The day after Lu Qing and Rong Jinsi were punished to kneel down in the ancestral hall, a major event happened in Linyuan City.

The magistrate's yamen received a report from the people in the city early in the morning, saying that there was a murder case on Zhiyuan Street. The murderer's methods were extremely cruel. In just one night, without anyone noticing, he wiped out a small noble family.

Lou Zhifu immediately sent Nie Butou to check it out, and sure enough, as the informant said, all thirteen members of the little noble family were poisoned and died.

Lin Yuzuo even compared the highly toxic residue extracted from the autopsy with the results of Lu Qing's analysis, and the answer he got was shocking.

Whether it is the highly toxic substance found in the autopsy of Rongji Restaurant, or the highly toxic residue in the body of the thirteen members of the little noble family, they all prove one thing, the murders on both sides are very likely to be committed by the same person.

Once the results of this time came out, it completely aroused the panic of the people in the city.

Every evening, every family felt as if they were facing a big enemy, and the doors and windows were locked tightly, and they kept their doors closed, for fear of encountering some bad people, and they would be wiped out like that little noble family.

The entire Linyuan City was filled with a strange atmosphere of tension, fear, and everyone's self-defense.

……

The dark and damp prefect prison was filled with blood, death, and decay.

Several members of the Western Regions caravan captured yesterday were dragged out one by one and tortured severely. The screams and cries of the prisoners were heard almost continuously in the torture room.

"MD, you bunch of bastards from the rest of the world, whether to recruit or not."

The whip full of barbs, raining non-stop, fell hard on the body of a caravan leader in the Western Regions. Wherever the whip passed, the barbs on it would take off a piece of flesh from the victim.

"Ah~ Injustice, Injustice~"

"Do you still have the fucking face to call for injustice? Don't think that you sold the highly toxic drug without anyone noticing it."

"The people who bought your poison have committed many murders, with more than ten deaths."

The jailer cursed loudly, his words were not just for the tortured, but for conveying a message to the rest of the Western Regions.

The meaning is nothing more than that, because the poison you sold has made our people in Linyuan City miserable, if you don’t tell the truth and hand over the murderer, none of you will live!

"You, ah~, you are, Qu, ah~, tortured into a trick, ah~"

The heart-piercing cry made the rest of the people tremble with fear, fearing that they would be the next to be tortured.

"Beating NMD is a move. We, Lou Zhifu, have obtained definite evidence a long time ago, proving that it is a poison unique to your Western Regions, and the dead in the two cases found the same poison."

"Our prefect Lou is a kind person. Let you take the initiative to confess and only deal with those who sell it. How dare you slander our prefect Lou? You are looking for your own death. Then you should all be buried with the dead."

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he threw the blood-stained whip on the ground, spit on the man from the Western Regions who was covered in bruises and blood, and left angrily.

The dying caravan leader was taken down from the rack by two jailers and thrown back into his cell.

The people from the Western Regions in the adjacent cells looked at each other with a distressed look on their faces, feeling that their companions seemed to be suspicious.

The seeds of doubt have since been planted.

……

The Miemen massacre caused a great uproar in the city, and Lian Kangcheng is now the leader of the restaurant industry in Linyuan City, so he can get a lot of news.

Almost at the first time, he grasped the first-hand information.

Only he knew about the purchase of the poison. Could it be that the caravan leader sold the poison to someone else?

He was very anxious, but those members of the caravan from the Western Regions had already been arrested and thrown into prison by Lou Zhifu the day before.

Even if he wanted to question the other party, there was nowhere to go.

Returning to the mansion restlessly, usually even his wife would wait for him at the door.

Let alone waiting today, the door is completely closed, and no visitors are welcome.

Undoubtedly, Lian Kangcheng, who was already on the verge of an emotional explosion, came back to add fuel to the fire.

This woman is getting worse and worse.

Furious, he called the servant to open the door in a bad tone, and opened his mouth to ask, "Why is the door closed, where is Madam?"

Facing the depressed master, the servant dared not hide anything, and said obsequiously: "Husband, madam and young master are in the mansion. It was the young master who ordered us to close the door to thank guests from now on, and no one will be seen."

"It's against him. I dare to regard myself as the head of the family before I'm dead." He cursed, and walked in with strides like an ostrich.

After walking two steps, I still didn't forget to turn around and shout: "Open the door of the mansion for me, what does it look like when the door is closed in the blue sky and white day?"

As he walked all the way into the mansion, except for a few rough envoys or maidservants, he didn't see a person in charge.

Suspicious in his heart, the pace of his feet quickened a little.

When he came to the backyard, what he saw almost made him angry.

In the only son's yard, a group of maidservants, under the command of his wife Wei Zhenzhen, were loading boxes of things into the carriage.

"Father, father, why are you back?" Suddenly came the voice of the only son, Lian Li Xu, from behind.

As soon as Lian Kangcheng turned his head, Lian Li Xu subconsciously hid the wooden box in his hand behind his back, blocking his father's sight with his tall body.

"What's in your hand?" He knew his son so well that he knew almost nothing except studying and messing around.

He didn't even dare to think about whether Baiweiju could gain a foothold in Linyuan City after a hundred years.

