Mr. Fang’s reasoning is easy to understand.
If the groom really intended to elope, it would be understandable that he asked his twin brother to take the blame to avoid a family scandal. But he was called by his mother-in-law. What kind of reason would make him give up his bride and let his brother take his place on this crucial day of his life
I'm afraid it's not "voluntary" but "forced".
Although the biological mother may not necessarily harm the child, it is not certain. If she planned the scapegoat incident, there is no guarantee that she will take more drastic measures.
"Ms. Jian, I hope you can find Xiaoyan as soon as possible." Mr. Fang said "hope", but there was no difference between his tone and command.
Jian Jing said: "I'm not good at finding people, and the murderer hasn't been found yet. He is also your son, isn't the truth important?"
"The dead cannot be resurrected, so the peace of the living is more important."
"She already lost one child, why would she hurt another?" Jian Jing laughed sarcastically, "The chairman is very powerful, he must have a way to solve it."
The landlord crossed his hands, rested his chin on his folded fingers, and stared at her: "Miss Jian, few people dare to talk to me like this."
Jian Jing's reaction was just to tilt her head slightly.
The landlord smiled.
At his age, he may not be lenient to his subordinates and may be strict to his children, but he will not be too angry with beautiful girls who are different from others. Their rebelliousness and edges are "personality" in his eyes. Although Jian Jing's rebuttal caught him off guard, it also won his praise.
"Do you still want to continue tracking down the murderer?" he asked.
Jian Jing thought for a while and nodded: "Yes."
"Since you insist, I have no reason to stop you." The landlord said, "Find out the murderer who killed my son."
After sorting out the two issues of disappearance and death, interference factors were eliminated and the case suddenly became clear.
First of all, it can be confirmed that the murderer wanted to kill the groom. The poison must have been prepared in advance, and the substitution was a sudden event, and he should not have been aware of it.
Therefore, the dead were the twin brothers, but the motive for the murder was to be found on the groom.
The time when the poison was administered was undoubtedly after the packet was switched, which was after 10:40.
The crime was committed in more than two hours from 10:40 (when the fake groom returned) to 13:30 (when the body was discovered).
There are many ways of nitrite poisoning, but I don't think the deceased would be stupid enough to be injected with drugs - there were no needle holes on his body - it should be the most common way of poisoning in food.
The things that were sent for testing just happened to have results.
Both the vomit and the blood were confirmed to be nitrite, but no poison was found in the food delivered.
Jian Jing reviewed the whole process.
The wedding was held from 11 to 12 o'clock. During the wedding, the groom did not eat any food but drank grape juice, while the other groomsmen drank wine. But if the poison was put in the grape juice, it would take effect very quickly, and he should have vomited and had abdominal pain in just over ten minutes.
But the fake groom was very normal at that time.
Considering that there is no guarantee of the time when the poison will take effect, she tends to believe that the murderer did it after the wedding, so that he would have more time to destroy the evidence.
In this case, there are very few people who can take action, only relatives or groomsmen.
We still have to find the method of poisoning to find the murderer.
She returned to the scene and looked in the waiting room to see if there were any fish that had slipped through the net.
There are many foods in the waiting room and the lounge: trays, candies, biscuits, cakes, drinks, nuts... But except for the trays, all are sealed and difficult to get.
Jian Jing remembered that the bride said that the groom loved to drink soda water, but the soda water in the room was all bottled and had been sent for inspection.
She counted the empty bottles in the trash can and the number of bottles sent in, and there were exactly six. For aesthetic reasons, the soda bottles were arranged in 5x3, and the number of bottles missing matched that.
How did they do it
She found the club attendant in charge of the groom and asked him, "Besides the plates, have you sent anything else today?"
Anyone who can work as a waiter here definitely has a good memory: "Yes, we delivered drinks."
Jian Jing immediately said, "Do it exactly the same way for me."
"OK."
Twenty minutes later, five cocktails were served.
The waiter pointed out: "This cup of 'Love River' is a special one in our club, only for newlyweds."
Jian Jing picked up the bottle of Love River. The red, transparent wine was in a peach-shaped glass. It was clean and clear. When the light shone on it, it looked like a dream and no longer had the name of Love River.
This should be for the groom.
She took a sip and it tasted sweet and slightly sour.
Nitrite is alkaline, salty and slightly smelly. It might be OK to put it in soda water, but wouldn't it taste weird in this sweet cocktail? And if someone drinks it and gets poisoned on the spot, the club will definitely investigate it strictly, and if the murderer takes over, it will be very obvious.
Jian Jing was thinking hard and unknowingly finished the whole cup.
"What did you say to your uncle? Why are you drinking alone here?" Best Man Lu came over again and took a sip of a martini. "Did you get scolded?"
Jian Jing asked: "Have you ordered these drinks?"
Best Man Lu raised his glass: "Yeah, what's wrong?"
"When was it delivered?"
"Let's go at 12 o'clock. I'm tired of drinking red wine. Let's change the taste." Best Man Lu shrugged.
She asked carefully: "Who brought it? Did the groom drink it immediately?"
Best Man Lu said, "Waiter, Xiaoyan was in the bathroom. When he came out, we were ready to eat." He thought again, "After he came out, he took a sip of the wine. What? Was there poison in the wine?"
Jian Jing slowly shook her head and suddenly asked, "Have you told anyone else about our discovery of the secret staircase?"
"I did." Best Man Lu asked curiously, "They asked me, so of course I told them."
