Chapter 677 The Truth
"This mushroom is so beautiful. This is the first time I've seen it. What is a snow mushroom? I've never seen one before. I have to look carefully to avoid accidentally picking one and eating it to death."
"So this is called snow mushroom, how come we have it here too? Doesn't this mushroom grow in the deep mountains in the southernmost part of the country? People there call this white mushroom white umbrella mushroom because it looks so much like an oil-paper umbrella. Some people also call it five-step mushroom because if you eat it, you will die from the poison before you can walk five steps."
"You mentioned the five-step mushroom. I know that five years ago, a family in Enxin Province ate soup made from the five-step mushroom. All 18 members of the family died. Later, the prefect came to investigate the case in person and found out the truth.
At that time, the neighbor of this family was arrested as the murderer. It was said that because the two families had a quarrel, they mistakenly thought that this family had evil intentions and poisoned him. "
"I remember this incident. It was reported to us. It was so tragic. The whole family died. It seems that the old woman also died because she ate the five-step mushroom by mistake. Then why did her family come to the Kong family to make trouble?"
"Are you stupid? Why else? To cheat. The old woman came to Kong's Restaurant to eat the day before and died the next day. Of course she must have owed it to Kong's Restaurant. Tsk tsk, what a vicious idea. If Kong's Restaurant can't explain itself clearly, how can it continue to operate in the future? Who would dare to eat there?"
"I just said that this family has bad looks. The men all look fierce and evil, and the women are mean and mean. They don't look like good people."
"So what do we do now? Arrest them?"
"Of course they should be arrested. If they are not properly punished, what will happen if others imitate them in the future? Wouldn't the world be in chaos? In my opinion, everyone should be given 30 lashes of the cane and then jailed for 10 to 8 years, so that they will learn their lesson."
"......"
The truth is out in the open.
Even if the Zhou family wanted to resist, they couldn't.
The onlookers around were pointing at them.
Zhou Ruixiang, who had just been crying, ran to Sun Xiaotao and punched and kicked her after seeing his wife being brought in.
"Waste, you are a hen that doesn't lay eggs. You still can't give birth to a baby. I will beat you to death. Grandma said you are useless. Waste, I will listen to grandma and beat you every day. Grandma will get up and make chicken soup for me. Beat you to death."
Sun Xiaotao was beaten and screamed.
Jiang Fubao gave a look and the officers pulled Zhou Ruixiang away.
"Tell me why you are causing trouble."
Meng Bujiu also winked at another officer.
The latter drew his sword and put it on Zhou Kui's neck.
The knife with silver light seemed to be telling Zhou Kui that if he didn't tell the truth, his life would be in danger.
Zhou Kui knew that he was finished.
My body suddenly went limp.
Sit on the ground.
"My family lives a hard life. My grandson is a fool. In order to make my grandson's wife pregnant, I spent a lot of money on fertility medicine, but her stomach was still not pregnant. Not long ago, my grandson fell ill again, and the money saved at home was suddenly exhausted. My grandson likes to eat meat, and I couldn't let him down, so I killed the only chicken in the family.
Thinking of making chicken soup, my wife said that the chicken would be fine for the grandchildren, so she went to dig bamboo shoots to make chicken soup. But it snowed, so there were no bamboo shoots to be found. Instead, she found some mushrooms, so she made chicken soup with them. She took a sip of the salty soup, and then she died. It was all a misunderstanding. We thought she was poisoned by eating the shredded pork noodles from Kong's Restaurant. It was all a misunderstanding."
Even at this point, Zhou Kui is still telling lies.
He wanted to deny it, but Meng Bujiu wouldn't allow it.
Another stab in the eye, the officer kicked him right in the heart.
"If you don't tell the truth, I'll kill you!" The blade moved closer to his neck.
A red mark appeared instantly.
Zhou Kui groaned in pain.
He trembled and said, "I said, I said, don't, don't kill me, I said, yes, it was my wife who said that, before she died, she said she wanted to make more money for the family, so she let us borrow the shredded pork noodles from Kong's Restaurant, it was she who said that, it has nothing to do with us."
Zhou Kui blamed everything on Old Mrs. Wang.
Who said that the dead can't speak? He thought that officials would not argue with a dead person.
"Humph, he was poisoned by the snow mushroom and died of suffocation. How can a person who is about to suffocate speak? Who are you trying to trick? Beat him until he speaks. No, beat his grandson. I don't think you will cry until you see the coffin! Beat him hard!
What a joke! You just sold your granddaughter the day before New Year's Eve, and now you say you have no money. How come your expenses are higher than those living in the town? Do you think I have never lived in the village? I am from the village too!"
Jiang Fubao's tone was fierce.
This week, everyone in my family is in a bad mood.
There's no need to be nice to this kind of person.
Beat them until they are afraid.
Naturally, I told the truth.
You know, why did Liu Xiang'er want to go back to Jiangjia Village? Jiang Kang told her that the Zhou family destroyed Liu Xiang'er's family's crops.
Those are the crops that farmers depend on for their survival.
Destroying crops is killing people!
Such people deserve death.
Jiang Fubao had never disliked some people so much before, the last pair being Zhou Gaier and her daughter.
"Ah, don't hit me, wuwuwu, don't hit me."
"Son, my son, please don't hit me. Tell me, Dad, tell me now."
"Let my son go."
"Ruixiang, good Ruixiang, don't be afraid. Dad, tell me quickly, if something happens to Ruixiang, how will we survive?"
"......"
The officers were very fast and Zhou Ruixiang was beaten and kicked by two of them.
He rolled on the ground in pain.
Everyone in the Zhou family was heartbroken.
They were afraid that he would be beaten to death, and the Zhou family would be extinct.
When they are old, who will take care of them and take care of them until the end of their lives?
"I'm saying, I'm really saying, stop it now, don't hit my grandson, I'm saying, I'm saying." Jiang Fubao's words hit the nail on the head.
Zhou Kui finally told the truth.
"Yes, it's all because of our greed. My wife asked my granddaughter-in-law to pick mushrooms on a snowy day, but the mushrooms she picked were poisonous. My wife drank some soup and died, so we tied her up in the house, thinking that we should starve her for a few days to teach her a lesson. My wife died on the evening of New Year's Eve before the New Year's Eve dinner, and the coffin was prepared long ago.
The old people in our Zhoujia Village had prepared the coffin early. We were afraid that the coroner would find out when she died. We even carried the coffin to the kitchen and kept the stove burning to heat up the kitchen. Unexpectedly, you found out. It was all because of our greed. People in the town said that the Kong family was rich, so we thought of cheating some money so that our family could live a better life. "
Zhou Kui was crying as he spoke.
It's not that he knew he was wrong, but he regretted leaving a tail for Jiang Fubao to find.