Lian Li Xu took a few steps back guiltily, his eyes wandering as if he was looking for a countermeasure.

"No, nothing, just a little fun."

How could Lian Kangcheng believe his words, and directly ordered his servants to go up and snatch it.

"Master, this is a wooden box, please have a look." The servant presented the wooden box respectfully.

He flipped through the wooden box and found that he was not dying of anger. There was a thick stack neatly stacked inside, which contained tens of thousands of silver bills, among which there appeared to be several thousand taels of gold bills.

This is to evacuate one out of ten of the Lian family's belongings!

"You rebellious son!" Lian Kangcheng raised his hand and hit him.

"Master, you can't beat him. You're just a child like Xu'er. If you beat him up, the Lian family will be ruined." Wei Zhenzhen rushed forward crying, grabbed his arm, and held him tightly. in my arms.

"Really, I'm really angry. A loving mother often loses her children, a loving mother loses her children!" Even Kang Cheng's beard and hair were stretched out in anger, but he couldn't really hit anyone.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on here." Shaking off his wife's hand, he pointed at the people who were still loading the cars.

Lian Li Xu trembled in fear, looking at his mother from time to time.

Wei Zhenzhen took a deep breath as if she had made up her mind, and whispered next to Lian Kangcheng, "Master comes with my concubine, this is not the place to talk."

Glaring at his son again, the family of three walked into Lian Lixu's study.

Wei Zhenzhen closed the door herself, then pulled her son, knelt down in front of him with a plop, and cried, "Master, Xu'er committed the crime of beheading..."

Lian Kangcheng was shocked, just these few words gave him an ominous premonition.

Following Wei Zhenzhen's weeping words, he finally understood that Lian Lixu was responsible for the massacre of thirteen families that caused a commotion in the city.

He was so angry that he picked up the paperweight on the table and smashed it across his head and face, cursing angrily: "I'll beat you to death for being unfilial, and tell me, where did your poison come from?"

Lian Li Xu's forehead was scratched by the sharp feet of the paperweight, and the deep red blood gushed out from the wound.

He let out a miserable cry and covered his forehead, feeling that he was not his father's biological son at all.

How can a father be as barbaric as he is, not to mention protecting his son, but even beating him.

The grievance and resentment in his heart made his eyes turn red instantly under the heavy pressure. Regardless of his mother rushing up to cry and comfort him, he poked his neck and looked at Lian Kangcheng with resentment in his eyes.

"You don't deserve to be my father at all. You can frame Rongji Restaurant. I'm just a pariah. You treat me like this."

"Since you are unkind to me, don't blame me for being unrighteous to you!"

"Let me tell you the truth, I got the poison from your study. Don't think about it even if I die."

Lian Kangcheng was shocked by his words and retreated a few steps, and fell down on the chair.

Even Wei Zhenzhen, who was devoted to protecting her son, looked at her in astonishment. The son who had been pampered by her felt an indescribable strangeness in her heart.

"Snapped"

Loud applause resounded through the study room, Wei Zhenzhen's trembling hands were still hanging in the air, and even Li Xu's fierce eyes shot towards him.

With a backhand slap, he knocked Wei Zhenzhen to the ground, staggered to his feet, "You poisonous woman, if it wasn't for you, how would I have ended up in such a mess!"

"You should die with him, die!" He kicked her hard again, and even Li Xu rushed out of the door.

Lian Kangcheng burst into tears, tremblingly helped his wife up, and looked at his son who snatched the carriage and drove away outside the door, feeling unspeakable bitterness in his heart.

Perhaps this is the retribution for his unscrupulous and seeking of everything.

……

That evening, just after dinner time.

Lou Tairan, who got the first-hand testimony, immediately summoned people to arrest him.

A team of more than twenty yamen servants accompanied Nie Entropy, the first head arrester in Linyuan City, to Lianfu to arrest people.

When a group of people came to Lianfu, the door of Lianfu was opened.

Boy, no one from the servants stopped them, they rushed into the mansion quickly as if they were in a land of no one.

Lian Kangcheng, who was dressed in a navy blue brocade robe and combed his hair meticulously, sat in the main hall with his first wife.

"Since you are here, let's go." Then, he got up and helped his wife whose eyes were still red and swollen, and the two walked out hand in hand.

Nie Entropy raised his hand to stop the yamen servant from putting them in handcuffs and shackles. Without saying a word, he led people around the couple and left Lianfu together.

Give them the last respect. After all, not all murderers have such a high awareness.

Lian Kangcheng confessed to the two incidents of poisoning after an overnight interrogation by Tairan, the magistrate of Linyuan City.

Lou Tairan always felt that something was wrong, but he had no idea, so he could only suspend the trial and call Nie Entropy to ask about it.

"Did you find anything wrong when you went to Lianfu?"

"The only thing that's wrong is that the couple seemed to have expected us to go, so they ordered people to open the door of the mansion early." He thought for a while and then said: "By the way, we searched the whole mansion, but we didn't see him. The only son Lian Li Xu."

Lou Tairan suddenly realized that the problem was Lian Lixu.

No wonder he always felt that some details were not right. Lian Kangcheng was not the one who poisoned the little noble family emotionally.

He voluntarily pleaded guilty, no doubt he was taking the blame for his only son.

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