Old Madam Shen passed away peacefully.

According to Shen Mengyin, she had just gotten up at night and when she came back she wanted to tuck in the quilt for Old Madam Shen, only to find that her hands were very cold.

She sniffed her breath again, and there was no breath!

Shen Mengyin knelt beside Old Madam Shen's bed, shedding tears: "How could grandma pass away so suddenly? She woke up during the day and talked to me for a long time in high spirits."

"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have fallen asleep."

"If I could stay awake and watch over my grandmother, maybe I could save her in time."

"Even if I can't, I can still know if she has anything else to say..."

She cried pitifully.

Those who hear it are sad, and those who see it cry.

In comparison, Shen Qiyin's reaction was much colder.

She stood upright beside him, looking at the crying Shen Mengyin expressionlessly, and said directly: "Since you blame yourself so much, why don't you just go down and apologize to her?"

Shen Mengyin’s crying stopped.

Shen Qiyin curled his lips and said with a smile: "There is no one else in this room, who are you acting like a filial son and a good grandson for?"

"Second sister..." Shen Mengyin frowned and looked at her with a look of disapproval: "I know you don't like me. Although I don't understand how I offended you, we are a family after all. I will endure it if I can."

"But you should know when to get angry!"

"You are indifferent to my grandmother's death, but you are still thinking of bullying me! Are you a cold-blooded person?"

"Let's take a step back. Even if you want to embarrass me, you should also take a look at the current situation!"

Shen Qiyin lowered his eyes and looked at her, saying nonchalantly: "Does it matter what the situation is when I bully you?"

"you!"

"Okay, shut up!" Shen Cang interrupted the two.

He looked at Old Madam Shen on the bed with a complicated expression.

At this time, Shen Mengyin suddenly said to him: "Father, I always feel that there is something strange about my grandmother's death."

"She was clearly taking medicine and getting better, how could she just disappear like that?"

"The key is that it's fine during the day."

As she spoke, she glanced at Shen Qiyin meaningfully and said, "But after my second sister came, grandma fell into a deep sleep and passed away at night."

Shen Qiyin: "Why don't you just say that I strangled her to death?"

"Shen Qiyin!" Shen Cang shouted angrily, as if he could no longer tolerate her: "The person lying on this bed is your grandmother! Can't you have a little respect for her?"

She was silent.

He seemed to think seriously for a while before he said solemnly, "No."

"you……"

"It's enough that you and my fourth sister respect her so much. I don't need to pretend anymore."

Shen Qiyin's tone was calm, but his words were like thunderclaps that caught people off guard.

She said, "I just said that there is no one else in this room, so there is no need to pretend. I couldn't cry at all when my grandmother passed away, but her death did me no good."

"But it's different for you."

She looked at Shen Mengyin: "Grandmother has passed away, you have to observe mourning."

"It takes nine months to serve the great merit, nine months to serve the minor merit, and nine months to serve the mourning period. It's a total of twenty-seven months, more than two years. Are you going to take this opportunity to ask the Marquis's Mansion to cancel the engagement?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Mengyin's face suddenly froze.

She subconsciously wanted to refute, but Shen Qiyin immediately turned the gun and pointed it at Shen Cang.

"It is said that there is no filial son around a sick bed. Father must have felt that grandma was a burden to you. Now that she is dead, the burden on your back is gone. I am afraid you must be very happy, right?"

Shen Cang was furious: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Whether it is nonsense or the truth, you know it in your hearts."

"I knew it originally, but now you, second sister, have confused me." Shen Mengyin seemed to have suddenly realized something: "My father and I are already grieving over my grandmother's passing, but you, second sister, are judging others by your own standards. I'm afraid you are just the thief crying 'stop thief'."

Shen Qiyin said calmly: "Do you have evidence?"

Shen Mengyin frowned: "Second sister, have you admitted it?"

"If you can't use your ear, you might as well cut it off and offer it to your grandmother." Shen Qiyin's eyes were cold: "I'm asking you if you have any evidence, don't you understand?"

"…I don't have any evidence, but what my second sister said and did makes me suspicious."

Shen Qiyin looked at her quietly for a while, and finally walked to the table and sat down without saying a word.

Tsk, boring.

