Today’s Provincial Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Xia (or Xin) Xinfeng, from Maolou in the central Chinese province of Henan, was sentenced to death for killing Mao Ansheng, her childhood sweetheart, with a kiss. They had sworn an oath that if either were unfaithful, they would have to die. Xia took action when she saw her man talking to a woman in a way that made her suspicious. They had arranged to meet the next day at a public bathhouse. She filled a plastic pellet with rat poison, hid it under her tongue, and while they were kissing, nudged it into his mouth. Failing to notice, Mao swallowed it and died shortly afterwards. Rat poison is one of the most common methods of murder and suicide in China. One variety, dushuqiang, was banned three years ago. A widow had used it to kill 10 guests, with whom she had been engaged in a feud, at her husband’s funeral banquet.
Culled from: Fortean Times
Generously submitted by: Amos Quito
Would you really fail to notice if your lover pushed a pill in your mouth? With that sort of inattention to detail, no wonder she killed him!
Old Mao should have made sure and gotten the details of what exactly was to be considered “unfaithful” before he agreed to that little scheme.
How did Xia manage to not poison herself with that homemade dispatch pill?
Methinks those Orientals have a serious flair for the dramatic.