"Brother Chang, what you said is right, maybe the murder case of the Zhu family is not as complicated as we think." Xing Ruyi stared at the green on the paper bag, put it under his nose and sniffed it carefully.

Her sense of smell is more sensitive than that of ordinary people, and after arriving in the Tang Dynasty, with the ghost technique, her sense of smell is almost comparable to the nose of a fox. Through the faint smell of beans on the tip of her nose, she was almost 100% sure that the paper package was stained with mung bean soup, and the arsenic powder in the paper bag was also stained with this.

"If my nose wasn't wrong, this arsenic powder should be stained with mung bean soup."

"Mung bean soup?"

"Well, it's mung bean soup! Winter is dry and easy to catch fire, but this winter fire is different from summer fire, which is mainly caused by the body's own dryness. In a cold and dry environment, the human body will accumulate a large amount of dry heat, which can not be dissipated in time, and over time it will turn into heat poison, resulting in fire, and its main clinical manifestations are oral ulcers, swollen lips and tongue, throat discomfort, pain, bad breath, bitter mouth, toothache, deafness, tinnitus, constipation, etc.

If you are a wealthy family, you may choose some drugs to clear the fire and moisten your throat to relieve it, but ordinary people, because of the limited economic conditions, usually choose a more economical and applicable method, that is, to boil some mung bean soup. Eating mung bean soup in winter can not only remove the fire, but also nourish the liver and detoxify.

This cook didn't cook mung bean soup for Zhu's as a supper, but I think the cook's mind should not only help Zhu's body calm the heat, but also use this mung bean soup to reduce the toxicity of arsenic powder. The cook wanted to murder the Zhu family, but she didn't want to involve herself, so it was most appropriate to poison the chronic one. Arsenic is easy to buy, and it is a highly toxic poison that kills people, once the Zhu family dies violently, the work in the yamen can be easily detected, but boiling arsenic with mung beans can reduce its toxicity and delay the time of poisoning. I think that this cook must have found a way to get out for herself, but unfortunately people are not as good as heaven, and the cook herself never thought that there were people in this world who wanted Zhu's life besides her. ”

"Arsenic is easy to buy, but after all, it is poison, and this cook is so thoughtful, thinking that it is also for safety, so she carries this paper bag with her. But she didn't expect that she would also meet the murderer of the Zhu family, and the other party also had murderous intentions towards herself, and in the struggle, she knocked over the soup bowl in her hand and dropped the paper bag on the ground. As for the murderer, he didn't expect the cook to kill Zhu, so he didn't notice the contents of the paper bag, so he only hastily dealt with the scene, and took the porcelain bowl that the cook overturned out by the way, but left the small porcelain bowl fragment at the scene. ”

"Ask a question." Xing Ruyi put his hands on his cheeks and looked into Chang Tai's eyes.

Chang Tai was slightly stunned and looked back at Xing Ruyi.

"Why did the murderer take away the porcelain bowl that the cook had broken?"

"This" Chang Tai's eyes widened a little more, and then he said, "I don't know!" I think this question can only be understood when the perpetrator is caught. ”

"I know!" Xing Ruyi put down his hand, "An assailant, if he wants to deal with the scene, he will definitely dispose of the cook and make the scene as clean as possible." If he had done that, the cook would not have had any chance of survival. Now, let's make a psychological hypothesis.

The reason why the murderer did not deal with the cook was that he thought that the cook had been killed by himself, and the dead man would not speak, let alone testify against himself. Second, he was a little hesitant when he attacked the cook, which showed that he didn't think about killing anyone other than the Zhu family that night, and the appearance of the cook's lady was a complete accident. According to the news brought back by Li Mao, although the cook was seriously injured, she did not die, and according to Wang Chong's own description, except for the knife wound in the throat accident, the cook did not have any obvious injuries on her body, which shows that the cook knew the perpetrator, so when facing the other party, she did not have the slightest defense, nor did she expect the other party to kill her.

Regardless of whether the perpetrator was dead or alive when he took Zhu away, the perpetrator never thought about burying or disposing of the cook, why is this? If a dead person is killed, whether it is in the house or outside the house, the yamen will definitely investigate, isn't this murderer afraid that the yamen will catch him quickly? The answer is that he is not afraid, because although he and the cook may know each other, in ordinary life, the two have no intersection, so the murderer boldly left the cook with confidence. Of course, there is another hypothesis, that is, the murderer is worried that he does not have much time, and he is more anxious to deal with the Zhu family, and he can't take care of the cook for a while.

The last question, why did an assailant who couldn't even take care of the cook took away the porcelain bowl that the cook had broken. You must know that the chef's injuries have shown that she was murdered, and it is normal for the porcelain bowl to be left at the scene, so is this behavior of the perpetrator redundant and a bit cumbersome? There may be only one answer. ”

"What is it?" Chang Tai also straightened his face.

