"Under the degree certificate were several pieces of evidence that the leather factory was damaging the environment, so you were the one who got the factory fined by the environmental bureau." Ye Chu looked into Su Fengzi's eyes. "Why? Aren't you Huang He's employee? Weren't you afraid you'd lose your job?"
Su Fengzi cleared his throat. "First, let me clarify that I'm not human either. I'm a white lotus living in the nearby river. But the leather factory kept dumping wastewater into it and destroyed my habitat. That's one of my motives for murder."
His experience was much like Pei Yanchuan's.
"We also found a bottle of laxatives in Feng Zi's room. Those should be what you gave Little Pei. Why did you drug Pei Yanchuan?"
Su Fengzi glanced at Pei Yanchuan and explained unhurriedly, "I never liked Pei Xiaohu to begin with. He hasn't even graduated from kindergarten, so why does he get to follow the boss around all day? Second, when I passed his room today, I saw him stuffing his face with spicy lotus root slices. How was I supposed to stand for that? He was eating my own kind! He happened to invite me to sunbathe with him, so I agreed and slipped him the pills while I was at it."
"Had you been planning to drug Pei Yanchuan for a while? Why were you carrying laxatives around?"
"Oh, no," Su Fengzi said. "The holes in lotus roots always get clogged with mud. I use them to treat constipation."
"Pfft-" Pei Yanchuan, who had been drinking water, choked hard.
"I didn't give him much. Just twenty-odd pills."
"Twenty-odd pills?!" Pei Yanchuan's eyes widened. "No wonder I nearly died right there on the toilet!"
Su Fengzi blinked, looking utterly innocent.
Ye Chu continued with the clues. "There