"Oh, here's what happened, Uncle Seung is a distant relative, but we haven't contacted each other in years. My parents are currently looking to reacquaint with him, so they asked me to come to check this place out. I heard that Uncle Seung recently returned from down south, and therefore we came to visit him today."
"Oh, I see... well, you guys are too late, he's gone now."
"I heard, but how did it happen? It's so sudden. How did he die?" Jungkook again asked for Seung's cause of death.
"He drank rat poison. I really think that Seung overreacted. Not having children is miserable, but the government will take good care of him. I already helped him apply for the low-income welfare assistance, and he would be able to receive an allowance every month. There's always a way to solve small problems, but he went down the wrong chute and killed himself instead. We're all really sad about it." The head of the village showed hints of sorrow.
"Why would he drink rat poison though? Has an autopsy been done? Are you sure that it was suicide and not murder?" Lisa, who was in disbelief, asked a few key questions.
The head of the village was confused by her questions. "Murder? That's impossible, it had to be suicide."
"How can you be so sure?" Jungkook asked.
"Because he went into town to buy rat poison. The owner there already admitted to it. He said that his house was rat-infested, so he needed rat poison. Who knew that he would drink it..." Then, the head of the village sighed heavily.
Jungkook and Lisa looked at each other, coming into tacit agreement...
"Has his niece been back since his death?" Jungkook remembered that his niece was Uncle Seung's only relative.
"I told her, but I don't think she's coming back."
"Why not?" Lisa probed.
"To tell you the truth, Seung went to the south a long time ago, and we all thought it was for retirement. However, we heard that his niece and his nephew-in-law got divorced because the latter had an affair, and so his niece, along with two daughters, had no choice but to marry into another family. However, her new family said that they could take care of her children, but not her uncle. They were also really strict and wouldn't even give her money to travel up here, so I don't think she'll be coming. Seung's body is still in the freezer at the health center, and tomorrow morning we're going to get him cremated. He didn't have money, so the villagers all chipped in for his cremation. I really do feel sorry for him."
Now Jungkook and Lisa understood why Uncle Seung suddenly came back to the village.
His niece's first marriage broke down, and she married someone else. There was no room left for him in her new family, and Uncle Seung didn't want to ruin his niece's new marriage, so he came back to the village alone. But still, there wasn't a reason as to why he committed suicide as soon as he got back.
His life back here would've been fine; the country gives single-dwelling seniors enough to live with.
Yet, he committed suicide a week after returning; it didn't really make much sense to Lisa.
"Sir, did he get an autopsy?"
"Yeah, he died from ingesting rat poison."
"Did the police check out the scene? Were there signs of the place being tampered? Didn't anyone leave footsteps or fingerprints anywhere?" Lisa asked again.
"Are you kidding me? It's already been ruled out as suicide, what's the point of asking questions like that? Plus, Seung has gotten along well with the villagers, and no one's out to seek revenge, so why would anyone kill him? They wouldn't be able to get anything in return. I may not be well read and may only be a farmer, but there has to be a motive behind a murder, am I right?" The head of the village was flabbergasted by Lisa's insinuations.
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