Chapter 468: Poisoned Liquor (2/2)

”You better watch yourself. Where’s the hostess?”

The boy left to look for Mrs. Mu and soon returned with the woman herself. Though sexy and seductive, she was probably younger than Xiaotao. ”Officer, are you looking for my husband? He’s out and I’m not sure when he’ll be back.”

”Where did he go?” I asked.

”How should I know? He’s always busy with work. Sometimes, he doesn’t come home for days,” replied Mrs. Mu.

Glancing at the messy living room, I said, ”You obviously knew your husband would be out tonight so you invited a bunch of your friends over to party. You better come clean with us!”

”His affairs have nothing to do with me,” she sneered. “I said I don’t know!”

Just then, one of the guests exclaimed, ”Oh my God, what's in this pizza? Why is it so disgusting?!”

Xiaotao and I exchanged a meaningful look and headed over to the guest at once. There were several young men in the dining hall snacking on pizza. ”No, it tastes fine. Is there something wrong with your tongue?” asked another guest.

The young man who complained about the taste declared, ”It tastes like shit. Try it if you don't believe me!”

”Did you just drink something before this?” I turned to the man.

”I don't remember,” the man stared blankly. “I noticed some expensive wines on the wine rack so I tried some of them.”

”What?! Why did you do that? Don’t you know my husband hates people messing with his wine?” Mrs. Mu screamed. ”He’s going to kill me when he comes back!”

”Which one was it? Can we have a look?”

Faced with Mrs. Mu’s indifference, I pointed to the young man and said, ”He may be poisoned so you better cooperate!”

The terrified man followed the three of us into Mr Mu's study. On the left side of the door was a wine cabinet with a wide variety of foreign wines. After glancing through, I found no such poisoned liquor.

The young man timidly interjected, ”I slipped in the study to look around and happened to discover that this wine cabinet could be opened...”

Stretching out his hand, he opened the wine cabinet and revealed the hidden bottom shelf which was only noticeable upon meticulous observation.

There were three bottles of wine inside; the two other bottles were extremely rare and precious world-famous wines, while the last bottle was the poisoned liquor we were looking for. The bottle looked exactly the same as the one given to Mr. Huang without a label on it.

”I chanced upon these three bottles of wine,” explained the man. “It’s not like I usually get the opportunity to drink such expensive wines so I tried them.”

By this point, Mrs. Mu was so furious she couldn’t resist beating the man. ”You bastard!” she cursed. “Who said you could drink these three bottles of wine? My husband is going to kill me when he sees this!” Then, turning to me, she said, ”Officer, my husband might be very kind to me but no one is allowed to touch his wine, not even me. Once, I poured myself a glass of wine from one of these bottles and was slapped by my husband. He ran barefoot all the way from our bed to the study just to check on his wines. After that, he warned me never to touch these three bottles of wine unless I wanted to be kicked out of our home. I cried all night because of this.”

My guess was, the poisoned liquor was what Mr. Mu really cared about. ”Do you know where he went tonight?”

”To a club. He goes there every weekend and he doesn’t come home until midnight which is why I knew he wouldn’t be here tonight.”

”How long has he been in this club? Has he changed ever since joining?” I added.