If it was as she had guessed, it could be said that the man's mind was the craziest case she had ever seen. So much so that her whole person was covered with a thick layer of tragedy.

"Childe, girl, the things have been fetched." Outside the carriage, Wei Guang replied in a low voice, "In addition, according to the instructions of the son, we found the prescription used by the Song family to see a doctor from the doctor often invited by the Song family. ”

Xiao Qinglang glanced at Xu Chu, and before she stretched out her hand, she took the lead in opening Wei Shang and retrieved the file handed by Wei Guang. Even he felt that he seemed to be becoming more and more cautious, knowing that Xiao Chu and Wei Guang could not have a personal relationship. But as long as he thought of Xiao Chu's sentence "Brother Wei", he couldn't help but feel pantothenic acid in his heart.

Thinking of this, his expression couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable. So, before Xu Chu noticed, he hurriedly distributed half of the file to Xu Chu.

"This is the file of all the women who died unexpectedly in the government when Shuangniang disappeared."

When Xu Chu heard this, he naturally couldn't take care of his gaffe just now. She took out the file in her hand, and saw that there were more than a dozen copies of it, and it seemed that it would take a lot of time to pick them up. After thinking for a while, she said: "Childe can single out the file of the pregnant woman among them, and the rest will not be counted." ”

For her words, Xiao Qinglang thought deeply. Of course, he did not blindly trust, but also speculated about this case, if the old lady really wanted to pray for blessings, wouldn't it be better to go to the temple? How can they worship in a room without being seen or seen?

Praying for blessings and worshipping are two completely different motives. If it is really the latter, then the so-called haunting of the Song Mansion can be easily solved.

The cold and humid air was isolated from the carriage, and the water vapor stained the carriage, leaving deep and shallow marks on it.

Inside the carriage, there was silence, even breathing could be heard clearly.

A quarter of an hour later, Xiao Qinglang flexed his fingers, lightly tapped the file on his hand, and said in a cold voice: "Sure enough, as Xiao Chu thought, thirteen years ago, in the beginning of spring in March, in Jiangyin County, a remote place under Jinzhou City, there was a woman from other places who fell into the river. And the woman was carrying dozens of taels of silver, and was three months pregnant. ”

If Shuangniang was really pregnant when she left the Song family, then all the conditions for this woman would be right. Quite wealthy, and a single foreigner......

Xu Chu frowned slightly when he saw him, thoughtful, obviously there was something to discover. She didn't see him continue for a while, so she leaned over, and after a while, she suddenly said, "Is this really the case?" ”

According to the dossier, the woman's body was soaked in water and swollen and rotten, and there was no one to collect the body because the strangers could not find their relatives. Therefore, the corpse remained in Yizhuang for several days, until a woman with the surname Song went to collect the corpse and bury it.

Xu Chu stretched out his hand and pointed at the person surnamed Song, looked up at Xiao Qinglang and said, "It's Old Madam Song!" ”

Xiao Qinglang lowered his eyes slightly, and that delicate face fell into his eyes. Xu was in response, and he suddenly felt a throbbing in his heart, so that his mind was in a trance a little.

But he is not an ordinary man in the end, even if he is distracted by this sudden approach, he can still reluctantly press it quietly. Almost a few breaths later, he whispered.

"It's Mrs. Song!"

The voice was low and shallow, warm and soft, like a feather sweeping over Xu Chu's ear drums. It made her spine tingle, and suddenly remembered that the two of them had become closer and closer more and more unconsciously these days. She stiffened, almost bouncing, and sat up straight.

Obviously, her actions pleased Xiao Qinglang, so much so that he chuckled in a good mood. He thought that he was almost uncontrollable just now, but he couldn't help it, but he didn't expect that Xiao Chu was not completely unconscious.

However, he also knew that the case was the most important thing at this time. So after calming down a little, he continued to whisper: "So, it is not difficult to understand what the old lady saw on the sixteenth day of the moon. ”

"Other than that, does Xiao Chu have anything else to discover?" Xiao Qinglang asked meaningfully.

