Chapter 22: The Talent for Solving Cases

Twilight had just finished eating, and was drinking tea, when she heard this, she didn't say a word.

"What does Aiqing mean?" Bu Xihuan asked.

The palace lights are brilliant, the pearl is dazzling, the people in the throne are in that rich and beautiful place, their faces are better than jade, their eyes are dazzling, it is difficult to distinguish the true color, only the corners of the lips are smiling, and they are habitually careless.

"What does Lord Hu mean?" Twilight Qing didn't ask Lin Meng, but asked Hu Wenru.

Hu Wenru flicked his sleeves and said angrily: "Why did the general ask this official, this matter should be asked to Lord Lin!" ”

Twilight said: "Let's ask Master Hu first, so as not to be able to do it, and I have to be referred to when I turn around." The lower official is a military attachΓ©, and he is not invincible to the mouth of a civilian official. ”

Her mouth is not an enemy yet?

Hu Wenru glared at Twilight, a mouthful of blood blocked in his throat.

Lin Meng glanced at the two of them, smiled kindly at Du Qing, and said: "The matter is urgent, this official heard that the general is quite capable of judging the case, and tonight's case is a big matter. ”

There was no conflict between Du Qing and Lin Meng tonight, and he was more polite to him than Hu Wenru, and said lightly: "If you don't mind, the lower officials can deliberate a few words." ”

To be polite, Twilight is used to treating people coldly, and this statement still carries the meaning of alienation.

Lin Mengcai didn't mind whether Twilight Qing was alienated or not, the murderer couldn't be found, and the peace affair was delayed, Yuan Xiangguo couldn't spare him, he just wanted to quickly find out the real murderer, so the smile he piled up added a little kindness, and he said in a loud voice: "Don't mind, don't mind!" He is an official in the same dynasty, but he seeks to share his worries for the saint. ”

The worries are false, the security officer is true, Du Qing's heart is like a mirror, but he didn't say anything more, nodded and said, "Okay, then I have three things to say." ”

Three things?

Just tested for drugs, the case has clearly fallen into a dead situation, there is no way to investigate, this young man still has three things to say?

Yuan Xiangguo looked at Twilight Qing with a deep gaze.

Lin Meng's eyes lit up, and he said happily: "General, please speak!" ”

"First, silver can't be tested for poison, and everything you have done is in vain." Twilight Road.

"What?" Lin Meng was stunned, and then smiled, "Isn't the general joking?" Since ancient times, silver has been used to test drugs, so why can't you test a hundred poisons? ”

"I don't laugh when I decide cases." Twilight said lightly, "Not only is it impossible to test a hundred poisons for silverware, but even if it does turn black, it doesn't necessarily have to be poisonous. ”

Yes?

Lin Meng and the subordinate officials of Xing Cao opened their mouths, although they were speechless for a while, their expressions all meant the same - you are joking!

Seeing this, Twilight Qing got up and said to Bu Xihuan: "Start playing Your Majesty, the minister asks for a thing, which can be verified by the palace." ”

"What?" It was the first time she had asked him for something.

"Hard-boiled eggs!"

"......" He knew that it would not be a pearl of gold and silver, and if she asked him for a woman's thing one day, that day would definitely come out of the west, "Quasi-play!" ”

Fan Tong led the order out of the hall, and after two or three teas, he brought back a food box, and put a food box in it.

Twilight Qing sat behind the table and didn't make a move, only said to Fan Daodao: "Trouble the manager, peel one and put it in a bowl." ”

Fan Tong is the confidant of the great eunuch who goes to the palace to serve by his side, and Du Qing calls him like this, in the eyes of the hundred officials, she only thinks that she does not put the saint in her eyes, and when the egg is peeled, the eyes of the hundred officials are staring at the bowl.

The bowl is a silver bowl, the chopsticks are silver chopsticks, I saw Twilight sandwich the cooked egg in half, remove the egg yolk, and the silver chopsticks pierced into the egg white.

After a while, the silver chopsticks were taken out, and Twilight put them on the chopstick pillow!

Syllable!

A crisp sound pierced people's ears on the deathly silent Golden Palace.

All the officials were shocked, Lin Meng and the subordinate officials of the criminal Cao hurriedly gathered around, only to see that the front end of the silver chopsticks was glowing with blue darkness, and its light was cold.

"This ...... Poisonous?! The crowd exclaimed.

Twilight was expressionless, and took the half of the egg and put it in her mouth.

Manchu Wenwu opened his mouth, and his exclamation turned into gasping.

Bu Xihuan looked down, his eyes were slightly sunken, but he did not move. She still had her father's revenge to avenge her, and he knew that she would not joke with her own life.

Yuan Xiu was far away, but his eyesight was not bad, and his face sank when he saw this, but he didn't move. She has always acted with a mind, and there must be a reason for her to do so.

Hu Yanhao frowned, what kind of tricks is this woman doing?

"It's not poisonous!" Twilight took a sip of tea after eating and said lightly.

"It's not poisonous, how can the silver chopsticks ......," Lin Meng was puzzled.

