Super Time Detective

"Mr. Ye."

At this time, Jiaer looked up at Ye Huairui, and asked pitifully:

"Do you think my father died in a car accident?"

Since the little girl was honest with each other, Ye Huairui didn't want to lie to her.

He answered honestly:

"There is too little evidence now, and I can't be sure."

The look in Jiaer's eyes suddenly dimmed.

"Actually, I know...the police don't need to lie to us."

The girl muttered in a low voice, "But I just can't be reconciled...how come our family is so unlucky, one after another..."

Her eye sockets became moist again.

But this time, Jiaer didn't cry.

The girl took a deep breath, and showed a bitter smile to Ye Huairui:

"You know what the neighbors say about us?"

Ye Huairui could probably guess it, but he still shook his head.

"They said that our family must have committed too many crimes, so we will suffer retribution one after another..."

Jiaer bit her lip, her eyes were full of grievances.

"But... we obviously didn't do anything..."

Ye Huairui had a calculation in his heart.

Siamese people generally believe in Buddhism, and there are many temples, and the theory of reincarnation and karma is quite popular.

Jia Er, a Chinese girl who grew up in Siam, was somewhat influenced by the local religious atmosphere. She also enshrined incense table Buddha statues at home, and would go to temples to burn incense and make wishes during festivals.

Jiaer always felt that her family was poor and lonely, did good deeds and accumulated virtue, and never did evil to others, so why did she become the neighbor who said "doing too many evils"?

The more she thought about it, the more wronged she became, and the more wronged she became, the more angry she became. Her little face was flushed from the suffocation, and her tearful appearance was quite pitiful.

And Ye Huairui has been paying attention to Jiaer's expression.

As a forensic doctor, he has also studied criminal psychology and forensic psychiatry. Even though his main focus is not in the direction of mental behavior appraisal, his relevant knowledge in this area is more than enough to deal with an underage girl.

Based on his observations since entering the door, Ye Huairui felt that Jiaer should not have lied.

Unless her acting skills are good enough to compete for a statuette at a young age, Jiaer probably really doesn't know anything about the events of the year - including her grandfather Xie Taiping being a participant in the Jincheng robbery and where the stolen money went.

This means that even if Ye Huairui reveals the truth of the year in front of her, Jiaer may not be able to provide any clues, but may arouse her hostility and shatter the trust that was hard-won.

—It’s not time for a showdown yet.

Ye Huairui thought to himself.

"So, can you tell me about the circumstances when your uncle, aunt, cousin and grandmother passed away?"

Jiaer took a few deep breaths, trying to calm down.

"it is good."

She nodded:

"However, I may not know much about my uncle and my cousin."

The girl told Ye Huairui that after her father passed away, she had to go back to school, so only her grandmother Du Juan, who had been ill for a long time, was left on the farm, so her uncle would come over to take care of her from time to time.

Ye Huairui raised his hand again, motioning for Jiaer to pause, "Wait."

he asks.

"I know that Ms. Du Juan has been ill in bed for a long time. She must not be able to take care of herself alone, right?"

Seeing the girl nodding, Ye Huairui asked again:

"Then who took care of her when you were not at home?"

Jiaer let out an "oh".

"We've got nannies and nurses, as well as the usual farm workers who help out as well."

Looking back on the past, Jia Er's expression became more and more lonely.

"Later, my uncle and my cousin died, and my grandma followed soon after... I quit my nannies and nurses, and even a lot of workers left."

Ye Huairui understood: "It turns out to be like this."

Next, the story Jiaer told was similar to the information Ye Huairui got from Police Officer Huang.

Four years ago, in early July 2017, Ms. Du Juan caught a cold after a summer rain, her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease worsened, and she needed to stay in bed at home.

So Xie Dong took his son Timmy, who had just graduated from junior college at that time, to live on the farm for a short time, to accompany the elderly and take care of the farm affairs by the way.

As a result, on the 12th, Xie Dong went out in the morning, strolled to a nearby market, bought some fruits and vegetables, and a bag of miscellaneous fish, and took them home to make lunch by himself.

Ye Huairui asked:

"I think you have hired a helper, isn't the helper responsible for cooking?"

"Usually someone cooks."

Carrie replied:

"However, the farm work was busy at that time, and the helpers and workers were very busy at noon, and my uncle didn't like the skills of the helpers, so he often cooked by himself when he was on the farm."

That day, Ms. Du Juan was obviously unwell. She was short of breath and had no appetite. After inhaling oxygen and taking medicine, she went to bed early and did not eat lunch.

Therefore, the curry mixed fish pot at noon was eaten by Xie Dong and Timmy.

Chiang Mai is not close to the sea, and most of the fresh fish here are river fish.

For some reason, two puffer fish were mixed into the miscellaneous fish that day.

