Yang Qiuchi put his hand into Song Qing's arms, fumbled to open her dirty clothes, and attacked her soft and elastic Jade Girl Peak.

Yang Qiuchi's slightly rude kneading made Song Qing's whole body tremble, and she collapsed weakly in Yang Qiuchi's arms, allowing his claws to invade every inch of her land.

The lust has submerged Yang Qiuchi, the moonlight is so beautiful, the surroundings are peaceful, he wants to make Song Qing his bride in this picturesque moonlit night.

Yang Qiuchi slowly placed Song Qing on the soft grass under the shade of the osmanthus tree, continued to kiss her deeply, and temporarily withdrew his hand from her chest to untie her dress. Song Qing's body trembled, and an intoxicating moan came out of her mouth, as if she was also waiting for this moment to come.

At this moment, there was a faint noise in the distance, Yang Qiuchi didn't care, and continued to unbutton her dress. The voice grew louder and louder, as if it was in the inner office.

This noisy sound suppressed Yang Qiuchi's desire, he stopped his hand, raised his head and listened carefully, sure enough, the noise was in the area of Governor Zhou's residence. Is there a strong enemy coming?

Song Qing's two lotus-like jade arms were still around Yang Qiuchi's neck, she was already confused in the sea of desire, and murmured in a low voice: "Brother Qiuchi......"

Yang Qiuchi said in a low voice: "It seems that something has happened!" ”

Yes? At this moment, Song Qing sobered up, and hugged Yang Qiuchi tightly in fear: "What's wrong?" ”

"Don't be afraid! It seems that something happened to the Zhou Governor's Mansion. Yang Qiuchi broke free from Song Qing's embrace, sat up, and listened carefully, it was indeed true. Song Qing also sat up, and while arranging her dress, she asked, "Brother Qiuchi, what happened?" His voice trembled slightly.

Yang Qiuchi hugged her distressedly: "I don't know either." ”

Fang Cai's poetic atmosphere has been destroyed by this noise, Yang Qiuchi is a little angry, but he is helpless, now this kind of atmosphere is not suitable for continuing Fang Cai's romance, and besides, Zhou Zhifu is good to him, what is going to happen to him, he can't ignore it. Yang Qiuchi turned his head and kissed Song Qing's fragrant lips: "Qingqing, I have to go and take a look, send you back first." ”

Song Qing kissed Yang Qiuchi back and said firmly: "No, I'm not worried, I want to go with you!" ”

The noise grew louder and louder, and there were cries and scolding. Yang Qiuchi picked up Song Qing, and the two ran to Governor Zhou's residence.

When I came to the residence of Zhou Zhifu, I saw that Song Zhixian and Song Yun'er were already there. Niu Baihu was not there, and after the banquet was dispersed, he went back to Baihu. When Song Yun'er saw Yang Qiuchi, she bit her lip and didn't speak, looking at him sadly.

"What's wrong? Is something wrong? Yang Qiuchi asked.

Song Zhixian said: "Zhou, the concubine of the Zhou Governor's Mansion poisoned the little and little son of the Zhou Governor's Mansion. ”

Yang Qiuchi was taken aback: "I'll take a look." He stepped into the room. Song Yun'er and Song Qing said in unison: "I'll go too!" Obviously, neither of them was worried about Yang Qiuchi. Song Zhixian and the others also followed into the room.

There were seven or eight people in the room, and on the edge of a large bed, there was a swaddling baby, and a few maids and servants stood aside with their heads bowed and did not dare to come out. Zhou Zhifu was holding a leather whip and beating a girl lying on the ground. The girl was only wearing a set of white underwear, and cried miserably: "Master, master, I really didn't kill our children." ”

There was a burly man kneeling next to him, and he was also kowtowing to intercede for the little concubine, and listening to him should be the elder brother of the little concubine.

When the big man saw Yang Qiuchi walk in, he suddenly showed a very surprised expression on his face, and stared at Yang Qiuchi several times. Yang Qiuchi found that the big man looked at him with a surprised look, which was a little strange.

Governor Zhou's face was blue, and he scolded and smacked the girl hard. The whip whipped at the girl's body with a whistle, tearing her clothes and leaving streaks of bright red blood. The girl screamed and rolled on the ground.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Lord Prefect, what's the matter? ”

Governor Zhou turned around and saw Yang Qiuchi and the others coming in, and said hatefully: "This little slut, dare to poison my son to death, I will kill her to die for my son!" ”

The girl on the ground cried: "Master, the concubine is wronged, the little master was not poisoned by the concubine." The concubine woke up, and the child was like that. ”

"Dare to quibble! My son's face is bruised, who is it that you poisoned him? Kill you slut! Governor Zhou whipped it over again.

