Chapter 176 Wang Yuqing is falsely accused of murder
Cao Hao was treated at the health center for a whole day.
He was pronounced dead early the next morning.
The cause of death was that the snails they ate contained a large amount of rat poison; their condition was serious, and they could not be saved.
Wang Yuqing, Ji Xuening, Wang Shuo, the old Party Secretary, and He Guangliang were all at the health center. Upon hearing the news, everyone was shocked.
Wang Yuqing knew that things were in big trouble and that she was in deep trouble this time. However, she still couldn't understand why there would be rat poison in the snails.
If Cao Hao hadn't appeared along the way, the snails would have been sold to people at the market. Whether they would have died or not is unknown, but many people would certainly have been poisoned.
So, the person who poisoned the food was targeting their own food supply team? Or someone they had a grudge against?
As she was mentally counting who she had a grudge against, He Guangliang suddenly stared at her with a questioning look.
Wang Yuqing frowned slightly: "Director, what do you mean by that look?"
He Guangliang said angrily, "You know the answer in your heart."
Wang Yuqing was not one to be trifled with, and she immediately lost her temper: "What do I know? I was selling my own snails, and he suddenly ran in to steal them and ate them. Now he's poisoned and dead, and I'm completely dumbfounded. I'm being dragged into this mess for no reason, and I feel wronged. What do I know?"
He Guangliang scoffed: "The snails have rat poison, how can this have nothing to do with you?"
Wang Yuqing retorted, "Would I be stupid enough to poison my own snails? Would I just wait for people to die and for the police to come and arrest me?"
She angrily retorted, "You old bastard, you're so wicked! I even suspect you secretly poisoned me and got me killed."
These words enraged He Guangliang, who turned ashen-faced and jumped up to yell at Wang Yuqing. However, Ji Xuening stood in front of Wang Yuqing just in time, his face cold.
The old Party Secretary tried to mediate: "Stop arguing. The person is dead, and you're still arguing here. However, there are indeed suspicious things going on, and we need to investigate them thoroughly."
Wang Yuqing was too lazy to waste her breath arguing with He Guangliang, so she walked to the end of the corridor to get some fresh air.
Ji Xuening noticed her anxiety, so he gently patted her shoulder and said in a soft voice, "I believe you. This has nothing to do with you."
Wang Yuqing felt a warmth in her heart. She carefully recalled what happened yesterday and analyzed it in detail: "Cao Hao isn't stupid. He wouldn't put rat poison in the snails and then eat them himself."
Ji Xuening said, "Is it possible that someone else deliberately put rat poison in there to frame you?"
Wang Yuqing recalled that the snails were all stir-fried together in the kitchen before dawn, and no one else came in along the way.
It's impossible that I mistakenly put rat poison in the snails instead of seasoning. The rat poison I bought a few days ago has already been eaten by the rats.
While she was analyzing the situation, the Cao family, who had gone home to sleep, arrived at the health center. Upon learning the results, Mao Chun immediately sat down on the ground and burst into tears.
Although he suspected that the child was not his biological grandson, he had still raised him for twelve years. Hadn't those twelve years been wasted?
Cao Nongguo leaned against the wall, dumbfounded. His wife had cheated on him and was sentenced to prison. He didn't even know if the child was his. He hadn't figured things out, and then he died.
The rest of the Cao family were shocked. Although they disliked Cao Hao, they had at least watched him grow up and felt a pang of sadness.
The second daughter-in-law of the Cao family, Hua Jiaojiao, was a little scared and whispered, "Isn't this a sign that the Cao family is doomed? First, the third daughter-in-law had an affair with a stranger, and then the son was poisoned to death by rat poison... There are just too many bad things happening."
Her son, Cao Kun, said, "Mom, the people in the village say that it's our Cao family's own fault, and this is retribution."
Hua Jiaojiao quickly covered her son's mouth: "Don't talk nonsense. If your grandma hears you, she'll beat you to death!"