Because Xie Dong had no knowledge of handling puffer fish, he just scraped the scales, disemboweled, gutted and gutted the fish like slaughtering an ordinary freshwater fish, and then put it in a pot for stewing. He didn't even remove the highly poisonous liver and ovaries.

Only halfway through lunch, the father and son were both poisoned and fell to the ground paralyzed, unable to even ask for help.

"I heard later that..."

Jiaer tried hard to recall the details she heard:

"When Diau found them, Timmy was already dead. The uncle was still awake, but unable to speak or breathe. Although he was sent to the hospital, the next day..."

Hearing this, Ye Huairui asked:

"Who is 'Diau'?"

Carrie replied:

"Diau was my grandmother's escort, and she resigned after she passed away."

Ye Huairui asked again:

"Where does your uncle cook?"

Jiaer stretched out her hand and pointed in the direction of the aisle:

"There is a kitchen in the back, and our family cooks there."

Ye Huairui stood up and asked, "Can you take me to see it?"

"of course can."

Jiaer readily agreed.

This wooden building is the main house of Bunter Farm. It covers a fairly large area and is where the owner's family lives.

When the family was thriving, this wooden house was quite lively every day, plus the helpers, nannies, and escorts also lived here, and there were not even enough rooms.

Ye Huairui followed Jia'er through the dark corridor to the kitchen in the northwest corner of the wooden house.

The feeling of the kitchen is no different from that of the outhouse. Everything from the stove to the range hood is an old style from ten years ago, and the liquid gas cylinders are still in cans.

"Kaer."

Ye Huairui asked while checking the stove:

"Do you know how the police found out that your uncle and cousin were poisoned by fugu?"

To determine if a person has food poisoning requires identifying the source of the poison.

In common people's perception, it should be easy and simple to tell what someone ate that caused poisoning at a glance.

But this is not the case in practice.

Take the mushroom poisoning that is very common in the southwest region as an example. It is not an easy task to confirm whether someone has eaten poisonous mushrooms and what kind of poisonous mushrooms they have eaten.

Because the vast majority of poisonous mushrooms do not have radioimmunoassay detection methods, or even if there are, corresponding reagents or analyzers may not be available, so experts can only be identified with the naked eye.

But when the eaters showed symptoms of poisoning, those mushrooms had already entered their stomachs.

It’s okay if there are whole plants that haven’t been cooked yet, but often what experts get is incomplete and broken kitchen waste, or the vomit of the eater, or even the chyme in the stomach, and then use these residues to identify What kind of poisonous mushroom is it?

Therefore, there may be only a few such mushroom experts in a province.

If those areas where mushroom poisoning is not common appear suddenly, no experts and scholars who can do identification may be able to find out in minutes, and remote support must be relied on to determine what the poisoned person ate.

Back to Jiedong and Timmy's case.

Eating fugu is the same as eating poisonous mushrooms.

Ye Huairui wanted to know how the Siamese police determined that the two were poisoned by puffer fish.

"Ah? This..."

Regarding this question, Jiaer's answer was not as straightforward as before.

Her delicate eyebrows furrowed, she tried hard to think for a long time, and finally slapped her head:

"correct!"

The girl said:

"The police found the head and tail of the puffer fish in the kitchen trash can!"

Then Jiaer told Ye Huairui that Xiedong's habit of making curry mixed fish stew is to slaughter the fish, remove the head and tail, cut into pieces, put them in the pot, stew them with various vegetables, and then add curry to taste.

"Are you sure the police didn't perform an autopsy on your uncle and cousin?"

Ye Huairui asked Jiaer.

"No."

Jiaer shook her head:

"I heard from the nanny at home that the police only came once after reporting the crime. They found fish heads and tails in the kitchen and said they were poisoned by puffer fish."

Ye Huairui frowned.

It would be too reckless for the Siamese police to draw the conclusion of "tetrodotoxin poisoning" based on the heads and tails of puffer fish in the trash can.

——It would be nice to see the complete file of the case, or at least Xie Dong's treatment records after he was admitted to the hospital.

Ye Huairui began to think about the possibility of calling Police Officer Pob and asking for relevant records.

"correct."

He suddenly remembered one more thing:

"Didn't your nanny and escort have dinner with your uncle and cousin on the day of the accident?"

For Jiaer, who was not there at the time, this question was really out of line.

She had to take out her mobile phone and called the former nanny who was no longer working here on the spot.

Fortunately, the woman was probably questioned by the police, so she still remembered the details of that day, and she answered very clearly and in detail.

She told Jiaer that she went to the farm to help at noon that day, and after helping Ms. Du Juan to sleep, the escort went out to buy nutrition for the elderly according to Xie Dong's instructions.

During lunch time, there should be only Xie Dong, Timmy, and Ms. Du Juan who have fallen asleep in the whole room.