Chapter Seven: Miao Jiang Gu Poison

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The sky was slightly bright, Xu Jianping was too tired last night, and he was still resting in the wing.

"Xu Jianping, hurry up, I just received a report that the Chengnan Garrison has a life case!" Chen Yibing violently pushed open the door and hurriedly opened Xu Jianping's futon.

Xu Jianping rubbed his eyes, and before he woke up, he stretched his waist and prepared to sit up.

"Bang"

With a bang, Xu Jianping's forehead hit Chen Yibing's nose. "Holy shit, why are you so close to me?"

Chen Yibing covered his nose with his left hand, half-squatted on his waist, and hummed, "You saw that this mole on your forehead seemed to be glowing, so you took a closer look." After speaking, he asked, "What do you mean by fucking?" ”

Xu Jianping touched the black mole between his eyebrows, which was born with it, and Xu Jianping was very puzzled when he was a child, he asked his father, but his father did not answer, but vaguely told Xiao Jianping that the family is inherited, and he also asked his father to no avail. Father, who is his father, and why every time I think of this word, I don't have any memory in my head.

Xu Jianping shook his head, sobering himself up a little, and didn't explain, "Didn't you say that there was a murder, don't go quickly." After saying that, he grabbed his clothes, did not wash, put on his shoes and left.

"Alas, wait, you don't know where it is."

In the courtyard of Zhao Chengyi, the commander of the garrison in the south of the city.

When the two arrived at the scene, Qian Zhutou and Wang Lin had been waiting for a while, and after seeing Xu Jianping and the others coming, they dispersed the onlookers, "This is the commander of the garrison in the south of the city, Zhao Chengyi, the person died in the early hours of this morning, this is the fifth spontaneous combustion case, as before, the body has been burned, and no clues have been left." ”

Xu Jianping stepped forward and reached out to lift the futon, the futon was wet, obviously the bed had been splashed with water, and it should have been rescued by his family. A skeleton curled up under the futon, and the bones of the hand are bent on the kneecap, which can be imagined in the tragic state of his life.

Xu Jianping leaned over and sniffed with his nose, a smell of rotting corpses was very pungent, he reached out and grabbed the residue under the bones of the corpse, and rubbed it on his fingertips, which was a little sticky and slightly grainy.

When Xu Jianping looked through the facts of the case yesterday, he initially thought that the murderer was using flammable materials such as white phosphorus to commit the crime, but after seeing the scene today, he rejected this idea, white phosphorus is poisonous, and its smell is even pungent, and it is impossible for ordinary people to swallow white phosphorus into their stomachs, resulting in spontaneous combustion and death. And white phosphorus is insoluble in water, and Xu Jianping grabbed a handful of residues and found no traces of white phosphorus.

"How, can I find a useful clue." Qian Zhutou's voice was slightly hoarse, obviously there were too many people who died in the past two days, and after two days of hard work, his body had already suffered some losses.

Xu Jianping shook his head: "Bring the bones back to the yamen first, I'm studying them carefully." After speaking, Xu Jianping came to the hall, "Dare to ask, which one is the first person to discover this case." ”

Mrs. Zhao was sitting upright on the bench to hide her face and weep, and when she heard Xu Jianping's inquiry, she walked over and said sideways: "It's the concubine." ”

Xu Jianping returned the salute, "Xu Jianping is a member of the yamen, and I ask my wife to tell me about the situation, so that I can understand the details." ”

Chengnan garrison Zhao commander, now forty years old, last night after inspecting the city wall returned to the house, slept until the early hours of the morning, felt thirsty, then got up and drank two cups of herbal tea, and then still felt hot in the body, then woke up the lady, let him go to the outer courtyard to fetch a bucket of water in. After his wife left, white smoke began to emerge from Zhao Chengyi's body, and fire erupted all over his body, with bursts of burning and tearing pain, Zhao Chengyi, who was as strong as a four-rank martial artist, couldn't bear it, and couldn't stop roaring.

Mrs. Zhao outside the house hurriedly came in with a bucket of water, looked at the scene in front of her, suddenly lost her mind, and hurriedly ran out to wake up the rest of the people in the house. However, this fire will not be extinguished when it encounters water, and it will have little effect. In the end, in front of everyone's eyes, Commander Zhao was burned alive to death.

When the sky was slightly bright, the family in the house hurried to the yamen to report to the official.

"Madame, mourning! Later, a certain person will take away the bones of Commander Zhao for study, and ask his wife to promise" After Xu Jianping learned about the incident, he got up and prepared to bring the bones back to the yamen for detailed study.

"However, when the concubine heard that this was a curse of the ghosts and gods, this ......"

In the side hall of the yamen, Xu Jianping placed the entire skeleton on the long case, because Xu Jianping was still in Jiangling at the time of the previous four cases, and the bones had already been retrieved and disposed of by his family, so this skeleton was the first time Xu Jianping came into contact with the victim of this case.

Xu Jianping circled around the long case a few times, and did not find anything abnormal, Xu Jianping took out a wooden box, took out a double-edged knife about five inches long from the inside, found a rib in his chest, stretched out the blade, carefully removed the entire rib from the bone interface, and then took it to the backyard to clean it.

Under the sun, the previously dark black bones had now returned to milky white. Xu Jianping looked carefully for a moment and did not notice anything abnormal, and then, Xu Jianping closed his eyes, held the ribs in the palm of his hand, and slowly stroked them, as if playing with walnuts, and slowly rubbed them.

After a while, Xu Jianping seemed to notice something, a smile on the corner of his mouth, and then, he came to the hall and found Chen Yibing: "Brother Chen, please do me a favor, find a cauldron for me, and find a vicious dog." ”

When Chen Yibing heard this, he immediately came to his senses, "Just say that when I see Brother Xu, I feel that I am in love, a fellow person, and wait for me for a while." With that, he snatched the door and walked out.