It's just the same few sentences repeated over and over again, without any offensive power at all.

She was too lazy to play with her anymore.

Shen Mengyin was confused by her sudden action. After a moment's pause, she continued what she had just said and said to Shen Cang, "Father, why don't we report it to the police?"

Shen Cang didn't say anything.

This attitude is very intriguing.

Although he didn't agree, he didn't refuse either.

So Shen Mengyin said, "Think about it, if there is something fishy about grandma's death, and we don't clear her name, wouldn't she be unable to rest in peace in her grave?"

"Once we report it to the authorities, the coroner will have to perform an autopsy. By then, everything will be clear."

After those words were spoken, the room fell into silence for a moment.

After an unknown amount of time, Shen Cang finally said in a heavy tone, "Well, let's report to the authorities."

Shen Qiyin didn't say a word from beginning to end, just watched them perform quietly.

After all, it was late at night, and it would not be so quick to get someone here. After several people waited for a long time, the coroner and the constable finally arrived.

The person who came was still Qian Chuan.

He had just told his colleagues two days ago that the Shen family had been quite quiet recently, but he didn't expect something like this to happen today.

I can't help but praise it.

After Qian Chuan entered the room, he first glanced at Shen Qiyin and saw that her face looked calm, not like someone whose relative had passed away. She was completely different from Shen Mengyin, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying.

Shen Cang, on the other hand, had clearly shown no emotion just now, but when he saw someone coming, he fell on the head of the bed and cried loudly.

"My dear, how can you leave just like that?"

"Your son hasn't had time to give you a good life yet."

"You are an unfilial son!"

As he cried, he even started to sing: "Mom, you are like a silkworm, working hard and being frugal all your life."

"I have suffered so much for my children and grandchildren to accumulate this small fortune."

"I only heard that you lived a long and happy life, but who knew you would leave this world so early..."

"Mother!"

Shen Cang cried bitterly.

Xianglan was laughing in the corner so hard that her shoulders were shaking.

Hahahahahaha…that quite rhymes.

"I can hear you wailing from so far away, it's so annoying!" Li Zhenzhu's voice arrived before she did.

In front of Qian Chuan and the coroner, Shen Cang angrily scolded, "Li Zhenzhu! I have tolerated your rudeness and domineering behavior in the past, but my mother is gone today. If you dare to act like a spoiled child again without knowing the reason, don't blame me for being rude to you!"

He put a lot of thought into what he said.

Not only did he maintain his dignity as a man in front of others, but he also exposed Li Zhenzhu's usually fierce and arrogant face.

As a result, as soon as she finished speaking, the man who was so arrogant just now knelt down beside the bed and cried even louder than before.

"Oh, my poor mother-in-law, why did you pass away when you were fine?"

"It's all because of the master who was always thinking about having a son. He made me drink all those tonics like food, and made me sick. Otherwise, your wife would take care of you herself, and there would be no need for others to do it."

"The fourth girl is young after all, how can she serve others?"

As she spoke, she suddenly lifted up Old Madam Shen's quilt and showed Qian Chuan and the others her back, which was covered with bedsores.

Shen Cang was stunned, then glared at Shen Mengyin fiercely.

The latter was very depressed and wanted to explain, but Li Zhenzhu didn't give her the chance and continued: "I have a bad temper and speak my mind, but I won't abuse the old lady."

Qian Chuan and the coroner looked at each other and said, "Please accept my condolences. Let us check first."

The most important thing right now is to find out the cause of the old lady’s death.

At first, the coroner did not find anything wrong until he examined Mrs. Shen's mouth, when he discovered some medicine residue in her mouth with a strange smell.

He stuffed a handkerchief into her mouth, took out some medicine and examined it carefully, and found that it was poison!

But the strange thing is that apart from this place, other parts of Mrs. Shen's body did not have the expected reactions after being poisoned.

It's more like...

The poison was poured into the mouth only after the person died.

But this was only based on his years of experience in autopsies. If he wanted to convince the whole family, he would probably have to open up the old lady's stomach.

It’s obvious that they would never agree!

really.

As soon as the coroner said it tentatively, Shen Mengyin immediately refused, "How can that be possible!"

"Grandma's death was already unclear. If she is left with no intact body, how will Daddy have the face to see her in the afterlife?"

