I have delusions, and you want me to participate in a ghost story?

Someone entered the utility room during the time they entered room 209 just now!

That's why the smell of the medicinal herbs in the utility room was brought to the iron lock and key!
But, if that was the case, how could such a heavy iron chain and such a thick iron door be opened with the lock without making any sound?
Also, is this person still in the utility room?
"The chain of the iron door is still so neat, and the lock doesn't seem to be loose. Could it be that the person who entered didn't need a key to enter the utility room? But if that's the case, why did the chain and lock leave a medicinal scent in the room?"

Zhou Xiaochuan frowned slightly and thought for a while, but couldn't come up with any results.

He turned the key and inserted it into the door, deciding to open the utility room door directly and take a look.

Who entered the utility room? What was inside the utility room? What was that medicinal fragrance? All the answers are behind this door!
Behind this door, there is definitely key information about this copy hidden.

The hole of the lock was not quite compatible with the key. Zhou Xiaochuan pushed the key against the edge of the lock several times before he could open the door.

Then, he and Xie Jiaojiao took a lot of effort to remove the chain on the door and open the iron door.

"Boom."

When the heavy iron door was opened, a strong smell of medicine blew in along with the thick dust.

That is the fragrance of Chinese medicine.

Zhou Xiaochuan frowned and walked into the utility room.

The utility room is not very big, only one-third of the room where normal residents live. This small utility room is full of items.

There was no one in here, and it was full of dust. Every time Xie Jiaojiao and I took a step, a lot of dust would be raised on the ground.

In this utility room, there were four cardboard boxes, two large bags, and a lot of miscellaneous items piled all over the floor.

"these are……"

Xie Jiaojiao picked up a dusty cat toy on the ground and patted it.

There are many toys like this on the ground.

"These toys look very familiar to me. They should be my childhood toys. How could they be placed in the pile of junk like this?"

Xie Jiaojiao said with some hatred.

There were things piled on the ground, not only toys, but also some unworn clothes and some furniture.

But overall, there's nothing special about them.

Xie Jiaojiao was very obsessed with these things. She picked up the miscellaneous items one by one and recalled them.

Zhou Xiaochuan did not pay too much attention to the things piled on the ground, but walked directly to the source of the Chinese medicine smell.

It was a cardboard box that had never been opened. It was sealed with tape, but there was no sign of damage on the surface of the box.

There was a small piece of paper taped to the carton.

【生半夏15g、茯苓30g、陈皮10g、大腹皮5g、苍术10g、厚朴20g、白芷30g、甘草15g，共七剂十四副，一天两副，开水煎服。七天后复诊。2015年10月19日。灵江市中医院。】

This is the source of the smell of Chinese medicine. There is really Chinese medicine in this utility room!
and……

Zhou Xiaochuan has also done some research on traditional Chinese medicine, and these traditional Chinese medicines are indeed useful in treating heatstroke.

The previous Word document in room k74 also directly mentioned that Li Dashui suffered from heatstroke and went to the hospital to get Chinese medicine. It seems that these are the medicines.

And there are quite a lot of medicines. In addition to this box, there are three more boxes next to it.

这三箱药分别的落款时期为——【10月26日、11月3日、11月10日】。

Although the main medicines in the three boxes did not change, some medicines for promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, clearing away heat and removing evil were gradually added.

It can be seen that Li Dashui not only went for follow-up visits, but the doctor also continued to prescribe the right medicine for his condition and provided him with appropriate Chinese medicine to regulate his body.

But the paradox is that the three boxes of Chinese medicine above are completely sealed. There is no sign of them being opened.

If the boxes were not covered with cobwebs and dust, Zhou Xiaochuan would have thought that the four boxes were new.

"These are the medicines for Li Dashui, but the boxes containing the medicines don't show any signs of damage. Li Dashui didn't take the medicines at all."

Zhou Xiaochuan opened the four cartons one by one. Inside each carton were fourteen neatly arranged packages of Chinese medicinal liquid.

