Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Corpse in the Cellar
After washing, let the little guy who didn't know when he arrived go to the back kitchen to find something to eat.
But I didn't expect that when the little girl came back, he brought a big plate, and the plate was full of white bread.
Hu Xiu was also a little surprised, when he came to this world, he could still eat steamed buns.
"This bun was brought from the back kitchen?"
"Yes, I don't know what Childe likes to eat, so I brought a plate of steamed buns."
"If Childe doesn't like to eat, I'll take it back and change it."
Hu Xiu didn't reply to him, so the little guy hurriedly continued.
"No, you should eat steamed buns in the morning."
If you have two more fritters and a bowl of soy milk, it will be even more perfect......
After eating a few buns, there were a few left on the plate, and they were left for Camellia to wake up and eat, so that she would not get hungry in the morning.
Just pity the camellia, Ying Jiu seems to have used a little more strength, and he hasn't woken up yet.
If it weren't for her steady breath, Hu Xiu would have wondered if she was gone.
Walking in the palace, it is also just a good time to take advantage of this meeting to get familiar with the palace.
Somehow he walked to the garden of the king's house.
Late yesterday night, it snowed heavily in Ping'an City, and the prince's mansion was also rendered with a layer of white. The stone paths and grass on the ground of this garden are all covered in white.
When I got closer, I saw a stone bridge, under which a small stream flowed, and there was a thin layer of ice on the water.
The water of the stream is so clear that you can see the fish flowing under the water, but unlike some people say, when the water is clear, there are no fish.
For a while, Hu Xiu remembered that in his previous life, when he lived in the countryside when he was a child, every summer, he would go to some diving rivers to touch fish, whether he could touch it or not, it was always a kind of fun.
"Little guy, who raised the fish in this water?"
"Fish? It was raised by the house's mother, and they were all ornamental fish, which could not be eaten. ”
"Do you have all the food in your head?"
Hu Xiu raised his hand, and his index finger flicked on Xiao Fan's forehead, making a muffled sound of "boom".
After playing, I saw the aggrieved appearance of the little guy, and I regretted it for a while, and it seemed that I had used more strength just now.
"Are you hungry? Where's the kitchen, take me there. ”
……
Hu Wangfu back kitchen
This hour has long passed, and they have all eaten morning food, so there is only one uncle in the back kitchen.
Seeing that Hu Xiu led the servant into the back kitchen, he hurriedly put down the work in his hand, beckoned his right hand, and stood up, but the sleeve of his left hand was a little empty, as if it had been broken for a while.
"Young Master, why are you here?"
"Come here to find food, uncle, is there anything to eat in this back kitchen?"
"Yes, the buns that have just come out of the cage."
The uncle pointed to the steamer in the distance.
"Freshly baked buns?"
It's already past the dawn of the day, so why do you have to steam the buns again?
"Hehe~ Childe's maid, didn't you come to the back kitchen this morning and took away a plate of steamed buns. When the young master was growing up, he was afraid that the young master would be hungry, so he steamed again. ”
The uncle looked at Hu Xiu, wiped his hands innocently, and smiled.
"Xiao Fan, do you like to eat steamed buns?"
"Childe doesn't eat it?"
The little guy asked weakly.
"I'm not hungry, you can eat."
This bun, even if it is to give the little guy more care, is it idle at home anyway.
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"By the way, uncle, I just saw you squatting on the ground, what are you doing?"
"Cleaning up the rats, just found another dead rat."
"Dead rats? Right next to that wall? ”
Hu Xiu bypassed the uncle and walked to the corner, and sure enough, there was a mouse, the body of the rat was twitching, and it didn't look like it was dead.
"How did this rat smoke and smoke?"
"I don't know, I recently found several rats dead in the back kitchen, this is how they died."
"It stands to reason that rats are omnivores, eat almost anything, and have tenacious vitality, how can they die so easily? And looking at its death, it looks a bit like it was poisoned. ”
Hu Xiu frowned and said suspiciously.