"The things of the world are mutually reinforcing. There is a substance in the egg white, called protein, and there is a substance in the protein, called Liu, which is easy to produce blue and black when it meets silver. Different eggs have different sulfur content, and the color development results will be different, and the longer they are left, the darker the color. "Twilight Qing doesn't care if the palace can understand Wen Wu or not, she has tried to speak as plain as possible.

The utensils of dining in the palace have silverware, jade, porcelain, quite diverse, the Son of Heaven uses jade when eating, there are palace people cloth dishes on the side, there are also palace people to try dishes, the so-called test dishes is to test poison with people. However, there were many people at the palace banquet, and most of the officials used silver utensils, but it was unreliable to test poison with silver.

In addition, arsenic is mostly used for folk poisoning, but arsenic itself does not cause silver to turn black, only because arsenic is refined in the mine, and the purification is not enough, and it also contains sulfur elements, which causes silver to change color. The so-called silver needle probe is not poison, but sulfur. Modern arsenic purification technology is good, and silver needle drug detection has no effect at all.

However, the poison of arsenic tested by the silver needle was indeed available in ancient times, so Twilight did not mention much about it.

Lin Meng and the others were confused when they heard this, but Wu Jin showed a deep expression on his face, as if he was quite interested in what he said.

"Most of the poisons that can be tested by silver are refined in mines, and the poison in the Ledin envoys is Tripterygium wilfordii, and its poison cannot be tested with silver." Twilight Road.

Although the subordinate officials did not understand the preface, they understood this statement, but they were a little skeptical.

"Then, according to the general's words, the wine and food or the clothes of the Ledin envoys may not be non-toxic?" Lin Meng asked, investigating the case is the most important thing, no matter what talent this person has, he just wants to find out the murderer as much as possible.

"No, the food and wine are not poisonous, and the clothes and wine bags are not poisonous." Twilight said.

What the?

Lin Meng was surprised.

"That's the second thing I'm going to say." Twilight Qing looked at the outsider who speculated the most about the case among Xing Cao's subordinate officials, and asked, "Do you know what Lei Gong Teng is, what form it is, and what the poisoner is?" ”

The foreigner was slightly stunned, then a little embarrassed, and said, "The lower official has never practiced medicine. ”

"Tripterygium wilfordii is bitter, pungent, cool, and poisonous, its flowers and rhizomes are poisonous, and the powder is earthy yellow, what color do you look at Dorje's sleeves and wine sac?"

Xing Caoyuan looked at the clothes and wine sacs that were still soaked in the basin of water, and was stunned at first glance - the wine sacs were milky white and gold-inlayed, and the sleeves were covered with snow-white wolf hair.

"If you speculate that the murderer sprinkled poison powder on wine sacs or clothing, how could the Ledane envoys not see such a big color difference?" When Twilight Qing was in the northwest, he had disguised himself as a Ledin cavalry and mixed into the Di tribe, so he naturally knew some of the customs of the Ledin tribe. The Wuhu tribes worship the same gods, but each has its own colors, such as Dibe Shanghei, who believes that black is the feathers of the Celestial Eagle, and Le Dan Shangbai, who believes that white is the cloud when the Celestial Eagle soars in the sky. Only those of high status in the clan have the right to wear these colours. Dorje has the name of Vajra in the tribe, and his status is so high that he can come to discuss peace on behalf of the tribe.

"This ...... Even if it is not possible to have a wine bag and sleeve, is it impossible to sprinkle it elsewhere in the garment? Dorje's sleeves were made of snow wolf hair, but the rest of his clothes were intricately embroidered and the colors were full of bells and whistles, and if they were sprinkled elsewhere in the clothes, he might not be able to see them.

"That's why I asked you if you know what Tripterygium wilfordii is and what the poisoning is. Not to mention that the murderer can guarantee that the victim will be able to touch the part of the clothing sprinkled with poisonous powder, assuming that the victim really got on his hands, grabbed the leg of mutton and ate it, and then was poisoned, do you know what the symptoms of poisoning are? ”

"This ......"

"You don't know, I'm here to sue you. The victim will have dizziness, palpitations, abdominal pain, vomiting, convulsions of limbs, liver and kidney pain, followed by blood in the stool, blood in the urine, cyanosis of the lips and nails, bleeding from the mouth and nose, etc., if not treated, the pain can last from one day to four days. "Twilight said.

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And what about the victim's poison disease? Abdominal pain and vomiting, convulsions of limbs, cyanosis of the lip and nails, and almost died on the spot! Do you know what such a big gap represents? Without waiting for anyone to answer, Twilight gave the answer, "The difference in the amount of poison!" If you sprinkle poison powder on your clothes and rely on the poison on your hands, it is not enough to poison people immediately! ”

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"Lord Jin is the holy hand of the poison doctor, if this is the case, you can ask him!" Twilight looked at Wu Jin.

