Although the servants had tidied up the house, there was still a cold, damp musty smell wafting through the room.

Taking out the handkerchief, Ye Yun covered his mouth and nose, coughed dryly at an inopportune time, and then sat down under the guidance of Hu Xianling, seeing this, Chu Ci and Bai Zhi immediately stepped forward and stood behind him on the left and right sides.

"Are you unwell?" Hu Xianling looked at Ye Yun with concern, for fear that she would have three longs and two shorts, which would affect the progress of the case at that time.

"Cough~" Ye Yun cleared his throat and put away the handkerchief, and said, "It's just that the smell chokes my throat, and it doesn't get in the way." ”

"Why don't you order someone to clean up the stove outside and boil some water to relieve everyone's fatigue?" After a little deliberation, Hu Xianling proposed.

Ye Yun looked up at the sky outside, the sun was in the sky, and it was noon in half an hour, thinking that everyone had been trekking since early in the morning, and now they had not yet entered a drop of water and said: "You might as well let people go to the nearby village to buy some rice noodles and vegetables with the villagers, everyone has been busy since the morning, and now it is noon, and they are already hungry." ”

"It's the negligence of the lower officials, and the lower officials will send someone forward." After the words fell, Hu Xian Ling got up and went out, and instructed the six officials guarding the door at the door: "Hu Er, Chen Feng, you two go to a nearby village to buy some rice, noodles, vegetables and meat from the villagers. ”

"Yes, sir!"

"She Liu, Gusi, you go and clean up the stove, and boil the kettle of hot water first."

"Yes!"

After receiving the task, the four of them immediately got busy, and seeing this, Hu Xianling turned around again and returned to the house to sit down.

Time passed bit by bit, Hu Xian Ling secretly glanced at Ye Yun, who had been staring at the outside of the house without squinting, and took the initiative to talk: "I don't know if Lord Ji is good?" ”

Hearing this, Ye Yun looked back at Hu Xian Ling and said, "Lord Lao Hu is worried, Lord Ji is all right." After a pause, Ye Yun said again: "I heard that Lord Ji and Master Hu are classmates and friends?" ”

"Yes~" mentioned the old things, the piles and piles are vivid, and Hu Xianling felt a lot of emotion for a while, as if everything happened yesterday, it is clearly visible.

Just as Hu Xianling was about to vomit, Yan Yan came in from outside the house.

"Hey, I'm tired to death, but after the calculation, the deceased's eyes protruded, the corners of his mouth had traces of dry saliva, there were no other external injuries on his body, his pharynx and stomach were black, it can be concluded that he died of poisoning."

"What poison?" Hu Xianling asked.

"I don't know." Yan Yan spread her hands and said that she couldn't help: "However, I found this in the stomach of the deceased." ”

As she spoke, Yan Yan took out a stack of boxy handkerchiefs from her arms, put them on the table and opened them, there were some cyan particles lying quietly, and in the cyan fragments were a few very fine white seeds.

"This is..."Ye Yun picked it up, put it in his palm and looked closer, always feeling as if he had seen it somewhere.

"Do you recognize this?" Hu Xianling's pupils dilated slightly, and he looked at Ye Yun expectantly.

Putting down the handkerchief, Ye Yun shook his head and said, "It seems familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it, maybe I remembered it wrong." ”

Hearing this, Hu County's eyes crossed a touch of disappointment, it seems that even if it is Dali Temple, there is no way, the results of the autopsy of this girl are exactly the same as the conclusion of the county government, if there is any difference, it should be that although the county government has found the cause of death, there is no content in the stomach of the deceased.

"Are all the dead of the same cause?" Ye Yun pondered for a moment and asked.

"It's... I'll take a look. Yan Yan turned around, strode out, and after crossing the threshold, she paused and said, "You two, take this girl to the cellar." ”

"Yes!" After saying that, the three of them went to the cellar one after the other.

At the entrance of the cellar, after explaining the intention to the official in charge of guarding, the latter lifted the wooden board covering the entrance of the cellar, revealing a wooden ladder, Yan Yan stepped on the ladder and went down from it, looking at the stacks of corpses in front of her, with a touch of compassion in her eyes.

