Purple smoke bath, incense dyeing Huatang, rich and noble people in the family of incense supplies common, Hu Xianxian from the corner of the wall to find this incense burner is even more exquisite, the pattern is exquisite.

This censer is round and three-legged, about seven inches high and about five inches in diameter. A small dark purple dragon coiled up from under the belly of the furnace, its claws on the lid of the furnace and roaring to the sky.

The front paw is raised at the seam between the lid and the furnace body, and the raised head is just the lid button. There are fine holes under the belly of the furnace that are smaller than the tip of the embroidery needle, and if it weren't for Hu Xian's amazing eyesight, it would almost be impossible to see.

Hu Xianxian couldn't understand why such a delicate utensil was thrown casually, even though the rich and noble people had countless money and did not value this incense burner, but they also paid attention to the neat placement of the items, and they would definitely not be thrown away.

Looking at the incense burner carefully, Hu Xianxian saw that there were no spices in the furnace, inhaled enough to smell the residual fragrance, and felt that the smell was strange.

She quietly left with the incense burner, and went to ask the old imperial doctor to check what kind of spices were used, and when the end of noon found out the results, there were commonly used spices and salmergin and the like.

Salmerine? Isn't that what alchemy is used for? Isn't this an incense burner, it's really a danding?

The old imperial doctor couldn't find anything more, so Hu Xianxian took the incense burner back to the Xianyuan Garden to check it carefully to see if there was any record of mercury inducing lead toxicity in the secret recipe for alchemy.

On October 17, Qin Mufeng and Wanzhi came together, they were still worried about Du Wanlan's safety, and because Du Wanzhi's eldest sister died early, Du Wanzhi could not serve her father's side, and they were even more desperate to hope that Du Wanlan would not have an accident.

Seeing that Hu Xianxian was looking through the alchemy classics, Qin Mufeng pondered for a moment after asking about the situation, and said that he had figured out how the two children were poisoned and died.

Mercury and cinnabar are added to the spices, because the fragrance is rich to cover up the strange smell, when burning, the mercury transpires and goes to the stove lid, and the spices float out in the pores under it, and then it does not volatilize poisonous gas.

When the lid was lifted, the mercury vapor came out, and the two children were nearby, which greatly increased the toxicity of the heavy lead.

It's just that Qin Mufeng's identity is special and he can't come forward to testify, so it is safer for him to come forward to testify by telling the old imperial doctor about this characteristic.

After doing these things, Hu Xianxian went to Zhang's Manor again to inquire how the incense burner got to the skirt house, and this time it was open and honest to enter through the gate.

The incense burner was an important physical evidence, Hu Xianxian didn't bring it, but only let all the little servants who had followed Ah Skirt gather together, explained the shape of the incense burner, and drew a simple picture for them to identify.

Most of them have seen this incense burner, but they can't remember whether it was originally moved, or who gave it or bought it. They looked at it for a while before someone remembered that it was given by Du Wanlan two months ago.

Hu Xianxian listened to it in her heart, and asked the servant woman if she would be mistaken, and after reading it repeatedly, she said that she was sixty percent sure that it was the incense burner sent by Du Wanlan.

In order to find out about this matter, Hu Xianxian hurriedly went to the prison and asked Du Wanlan to look at the drawings to see if she had ever sent this incense burner to Ah Skirt.

Du Wanlan said that she had sent it, and not long after Ah Skirt entered the house, Ah Chan proposed to take out the main room to send things, one showed generosity, and the other took the opportunity to show her status and ability in the Zhang family, and at the same time deter the partial house, and then say something to suppress those who want to tie up the partial house.

At that time, not only incense burners were sent, but also a lot of silk satin, rouge gouache and the like were sent, all of which were purchased by Ah Chan.

Hu Xianxian got out of the cell, and then went to Zhang's manor, and asked a few reliable servants to check the Zhang family's purchase accounts in recent months, to see where the incense burner was purchased by Ah Chan.

Because he couldn't find the results for a while, Hu Xianxian went back to Xianyuan Garden to see if there was any other news.

