Zuo Jiayin said: "Why did Meng Ye send him to sneak into my house with this little catcher? If the master wants to know something, he can ask Jiayin directly, and Jiayin will tell him frankly. ”

"Hehe, there are too many curious things on the girl, and the contemptible people will ask the girl for advice one by one."

Meng Tianchu looked at Li Ruhan's pitiful expression on the ground looking at the pill, and stretched out his hand to Zuo Jiayin with a smile: "Can you give me this pill?" ”

"Okay." Zuo Jiayin smiled even more happily, and generously handed the small paper bag containing the pill to Meng Tianchu.

Meng Tianchu took it and picked up one. First looked at it carefully, then sniffed it under her nose, and shook her head: "How can Miss Zuo prepare such a harmful pill?" ”

"Harmful?" Zuo Jiayin looked a little surprised, and glanced at Meng Tianchu suspiciously, "Do you know the effect of this pill?" It's a life-saving medicine! ”

"Really?" Meng Tianchu pointed to Li Ruhan who was on the ground: "This is also called saving people?" ”

"No matter how good the medicine is, if it is not used well, it will harm people." Zuo Jiayin glanced at Li Ruhan on the ground with disdain on his face, "Hmph, he has today, he deserves it!" ”

"I have heard what you said outside just now, Li Ruhan killed his brother Li Ruxuan, that is, your first love, so you used this medicine to make him addicted, slowly torture him, and avenge your first love."

This sentence finally attracted Li Ruhan's attention, and he remembered that this terrifying criminal master had already listened to their conversation clearly outside the window just now. Murder pays for life.

Zuo Jiayin looked at Meng Tianchu in surprise: "Do you know this medicine?" ”

Ha, Meng Tianchu smiled, no one in this dynasty will know this medicine better than himself, a forensic doctor who has traveled through modern times. Meng Tianchu held one up and said, "This medicine is called opium, commonly known as big smoke, and it is made by drying in the shade from the slurry of an unripe fruit called 'poppy'. It has an old urine smell, and is mainly used to treat dizziness and gastrointestinal diseases. But it is easy to make people addicted, and once addicted, it is difficult to quit, and it will damage the body, and eventually die miserably! ”

Ancient China mastered the medicinal properties of opium very early, and the opium imported from Arabia in the Tang Dynasty was called 'Afurong', and in the Kaibao Materia Medica, published in the Northern Song Dynasty in 973 AD, opium was named opium poppy. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica," Li Shizhen gave a more comprehensive and systematic description of the function, form, and products of the opium poppy. At that time, opium was named 'Ahibiscus' and was included in the list of new medicines. It was not until the middle of the Ming Dynasty that some people began to smoke opium, but only a small amount of it was swallowed or taken with other medicines.

At this time, opium was still only used as a fake and precious drug, and the common people rarely knew about this medicine. I didn't know that this kind of medicine could make people addicted, so after Meng Tianchu said it like a few family treasures, Zuo Jiayin was simply stunned, and looked at him with wide eyes, as if he was looking at a monster.

Meng Tianchu continued: "Miss Zuo's Jiayin Villa is full of this kind of poppy - the ancient name is 'A Furong'. When I saw the girl and Li Gongzi coming from the flowers that day, I was very surprised. It's not that I'm surprised to see Miss Zuo and Li Gongzi together, but how could Miss Zuo grow so many poppies. Obviously, it is not just to extract opium to torture Li Gongzi, because to torture him, there is no need to plant so much, at present, I only see that Zuo girl used this drug on Li Gongzi, and I don't know what the girl used to plant so many poppies? ”

Zuo Jiayin tilted his head and smiled: "Because this flower is very beautiful." ”

"It's beautiful, but it's harmful!" How does this sentence seem to be talking about the kind of woman who looks like a shih h h and has a heart like a femme fatale?

Zuo Jiayin said lightly: "The beauty of the poppy is not its fault, it is just a flower." The poppy is innocent, the fault is the one who appreciates him! ”

Meng Tianchu's heart jumped violently, how could he say this as if he was saying it to himself.

Li Ruhan is suffering from drug addiction and worrying about his fate.

