Chapter 48: The Liu Family Has a Villain

  Bao Zheng regained his composure and looked at Wang's wife, asking: "Is what Liu's wife said true?"

  Wang did not understand what Bao Zheng meant, and nodded: "Report to Master Qingtian, it is indeed so. My daughter was poisoned by this evil woman, otherwise how could these symptoms appear."

  Seeing Wang's admission that Liu's words were entirely true, Bao Zheng suddenly became enraged and said: "You scoundrel Wang, you don't know what you're talking about, falsely accusing good people, do you know your crime?"

  Wang's wife fell to the ground, staring blankly, and hastily said: "Your Honor, it's a miscarriage of justice! I didn't wrong any good people. It was indeed this wicked woman who poisoned my daughter. Your Honor, please investigate clearly!"

  Bao Zheng coldly snorted and said: "Is that so? But from what you've said, your daughter wasn't poisoned to death, she died of illness."

  Everyone was shocked to hear Bao Zheng say this, and at this time, Bao Zheng gave a signal with his eyes to Hualang. Hualang understood and walked into the main hall, saying: "What Judge Bao said is correct. I have studied the symptoms left behind by people after they died of poisoning. From what Wang and Liu described, it can be known that Madame Liu died of typhoid fever. People who die of typhoid fever have a purple-red complexion all over their body, with their mouth and eyes open, their lips slightly parted, and their fists clenched."

  Hualang said up to here, looking at Wangshi and asked: "Your daughter died before you also went to see her, during her illness, was there purple sweat flowing out?"

  Wang was spoken to by Hualang like that, and he was willing to answer his questions. At this time, a voice suddenly came from outside the main hall: "Indeed, there is purple sweat flowing out. At that time, I went to see Wang Shi."

  Hualang nodded slightly: "Actually, it's not difficult to prove what I said. Find the doctor who has seen Liu Wangshi before and ask him if she had ever had a purple sweat."

  At this time, Wang's expression was extremely tense. She slightly raised her head, looked around and suddenly knocked her head against Bao Xun: "It was the mistake of the humble woman that wronged my husband's family, please forgive me."

  Bao Zheng saw that Wang Shi had acknowledged her mistake and looked very sincere, so he thought of letting her off. Just as Bao Zheng was about to make a judgment, Hua Lang suddenly bowed his hands to Bao Zheng and said: "Lord Bao, it's good that Wang Shi is willing to admit her mistake, but I have a few more questions for her, may I ask?"

  Bao Zheng nodded: "Alright, ask away!"

  Hualang didn't mince words and directly asked Wang: "When your daughter was dying, her body already had a purple color. At that time, you didn't suspect it was poisoning, so why do you suddenly suspect it's poisoning today?"

  Wang's expression was flustered as he said, "I... I also just recently suddenly realized that the purple color all over my body might be due to poisoning."

  Hualang smiled coldly: "I'm afraid someone told you that purple might be poisoning."

  Hualang said so, Wang Shi suddenly fell to the ground again, as if her legs were soft and she couldn't stand up.

  Wang remained silent for a long time, and the Flower Boy gave Bao Zheng a look. Bao Zheng understood and loudly rebuked: "Wang, quickly confess who is behind this, otherwise you will be punished severely."

  As soon as he heard that he would be severely punished, Wang was immediately panicked and quickly knelt down to beg for mercy: "Your Honor, spare my life... all of this was told to me by Liu Xiaolin. He said if I could use this matter to blackmail the Liu family, they would definitely be afraid and give me some money. I thought about how my daughter's body turned completely purple when she died, so I believed his words and came to find trouble with Wang."

  Bao Zheng listened and became furious, saying: "Who is Liu Xiaolin?"

  Mr. Liu heard this and hastily replied, "Your Honor, this young man is my son's cousin, he doesn't study or work, from time to time he comes to me asking for money to spend, I see him as a member of the Liu family too, so I just let it go."

  Bao Zheng nodded slightly and then sent someone to bring in Liu Xiaolin.

  Before long, two bailiffs brought Liu Xiaolin forward. When he saw the two women, Liu and Wang, under the hall, his legs began to tremble with fear. Bao Zheng looked at him and said: "Liu Xiaolin, Wang has already told us everything about you two. You'd better confess quickly."

  Wang's face looked unpleasant, but he had no choice. Liu Xiaolin saw this and could only say: "This thing was indeed done by me ordering Wang to do it."

  Xiao Lin admitted, and Liu's family suddenly cried and angrily asked: "I have not treated you badly in the past, why do you want to frame me?"

  Liu Xiaolin snorted, saying: "Why do you want to frame me? You should ask yourself that. Your son is an official in the capital and wants to take you there to enjoy a life of luxury. I thought you would leave that house by the street for me, but instead, you sold it. And not only did you sell it, but you didn't even leave it for me. Do you still recognize me as your nephew?"

  After hearing Liu Xiaolin's words, everyone felt that this person was mentally ill. The house belonged to the Liu family, and if she wanted to sell it, she would sell it. Why did Liu Xiaolin need to say more?

  At this time, Hua Lang smiled faintly: "Is it that the Liu family doesn't recognize you as their nephew? I'm afraid it's because you're too greedy and selfish, thinking that other people's things will eventually become yours. You saw the Liu family sell the house and were resentful in your heart, so you harbored hatred towards the Liu family, right?"

  "That house should have been left to me in the first place, why did she sell it?" Liu Xiaolin still refused to understand.

  No matter how obstinate Liu Xiaolin was, the house was the property of the Liu family. Whoever she wanted to give it to or sell it to was her own business, and no one else had anything to say about it. So after beating up Liu Xiaolin and Wang Shi, Bao Qu decided to let them go.

  After everyone dispersed, Bao Gong came to the hall and bowed his hands to Hua Lang: "Brother Hua is really busy, such a case was actually touched by you."

  Hualang helplessly shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's not that I wanted to get involved in this case, but the person who bought the Liu family's house is actually me. I went to take a look at the house and ran into this situation."

  Everyone burst out laughing after hearing it.

  But after a big laugh, Bao Gong asked strangely: "Hua brother was living well in the Wen Mansion, how did he suddenly think of buying a house, and still bought one from the Liu family?"

  Hualang did not hide it, and told Bao Zheng about his plan to open a detective agency and the nature of the agency. After listening, Bao Zheng nodded slightly but did not say a word.

  When they left the county government office, it was already noon. Hua Lang and his team had solved two cases in just one morning, and now they felt extremely tired. Although helping others to clear their names was exhausting, they were still happy about it.

  They left the county government office and walked along this street, when they arrived at the Liu's house, they found Mrs. Liu packing things up. When she saw Hua Lang, she hurriedly ran out and said: "Mr. Hua, thank you for your help today, we will leave this afternoon, if you have packed up, please move in."

  Hualang saw this and felt very satisfied, so he hurriedly clasped his hands together and said: "Since mother-in-law wants to leave, then I'll wish her a smooth journey, arriving in the capital city soon to reunite with her son."