Chapter 629: Yi Zhonghai Gave His Speculation on the Jia Family Poisoning Shazhu

Some things.

Not spoken.

Can be brushed over on the surface.

Once scrutinized.

No one can guess its consequences.

Just like the Jia family's claim that "Shazhu did not burden the Jia family and ended himself," the loopholes in it are huge.

First.

Shazhu is a half-paralyzed cripple; how could he crawl from the Red Star Courtyard to under the overpass over ten kilometers away?

This is one reason.

Another reason: the Red Star Courtyard is quite a few intersections away from under the Chengnan Overpass; how could Shazhu crawl there without being noticed?

Third, when Shazhu died miserably, his feces and urine froze his clothes into hard armor; if the Jia family had cared for him meticulously, how could his body have been soiled?

The so-called claim of self-destruction.

Is purely a deception.

Once scrutinized, the Jia family will have no good outcome.

This is also the root of Qin Huairu's worry.

She worries that someone saw Bangeng abandon Shazhu; this has become Qin Huairu's hesitation to act against a rat for fear of breaking the vessel, so she dare not overly provoke Yi Zhonghai with words.

Afraid that Yi Zhonghai would break with the Jia family.

After hearing Jia Zhangshi's proposal that the Jia family could provide for Yi Zhonghai's old age and funeral, Qin Huairu sighed inwardly, feeling this was the only effective way to resolve the current dilemma.

Yi Zhonghai is childless; his earlier scheme against Shazhu aimed to have Shazhu support him in old age, and to ensure his own care was flawless, he matched Qin Huairu with Shazhu.

Shazhu kicked the bucket.

Yi Zhonghai's old-age support could then only rely on the Jia family.

This is fundamental.

Unexpectedly, Yi Zhonghai shook his head.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai reject Jia Zhangshi's proposal that the Jia family provide for his old age, Qin Huairu was astonished, astonished that Yi Zhonghai would give a different answer.

She muttered to herself, could Yi Zhonghai have found another supporter for his old age?

After thinking.

She felt it impossible.

Besides Shazhu, only the Jia family remained.

Moreover, given Yi Zhonghai's temperament, he would not trust others with his old-age care.

After a brief consideration.

She felt Yi Zhonghai might be deliberately playing hard to get, still wanting the Jia family to support him, using this retreat-to-advance tactic to seize initiative.

He opened his mouth.

Said a few lines.

"Elder Uncle, don't be polite with our Jia family; you've been good to us in the past, you have no children, Elder Aunt is gone, now you're a lonely old man; when Shazhu was here, he supported you; now that Shazhu is gone, our Jia family must support you—don't think of anything else, don't ask anything; everything you deserve, our Jia family will provide."

Spoken more beautifully than sung.

These words sounded familiar to Yi Zhonghai.

He thought seriously.

Noticed a clue.

Wasn't it just like when Lou Xiaoe brought back He Hui, and Qin Huairu worried Shazhu would flee with the family business, causing the Jia family to lose chickens and eggs, and she said those scheming words to Shazhu?

Except replacing Shazhu with Elder Uncle and tweaking a few modifiers, everything else is exactly the same.

Back then, Shazhu believed the Jia family widow's words and ended up dead and gone; I, Yi Zhonghai, will not make such a mistake.

After all, Shazhu's miserable death is right before Yi Zhonghai's eyes.

He shook his head.

A hint of disdain appeared on his face.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai still putting on airs, Jia Zhangshi angrily shouted.

"Yi Zhonghai, what do you mean? Our Jia family providing for your old age is your honor as Elder Uncle; it's our Jia family giving you face; don't want you to die with no one burning paper for you—don't reject kindness and act shamelessly."

"Mom, say less." Qin Huairu, who had said a few words to Jia Zhangshi, turned to Yi Zhonghai and said: "Elder Uncle, though my mother-in-law's words are harsh, the reasoning is sound; you are my husband Dong Xu's teacher; by the old principle, one day as teacher, lifelong as father; a teacher is half a father; now that Dong Xu is gone, our Jia family supporting you is proper and reasonable; you, don't refuse; let's settle this—you can stay boldly in this courtyard; what we eat and drink, you eat and drink; no one can drive you away!"

"Qin Huairu." Yi Zhonghai glanced at Qin Huairu, speaking with self-mockery: "You said this to Shazhu before, didn't you? 'My Jia family will support your Shazhu; as long as I, Qin Huairu, am here for a day, your Shazhu will have a good day.'"

Yi Zhonghai steered the topic toward Shazhu.

Making the courtyard atmosphere.

Instantly tense.