"Get used to it! A habit of the perpetrator himself. He is not used to handling corpses, which means that he is not a professional killer, and the hesitation in his heart when wiping the neck of the cook also shows that he is not a vicious person. The knife technique is very rusty, indicating that it may be the first time he has wiped someone's neck. But under this kind of premise, he has done a very superfluous thing, so this thing may be out of his own instinct. ”

"The instinct to pick up the fragments of the porcelain bowl, what kind of instinct is this?" Rao is Chang Tai has been a fast hunter for so many years, and he is used to seeing all kinds of murderers, and he has never met such a strange one.

Xing Ruyi looked at Li Mao, who was busy inside and out, and pointed his finger: "Brother Chang, you said that if at this time, a guest knocked off a box of rouge, what would Li Mao do?" ”

"Of course, I picked it up quickly, but it also depends on whose rouge the guest has removed. If it is in our shop, we must not only pick it up, but also carefully clean it, and by the way, see if the rouge on the head is stained and broken. If you are not careful, our shopkeeper will not scold, but he can't stand the nagging, and maybe he will deduct money. ”

Without waiting for Chang Tai to answer, Li Mao rushed back to Xingruyi.

"If this is brought by the guest himself, of course, he must pick it up as soon as possible, and take a look at her rouge by the way. Tell me how her rouge is bad, how it is not beautiful, how it does not match the temperament of this guest, and then recommend our rouge. If the customer doesn't buy it on the spot, it means that my Li Mao's ability to sell is insufficient, according to the shopkeeper, I have to go back and learn this well. Oh, yes, the shopkeeper said, it's called marketing. ”

Xing Ruyi smiled "poof": "Okay, I didn't teach you in vain when I was the shopkeeper, and this is a set of words." ”

Chang Tai looked at Li Mao, and then at Xing Ruyi, as if he understood something, and as if he didn't understand anything.

Xing Ru's opinion showed confusion in his eyes, and he mentioned again: "Brother Chang, you may not know that before marrying Wang Jiang, this Zhu family used to sing music in the teahouse for a living. In a place like a teahouse, there are three religions and nine streams, and some dishes will inevitably be broken during the noisy eating, drinking, and noisy scenes, but the guys in the teahouse are all their own profits. In addition to calming the guests, it is also necessary to quickly clean up the broken dishes with both hands and feet. Otherwise, if these guests get into trouble on the spot and bump into these dishes, the shopkeeper will inevitably be blackmailed and bear the corresponding medical expenses. The business of the teahouse is also a small business, and the shopkeeper can't afford to lose it. Correspondingly, if the guy is not quick enough to do things, most of the shopkeepers will not give any good-looking faces. ”

"Ruyi, what do you mean ......?"

"I also thought of it all of a sudden." Xing Ruyi smiled embarrassedly: "Brother Chang, you know, when I was in Shendu in the past, I listened to Mr. in the teahouse, so I know more or less about the situation in this teahouse. Just talking about porcelain bowls, and talking about this instinct, I thought of this. It just so happened that before Zhu got married, he used to sing music in the teahouse for a living, and the cook's husband also liked to go to this teahouse for recreation before his death. If the cook wants to find a husband, she will inevitably patronize one or two, and the young man in the teahouse is not unusual for him to know these two. So, Brother Chang, take a look, are these three people inexplicably connected together? ”

Xing Ruyi drew a triangular line in front of Chang Tai with his hand, and Chang Tai immediately understood.

"Next, should I go to the government office again, and let the official here send the official to the teahouse to check?"

"Just wait. What I just said is just our speculation, and there is no empirical evidence, if the official rashly comes to the door to investigate, it is easy to startle the snake. It just so happened that the list in the government had already been posted, so we waited patiently for a few days to see if the murderer would be moved by these silver taels and present the embroidered shoes left by the Zhu family. ”

"It's okay, you can't startle the snake, and you have to catch the turtle in the urn." Chang Tai put his hands around his chest and silently glanced at Xing Ruyi.

Three-day, five-day...... They waited for ten days before they finally found the person they wanted to wait.

It was a gloomy morning, and a woman in a green shirt wrapped herself tightly and went to the yamen to beat the drum, saying that she had picked up Zhu's embroidered shoes. Originally, when he saw that the shoes were good-looking, he thought that a noble lady had discarded them, so he picked them up and wanted to wear them himself. Today, when I went to Yunjiaji to do business, I saw the list posted by the government, and I knew that the embroidered shoes were actually related to a murder, so I was hesitant and uneasy, and hurriedly returned home to take the shoes.

The green-shirted woman's remarks didn't sound like anything wrong, and they were very reasonable, but she couldn't stand Chang Tai's careful questioning, and in a panic, she told the truth. said that the person who picked up the shoes was not himself, but his lover. As for the lover of the green-shirted woman, it happened to be a young man who was in charge of serving tea and pouring water in the teahouse.

