Hospital.

Hu Fengzhen was rushed into emergency care and underwent gastric lavage.

However, upon learning that the pesticide consumed was Paraquat, the doctors felt quite helpless.

After all, although Paraquat can sometimes be treated nowadays, the person is virtually considered dead.

At most, it can prolong life by a few days to allow for some last words.

This substance is notoriously fatal, leading to deep regret but offering no redress.

Ingesting this pesticide truly makes life worse than death.

Shortly after.

Li Ming and his team, informed of the situation, also arrived at the hospital.

Now, the incident had climbed into the top ten of Weibo's trending topics, affecting not only the entire Qing County but also impacting Qingzhou and Lingnan negatively.

Consequently, the pressure on their department was immense; they even analyzed interpersonal relations upon returning the night before.

After all, steel needles couldn't grow out of a child's body on their own, indicating the problem lay with someone around the child.

According to the on-site investigation and interviews, Lu Jinming's family lived in Lingtou, where only four households resided.

A ten-minute walk down the road would reach Lu Yonghua's home, which was essentially halfway up the mountain.

The child's mother would usually bring the child to Lu Yonghua's home, and they had just met a few times among the villagers.

Thus, suspicion fell upon the four households in Lingtou.

From the information currently known from the hospital, it appears that the needle insertion was a continuous process, unlikely to have been done all at once.

The households in question were these four:

The first household had gone out to work and was basically not at home, having no time for committing the crime and no contact with Yunyun either.

The second household belonged to the granny with shingles, who herself called Dr. Zhang to treat her, thereby excluding her from suspicion.

The third household was Lu Jinming's own family; the child's mother was unlikely to harm the child, the father was under provisional scrutiny, and the grandmother was considered a key point for breakthrough.

The fourth household belonged to Hu Fengzhen's family, comprising her, her son, her daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters.

According to their current understanding of the situation.

Sometimes the child would also be sent to the neighboring house to play.

Because Lu Jinming's cousin and his wife also had children.

One was three years old, and another was five months old.

They were slightly more experienced in childcare.

So, last night the police also included Hu Fengzhen's neighboring household in the investigation.

Surprisingly, just as they were about to proceed with the analysis, Li Ming and his team received news that Hu Fengzhen from the neighboring household had drunk pesticide.

One doesn't typically drink pesticide without reason.

Thus, there was a significantly high possibility that this individual was connected to the case.

As expected.

A breakthrough achieved by noon, and the police finally uncovered the truth.

Because her son had two consecutive daughters.

Just so she stumbled upon a rumor suggesting that inserting needles into a girl could scare away female fetuses.

The next child could be a boy.

So, she experimented on her cousin's granddaughter, as they intended to have a second child and gave birth earlier than them.

If successful, she would try it on her own granddaughter.

Who would have thought it would be discovered by a veterinarian and the police would come knocking?

Initially, it seemed that the cousin would be arrested, but the police, after questioning, stated that there wasn't yet enough evidence to arrest anyone.

If caught, a heavy sentence was assured, and life imprisonment or even a death sentence wasn't impossible.

Hu Fengzhen couldn't sleep the entire night.

In the darkness, she took a bottle of pesticide.

Initially intending to end her life, she never expected her eyes would open in a hospital, still alive, and have been saved.

Those police officers also came to her bedside.

"Ah——, Mom! Look at what you've done!!"

Her son was dumbfounded hearing this, at a loss, while her daughter-in-law's scalp was tingling!

She never imagined her mother-in-law would go to such extreme lengths for a grandson, believing baseless superstitions!!

Not even hesitating to harm her granddaughter.

Upon learning last night that Yunyun from next door had 12 steel needles in her body and was sent to Zhongshan Hospital for treatment, they were all stunned.

The neighbors gossiped that the aunt was quite heartless.

Though she seemed odd and mystical, she appeared relatively normal, yet no one expected her to commit such an act.

To discover that the true culprit was their own mother-in-law left them with mixed feelings.

Even Mo Lianying herself couldn't fathom it, considering they were cousins after all.

Fortunately, the police didn't arrest people mistakenly, or else, with the blame directed at herself, she would have been imprisoned this time.

Leaving the hospital.

The investigation made significant progress.

The culprit confessed.

Li Ming felt a sense of relief.

Based on the confession, they indeed dug out a syringe with needles removed from a spot behind the house in the hills, and the police began arranging a crime report.

Since this incident had become extremely widespread.

At the time, it was being livestreamed, reaching over a million viewers.

The exact number of online viewers at any one time is unknown.

Even if real-time online numbers were just 20%, two hundred thousand people were watching the case.

The impact was vast, particularly with many local internet users.

Moreover, with the convenience of communication, just one share and everyone knew, the entire internet was informed.

Thus, Li Ming and his team were under enormous pressure constantly.

If it weren't for the perpetrator's suicide attempt leading to the case being solved accidentally, these days would have required overtime to respond to public opinion.

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