Chapter 34: The Case of Disaster Relief and Corruption and Murder

Ye Xun and the group of middle disciples galloped all the way, rushed to the Huichun Hall, all the way to the horse's hooves, the horse bells were endless, the spring breeze was refreshing, splashing all the way to the smoke and dust, when they walked to the front of the Guanyin Bridge, there was a government-run porridge factory, the voices were boiling, it turned out that countless victims in front of them lined up in a long line, holding bowls and plates and cloth bags, and after receiving the government's soup kitchen, they received the disaster relief rice and grain distributed by the errand servants.

"Ask Lord Zhixian Wang, this rice porridge is as light as water, it can shine on people's figures, and there are rat droppings floating there, is this for people to eat?" A victim with gauze wrapped in his head asked loudly.

"Master Zhixian Wang, the county's disaster relief rice porridge can show people's shadows, there are so many sand mixed with rice, and there are so many moldy rice grains, is the disaster relief food of the imperial court like this?" "Is all the grain in the imperial granary moldy?" "Where did the disaster relief money issued by the imperial court go?" The victims of the disaster were gossiping, drowning the servants who were providing relief and food relief in the spitting stars.

"You gang of Diao people, Master Wang gave you grain and porridge for free, would you like to eat it or not? If you are willing to receive it, the steamed buns you picked up are still too rancid? A meaty-faced officer shouted at him.

"Don't be embarrassed if you don't have money to buy food, if you want to eat good food, go to the Liangxin grain shop next door and buy it," shouted another officer.

"I said that the rice and grain for disaster relief were all rat feces and mixed with sand, and it turned out that all the good rice and grain in the treasury went to the grain shop opened by the brothers in Wang Zhixian County."

"Isn't it, the workers in the treasury were busy until midnight last night, and they went to the conscience rice shop to transport grain."

"Which dynasty and which generation, it's not us ordinary people who suffer", "I heard that the brother of Wang Shenhan of Zhixian County is called Wang Liangxin, and their brother has no conscience to harm the victims like this." The victims whispered and cursed Nachi and his brothers.

Ye Xun squeezed to the front of the team, and saw that the rice porridge in the porridge bucket was faint into the water, and the figure could be illuminated, and there were a few black mouse droppings floating on it, which was disgusting and disgusting, and it was indeed not for ordinary people to use, but there were still a few elderly and frail victims squatting there in twos and threes to drink porridge.

"Don't be too bad, if you don't eat, someone else will eat it, and if you don't eat it, you will pull it down," shouted a sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked officer, pointing to a few of the victims who were eating porridge.

Ye Xun saw this, and he didn't bother to argue with these errand soldiers, turned around and left to go to the Rejuvenation Hall, thinking that when Zhang Xianzhong started an incident in Yan'an, Shaanxi, there must be many officials in the world, and the people ate tree bark and Guanyin soil, and they also had no way to live and went to a dead end.

When I arrived at the Huichun Hall, I saw that the giant Zheng Yi was giving a seriously injured victim a golden needle puncture, and he also cleaned his hands, stepped forward, and whispered the situation in the disaster relief tent on the road to tell the master, "I have also heard about this matter for a long time, I helped Tang Yu have a cousin Li Yuchang, as an alternate magistrate, and was sent to Ba County by Huang Tinggui, the governor of Sichuan, to investigate the relief, and found out that Wang Shenhan fabricated the number of victims over the years, and risked disaster relief funds, this Li Zhixian is honest, unwilling to be accommodating, and refused Wang Shenhan's bribe, and the lawsuit between the two went to Chongqing Governor Pan Yue, It is said that Pan Yue accepted a bribe from Wang Shenhan, and now that Pan Yue is dead, the case has become unsolved, and I heard that Li Yuchang is planning to sue the imperial court," Zheng Yi said.

"I don't want this Wang Shenhan brother, now he is even more unscrupulous, alas, these big and small officials," the giant Zheng Yi sighed, and arranged for Ye Xun to stop the bleeding and pain of the seriously injured patients and treat the wounds.

Most of the patients in the Huichun Hall are transferred from the more seriously injured after the earthquake, there are many wounded, and some of the broken thighs need to be connected and broken legs, and the lapses can be tied and fixed, and the craftsmen of the Huichun Hall have created a scheme to fix the broken limbs with gypsum mud, and apply raw gypsum mud to the severed limbs of the seriously injured patients, and then tie them with gauze, and wait until the broken limbs are healed after three months, and the plaster can be removed, which is very economical and very conducive to the recovery of the injured limbs.

There are also those who really cannot be connected after the severed limbs, or there is limb necrosis, so they have to amputate the severed limbs, and the injured are grief-stricken, so they have to first paralyze the limbs with golden needles, and then drink the numbs to boil and amputate, and the state is miserable.