Yang Qiuchi hurriedly dissuaded and asked the truth of the matter.

It turned out that the girl on the ground was Zhou Zhifu's new concubine Li a year ago, and this Li family's stomach was very competitive, and a year later, she gave birth to a big fat boy to Zhou Zhifu, who was more than a month old. Tonight, the Li family fell asleep while breastfeeding the little young master, and when he woke up, he found that the little young master was out of breath, and he screamed in fright. After Governor Zhou learned of the situation, he found that the baby's little face was bruised, and no outsiders had come in, so he decided that the Li family deliberately poisoned the little boy to death. In a fit of rage, he told the servant to bring a leather whip and beat the concubine with all his might.

Yang Qiuchi felt that this matter was very strange, if this little concubine killed her child, there was no reason to choose this kind of occasion, didn't she think about escaping responsibility? Now this little concubine has been discerning that she was wronged, if she really did it, what is the motive? Didn't she know that her son would elevate her status in the Zhou Governor's family? It was very unreasonable, and after thinking about it, Yang Qiuchi decided to check the corpse. Then he said: "Governor Zhou's anger will be calmed for the time being, can I check the body of the little boy and see what is going on." ”

Governor Zhou knew that Yang Qiuchi was a master of solving cases, and besides, he was also tired, so he threw down the leather whip, took a breath, and nodded: "There is Young Master Yang." ”

Yang Qiuchi walked to the side of the bed, only to see the body of a baby in the swaddling clothes on the bed, and his face was bruised. Unwrapping the swaddling clothes, one hand gently lifted the corpse. The baby's hands and feet have begun to show stiffness. The early onset of rigor mortis coincides with arsenic poisoning, but there is no diarrhea and vomit similar to the symptoms of gastroenteritis that should occur in swaddling clothes, and besides, facial bruising is not a typical feature of arsenic poisoning.

Yang Qiuchi placed the baby's corpse next to the swaddling clothes and asked the maid servants if any outsiders had been there, and if they had heard or seen the baby vomiting or diarrhea. The servants all said no, and no outsiders ever came in.

This is strange, the main signs of the child's death do not match arsenic poisoning, unlike arsenic poisoning death, so how did the child die?

Yang Qiuchi looked back at the face of the baby's corpse and found that the baby's lips, ears, and nails were also blue and purple, which should be the characteristics of suffocation death, because, due to the lack of oxygen in the body, oxyhemoglobin in the blood will be converted into reduced hemoglobin, and when the reduced hemoglobin in the blood exceeds a certain proportion, the skin and mucous membranes will be cyanotic, especially in the face and other parts.

If it is really suffocation, then there should be bleeding spots in the eyes. Yang Qiuchi lifted the eyelids of the baby's corpse, and sure enough, there were needlepoint-sized bleeding spots in the two eyeballs and the palpebral conjunctival vault, which is a common symptom of suffocation and death. Asphyxia causes increased pressure in the capillaries of the face, coupled with the enlargement of the blood vessel wall due to hypoxia permeability, resulting in congestion of the venules and rupture of the capillaries, resulting in this punctate hemorrhage.

Yang Qiuchi carefully observed the back, buttocks, and back of the thighs of the baby's corpse, and found that not only had a relatively wide range of corpse spots, but also purple-black corpse spots and bleeding spots, which increased Yang Qiuchi's suspicions: the child should have died of suffocation, because the blood of the suffocated corpse is mostly non-coagulated and easy to fall, so the corpse spots appear early and significant, and the blood fall will form purple-black corpse spots and bleeding spots due to capillary rupture.

Based on these characteristics, Yang Qiuchi preliminarily judged that the baby died of suffocation. But what exactly causes baby suffocation?

The investigation just now learned that there have been several maids and servants in the room tonight, and there are almost no possible surnames of outsiders or these maid rings and servants who committed murder. Li is next to the child, of course, there is a chance to kill the child, if it is really the concubine Li who kills the baby, the most likely method she uses is to use a quilt or pillow. It is common sense that in non-emergency situations, when there are convenient tools around them, ordinary people will not use their palms to cover others to death.

Therefore, if Li covers the baby's mouth and nose with a pillow or quilt, it is likely that there will be traces of foam or even blood stains on the corresponding parts of the pillow and quilt. Yang Qiuchi carefully inspected every inch of the pillow and quilt, but found no suspicious traces.

It would be nice if an autopsy could be performed, so that the true cause of death could be more accurately identified.