Xu Chu nodded, "Not to mention how Old Madam Song injured her ankle so coincidentally, just say that when Song Deqing collided with Madam Song, what Mrs. Song said is enough to make people think deeply." ”

"Normally, the names of the ladies of the Gaomen family are mostly related to the elders in the family. If Mrs. Song intended to suppress this matter and cover up the scandal in the Song Mansion, she would never mention Song Xin'er. ”

Especially when she said in the previous sentence that Song Deqing coveted the beauty of her brother's concubine, she had a bad heart, and then she piggybacked Song Xin'er in a few sentences.

This is really abnormal, and it is also contrary to the atmosphere and calmness she exudes. Something that even Xu Chu can think of, as the wife of the Song family, Mrs. Song, who was cultivated by the Li family, can ignore it, and it is really a little unreasonable.

After Xu Chu spread out the prescription, the two found that Mrs. Song had suffered from palpitations and insomnia since the early death of her young son last year.

"This recipe doesn't seem to be much different from the old lady, the old lady and even Song Xin'er's later recipe."

When Xiao Qinglang heard this, he glanced at it, frowned and said, "It's completely different from Dr. Zhou's prescription." ”

"But it can be seen that it is also a commonly used method of calming and calming the nerves." Xu Chu is no stranger to these common prescriptions. In the end, she has learned, although the medical skills are not superb, but they are also familiar with it.

The two glanced at each other and thought about it.

After a long time, Xiao Qinglang's eyebrows moved, and he reached out and took the ear on the table to look at it. The tiny earrings flickered in his fingertips, and a moment later he threw them on the table and let them hit the teacup.

Xu was the first to think clearly, he leaned against the wall of the car at this time, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he sneered lazily and disdainfully: "Old lady Song, Song Deqing, Aunt Yang, but now there are more Song Xin'er and Mrs. Song." ”

Xu Chu looked at the casual smile on the corner of his mouth and the coldness in his eyes, and his face was slightly pale. Although she still has one or two details that she can't figure out, she can also roughly connect the facts of the case. Coupled with Xiao Qinglang's expression, she could almost conclude that those unbelievable things should be the truth.

The carriage drove eastward, passing through the streets that had gradually lost their hustle and bustle, passing through the crowd that had long since dissipated, and finally stopped smoothly at the door of Zhou's house.

"Let Aunt Chu come over and talk back."

Wei Guang answered, and hurriedly called Aunt Chu, who was accompanying him. And Xiao Mingzhu also got off the little red horse and came over to rendezvous.

"Childe, girl, I then went to inquire about Mrs. Song's symptoms carefully, and then looked at Mrs. Song's dregs. Those medicines should undoubtedly calm the nerves and replenish qi and blood. But when I secretly probed her pulse, I found that Mrs. Song should be a healthy person with no symptoms. In addition, I asked Feng'er, and Feng'er said that Mrs. Song had never been hit the head, so her madness was really strange. Aunt Chu shook her head, this was what she couldn't figure out.

"Could it be that she was overly frightened, and after she recuperated, her pulse improved, but the fright made her delirious?"

"It stands to reason that no, in the veins, whether it is impotence, dryness, wind fright, soul distraction, mental weakness, and lack of spirit, there will be manifestations. No matter how bad it is, it will also manifest symptoms on the heart, liver, spleen and lungs. ”

Generally speaking, among the five aspirations, the liver is the main anger, the heart is happy, the spleen is the main thought, the lungs are the main sorrow, and the kidneys are the main fear, if they are really frightened to the point that people lose their minds. That will be reflected in the five aspirations.

can be partial, although Mrs. Song has some blood deficit and physical failure, she does not have any signs of deficiency. So, it's weird.

Xu Chu confirmed what he was thinking, and asked instead, "What about Old Lady Song and Song Xin'er?" ”

"Old lady Song is indeed paralyzed by a stroke, but strangely, his pulse shows that there are extremely heavy toxins in his body, so that his internal organs are seriously damaged. It is precisely because of this that his illness is getting worse and worse. Even if you take the decoction every day, it will not be effective. ”

"Auntie, do you know, what kind of poison is in the old lady Song?" When Xu Chu asked this, he suddenly turned his head to look at Xiao Qinglang and said, "Why don't you let everyone guess?" ”

Xiao Qinglang was noncommittal, but after Xiao Mingzhu jumped up and took the pen and ink, he also took a pen and put two words on the paper in front of him.

After several people had written the answers, Xiao Qinglang looked at Aunt Chu and motioned for her to speak.

"Cinnabar."

