The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1170 - Chapter 1170 1170 Water recedes and rocks emerge 1

Chapter 1170: 1170 Water recedes and rocks emerge 1 Chapter 1170: 1170 Water recedes and rocks emerge 1 Zhu Nengwen could not argue with her and was left glaring at her fiercely.

County Magistrate Zheng said, “Based on what Su Qingyue has just mentioned, I also feel that Daqi’s death is suspicious, and it wouldn’t hurt to examine the body again!”

He did not care about Zhu Nengwen’s further obstruction and directly led his men to the Zhu Family’s residence.

The fence around the Zhu Family’s courtyard was not high, just a common wooden one, allowing one to see inside.

A crowd of people was gathered outside the courtyard.

County Magistrate Zheng and his entourage entered the Zhu Family’s Firewood Room.

Su Qingyue glanced at the dead body and said to County Magistrate Zheng, “Adult, the deceased’s skull is smashed, and there doesn’t seem to be much blood.

Don’t you think the bloodstains on his head and body are too few?”

“Indeed,” County Magistrate Zheng agreed after her reminder and ordered the post-mortem examiner, “Check whether the blood on the clothes of the body is chicken blood or human blood.”

“Yes.” After a thorough examination, the post-mortem examiner shivered and exclaimed, “Ad…

Adult, upon close inspection, it is indeed chicken blood.”

Su Qingyue added, “To be precise, there is both chicken blood and human blood.”

She took out gloves from her sleeve pocket, put on the gloves, and then pried open the dead body’s mouth, “Please look, adult, there are tiny crumbs of cake stuck between Daqi’s teeth.”

The post-mortem examiner said, “The deceased had eaten something before death, what does that prove?”

“He was not killed by blunt force, he was poisoned to death.”

“Just because he had eaten something means he was poisoned to death?

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I examined his esophagus and stomach, and found no poison.”

“You didn’t examine carefully enough.” Su Qingyue took out a packet of prepared silver needles, selected the longest one, and inserted it into the deceased’s esophagus.

When she pulled it out, the tip of the silver needle was black!

“How is this possible?” The examiner was surprised, “When I examined it earlier, the silver needle showed no reaction to poison…

”

Su Qingyue changed to another silver needle and inserted it into the body’s stomach.

At first, she pricked a spot and found no poison, but on the second prick, there was a faint reaction to poison.

“This…” The post-mortem examiner, County Magistrate Zheng, and Hua Lizheng, the village chief, were all stunned.

After confirming the presence of poison, Su Qingyue took a clean silver needle and picked out a tiny bit of cloth from between the teeth of the dead body, “These cloth scraps certainly do not come from something edible.”

County Magistrate Zheng was also a clever person, “The deceased was silenced with a cloth ball stuffed into his mouth before his death.”

“You are wise, adult.” Su Qingyue illustrated using the body, “Most of the blood on the skull of the body was smeared on chicken blood.

Dying from poisoning was the real cause of death.

The deceased was poisoned first and then had his skull smashed afterward, deliberately creating the false appearance of a death by blunt force.”

“Why would the killer do that?” County Magistrate Zheng did not understand.

“Because I had hit the deceased, and the murderer wanted to frame me.

If it was discovered that the death was by poison, wouldn’t that inconveniently point to me?”

“Why would sometimes the poison not be detected, yet other times it is?”

Su Qingyue sighed, “This is where the killer’s cleverness lies.

Right after the victim ingested the poison, the killer either made him drink lots of water or forced water down his throat, causing him to vomit up the poison.

The amount of water flushed the esophagus and stomach, which means if the silver needle isn’t inserted precisely in an autopsy, it might not detect the poison.

If no poison is detected, the death would naturally be attributed to blunt trauma.

However, even after vomiting up a large quantity of water, the residual poison was still enough to kill him.

Once he vomited up the water he drank, the pain would have caused him to scream, so the killer stuffed his mouth with a cloth ball to prevent anyone from discovering it.”

Her gaze shifted, sharply turning toward Zhu Daqi who was eavesdropping outside the door, “Isn’t that right, Zhu Nengwen?”

Zhu Nengwen trembled all over, “I…

I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”