Meng Tianchu said to Li Ruhan: "Your brother was really killed by you?" ”

has just admitted that Zuo Jiayin seems to be helping to testify. Li Ruhan was addicted to drugs and life was worse than death, and in frustration, he nodded.

"How did you kill him? Tell me what happened. ”

Li Ruhan begged: "Master, please give me a pill first, and I will tell you everything." ”

Meng Tianchu shook his head: "You say it first, and I can give you the medicine." ”

Li Ruhan didn't dare to bargain anymore, and said in a low voice: "My brother Li Ruxuan went to the capital to catch the exam, I went to the capital with me under the pretext of studying, and on the way I secretly poisoned him in his meal, and after cremating the body, I transported the ashes back and buried them, and told my parents that my brother died of a violent illness on the road." "Hand hit

Meng Tianchu turned his head to Zuo Jiayin and said, "You suspected this matter and tried to make Li Ruhan addicted to opium, so as to ask the truth of the matter, right?" ”

"Master, you are really smart." Zuo Jiayin smiled slightly, "When I was with Ru Xuan, he told me that his younger brother had always wanted to fight the family property, and later after getting engaged, this Li Ruhan was scared of me and wanted to beat me." Therefore, when he came back with Ru Xuan's ashes and said that Ru Xuan died of a violent illness, I suspected that he was a ghost. In order to get close to him and find out the truth, I agreed to change my engagement to him, and delayed the marriage on the grounds of mourning Ru Xuan. After trying to find a way to make him addicted, he forced him to find out the truth of the matter! ……”

Meng Tianchu sighed and said: "Miss Zuo, since you have found out the truth, why don't you send him to the government for punishment and give him a simple punishment, and torture him in this way?" ”

"Simply? Wouldn't that be cheaper for him? Zuo Jiayin's voice was cold.

"You deliberately trick people into taking drugs and becoming addicted, but you are also committing a crime!" It occurred to me that at this time, no one knew about opium. There is no problem of drug abuse and drug trafficking, so there is no crime about opium drugs in the Daming Law. According to the principle of statutory crimes, Zuo Jiayin's behavior does not constitute a crime.

Zuo Jiayin smiled sweetly: "Then you can catch me and leave!" ”

Meng Tianchu didn't dare to answer Zuo Jiayin's soul-hooking eyes. coughed, and said to Li Ruhan again: "Ke Gongzi was also killed by you?" ”

Li Ruhan hurriedly said: "No, no, I didn't kill it, it was he who stole my medicine and overdosed to death." ”

Zuo Jiayin said coldly: "Who told you to steal my medicine, I have already told you that this medicine must be personally configured by me and taken according to the dosage I determined." Otherwise, you will definitely die, you don't listen, colluded with him to steal my pills, it's really self-inflicted! ”

Meng Tian Chuqi said: "What the hell is going on? The more you talk about me, the more confused I become. ”

"Let him speak for himself!" Zuo Jiayin said.

Li Ruhan knew that the murder of his brother was enough to make him lose his head, and it didn't matter if he didn't talk about it, so he said in a low voice: "Every time I am addicted to drugs, Jiayin tortures me in every way before giving me pills, and I think about stealing the pills." On the morning of Ke Wei's death, when I took the pill and my whole body was fluttering, Ke Wei happened to come to me, saw it, and asked what it was a good thing, so I thought of asking him to help steal the pill, so I told him how I felt after taking this medicine, and he was very curious, so he agreed to help me steal the medicine. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "At noon the day before he died, were you sneaking around on the Yinyue Flower Boat discussing this matter? ”

"Yes, we discussed going to Zhiweiguan to steal medicine......"

Meng Tian Chuqi said: "How do you know that Zhiweiguan has this kind of pill?" ”

"This pill has a big question, I have smelled it before in Zhiweiguan, although it is masked by the rich floral aroma. But I still smelled it, so I guess there must be this medicine in Zhiweiguan, judging from the source of the taste, it is in the Jiayin room. ”

Meng Tianchu said to Zuo Jiayin: "I know now, why do you always have such a strong fragrance on your body, and you know that the boudoir is also to cover up the smell of opium." ”

Zuo Jiayin smiled, her big watery eyes flashed, and she looked at Meng Tianchu with interest.

