it?

"Poisoned?" Upon hearing this answer, He Jing clenched his teeth. He stood up angrily and asked with clenched fists, "Who did it? I'm going to kill him!"

The crowd panicked and everyone started whispering.

"Who is so wicked to poison a child like this?"

"I guessed it a long time ago. This family is so unlucky. The younger daughter died young, and the older daughter... There are no such coincidences in the world. It must be man-made!"

"Did the child's parents offend someone outside and that person took revenge on the child?"

"But the water heater is installed at home, how can an outsider tamper with it?"

"I know, it must be a curse! Just like the girl just now, someone put a curse on their family, causing their whole family to have bad luck!"

Everyone's guesses were all over the place, and He Jing had a headache listening to them. He shouted to the crowd, "Impossible! Our family has never had any enemies. My wife and I are both kind people. We don't compete with each other in the workplace, and we have harmonious relationships with our neighbors. Let me put it this way, since I started using the Internet, I have never given anyone a bad review. Who would hate us?"

"It's definitely not an outsider," Bai Mian said calmly, "The person who poisoned her is in the store right now."

"ah?"

The crowd exclaimed, and the onlookers unconsciously took a few steps back, looking at the parents with strange eyes.

He Jing and Li Mengmei also became alert and looked at each other suspiciously.

"Could it be you?" He Jing widened his eyes and looked at Li Mengmei repeatedly.

The comments became lively again, with fans expressing their guesses one after another.

[How could a mother poison her own child? Is there such a thing in the world? ]

[Of course I have. I remember a movie from abroad that was like this! A mother always claimed that her daughter had a terminal illness. In fact, her daughter was healthy. It was the mother who had been drugging her daughter. The one who was really sick was the mother. She had Munchausen syndrome by proxy! ]

[This reminds me of a TV series I watched before. After the mother gave birth to a daughter, she was worried that her daughter would take away her husband's love, so she tried every means to kill her daughter. I wonder if this is the case with today's mother and daughter.]

[Wow, the world is so vast and full of surprises! ]

Facing her husband's accusations, Li Mengmei's eyes turned red with anger. She could also see the barrage of comments on her mobile phone screen clearly. Looking at these unfounded speculations, she became even more angry. She simply sat down on the ground and burst into tears.

"You are talking bullshit! They are my daughters, a piece of my flesh and blood! If something happens to them, I am the one who feels the most distressed! If I could, I would rather bear it all for them. What do you strangers know!"

Seeing how emotional Li Mengmei was, the people around her didn't dare to speculate. He Jing also calmed down. He said to Bai Mian, "Master, I believe in my wife. I saw everything she did for the child after he got sick. It couldn't be her!"

Li Mengmei finally stopped crying. She crumpled up the paper she used to wipe her tears and threw it at He Jing's face: "You are such a rebel. How dare you doubt me? I will settle the score with you when I get home!"

"If it's not her, then it can only be you!" Lame Brother said to He Jing frankly, "I just looked at your account carefully. You announced the donation channel in your profile, and you often mobilized everyone to donate. Over the years, you must have earned a lot, right?"

"Make money? You mean I deliberately poisoned my daughter, and then used my daughter to gain sympathy to make money?" He Jing was so angry that he laughed again. He took out his mobile phone and searched for the previous payment records like a madman.

After flipping through the screen for a while, He Jing showed a densely packed screenshot and threw the phone in front of Lame Brother: "Look, look! This is the donations I have received over the years. There are donation details for each donation. This is the money I spent on my daughter's medical treatment. Does it count? Calculate it yourself. Can I make ends meet by doing this?"

Lame picked up the phone, looked carefully at the payment amounts on the screenshots, and then apologized and returned the phone to He Jing: "Sorry, buddy, I misunderstood you. You have received more than 600,000 donations in these years, but you have spent nearly 2 million to treat your child. It is true that you have not spent as much as you have earned. No matter how you calculate it, it doesn't make up."

"That's right!" He Jing finally looked better. He pulled up his hair to show everyone, "Although I received donations, they were all spent on the child's treatment. My husband and I didn't dare to spend a penny. In order to pay for the child's medical treatment, we didn't eat or wear anything these years. We didn't even go to the barber shop to get our hair cut. Look, now we cut our hair at home with scissors!"

Lame Brother took a close look at the couple. They were both in their forties, but their hair was completely white. From a distance, they looked like an old man and an old woman. Their clothes were also loose, and it was obvious that they had been wearing them for many years. Lame Brother believed what they said.

"This is weird," Lame Brother muttered, stroking his chin, "It's not her father, it's not her mother, and it's not a stranger, so who could it be?"

"Don't forget, there's also a member of the He family present here!" someone in the crowd shouted.

All of a sudden, everyone looked at He Shiqiu with suspicion. He Shiqiu's forehead was sweating because of everyone's staring. She quickly waved her hands and explained in panic:

"Don't look at me, why are you looking at me? This has nothing to do with me. Although she is my cousin, we don't keep in touch very often. We only see each other during the Chinese New Year. The reason why I helped her line up this time is because I have finished my college entrance examination and the summer vacation is very long. My uncle and aunt asked me to come to Qingshui Town to help them. I thought it was not easy for their family, so I came to live in their house!"

She wiped the sweat off her face, then thought of something else and quickly added, "Oh, by the way, when my cousin first became ill, I was still a child and went to school honestly every day. How could she have the opportunity to poison me?"

After He Shiqiu finished her explanation, no one doubted her anymore. After all, the child looked clumsy and didn't look like someone who could do such a thing.

"We've guessed everyone, and none of them are possible," He Jing urged, "Master, don't keep us in suspense. Just tell us who it is!"

"I'm not keeping you in suspense. I'm just giving you some time to accept the truth. The truth is..." Bai Mian stood up and slowly walked to He Huashan.

"The person who poisoned her was herself."