The Jia family widows first glared at each other, then focused their gazes on Yi Zhonghai, scrutinizing him.

Yi Zhonghai's words.

Broke the Jia family widows' defenses.

Having thought Yi Zhonghai's motive was old-age support, but not expecting his goal to be something else, Qin Huairu felt as if punching cotton.

At that moment.

She calculated her own little plans, hoping to show the Jia family's nobility by caring for Yi Zhonghai, so the neighbors would stop gossiping about certain matters.

Of course.

More importantly.

By meticulously caring for Yi Zhonghai, to extinguish the fact that the Jia family drove out Shazhu, leading to his miserable death under the overpass.

It was considered a plan to clear one's name.

I didn't expect Yi Zhonghai to refuse.

This made the Jia family widow feel it was utterly unbelievable.

How could you refuse?

What qualifications do you, Yi Zhonghai, have to refuse all this?

Could it be that Yi Zhonghai really found someone else for his old-age care?

This bad thought not only appeared in Qin Huairu's heart, but also appeared in Jia Zhangshi's heart.

"Yi Zhonghai, can't you stop farting? Shazhu left the Siheyuan on his own, it has nothing to do with our Jia family, don't force a connection."

Jia Zhangshi's voice.

Carrying a hint of hoarseness from shouting.

As if only this could show one's confidence and highlight the Jia family's innocence.

"Jia Zhangshi, reason isn't in the volume of voice. I remember you, Jia Zhangshi, once said to Shazhu: our Jia family will remember Shazhu's kindness for a lifetime. If Bangeng and his group don't support you in old age, my daughter-in-law Qin Huairu won't let Bangeng and his group off lightly. Those words sounded beautiful, but now they are naked mockery. With Jia Zhangshi here, Qin Huairu here, and I, Yi Zhonghai here, Shazhu was driven out by your Jia family people to die miserably under the overpass. Good deeds go unrewarded — it's my fault toward Shazhu; I shouldn't have matched Shazhu with your Jia family's Qin Huairu."

"Yi Zhonghai, stop pretending sympathy like a cat crying over a mouse. You say our Jia family is at fault, then I say this is your fault, Yi Zhonghai."

"So you admit it was your Jia family who drove out Shazhu, letting him die miserably?"

"Yi Zhonghai, stop farting — when did I admit it?"

"Just now."

"Shazhu crawled out himself to avoid dragging down our Jia family, and died — it has nothing to do with our Jia family. I say, Yi Zhonghai, for your old-age care, are you now starting to pin feces on people?"

"It's not pinning feces, but stating some facts."

"What facts? All are bullshit."

"You Jia family worry Shazhu will take back the family property, so you gave him medicine, yet feared poisoning him to death would bring guns upon your Jia family people. You made Shazhu half-paralyzed, then used words to stimulate him, stimulating Shazhu to crawl out himself. Qin Huairu is Pan Jinlian, you Jia Zhangshi are Wang Po, and Bangeng is Ximen Qing."

"Yi Zhonghai, you bastard, stop farting — how did my grandson Bangeng become Ximen Qing? He is Huairu's son; what Ximen Qing is he?"

Qin Huairu felt weary.

By this point.

Tangled over whether Bangeng is Ximen Qing, tangled over whether she Qin Huairu is Pan Jinlian.

Is it interesting?

No!

Now the dilemma is: think why Yi Zhonghai put the poisoning hat on the Jia family people's heads, why he is so certain the Jia family people gave Shazhu medicine.

Spread out.

What kind of consequences would there be.

This is what matters.

Waving a hand at Jia Zhangshi, focusing attention on Yi Zhonghai, sizing him up from head to toe, Qin Huairu spoke: "Elder Uncle, I must admire your imagination — you actually imagined our Jia family giving Shazhu medicine. Tell me, how did we give Shazhu the medicine? Let our Jia family people open their eyes. If what you say is reasonable, we Jia family people will now go with you to the police station; otherwise, you better shut up quickly, okay?"

"It's just that our Jia family people are kind-hearted. If it were others, who would willingly listen to your nonsense?" Jia Zhangshi saw Yi Zhonghai smiling, urged him: "Speak, what's going on? Can't you say it?"

"I will make you Jia family people convinced. You gave Shazhu sleeping pills. Originally Shazhu's body was slightly weak; he only needed one sleep to recover. But you Qin Huairu, for the Jia family's property, under the banner of caring for Shazhu's body, gave him medicine. Actually, besides cold medicine, what you gave Shazhu also contained sleeping pills."

Upon hearing Yi Zhonghai spout nonsense.

