Cao was seven or eight years younger than me, and when he came to my house as if he were his own, he boiled water, washed his cups, and made tea by himself, and threw the file to me. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info I looked at the content, and the top was Mr. Liang's. The criminal investigation report recorded that he died of poisoning, and according to the autopsy report, the wound was on the wrist, which was a wound stung by a scorpion. It was not fatal, but Mr. Liang had an allergic constitution, which caused respiratory failure and died. Team Cao made a big tea jar, eager to pour all my hair tips into the jar, while waiting for the water to boil, while saying: "Accidental death, the evidence is conclusive, it doesn't seem to be wrong, but you think, if it is respiratory failure, it must be very painful, it will definitely struggle, how can you sit on the chair well, and still maintain the posture when carving things, I asked during the field survey, it is very peaceful, it is like falling asleep."

"There is only one possibility, it is very toxic, and it will die if you sting" I followed the Cao team's train of thought to analyze together, but brought the tea canister to me.

"I went to the Institute of Zoology and Flora, and there really is no such scorpion in the world. Mr. Liang had too many insects and a lot of poisons in his house, so the criminal investigation team naturally thought that he was poisoned by insects, and the case was closed as soon as the autopsy came out, not realizing what was abnormal. Team Cao sat down next to me and began to suck his large teapot.

"Then how do you toss it out? I remember you're not a careful person, huh?"

"Look down, look down" Team Cao pointed to the file and took the tea caddy again.

I continued to scroll down, but the sight of it really shocked me. There are a total of four case files, one of which occurred before Mr. Liang's death and the other three after, with an interval of less than a month. These four cases are not related on the surface, but they have one thing in common with Mr. Liang's case, they were all poisoned. If you look closely, one case is a Hong Kong businessman who died of snake venom, one case is a Sichuan nanny who died of a centipede bite, one case is a retired cadre who died of Brazilian toad poison, and one collector in the Beijing antique circle died of an Indonesian poisonous lizard. I raised my eyes to look at Team Cao, who was holding the teapot and looking at me in a daze.

But there is a problem, the so-called snake, scorpion, centipede, gecko, toad these five poisons are not accurate, geckos are not poisonous, the scorpions, centipedes, toads produced in China are very small poisonous, can not kill people, the five poisons contained in ancient books are scorpions, snakes, bees, snakes, centipedes, folk to spread falsehood, is there really someone according to this to harm people?"

"Originally, I didn't notice it, but the External Propaganda Department sent a document to the Municipal Health Bureau, saying that there have been frequent incidents of insect and snake bites recently, and I hope they will carry out a patriotic health campaign to eradicate pest breeding grounds. ”

"Perhaps, it's a coincidence, except for the time, there is no connection between these cases, and there are all five poisons, and it can't explain anything" I still can't guess the secret hidden in it.

"There really is such a coincidence in the world, we are doing criminal investigation, and what we don't believe is the word coincidence. I visited and investigated last week, and these cases are related, and the deceased had all been in contact with Mr. Liang's masterpiece before his death. Team Cao leaned over and tapped the file.

Cao team said, I suddenly have a little impression, as if more than a year ago, Mr. Liang once chatted with me, mentioned that he was creating a group of "five poisons" carving works, and there seemed to be some poisons at home to observe, but the material was not easy to find, let me help him pay attention to the collection, and sighed, I don't know what year and month this group of works can be completed, I hope it will not become his posthumous work. Could it be that he has already done it? But who has gone to great lengths to use these five things as symbols to harm people? The key point is that these five deceased people have no intersection except that they may have come into contact with things, and what is the motive of the murderer? These five things themselves cannot be poisonous, but how did the murderer control the poison to poison the target? Is it a kind of worm that we don't know yet?

At the moment when I blurted out, Team Cao relaxed, leaned back on the rattan chair, crossed Erlang's legs, and said: "Feudal superstition is your strength, my intuition is that it may not work according to normal logic to investigate the case, let's investigate separately to see if we can inspire each other and find clues." I arranged for someone to requisition those five physical evidence, and after two days, I would often go to give us some pointers. ”

After Team Cao left, I fell into a long period of contemplation, the result of this incident was too absurd, and the ability to explore from this point of view was also ridiculous? The result of entering the play too quickly was that I didn't notice to Ben, and Team Cao took away my tea cans with me.

I thought about it at home for two days, and I also looked through the records of the origin of the five poisons in ancient books, but I found nothing, I couldn't figure it out, so I simply didn't want to, and went to the evidence room of the criminal police brigade early in the morning on the third day to see what kind of magic Mr. Liang's posthumous work had. Entering the evidence room, Team Cao was stunned in front of those few small pieces, although I had already been prepared, but I was still in a great shock.

