1. Replacement
Female police chief Zhou Ziqi was summoned by the county magistrate Mr. He to the county government office to discuss important matters. Mr. He told Ziqi that a difficult case had recently occurred in Yun County, a neighboring county of Jingcheng County. The middle-aged man was called Bai Sheng. He committed suicide because he could not bear the pain of illness. His young and beautiful wife Shen Baolian married Huangfu Qing, a wealthy son in the city, a month later. Bai Sheng's only son had been an apprentice in a large herbal medicine store in Beijing. Bai Ma came back from a long distance to attend the funeral, but claimed that Bai Sheng was poisoned to death by Huangfu Qing and Shen Baolian, and brought the two to court. This incident caused a sensation in Yun County, and the people talked about it.
Yun County Magistrate Yun Jin was very troubled by this. The day before yesterday, he specially invited Master He to go to Baihua Mountain to relax. On the way, they saw a woman fainted on the roadside due to heat stroke. They woke the woman up and asked her, and it turned out to be Shen Baolian who had not been seen for 20 years. Shen Baolian, a distant cousin of Shen Yulian, came to Yun County to seek refuge with her cousin. Lord Yun had an idea at the time. Shen Baolian had not seen this cousin since they were separated at the age of six or seven, so she would not recognize her appearance. Therefore, she wanted to borrow Zhou Ziqi, a female constable from Jingcheng County, went to Yun County pretending to be Shen Yulian and entered Huangfu Qing's home to secretly investigate the case.
When Zhou Ziqi heard this, she immediately said that she had no choice but to do it. Lord He took her to meet Shen Yulian and learned about the family situation of the Shen family and the childhood stories between the cousins. Three days later, Zhou Ziqi changed her clothes and came to Yun In the luxurious mansion of Huangfu Qing in the county.
Shen Baolian was very happy about Yulian's arrival, and specially held a banquet with Huangfu Qing to welcome her cousin. Zhou Ziqi saw that Huangfu Qing was handsome and suave, and Shen Baolian was bright and beautiful, especially her pair of peach blossom eyes, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart. , thinking that these two were a perfect match. No wonder Shen Baolian couldn't wait to remarry after the tofu seller Bai Sheng died.
Shen Baolian smiled and said, "When we were young, Yulian and I had the best relationship. I didn't expect that we would be separated for 20 years." Zhou Ziqi tried to probe, "Cousin, when I got here, I heard about the relationship between you and the Bai family. There is a lawsuit going on and people are talking about it, saying all kinds of things. Aren't you worried at all?"
Huangfu Qing sneered: "That was just the kid surnamed Bai making trouble out of nothing! Cousin, why do you always bring up such a disappointing thing!"
Shen Baolian smiled slightly: "Yulian is also concerned about us. But we are upright, there is nothing to worry about!"
Seeing that the two were very tight-lipped, Zhou Ziqi didn't want to ask any more questions and could only drink with Baolian and reminisce about the past.
2. Secret Investigation
Late that night, Zhou Ziqi changed into her nightgown and walked to the door of Huangfu Qing's bedroom. She only heard Shen Baolian sigh and say, "Just now at the dinner party, Yulian asked me if I was worried about the lawsuit. Now this matter The incident has caused a lot of uproar, I am really scared… After all, if it weren't for me, Bai Sheng wouldn't have died!" Huangfu Qing sneered: "He asked for death himself, who can he blame! Sister Lian, don't let your imagination run wild. Something’s going to happen!”
Shen Baolian said, "Brother Qing, I want to go see Aunt Bai tomorrow. She has just experienced the pain of losing her son and is old and frail. Bai Ma has been busy with the lawsuit and may not be able to take care of her." Huangfu Qing said, "That's fine." Okay, bring more bird's nests tomorrow. It's late, let's rest." As he said that, the lights went out.
Zhou Ziqi quietly returned to her room. She couldn't sleep that night. Shen Baolian was going to visit Bai's mother. Was she kindhearted and sincere, or was she pretending to be nice and trying to win people's hearts?
The next morning, Shen Baolian brought a basket of bird's nests and cakes and asked her cousin to accompany her to see Aunt Bai. Zhou Ziqi was naturally very happy. The two came to the Bai family, which was just a small tofu shop and was very poor. Bai's mother called out, "Mother-in-law, the weather has been too hot recently, and our house is small and stuffy. I was worried, so I came to see you. I also brought bird's nest to nourish your body."
"Shen Baolian, stop pretending to be sympathetic!" A young man of about sixteen or seventeen rushed out from the inner room with an angry shout, "Why are you here pretending to be kind? The hatred for the murder of my father cannot be shared. Dai Tian, I will never give up!"
