Chapter 440: Let Her Go
She frowned slightly, and there was a faint sigh in her tone.
"That's not ordinary rat poison. It's something evil. It just looks like rat poison. The coroner can't find out what's so evil about it. He just knows it's rat poison."
"But this isn't rat poison at all."
Su Tan sighed as he spoke.
His brows were tightly furrowed.
She asked, "With such a huge murder yesterday, was the whole village so quiet that no one could hear someone crying for help in Li Lanjuan's house?"
"Is there no one who can smell the blood coming out of their house?"
When Su Tan asked this, the villagers seemed to have suddenly been enlightened. They immediately nodded with strange expressions and took several breaths of cold air.
"yes!"
"Logically speaking, Li Lanjuan had already cut open their abdomens and taken out their hearts with a knife. They must have tried to escape before her evil plan succeeded."
"Even if they don't run away, they'll probably try to call out for help, hoping someone can rescue them."
But things were so strange that not only did no one call for help, even Li Lanjuan's parents-in-law and husband didn't think of escaping.
This is really unreasonable.
It shouldn't be like this anyway.
The villagers shuddered and immediately turned to look at Su Tan, placing all their hopes on her.
"Master Su, this..."
"Is this also the work of that group of evil spirits?"
As soon as this question was asked, someone slapped his thigh heavily.
"It's so weird, it must be the work of an evil spirit. Otherwise, if a normal person was treated like that, they would definitely experience a fierce struggle before dying completely!"
"Before they died, their cries for help were probably heard by the entire village."
However, people in Sangqiao died again and again, but there was no unusual movement in the entire village.
Surprisingly, the bodies of that family were not discovered until early this morning.
"Something's wrong, something's wrong. This is so wrong!"
"Let's not talk about anything else. There were so many of them. Even if the evil spirit wanted to chase and chop three of them, when it killed one of them, there would always be someone who could find a way to escape. But they all died at the hands of the evil spirit one by one!"
Yes, logically speaking, the evil spirit wants to kill three people, but killing three people takes time.
No matter what, they should buy themselves some breathing time so that they can really escape.
Even if one person can escape.
No matter how powerful the evil spirit is, there must be visible signs of struggle.
But there is not even a trace of struggle!
"This is not right, this is so wrong, who knows what happened!"
Su Tan shook his head.
"I believe you can guess what happened here."
She looked compassionate, "The evil spirit poisoned them."
"They were left powerless to resist, and then they manipulated the entire house so that the screams from inside could no longer be heard."
"This is what led to these tragedies and the loss of three lives."
Three lives.
Real human lives.
Just vanished like that.
The local parents were speechless. After all, if there was no evil spirit at work, Li Lanjuan would not be able to kill everyone in the room so easily.
Since the people were killed by evil spirits, how to convict Li has become a real problem.
If we look at it from the perspective of the law, this is extremely unfair to Li. After all, it was not she who actually killed people, but those evil spirits who took over her body and she had no power to resist.
The officials cannot just turn a blind eye and put all the blame on Li.
After all, if you really think about it carefully, Li is innocent.
She lost her family and became a lonely person overnight, but she had to bear the consequences of the mistakes made by the evil spirit that she should not have had to bear.
This is extremely unfair to her.
But if the government really acquitted her, everyone in the yamen would be holding their breath.
It always makes people feel depressed that her husband's family is dead, but she is safe and sound.
If everything were reversed, and it was Li Lanjuan and her parents who died, but her husband was still alive, I'm afraid people wouldn't think anything of it.
Some people even feel sorry for Li Lanjuan's husband, who was controlled by the evil spirit and killed the person he loved most with his own hands.
Unfortunately, Li Lanjuan is a woman, not a man, so even if some people know clearly that all this was done by evil spirits, they still feel resentful and want to punish her.
It’s just that Lu Zhiheng, such a nosy person, is standing here.
Lu Zhiheng didn't want Li to die.
He felt that Li was innocent and should not have been implicated. She was really evil and too hateful.
But he was a descendant of a royal family, which made him seem unattainable, and no one dared to ignore him.
Therefore, at this moment, the faces of those people in the yamen looked uglier than if they had eaten shit.
Everyone racked their brains to convict Li.
At this time Su Tan spoke.
"Li cannot die. If she is truly punished, then those evil spirits will get what they want."
"The whole town will turn into a living hell next."
Her words shocked everyone.
Everyone immediately looked at her in astonishment, their eyes unable to conceal surprise, "What do you mean by that?"
"Master Su, you said that if we really did that, the entire town would become a living hell. Could it be... could it be that those evil spirits, even though they wanted to use Li Lanjuan to kill people, couldn't bear to see her suffer?"
The person who said this even had a bit of gnashing of teeth in his tone.
After all, everyone knew that Su Tan had said before that if she had not arrived earlier, Li Lanjuan, who was possessed by the evil spirit, would have killed all the people in the town.
It just so happened that Li Lanjuan had some luck on her. No, it should be said that the people in the entire town had some luck on them. After all, Li Lanjuan only killed her parents-in-law and husband.
To put it bluntly, the person who suffered the most in this incident was Li Lanjuan.
Because from today on, Li Lanjuan will become a lonely person.
Even have to endure the pointing and criticizing of others every day.
But if the evil spirit's original intention was to prevent Li Lanjuan from being harmed, then doesn't that mean that Li Lanjuan would not be punished if she killed everyone in their entire town?
Everyone held their breath and felt that it was difficult to move on.
At this time, Su Tan said, "No, the evil spirit originally wanted you to kill Li Lanjuan. After all, it's not easy for them to do it themselves."
"And Li Lanjuan is just the beginning."
"I never seemed to say the evil would stop after killing only the people in your town."
"The resentment of those missing baby girls is too great. They will fight all the way to the capital until they find the real culprit who killed them."
When Su Tan finished speaking, everyone in the yamen shuddered violently.
They understood what she meant. Li Lanjuan was just a knife in the hands of an evil spirit.
If Li Lanjuan really died, it would have avenged the evil spirit's death. Perhaps the evil spirit was also restrained and could not attack its own biological mother.
But if—Su Tan’s brows furrowed tightly.
"But what if an evil spirit can possess a human being and then use the laws of the human world to kill people?"
This silenced everyone.
In the end, after careful consideration, the local officials decided to release Li Lanjuan.
It's not because he felt so sorry for Li Lanjuan, but if he really killed Li Lanjuan, it would cause endless troubles. When the matter was investigated carefully, even if he died ten times, it would not be enough.
Li Lanjuan's life was of no importance to him.
One more Li Lanjuan in this world doesn’t make much difference, and one less Li Lanjuan doesn’t make much difference either.
Whether this person exists or not does not affect his status as the local official.
But only one thing.
Whether Li Lanjuan is dead or alive, she cannot cause him trouble.
"Ms. Li, although all of this was ultimately the work of an evil spirit, it was ultimately through you that the evil spirit killed your husband and your parents-in-law."
"You should feel bad about it."
"For the rest of your life, you will take good care of their family, visit them often to pay respects, and occasionally recite scriptures and pray for them. In the future, you must not remarry."
Li Lanjuan did something wrong.
In the end, there will be punishment.
However, due to the people on the imperial side, the local officials could not punish her too severely, and in the end they only punished Li Lanjuan by prohibiting her from remarrying for life.
Li Lanjuan knelt on the ground, crying inconsolably. She did not thank him, but just kept repeating her husband's name.
This made people feel a little bit sorry and sighed deeply.
"What a pity! Such a wonderful family was destroyed by those evil spirits."
These words made countless people cry.
"They are not the only ones whose homes have been haunted by evil spirits..."
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