Chapter 019 Jinjiang First Release

"What?" He Jing frowned, wondering if he had heard it wrongly.

Everyone present was stunned and looked at Bai Mian in disbelief. Although Bai Mian had proven his ability several times before, this answer was too outrageous and everyone found it difficult to accept it for a while.

"How could anyone do this? Unless the kid is stupid!"

"Yeah, poisoning oneself, I've only seen this kind of thing in palace dramas."

"Doing this will not only make my parents suffer, but also ruin the family property. What the hell is the point?"

"Could it be that this child is planning to commit suicide? But even if he doesn't want to live, there are more convenient ways. Why make himself suffer like this?"

"Although I am a fan of Master Bai, I really don't believe it this time. Did the master not know the cause of the disease, so he just made up an answer?"

"That's right, we can't wrongly accuse this little girl just because she can't speak!"

As people were chattering, Li Mengmei walked behind the girl and angrily pushed the wheelchair away. Before leaving, she turned around and shouted to Bai Mian:

"What nonsense! What kind of master are you? You are just a bullshitter! You can't find the cause of the disease, so you just talk nonsense. Why would our child poison herself? Is there something wrong with her brain? I finally understand. You really can't believe what you see on the Internet. Those live broadcasts you did before were definitely acting. You don't have any real skills at all! Let's go, dad, pack up and let's go. We're not counting!"

Seeing Li Mengmei's attitude, He Jing and He Shiqiu followed her timidly. They picked up their things and prepared to leave. Bai Mian suddenly spoke:

"He Huashan was a left-behind child. Before she was seven, she lived with her grandparents in the village. It was not until she was seven that you established yourself in the city and brought her to live with you."

Li Mengmei stopped walking abruptly and turned back in surprise: "How come you remember it better than me? I can't even remember how old I was when I took her home."

"But I think she must remember," Bai Mian looked at He Huashan in the wheelchair, his eyes moved slightly, revealing a trace of pity, "She has a deep impression of the year when she was seven years old. That year, she finally ended her lonely life and was taken to the city by her parents. But when she walked into the house in the city, she found that her mother was holding a newborn baby in her arms. The whole family's attention was focused on the baby, and no one paid any attention to her. She seemed like a transparent person in this family."

Li Mengmei said with a matter-of-fact expression: "Yes, I did give birth to my second child. Isn't this a very common thing? Are you saying that my eldest daughter is in this state because I gave birth to my second child?"

"The second child you gave birth to is more than just a sister to He Huashan," Bai Mian emphasized, "She is a girl with the same background as her, but a completely different fate."

"My younger sister has lived with her parents since she was a child. She has a lot of entertainment activities and is mentally healthy. Unlike her older sister, who grew up in a poor rural area, she has no way of integrating into city life and is often excluded by her classmates at school."

Li Mengmei was stunned and looked down at the girl in the wheelchair: "Were you ever excluded by your classmates when you were in school? How come I didn't know about this?"

He Huashan, who was sitting in the wheelchair, closed her eyes and nodded slightly, acknowledging Bai Mian's words.

Bai Mian answered for He Huashan, "Perhaps it was because you and your wife were both busy taking care of your infant sister, so no one paid any attention to her."

Li Mengmei recalled that she hardly spoke to her eldest daughter the year she gave birth to her second child. She knew she was in the wrong, so she deliberately skipped this point and defended herself from a different angle:

"Even if I was busy and neglectful before, I can't say that I didn't care about Huashan! Since she moved to the city, we have been the ones paying for her food, clothing, housing and transportation. God knows, how have I treated her unfairly? If it weren't for me, would she have grown up to this age?!"

Bai Mian shook his head: "Humans are not plants. It is not enough to just meet material needs. She lacks the care and love of her parents. She has a sister who is such a sharp contrast. Over time, she will inevitably feel unbalanced. Her personality has become distorted, and she even began to use extreme methods to attract your attention."

"Ah?" Li Mengmei opened her mouth wide and looked down at her daughter again. "Is this why she poisoned herself? In other words, she tortured herself to death and made us spend all our wealth just to make us care about her more?"

The people in the room who were watching the excitement started shouting again. This time, no one was convinced by Bai Mian. They felt that her explanation was too far-fetched, and the barrage of comments also started discussing this topic.

[I totally don’t understand. Is it because I’m an only child?]

[When I was in primary school, I once took a cold shower to catch a cold in order to get my mom to stay at home with me. But that was when I was in primary school. She is so old now, is she still capable of doing such a thing?]

[Perhaps her mind is frozen at the age of seven and she has not grown up yet…]

[A psychology student passed by and said that she had typical Munchausen syndrome, and that she artificially created illnesses to satisfy her own needs.]

[There is such a disease? I've learned something new. This is the first time I've heard of it.]

"Shut up!" He Jing shouted, and the crowd quieted down. He looked at Bai Mian suspiciously, "Master, I still can't believe that my daughter poisoned herself. Putting aside other things, I have taken her to so many hospitals and seen so many famous doctors over the years. Why can't anyone diagnose that there is toxin in her body? Are they all quacks?"

