The person in charge of paying the money was Xu Zhenbo. Li Tiangong looked at Lin Shuyue who came out to fetch water and narrowed his eyes in confusion: "Brother Xu, is this your relative?"
Xu Zhenbo glanced at Lin Shuyue and said, "Yes, she is my sister. She came here to see her sister-in-law and to work here."
Hearing the two people mention herself, Lin Shuyue looked at them and smiled innocently.
Xu Zhenbo answered very naturally. He had practiced this sentence, including Lin Shuyue or Ye Xueyu's background, many times at home.
Xu Zhenbo took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and lit it for Li Tiangong.
Li Tiangong took a deep breath and blew out a smoke ring: "Your sister is very beautiful. Is she married?"
Xu Zhenbo's hand holding the lighter trembled: "Brother, you know what happened over there. Girls don't go to school and get married early. She's already this age. If she doesn't get married sooner, my family will laugh at her. Her husband is here too. He's working in the factory in front. She'll stay here for one night and go back to work tomorrow."
Li Tiangong didn't say anything else. He waited until Lin Shuyue and Ma Yanzhi had moved six buckets of water before he drove the water truck away.
His water delivery business was very successful. He would start delivering water at midnight every time, because many breakfast shops in Pengcheng opened at 5:30, and the porridge and noodles cooked with spring water were more delicious than those cooked with ordinary tap water.
In order to boost their own business, many merchants ordered mountain spring water from Li Tiangong. Li Tiangong was also a big boss, and he had one or two employees under him, but he always delivered the water to Pengcheng personally.
Six buckets of water were placed in the living room, and the previous five buckets of water were also loaded onto Li Tiangong's water delivery truck.
Li Tiangong started the car and drove away after a while.
It was very dark tonight, and there was no light in the house. Because Li Tiangong was a very vigilant person, and he discovered that Lin Shuyue of following him yesterday at noon, so Lin Shuyue and others did not dare to act rashly.
After turning on the light for a short while, Lin Shuyue turned it off.
Lin Shuyue and Ye Xueyu were not in a hurry to leave and stayed in Ma Yanmin's room.
In the dark room, even the cell phones were muted and no one was talking at the moment.
Half an hour later, Wu Dongyan, who was guarding the door, sent a text message to Lin Shuyue and Ye Xueyu, saying that Li Tiangong had already left the community.
But they still didn't communicate much. Three minutes had passed since they received Wu Dongyan's message, and during these three minutes, they did not receive any text messages from Hang Jiabai or Zhao Youcheng.
The two of them were squatting on the left and right sides of the community respectively.
According to Li Tiangong's small truck, he should be able to drive out of the area guarded by Hang Jiabai or Zhao Youcheng in three minutes.
But ten minutes passed, and neither Hang Jiabai nor Zhao Youcheng saw Li Tiangong. This showed how vigilant he was.
Lin Shuyue felt that if she hadn't turned on the good and evil radar at that time yesterday, she would have been confused about why Ma Yanmin loved to drink water so much, but the good and evil radar was not triggered and with Dr. Zhao's endorsement, she would probably not have discovered the trick.
Then demons like Li Tiangong will go unpunished and continue to commit crimes.
Lin Shuyue also thought about it carefully. She did not trigger the key words of the case in the hospital because the water Ma Yanmin drank in the hospital was normal water, and the lead content in it did not exceed the standard.
Her guess was confirmed by the test information she received at 2 o'clock last night after the sample was urgently sent for testing.
Previously, there were five buckets of water in Ma Yanmin's living room, three of which had been drunk. No lead was found in the water remaining at the bottom of the bucket, but the lead content in both the unopened water and the opened toilet water exceeded the standard.
Fifteen minutes after Wu Dongyan sent the message, Hang Jiabai sent a message saying that Li Tiangong had passed the area where he was waiting and headed north. But because it was pitch black inside Li Tiangong's cab, he could not be sure whether the person in the cab was Li Tiangong himself.
This means they need to wait and see.
The waiting time is undoubtedly anxious, and the existence of darkness magnifies this anxiety infinitely.
In the traffic control office, Jiang Zhou, a member of the Hangjiabai team, and three of his colleagues were concentrating on monitoring the road where Hangjiabai was stationed and the two roads next to it.
It was almost four o'clock, when Jiangzhou's eyes were red from staring, that he finally confirmed from the surveillance camera near the breakfast shop where the lights were brighter and could clearly illuminate people that the person who got out of the cab of the water delivery truck was Li Tiangong himself.
The message was sent to Lin Shuyue and Ye Xueyu's mobile phones, and they both breathed a sigh of relief.
Ye Xueyu walked to the window, opened a corner of the curtain and looked outside, then she returned to the room and tiptoed, "This Li Tiangong's anti-detection awareness is really too strong."
If they had been a little careless just now, something might have happened. His patience was really good. Maybe during the half hour when he did not leave the community, he was squatting under the window sill of Ma Yanmin's house, monitoring them closely.
Thinking of this, Ye Xueyu, Ma Yanmin and Ma Yanzhi all shuddered.