"Poisoned? No way, I will stay in the back kitchen every day, and no outsider will have a chance to poison me. ”
"But what if one of the cooks in the house was poisoned?"
"Then take all the cooks and ask them one by one! If someone really poisons them, kill them! ”
The uncle's calm face changed, and the murderous atmosphere pressed the little guy out of breath, and Hu Xiu was also affected.
This Hu Wangye's Mansion is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, just a back kitchen.
"I didn't say that it must have been poisoned by the chef, but there is also a possibility that the poison was hidden. If the rat eats it, it will die, and the poison may be hidden in the kitchen. ”
"Uncle, let's search together, maybe you'll find it."
"Okay, I'll listen to the young master."
"Little guy, don't be idle, let's search together."
glanced at the steamer that was almost missing five or six buns, and looked at Xiao Fan again, and his stomach bulged in front of him.
Hu Xiu understood something, but he didn't want to debunk it, after all, the people lived a hard life, and it was estimated that this white bread would not be eaten a few times a year.
"Okay, Childe."
Swallowing the bun in his mouth with difficulty, the little guy replied slowly, and looked for the so-called poison.
But after a long time, even the inside of the stove was searched, but there was still no such thing, and everyone was disgraced.
"Uncle, do you remember that in addition to being in the back kitchen, you have seen dead rats in other places?"
Hu Xiu wiped the ashes on his face, but forgot that his hands were also full of ashes, and the ashes on his face were getting more and more.
"Over in the cellar, there seem to be more dead rats found."
The uncle thought for a moment and replied.
Hu Xiu's head was big for a while, how to ask a question, just like squeezing toothpaste, asking a little, saying a little.
"Let's go to the cellar and search it."
"Young master, this kitchen is no longer searched? What is left behind? ”
"No, let's go to the cellar first. ”
Still searching? If you search again, isn't it time to turn over the ground?
……
Hu Wang's Mansion, near the cellar.
"In this prince's mansion, there are two cellars, one is dedicated to storing good wine, and the other is to put some vegetables and fruits that are easy to preserve."
As he spoke, the uncle took out a key from his shirt and opened the cellar.
Looking down from above, it was pitch black, without a trace of light.
"The cellar where the wine is stored should not be very beautiful, it is full of wine. Rats can't get in there, so let's steal wine and drink. ”
Uncle is right, poison should not be in the cellar containing wine, and it is impossible for rats to run away to drink.
The uncle took out a big fire fold, shook it slightly, and the fire came out. Then he leaned down and put the fire fold into the mouth of the cellar, and the flame was still burning normally.
"Young Master, why don't you stay up there? Just go down alone, the cellar is a little dirty, I'm afraid it will stain your eyes. ”
"Let's go down together, I'm a big man, I'm afraid it will be dirty."
"Okay, let's just say that our prince's seed is not so delicate, and he has to look like a man, but unfortunately he looks too girly."
After that, the uncle sighed.
Hu Xiu is really full of black lines, and he doesn't want to look like such a mother, but he gave him this face, and there is no plastic surgery institution in this world, so he just makes do with his face.
"Little guy, you stay up there and watch first, my uncle and I will go down to the cellar first, and we will come out immediately."
"But, Childe..."
Without waiting for the little guy to finish speaking, Hu Xiu followed the uncle down to the cellar.
The sight in front of him was much darker, and there was still a smell of decay in the air.
"Click~"
The uncle took out two oil lamps out of nowhere, lit them, and then extinguished the fire again, because the oil lamps could already illuminate an area.
"Young master, you have this oil lamp."
Hu Xiu caught the oil lamp and followed the uncle for a few steps, and the space seemed to be much empty.
"Uncle, this is here?"
Hu Xiu has no concept of this cellar, he has lived in the south in his previous life, and he has never seen a cellar.
"It's here, young master, I'll search the left, you search the right."
Carrying an oil lamp, it illuminated an area, and layers of cabbage were stacked on the ground in front of it. After searching for a while, I saw that one side was full of sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Hu Xiu saw that the uncle was still searching, so he secretly took two larger sweet potatoes and stuffed them into the placket, the design of this dress is really troublesome, and there is no pocket.