Sure enough, on the paper that Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu opened, there was the word cinnabar. On Xiao Mingzhu's paper, a line was written "stupid drugs".

Xiao Mingzhu saw that he had made a mistake, so he picked up the paper at the moment, and then said with wide eyes with a sad face: "How can the third uncle and Sister Chu think of going together every time." It's so unfair, and I think I'll be able to guess right this time. ”

Xu Chu saw her pouting, and immediately said: "Yours is not wrong, the use of cinnabar in your hands was originally to let the toxins in it damage the center through the blood-brain barrier, and then let the old lady Song never get better, and even die in a stupid coma." ”

If this was also the plan of the person Xu Chu guessed, then she really wanted to kill the Song family. She even thought that maybe that person had also collected evidence of Song Derong's crimes......

As for Song Xin'er, her brain is seriously damaged, and she is indeed stupid. But the strange thing is that I found that at a young age, she had blood deficits in her eyes, and even her development was not good. ”

When Xu Chu saw Aunt Chu mentioning Song Xin'er, he immediately took out a pill from his purse and handed it over, "This is what I found in the pile of silk cloth wrapped around her neck when I approached Song Xin'er today, Auntie, let's see if there is a problem." ”

Aunt Chu took the pill, but saw that the pill was the size of a sycamore, and then she took half of it and put it into the water to carefully identify it. After a while, he said: "This prescription contains alum, Chuan Yujin. It should be a pill for those who are crazy and obstructed by phlegm and saliva to encompass the heart. It's just that the content of alum is quite high, and it should have been a ratio of three taels of alum and seven taels of tulips. However, the alum content in this pill is several times more than that of tulips, so that the potion is a little yellowish and astringent. ”

Alum is no stranger to Xu Chu, and it will be used as an additive in many foods in later generations. It is precisely because of long-term use of alum that there will be chronic toxic side effects, and even cause symptoms such as brain atrophy and dementia and then affect people's intelligence, so many people who strive for health preservation do not eat foods containing alum.

The biggest and mildest side effect of alum happens to be osteoporosis and anemia.

"If you want to treat madness, Song Xin'er takes at least fifty or sixty pills of this kind each time. I haven't completely become an idiot, but I'm lucky. Aunt Chu sighed with emotion, and then wrapped the remaining half of the pill and handed it back to Xu Chu.

She has followed Xiao Qinglang for many years, so she naturally knows that there are some things that need to be kept.

As he spoke, he saw a guard return.

"How?"

"Hui Gongzi, according to the prince's orders, his subordinates interrogated the doctor, and the doctor said that the injury on Mrs. Song's ankle was indeed bandaged by him. Moreover, it is true that he was injured after the child's time. ”

As a result, the case seems to have reached an impasse again. The few details that Xu Chu had never figured out were still not right.

"The doctor may have confirmed that the wound was new. Instead of an old injury and then a collision to cover it up? ”

The girl's question, the son specially instructed his subordinates to ask, and the doctor swore to ensure that the old lady had no damage to her leg before. The subordinate also used the excuse of dislocated arm to probe the medicine boy beside him and learned that what the old doctor said was true. The guard replied, "Later, my subordinates inquired about several nearby families and learned that the doctor had a high medical virtue and had some friendship with Dr. Zhou from the capital. So, I also specially asked Dr. Zhou to take a trip, and the results were generally the same. ”

That is, although Mrs. Song meets the characteristics of an accomplice to the murderer, she even has a motive. But in the matter of leg injury, it is not right.

After the guards went down, Xu Chu looked at Xiao Mingzhu, who was still a little sullen, and said: "Now only Mingzhu is left, if the news that Mingzhu heard is useful, I am afraid that today I will be able to restore the ins and outs of the Song family's affairs." ”

As soon as Xiao Mingzhu heard this, he instantly came to his senses. However, when she spoke, she still hesitated, and said a little embarrassedly: "Actually, I didn't inquire about too many useful things today, but many people in the Song family were newly bought by Song Derong in Jinzhou City." And it seems that Mrs. Song has had a batch of seizures before, so there are really few people who know the roots. ”

Xu Chu chuckled lightly, raised his eyebrows and said, "Although there are not few, aren't there still any?" ”

Xiao Mingzhu glanced at her and pursed her lips, "Anyway, I don't know if those things are useful or not, Sister Chu, you can listen to it." ”

