And I accidentally learned that your father once opened a hundred opera troupes that are quite famous in the county, and his unique skill is ventriloquism. The so-called ventriloquist can be a table, a chair and a foot. Though a man has a hundred hands, and his hands have a hundred fingers, he cannot point to one end of it; A man has a hundred mouths and a hundred tongues, and he cannot name one place. You should have learned some fur by your ears and eyes, just like most of the domestic animals on the Zhuangzi were tamed by you, probably because you have this skill. ”

That day, Xiaocui rested first, and then broke the vase in an argument with the Zhang family in Fugui, and walked away angrily. It's true that he was drunk and hazy, and it was also true that he pushed and shoved with Zhang, but it was also true that he fell asleep later. Then you pretended to drink tea with Zhang's to comfort her, but unfortunately your purpose was not to make her feel relieved, but to take her life. Xu Chu looked at her, his voice cold, "It's a pity that Xiaocui didn't hear it when she was asleep, you took advantage of Zhang's coma to commit murder, and then calculated the time to lure Xiaocui over with ventriloquism." During the whole process, the only thing that couldn't be avoided was that you couldn't leave the courtyard at the first time, which is why you appeared in the main courtyard so coincidentally at that time, and Xiaocui only heard Yu Fugui arguing with the Zhang family but didn't see him. ”

"As for the evidence...... Xu Chu turned his head and motioned for the official to take out the tea cup brought out of Zhang's room, and continued, "When I went to investigate the day before yesterday, I found that there were three tea cups on the table in Zhang's room, and in addition to the ones used by Zhang and Xiaocui, there should be one more person ......"

As she was talking, she saw Li Zhutou hurriedly coming outside. And in his hands, there is a burden.

"Miss Xu, I took someone to search Zhang's mother's room, and sure enough, I found what you were looking for, as well as two clothes that were obviously brand new but were stuffed at the bottom of the box."

Xu Chu nodded, and asked people to unfold the burden and clothes. She squatted down and groped carefully, and after a while, she found a few small dry wood thorns and thatch for the fire of the people in Zhuangzi. Then she examined the garment and found a strange mark on the cuff of the garment. At that moment, her eyes lit up, and she arched her hand to Huang County: "Please take a bowl of water, and then find the most famous doctor in the county." ”

Clear water is easy to find, and there is it in the back hall of the yamen. Although the doctor has to wait for a while, it is not difficult to find, not to mention that Chang'an Hall, which is close to the yamen, is the best medical hall pharmacy in the county.

After a while, Xu Chu pulled out the sleeve of his coat soaked in clear water, and then wrung the water into an empty bowl. When Dr. Yang arrived, he could just tell what was in the bowl.

It is not common in the Central Plains, and if he hadn't met people from the Western Regions, he wouldn't know much about it. After a few moments, he could tell that there was a gimbu reed, or ghost ginseng, in the water.

"This medicine is domineering, and it is rumored that it has the effect of resurrecting the dead, but in fact, it is just a coma or hallucination like a mandala."

"My lord, I found the poison in the teacup that day, and Xiaocui once said that she slept very deeply, so it can be seen that she was poisoned by this medicine at that time." When tracking down the tea before, Xiao Cuiyan said that it had been poured into the well water and could not be found, and it was also a loss that she exchanged things under the guise of begonia flowers, so it was not difficult to verify that the tea contained a reed. After all, after that kind of medicinal powder has been contaminated with soil, the medicinal properties will only be greater.

And this medicine is extremely rare, even if Zhang's mother is ruthless, she will not use it up at one time. If my guess is right, the rest of the medicine should be in the hands of Zhang Yuanheng, that is, Liu Jiaxing, but is it so? ”

After a short silence, she looked at Zhang's mother and asked, "Aren't you going to tell the truth?" If you say it at this time, you may not implicate others. ”

Mother Zhang's expression was complicated at this time, and she hated and hurt when she looked at Yu Fugui, but in the end, she still gritted her teeth unwillingly and said: "The slave doesn't know what the girl is referring to, if the adult really wants the slave and the maid to be convicted, it is not impossible to frame the slave." ”

In any case, it is impossible for her to watch Yu Fugui get out, even if she wants to die, she will drag people to hell together.

Xu Chu looked at her for a long time before sighing and signaling Li Zhutou to bring someone up.

With Li Zhutou's movements, the people outside the second gate sighed, and they were timid and covered their eyes and didn't dare to take another look. The person who was taken to the lobby by Li Zhutou was covered with sores on his face, and there were patches of white spots on his neck and hands, which looked really terrifying.

Seeing that he is not very old, but his body is rickety, and one leg seems to be a little weak.

"The grass people have seen adults." The hoarse voice sounded, as uncomfortable as a broken gong.

At this time, the hall was silent, and many people were looking at the ugly people with dull eyes. If you want to say that this is Liu Jiaxing, don't say that you have seen it, even if you haven't seen it, you can't believe it. Who doesn't know that Zhang Xiu is a rare talent in Shili and Eight Villages, can he find a marriage with this person who is not a ghost or a ghost?

