Song Yun'er blushed and asked puzzledly, "What's wrong with this leaf?" Why can't you touch it? Can this leaf still eat me? ”

"That's right, this leaf will be eaten for you!" Yang Qiuchi didn't have a smile on his face, and raised the leaf to look at it, "This is the leaf of oleander, poisonous!" ”

Yes? Song Yun'er was startled, hurriedly threw away the branch in her hand, and asked with palpitations: "Brother, you shouldn't be scaring me, right?" The face was flat, and the apricot eyes glared: "If you dare to scare me, hum!" ”

Yang Qiuchi didn't speak, still looked at the oleander leaves in his hand in a daze, and raised his head to look around, only to see that the mountains were full of oleanders, you can imagine that in the spring and summer flowering season, the oleander flowers all over the mountains are blooming, how beautiful it should be.

But Yang Qiuchi didn't have time to imagine that kind of beauty now, because he found a very serious problem. Turning around, he asked Mi Lizheng behind him: "Why are there so many oleanders on this mountain?" ”

Miri Masashi also looked up and said, "Wild, in spring and summer, the mountains are full of oleander flowers, red, yellow, white, very beautiful." ”

Yang Qiuchi looked back and forth, only to see that a few small wooden houses on Mrs. Wang's halfway up the mountain had turned into a few small black spots. Wei Yi groaned and said, "We made a mistake, go back immediately!" ”

Hu Jiang in the back was stunned for a moment and asked, "Young Master Yang, what did you get wrong?" ”

"When we get there, I'll go back to Mrs. Wang's house immediately." With that, he turned around and walked up the hill again. Hu Jiang and the others saw that Yang Qiuchi's expression was solemn, not like a joke, so they all turned around and walked towards the mountain.

Mrs. Wang's family saw Yang Qiuchi and the others coming back, a little surprised and a little nervous, and didn't know what happened.

Yang Qiuchi went directly to the room where the honey was kept, told the catcher to catch another duck, and shoveled a lump of honey from a porcelain bowl next to the porcelain bowl containing honey that Hu Jiang had inspected just now and fed the duck.

Although the duck was fine, it began to wilt, was a little unsteady on its feet, fell and got up again. Yang Qiuchi shoveled another lump of honey and fed it to the duck, two lumps in a row. This time the duck barely held on for a while before convulsing and falling to the ground.

Hu Jiang and the others were very surprised, is this honey really poisonous? I found another duck, shoveled honey from another porcelain bowl and fed it, and after feeding two large lumps in a row, the duck lasted for a stick of incense, and died of convulsions.

After testing almost all the ducks of Mrs. Wang's family, it was determined that six of the eight porcelain bowls contained poisonous honey.

Hu Jiang asked Mrs. Wang what was going on? Mrs. Wang, her son, and daughter-in-law were already frightened, and they didn't know how this could happen, they had been beekeeping for several years, and nothing had ever happened, and now they had also seen the duck die after eating honey, how to explain it clearly.

Hu Jiang waved his hand and wanted the official to come forward to arrest someone, but Yang Qiuchi waved his hand again to stop. said: "Don't arrest them, it's none of their business, they don't know that this honey is poisonous." ”

Hu Jiang looked at Yang Qiuchi suspiciously. Yang Qiuchi pointed to the two porcelain bottles in front of him that were not poisonous and asked Mrs. Wang: "These two porcelain bottles are honey collected after September (lunar calendar) this year, right?" ”

Mrs. Wang's daughter-in-law was very surprised and asked, "Yes, how do you know, my lord?" ”

Yang Qiuchi didn't answer, and pointed to the remaining six porcelain bowls with a solemn expression and said, "The honey in these six porcelain bowls should be the honey picked before August this year, right?" ”

Mrs. Wang was even more surprised, nodded and said, "Yes, your lordship is right. ”

Song Yun'er was very strange, looked at Yang Qiuchi in surprise and asked, "Brother, have you ever raised bees before?" ”

Yang Qiuchi shook his head, sighed and said, "The real murderer who killed Lu Xueru has been found." ”

Hu Jiang asked Yang Qiuchi in surprise: "It's Mrs. Wang's family, right?" ”

Yang Qiuchi shook his head again: "No, the murderer who poisoned and killed Lu Xueru was not a person. ”

This sentence "The murderer is not a person" startled everyone, and it reminded Song Yuner that when she was in Yunya Mountain, Yang Qiuchi also said that Bai Xiaomei's ghost killed people, and suddenly felt a chill in her back, looked left and right, shivered, and asked, "Is it the poisonous hand of the ghost again?" ”