What hatred and what hatred? Wipe out a village!

"If the girl has any other commands, just speak." One of the officials asked.

The officer's inquiry made Yan Yan's emotions put away in an instant, she raised her head and waved her hand at the officer: "You just watch from above, if there is any help, I will call you." ”

After the words fell, Yan Yan didn't delay any longer, she squatted next to the corpse, took out a silver needle and a medicine bottle from the cuff, and then opened the mouth of the bottle, and put the silver needle in it and stirred it at will. After a while, Yan Yan took out a silver needle, put the medicine bottle on one side, and stabbed it into the corpse's throat.

After a slight pause, Yan Yan pulled out the silver needle, only to see that the silver needle that was still shiny just now was dyed black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing this, the corners of Yan Yan's mouth hooked up a smile, put the silver needle in the bottle again, shook it, took out the silver needle, and pierced it into the throat of the next corpse.

In this way, Yan Yan dipped the silver needle in medicine every time she pierced a corpse, and by the time all the dozens of corpses were examined, there was not much medicine left in the medicine bottle.

Yan Yan shook the bottle with a little pity, and then put away the medicine bottle together with the silver needle.

Coming up from below with a ladder, under the illumination of the sun, Yan Yan finally felt less chill on her body, rubbed her stiff wrists, and Yan Yan said, "Let's go, go back." ”

Yan Yan's test was more than an hour, and the official sent to buy rice and noodles in a nearby village had already returned, at this moment, Yan Yan had not yet entered the courtyard, she smelled a strong smell of rice, and immediately stepped in from the outside, staring directly at Hu Er, who was busy in the shed: "What is it made, so fragrant!" ”

"The little one went to a nearby village and bought a chicken, half a catty of pork, and went to the mountains to pick a lot of mushrooms, and the girl went to the house to rest, and the meal was ready immediately." Hu Er said while busy.

"Gotta do it!" Hearing this, Yan Yan rushed in from the inside, and as soon as she entered, she rushed to share the fruits of her labor before her ass touched the chair.

"I have examined all the corpses in the cellar, all of them were poisoned and died, tsk, it's really ruthless, even a few years old children don't let go, Ah Yun, you must catch the murderers and correct them on the spot!" In the end, Yan Yan's eyes were stained with a layer of anger.

"Don't worry, Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky, and those who do a lot of evil will definitely pay the price." A heaviness flashed in his eyes, and Ye Yun said firmly.

"There's Ah Yun..." Yan Yan was just halfway through her words when she was interrupted by Hu Er, who came in with a plate of steaming stew: "The two adults can have dinner..."

Quickly walked to the table and put down the plate, Hu Er turned around and went out again, and after a while, he came in with a pot of chicken and mushroom soup, and said embarrassedly: "The little one is not good at learning, so he can only grieve the two adults to make do with a bite, and when he returns to the county office, he asks the cook to make up for the two adults." ”

"You are humble, this food is much better than me in terms of appearance and taste!" Saying that, Yan Yan was about to try it first, but there were no dishes and chopsticks on the table, so she couldn't help urging: "Go find some dishes and chopsticks!" ”

"Yes!" Hu Er hurriedly went outside to pick up the bowl, took chopsticks and trotted in.

Can't wait for Hu Er to place the dishes and chopsticks in order, Yan Yan snatched a pair of bowls and chopsticks from Hu Er's second-hand and stretched out her hand to the chicken mushroom soup under everyone's sight.

"Wow~ It's so fragrant!" Yan Yan praised while scooping, and inadvertently scooped a brown crockpot-like thing into the bowl.

Ye Yun looked at something floating on the soup noodles, his pupils shrank sharply, and he snatched the chicken and mushroom soup from Yan Yan's hand and threw it to the ground, the bowl shattered into several halves in response, and the soup spilled all over the ground.

Everyone looked at this change in amazement, but Yan Yan blinked her eyes and said puzzledly: "Ah Yun, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Can't drink it, it's poisonous!"