At Chang Tai's suggestion, the official quickly sent a servant to bring the young man up. At first, the young man did not admit that he had murdered the Zhu family, only that he had picked it up in the mountains, and he did not know anything else. But as Chang Tai went to his house to find the bloody clothes, bloody blades, and the young man's psychological defense gradually collapsed, under some torture, he finally confessed that the Zhu family was indeed killed by himself.

As for the reason for the killing, the young man said that it was because of the mud bodhisattva in the broken temple in the mountain.

It turned out that as early as when Zhu entered the teahouse to sing songs, the young man noticed her. Even in private, he once expressed his admiration to Zhu, but unfortunately Zhu's vision is high, and he doesn't look down on himself at all. The young man was deflated, and there was a fire in his heart. I was going to make an ugly look for her when Zhu got married, but he accidentally ran into a secret of the Zhu family, and he found that Zhu often packed some of his gold and silver jewelry and went to the mountains.

Because he was afraid that the Zhu family would find out, so every time he followed, he was far away, only knowing that the Zhu family entered the mountain, and when he entered the mountain, he had his belongings on him, but when he came out of the mountain, he was empty-handed, and he kept wondering where she hid her belongings. It wasn't until one day that there was a heavy fog in the mountains, and he followed Zhu into the ruined temple. He saw that Zhu did not bow to the mother on the altar, but jumped on the altar to look around, so he subconsciously thought that Zhu was looking for the mechanism on the mother and hiding his belongings.

After Zhu left, he also went to the temple to look for it, but every time he approached the lady, he would feel uncomfortable. The young man suspected that Zhu had done something to this mother, so he gave up and kept secretly looking for a more suitable opportunity.

Later, the young man met the green-shirted woman and planned to marry her. When the cyst was shy, he remembered the property that the Zhu family was secretly hiding, so he took advantage of the fact that there was no one in the Wang family and sneaked into the mansion, intending to take the Zhu family hostage and let her tell the place where the property was hidden. Who knows, he had just tied up the Zhu family, and he heard the cook talking outside, so he came out and killed the cook too.

The cook knew him, knew that he was a guy in the teahouse, and knew the Zhu family, so she was neither suspicious nor defensive at that time. The young man had no direct contact with the cook on weekdays, and he was not worried that the government would find him, so he ignored the cook, but knocked Zhu unconscious and carried it out.

As for Zhu's death, the young man said that it was an accident, it was halfway through, Zhu suddenly woke up, and struggled to shout for help, he was worried that he would be discovered, so he strangled him to death in a hurry, and then buried it on the spot. As for the property in the Niangniang Temple, he thought to wait for the wind to pass and then look for it, but who knows, the Niangniang Temple collapsed at some point, and the Niangniang in the temple was broken into a piece of yellow mud, not to mention gold, silver and jewelry, even a complete stone could not be found.

When the young man said this, he sighed again and again, but Xing Ruyi let out a sigh for Zhu's vain death.

The young man confessed his guilt in court, and Chang Tai put pressure on him, but the official was also an understanding person, so he redressed the little beggar in court and released him from death row. This move not only did not provoke the discussion of the villagers of Yunjiaji, but also won this official master a good reputation for being discerning and knowing his mistakes and being good at reforming.

After Zhu's case was settled, Xing Ruyi and Chang Tai also met with Zhu's husband, and when asked why he reacted coldly to his wife's death, Wang Jiang's answer was somewhat unexpected. He actually said that he had known that the Zhu family had hidden money privately, and suspected that she had a good relationship outside, but he had a deep affection for the Zhu family, so he chose not to ask.

After Zhu's accident, he was also invited to the yamen to identify Zhu's body, and when he saw that she was disheveled and died in the suburbs, he thought that Zhu was taking advantage of his absence to go out to date his lover, and he was ashamed and angry, and he didn't bother to pay attention to the cause of her death. When he learned that Zhu's money was given to his old mother, Wang Jiang's eyes were slightly stunned, and even showed a trace of remorse, and when he heard the story of Ah Bi and Ah Zhu, he even sat on the ground on the spot, beating his feet and chest, and his eyes were red.

After the little beggar got out of death row, he became a Taoist priest, and no one knew why he did it except the little beggar himself.

After reburial the Zhu family, Wang Jiang once drove people into the mountains to take Zhu's mother out to raise him, but the old woman refused. Soon after, the old woman died of illness, and Ah Niu entered the rouge shop as a young man according to the agreement with Xing Ruyi.

On the day when the government announced the verdict, Xing Ruyi saw something unwarranted outside the government. When she asked about the events of the year, Mo Xu only replied lightly: "Everyone has their own fate, and the fate of Ah Bi and Ah Zhu has long been arranged, Mo said that he couldn't take Ah Bi away with the power of one person at that time, even if he took it away, it was just a change of time and place to experience the same thing, so why should he do more." ”

When she asked about the fate of herself and the fox, she only said, "It's time for you to leave for Qingqiu!" ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)