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Chapter 315: Chapter 317: Want to Deny It?_1
Tan Zhengyong said discontentedly, "Don’t tell me you’re trying to deny it? My wife was bitten in your room, so you have to compensate."
"I locked the door before I went out. How did you get in? What were you doing there?"
Qiao Duo’er looked steadily at Tan Zhengyong.
Tan Zhengyong immediately retorted, "The door wasn’t locked, otherwise how would we have gotten in? We came in looking for someone, and that’s when the snake bit us."
"Is that so?" Qiao Duo’er circled around Tan Zhengyong.
Tan Zhengyong insisted on his version of events, that he was there looking for someone.
Before he could repeat himself, Qiao Duo’er reached into his bosom and pulled out a silver hairpin.
Tan Zhenghong asked angrily, "What do you have to say for yourself?"
The silver hairpin was the one he had forcibly dragged his wife into the jewelry store to pick out, so the situation was already quite clear.
It turned out that Tan Zhengyong and his wife had come to steal things and had been bitten by the poisonous snake by accident.
"You... you’re slandering me! Do you think you can prove I’m a thief just by stuffing a broken silver hairpin into my bosom?"
"Indeed, it was taken from your bosom."
Wu Youcai spoke a fair word, having witnessed the entire incident.
Tan Zhengyong said bitterly, "Uncle Wu, even if you have a good relationship with the Fourth Boss’s House, you shouldn’t be so biased. Slandering me like this, do you have no conscience?"
Doctor Wu’s beard quivered with anger, but he was powerless against Tan Zhengyong’s shameless behavior.
"We’ll discuss this matter when the village head comes. If needs be, we’ll notify the authorities," Tan Zhenghong said slowly.
Tan Zhengyong scoffed lightly, "Human life is at stake here. I’ve advanced the cost for the medicine; I’ll come back later to collect it from you!"
"Uncle Wu, I’m sorry to trouble you for a trip."
Wu Youcai shook his head, "It’s all right. I don’t think they’ll let this go so easily. Be careful. When you go out, make sure to lock the door."
Tan Zhenghong said helplessly, "The door was locked, but it didn’t stop them."
Wu Youcai couldn’t help but feel sympathy for Tan Zhenghong and, after offering a few words of consolation, took his leave.
Little Wang Clan was taken to the Main Room, and it was only then that Qiao Duo’er had the mindset to check her own lock and the snake on the floor.
The lock had been opened with a key; it must have been Tan Zhengyong or Little Wang who had stolen the spare key she had given to Hu’s Clan.
The snake was identified as a Silver Ring Snake, highly venomous, ranking fourth among terrestrial snakes.
The Silver Ring Snake is typically docile and doesn’t usually attack humans unless it is extremely hungry or frightened.
"Wife, be careful, it’s not dead," Tan Zhenghong quickly shielded Qiao Duo’er behind him.
"It wasn’t dead to begin with, but paralyzed," she clarified. Just now, she had struck the snake at its vital three-inch section.
This location was where the snake’s spinal column was most fragile and easily broken; a spinal fracture would paralyze it.
Tan Zhenghong remained on guard: "Such a poisonous snake is rare; I’ve only heard about it once."
"It must have been deliberately placed here," Qiao Duo’er deduced.
Poisonous snakes are not numerous and prefer to dwell in secluded places; it’s almost impossible for them to appear in someone’s room by chance.
Of course, nothing is absolute in the world, but Qiao Duo’er dared to speak this way because there was a scent of medicine on the snake.
Tan Zhenghong said earnestly, "This time I must catch the hidden enemy behind this. Otherwise, we will be living in constant fear from now on."
This time it was his second brother and sister-in-law who had come to steal, which shielded him from disaster. What about next time?
Qiao Duo’er agreed wholeheartedly. Some people had become so deranged that they even thought up such sinister tricks as poisonous snakes!