She nodded and said slowly, "Well, I want to ask you something again, let's start from A. I want to ask you something individually."
Best Man Lu said: "You can ask me first."
"I want to ask Xiaorou." She glanced at him and said calmly, "Do you know?"
Best Man Lu: "... I'll go get someone."
a came quickly. After a day of hard work, he had some fatigue in his eyes and brows: "You want to ask Xiaorou?"
"Yes, what is her relationship with the groom, how did they meet, and why did they break up?" Jian Jing asked carefully.
A is indeed a good friend of the groom, and he knows this very well: "Actually, Xiaorou can't be considered Yanzi's girlfriend, she's just... how should I put it, she's just playing around. We often meet girls who take the initiative, and if we can't chat with them, it's just a one-night stand, and if we can chat with them, it might last for a few months, and sooner or later we have to break up."
Jian Jing frowned but did not interrupt him.
"Xiao Rou has been with Yan Zi for a long time, two or three years, and she thinks she is the real deal. In fact, when Yan Zi was dating her, he had other girlfriends, but they broke up. This makes her stand out."
A's tone was calm and indifferent: "More than half a year ago, Yanzi met Rongrong and they started dating officially. After meeting her parents, she broke up with Xiaorou. I heard that she had a fight a few times, threatening suicide, jumping off a building, and getting pregnant. I helped Yanzi give her some money and let her go."
"According to what I have heard, the groom is not a man who loves each other for a long time. Why has he been dating Xiaorou for so long?"
"Xiao Rou used to be quite sensible and was very much like Yan Zi. But as time went by, she lost sight of her own status and position and wanted to marry into the Fang family." A shook his head and stopped talking.
But his face was full of "ungratefulness".
Jian Jing took a deep breath and continued to use the state of the concentration card.
—Reasoning should be calm and not mixed with too many personal emotions.
"No other questions. By the way, call C over."
Best man C was the shortest among the best men, but he had fair skin, like a girl. He was a little uncooperative with Jian Jing's interrogation: "What do you want to ask?"
"How is your relationship with the groom?" Jian Jing asked.
Best man C said: "Brother Yan is very good to me and takes good care of me."
Jian Jing asked: "For example?"
"He lent me money and never forgot me when he did something good." Best man C was suspicious, "Why do you ask this?"
"I want to know what kind of man the groom is." She said calmly, "Go on."
Best man C, however, became alert: "Nothing."
"Then let's talk about Xiaorou." She said, "I think she is a major suspect."
Best man C sat up straight, looking surprised: "Xiao Rou?"
Jian Jing asked, "Do you know how they met? If the groom is as good as you said, why did he break up with her and immediately marry a girl he had only known for half a year?"
Best man C hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother Yan never thought about marrying Xiaorou, he was just playing around."
"He didn't answer me how they knew each other."
He was silent for a moment, then whispered, "Xiao Rou came to a party with her friends, and that's when she met Brother Yan. But she's just an ordinary girl, and murdering someone... I don't think she's that kind of person."
"Are you familiar with Xiaorou?" Jian Jing asked casually, as if she had just remembered something. "By the way, didn't you contact Xiaorou before? Is she still in this city?"
Best man C was slightly embarrassed: "The friend I called couldn't find her, and her phone number has also changed."
"She changed her phone number? It seems like she was well prepared to escape." Jian Jing lied calmly, "Is there anyone else in her family?"
The best man C said: "I don't know."
"real?"
"You doubt me?" Best man C stood up suddenly, his face flushed, "I told you, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want."
Jian Jing said, "Of course I have my reasons for saying this - you feel very sympathetic towards Xiao Rou, right? The other people all look down on a woman like her who is trying to get close to someone powerful and wealthy, so why should you defend her?"
"She can't even get into the wedding today, how can she kill someone?" Best Man C said coldly, "I just have reasonable suspicion."
"You're right to be suspicious." Jian Jing said, "There's actually only one person who can kill someone today."
Best man C had been preparing a lot of rebuttals, but he didn't expect her to skip the middle steps and directly reveal her true colors: "Are you saying that I'm the murderer?"
"Yes."
Her tone was very calm, as if she was reading aloud the news in the newspaper: "Due to special circumstances, the time for poisoning can be shortened to between 12 o'clock and 1:30, and only a few of us can do it."
Best man C said coldly: "Then why me?"
"Because at 12:15, he was the only one who saw the groom." Jian Jing said, "The nitrite poisoning reaction is very fast. The others have alibis. He was the only one who returned to the lounge during that time."
The best man C asked, "Is there any evidence? He said I poisoned him. How did I do it?"
"Indeed, the method of poisoning has troubled me for a long time." He saw the beautiful girl in front of him relax her body, leaning back in the velvet armchair, fingers crossed, full of the calmness of a famous detective, "No poison was detected in the food and drinks at the scene. Under the circumstances at the time, it was impossible to force the poison into her body."
Best man C said: "So you are just talking nonsense and making me a scapegoat?"
Jian Jing ignored him and said slowly: "But I figured it out later. In addition to secretly giving the drug and forcing it in, there is another way, which is to actively let the deceased take the drug."
"Is he crazy? Who would take poison on their own?" best man C retorted loudly.
"No, it's not poison, but what about medicine?" Jian Jing asked, "He is allergic to alcohol. If someone tells him that the drink he drank before contained alcohol, what if he takes anti-allergy medicine?"
The best man C was like a chicken with its neck strangled. He suddenly lost his voice and looked at her in horror.