Chapter 39: The Weeping Red Rose
Shen Yi doesn't seem to be in the house, and the housekeeper doesn't dare to take care of this matter, so he can only let Song Xiu and them be "presumptuous"
"Butler"
"Granny Sheng"
"Ah, Granny Sheng"
Song Xiu asked as he took off his gloves
"Get your master"
"Our lord is not in the house"
"Huh?"
Song Li also came over and handed Granny Sheng a letter
"Just here, take a look"
Granny Sheng opened the letter with a slightly trembling hand, and after reading it for a while, she accepted the letter and bowed slightly to Song Xiu
"Song Gongzi, I was a little snub before, but now... I also ask you to help investigate this matter, the veteran is grateful."
Song Xiu looked at Song Li in confusion, Song Li stretched out his hand and pointed to the letter in Granny Sheng's hand, Song Xiu probably understood what happened
"But mother-in-law, we are now, you also know, the movement is severely restricted, I'm afraid I can't help you with this"
Granny Sheng waved her hand, and the guards guarding the door walked away
"There is no taboo against you now, Song Gongzi, please be able to close the case as soon as possible"
Song Li raised his eyebrows at Song Xiu and replied briskly
"No problem"
After checking the scene, Song Xiu asked people to put the body in an empty room, borrowed some things needed for dissection from Granny Sheng, and when everything was ready, he ordered people not to disturb them
After Song Li carefully examined the corpse, he asked someone to bring a basin of hot water, put his hand into the water and soaked in deep thought. This is the first time that Song Xiu has dissected the body by himself, although Song Li is with him, but this person who went to the corner of the house to vomit when Song Xiu just cut the belly of the deceased is useless to Song Xiu
"I've never seen you like this before."
Song Qi looked at Song Li, who was squatting in a corner and was slightly weak, and asked with disdain
At this time, Song Li's face was pale, and the tip of his nose and forehead were full of sweat
"You don't understand, it's called a stress response."
"Stress? Whose should you be provoked? β
Song Li glanced at Song Xiu, stood up forcefully, walked to the table, picked up the water cup and took a big sip
"Don't talk about me, what happened?"
"As you can see, severe edema in the lungs, and"
"And what?"
"I guess you'll have to see for yourself."
Song Xiu shrugged his shoulders, took his hand out of the basin and wiped it clean, and also drank a large sip of water, but he didn't swallow it, and he couldn't help but spit it out
"You're just that, the next Eyes and Ears"
Song Li laughed at Song Yu and walked to the corpse with satisfaction
Song Li almost vomited on her
"The guts are corroded?"
"Isn't it exciting?"
The two looked at each other, laughed helplessly, and endured the nausea to cover the corpse with a white cloth, trying not to let the cloth touch the blood that oozed out
"Oh my God, it looks like some of the people who are going to clean up in a while are busy"
"So are we"
The two simply packed up their utensils, went back to their respective rooms to change their clothes and went out
They called everyone in the courtyard to the hall, the courtyard was not big, and Song Xi didn't expect that there would be so many people taking care of them, standing in the main hall, and there were a few scattered outside
"The Dead"
"Small"
"Do you know her well?"
"Song Nu"
Song Li interrupted Song Qi's questioning
"Come on, if I ask, I think this little girl will relax a little."
Indeed, this maid is the one Song Li just asked, Xu has never experienced any "wind and waves", at this time she still looks very scared, nervous and even unable to answer Song Xiu's question properly
Song Li planned to take her around the courtyard on the grounds of letting her relax, but the little girl was really scared and refused to go anywhere, so Song Li had to take her to the room that Shen Yi had prepared for herself
"How old are you?"
"Sixteen"
The little girl took the water handed over by Song Li and took a sip
"Sweet?"
"Well, I've heard that eating sweet food helps to relieve tension"
"Who's listening?"
"Me"
The little girl seemed to relax a lot, and covered her mouth and chuckled
"The dead one is called Xiaoxi, so what is your name?"
"Xiao Zhen, naΓ―ve Zhen"
As soon as he heard Song Li mention Xiao Xi, Xiao Zhen should have been a little nervous, rubbing his knees with his hands, and his slightly flushed face couldn't tell what the expression was
"Don't be nervous, I'll ask you a few questions"
"Hmm"
"You have a good relationship with Xiaoxi, right?"
"Well, we're the same age, so we're playing better."
"You two live together?"
"Don't live, our lord is very good to his subordinates, and girls are basically one person in one room"
"Your lord is really, how greedy you are, so rich"
Song Li looked at the delicate teacup in his hand and muttered in a low voice
"What did you say?"
"Nothing, have you noticed anything unusual about her lately? For example, if you feel uncomfortable or something, have you ever eaten or drunk anything strange? Or, is there something you don't have? β
"This... It seems that there is, she often coughs, occasionally nausea, fever, in recent days I found that she will be wheezing when she moves a little, but there has been a doctor to treat her, I asked the doctor and only said that it is a normal phenomenon, the food in our house is unified, except for the snacks distributed on weekdays, we can't make it ourselves, to say what we don't have... That's the bouquet of red roses in her room."