On the seventeenth day of October, Hang Wuyi and Ruan Wenyue chased down the little guy who was fishing for lead ore and tied him back to Xianyuanpu.

was able to chase this little guy like this, thanks to the help of the people at the post station, Ruan Wenyue became good friends with Ye Saiying, Ye Saiying is Ye Guanying's sister, and using Ye Guanying's name to press those post guards to help check the pedestrian vehicles is much more useful than their aimless chasing. So, it's a lot more convenient to have a network to do things.

Hu Xianxian went to interrogate the little guy, and he quickly confessed that it was Ah Chan who told him to go and get stones, and a few days later asked him to run away with the stones.

When Ah Chan asked him to do that, he also wondered what the hell was he doing? But I didn't let him do murder and arson, so I agreed. As he spoke, he kept begging for mercy.

Hu Xianxian told him not to be afraid, locked him up, asked a little Taoist aunt to take care of him, and waited to testify in court.

Those lead mines are important physical evidence, and when it was revealed that this little guy had thrown the strange stones he thought was thrown into the river a hundred miles away, Qin Mufeng hurriedly went to salvage them.

Prospecting in the water is difficult for most people, but for Qin Mufeng, as long as he knows the approximate location, it is a breeze.

Hu Xianxian combed through all the evidence and testimony, and found that the mastermind of the case pointed to Ah Chan again, and after thinking about it, he went to Zhang's manor.

"How do you know that there are gold and silver treasures in the small courtyard where Ah Yan used to live?" Hu Xianxian asked with a smile.

"The small courtyard where Ah Skirt used to live? I've only been there twice with my wife, what gold and silver treasures? "Ah Chan pretended to be stupid.

"There is something in that well, how can you let people go down to the well to fish for things without gold and silver treasures?"

Of course, Ah Chan knew that Hu Xianxian was tricking her, her face changed a few times, and then she simply gritted her teeth and admitted, "I let people go down to the well to fish for things, so what's the matter?" ”

"What's going on? You should know that it was something that killed Zhang Dun's children, not some gold and silver treasure! Still not guilty of guilt!? Hu Xianxian shouted.

"Guilt? Madame told me to let people go to the well to get something, but I didn't even know what I was fishing, so how could I be guilty? When the maid listens to the dispatch of the mistress, is this considered a sin? Ah Chan was so excited that her voice was high-pitched.

Unexpectedly, she said that Du Wanlan asked her to do these things, she looked like she was all in the dark, and Hu Xianxian couldn't find a suitable reason to demolish her.

When asked about the incense burner, Ah Chan said that she bought it in a workshop that had a good relationship with Zhang's Manor, and the best craftsman in that workshop was also familiar with Du Wanlan.

Anyway, Ah Chan said all this

It was all instructed by Du Wanlan, she just obeyed it, even if she did something wrong, it was just a loyal servant and ignorant servant who didn't know the truth.

After exhausting his efforts to find out that there was a breakthrough in the case, the result was still a dead end, and the evidence could not be handed over.

Once handed over to the public, Du Wanlan cannot be cleared of grievances, but it will make this case change from a hasty verdict full of suspicions, to a mountain of ironclad evidence, the case is clear, and Du Wanlan will think that Du Wanlan is the real murderer behind the scenes.

Busy coming and going, how did this become helping others investigate cases? If you want to clear your grievances, how can this become more stigmatizing and heavier? If Ah Chan bites Du Wanlan to death, she can confirm the charge that Du Wanlan is the mastermind.

After Hu Xianxian returned to Xianyuanpu, he closed the room in a daze, angry, depressed, irritable, and more self-pitying, feeling that he couldn't do anything.

Ah Chan is Du Wanlan's personal maid, from five years ago in Zhang's Manor as a little maid who played with Miss Zhang Ruijuan, to following Du Wanlan in the past two years to be reused, the Zhang family knows that they are called master servants and are like mother and daughter, it is almost impossible to prove that Ah Chan is guiding Du Wanlan to do things.