However, at the moment when Zhang Yuanheng appeared, Zhang's mother, who had always been hard-mouthed, opened her mouth but didn't say a word. She knelt with her back bare, her head bowed and refused to make any more movements, let alone look at her son. It's just that the backlit figure is getting older.

"Who's in the hall?"

"Grass People...... Zhang Yuanheng is also Liu Jiaxing! In one sentence, it almost effortlessly pierced all the sophistries of Zhang's mother.

Liu Jiaxing suffers from a strange disease, and he has to use mercury as medicine to curb it all year round, which will be more or less different at this time. Xu Chu didn't know if he had ever looked for a doctor, or if he had only used mercury cream, but he knew in his heart that mercury poisoning would also appear as a red maculopapular rash on the skin. It can even develop into limbs, head and face, and then the whole body can be fused into flakes or ulcers, and in severe cases, exfoliative dermatitis can appear.

Perhaps Liu Jiaxing did have poisonous sores at the beginning, but later he used mercury improperly and relied on drugs that added excessive mercury for a long time, which led to a vicious circle in his physical condition.

"Everything is the mastermind of the grass people, and the grass people are unwilling to come back to take revenge and kill Zhang Qiuniang...... "He said that he had already slammed his forehead to the ground, and then straightened his back and said weakly, "Eight years ago, the grass people were almost harmed by Yu Fugui, and Rao was lucky to survive and left scars all over his body. And he also married the former fiancée of the grass people, and he was so unhappy to hug the left and right, so the grass people were not angry in their hearts, so they made a big mistake. ”

He spoke methodically, without the slightest quibble or hideousness, as if everything was expected by him. Just looking at this clarity and calmness, it inexplicably makes people feel a little good.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

"The grass people naturally know," Liu Jiaxing's voice became more and more hoarse and dry, he took out a tea bag from his arms and handed it over, "This is the rest of the reeds, and the grass people also brought it with them." ”

He pleaded guilty wholeheartedly and put almost all the charges on his head, so his confession and evidence were already prepared, even impeccable.

Xu Chuqing's gaze swept over him, and he looked at Zhang's mother, who didn't say a word and just looked at the blue bricks on the ground in front of him, but saw her cheeks twitch and showed a wry smile.

In the midst of the shock, she finally spoke, exhausted, and said hoarsely with a little discouragement: "It's none of his business, it's me who insists on killing people." At this time, she looked up, "Ventriloquist is a unique learning in my family, although my son has learned some but is not a beginner...... The money in his hand was also snatched from me, in order to prevent me from attacking the Zhang family. ”

Xu Chu agreed with her words. If Liu Jiaxing really knew ventriloquism, it would not be that Zhang's mother had spread the reputation of taming domestic animals, but he failed to do so.

"He can't bear to retaliate, but I can't. Back then, because of the indiscriminate indiscriminate of the Zhang family, my family was expelled from the clan, and because of the Zhang family's Qiu Niang's ruthless refusal to tell the truth, our family was ruined and left the country. Zhang's mother slowly looked at Xu Chu, her eyes were red and dark and she said bitterly, "My man died of depression, but he couldn't enter the ancestral grave, so he could only be hastily buried in a foreign land." And my son, at a good age, not to mention a strange disease, was covered in burns, and almost died several times because of the festering wounds......"

"Mother's ......" Liu Jiaxing was desperate, but this mother didn't know how much pain and hardship it contained.

At this point, everyone was silent, only watching Mama Zhang, who was trembling with choking and indignation, telling her past grievances.

In fact, anyone who encounters this kind of thing probably won't be able to stop at all. What's more, the prospective daughter-in-law became a relative to the big enemy, and her life was quite beautiful, and she was even more unfair in her heart.

Her gaze swept over the hall blankly, gritted her teeth and looked at Yu Fugui, and then gently fell on her tortured son, and said in a trance: "When I started to do it, the Zhang family actually woke up, and she looked at me and smiled...... Call me Auntie......"

It is precisely because of this that she couldn't bear it in her heart, put a copper plate into her mouth, and only begged her to be reincarnated into a good family and forget the things of her previous life. Speaking of which, the copper plate was given to her by Zhang Qiuniang at the beginning......

When Zhang's mother said this, there was obviously a trace of pain and remorse in her eyes. And Liu Jiaxing, who was a little wooden due to excessive medication, also had a change in his face, but all his expressions finally turned into helplessness.

She grinned, raised her hand tremblingly and wiped a handful of tears, and then stretched out in the direction of Liu Jiaxing, as if she wanted to touch her son again. But before she could touch it, the whole person suddenly became in a trance.

Xu Chu's face changed, and he shouted coldly: "Hurry up......"

As her voice sounded, Xiao Qinglang, who had been standing in the back hall with his hands in his hands, suddenly appeared, and he reached out to pinch Zhang's mother's hand, but it was too late. Basically in a flash, he suddenly turned around and wanted to hold Liu Jiaxing's hands, but he was still a step too late, Liu Jiaxing had already held back enough strength to jump up and snatch the Zhu Bulu in Li Zhutou's hand and swallow it.

Although the medicinal properties of the reed are reduced after grinding into a medicinal powder, it can still easily kill people if they are overdosed.