Cao Tian was the calmest person in the Cao family. He immediately went to the commune to report the case, and the commune used its only telephone to report the case to the county public security bureau.
After all, someone died, so this is even more serious than Lin Meili and Li Er's affair.
The police immediately dispatched investigators to the commune health center. The forensic doctor first examined Cao Hao's cause of death and confirmed that he had indeed ingested a large amount of rat poison.
Cao Tian told the police: "It was her who killed my nephew. She was the captain of the snail food processing team. She has to pay with her life."
With Cao Tian's words, Mao Chun, who was sitting on the ground crying, and the rest of the Cao family accused Wang Yuqing of killing Cao Hao.
Ji Xuening quickly defended Wang Yuqing, arguing logically and persuasively: "She is even less likely to poison the snails because she is the captain of the non-staple food team. She couldn't bear the consequences of poisoning them, and she had no reason to ruin her future by harming someone's life. Besides, Cao Hao sneaked into the kitchen and ate the snails himself. Comrade Wang Yuqing couldn't possibly have the ability to predict the future. No one would be that stupid. Those who accuse her are either stupid or malicious!"
The police later took Wang Yuqing back to the police station for questioning, sent people to the crime scene of the non-staple food team to investigate, and also interviewed the people.
Tang Wan, Chen E, Lei Yongxia, Chen Xiang, Cao Huan, Zhao Sufeng, Hua Yan, and Li Xiuer were all taken back to the police station for questioning.
This incident caused widespread panic throughout the entire brigade.
Cao Huan's family is saying everywhere, "We really regret letting our Huan go to the food processing team. Now that someone has died, the food processing team will probably never be able to continue operating, and we've got a bad reputation for life."
Li Xiuer's family also plans to prevent her from working at the non-staple food team in the future.
Everyone was still speculating: why was there rat poison in the snails? Who poisoned them? Could it be Wang Yuqing deliberately getting revenge on Cao Hao?
After hearing this, Ji Daming, Ji Xiaoming, and Ji Meimei ran off to argue with someone. The three children all said that the person had slandered their mother and that their mother could not possibly be that kind of person.
Grandma Ji was extremely worried at home.
The fact that the snails contained rat poison was deliberately spread by Zhao Si and Qian Juan, causing people who had previously bought and eaten snails to say they would never buy them again, fearing they might be the ones eating rat poison next time.
When He Ruhua realized that someone had died, she huddled in her room in fear and refused to come out.
Hua Gui scolded her for being spineless, and said, "What if someone notices something is wrong if you keep hiding like this? You should go to work at the Shuangdai store right away and pretend nothing happened."
He Ruhua cried, "Mom, how could someone die? We only put in a little rat poison!"
Hua Gui calmly said, "Why are you crying? It wasn't you who caused it. Cao Hao died. He deserved it. Who told him to be so greedy?"
But Yang Hui was the one who saw through it.
Not only did he notice something amiss, but he also inadvertently discovered that there was a basement beneath the Cao family's woodshed, where nearly a thousand kilograms of rice and white rice were piled up.
This shocked him so much that he was speechless, because this was not the brigade's warehouse, and there was no reason for there to be so much grain here.
He Guangliang was just a brigade director, where did he get so much grain? And this underground storage was so well hidden, if he hadn't been in charge of chopping wood, he wouldn't have found it even if he had tripped.
He recalled that nowadays, few families have rice to eat, and the small amount allocated each year is saved for the New Year. But He Guangliang's family steams a large pot of white rice every meal.
Suddenly, a thought popped into his head: 'embezzlement'.
Suddenly, he remembered that a few days each month, He Guangliang would go out in the middle of the night, carrying two bags of things on his bicycle, probably to the black market to exchange them for grain.
He had kept this matter to himself, intending to discuss it with Wang Yuqing and Ji Xuening when they returned, but Hua Gui stumbled upon it.
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