Who would believe that Du Wanlan, who was born in a big businessman, has been in business for many years, and is a shrewd person, would be played around by a maid in her early twenties?

Even if torture is used to force Ah Chan to admit the crime, some people will suspect that Du Wanlan and Hu Xianxian have a good relationship, and they rely on their wealth and power to bribe the officials of the Criminal Department and push Ah Chan out as a scapegoat.

Without a chain of evidence, it is impossible to find out the real culprit who instructed Ah Chan to do all this, even if Du Wanlan is rescued, it is difficult to really wash away the grievances.

When it was almost time, Du Wanzhi and they asked Hu Xianxian to go out to discuss, but she refused to go out, which could not prove that Du Wanlan did not know about the lead mine and the incense burner, and she was embarrassed to see them.

At the end of the time, Cheng Haofeng finished dealing with the training of Zheng Tianba and Zheng Huiliao's father and son and dealt with the soldiers, and came to Xianyuanpu to inquire about the progress of the case.

Knowing that Hu Xianxian was closed, he said at the door: "Do you remember those recruits who were temporarily accepted in Yuezhou? They have made meritorious contributions to Zheng Tianba and caused trouble, it is difficult to deal with, can you help me come up with an idea? ”

This is under the banner of asking her opinion, persuading her to open the door, Hu Xianxian's heart is full of sweetness: Who said that my mighty wind is ruthless and ruthless? He didn't bang on the door directly, he didn't enter through the wall, and he learned to take care of my little emotions.

After Hu Xianxian opened the door, Cheng Haofeng asked everyone not to talk about the case first, and listen to him talk about the military camp.

At that time, in order to respond to emergencies, more than 130 of the 356 recruits recruited from Haiping County, Yuezhou, were originally scoundrels, and they used the method of one soldier leading ten pawns to prevent these people from causing trouble.

Later, after one battle after another, only one hundred and forty soldiers were left in Haiping County, excluding the sacrifices and serious injuries, and there was no way to control them after the reorganization.

Because these soldiers came out of one place very united, they were brave and brave, and they made many military exploits, which was very favored by Zheng Tianba.

These soldiers were fierce tigers on the battlefield, but they became vicious wolves in the localities, and after they were transferred to the outskirts of the capital more than a month ago, their inferior nature was even more exposed.

They drank and prostituted themselves, fought and brawled quite a little, and even worse, they formed gangs and fought among the soldiers in other battalions, which almost led to a mutiny.

Zheng Tianba tolerated it several times, but Zheng Huiliao couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked Cheng Haofeng to help admonish him.

Cheng Haofeng estimated that no matter how much he managed, it would be useless, and Zheng Tianba couldn't bear to criticize these hot-blooded soldiers too harshly, for fear of chilling the hearts of all the soldiers.

After thinking about it, Cheng Haofeng decided to ask Huo Tu and Lei Mad to discuss, transfer this team out of the place close to the town, and transfer it to the border pass, and a few thorns who repeatedly violated military discipline were ordered to retire and return to their hometowns.

The matter was dealt with for the time being, and he was ready to come back to help Hu Xianxian carefully analyze the case, but at the moment, he didn't want to analyze the case, he wanted to analyze people's hearts.

"Those temporarily recruited soldiers from Haiping County can fight and cause trouble, but they don't know that they are causing trouble? It should be clear. But they knew that Zheng Tianba would forgive them, so they were unscrupulous, because Zheng Tianba, like them, was not an innocent soldier, and he was still looked down upon by others for his meritorious service, and he was also unaccustomed to those who relied on Zuyin for promotion. After Cheng Haofeng finished speaking, everyone was silent.

After a moment of silence in the room, Cheng Haofeng looked around at everyone and asked: "People's hearts are complicated, see what you think clearly, it will be easier to find evidence." There are all kinds of signs that Ah Chan is not capable of coming up with a conspiracy that will slowly kill people for two years, so who is the mastermind? Why did Ah Chan listen to him? Some things seem to be accidental, but in fact, there are reasons, what is the reason why Ah Chan is still stubborn at this step? ”