Chapter Twenty-Three: The Tongue Should Be Cut
Twilight was sure, but no one knew why.
"First of all, the wine in the wine bag is not toxic." Twilight walked over to the basin, fished out Dorje's sac, poured herself a glass of wine, and took a sip of it. The prairie spirits are spicy, she can't drink, she can't taste mellow, she only feels that a sip of wine is spicy from the tip of her tongue to the root of her tongue, which is quite annoying.
"Spicy!" Twilight frowned and coughed, this wine was much stronger than the bottom of the pot drunk in the kitchen of the Fengxian Inn!
Bu Xihuan looked at Twilight's frowning brows, smiling slightly, and her eyes were shining.
Well, it's a bit like a woman when you drink.
"You taste it." Twilight suddenly stretched out her hand, and when the hall handed over the wine cup to Yuan Xiu, "This spicy stimulates the taste, I can't taste anything else." β
The laughter of the step is sluggish, the flow of the frost is cold, along the hand, the cup, look at the person.
Yuan Xiu also stared at the hand, the cup. Silver cup wine, the glass edge of the water stains are bright, the lights are brilliant, like the morning dew in the world, like warm jade and golden beans.
The wine cup...... Ahem, she just used it.
Yuan Xiu didn't pick up the wine, and when his mind was in a trance, an arm suddenly came in front of him, grabbed the wine cup, turned his palm, and drank the wine with his head on the wine stains that had been drunk along the glass.
"The king of Ledan's wine doesn't like to drink, but this cup is good!" Hu Yanhao laughed loudly and looked at Yuan Xiu demonstratively.
Yuan Xiu's face sank, staring at the empty wine glass, murderous and majestic!
Bu Xi looked at Hu Yanhao happily, smiled slowly, the wine in the golden bottle in his hand was sparkling, the man lowered his eyes and glanced lightly, the wine reflected the light of his eyes, and he couldn't tell which one was more cold.
Twilight's brow tightened, "If only there was poison in this wine!" β
If he is poisoned, she will make up for it!
Hu Yanhao looked at Du Qing and smiled nonchalantly: "Poison can't kill this king, and those who have been poisoned by you will not be invaded by poison!" β
Twilight: "......"
Her original intention was to conclude that the wine was not poisonous, which should have been for Wu Jin to distinguish, but he didn't drink and had a habit of cleanliness, so she had to let Yuan Xiu taste what it tasted like. In fact, after watching the wine, she already knew in her heart, and then tasting the wine was just a lot of evidence, who knew that Hu Yanhao was making trouble!
But when the case is investigated, Twilight still asks, "Since you drank it, what does it taste like?" β
"Sweet!" Hu Yanhao grinned, obviously not the smell of wine.
"Your tongue should be cut!" Twilight said angrily.
Yuan Xiu couldn't listen anymore, snatched the wine bag from Dusk Qing's hand with a black face, raised his head and poured a full mouthful, the liquor passed through his intestines like a sword, but his heart was stuffy.
"How?"
"The grassland wine is strong, it is indeed spicy, but the aftertaste is mellow, slightly clear, and it has been brewed in snow water for some years."
"Does it taste bitter?"
Bitter? Yes, how not? And his heart was bitter.
Yuan Xiu's face was bitter, and he almost blurted out that it was bitter wine, but he didn't dare to answer casually when she decided the case, so he had to say the truth: "Wine is not bitter." β
Twilight nodded, took the wine cup and wine bag back from Hu Yanhao and Yuan Xiu's hands, shook the wine bag and poured another glass of wine, Hu Yanhao reached out to take it, Twilight Qing turned around and walked away, and said to the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu: "The Thunder Vine powder is earthy yellow, and this wine is clear and free of impurities, which is one of the evidences that it is non-toxic." The second is that the wine is not bitter, this poisonous taste is bitter, from the point of view of the poisoning symptoms of the Ledin envoys, the poison is quite large, if it is placed in the wine, it is difficult for the wine not to change color and taste. In addition, the envoy of Dorje was addicted to alcohol, which can be heard from his words at the palace banquet, when he was in the post house, he once asked for Shengjing's wine to drink, and he was very picky about wine, and he also brought grassland wine with him when he entered the palace, and he drank the wine from his hometown for many years, if the wine became bitter, how could he not drink it? β
Hearing this, the officials whispered and nodded frequently.
