Chapter 178 Angel of Death: The filial "murderer"

The old woman had been dressed in Chinese shrouds. Her cheeks were red, her lips were dry and cherry-colored, and her body was stiff.

Mu Mian lifted her eyelids. The old woman had severe cataracts and cloudy eyes, so Mu Mian couldn't observe the condition of her fundus. Mu Mian pressed her

skin, and soon it became red and swollen. This proved that she might have severe carbon monoxide poisoning. The

old woman had many bedsores on her body, and her skin was also rotten in many places, emitting a foul smell.

Mu Mian pried open the dead woman's mouth and found a coin inside. Mu Mian asked in confusion: "Why put coins in her mouth?"

"This is our custom, it's called 'money in the mouth'."

"Take it away!"

"You have to put it back for us later."

Mu Mian checked the dead woman's mouth again and found a sticky oily substance in her mouth.

Mu Mian said angrily: "What did you feed her?"

"This is burnt wood seed oil. Our custom here is that when an old person is about to die, you must feed her this, so that she can go smoothly." Ye Jianzhong explained.

Mu Mian said: "So this is 'sending off oil'?" Generally, old people will have difficulty breathing before they die. They rely on their mouths to breathe, so they will gasp for air. This mouthful of oil blocks their respiratory tract and accelerates their death.

"……"

"How did you judge that she was about to die?"

The fifth brother Ye Jianmin said, "I was the one who sent my mother to her final resting place. My daughter and I were the only ones there at the time. My mother's throat kept making gurgling sounds, and I heard that old people would make this sound before they die, so I quickly fed her the oil, and she died soon after."

Ye Jianzhong said angrily, "It must be you who did something. How could mother die without waiting for us to come back? She hasn't even seen her great-grandson yet? If you hadn't done anything, mother would definitely have held on to her last breath and waited for us to come back!"

This was also the thing that made Ye Jianzhong most angry. His fifth brother caused him to not be able to send his old mother to her final resting place, and he would definitely be criticized by the villagers.

"What's wrong with the great-grandson? Will he come to her bedside to serve her?" Ye Jianmin's wife said sarcastically, "He's not as good as the granddaughter. At least the granddaughter will go to talk to grandma every day."

Ye Jianzhong was furious: "This is our Ye family's business. Do you have the turn to interfere with it? Lao Wu, your wife really needs to be punished."

Ye Jianmin's wife was not afraid of him and retorted, "Yes, I am an outsider. When you force me to serve your mother, I am not an outsider? You useless people in the Ye family are only capable of bullying others. So many people can't take care of an old mother. I am ashamed for you!"

"Stop quarreling," Ye Jianmin's daughter Ye Yu suddenly shouted, "You quarreled when grandma was alive, and you are still quarreling after she died! Can't you be quiet for a while and let grandma go in peace? Grandma doesn't want to hear you talking!"

Ye Yu is in the sixth grade this year, but she is very sensible. Her eyes are swollen from crying. She was raised by her grandma, so she has a good relationship with her grandma.

Ye Meiying patted her head and scolded: "What are you doing here, little kid, when adults are talking? Lao Wu, look at how you educate your daughter, she is ill-mannered!"

"My daughter goes to accompany her grandmother every day, she is much more filial than you as a daughter. You are ill-mannered. Mom loved you the most before. After mom became paralyzed, did you take care of her for a day? You are not as conscientious as my daughter, a granddaughter?"

"I am a daughter, why should I take care of the elderly? Taking care of the elderly is the son's job."

Seeing that they not only did not stop, but quarreled even more fiercely, Ye Yu covered her face and ran out. Xiao Wang

found several clear fingerprints on the brazier. They found a box of charcoal in the room, and also found fingerprints on the box.

Mu Mian took out the body bag. When the old man's children heard the zipper sound, they stopped arguing and asked, "Little girl, what are you going to do?"

"We need to take the body back for autopsy." Mu Mian said.

"No!"

The old man said, "Autopsy? Are you forensic doctors so useless? Can't these characteristics prove that my mother was poisoned by carbon monoxide? Why do we still need an autopsy?"

"We won't report the case. We will withdraw the case. Comrade police, can you go back?"

The group of people suddenly united and pulled the body bag in Mu Mian's hand.

Mu Mian asked in confusion, "Don't you want to know how your mother died?"

Everyone was silent. In fact, they didn't really care how their mother died. After learning that their mother was dead, their first reaction was relief, and then sadness. The reason why the eldest brother called the police was because he had a grudge against the fifth brother and wanted to trick him.

The seven brothers and sisters reached an unprecedented consensus on not dissecting the body. After they discussed it, the eldest brother Ye Jianzhong took out a pack of Chinese cigarettes and handed it to Fang Rui, "Comrade police, can we just let this matter go?"

Fang Rui did not take his cigarette, "Sorry, once we report a case, we must open an investigation."

"Can't you go back and report that we called the wrong police? How about this, comrade police, we will invite you to the city for a meal, and let this matter go, okay? You can't dissect my mother's body. If her body is incomplete, it will affect the feng shui of our family."

Fang Rui said: "You are so superstitious, don't you worry that your old mother's ghost will haunt you after her death?"

"Who said we are unfilial? We didn't come to see her because..."

Fang Rui interrupted their explanation: "We must take the body back."

At this time, the old woman's children all blocked her bed.

The second child, Ye Meilin's husband, was a clerk in the court. He came out and said: "Police comrade, you must get the consent of the family to dissect the body. We don't agree now! If you take the body away by force, we will complain to you. I know your leader..."

When the stalemate was at a standoff, Xiao Wang said to Fang Rui: "Boss, let's go out for a while."

Fang Rui and the others walked outside. After making sure that the people inside could not hear their voices, Xiao Wang whispered: "Judging from the size of the fingerprints, the fingerprints on the brazier may be a child's." Xiao Wang looked at the side of the road, where Ye Yu was squatting and crying.

Xiao Zhang lowered his voice and said, "You mean, Ye Yu lit the brazier? But doesn't she have a good relationship with her grandmother? Why did she do this?"

No one wanted to use malicious thoughts to speculate about a primary school student. But they couldn't figure out why she did this?

"Could it be that she feels that grandma is in pain and she wants to help her out?" Chen Xue guessed. Before Chen Xue's grandma died, she was paralyzed due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Her grandma was lying on the hospital bed, muttering that she wanted to die. Seeing the old lady suffering in the hospital bed, sometimes I really want to help her out.

Mu Mian retorted: "No, she may want to help her grandma keep warm."

Chen Xue said: "But in the middle of summer, do you still need to warm yourself by the fire?"

"Maybe her grandma has a cold? The old people's perception of temperature is different from that of young people. They will feel cold even in the middle of summer." Mu Mian said.

Everyone agreed with Mu Mian's speculation. Xiao Zhang said, "What about this case? Do we continue to investigate it?"

Fang Rui said, "Don't let those people inside know about this for now."

Everyone else nodded, "Understood."

Those people inside are not good people. After they know about this, they might force Ye Yu to death. If this was just an accident, Ye Yu is still a child. This incident cannot become a stain on her life.

Fang Rui and Mu Mian walked to Ye Yu's side.

Feeling that the sunlight was blocked, Ye Yu raised her head. She saw the police appear in front of her. She shrank her neck in fear, and finally mustered up the courage to say, "Uncle police, I killed my grandma. I didn't mean to do it. Are you here to arrest me?"