The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1171 - Chapter 1171 1171 Water recedes and rocks emerge 2

Chapter 1171: 1171 Water recedes and rocks emerge 2 Chapter 1171: 1171 Water recedes and rocks emerge 2 “I’m saying you’re the murderer.”

“You…

you’re slandering me, it was clearly you who killed him!”

“Six days ago, he wasn’t even dead yet, to be precise, during the daytime six days ago, he was still alive.

I went to the mountain during the day, and the earliest he could have died was in the evening.

How could I have possibly killed him?” Su Qingyue pondered for a moment, “Let me guess what happened six days ago.

After I beat Zhu Daqi, he definitely didn’t return to the village because the Zhu Family lives in the center of the village.

With that timing, if Zhu Daqi had been injured and entered the village, he would surely have been seen by others.

I asked around, and nobody saw him injured and returning to the village six days ago, which means that after Zhu Daqi rolled down the slope, he didn’t go back to the village.”

That day, after being hit by the pebble I kicked and rolling down the hillside, Zhu Daqi must have run into someone, and it was someone he wouldn’t guard against, an acquaintance.

Then, Zhu Daqi would tell them he was injured and ask to be helped back home.

The person would carry Zhu Daqi on their back, and upon reaching the field ridge, they wouldn’t be able to carry him anymore and would take a break.

Zhu Daqi sat there.

Why do I say the killer was an acquaintance?

Because the killer tricked Zhu Daqi into eating a cake, which contained a deadly poison.

One would be cautious around strangers, but not around an acquaintance.

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After Zhu Daqi ate the cake and the poison took effect, the killer pretended to be innocent and immediately convinced Zhu Daqi to drink a lot of water to try to throw up the poison and then look into how the cake could have become poisoned.

Zhu Daqi must have been panicked.

After drinking a lot of water and vomiting out the poison, he would still be in unbearable pain and want to scream.

At that point, the killer panicked and stuffed a cloth ball into Zhu Daqi’s mouth.

Zhu Daqi wouldn’t have it and struggled with the killer, tangling into a scuffle when he scratched the killer on…

his upper back.”

Zhu Daqi was overpowered by the killer, who stuffed a cloth ball into his mouth to silence him and half-buried him under a woodpile next to the field ridge.

I heard Master Yang Youli mention, without intending to, that five days ago Zhu Nengwen was resting on the woodpile at the field ridge.

Master Yang even greeted Zhu Nengwen, who claimed he was taking a break there after chopping firewood on the mountain.

In reality, he was guarding Zhu Daqi.

Making Zhu Daqi vomit out half of the poison before dying in agony was done to avoid the detection of poison during the autopsy.

The killer didn’t act directly on the slope because there were often passersby on the path, but the field ridge led in a direction where fewer people would pass by.

If the killer were not an acquaintance, Zhu Daqi wouldn’t have followed them while being carried.

By the time Zhu Daqi died from the pain, it was probably already nightfall.

Fearing that people would question why he hadn’t returned home after dark, the killer went back home first.

Then, taking advantage of the late night when nobody was around, he moved the dead body to the bottom of the hillside, even preparing chicken blood to fabricate the scene of Zhu Daqi’s death by a crushing injury.

On the fifth day, early in the morning, the body was discovered.”

Zhu Nengwen was trembling all over without realizing it.

The post-mortem examiner interrupted, “Shouldn’t it have been a scratch on his arm?

How could it be on his upper back?”

Su Qingyue gestured with her hands on the dead body’s arms, “The post-mortem examiner may not have noticed, but Zhu Daqi’s arms were a little longer than average.

A person of average length would reach an arm, but he could reach the upper back.

This can be seen by the fact that there are no scratches on Zhu Nengwen’s arms.

Therefore, when the county magistrate was looking for someone with an arm injury, the real killer, Zhu Nengwen, had nothing to fear.

It must have also been Zhu Nengwen who messed with Li Gui when he was drunk and fell on the road.

Waking up with an injury on his arm, this was because, with Su Qingyue missing, Zhu Daqi sought another scapegoat.”