Leaving the silk shop and walking back, Lin Qingdai suddenly remembered something and said in a low voice: "This and the ribbon will not belong to ordinary people, because the shroud is generally properly kept after it is purchased, and the children should use it as a rope, and it is generally impossible to take the waist silk of the old man's shroud, which is too unfilial, and it is easy for the family to find out after using it." ”

When Du Wenhao heard this, he was overjoyed: "That's right! If the old man himself is the murderer, he generally will not use his own shroud ribbon as a rope, and there are more people who can make ropes at home, why do you want to use the waist silk of the shroud as a rope? The murderer can use the shroud waist silk as a rope, indicating that the murderer is likely to live in a place where there are a lot of shroud waist silk! ”

"-Shroud shop?" Lin Qingdai said happily.

"That's right! However, does the shroud shop owner have the ability to kill people with gold nuggets? ”

Lin Qingdai said with a smile: "Don't underestimate the shroud shop, the shroud shop has become bigger, and it can be compared to the big restaurants and restaurants!" After all, no one will save money on this. ”

Du Wenhao's eyes lit up: "That's right! If you can use gold nuggets to kill people, you must not care about money, and at the same time, you can use waist silk as a tool for committing crimes, then you should be a person from a big-name shroud shop! Moreover, it is definitely not an ordinary guy, it is likely to be the boss or shareholder! ”

Lin Qingdai's eyes also lit up: "There shouldn't be many shroud shops like this in Beijing!" I'm going to find out one by one tonight! ”

Du Wenhao said: "Are you alone?" I'm afraid that this kind of family also has a martial artist who cares for the home. Do you want Xin Jiuniang to go with you to take care of it? ”

"No, it's not going to fight, to find out the situation, the fewer people there are, the more hidden. Rest assured! I'll go tonight. ”

Du Wenhao lowered his voice and said: "Unexpectedly, our big shopkeeper is still a chivalrous man who walks on the wall. ”

Lin Qingdai smiled: "It's just a small skill of carving insects." ”

When the three of them returned to Fuyun Hall, Du Wenhao suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly called Hu Yanzhong, the leader of the guards, and instructed him to immediately send guards to visit all the pharmacies in the city to find out the situation of all the patients who died of acute abdomen, including the place of burial.

After Hu Yanzhong took the order and left, Xue Fei'er asked, "Brother, why are you checking this?" ”

Du Wenhao said: "These three people were rescued by us, not everyone who was murdered by the gold nugget was so lucky to be rescued, so it is likely that other people will be murdered by the murderer in this way, and the general doctor does not know that it is murder, thinking that it is a disease, so no one has ever sued the official." We need to find these people who have been murdered by the gold nuggets and discover the connection between them in order to find clues to the suspects. ”

Xue Fei'er and the others all understood now.

In the evening, the guards who had gone out to visit came back one after another, and sure enough, more than a dozen patients had recently died of severe abdominal pain. There are all kinds of people, and there are no rules. The burial site has also been clarified.

The emperor of the Song Dynasty attached great importance to medicine, and not only did not prohibit the autopsy for medical or forensic purposes, but advocated it, so the earliest autopsy diagram appeared in the Song Dynasty. There is no obstacle in opening the coffin for the autopsy, but after all, he himself is just a doctor, and investigating this case can only be regarded as a trick, and he has no investigative power. Only when the murderer is found, will the government open the coffin and conduct an autopsy to determine how many victims there are.

He listed the identities of all the patients who died of acute abdomen on a table and studied them repeatedly, but after studying for a long time, he could not find any connection between them.

After nightfall, Lin Qingdai wore a black night coat and went directly to the room from the inner house.

Du Wenhao and others sat quietly at home and waited. It wasn't until the third watch that Lin Qingdai finally came back. He took out a gold nugget from his arms and handed it to Du Wenhao: "This is from one of the largest shroud shops in the capital, 'Xiangyun Shouyi Shop'." They had a gold furnace in the shop, and it happened that they were smelting gold nuggets, small pieces and small pieces, and I saw that this gold nugget was quite like the gold nugget we took from the patient's stomach, so I made a little mess, and took a piece back, you see, if not, I have to send it back. ”

Du Wenhao took it and only glanced at it, and then said happily: "Yes!" Absolutely! But let's compare! ”

After coating the gold nuggets with ink, the glutinous rice paper was taken to rub the surface trachoma impressions, and the trachoma rubbings of the previous three gold nuggets were overlapped and compared, and it was exactly the same!

Since this gold nugget is the murder weapon, it naturally does not need to be returned.

Xue Fei'er clapped her hands and shouted, "But the real murderer has been found!" Hurry up and tell the yamen to arrest people! ”

Du Wenhao shook his head and said, "Who to arrest?" Who is the murderer? ”

"The shopkeeper of this Xiangyun shroud shop!"

"Why do you say he's a murderer?"

"With this nugget!"

"This gold nugget belongs to their shroud shop, but of course it must be the gold nugget under the shopkeeper, and others may also have access to this gold nugget."

