Yu Xuanji replied yes, and Ye Zelin also responded, "I want to see it too."
Hua Fushu said to Old Qiao, "Coroner Qiao, could you please find a living creature?"
But in a moment, Lao Qiao found a live carp, which was bought by the station kitchen this morning. The carp was swaying its tail in the water and flapping its fins, looking very fresh.
Lao Qiao caught the carp, and Hua Fushu dropped two drops of "Strychnos nux vomica" into the carp's mouth. In just a moment, the carp stopped trembling. Lao Qiao put the carp back into the water. The fish's body was floating in the water, with its eyes rolled back, and it didn't move.
They all knew that the carp was dead.
The toxicity of 'Strychnos nux vomica' is truly extraordinary.
Yu Xuanji hadn't imagined that the poison of 'Strychnine' was so potent. It killed anyone who was poisoned, regardless of whether they were human or animal, in an instant. He timidly asked, "Is there really no antidote for this poison?"
Hua Fushu said honestly, "There is no antidote at present. But with the advancement of medicine in the future, perhaps an antidote can be developed."
Hang Yu watched everything and shuddered. Yu Xuanji had summoned this woman and then staged a fish-poisoning stunt right before his eyes. Could it be that Yu Xuanji was trying to poison him to force him to reveal what he knew? Then why did he capture his wife and children?
Wasn't it to force him to submit by arresting his wife and children?
Yu Xuanji had been in the Ministry of Justice for many years, having also served as a minister. She had handled numerous cases and developed her own methods. She had arrested Yu Xuanji's wife and children to force him to reveal what he knew, but Yu Xuanji didn't know him well enough to convince him that he wouldn't speak out easily. Furthermore, if Yu Xuanji had killed them, it would have been a disregard for human life and a disregard for the law. Therefore, he was certain that Yu Xuanji wouldn't kill them, but she feared they would suffer.
Yu Xuanji seemed to have grasped something and said with a smile, "Do you think I won't really kill your wife and children?"
Hang Yu was suddenly stunned. Yu Xuanji could actually see through his thoughts. He still underestimated Yu Xuanji. If Yu Xuanji didn't torture him severely, she must have a plan on how to get what he wanted from him.
Yu Xuanji just wanted to know the cause of Cheng Wenbo's death and who was the mastermind behind it, but his benefactor Cai Yuanchang was involved behind the scenes. He was determined not to betray Cai Yuanchang, so it was time for him to take all the responsibility.
He pondered for a moment and then said, "What do you want to know?"
Yu Xuanji was slightly startled. He had previously refused to confess, so why was he suddenly wanting to confess? Did he have other plans? He asked, "How did Cheng Wenbo die?"
Hang Yu said, "Actually, I was the one who killed Cheng Wenbo."
Yu Xuanji was slightly surprised. He thought Hang Yu had only helped the person behind the scenes, but he didn't expect that Cheng Wenbo was killed by Hang Yu. He asked again, "How did you kill him?"
Hang Yu told the whole story of how he killed Cheng Wenbo. He put a sleeping pill in the incense that Cheng Wenbo often lit, and after he fell unconscious, he hung him from the beam to create the illusion that he committed suicide out of fear of punishment. He also bribed the coroner to confirm that Cheng Wenbo died of suicide, not homicide.
He had foreseen that Yu Xuanji would suspect the coroner, leading to the coroner's death. However, the coroner's killers weren't his own, but Cai Yuanchang's. After assassinating Yu Xuanji, they left the city under his orders. He wasn't lying; Cheng Wenbo was indeed his killer. With assassin organizations in the Jianghu, it wasn't difficult to hire a killer to kill one or two people. All it took was money.
Ye Zelin was skeptical, feeling that Hang Yu's explanation was too simple. He only said that he had killed Cheng Wenbo, but didn't mention anything else. He asked, "Master Hang, is there anything else?"
Hang Yu said, "I was the one who ordered the murder of the Wuyuan Temple coroner and the assassination of Lord Yu."
He then told an almost perfect story of the case. He said that in the seventh year of Huangyou, he and Cheng Wenbo had a feud because of promotion, and he had always held a grudge. After the 100,000 water conservancy funds arrived in Yuezhou, he stole the 100,000 water conservancy funds and used the money as expenses. He found a killer organization through an intermediary to kill Cheng Wenbo, but he was afraid that Yu Xuanji would find out about him, so he decided to go all out and found a killer organization to kill Yu Xuanji to eliminate future troubles.
Those who didn't know the inside story would definitely believe the well-reasoned words. Yu Xuanji, Ye Zelin and the others naturally didn't believe it at all, but they didn't show any expression of belief or disbelief.
This group of people didn't include Hua Fushu. She was the last to arrive in Yuezhou. Although she didn't know the whole story, she knew a little bit. She also didn't believe Hang Yu's story. If it was true that he was the one who did it all, how could he explain the account book?
In order to make the story more credible, Hang Yu specifically revealed the name of the man in the middle and the killer organization. Hang Yu said that the killer organization was called "Black Fire Society".
Hua Fushu is the young master of the Mei Sect, whose influence spreads throughout the Song Dynasty. The "Yiren Pavilion" under its command controls all kinds of information about the underworld, the white world, and the business world, as well as various power organizations. She vaguely remembers that there is such a killer organization in the area of the two lakes.
She felt that Hang Yu had worked too hard. He had put in a lot of effort to make up this lie and even investigated the killer organization thoroughly.
Yu Xuanji deliberately said, "Are you serious? You did all this?"
Hang Yu nodded, "It's all my fault."
Yu Xuanji acted as if she believed it.
At this time, a female voice laughed loudly, and she was very uncooperative with Yu Xuanji's play. She disrupted the stage in public. She was disrupting Hang Yu's stage.
"Hey, can you be more truthful with your lies? The Black Fire Society was shut down by the government years ago. Didn't you know that? It caused a huge stir in Zhuzhou at the time."
Upon hearing this, Hang Yu's face changed slightly. He naturally knew that Zhuzhou's "Black Fire Society" had been shut down by local officials years ago, but how could this woman know about this? Even Yu Xuanji might not know.
As he thought, Yu Xuanji and others really didn't know about this matter, and they were also puzzled by Hua Fushu's words.
Hua Fushu shrugged and said, "I've been in the South for over a year. Not to mention Zhuzhou, I've even been to Hangzhou. It's normal to have heard anything. It's just that you're unlucky that you happened to meet me and expose you."
She kindly told Hang Yu the truth, "Actually, no matter how much you talk, no one here believes you."
Hang Yu suddenly realized, "You are playing tricks on me!"
Old Joe said cheerfully, "If not you, who else should I play with?"
Hang Yu felt resentful. Yu Xuanji had been playing tricks on him from the beginning. He just wanted to know the real cause of Cheng Wenbo's death.
Yu Xuanji said, "If I don't play tricks on you, will you tell me the cause of Cheng Wenbo's death? To tell you the truth, I have never suspected that Cheng Wenbo stole the 100,000 taels of water conservancy funds. The reason I investigated the cause of Cheng Wenbo's death was simply to clear his name and, by the way, to expose you as an accomplice. I already knew who the mastermind behind this case was."
Hang Yu was stunned. "You, you... Impossible!"
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