"Of course not," Bai Mian took He Jing's phone and flipped through the old test reports in his photo album. "Doctors diagnose patients based on reports. If the report doesn't detect any toxins, the doctor will naturally not consider poisoning."

He Jing was very puzzled: "Isn't this nonsense? You said my daughter was poisoned, but the test reports from various hospitals did not find any toxins. How do you explain this?!"

"Because every time you arrive at the hospital, the toxins are metabolized—" Bai Mian pointed to the date on the report, "Every time you successfully make an appointment, He Huashan will know the date to go to the hospital for treatment. She just needs to completely metabolize the toxins before going to the hospital."

He Jing smiled disdainfully: "How can it be as mysterious as you say? My daughter is not a scientist. She is just a child. How can she control it so accurately?"

"You underestimated her," Bai Mian looked at He Huashan, "The world of children is never simple. Moreover, she was already fourteen years old at that time, and her age was close to that of an adult."

"The drug she was taking had a metabolic cycle of one week, which means that as long as she stopped taking the drug a week before going to the hospital and drank a lot of water to metabolize the drug completely, it would be difficult for the doctor to detect it."

He Jing glanced at his daughter in the wheelchair and his expression became serious: "Even if what you said is true, where did she get this poison? Ordinary poisons will have toxic residues, and poison can't be sold to others casually!"

Bai Mian crossed his arms and said, "Don't forget, she got sick many years ago. At that time, people in China had just started to use the Internet. The relevant supervision was not strict, and the content on the Internet was mixed. It was easy to search for some illegal websites."

"That's when she found an illegal website that specializes in selling drugs, added the contact information of the website staff, and bought the drug online—"

"KLS is a foreign, niche drug that most people in the country have never heard of. That's why even my master couldn't come to a conclusion when he took my pulse just now."

"He Huashan first tried this poison after her sister died. The vomiting and dizziness she experienced at the time were actually reactions to poisoning, but you didn't know that. You took her to the doctor repeatedly and showed her extra care. As a result, she became addicted to the feeling of using KLS and began to repurchase this poison over a long period of time."

"She only took a small amount of KLS at first, so the symptoms were relatively mild. Later, she gradually increased the dosage, which is why her body was destroyed like this."

"Why would he increase the dosage if he poisoned himself? Could it be that this thing is addictive?" He Jing's brows were deeply wrinkled.

"No, the drug itself is not addictive," Bai Mian denied. "It's the feeling of being sick that makes her addicted. During her illness, all your attention was on her. You accompanied her day and night, running around for her. This is something she has never experienced before. The more this happened, the more she dared not stop taking KLS. She was worried that once she returned to normal, your attitude towards her would return to what it was before."

He Jing was finally convinced by Bai Mian and began to try to believe what she said: "No wonder this child always asks me for pocket money. I was surprised because she doesn't go out or shop online, so why does she want money? But in order to avoid irritating the child, I didn't ask her in detail. I didn't expect it to be like this..."

"Yes, all the money was used to buy KLS," Bai Mian raised his chin in the direction of the wheelchair, "With the gradual tightening of Internet supervision, the illegal website has been closed down a long time ago, but He Huashan has always kept the contact information of the website staff. She bought the drugs secretly without your knowledge, and the drugs were delivered to your home by express delivery."

"If you don't believe me, you can look through her payment records. All her money was transferred to that drug dealer."

He Jing slapped his thigh and suddenly realized: "Oh, right, after she fell ill, she did say that all the couriers sent to her must be opened by her personally. Since we started live streaming, kind people often sent clothes or food to us, and we didn't think much about it and left them all to Huashan to open. After all, after she fell ill, opening couriers was her only pleasure. It turns out that she made this request because she was afraid that we would discover her poison!"

"After all this, you should have understood that the only person who could have poisoned her day after day right under your noses and precisely controlled drug metabolism before going to the hospital was herself."

Bai Mian looked at the parents and spoke quietly.

After listening to the conversation between Bai Mian and He Jing, Li Mengmei was completely dumbfounded. She could not accept that the culprit of all this was actually her own daughter. She tried hard to recall Bai Mian's words, trying to find the unreasonableness in them.

"Wait, the child's father, don't be so quick to believe her. Think about it, if that's the case, it makes sense in the early stages of the child's illness, but it doesn't make sense in the later stages. The child later became unable to move and couldn't leave the wheelchair. She even had to ask me to pour a glass of water. How could she have secretly taken medicine without telling us?"

"That's because," Bai Mian looked in the direction of He Huashan, "she has been pretending in front of you all. In fact, the real her doesn't look so weak at all."

"He Huashan, now that it has come to this, do you still want to continue pretending?"

“Crunch, crunch.”

A strange grinding sound came from He Huashan's mouth. She gritted her teeth and looked at Bai Mian with resentment. She put her hands on the armrests of the wheelchair, put her feet on the ground, and slowly stood up.