Chapter 2168

The sudden death of Ye Chen's third aunt caught Yuan Zixu and the entire An family off guard.

Her sixteen-year-old daughter almost collapsed on the spot, holding her mother's body and shaking it constantly, crying brokenly, "Mom... what's wrong, Mom... don't scare me..."

An Zhaonan was also about to collapse; he was just about to step forward to check, but was grabbed by his second brother An Kaifeng.

An Zhaonan turned his head, looked at An Kaifeng with a surprised expression, and blurted out, "Second brother, what are you holding me for?! Liqin is in trouble!"

An Kaifeng roared with a dark face, "Look clearly at how she died! Do you still remember how the thug leader just committed suicide by poison?!"

"Suicide..." An Zhaonan's expression was incomparably horrified, and he blurted out, "You... you mean... Liqin committed suicide by poison?!"

An Kaifeng pointed at the body and asked coldly, "Besides suicide, is there any other possibility?!"

Yuan Zixu immediately rushed forward at this time, picked up Ye Chen's third aunt, and said to everyone, "Don't move yet!"

After saying this, he said to the people he brought, "Keep a close eye on them!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he ran out of the private room holding the body and ran toward where Ye Chen was.

Seeing him run out holding a middle-aged woman with no signs of life, Ye Chen's brow furrowed immediately.

Chen Duoduo had seen Ye Chen's third aunt before; although they hadn't spoken, she was a living person just a few dozen minutes ago, and now, when she was carried out by Yuan Zixu, she was already dead. This made her unable to help but step back a few steps and cover her eyes in fear.

Just as Ye Chen was about to ask a question, Yuan Zixu said with a face full of shame, "Mr. Ye, it is my incompetence. Just now, during the search process, all my attention was focused on everyone's hands, fearing they might have some small movements, but I didn't expect this woman to die from poison..."

After finishing, he said with immense annoyance, "I don't even know how she took the poison... I clearly kept a close eye on everyone's hands and confirmed that her hands hadn't moved at all..."

Ye Chen said with a serious expression, "Mr. Yuan, don't blame yourself; this is not your fault."

As he spoke, he reached out and pried open the middle-aged woman's mouth, and sure enough, he found broken dentures in her oral cavity, and at the same time, he found a missing tooth position on the upper left of her gums.

Immediately, he channeled a wisp of spiritual energy into the other party's body and found that the deadly poison had already spread throughout her entire body through blood circulation, even including her brain.

Looking at it this way, this person could not be saved.

Ye Chen could not help but feel horrified in his heart.

From the missing tooth in her oral cavity to the dentures that had been bitten through, it could be seen that this woman was definitely not bought off temporarily, but had long been a member of the thugs, and had even been trained by the thugs' organization into a dead soldier.

Otherwise, how could she have bitten through her dentures and died from poison without hesitation when she was about to be exposed?

This situation made Ye Chen feel a few worries while being shocked.

Even such a massive family as the An family could be infiltrated by thugs, and it wasn't infiltrated at the level of servants, but directly into the range of direct family members—this was truly extraordinary!

One must know that the An family members who came here today, besides the An family's own three generations of old, middle, and young, were only the An family's three daughters-in-law.

That is to say, this woman's identity could be one of his three aunts, or it could be his youngest aunt.

And in Ye Chen's impression, he had only seen his eldest aunt and second aunt when he was young, and he had never met his third aunt, and he hadn't seen his youngest aunt for many years either, so he couldn't confirm who this woman was.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen immediately asked, "Mr. Yuan, did you notice the An family's reaction? Can you deduce who this person is?"

Yuan Zixu thought for a moment and said hurriedly, "There was a man who should be her husband; that man called another man 'second brother'. I heard him mention this woman's name; it seemed to be Liqin."

Hearing this, Ye Chen immediately deduced that this person should be his third aunt.

After all, the only one who could be called "second brother" was his second uncle, An Kaifeng.

And the only ones who could call him "second brother" were his third uncle, An Zhaonan, and his youngest aunt, An Youyou.