"This ......" Xue Fei'er was dumbfounded, "what can I do about this?" ”

Du Wenhao thought for a while and said: "The murderer must be the one who can control the gold nuggets, otherwise, the loss of so many gold nuggets in a row is worth a lot, and the shroud shop has already reported to the official, and now there is no movement, which means that the person who has the gold nuggets should have done it himself." It is likely to be the shopkeeper, but it has not been directly proved to be him. We need to get further evidence. ”

"How do I get evidence?"

"Catch the traitor and catch the double, catch the thief and catch the dirty! Call the leader of the guards, Hu Yanzhong! ”

Hu Yanzhong came soon, and Du Wenhao instructed him to arrange guards to wait around this Xiangyun shroud store day and night, and follow several high-level figures such as shopkeepers and housekeepers in this store at any time.

However, unexpectedly, for several days in a row, the people who squatted and followed did not find any abnormalities, which made Du Wenhao and others very puzzled.

Zhan's mother's injuries have basically healed, and Du Wenhao determined after diagnosis that she can be sent back to slowly recuperate.

That night, after Du Wenhao gave a doctor's order, he ordered to blindfold Zhan's mother with a black veil, and then asked the guards to carry her to the outside of Dong Zhukuai's courtyard in a sealed sedan chair, and after helping her get off the sedan chair, he left.

Zhan's mother pulled off her veil and recognized that this was the place where she had been taken away for treatment, so she pushed the door in.

As a few days ago, he sat in the courtyard and waited for the news, heard the movement, looked back, and saw his mother slowly walking in with her stomach covered, and was surprised, for fear that she had seen it wrong, and shouted: "Mother?!" ”

Zhan's mother also recognized her son and said happily: "Son! Why are you here? ”

Zhan Di was overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward to support his mother: "Mother! Are you ......, are you cured? ”

"Yes! The strange doctor Engong cured me of the disease, and my stomach didn't hurt at all, everything was normal. ”

Zhan Di was so happy that he didn't know what to do, and called out the servants who were hiding in the house, and the servants knelt down to congratulate the old lady on her recovery. hugged the old lady and got into the carriage, and after thanking Dong Zhu, he went home.

On the way, Zhan asked his mother to pass by, and Zhan's mother said: "Those people are wearing veils, I don't know who they are, and they don't let me go out, so I don't know where they are, but they must be in the capital, because I saw the fireworks set off during the New Year in the city, and I also heard the bell of Xiangguo Temple, which is probably near Xiangguo Temple." However, they said that they were living in seclusion in the capital and didn't want others to disturb them, so let's just keep this gratitude in our hearts and don't go to visit, so as not to disturb the benefactor's cultivation. ”

"The child knows."

"By the way, son, you can do one thing for your mother. There is a county lieutenant in Dongda County, Gedong Prefecture, named Pang Jinghui, you help me transfer him to the capital as an official. Okay? ”

"The county lieutenant of Dongda County?" Zhan Di was slightly stunned: "Is this person related to the benefactor who saved his mother?" ”

"Don't ask, don't ask, just do what your mother says, and don't tell anyone about it, including Zhan Jinghui, just say that he has outstanding political achievements, just transfer the capital to an official."

"Mother, you are really right, the Ministry of Officials assessed officials from all over the country a few years ago, and there was a plague in the area of Gedong Mansion at the end of last year, and tens of thousands of people died, but less than 1,000 people died in Dongda County, where Zhan Jinghui is located, and the assessment learned that the county's epidemic prevention is very good, especially a young doctor named Du Wenhao, who invented a kind of equipment that can prevent the plague, and took many very effective measures, leading the doctors in the city to risk death to treat and save people in the isolation area outside the city, and countless people were alive, and he was appointed as a yamen medical officer at that time. Recently, it was reported that the epidemic there has been completely extinguished, and the county magistrate Zhuang Zhenmou and the county lieutenant Zhan Jinghui have made outstanding achievements, and the officials are about to appoint the two to take up the corresponding positions in the Gedong Mansion. ”

"Well, that's thoughtful. Then transfer both of them to the capital, by the way, and the capable young doctor. ”

Zhan Di shook his head: "This Doctor Du has already died in a mob riot. The prefecture and county have reported to the Ministry of Rites to give him a meritorious memorial arch. By the way, it is said that this doctor is like a god, and even the current Tai Hospital, the great doctor Cheng Shen Doctor Qian Yiqian, is his apprentice. This person is good at Hua Tuo's magic skills, once treated a terminal illness in the moment of the Gedong Mansion Baiyun Nunnery presided over Jing Ci Shi Tai, this Jing Ci Shi is extraordinary, she created the White Clothes Society has tens of thousands of believers, even many high-ranking officials in the city are believers in the society, so, the city has built a merit arch for him, but unfortunately, the archway has just been erected, people are no longer there, alas! Otherwise, with his brilliant medical skills that are good at Hua Tuo's divine skills, he should be recommended to enter the Tai Hospital, which is really a pity! ”

Zhan Mu nodded and asked casually, "What kind of medical skill is Hua Tuo's divine skill?" ”

"Laparotomy! It is to cut open the person's stomach, cure the disease inside, and then sew it up, and the person is just as good and fine! ”

Mother Zhan's heart moved, the young doctor who treated her also opened her abdomen to heal, and then sutured it, she subconsciously gently touched the position of her abdominal incision, thinking, could it be that this reclusive doctor has any relationship with the young miracle doctor who died?