The coroner lowered his head slightly and said no more.

He is just a lousy autopsy technician, but he thinks he is a god.

I told them that it was possible that he was poisoned after death, but they didn't believe it.

When I wanted to open their stomachs to prove it to them, they disagreed.

There are so many pressing matters!

Shen Cang did not give up and asked: "Is there no other way?"

The coroner thought, why am I hiding something when there is another way? It's as if he wants to turn his mother's intestines over!

But he said, "This is the only way."

At this time, Shen Mengyin suddenly said "Hey", as if she suddenly remembered something, and said: "Grandma said there is poison, where did the poison come from?"

"If we can find the source, will we know who gave my grandmother the drug?"

Qian Chuan said cautiously: "That also depends on where the poison came from."

If the oil paper wrapping the medicine specifies the pharmacy, and they check and identify the person who bought the medicine, this can be considered conclusive evidence.

But if the medicine was buried randomly in some snow pile, they would not be able to identify the culprit even if they prayed to the gods.

Shen Qiyin looked at Shen Mengyin and suddenly asked her, "You serve grandma all day long. Did you poison her?"

"Of course not!" Shen Mengyin looked extremely aggrieved: "How could Second Sister think of me like this?"

"My grandmother doesn't treat me as well as she treats my two brothers. Although I feel jealous sometimes, I will never take revenge on my own grandmother like this!"

"Second sister and I are both women, I thought you would understand what I am thinking."

"Could it be that my second sister was jealous of my grandmother because of this? Did she want to take revenge on her?"

Shen Mengyin thought that this statement could turn the tables on Shen Qiyin, but the latter did not play by the rules at all. Not only did he not deny it, he even nodded calmly: "I've thought about it."

"You..." Shen Mengyin thought she was hallucinating: "What did you say?!"

"I hate her."

"But she's our grandmother!"

"What are you yelling about? I didn't say she was my grandfather." Shen Qiyin said slowly, "Because I'm a girl, I don't blame her for treating me coldly, but she beats and scolds me at every turn, and uses me intimidation everywhere. Mortals have seven emotions and six desires, and it's hard for them to be as magnanimous as saints."

"That's why I hate her."

"But logically, I cannot break the law and treat her as she did to me before."

"No better than my sister..." She sneered and said faintly, "Like a saint, elegant and noble."

When she was still just "Erya" and her identity as "Shen Qiyin" had not yet been revealed, she had intentionally or unintentionally mentioned in front of outsiders that she was not favored at home.

How harsh my parents were to me, how difficult it was for me,

She also expressed the resentment in her heart openly.

So now, there is no need to hide it.

When Shen Mengyin saw that after she said that, Qian Chuan and the coroner looked at her not with rejection or disapproval, but with a hint of heartache, she was so angry!

How could this be?

Shen Qiyin: "You just said that it wasn't you who poisoned my grandmother. Then there are only a few people in this family now. It's either you, my father and my wife, or me?"

“…I, that’s not what I meant.”

"Then what do you mean?"

Shen Mengyin was speechless due to her questioning.

The handkerchief in her hand was about to be torn into pieces by her.

She had never hated the "weak" image she had always created as much as she did now. Otherwise, she would have been able to throw a tantrum and accuse the other party without caring about the consequences.

Instead of being bullied and speechless like this because of caring about your reputation and other people's opinions.

and--

The development of this whole thing was so different from what she expected!

Not the same at all!

However, there was one thing she did say in vain, and that was the source of the poison.

Since it is the only clue at the moment, we have to investigate it.

Qian Chuan and another companion went to search, while the remaining constable and the coroner stayed behind to look after the body of Mrs. Shen.

Although the Shen family's house is much smaller than those mansions of dukes and marquises, it is too big to hide a packet of poison.

It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

The prerequisite is that they have to confirm that there is indeed a "needle" in the sea.

After all, based on their previous experience in investigating cases, if someone really wanted to poison someone, they would most likely not leave any poison left.

If there is, it is used to frame people.

When Qian Chuan found a packet of poison in Shen Qiyin's house, he had a feeling that "it was just as expected".

However, when they returned to Zhuijin Hall, they saw that Madam Shen, who had been dead for a while, had opened her eyes!

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