"When I was wandering around the garden, I helped some old servants clean up the burned flower room. I heard them say that every time the big man comes, he has to make trouble. Xiao Mingzhu frowned and pondered, trying to learn from the appearance of those people and pinched his throat and said, "And Song Deqing is very good to the eldest lady Song Xin'er, even better than the lord and the lady, so that many people privately joke that the eldest lord is more like a father than the lord." ”

"By the way, when I went out, I deliberately asked Feng'er about Song Deqing's trouble. Although Feng'er didn't say much, she was also indignant, saying that the eldest master was a person who couldn't carry it, he had a wife and a daughter at home, and he coveted people who shouldn't be coveted. ”

"It can be seen that Feng'er's evaluation of Song Deqing is extremely poor and senses, so he almost said that he is idle and arrogant." Of course, the final summary was added by herself. But the meaning is similar, as long as Xu Chu can understand it.

Xu Chu raised her eyebrows, she had read the dossier and information about Song Deqing from Xiao Qinglang's hands. Although he has achieved nothing, he will not be as playful as the gentleman next to him. even said that there was no one else in his house except for a wife.

As for the side, it really has a bit of idleness. Probably he followed the old lady Song, and he claimed to be a merry and talented man, and he often gathered with some elegant people to do vassal and elegant things.

And he and Aunt Yang also met at a small gathering. It is said that at that time, there was still some appreciation of Mr. Drunken Yin when he first saw the pipa girl.

"It seems to say that the eldest master and the old lady are good drinkers, so the relationship between the two is better. It's just that later, because Song De accommodated Aunt Yang, he often went to ask for drinks, and there was gossip several times, so Song Derong drove him out of the Song Mansion, and even the old lady didn't see him anymore. It was also on that occasion that Mrs. Song disposed of a group of tongue-chewing subordinates. ”

After speaking, Xiao Mingzhu embarrassedly grabbed the hair scattered in front of him, "I didn't ask a little bit about it, even the haunted thing, everyone is confused." ”

She could see that they weren't silent, but they really didn't know. Anyway, only Mrs. Song and the old lady have seen the haunting, and most of the rumors of others are based on the so-called ghosts in the mouths of the two of them.

"Oh, by the way, when I came out, I heard a little maid say that there was a commotion in the house last night. It seems that someone heard a cat make a terrible noise, which was very scary, and this morning someone found a cat dead in the storeroom. Now many mothers-in-law in the house have spread that cats have the cleanest eyes and can see things that people can't see, so they may be scared to death. ”

When Xu Chu heard this, he subconsciously looked at Xiao Qinglang.

At this time, if there is any trouble, it is very likely that it is a clue left by the murderer.

Xiao Qinglang's eyes narrowed slightly, and he frowned: "Did they ever say, how to dispose of the cat's corpse?" ”

"I just said that I was thrown out of the house." Xiao Mingzhu glanced at his third uncle and Sister Chu a little blankly, and wondered, "A cat, could there be any clues?" ”

Xu Chu glanced at her and said, "I just don't know, that's why I want to investigate." ”

At this time, Xiao Qinglang had already taken pen and ink, sketched the terrain near the Song Mansion on the blank rice paper, and said: "The tragic death of cats is mostly a bad omen, and when the Song Mansion is eventful, the housekeeper will never let people throw the cat's corpse outside the door at will." And near the Song Mansion, wherever there are people's homes, they are all characters with heads and faces. Therefore, it is unlikely that the next person will leave the dead cat in these places. ”

"Let people go down to the remote part of the city to see if there are any dead cats covered in pitch black." Xiao Qinglang gave an order to the guards who were following outside, and almost in a moment's time, a figure on the side of the carriage disappeared into the crowd.

Xu Chu hesitated for a moment and said, "Time is pressing, I'm afraid we have to make preparations with both hands." ”

Xiao Qinglang nodded, raising his eyebrows slightly to indicate that he would have arrangements.

Xiao Mingzhu, who was still confused on the side, muttered dissatisfiedly at this time, "Why do I don't know what happened this time?" Third uncle, what did Sister Chu say to prepare? ”

Xiao Qinglang took a sip of hot tea and smiled lightly. Just looked at his niece, and pestered Xiao Chu again.