Saying the Jia family gave Shazhu medicine, and it was sleeping pills.

Jia Zhangshi was the first to panic.

I didn't expect Yi Zhonghai to be able to spout nonsense so fluently.

"Yi Zhonghai, you yourself are a muddleheaded vehicle, yet you still think Shazhu is also a muddleheaded vehicle? Shazhu is smarter than you. Sleeping pills are for sleep, cold medicine treats colds. Shazhu is not an idiot — he can tell them apart. You are just talking nonsense, can't even make up lies."

On the faces of Bangeng and the three.

A look of disdain appeared.

Mistakenly thinking Jia Zhangshi's words were the truth.

Only Qin Huairu didn't think this way. Yi Zhonghai saying this must have his reasons. In her heart she hoped things were as Jia Zhangshi said, but Qin Huairu knew this was just a vain hope.

In the past Siheyuan, Yi Zhonghai played the moral blackmail routine to perfection, many people were played by him in his palm, Qin Huairu was also his old-age chess piece, sometimes he even used Bangeng and them.

Her intelligence is ordinary.

When she imagined it, seeing Yi Zhonghai looking at her, he slightly narrowed his eyes.

"Qin Huairu, are you also thinking this way? I believe you won't be like your mother-in-law, so brainless, and you have your three children — I thought you were smart, but didn't expect you all to be idiots."

"Yi Zhonghai, who are you calling an idiot?"

"If you weren't idiots, how could you not know my implied meaning? Possibly you are deliberately pretending to be muddleheaded to show your incompetence, covering up the truth. Qin Huairu, Jia Zhangshi, the sleeping pills you gave Shazhu were ground into powder by you in advance, scattered in boiling water. When feeding Shazhu medicine, you poured the dissolved sleeping pill water and gave it to Shazhu. Unaware, Shazhu drank the water with dissolved sleeping pills, and the whole person sank into drowsy sleep."

"Yi Zhonghai, even if what you say is right, we gave Shazhu sleeping pills — so what?"

"Letting Shazhu sleep is the premise. Only when Shazhu sleeps can you proceed with the follow-up. You first covered Shazhu with several thick cotton blankets, then heated the room warmly. When Shazhu sweated profusely, you removed the blankets from his body and used a fan to cool him down. The sweating Shazhu suddenly cooled — one cold, one hot — guess if Shazhu would get ill? Her so-called half-paralysis came exactly this way."

"You're farting."

"Me farting? Isn't Shazhu not killed by your Jia family people?" Yi Zhonghai scanned the Jia family's Five Animals present, word by word: "This is the secret of Shazhu's death and disappearance. Perhaps before, you really succeeded, but now it's a law-governed society. You say, if I speak this out, what fate will your Jia family people face? By my guess, this matter was done by you five people."

Stepping forward.

He moved closer to Jia Zhangshi by one step.

"This idea, was it your Jia Zhangshi's idea?"

Jia Zhangshi's facial expression.

Changed instantly.

The idea to drive Shazhu out of the house was indeed Jia Zhangshi's idea, and she confidently said this matter had no consequences.

Saying Shazhu cursed all day in the Siheyuan, scolding the Jia family people as beasts, sorry to him Shazhu, given time, would make the surrounding neighbors think the Jia family cold-blooded, and they would avoid the Jia family.

Only by silencing Shazhu could the Jia family permanently preserve their current family business.

You really are a good grandmother to Bangeng, Xiao Dang, and Huaihua. Back then, when Bangeng was little, you personally taught him to steal things. All over the Siheyuan, things were stolen, and when people found out, you helped cover up for him, saying the Jia Family was poor, saying Bangeng wasn't stealing, this was Bangeng creating opportunities for the neighbors to do good deeds, that the Jia Family would help the neighbors gain a reputation for doing good deeds and helping widows. Now you're stirring up Bangeng and them to kill people—do you know or not? If this gets out, Bangeng, Xiao Dang, and Huaihua will all bear the name of murderers.

You're lying, I!

Jia Zhangshi, what kind of person are you? I, Yi Zhonghai, know. If this matter were justified on your Jia Family's side, you would surely make a fuss with me, but you haven't. You don't even know what to say, so I judge that this matter was done by your Jia Family people.

The thumb suddenly shot up.

He gestured individually at the Jia Family's five animals present.

Shazhu has done you Jia Family a favor. If it weren't for Shazhu, your Jia Family wouldn't have the good days you have now. If it weren't for Shazhu, Bangeng might still be alive, but he wouldn't have his current healthy body. Xiao Dang and Huaihua would have been sent away by Jia Zhangshi.