Professor Liang's group of five poisonous small carvings, what shocked me the most was the materials, all Hetian Qin materials, Qin's years are more than 1,000 years, the infiltrated color is natural and soft, divided into Tuqin, blood Qin, copper Qin, longevity Qin, cinnabar Qin. Tuqin is chestnut yellow, white under and yellow on top; Xueqin is dark red, a thin strip in the middle of the material; Tongqin is blue and green, has been soaked in most of the material, not like Hetian jade, but like jade; Shou Yiqin is light blue, covering a corner of the material, the most elegant and picturesque; cinnabar Qin is very positive vermilion, just in the middle of the material. These five-color Qin correspond to the scorpion, centipede, snake, gecko, toad five poisonous insects with different expressions, each insect is carved according to the natural shape of Qin, and the warmth and softness of Hetian jade are integrated. Hetian Qinyu is already scarce, and it is even more difficult to get together the five colors, and this material is suitable for carving those five poisonous insects, which is really a miracle. I just introduced it a little, and Team Cao immediately understood the true value of this group of works.

I picked one up and put it in the palm of my hand, the unique mutton fat-like texture of Hetian jade formed a sharp contrast with the color of Qin, but it was not abrupt, as if it grew naturally in the jade, and the little centipede, tilting its head and kicking its feet, seemed to crawl out of the jade. Holding it in his hand for a few minutes, the temperature of his hand makes the jade slowly warm up, and the surface of the jade seems to have a layer of water mist, which appears more crystal clear after reflecting the light. After a while, I don't know if it was an illusion, or the mist on the surface of the jade carving was penetrating inward, and I vaguely felt that there seemed to be water flowing in the small body of the centipede. I was so curious that I hurriedly took it to the light and looked at it carefully, and the water seemed to disappear again.

At that moment, a thought suddenly came out of my mind, I remember that my father had told me in the early years that the ancients were good jade, on the one hand, they liked its material quality, and used it as a metaphor to set off their own character, called jade Bide, on the other hand, because jade has been worn for a long time, jade will borrow the master's essence and become immortal, become a spiritual object with a soul, and bless the master. But the old jade that has been buried has been dug up by someone, and if it is worn for a long time, it will produce a very evil change, as if it is called rebirth. We often have a ghost in our family, and what we are most afraid of encountering is this reborn thing. Thinking in my heart, I unconsciously muttered it out of my mouth, and Team Cao happened to hear it next to me, grabbed me, and asked me what was going on with this rebirth.

But I really didn't know how to explain this difficult thing to a criminal police captain, so I had to tell a story. In the year of Cixi Lafayette's Eight-Nation Alliance, she fled west in panic and fled to Shaanxi, because she fled in a hurry, but she didn't bring much out of the palace, but she always had an egg-sized Hetian jade handle in her hand, and she didn't leave an inch. This thing is said to be from the tomb of the Han Dynasty, dug out during the Three Kingdoms, passed down for several generations, the Southern Dynasty and then the tomb, the Sui Dynasty and dug out, so to the hands of Cixi, has been transferred to the nine dynasties, down eight times the tomb, in the tomb with the corpse accumulated, out of the tomb and nourished by nobles, has become an extremely rare rebirth. In this jade, chalcedony has formed a small fetal shape, as if in the womb, and there is a crystal clear water flow, which is rare for thousands of years.

Cixi's journey can be said to be hungry and cold, extremely difficult, and chaotic, and even the horse bandits beat the idea of a group. Fortunately, Wang Wenshao, who was over 70 years old, accompanied him on foot and commanded the troops to protect him, and he arrived in Xi'an. Cixi felt its loyalty, and gave this rebirth to Wang Wenshao, after returning to Beijing, Wang Wenshao because of this escort work, entered the cabinet to worship the prime minister, and became the last Zaifu of the late Qing Dynasty, but the good times did not last long, Wang Wenshao who was in a high position less than a year, and he was surrounded by poisonous sores. There is no way to cure it, and before the New Year's pass, Wang Wenshao died. On the occasion of his death, Wang Wenshao instructed his descendants that this rebirth must be buried with him, and he was reluctant to think that it was a divine object.

Wang Wenshao was buried in Zhejiang after his death, and in order to show his merits, the regulations of the cemetery were very large. In the twenties and thirties, when the warlords were fighting, the tomb was stolen and dug up. This rebirth has been in the hands of Zhejiang warlords Lu Yongxiang, Wang Jinyu, and Sun Chuanfang, but whoever holds this rebirth will not take long to memorize the word, either be seized power, or be expelled, and there are few good results. Three or five years ago, after Sun Chuanfang was assassinated in Tianjin, he disappeared after his rebirth, and it is estimated that he was buried again, entering a new round of corpses. This Hetian reborn jade is recorded in the official history, and it is probably the most famous piece in China, and its authenticity cannot be doubted. But whether you hold it or not will make a mistake in Tai Sui, and it is my own analysis to suffer bad luck.