But along the ground, Hu Xiu pulled for a while, and he didn't even let go of the bottom fruits and vegetables, but he didn't even find the shadow of the poison.
"Uncle, you haven't found the poison over there, I don't think there should be any poison in this cellar."
Just now he opened a big white radish, and saw a family of rats rushing out.
"Young master, I don't have any of this."
The uncle was holding an oil lamp in his right hand, and the fruits and vegetables on the ground were kicked and kicked in a mess.
"Uncle, if you kick like this, can you still eat this vegetable?"
"If you can eat it, why can't you eat it? It's all out of the ground, and I kicked it so many times, why can't I eat it? ”
The uncle grinned at his big white teeth, and he seemed to be really reasonable.
"Forget it, uncle, let's go up."
Well, the accent was brought with me.
"Don't search for it, huh? When I go up, I will call those cooks, and they will all come over one by one, but we have to train them well, can we still produce traitors in the prince's mansion? ”
“……”
What's the matter, this uncle, he is really rude.
Jumping up, this cellar jumped slightly, and it came up.
"Young master, I'm going to call those turtle grandsons over. I have to ask the young master a good question. But I don't know how to investigate any cases, and I have to leave this matter to you. ”
Uncle Tie Niu smiled innocently, but his foot movements were not slow, and he walked extremely fast.
Hu Xiu followed closely behind, and the last one was of course Xiao Fan.
"It was the first cellar just now, oh, now passing by the second one, it should be the cellar where the wine is stored, but... How is there a third cellar? ”
Along the road, all the way through, except for the cellar that I just entered, I met two cellars on the way.
"Uncle, stop for a moment, don't you say that there are only two cellars in the palace? How can I see three? ”
Hu Xiu pointed to some deserted grassland not far away, there was a sealed cellar mouth, if you didn't look carefully, you really couldn't find it.
"Oh, that cellar is abandoned and useless."
Uncle explained.
Hu Xiu stepped forward and looked carefully at the wooden lid that covered the entrance to the cellar.
"Uncle, don't leave yet, I found out that someone has gone down to the entrance of this cellar recently!"
The wooden lid is almost completely attached to the entrance on all sides, leaving no gaps.
But there is a very new warp on one side, a round warp, and there are some wood chips left on the side, which are very new.
"Can this cellar still be entered?"
"Yes, but this cellar has been abandoned for many years, and I don't know if it will collapse when I go in."
"Probably not, after all, someone has already gone in."
Hu Xiu pointed to the warp.
"Young Master, how do you know that someone must have gone in?"
The uncle scratched his brain, but he couldn't react.
Hu Xiu didn't reply, his little finger clasped the warp and buckled the wooden lid out.
He took out the fire fold, shook it, lit the flame, and jumped down.
The air in the cellar was somewhat cloudy, and there was an unpleasant stench, disgusting, and some of the puss was squeezed through.
After taking a few steps forward, he kicked away some debris in front of him, and the uncle also came down.
"It smells a bit like a corpse."
The uncle sniffed and sniffed something.
"Does it stink?"
Hu Xiu muttered, kicked away the front again, got some more clutter, and continued to walk forward.
After walking a few more steps, the smell became heavier and heavier, Hu Xiu began to hold his breath, and he now had a lot of experience in holding his breath. After all, I have the experience of boiling in boiling water, and it is not a problem to hold my breath.
When it got closer, the fire broke down not far away, as if there was a shadow in the shape of a corpse.
When they got closer, it was really a corpse, and the corpse had begun to decompose, and a giant view appeared.
It's winter, and the corpse is not allowed to decay, but if the corpse is stored in a place that is just the right amount of humidity and not too cold, bacteria will still grow.
ps: The fire excerpt is very nb, it is easy to burn, and interested friends can go to Baidu to search. But remember to be bored at home, and don't mess around with it and make a fire and it's over.
Usually after the corpse dies, five to seven days, there will be a giant view, and this giant view means a highly decomposed corpse, and the timing of its appearance is related to temperature and humidity.