His previous analysis was correct, Li Dashui did not take these medicines at all!

But, was it because Li Dashui himself didn’t want to take the medicine?
That is unlikely, because there is only one reason why Li Dashui himself is unwilling to take these medicines, and that reason is that Li Dashui's financial situation is problematic and he cannot afford these medicines.

But since I’ve already bought it, there’s no reason not to eat it.

So there is only one real truth, that is, Li Dashui was forced not to take these medicines.

The person who can prevent Li Dashui from taking medicine must be someone who is extremely close to Li Dashui and someone whom Li Dashui has absolute trust in.

That person is undoubtedly Liu Ruyan!
Now everything is clear. It was Liu Ruyan who deliberately did not give Li Dashui these Chinese medicines, which caused Li Dashui's condition to gradually worsen!
"Dad! Come and look here! There are so many dead rats!"

Xie Jiaojiao's voice came from the place where the two big bags were.

Zhou Xiaochuan took a closer look and found that there was a hole in the two large bags, and there were many mice lying next to the bags.

Apparently, the rats were poisoned by the contents of the bag.

Can you poison mice to death?
Zhou Xiaochuan suddenly had a horrible idea in his mind.

He tore open the two big bags, wanting to see what was inside the bags. But he was shocked when he saw what was inside!
In addition to rat poison, the bag also contained a lot of animal bones and the corpses of many small insects. It was so crowded that it made people feel very disgusted.

The original things in this big bag were broken water bags. It seemed that there were things in the water bags at first, but they were eaten by these animals, so they are empty.

However, through the paper stuck on these small water bags, you can still see clearly what is inside these water bags.

[Cinnabar, Polygonum multiflorum, realgar, centipede, leech, croton, datura, strychnos nux vomica, pokeweed, toad.] Wow, this is simply a collection of the five poisons!
Any one of these medicines, if taken too much, will gradually make your body deteriorate and cause poisoning, let alone when so many things are added together?
Even mice were poisoned to death by this medicine!

Seeing all this, Zhou Xiaochuan had new guesses in his mind.

Perhaps what Liu Ruyan did was even more excessive than he had imagined. Not only did she not give Li Dashui the prescribed Chinese medicine, she might have also replaced the Chinese medicine with poison for Li Dashui to drink.

In other words, it is very likely that Li Dashui was directly poisoned by Liu Ruyan!
This way, everything makes sense...

Without Zhou Xiaochuan explaining, Xie Jiaojiao looked very angry.

After seeing these poisons, anyone who is not a fool can guess what happened!
"It turns out that it was all fake... The harmonious family life I wrote on the computer was all fake. I have only been deceiving myself. My adoptive father was poisoned to death by my adoptive mother!"

Tears flowed down Xie Jiaojiao's eyes.

"It seems that Liu Ruyan poisoned Li Dashui and caused the tragedy of Datong Hotel, turning it into the weird state it is now. But if that's the case, what role did Pei Datong play in this incident?"

So far, all the information Zhou Xiaochuan has come into contact with is about Liu Ruyan and Li Dashui, but there is no information about Pei Datong.

This is definitely not normal.

Datong Hotel, Datong Hotel, the word Datong is taken from Pei Datong.

Moreover, the article Pei Datong wrote in the Word document written by Xie Jiaojiao as Liu Ruyan was also very special and important.

Although we still don’t know who the most powerful weirdo in Datong Hotel is, and who is the one who controls Liu Ruyan and Xie Jiaojiao with parchment, it is most likely Pei Datong.

Because if it was Li Dashui, after knowing that he was poisoned to death by Liu Ruyan, he would definitely hate Liu Ruyan extremely and would directly fight with Liu Ruyan, let alone any cooperative relationship.

Although he was thinking about it, Zhou Xiaochuan's hands were not idle. He ignored the stench in the bag and searched the bag carefully with his hands. As a result, he actually found something.

That's a photo.

The photo shows a capable man with an honest and kind face, and a beautiful middle-aged woman with great temperament and charm.