Wu Jin smiled at Du Qing, his eyes were as clear as the moon, and he praised sincerely: "What the general said is exactly right, I don't want the general to understand poison." ”

"I've studied a few medical books, but I don't dare to understand them." Twilight Qingdao, she really doesn't know much about the way of herbs and poisonous herbs, but she has read a few medical books when she was in the Bianhe Palace, and she looked at the ancient books of poisonous herbs in the attic in the afternoon.

Tripterygium wilfordii is a common poisonous weed in the deep mountains of Jiangnan and Southwest Prefectures, because it is easy to find, it is recorded in the book, and she happened to read it, so she has this reasoning.

While the two of them were talking back and forth, the officials of the criminal Cao looked at each other, all of them surprised.

King Jin said yes, then it really is!

In this way, this matter also makes this young man right?

"General Yingrui is really a man of great learning, and this officer admires him very much." Lin Meng said with a smile, the praise is false, and the coaxing is true, he just wants to coax this young man to laugh, and quickly tell him who the murderer of this case is.

"The one who should really be knowledgeable should be Lord Lin!" Twilight Qing's face turned cold, and she said coldly, "The criminal Cao is in charge of the prison, and the criminal cases and murder cases in various places are reviewed, and the cases that are not in doubt will be approved for autumn trial, and the cases with doubts will be remanded for retrial, many of which are death penalty cases, and there must be poisoning cases." Every year, I don't know how many homicide files are submitted, and if the people who review the files do not have careful thoughts, rich experience in judging cases, and profound knowledge, how can they discover unjust and wrongful convictions from the mountains of files? ”

Lin Meng was stunned for a moment, and forced out a smile and asked: "The general's meaning is that I should have someone who is familiar with medical theory and toxicology?" ”

It's too unreasonable!

Since ancient times, there are three religions and nine streams, one Buddha, two immortals, three saints, four officials, five dukes, six phases, seven monks, eight roads, and nine Zhuangtian, which are the upper nine streams; Medicine, divination, chessman, danqing, soldier, lobbyist, chivalrous, storytelling, fishing, for the ninth stream; Matchmakers, singing, drumming, circus, shaving heads, bathhouses, back rubbing, pedicures, and prostitutes are the ninth class.

Those who entered the court as officials were born in the Duoshi clan, studied and discussed the virtuous, and learned the way of being an official, but they were upper-class people, how could they learn the way of the middle class?

Wu Jin? Although he is a prince, he is just a proton of the country! If it weren't for the name of the holy hand of the poisonous doctor, and he was proficient in Gu poison, the princes and scholars in Beijing were quite jealous of him, and when they begged him to rejuvenate with his wonderful hands, he relied on his subordinate proton in the eyes of the prince and son of Shengjing, that is, the little man in the willow lane, who served people every night, but this cheap life was of better use, and the princes and courtiers in Beijing treated Wu Jin with courtesy.

Although this Yingrui has the talent to solve cases, he is a village and wild man after all, and he doesn't know what to say, so he wants the courtiers to learn the middle and dirty ways, and she can say it!

Although Lin Meng didn't say anything about this thought, his contemptuous demeanor was very obvious, and he suddenly saw a spark in his twilight eyes!

"No one is perfect, it's not Lord Lin's fault that he doesn't understand medical theory and toxicology, but he doesn't understand it, there is King Jin in the palace, there is an imperial doctor, and the criminal Cao is on the Shangshu and down to the subordinate officials, and no one asks carefully what they don't understand!" Twilight Qing's face was cold, and the words were like knives, "The poisoning case does not ask about toxicology, it is really eye-opening!" ”

Xing Cao's face was tight-skinned, what kind of poison was in Dorje's body, Lord Shangshu asked, but it was just ...... Cough! I didn't ask carefully.

"If you ask carefully, you don't have to check the clothes and wine bags, and the time saved, maybe the case will be eyebrow-raising at this time." She knew that Lei Gongteng was a coincidence, but if she didn't know this poison, there were masters in the palace who knew this way, and she would definitely ask, so that she could reason accurately, avoid detours and improve efficiency.

In many cases, time is the key to solving the case, and if the case is slow, it may not be solved.

Lin Meng's face was lost, and he was not as kind as before, and said: "The general is as careful as a hair, and the official is not as good as this." That official dares to ask, can the general have eyebrows in this case? ”

"That's the third thing I'm going to say." Twilight glanced at the food on Dorje's table and said, "You don't need to check the food on the table, the food is not poisonous, and the wine bag is not poisonous." ”

What the?

Lin Meng was surprised, she said that the silver could not be tested for this poison, that is, the conclusion of their previous drug test was not credible, so whether there was poison in the food of the palace banquet and the wine brought by Dorje had to be tested again! He didn't ask her how she concluded that the food and wine were not poisonous, but that the wine and food were not poisonous, and the clothes were not poisonous, wasn't that the same as their previous conclusion?

"How did that man get poisoned?" Lin Meng asked.

"Isn't it obvious how to poison? The wine and food of the palace banquet are not poisonous, and people are naturally not poisoned in the palace banquet. Twilight was shocked.

The hall was silent, and Lin Meng was a little stunned.

"People are poisoned outside the palace, and the time is about an hour before the poison."