Chapter 21: Poison
Cui Ning recalled the events of that day and found that she only noticed the old lady, and as for what had changed in this house, she really didn't know anything at all.
Wei Qian slowly led her back to the situation of the day, "You came back after calling for help, where are you sitting?"
At this time, Wei Qian was sitting cross-legged in the place where the old lady usually recites Buddha, and Cui Ning moved his position and squatted in front of him.
Wei Qian was much taller than the old lady, and Cui Ning looked up, only to see his angular jaw and the clear light in his eyes. His lips moved slightly, and his voice between a man and a boy was particularly nice, "Do you think it's windy?"
Cui Ning shook his head, "No." ”
"There was no wind that day? You squatted here, did your hair get blown, did you scratch your face?"
Little girls generally have half their hair, and half of it is always braided or draped behind them, Cui Ning's hair is only casually draped, and if there is wind, it will definitely fly.
"Nope. Cui Ning said affirmatively.
Wei Qian said, "When you came in, you saw the old lady sitting in this position, didn't she fall to the ground, did you look pained?"
"It was sitting, and my grandmother's expression was peaceful, even like a smile. Cui Ning also thinks this is very strange, the general ** will make people miserable, once the poisoned person finds that he is uncomfortable, he will definitely ask for help, how can he sit here and remain motionless?
Wei Qian said, "Thank you Cui Erniang, please go to the compartment to rest first, if you think of anything, come to me at any time." ”
Cui Ning got up and went to the cubicle to drink tea accompanied by the maid.
Immediately afterwards, Lin was invited into the Buddhist hall.
After she sat down, Wei Qian also began to ask from the day of the crime, "Where were you that day?" ”
"I went to see the children in the Zhuangzi. There was a slight mist in Lin's eyes, "At the end of each month, the old lady will let me go to Zhuangzi to reunite with my family." That morning I waited for the old lady to go to the temple and then left. ”
"Has the old lady said anything or done anything?" Wei Qian asked.
Lin said, "When I got up early in the morning, the old lady used to drink a cup of tea after washing, and she usually didn't speak, but that day she looked at the books in the room and said to the slave maid that all these things should be left to Ning Niangzi in the future, and they were not allowed to be charged to the clan." ”
"What did the old lady say?"
Lin learned the tone of the old lady and said slowly, "If these books are put in the family library, I am afraid that they will become a drop in the ocean, if I die, these things in the house will be left to Ning Yatou, and no one can be taught to take them." ”
The meaning of these words is similar to that of a will.
Wei Qian nodded and asked casually, "Are you married in the Cui clan?"
"Yes. Lin said, "The old lady made a matchmaker." ”
"What kind of person is your husband?" Wei Qian asked.
At this time, it is inevitable to ask this kind of question, and it is inevitable that there is a sense of suspicion.
Lin raised his eyes to look at him, there was a trace of annoyance in his expression, but he still answered his question seriously, "He is the chief steward of Zhuangzi, and he is a very good person." ”
Wei Qian didn't care about her feelings, and continued to ask, "Who can testify about your trip to Zhuangzi?"
"When I went out in the morning, many people saw it along the way. Lin then went on to say a list of names.
"How many years have you been with the old man?"
Lin said, "It's been more than 30 years. ”
Everyone present felt the difference between Wei Qian's treatment of Cui Ning and Lin, and the questions he asked Cui Ning were all about what happened that day, but there were many and miscellaneous questions to Lin, and there were not many questions about that day.
After he finished asking, Xie Hao ordered the Lin family out, and then asked, "Do you think the Lin family is the murderer?"
Wei Qian's hand was silent for a moment, neither saying yes nor saying no, only saying, "The old lady definitely didn't commit suicide. ”
"Really?!" Xie Hao hung the futon hard, "I'll just say that my sister is not such a foolish person!"
"How do you tell?" Cui said, puzzled.
"I'll tell you after I've verified something. Wei Qian said, turned his head and asked the elder of the Cui clan, "Senior, can you gather all the servants who are always serving in this courtyard?"
The old lady was the only one who served the Lin family, but she was a personal maid from the beginning, and she was more delicate than the ladies of many people, and she definitely didn't do the heavy work herself. Wei Qian also took a special look at Lin's hand just now, and it was indeed not like he had done rough work.
The Cui clan elder summoned all the people in the courtyard, and after Wei Qian asked them one by one, it was already afternoon.
There are a total of eight people serving in the Buddhist hall, two cooks, two rough maids-in-law, four rough maidservants, and if the others are hard work, all of them are sent by the Ling family to help.
There are only two masters in the Buddhist hall, and there are not many things to do, so the two rough maids went out to chat with the old sisters of the hospital after breakfast, and the two rough maids brought their clothes to the river to wash, and excluded four people who had no alibi evidence at all, leaving only two cooks and two rough maidservants.
The kitchen is a separate courtyard, and the two cooks never come to this side of the courtyard on weekdays, and they said that they would wait in the kitchen after making breakfast, but they never heard any movement. But the two could only testify to each other, and no one else saw whether they had never left the kitchen at all.
And the most suspicious thing is the two rough maidservants, they are responsible for serving breakfast, Lin was not there that day, they should have served the old man's breakfast on their behalf, but they didn't find anything unusual?
The two girls, both sixteen or seventeen years old, were sturdy and looked honest, and both of them insisted that they had called the old lady that day, and had been waiting outside without hearing a response.
This kind of words, even Cui Guo found a loophole, and when Cui Ning rushed over, he clearly said that there was no one, so someone must have lied.
"It's impossible for my second sister to lie. Cui Kuang was righteous, and gave a strong evidence, "She has always had a bad brain." ”
Of course Cui Guo didn't mean that, he knew that whoever lied would be suspected of being a murderer, and what he wanted to say was that Cui Ning couldn't have the strength to murder people.
The expressions of the Cui clan elder and Xie Hao were a little subtle, but Wei Qian nodded seriously, "I know this." ”
After asking questions for a whole day, Wei Qian and Xie Hao went to visit Doctor Sun again in the evening.
Dr. Sun didn't look at it in particular detail, but with his knowledge of medicinal properties and years of experience, it was easy to identify.
"It is possible that the poison of the old lady was a great medicine, and that her complexion was blue, her lips were dark, and her nails were blue, probably to avoid pain,** and there were many poppies and mandalas mixed in it. Sun Shao was very sorry, he traveled around practicing medicine in his early years, Jiang Zuo Xiao Xie's reputation was like thunder, and he also wanted to marry Xie Chengyu for his nephew, but the Xie family was too high, so he had to give up thinking about it, who would have expected her to end up like this.
The great medicine is also called the broken intestine grass, and it will not leave too obvious features after death, and most of the traces seen from the old lady's surface are almost all caused by other drugs, that is, the person who poisoned it will make medicine. ―――――― knew that someone had voted to urge the change, so I looked at the information book for so long, and asked to vote tomorrow~~ In fact, I already owe two more changes, and I will see if I can add more tomorrow.
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