"Red roses?"
"Well, that bouquet of flowers was given to her by our master, to reward her for making good snacks, and he also sent someone to send a bouquet of fresh flowers every day, all of which were red roses"
"You see?"
"I've seen someone give it to her, and she's said it, but she won't let me into her room, and I..."
"Where's the doctor now?"
"It should be in Fuchu"
"Okay"
Song Li let out a sigh of relief, stood up and moved
"Come to me if you think of anything else, do you still drink the water? How do you feel to get out? β
Xiao Zhen held the water cup tightly on his lap with both hands, lowered his head, his body trembled slightly, he sucked his nose slightly, snorted twice and didn't say anything, sounding extremely aggrieved
Song Li was a little flustered, and quickly squatted down next to Xiao Zhen and patted her back with his hand
"Why don't you stay in this room for a while, I'll come to you when I'm done."
Song Li's tone was very gentle, Xiao Zhen quickly calmed down, looked up at Song Li, his big eyes were filled with tears, he bit his small mouth, and nodded lightly
Song Li couldn't stay too long, thinking that he would hurry up to help Song Xiu, and went out after a few words of comfort
Seeing that Song Li was gone, Xiao Zhen straightened his back, stood up and stretched, put the water cup in his hand on the table, picked up the water cup that Song Li had put down, and covered his lips against the position where Song Li had drunk
"It's so sweet"
Song Li felt that he hadn't stayed for long, but Song Qi had already finished asking all the people in the hall
"How?"
Song Li repeated what Xiao Zhen said to Song Xiu, of course, without too many details
"No one has been to Xiaoxi's room, right?"
"Let's go"
The two went to Xiaoxi's room, this room is opposite the kitchen, small, cleaned very clean, the room is dressed very plainly, very similar to Xiaoxi's usual dressing style, it seems that she is also a person who likes simplicity, so the bright red red roses are incompatible with this plain white room
"Song Nu"
Song Li pointed to the rose placed at the head of her bed
"What a beautiful rose"
Song Xiu wanted to touch the petals with his hand, but was stopped by Song Li
"The more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they are, doesn't Gongzi Song know this sentence?"
"Of course, Miss Yin, isn't it?"
Song Li was stunned by Song Xiu, and cut off and didn't speak again
The two of them just stood in front of a bouquet of flowers and looked at it for a while
"Xiaoxi cherishes this bouquet of flowers very much, and waters it every day?"
Song Xiu asked, pointing to the water droplets on the petals
"Isn't this flower a bouquet delivered every day? Why does this lace still look wilted? β
Song Li touched his chin and looked at the roses, unable to understand
"I have an idea, I don't know if it's right or not"
"It's been spread for thousands of miles, what else is unreasonable, talk"
Song Li sat on the bed and listened carefully to Song Xiu's nonsense
"Do you know nitrous tetroxide?"
"I don't know"
"And do you know nitrogen dioxide?"
"I don't know"
"And do you know nitric acid?"
"I don't know"
"You! Forget it, my bad"
"What the hell are you going to say?"
Song Li was also a little anxious, Song Qi didn't say anything for a long time, and pulled out a few words that he had never heard before
"To put it simply, it is a gas without color, and after a certain change, another red gas is generated, and then the red gas meets water, and a corrosive liquid is generated, and this liquid is easy to become a gas and water, this..."
"Stop!"
The more Song Li listened, the more confused he became, after all, this kind of thing didn't exist in that era, Song Li didn't understand these at all, and he didn't want to continue listening
"Throwing these useless, what does this have to do with this case?"
"You want to"
Song Xiu sat next to Song Li
"Shen Yi will send someone to give Xiao Xi a bouquet of red roses every day, if you look carefully, is this bouquet of red roses darker? Xiao Xi must cherish this bouquet of flowers very much, and designated to water it every day, but Xiao Xi can't water it in the house all day, just like today, why no one has been here for most of the day, and there are still water droplets on the petals? And in Shen Yi's style, how could he give others flowers that are going to wither, it's only half a day, normal flowers won't be curled so quickly, right? β
"In other words, Shen Yi sent red roses to cover up the kind of gas you said, and the reason for producing that gas was that he put another gas in the roses, and the red gas changes and changes to produce water, so there will always be water droplets on the petals? So I'm having a headache now because I'm also poisoned? β
"Yes!"
"Pull"
Song Li waved his hand at Song Xiu
"That's, according to what you mean, the red gas should be the cause of Xiaoxi's poisoning, right? Even if the process is smooth, how did the white gas at the beginning store in these flowers? Don't tell me it's these flowers that suck in and spit it out."
Song Xiu didn't speak, this is also a point he can't figure out, everything is almost in line with the facts of the case, only this one thing is impossible to do
It seems that this matter needs to be answered by Master Shen Yi Shen himself
"Song Nu"
"Huh?"
Song Li grabbed Song Xiu's hand in a panic
"I believe you now, I have a terrible headache, I guess I'm also poisoned, quick, help me out"
"When you say that, my head starts to hurt too"
"I still want to throw up"
"Me too"