"Look at your guts," Yang Qiuchi scolded lovingly, "It's not the ghosts who poison you, but the bees!" ”

"What?" This sentence confused everyone, and Song Yun'er asked in surprise: "Bees? How do bees poison and kill people? ”

Yang Qiuchi didn't sell Guan Zi either, and said to Song Yun'er: "Have you noticed that there are a lot of oleanders growing all over the mountains and fields around here." The whole oleander is poisonous, the leaves, branches, seeds, and even its beautiful petals and stamens. Mrs. Wang's domestic bees collect nectar from the stamens of this oleander, so the honey collected is poisonous. ”

Mrs. Wang's daughter-in-law argued: "Then, how is the honey in our other porcelain bowls not poisonous?" ”

"The oleander blooms from May to August (lunar calendar), and after August, the flowers are gone. Bees can't pick poisonous oleander honey, and honey from other flowers that aren't poisonous is certainly not poisonous. The honey in the last two porcelain bowls was collected after this, so it is not poisonous. ”

Now Hu Jiang and the others understood, and after a long time, it turned out that the bees poisoned and killed Lu Xueru, which really made people think about it.

Yang Qiuchi asked Mrs. Wang's son to recall when Fan, the wife of the old master of Nalu in Nanshao Village, bought honey with him.

This old master Lu seems to be very famous in Nanshao Village, an old Xiucai in his fifties who has repeatedly failed to succeed, and he has married a wife and a concubine, but his family is in the middle, and it is difficult to become famous. Mrs. Wang's son went down the mountain to sell honey once a month or so on average, so he immediately recalled that Fan bought honey with him around Chongyang in September. This is consistent with Fan's statement. In this way, this Fan family bought poisonous honey too.

Hu Jiang thought, since it was poisoned by bees, there was no way, it couldn't catch a few bees and go back to the errand, this Mrs. Wang's family didn't know that the nectar collected by the bees was poisonous, it was an accident, and it was not appropriate to catch them. After thinking about it, I decided to take a porcelain bottle with some poisonous honey and take it back to solve the case.

Hu Jiang looked for porcelain bottles of honey, but Yang Qiuchi looked at the honey in a daze and began to be in a daze again.

Song Yun'er saw Yang Qiuchi squatting there stunned and looked at the honey in the porcelain bowls, and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother, why are you still in a daze?" The case is solved, let's go down the mountain and go back to sleep, if we don't sleep all night, everyone will be sleepy. ”

Yang Qiuchi frowned and waved his hand: "That's not right! ”

"What's wrong?" Song Yun'er asked.

"This case is not right! The bee is not a murderer, and Lu Xueru did not die after eating poisonous honey. ”

When Hu Jiang heard this, he asked in surprise: "Young Master Yang, what did you say?" You didn't mean ......"

Yang Qiuchi interrupted him: "I was wrong before," he pointed to the honey in the honey jar and said: "You see, these poisonous honeys have been sold almost, since this honey can poison Lu Xueru and others, why haven't you heard of eating honey and killing people?" He turned around and asked Mirizheng: "Has anyone died in the village in the past two years?" ”

Li Zheng shook his head: "No," after thinking about it, he said, "This Mrs. Wang's honey is very good, many families in the village buy his honey, and I have bought it, but it is nothing to eat." They also sold it in the neighboring village, but they had never heard of anyone who had eaten his honey and died. ”

Hu Jiang asked: "Then this duck died after eating it, what is the explanation?" ”

Miri was scratching his head: "This, this ......"

Yang Qiuchi said: "This is a good explanation, it is not that if you eat poisonous things, you will definitely be poisoned and die, you must reach the amount of poisoning, and different individuals and different physical conditions will affect whether you are poisoned." With the same dose of poison, Chengren may not be poisoned if he eats it, but a child may be poisoned if he eats it. Children are fine if they eat it, but ducks may be poisoned if they eat it. ”

Song Yun'er understood a little and said, "Brother, do you mean that the dose of this honey poisoning is not enough to poison people, but it can poison ducks?" ”

"Clever!" Yang Qiuchi boasted.

Song Yun'er grinned.