Shen Baolian argued: "Baima, you are mistaken. It was really your father who committed suicide because of his long-term illness…" Baima picked up the basket brought by Shen Baolian and threw it outside: "Save these words for the court. ! Now get out of here! "
Shen Baolian also changed her expression and started arguing with Bai Ma. Aunt Bai couldn't stand it anymore, rolled her eyes and fainted. Bai Ma quickly helped her to the bed in the inner room. Zhou Ziqi thought this was a good opportunity, so she persuaded Shen Baolian to go home first. She stayed behind to help wake up Aunt Bai. Shen Baolian had no other choice but to give a few instructions and then left.
Zhou Ziqi was quite knowledgeable about medicine. She pinched Aunt Bai's philtrum a few times and pressed her temples, and Aunt Bai woke up slowly. Bai Ma was very happy and said to Zhou Ziqi, "Thank you, auntie!"
Zhou Ziqi smiled slightly: "Mrs. Bai must have fainted because of the hot weather and the anger. Do you have paper and pen at home? I'll write a prescription for relieving the heat and cooling down the body. You can go to the pharmacy to get some herbs and boil them for me when you come back. Madam, take it and you will be fine."
Bai Ma hurriedly found a pen and paper, and Zhou Ziqi wrote a prescription. Bai Ma had been an apprentice in a large medicine shop in the capital for two years, and saw that the herbs prescribed were all mint, honeysuckle and other herbs that can cool down and relieve summer heat, which were exactly what he was suffering from, so he Don't worry and go get the medicine.
Zhou Ziqi asked Aunt Bai about Shen Baolian's character. Aunt Bai sighed heavily and said, "I am old and in poor health. Baolian usually brings soup and medicine to me. She is filial. She is responsible for taking care of everything at home and outside. She also helped sell tofu in the tofu shop, which was considered hardworking. Unfortunately, she was not a good wife and flirted with that Huangfu official. Even if my son really committed suicide, it was partly because of his illness and partly because he was angry with them. " Zhou Ziqi felt a little relieved, and seeing that he could not get any more questions out of her, he stood up and said goodbye.
Zhou Ziqi did not go back to Huangfu Mansion directly. Instead, she came to the county government office of Yun County, went around to the back door, and used her lightness skills to climb over the wall to get in.
3. Questions and Answers
Zhou Ziqi came to the study of County Magistrate Yun Jin, who was there. Yun Jin was very happy to see Ziqi. Ziqi told Yun Jin about some of the information she had found out in the past two days, and then asked, "Mr. Yun, , on what grounds did Bai Ma prove that Bai Sheng was poisoned to death?"
Yun Jin opened the case file and pulled out a piece of paper: "Take a look first, this is Bai Sheng's suicide note."
Zi Qi unfolded it and saw the words: "Baima Wuer, Dad is suffering from a terminal illness and the pain is unbearable. Only suicide can stop the pain. I hope you can become a useful person in the future. You must take good care of grandma and ask her to forgive me for not being able to… I will show my filial piety to her again."
Zi Qi said, "It doesn't look like there's anything wrong with it!" Yun Jin explained that the problem was with the character "马" in "白马吾儿". According to Bai Ma, when he was a child learning to write his name, the character "马" was not written correctly. Bai Sheng loved to joke with his son. Whenever he wrote to his son, he would deliberately write the character "马" with three dots under it. This was a little secret between him and his son. , others did not know. However, the "Ma" character in "Baima Wuer" in this suicide note was written as a normal four-point bottom cat , so Baima thought this suicide note was fake. Although the handwriting is very similar, the murderer I didn't know this little secret, so I was exposed.
Moreover, Bai Ma said that when he found his father's body, the doors and windows of the house were all closed, which was extremely abnormal. It was midsummer now, the weather was hot, and the house was small and stuffy. Bai Sheng was always afraid of heat, so every summer They would sleep with the doors and windows open. The murderer must have closed the doors and windows because he was afraid that the poisoning of Bai Sheng would make a noise and expose the truth. Moreover, Bai Sheng died of poisoning. The government also found that Shen Baolian had bought arsenic from a pharmacy. Poisoned rat. In short, in Bai Ma's eyes, the case was full of doubts, and he insisted that Shen Baolian and Huangfu Qing were in love and murdered her husband!
Zhou Ziqi said: "I also saw today that Bai Ma and Shen Baolian don't have a good relationship!" Yun Jin told Zhou Ziqi that seven years ago, Bai Sheng's tofu shop business was pretty good, but Bai Ma's mother died of illness that year. In order to take care of his mother and young son, he used up all his savings to help the Shen family pay off their debts, and then he married Shen Baolian, the only daughter of the Shen family. But Bai Ma never liked this stepmother. It happened that two years ago, someone introduced him to a big city in Beijing. Bai Sheng left home to work as an apprentice in a herbal medicine business, and he only kept in touch with his father through letters. Bai Sheng must have told his son about Shen Baolian and Huangfu Qing in the letter.