Reasonable!
"The dishes of the palace banquet are also non-toxic, and there is also evidence for this, and the evidence is the poisonous symptoms of Tripterygium wilfordii. As I have just said, the symptoms of this poison are abdominal pain and vomiting first, and then gradually cause death, rather than immediate death when the throat is sealed at the sight of blood, unless the amount is sufficient. The food on the table is not wine and tea, who will eat enough to kill in one bite? β
The atmosphere in the hall suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked thoughtful.
Indeed, the food is eaten one bite at a time, and after eating it for a while, the early symptoms of poisoning will appear - abdominal pain and vomiting, rather than eating a lethal amount in one bite, and Dorje almost died on the spot!
"But if a person is poisoned outside the palace, why would he be poisoned at the palace banquet?" Lin Meng was puzzled, the speculation that the wine and food were non-toxic made sense, so what was the reason for the poison to be so late?
"Because of the toxicity of Tripterygium wilfordii." Twilight Qing glanced at Lin Meng, the key to solving the poison murder case was naturally on the poison, so she said that they should first ask about the toxicity before investigating the case, "This poison has an incubation period, not a poison that will be poisoned after taking it, its incubation period is about an hour, and the murderer has time to poison outside the palace." β
Latent period?
Lin Meng looked at Wu Jin, and Wu Jin smiled and said, "That's right." β
Lin Meng was suddenly a little annoyed and asked, "Why didn't the prince say such an important thing?" β
"Why don't you ask about such an important matter?" Twilight asked rhetorically.
"This king doesn't know how to investigate the case, and the adults don't ask, and they don't know how to answer." Wu Jin smiled lightly, but there was a hidden brilliance in his eyes.
When he said that this poison was Thunder Fordii, he saw that she seemed to know about this poison, so he didn't say much, but he wanted to see how much poison she knew.
"All cases of poison and murder, clear toxicity, and investigation of the source of drugs, this is the basic way! In tonight's case, the negligence of the investigators is one thing, and the second is that the investigators are trapped by their usual thinking. When people get poisoned after using the wine and food of the palace banquet, you naturally think that the wine and food of the palace banquet are poisonous, and that the murderer is poisoned on and off the palace banquet, but you do not think that maybe the victim ate before the palace banquet. However, this case cannot be blamed entirely on the trapped thinking, and the fault of the investigators lies in their negligence in asking questions. There is no such thing as a perfect crime, only those who are not careful enough! β
Lin Meng and the subordinate officials of the criminal Cao were choked so much that they couldn't refute a word, and the shame of the straight New Year was thrown in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military.
"How long does it take to get to the palace?" Twilight asked Yuan Xiudao.
"Half an hour." Yuan Xiudao.
Lin Meng's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked Utu: "Dare to ask Lord Utu, in the first half an hour before entering the palace, did Lord Dorje ask for refreshments?" β
The people that Utu has come into contact with during this time, especially the people who brought him refreshments, or the people who sent the refreshments, there must be poisoners among them!
But before Utu could answer, Twilight Qing said: "Well, the incubation period is an hour, and it takes the time of the palace gate to get from the post house to the palace, so people are poisoned in the first half hour of entering the palace, and Lord Lin is really good at counting." β
This man should have learned arithmetic.
Lin Meng was stunned, not understanding why Twilight Qing said this.
"Remind me, you forgot the period from the beginning of the palace banquet to the poison after people enter the palace." Twilight said powerlessly.
