Chapter 38: The Incense Burner Poison Bureau
"Brother Gu, what did you just say that someone wants to blame me?"
"Oh, that's right, the third brother just drank the leftover herbal tea from yesterday, and it was not poisoned, so we suspect that someone put poison into the tea in order to blame you."
Song Guichen couldn't help but be surprised: "The organ in the west lake is also to blame me?" ”
"Probably not." Gu Yidao, "At present, it seems that the mechanism on the bamboo pole and the poison in the tea should be two different sets of thorns, one group of people set up a bamboo pole bow and crossbow mechanism in the lake, while the other group of people made the tea poisonous, also to poison Lord Wang." ”
"This ......"
Several people were shocked and suspicious when they heard him say this, Du Qingshan noticed the mystery in Gu Yi's words, and asked out loud: "Brother Gu said 'let the tea become poisonous', what does this mean?" ”
Gu Yi looked outside the door and muttered: "Yesterday, Cui Niang drank tea and had symptoms of poisoning, but today I also drank this tea, but it was fine." In other words, yesterday the tea was poisonous, but today it is non-toxic. ”
"Toxic yesterday, non-toxic today?"
"Not bad." Gu Yi walked to the screen, twisted a pinch of incense ash, and said to Song Guichen, "Little dust girl, you know how to heal, come and see what this incense ash is?" I looked at it carefully for a long time, but I didn't know what kind of incense was burning in this incense burner. ”
Last night, Song Guichen took the initiative to ask Ying to heal Wang Qinruo, who was hit by the arrow, and her method of dealing with the wound impressed Gu Yi, and she also knew that she actually knew how to heal.
Song Guichen stepped forward, dipped his index finger in the incense burner and put the burned incense ash in his nose and sniffed, frowning: "The main raw material of incense used in Zhucuilou on weekdays is generally sandalwood, and in addition to sandalwood, there seems to be a flower on the other side in this incense ash. ”
"The other side of the flower?"
"Well, this is a strange flower from the Western Regions, which always grows leaves after the flowers are gone, and the flowers and leaves are destined to never meet, so people call it 'the other side flower'.
The peculiarity of this flower is that the flowers and leaves are non-toxic and can be used as spices, but once the flowers and leaves meet, they will become highly toxic, so this flower is also called 'Huangquan Guide Flower'. ”
"Yellow Springs leads the way." Gu Yi sighed in a low voice, "It's really leading the way to Huangquan." I thought that the assassination method of the bamboo pole mechanism in the lake was already exquisite, but I didn't expect that there would be such a clever killing method as the Incense Burner Poison Bureau. ”
If it hadn't been for the mechanism of the bamboo pole and crossbow arrows that was launched first, it disrupted the scene and made Wang Qinruo unable to drink the tea, Wang Qinruo would have been a dead man at this moment.
"What does Big Brother Gu mean is that someone used a mixture of flowers and leaves to kill people?"
Gu Yi nodded, turned around suddenly, filtered out the tea in the teapot on the table, and poured out the tea residues.
After a while, he found a few leaves that were different from the tea leaves in the tea leaves, Song Guichen carefully confirmed them, and said with a dark face: "This is the leaf of the other side flower, yes." ”
"This-" Gu Ziying looked at Song Guichen with wide eyes, and Song Guichen shook his head slowly, "I definitely didn't put this leaf in the tea leaves." ”
"I believe in Miss Dust." Gu Yi said solemnly, "Now that we know why Cui Niang was poisoned, the next thing is to find out who mixed the leaves into Miss Xiaochen's tea, and who put the flowers into the incense burner."
"Yesterday, the staircase on the third floor was full of officers and soldiers, and ordinary people couldn't come up, but with the bartender and guests, the number was not a few, and it was more difficult to find out the people who could put flowers on the other side into the incense burner.
"It's that there aren't many people in the back kitchen who can touch tea, and I ask Miss Xiaochen to think carefully, when you made tea yesterday, who touched your tea?"
After he said this, he looked at Song Guichen expectantly.
Song Guichen listened to what he had just said, and his analysis was reasonable, convincing, and he was amazed and admired for a while.
At this time, seeing him looking at him earnestly, Song Guichen's face was red for a while, and he hurriedly turned around and walked to the west fence to make a reminiscence.
Oops, God! is dying, why is Brother Gu so good-looking!
Still looking at me with such affection!
Song Guichen blew a gust of wind in Yinghu, and only then did he calm down the agitation in his heart, and turned around with a serious frown: "When I made tea yesterday, there were only Mu Damiang and Yueyue in front of me, and the tea was handed to me by Yueyue, and I was ...... at the time."
"What happened?" Gu Ziying asked anxiously.
"At that time, there were people singing in the lake, and I thought it was funny, and I sang with him for a while, and I didn't pay close attention to whether there was anything else mixed in the tea leaves."
"That's it." Gu Yi nodded and said, "Someone did sing in the lake yesterday, and everyone on the third floor heard it, and they also heard the sound of Yinghe from the back kitchen, but I didn't expect that it was Xiaochen girl who was Yinghe." ”
Song Guichen was rarely shy, coughed dryly, and said, "I just thought it was interesting, so I took it casually, and I didn't mean anything else." ”
Du Qingshan looked at Song Guichen's shy appearance with great interest behind him, and slandered in his heart: I thought she would always be unforgiving, but I didn't expect to be so ...... in front of Brother Gu Uh, such a mother?
If Song Guichen knew what he was thinking, he would definitely retort loudly: Hey, people are originally girls, okay? What are you talking about?
"Speaking of which, does Brother Gu know who was singing in the lake yesterday?"
"It's a monk in a monk's robe, with a hat, it's too far away from the third floor, I don't see the appearance clearly, but I guess it's a monk from the Lingyin Temple in the Lonely Mountain."
"Sure enough, it's him."
"Who is it? Xiaochen girl knows the monks of Lingyin Temple? ”
Gu Yi didn't know Song Guichen's true identity, but seeing her like this, it was obvious that he knew the monk who sang in the lake yesterday.
looked back at Du Qingshan again, and remembered that when he was on the boat a few days ago, Du Qingshan said that the secret of Xiaochen girl was strange and asked him to ask in person.
Gu Yi's heart became more and more suspicious.
Song Guichen didn't know what he was thinking, so he hurriedly shook his head to cover up: "Oh, Du Qingshan was ...... before." Oh no, Brother Du took me on a trip to the Lonely Mountain, where we met a monk. ”
Du Qingshan secretly slandered again in his heart: Why don't I remember what monk I met on the lonely mountain?
Gu Yi smiled, the little girl in front of him would not lie at all.
However, this matter has nothing to do with the assassination, and Gu Yi is not in a hurry to explore other people's secrets, so he only nodded and said: "In this way, I also bothered Miss Xiaochen to take me to the back kitchen, I have a few words I want to ask Chef Yueyue." ”
This is to cast a suspicious gaze on Yueyue.
Although Song Guichen didn't want to believe that Yueyue did it, all the evidence pointed to her at this time, and she couldn't help but not believe it, so she had to nod her head and take care of Yi Yi and say that she had to do it.
Not long ago, when Wang Qinruo ordered her to make old mussels and pearls, the river mussels in the back kitchen suddenly disappeared, and Song Guichen already suspected that the hands and feet of the people in the back kitchen were made, and she also suspected Yueyue at that time, but she never confirmed it.
At this time, Song Guichen's heart was slightly cold.
Why did Yueyue do this?