After Zhou Ziqi and Yun Jin finished talking about the case, they said goodbye and returned to Huangfu's house. Shen Baolian asked her why she came back so late, and Zhou Ziqi took the opportunity to say, "Cousin, Aunt Bai told me that Bai Sheng suffers from a rare liver disease. The doctors in the city were helpless, and it was only by chance that you met a miracle doctor from another place who prescribed medicine for you and treated you. "
Shen Baolian sighed: "That Dr. Sun is a friend of Brother Qing. He said that Bai Sheng's disease has reached the late stage and cannot be cured. He can only drink his medicine to prolong his life. That medicine is toxic. He relied on "fighting poison with poison" to clear his liver poison. He could only drink a small bowl of it each time. Drinking too much would kill him. Every time I brought him medicine, he would push me out of the room, close the door and drink it himself, fearing that I would It's like it's going to hurt him!"
Zhou Ziqi asked: "Can we ask that miracle doctor to come out and testify? If you really wanted to kill Bai Shengmao , why would you specially ask a miracle doctor to treat him?" Huangfu Qing sighed: "But my miracle doctor After my friend prescribed medicine for Bai Sheng, he went on a pilgrimage again and now he is nowhere to be found. He is a mysterious person who is hard to find and loves to be mysterious! "
"Mystifying?" Zhou Ziqi suddenly had an idea and exclaimed, "I understand!"
Three days later, all the suspects were summoned to court by County Magistrate Yun Jin. When Zhou Ziqi appeared in the uniform of a police chief, everyone was shocked!
Zhou Ziqi said to Shen Baolian: "Your cousin Shen Yulian is now in the Jingcheng County Office. When the case is over, we will send someone to escort her to see you. I am Zhou Ziqi, the head of the Jingcheng County Police. Lord Yun seconded me here. I am investigating your case. After several days of investigation, the truth of this case is that Bai Sheng committed suicide! The reason why there are so many doubts pointing to this being a poisoning case is because Bai Sheng is deliberately making things mysterious! He deliberately asked Shen Baolian to buy arsenic from the drugstore to poison rats, deliberately left a flaw in the suicide note by writing the correct character "马", and deliberately closed the doors and windows before committing suicide. He did all this for only one purpose, which was to put the blame on Huangfu Qing and Shen Baolian made them murderers, and they wanted to vent their anger even after their own death! "
Zhou Ziqi showed the owner of the drugstore his account book, which showed that Shen Baolian had indeed bought arsenic that day, but she only bought five cents. Later, the amount of arsenic found in her room was also exactly five cents, not a cent less. How could she have used to remove the poison? Where is Bai Sheng? And if someone really wants to poison someone, he would never be so stupid as to go out and buy arsenic himself!
Zi Qi summoned Dr. Sun to come to the classroom. He was Huangfu Qing's friend and was specially invited to treat Bai Sheng. He had told Bai Sheng that the medicine he prescribed was a way to fight poison with poison and he must not drink too much. Bai Sheng saw that his time was numbered. There was not much time left, and he was resentful of the relationship between Shen Baolian and Huangfu Qing. He was unwilling to see them living together after his death, so he set up this trap!
Zhou Ziqi took out a soy milk bucket and said that it was found under Bai Sheng's bed. The inner wall of the bucket was covered with drug stains, which had almost accumulated to the top of the bucket. Doctor Sun identified that the drug stains were the drug he had prescribed to Bai Sheng. Left behind by the medicine.
Zi Qi concluded that every day when Bai Sheng got the medicine, he would drive Shen Baolian out of the room and pretend to drink the medicine, but in fact he poured the medicine into the small soy milk bucket. He drank it all in one breath, and then deliberately created confusion and framed them! This was not a case of homicide made to look like suicide, but a case of suicide made to look like homicide. The deceased was deliberately making things mysterious in order to make Shen Baolian and Huangfu Qing the murderers. Buried with him!
At this point, the truth was out, and Bai Ma had nothing to say. After the case was officially closed, Zhou Ziqi had to go back to Jingcheng County Office to report. Shen Baolian and Huangfu Qing came to the post station to see her off.
Shen Baolian said gratefully: "Captain Zhou, thank you for not being swayed by worldly public opinion and investigating this case thoroughly to clear our name. If all the officials in the world were as fair and capable as you, the common people would be blessed." Zhou Ziqi smiled. He smiled and said, "You're flattering me. I can see that you two really love each other. Being rich and powerful is not a sin, nor is pursuing true love. Only being rich and unkind and being false is unforgivable! Unfortunately, there are not many people in this world who understand this truth." Not much…"