Lin Shuyue didn't say anything. Her good and evil radar had been on all the time. During that half hour, Li Tiangong was indeed very close to them.
Lin Shuyue deeply agreed with Ye Xueyu's words: "I followed him for a distance yesterday, and he found me. In order to pretend that I wasn't following him, I had to turn into Jiutang Town."
The other road in Jiutang Town was really hard to walk on. It was narrow and small, full of potholes, and on both sides of the road were either rice fields or ponds. Lin Shuyue had to put a lot of effort into driving, for fear of accidentally entering a rice field or pond.
It would be okay if she entered the rice field, she just had to pay some money, but if she entered the pond, it would be a disaster. Even if she could swim, it would take a lot of effort for her to get out of the car.
Ye Xueyu and Ma Yanmin leaned against each other and said, "You can sleep peacefully. We are here tonight to watch over you. We also have colleagues outside. Don't be afraid."
How could Ma Yanmin and Ma Yanzhi not be afraid? They didn't dare to sleep at all. No one would be able to sleep if they knew that their life was being plotted against by all means.
Xu Zhenbo was also in the living room, holding a kitchen knife in his hand. He had just been thinking that if Li Tiangong broke in, he would kill him first!
Lin Shuyue walked into the living room with the help of the light from her phone and called Ye Xueyu: "Ah Yu, come and see if the weight of the water is not right."
Ye Xueyu came out of the room, and Ma Yanmin and her sister stood up and followed. Ye Xueyu listened to what Lin Shuyue said and picked up a bucket of water.
A bucket of water is 10 liters, which is 20 kilograms. Ye Xueyu also practiced in school, and she did not miss any small exercises when she was assigned to the criminal police team. It was a piece of cake for her to carry a bucket of 20 kilograms of water with one hand. Usually, she would start with 20 kilograms for strength training.
But just like Lin Shuyue's feeling just now, she knew the weight of the water was wrong as soon as she touched it.
In order to make her judgment more accurate, she used the unused ten-liter mineral water bucket at Ma Yanmin's house to go to the bathroom and fetch a bucket of water for comparison.
"It's indeed a lot heavier." Ye Xueyu said.
Lin Shuyue asked Xu Zhenbo for two transparent cups.
Ma Yanmin's family runs a snack stand business, and they have transparent cups at home. Lin Shuyue poured a cup of water that Li Tiangong had just delivered, and Ye Xueyu also poured the ordinary water she had just received for comparison.
Both cups of water were colorless and tasteless, but under the strong light of the mobile phone flashlight, it could be seen that the water in Lin Shuyue's hand flowed slower than that in Ye Xueyu's hand.
Lin Shuyue and Ye Xueyu looked at each other and asked, "Do you see any problem?"
Ye Xueyu nodded: "The cup in your hand is quite thick. Is it heavy water?" Apart from heavy water, Ye Xueyu couldn't think of any other possibility. Could it be that Li Tiangong thickened the water?
How outrageous and ridiculous!
Ye Xueyu's words about heavy water left Ma Yanmin's family of three completely confused. The most educated among the three of them was Xu Zhenbo, who graduated from junior high school.
Ma Yanmin couldn't hold back her words and asked first: "What is heavy water?"
Heavy water is also a type of water. Like water, it has the same appearance and is odorless and tasteless. It is a compound composed of deuterium and oxygen, also known as deuterium oxide.
Lin Shuyue thought for a moment and said, "The biggest difference between ordinary water and heavy water is that ordinary water can nourish life, but heavy water cannot. People and animals will die if they drink heavy water, and plants will not germinate if they are soaked in heavy water."
Lin Shuyue's words made Ma Yanmin sway, and she was held tightly by Xu Zhenbo. Ma Yanzhi covered her mouth and was about to cry.
"But don't be afraid. Heavy water needs a dosage to poison a person. To kill a 50-kilogram person, at least 50 liters of heavy water are needed." Coincidentally, as soon as Ma Yanmin was discharged from the hospital, Li Tiangong delivered six barrels of new water!
Ye Xueyu took out the mineral water bottle she had prepared in advance, poured a bottle of water, screwed on the lid, and comforted Ma Yanmin's family: "This is our initial judgment, but it is not accurate to the naked eye, so we need to test this bottle of water."
As she spoke, she poured out the remaining buckets of water and labeled the buckets and bottles.
After doing all this, they returned to the room. This time, Ma Yanmin was not feeling well and had gone to bed. Ma Yanzhi didn't dare to sleep because she had nightmares as soon as she closed her eyes. Lin Shuyue and Ye Xueyu stood and sat, guarding Ma Yanmin's family.
When it was bright outside, Wu Dongyan walked to the back of Ma Yanmin's house and sent a message to Ye Xueyu in advance. Ye Xueyu handed Wu Dongyan a few bottles of water that she had poured out last night through the kitchen window. Wu Dongyan put the bottles of water in her handbag and got into the car.
Then, in the dim light, Lin Shuyue thought about it, and to be on the safe side, she took another empty bottle, filled the bucket which was a little full after pouring out a glass of water, and then erased the number on it.