They lay on the bed in a stacked position.

(The following 500-word description is omitted).

It is obvious that these two people definitely had an impure relationship.

After much deliberation, Zhou Xiaochuan handed the photo to Xie Jiaojiao.

"Jiaojiao, who are the man and woman in this photo?"

In fact, Zhou Xiaochuan already knew in his heart that the man in the photo was Li Dashui. He was just curious about who the woman in the photo was, so he just asked about both.

When Xie Jiaojiao took the photo and looked at it, her little face suddenly turned red.

"The man is my adoptive father, Li Dashui, and the woman... is my elementary school teacher, Ms. Li Linling. What are they doing on the bed?"

Xie Jiaojiao's face flushed, her eyes were filled with inquiry and some excitement.

Zhou Xiaochuan always felt that Xie Jiaojiao actually knew the answer, she just wanted to hear the answer from Zhou Xiaochuan's mouth!

But it's not appropriate to say such things to children.

Although Xie Jiaojiao is no longer a child, her mentality and appearance after becoming a monster are the same as those of a twelve-year-old child.

"Yes. As a child, you don't need to understand what they did on the bed. You just need to know that not only did your adoptive mother Liu Ruyan poison your adoptive father Li Dashui, but your adoptive father Li Dashui also did something to let your adoptive mother down."

After saying this, Xie Jiaojiao nodded somewhat disappointedly. It was obvious that this was not the answer she wanted.

……

Zhou Xiaochuan looked at the photo carefully.

I didn't expect that Li Dashui, who has always been honest, kind and simple, would actually cheat.

From this perspective, it is very likely that all the people in the Chase Hotel are villains.

Both Li Dashui and Liu Ruyan are not clean.

Zhou Xiaochuan turned the photo over and found small, densely packed words written in black pen on the back of the photo.

The handwriting of those small characters was exactly Liu Ruyan's.

[Okay, Li Dashui, I have worked so hard for this family, and this is how you repay me, right? When I was born into a wealthy family, I married a poor boy like you. How much opposition did my family face?
I would rather be kicked out of the house than be with you. You promised me that you would make me the happiest woman in the world. Did you do it? Do you think you did it? You are shameless!

[Li Dashui, today I finally see you clearly. You are so capable of cheating on my child's teacher! What? Jiaojiao is not your child? We agreed to raise Jiaojiao as our own child, and now you...]

These words do not look like they were written by Liu Ruyan herself. Instead, they look like a verbal conversation between Liu Ruyan and Li Dashui.

The words below sound more like what Liu Ruyan wrote herself.

【Thanks to Datong, I was able to completely see the true face of Li Dashui. He cheated on me and acted like he was taking advantage of me. I finally couldn't pretend to be a good husband anymore. He also blamed me for not being able to have children, but when we went to the hospital for a checkup, it was clearly Li Dashui's fault! Now he blames me again.

At that time, he said nice things, saying that as long as the two of us were happy, there was no need for a child. Later, we adopted Xie Jiaojiao. But it turned out to be all lies! He still thinks that Xie Jiaojiao is the child of me and Datong!
I really see this person clearly. Although Datong and I are not siblings, we grew up together. How could he do such a thing? I only adopted Jiaojiao because she looked pitiful and reminded me of my past self.

I was also born in an orphanage before, and was later taken home by my father. Li Dashui knew all this a long time ago, and he said he didn't mind it, but now it's like this again! 】

[I kind of regret breaking that window paper. Li Dashui has completely changed. When he gets drunk, he often abuses me and Jiaojiao. I've had enough of this kind of life! ]

[Xie Jiaojiao, it's all your fault. If I hadn't adopted you from the orphanage, Ah Shui and I could have lived happily ever after, right? ]

[A Shui has gone crazy. If he continues like this, sooner or later Jiao Jiao and I will be beaten to death by him. If this is the case, let me bear all the guilt. A Shui, no matter what, I still love you, just like I did 20 years ago.] (End of this chapter)