Lu Jinping said: "I told you that I am good at solving cases, but you don't believe it. Now, please give me a chance to prove my ability. At most one hour, I will solve this case and find out the real murderer. If I can't solve it in one hour, you can go and sue the yamen. What do you think?"

After Lu Jinping’s reminder just now, Mr. Gao did not want the yamen to interfere in the case if it was not a last resort. After thinking for a while, he said, “Since there are only a few people around my daughter, I will definitely find out the real murderer if I torture one by one, and you don’t need to intervene.——Come! Call me all the wife, second aunt, and the maids and mothers around me. I want to find out who the murderer is!”

Lu Jinping shrugged and retreated to the side with his hands behind his back.

After these people came, they saw the dead dogs lying on the ground, the third aunt kneeling on the ground, and the old man staring at them with a dark face. They were all shocked and didn't know what had happened.

Old Master Gao said: "Someone poisoned the lady's meal! It is impossible for outsiders to enter. Therefore, the person who poisoned the lady was the one among you. This person has been poisoning the lady, first in a small amount, and then the number increased. Now he wants to poison the lady to death immediately. Tell me! Who is it? Otherwise, I would have to torture one by one!"

These words scared his two wives, concubines, and maids and mothers knelt on the ground and kowtowed and shouted for justice.

Mrs. Gao said, "Master, I've been in the house all day today and haven't even left the house. How can I poison the lady? My personal maid Han Yu and several mothers can testify."

Her maid and her mother quickly proved that the old lady had never left the room all day.

The second concubine also cried and said, "This morning, after I knew that after the lady came back, I thought about making two dishes for her to eat in the afternoon, so I took my maid Qiuju and Dongmei to the street to buy vegetables. I was relieved to the dishes I chose myself. They kept following me. I was called over when I just returned to the yard. I didn't have the yard all morning, so I couldn't poison the lady. Master, I'm wronged."

Old Master Gao's eyes fell on the maids and maids and servants again. These people quickly looked for witnesses to prove that they had not poisoned them. After some investigation, they could find relevant witnesses to prove that they had not been exposed to food or went to the kitchen and had no way to poison them.

Old Master Gao was stunned. After thinking about it, he suddenly remembered something and ordered the official: "Go! Call me all the chefs in the kitchen and the mothers who helped the chef. Since it is not these people, I guess it is just them, hurry up!"

Soon, after the chef and the old woman who helped the chef were brought in, they saw that there were so many people kneeling on the ground. They were so scared that they knelt on the ground, but they didn't know what was going on.

Old Master Gao said: "Someone poisoned the lady's meal and wanted to poison the lady to death. Are you a few of you? Tell me quickly, otherwise you will be better than death!"

Several chefs repeatedly shouted about the wrongdoing, saying that they had never touched the meals that the third aunt had cooked for Miss Gao before. They were made by the third aunt himself on the kitchen, and they could testify to each other.

Several cooks also testified to each other, but they did not get close to the kitchen stove of the third aunt.

Old Master Gao stared at the third aunt with fierce eyes and said, "Since they have no chance to poison it, now it seems that you are the only one who can poison it! Say! Why do you want to poison your daughter? She pretended so well in front, but it turned out to be a scorpion heart!"

The third aunt was trembling all over and sat on the ground, not even knowing how to tell her.

Old Master Gao shouted angrily: "Come here, hang up this bitch and beat me until she confesses to you!"

Several servants looked at each other and didn't dare to step forward. After all, this was the hostess. Now the old man said he wanted to fight and regretted it in the future, and he would blame them for offending the hostess again, which would be miserable. He looked at the thick and thick-skinned mothers together.

Old Master Gao also realized that he could not ask a male servant to touch his woman. Even if this woman violated the family law, the national law. He immediately pointed to the thick mothers and said, "You guys do it, tie up this bitch and hang it on the beam and beat it! Hurry up!"

When the mothers saw that the real murderer was found, their suspicion was cleared, and they breathed a sigh of relief. But when they asked them to beat the hostess, they were scared. However, the old man gave the order fiercely, how could he dare not obey? He rushed up like a few black bears, pressed the third aunt on the ground, and someone ran to find a rope.

The third aunt woke up from the extreme horror and screamed miserably: "It's unfairly accused--! Master, I'm unfair! My daughter is my heart. I would rather cut my heart than hurt my hair! How could I poison my only daughter to death? Master, I'm unfairly accused--!"

"Fuck! What you did before is for people to see. I just want to know why you killed your daughter with a poisonous hand? Who ordered it? You have to make it honestly for me! - Hang it up and beat me hard! Try until she says it!"

The rope was quickly found and I wanted to tie up the third concubine.

Lu Jinping whispered loudly: "Don't tie it up first, listen to me."

Of course, those mothers would not listen to him and continued to tie him up. Old Master Gao glanced at Lu Jinping and thought that if it weren't for him, his daughter would have been poisoned to death. Maybe he had any different opinions, it would be better to listen to it. So he waved his hand and said, "Wait, listen to what Master Lu has to say."

Several mothers stopped and looked at him.

Lu Jinping said: "The person who poisoned the poison is not the third concubine, but another person. If you beat the third concubine like this, you will definitely be beaten up. You wrongly accused the good man and indulged the bad man. If the poisoned bad man is not really caught, your daughter will be poisoned to death by the murderer sooner or later!"

The latter sentence shocked Old Master Gao. Indeed, this poisoned person is by his side. If he doesn’t find the accuracy and does not dig out the real murderer, it is very likely that this person will even poison his daughter!

Mr. Gao asked: "Why do you think it's not her?"

"It's very simple. Everyone saw that the food was cooked by herself and brought by her. If she wanted to poison it herself, the first person she was suspected was her. Will the murderer be so stupid and so obvious? If it was really the third aunt who wanted to kill her daughter, she had many opportunities and didn't need to poison it without any other conditions that could be shirkable. I think the third aunt is still very smart, not the kind of stupid person. Besides, the true love she has shown to be from the heart of her daughter in my house these days. This kind of mother-daughter relationship cannot be pretended to be. With such emotions, there is no possibility of poisoning her daughter."

When he heard Mr. Lu talk for her, the third aunt was so moved that she knelt on the ground and cried with a whimper.

The old man pondered for a moment, and thought that Lu Jinping made a lot of sense. In fact, he didn't believe that the third concubine would poison her and kill her biological daughter. He couldn't find a reason to explain this. So he nodded and said to Lu Jinping: "Since that's the case, who did the Lord think that poisoned her?"

Lu Jinping smiled at the corner of his mouth and said, "Is Mr. Gao entrusting me to solve this case?"

Old Master Gao originally thought that this case should be easily solved. After all, the poisoned person is around him, and there will be no outsiders. Torturing these people one by one will definitely be forced out. However, all the suspects can clearly state that they have no chance to commit the crime and have sufficient evidence to prove this. The biggest suspect is the biological mother of his daughter, but the biological mother obviously has no motivation to kill his daughter. In this way, all the suspects either have no time to commit the crime or have no motive for committing the crime. This case makes Old Master Gao feel that he has no way to start.

If everyone is really beaten and questioned, most people will definitely be tortured but confess randomly. In this way, they will also be unable to figure out who the murderer is.

Now that Lu Jinping has brought up the old words again, he couldn't help but feel moved. Since he couldn't find out the murderer and was unwilling to let the yamen intervene in this case to avoid the rumor of family scandals, it would be better to let Lu Jinping check it out. So Old Master Gao nodded and said, "Okay, please ask the Lord to help investigate the case and find out the real murderer!"

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Chapter completed!