Yang Qiuchi first observed the baby's neck, and found no strangulation marks such as epidermal shedding and subcutaneous bleeding, and then carefully observed the baby's mouth, on the inside of the lips, no bleeding was found, and the gums did not bleed, unlike covering the mouth too hard to cause suffocation death, however, dealing with a more than one-month-old baby is different from dealing with Chengren, the force of covering the mouth is not too large, it is enough to suffocate the baby, so on the inside of the lips, there may not be bleeding or bleeding gums, so it is not enough to rule out covering the mouth to cause death.

Next, Yang Qiuchi examined the baby's mouth and nose. In the background color of the face, in the area where the mouth and nose are located, there is a pale area with a relatively light color, which is not easy to find without careful comparison, and there is also a small amount of white liquid residue left in this area.

The baby's nose is slightly sunken in, but the baby's nose is deflated and cannot be seen if you are not careful. Yang Qiuchi found a small stick, gently picked up the baby's nostrils, asked Yahuan to take a lantern to shine on, and looked sideways inside, and found that there was some gray-white liquid in it. Yang Qiuchi glued a little bit with a small stick and took it out, sniffed it under his nose, and nodded thoughtfully.

Yang Qiuchi turned around and walked to the concubine who was lying on the ground crying, squatted down and asked, "Little Master, didn't you really poison him?" ”

This little concubine Li knew from the very polite attitude of the Governor of Fang Cai Zhou to Yang Qiuchi that this young man was not an ordinary person, and now when she heard him ask, she quickly knelt down and got up, crying and kowtowing and said: "I really didn't kill it, my own child, how can I be able to do this poisonous hand!" ――My child~! The whole upper body fell to the ground and cried bitterly.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Don't cry first, get up and talk." ”

The burly man next to him knelt down and climbed a few steps, came over and said to Li: "Sister, don't cry yet, get up quickly, the adults still want to ask you." ”

Li's grief and grief got up, still hiding his face and crying in a low voice.

Yang Qiuchi found that there was a wet mark on the ground where Li had just pounced, and he was slightly surprised, and looked carefully at Li's chest, only to find that Li's chest was wet with a large patch, and then he understood that this Li was breastfeeding, and the milk was sufficient, and he was whipped by the Zhou Governor's leather whip just now, rolling on the ground, oppressing, and the milk soaked the clothes on his chest. This discovery further affirmed my judgment.

Yang Qiuchi stood up and said to Governor Zhou, "The little young master was not poisoned. ”

Governor Zhou was suspicious: "Then, how could his face be bruised?" ”

"This is a sign of suffocation death, the little master was suffocated to death."

"Suffocating?" Governor Zhou walked to the side of the bed suspiciously and looked at the baby's body carefully, "Who suffocated my son?" ”

"Accident, this is an accident." Yang Qiuchi walked over and pointed to the slightly lighter colored area near the baby's nose, "My lord, please see, this whiter area near the little young master's nose is left after the pressure of the thing blocking the little young master's nose and mouth." Yang Qiuchi used the small stick to pick open the nostrils of the baby's corpse, "Adults look here, there is gray-white liquid in the nostrils of the little young master. Yang Qiuchi took it out and handed it to Governor Zhou, "Adults can smell it, this liquid has a relatively strong milky smell, it should be milk." ”

Listening to Yang Qiuchi's analysis, Zhou Zhifu vaguely thought of the truth of this matter, but he was not sure, and looked at Yang Qiuchi.

Yang Qiuchi sighed: "Judging from the inspection situation, it should be Aunt Li lying on the bed, falling asleep when she was breastfeeding the little young master on her side, her milk was very sufficient, and it was poured into the little young master's nasal cavity, causing suffocation, and at the same time, Aunt Li didn't notice it after she fell asleep, her ** blocked the baby's mouth and nose, which further aggravated the little young master's suffocation." The time of suffocation to cause death does not take long, and the time of a cup of tea is enough to cause death. ”

Yang Qiuchi thought to himself that if an autopsy was performed, it would be even more telling that he could find emphysema in the baby's lungs, similar to that caused by drowning due to milk inhalation into the lungs. Yang Qiuchi continued: "So, this is purely an accident, Aunt Li is unintentional, don't blame her too much." ”

Listening to Yang Qiuchi's analysis, Governor Zhou's expression was gloomy, and he turned his head to look at Aunt Li, if this is the case, although this concubine is also careless, it is always a much lighter crime than deliberately poisoning his own child. sighed and said to the Li family who was kneeling on the ground: "Since this incident is an accident, this government will not blame you." He made a gesture to get her up.

Li wept bitterly, and kowtowed to Zhou Zhifu and Yang Qiuchi again and again to thank him. After the maid attendants next to them saw Governor Zhou's words, they dared to step forward to help Aunt Li, and some servants hurriedly ran out to find Lang Zhong to heal her aunt's injuries.

(To be continued)