Seeing her appearance, Ye Xueyu took the water in another bucket to the bathroom and poured it out.
Xu Zhenbo and Ma Yanzhi became nervous again when they saw their actions.
At almost seven o'clock, Lin Shuyue and Ye Xueyu received text messages from Hang Jiabai at the same time. After delivering the water, Li Tiangong came back and came here again.
Ye Xueyu immediately hid in the closet in Ma Yanmin's room.
Xu Zhenbo took a deep breath and went to the kitchen. Several buckets of water were moved to the corner by Lin Shuyue and Ma Yanzhi and placed in the place where the previous buckets of water were placed.
After doing all this, the two returned to Ma Yanmin's room. Ma Yanzhi reminded Xu Zhenbo to stay calm and composed and not let Li Tiangong notice anything different.
Xu Zhenbo pinched himself and forced himself to calm down.
He was beating rice and cooking porridge in the kitchen. Like before, he cooked it in two pots. He used tap water in one pot and poured the water sent by Li Tiangong into the other pot as before. He sprinkled a handful of rice into it and put it in the rice cooker.
"Knock knock knock." There was a knock on the door.
Xu Zhenbo's eyes suddenly turned red. He lingered in the kitchen for a few seconds, took a few deep breaths, and then asked in a loud voice, "Who is it?"
Li Tiangong stood outside the door and looked around Xu Zhenbo's neighbor's house again and again: "Brother Xu, it's me."
"Brother Li." Xu Zhenbo said and went to open the door.
Li Tiangong walked in with a bag of fruit in his hand after Xu Zhenbo opened the door.
He looked around when he entered the house, and his eyes mainly fell on the several buckets of water in the corner of the living room. After seeing that only one bucket was opened and the others were full, he calmly moved his eyes away.
He said, "Brother Xu, your wife and your sister haven't woken up yet?"
Xu Zhenbo was in a bad mood: "My wife had pain again in the second half of the night yesterday. She didn't fall asleep until dawn. My sister and the others were still sleeping."
The door of the room was not closed. Sitting in the living room, Li Tiangong could see Lin Shuyue and the other two sleeping on the bed.
Li Tiangong could understand Xu Zhenbo's emotional problems. After all, no one could happily accept the fact that their wife was going to die.
He took out some fruits and put them on the coffee table: "This is the fruit I bought on the roadside this morning. Thinking that my brother's wife had just been discharged from the hospital, I sent them over to see you. This is a small token of my appreciation as the eldest brother." Li Tiangong did a good job on the surface, and all the fruits he bought were expensive.
If Li Tiangong had done this in the past, Xu Zhenbo would have been deeply moved, but now, he only felt ironic. Who would have thought that Li Tiangong, who was so good to his family, would be the one who murdered his wife and seized his family's property.
Xu Zhenbo thought that Li Tiangong's action was like a weasel paying a New Year's visit to a chicken, with ulterior motives. He even wanted to slap Li Tiangong in the face.
Ma Yanmin, who had been listening to Li Tiangong and Xu Zhenbo chatting in the room, became anxious. She felt pain in her body, so she hummed.
Her groan of pain suppressed the rage rising in Xu Zhenbo's heart. Xu Zhenbo immediately walked into the room and anxiously asked Ma Yanmin if she was okay.
Lin Shuyue and Ma Yanzhi also woke up. Before Ma Yanzhi could speak, Lin Shuyue started chatting with Xu Zhenbo in standard southwestern dialect.
Ma Yanzhi looked at Lin Shuyue in surprise, and then started talking.
Li Tiangong, who had been listening outside, finally felt relieved at this moment.
It has reached the final stage and Li Tiangong does not want any changes.
Xu Zhenbo seemed to finally remember that Li Tiangong was still there. He pinched his thigh hard, and the pain made him cry. He walked outside, wiped his eyes, and said to Li Tiangong: "I'm sorry, Brother Li, I...ah..."
Xu Zhenbo's tears were about to fall again.
Li Tiangong had seen this kind of separation many times, and he expressed his understanding, saying, "It's okay, it's okay. I'm leaving first, brother Xu, don't worry, there is nothing in this world that cannot be overcome. I'm leaving first, if you need any help, call me again."
Xu Zhenbo wiped his tears and hid the hatred in his eyes: "Ah... I understand, Brother Li, thank you for still thinking about us and remembering to come and see us."
Xu Zhenbo sent Li Tiangong to the door of the apartment building. Xu Zhenbo also talked about the house. He found that when talking about their house, Li Tiangong's expression was obviously much happier. Xu Zhenbo had never hated someone so much.
There are so many people selling second-hand houses in this community. The apartment 102 opposite his house has been for sale since last year. There are also many houses for sale in other units. Li Tiangong wants to buy a house, there are many choices, why did he choose his house? If he wants to buy his house, he should just say it directly. Why did he plan for so long and even want to kill his wife?!
Xu Zhenbo couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it.
After sending Li Tiangong away, he returned home.
Li Tiangong hummed a song as he left the Jinshengyuan community. After a while, he would have one more property under his name, and he was very happy.