Meng Tianchu didn't dare to look at her, turned his head and said to Li Ruhan: "You're not stupid, you can find a place where opium is hidden." ”

Li Ruhan's expression was miserable: "Master, if you are addicted, you can also show it." ”

That's true. Addicts must have a much more sensitive sense of smell for this opium flavor than others.

"How did you get this pill?"

Li Ruhan said: "Ke Wei went to Zhiweiguan for dinner, and then I also went to Zhiweiguan and said that I had something to discuss with Jiayin." While the two of us were talking in her boudoir, Ke Wei was yelling in the private room and kept finding fault, and Jia Yin went to deal with Ke Wei, and I took the opportunity to find a small packet of pills, took it and ran away, and then Ke Wei also left. ”

Meng Tianchu thought to himself, these two boys are quite calculating.

Li Ruhan continued: "After the two of us converged, we returned to the Yinyue Flower Boat, Ke Wei ate one first, it was very bitter, and he vomited on the ground, I laughed at him, he ate another one, and vomited again, and asked Ripple to take water to rinse his mouth. At that time, I had already taken the pills, and I slowly felt dizzy and fluttering, and I saw him in a daze, and then I ate several pills in one go, and then he said that he was not feeling well and left......"

"Did the bustard and the ripple girl come in at that time?"

"I've been here, I've brought water."

Meng Tianchu turned his head again and asked Zuo Jiayin: "Miss Zuo, is that what he said?" ”

"Yes, don't you suspect that I poisoned Ke Wei now?"

Meng Tianchu smiled a little embarrassed: "That's the need to investigate the case, please don't be surprised by Miss Zuo." ”

Li Ruhan's confession is consistent with what Zuo Jiayin, Ripple, and Lao Bustard said, and it is consistent with the results of Ke Wei's autopsy, and the evidence is conclusive. Due to curiosity about the feelings after taking drugs, Ke Wei overdosed on opium and died of acute poisoning. But Li Ruhan lured others to take drugs, and he was also guilty of inescaping. At the same time as this case was solved, the case of Li Ruhan's murder of his brother was also solved, and although it was encountered by chance, he could only blame himself for his good luck.

Li Ruhan was still looking at Meng Tianchu pitifully, since he had confessed truthfully, Meng Tianchu didn't want to continue to torture him, and threw one of the pills in his hand to Li Ruhan.

Li Ruhan opened his mouth like a pug, took the pill in one gulp, and swallowed it with a grunt. Like a traveler in the desert with a very dry mouth, he got a large pot of cold spring water, breathed a long sigh of relief, and slowly lay on the ground, waiting for the feeling in the clouds.

Although two cases have been solved, especially the murder case of the prince of Ke Zhifu, which he is most concerned about, Meng Tianchu knows that now is not the time to celebrate, and Zuo Jiayin still has a few secrets that have not been solved. And among these secrets, there may be crimes. It's okay if you don't show up, but now that you have met it, you can't ignore it.

Meng Tianchu said to Zuo Jiayin: "Miss Zuo, there is a strange appearance of the contemptible people today, I want to ask Miss Zuo, which is also one of the reasons why the contemptible people took the liberty to come to visit." ”

"Oh, what's the matter."

"Just now, our Yamen head catcher found the corpse of the fifth bureau in the flowers of the girl's Jiayin Villa, which was buried in the flowers in a sack."

Zuo Jiayin smiled, as if Meng Tianchu was talking about other people's affairs and had nothing to do with himself.

Meng Tianchu asked, "Can Miss Zuo explain?" ”

"Explain what?"

"Wang Zhutou saw your luxurious carriage come out of the house and go out of the city to your Jiayin Villa. A masked middle-aged man directs servants to unload five bodies in sacks from the car. Buried in the flowers, doesn't the girl think that it should be explained? ”

Zuo Jiayin smiled sweetly: "What if I don't say it?" ”

Meng Tianchu took a step forward and said word by word: "That can't be helped, there are five dead bodies in your manor, and the head catcher saw with his own eyes that the carriage carrying the corpses was from your house, so I can only arrest you, if necessary, I will let the magistrate execute you, but at that time, I can't help you not recruit - this time what I said is true!" “