Xu Jianping said secretly in his heart: "This kid, when did you do things so neatly." ”

In the backyard, Xu Jianping found a shovel, found an open space, cast a stove on the spot for backup, and then carried a few buckets of water to wash the bones in the side hall one by one.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way," I saw Chen Yibing running in with a cauldron in his left hand and a sack in his right hand, "Brother Xu is really thoughtful, and even the stove has been prepared." ”

Chen Yibing put the cauldron on the stove and carried the still shaking sack to the side hall, "Brother Xu, please borrow a knife." ”

"What do you want a knife for?" Xu Jianping held down the wooden box with one hand.

"You don't need a knife to kill a dog?" Chen Yibing held down the wooden box with one hand.

"Kill a dog with a knife?"

"How to bled without a knife, how to stew dog meat without bloodshed" Chen Yibing was a little surprised.

"I didn't say stewed dogs" Xu Jianping was even more surprised.

The two of you, you look at me, I look at you, for a long time, Xu Jianping pointed to the bones on the long case, "I will boil water to boil this bone later."

Chen Yibing then understood what he meant: "Then what's the use of this dog?" ”

"We'll find out later."

It turned out that when Xu Jianping held the ribs in the palm of his hand and stroked them slowly, he noticed a slight concave and convex feeling on the surface of the bone, although it was small, but he still couldn't miss any opportunity, so he decided to cook the bones for autopsy.

Half an hour later, Xu Jianping took out a spoonful of the water in the pot and asked Chen Yibing to bring the vicious dog and feed it.

Ten minutes later,

"Why hasn't it fallen yet?"

"Waiting."

Thirty minutes later, "Why are you still falling?" ”

Xu Jianping was also surprised to see that the vicious dogs showed no signs of poisoning, could it be that he had misjudged that they were not poisoned. Xu Jianping pondered for a moment, walked to the pot, scooped up a bone and looked at it carefully, then found a bamboo mat, fished out all the bones and placed them on the bamboo mat, took out a red oil umbrella from the wooden box, opened it, and saw that the surface of the bone appeared densely packed with small red dots.

At this time, everyone in the yamen was attracted by this move, and everyone was chattering, Qian Zhutou stretched out his hand to signal the big guy to be quiet, and asked, "How?" ”

Xu Jianping paused and sorted out his thoughts, "The deceased died of poisoning. ”

"Nonsense, since you were poisoned and died, why is that dog fine, if you don't want to, don't pretend." A servant next to him sneered.

Xu Jianping ignored it, put away the red oil umbrella and continued: "This poison is poison and not poison, this is Miao Jiang Gu poison." ”

"Miao Jiang Gu Poison?" When everyone heard this, they were immediately terrified.

You must know that Miao Jiang borders the southwest of Jingzhou, and there was a war with Miao Jiang at the beginning of the founding of the Han Kingdom. When the 100,000 troops of the Great Han Kingdom entered the Miao Xinjiang region, more than 70,000 people were killed and wounded in just two days. After that, the Han and Miao Jiang shook hands and made peace, divided and ruled, and exchanged contacts.

Xu Jianping continued: "Yes, as far as I know, there is a Gu thing in Miaojiang, its name is called the golden beetle, which is a subtle insect The people of Miaojiang put poisonous snakes, eels, centipedes, poisonous toads, scorpions, praying mantis and other poisons into the urn, let them kill each other, devour each other, and finally survive is the golden beetle, and its eggs after giving birth feed on red phosphorus on weekdays, which belongs to the fire insect Gu. Once a person enters the body and then controls it with a secret method, the worm Gu will devour the internal organs and some things that can be swallowed in the human body. ”

"You mean, this person was bitten to death by countless insects!" When Chen Yibing heard this, his heart was furious.

"Yes, the so-called spontaneous combustion is just the fire emitted by spontaneous combustion after the eggs themselves see the light, and its essence is to be bitten and devoured by Gu worms" Xu Jianping also encountered Gu poison for the first time, and he had heard the master talk about it in small talk before, and he originally thought it was just a blind fabrication by the master, but he never thought that there was such a thing.

"Brother Xu, this matter is not trivial, you will follow me to tell Lord Taishou." When Qian Zhutou heard that this matter involved Miao Jiang, he did not dare to make a claim.

In the Taishou Mansion, after listening to Xu Jianping's report, Li Taishou's expression was grim, "This matter can be determined, and it must not be made up." ”

Xu Jianping thought for a moment about the old man's harmless face, "Returning to my lord, my subordinates are sure." ”

Li Taishou pondered for a moment, "You continue to investigate this case, remember to be careful" and then wrote a letter of repetition, summoned Master Cao, and ordered him to be sent to the post station, and quickly sent to Kyoto.

Xu Jianping and Qian Zhutou have retreated.

Li Jingrui looked at the figure that had already left, and secretly speculated: "Who is this son, why does he even know such a mysterious thing." ”

Inside the yamen, I saw Xu Jianping sitting in front of a big pot, holding a spoon in one hand and a kettle and a knife in the other, "Everyone come over and eat, such a big pot, someone can't bear it." ”

Everyone waved their hands again and again to refuse, and Chen Yibing said to Xu Jianping with a ruthless attitude: "That dog just drank the soup of bones." ”

"Isn't it not dead, it means that it is not poisonous."

"Somewhat, that pot has just boiled over the bones."

"It's okay, you dare to guarantee that there has never been human bone broth in those restaurants?"

After hearing this, Chen Yibing brushed his sleeves and left, leaving Xu Jianping behind him to call: "You Shicai is not talking about people in the same way, why is dog meat not delicious, or your way, not this way." ”

"Fuck your fellow believers!"