She originally thought that these officials of the criminal Cao were just not enterprising, and no one would study medical and toxicology unless they had learned the way, but now it seems that they are really incompetent. She couldn't help but wonder about the files submitted by the state capitals, cities and counties, whether these people could see the wrong case and the suspicious case, and they wouldn't stamp the big seal of the criminal Cao and send it down, right?
But as long as they usually use their brains, tonight's palace will not be this expression.
Twilight Qing looked at Lin Meng, who suddenly woke up, and then looked at the glory of this golden palace, and suddenly realized that the magnificence was just a dream of prosperity, and the six-hundred-year-old rich and powerful country had begun to decay from the center of the imperial court......
"That's the moment before entering the palace!" Lin Meng's voice interrupted Twilight's thoughts, and he carefully recalled the time from the time when the Wuhu envoy entered the hall to Dorje's poisoning, about two moments. He even cut off the time from the palace gate to the palace, this time it should be right, right?
"Nope." Twilight still denied it, and said, "The time when people are poisoned is before they set off from the post house." β
"Why?!" Lin Meng was stunned for a long time before asking.
"Because people drank alcohol before they were poisoned." Twilight turned to look at Wu Jin and asked, "I've read in medical books that this poison can be poisoned early when it encounters alcohol, and it is even more toxic when poisoned, is it really true?" β
Wu Jin's eyes were bright and clear, and he smiled: "That's true." β
Lin Meng has the heart to vomit blood, and none of these two people have anything to say, let him work in vain! If you don't finish speaking, let him use his brain in vain!
Twilight Qing and Wu Jin are indeed intentional, if these things were asked about the toxicity, they should have been able to reason, she just wanted the court officials of Xingcao to deeply understand the consequences of negligence in asking the case, after all, she is in a military position, and she is not in the matter of judging the case of Xingcao, the cases in the world should be tried by these people, and the grievances of the world should be investigated by these people, and they should not be given a blow in front of the civil and military officials, how can they remember the lesson?
As a healer, Wu Jin was quite interested in Twilight's actions when she rescued Dorje, and wanted to see how much she knew about medical science and toxicology, so he didn't say much if the person who tortured Cao didn't ask, which made Lin Meng and the others have a lot of trouble in the palace.
Lin Meng was so cheated that he didn't dare to ask the case rashly anymore, but he was afraid that he would lose face again, and asked: "What else does the general have to say, let's talk about it together!" β
"No, I've finished talking about the three things, and the adults can ask about the case." Twilight said lightly.
"......" Lin Meng's forehead was bruised, he was a civil official, and he had never been rough with anyone, and tonight he especially wanted to use the eighteen torture tools in the prison of the Criminal Department on this young man.
Lin Meng was extremely angry, but the civil and military officials were shocked.
The young man said that it was three things, but after the three things were said, the case was also over!
This is a talent that has not been seen in the DPRK and China for more than 600 years, but he is a military attachΓ©.
But few people think it's a pity, after all, this character is going to enter the court and become a civil official, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have to be angry with her, so it is better to be a military attache and go far away from the border in the future.
All the officials have their own thoughts, but Lin Meng only thinks about finding the murderer, no matter how angry he is, he has to ask about the case, so he asked Utu again: "Then dare to ask Lord Utu, did Lord Dorje have refreshments before leaving the post house?" β
Utu said, "I was the first to get into the carriage and didn't pay attention. β
Lin Meng frowned, so he had to ask Budajang again, "Has the priest ever noticed?" β
Buddarjan nodded and recalled: "I was in Dorje's house at that time, he was strong and had a lot of food, and when he heard that he would not be able to eat enough at the palace banquet of your Daxing people, he asked the inn to bring meat buns, a basket of steamed buns, and he complained about the small buns when he ate them. At that time, he was about to rush into the palace, and the convoy was already waiting at the gate of the post house, so he grabbed it and stuffed it into his mouth and went out. βββ
Off topic -
Two days ago, there were two girls who said they didn't see the top and didn't take a screenshot, and they will be pinned again tomorrow morning and afternoon, and I'll change the new comment in the evening after the screenshot!