Mirizheng found another problem and asked, "Then the baby is about the size of a duck, why haven't you heard that the baby died after eating honey?" ”

Yang Qiuchi was stunned for a moment, he hadn't thought about this question, and said, "Maybe, maybe this has something to do with the dose of the surname swallowed once." The baby eats less, and uses the chopsticks to pick a little water to drink, but just now we fed the poisonous honey to the duck two large lumps, enough for a baby to eat for many days, and the dose for each day is very small. He pointed to the duck and said, "Besides, no matter how small the baby is, it is bigger than this duck." ”

Mrs. Wang interjected and said, "Babies can't be fed honey." ”

"Why?" Yang Qiuchi and Mi Li Zheng both asked strangely.

"When a child who has not been weaned eats honey, he will cry non-stop, and his crying voice will be weak, and he will not be able to feed, and the baby will die if he eats too much honey. That's why we'll be reminded when we sell honey. ”

According to modern medical tests, soil and dust often contain bacteria called "botulinum toxin", and bees may bring contaminated pollen and nectar back to the hive in the process of taking pollen to make honey. The trace toxins contained in this honey are fine if they are eaten, but babies can be poisoned or even die if they eat them. Therefore, babies under the age of one year cannot be fed honey.

This baby can't eat honey, and Yang Qiuchi honestly doesn't know. In modern society, he doesn't even have a girlfriend, let alone the opportunity to have children, so he doesn't care about these issues. Now that I have listened to the words of this old lady Wang, I have also gained knowledge.

Yang Qiuchi saw that Song Yun'er, Hu Jiang and others still didn't believe their assertion that the poison that can poison the duck may not necessarily poison the dead, and he didn't bother to explain, so he said to Nangong Xiong: "You take two people to Mrs. Wang's pigsty to pull a pig out, and it will cost more than 100 catties." ”

Nangong Xiong agreed, and did not call anyone else, and entered the pigsty alone, and the pigsty suddenly remembered the screams of the pigs. After a while, Nangong Xiong came out with a fat pig, the fat pig was about the same size as him, this Nangong Xiong was really strong, this pig was hugged by him with both hands, except for humming in his nose, he couldn't move at all.

Yang Qiuchi called a catcher to shovel two large lumps of poisonous honey and feed it to the fat pig, and then put the fat pig back into the pigsty. Everyone waited around the pigsty for a long time, but the fat pig still hummed and chirped and shook his head and lived well, without any symptoms of poisoning.

At this moment, Hu Jiang and others believed it. The same two large lumps of honey poisoned the duck but failed to poison the fat pig. It seems that Yang Qiuchi is correct when he says that poisoning people needs to reach a certain dose.

Since this honey can't poison this fat pig, of course, it can't poison Lu Xueru. Besides, the duck was poisoned because he took two large chunks of honey in a row, and Lu Xueru only used honey to smear mouth ulcers, one for internal and one for external use, and the dose of toxic honey absorbed by Lu Xueru's body was even smaller, so it was even more impossible to be poisoned by this poisonous honey.

Yang Qiuchi was in a daze just now, and he discovered this problem.

In this way, it was not the poisonous honey collected by the bees that poisoned and killed Lu Xueru, so who is the real culprit?

While Yang Qiuchi was thinking about what to do next, Song Yun'er was very excited, because she had learned a lot about poisons. She learned martial arts in order to be able to walk the rivers and lakes one day in the future and act chivalrous and righteous, but the rivers and lakes are sinister, and if she understands a little knowledge of poisoning and drug prevention, she may be able to use it when she walks the rivers and lakes in the future.

Song Yun'er asked happily: "Brother, apart from what you just said, what else can determine that a person eats poison but is not poisoned?" ”

Yang Qiuchi was very satisfied with her diligence and inquisitiveness, nodded approvingly, and said: "In addition to the dosage size and individual differences can determine whether it is poisoned or not, the method of use can also determine whether it is poisoned or not. For example, many snake venoms will not be poisoned if swallowed orally, but they can poison people if they enter the bloodstream. ”

"Lu Xueru used this medicated honey to smear on the face of the mouth and tongue, not directly taking ......" Speaking of this, Yang Qiuchi suddenly stopped, and repeated to himself: "The medicated honey ......"

A flash of inspiration flashed in her head, and she even said damn it, how did she leak this stubble, didn't Fan Shi say it, she got a home remedy, and used honey to dispense medicine for Lu Xueru to treat sores on her mouth and tongue.

I only noticed the honey of this dispensing, how did I ignore the dispensing. It is likely that there is a problem with the medicine with honey, or there is a problem with the home remedies, or there is a problem with the person who gave Fan's home remedies!

(To be continued)