There are also those who have serious eye injuries and broken eyeballs, and need to remove the bad eye to avoid rotting the wound and causing viruses to damage the brain or other organs. When Ye Xun dealt with these patients, he often felt pity and treated them with more heart, which is the way of benevolence of doctors!

Ye Xun was treating a patient, and suddenly he only heard a commotion outside, only to see Mr. Tang Yu with two slaves carrying a patient to break in, shouting loudly: "Please master and Doctor Liu to save my cousin," I saw a man in his forties lying on the bamboo bed, his face was bruised, he was wearing a seven-grade tonic suit, the purple gold top was on the side, black blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and there was a ring-shaped rope strangulation mark on his neck.

It turned out that this was Tang Yu's cousin Li Yuchang, listening to the servant Lai San who came with him, last night Lord Li sighed after dinner, feeling that he was in a very depressed mood, and arranged for him to go to the street to buy a chicken called Hua Chicken, a pound of cut beef, asked for a pound of old roast, and did not let people accompany him, a person poured himself in the room, and during the night shift, he went to clean up the dishes, chopsticks and wine glasses, and saw that Lord Li had gone to bed, but the next day he called Lord Li to get up and wash, but found that Lord Li had hanged himself, but seeing that his body was still hot, he sent him to Huichun Hall, and notify relatives to come.

The giant Zheng Yi listened to Na Lai San's narration, while probing the patient's pulse, and asked the medicine boy to take a piece of cotton cloth, wiped the bruises from the corner of the patient's mouth, put it on the nose and smelled it, and handed it to Doctor Liu, who also put it on the nose and sniffed it, and the eyes of the two stared at Na Lai San, who looked at the giant Zheng Yi uneasily.

Zheng Yi looked at the strangulation marks on his neck and said: "The patient is highly poisonous, his breath has long been cut off, and he has no strength to return to the sky, the deceased is an official of the imperial court, and he died in an accident, please report to the official quickly," and arranged for the steward of the Huichun Hall to accompany Tang Yu to ride a horse to Diaoyu City to report to Bantu, the inspector of the five provinces.

The servant Lai San, who came with him, was at a loss for a moment, turned around to leave, but was stopped by Zheng Yi and his relatives, and carried the body of the deceased Li Yuchang to the backyard to collect the room, and let the disciples of the gang take care of it, waiting for the people in the government to lead the servants to come to investigate.

In addition, Bantu, the inspector of the five provinces, was writing an official document in the barracks, reporting to the imperial court about the disaster and disposal of the earthquake in the southwestern provinces, and applying to the imperial court for disaster relief money and food.

Bantu and his entourage accompanied by Zheng Yi came to the room, Imperial Physician Huang and Tong Zuo checked the patient's condition together, looked at the deceased's face, smelled the bruises on the corner of the deceased's mouth, and checked the strangulation marks on the neck, the two muttered a few words in a low voice, and said: "Hui Yu, this deceased Li Yuchang case, died after poisoning, the strangulation marks on the neck belong to death or poisoning coma after the fake self-hanging, because of the self-hanging, the general front neck is heavier, the strangulation marks should be deeper and heavier, and the strangulation marks should be close to the lower jaw, Based on the smell of bruises and scars from the corners of the wound's mouth, the definitive evidence can be confirmed after autopsy. ”

"So, can you determine what kind of poison is there?" Bantu nodded, then asked.

Imperial Physician Huang and Imperial Physician Huang looked at each other, Imperial Physician Huang did not speak, and Imperial Physician Huang did not find out his answer. Imperial Physician Huang and Ban Tu looked at Zheng Yi on the side, and Ban Tu hugged Zheng Yi with a fist, "Mr. Zheng has extensive medical knowledge, can you advise?" ”

"The student saw that when Li Zhixian arrived at the Rejuvenation Hall, his face was bruised, black blood was accumulated at the corner of his mouth, and the depth of the neck strangulation marks was basically the same, according to the color of the blood congestion, it should have been hit by the Soul Returning Pill, and when he was not dead after being poisoned, he was strangled by a rope around his neck, and finally died of suffocation, because the deceased's face was bruised, obviously he was poisoned first, and then died of suffocation, please advise," Zheng Yi said solemnly.

Bantu immediately ordered that the maids and servants in Li Yuchang's house should be immediately brought back to the Yamen for torture and torture, and the murderer should not be easily indulged, and the body of the deceased was autopsied, and then he said goodbye to Mr. Zheng and returned to the Diaoyu City military camp.

In the afternoon of the same day, after completing the diagnosis and treatment of the injured on the day, it was already the moon hanging jade plate, when Ye Xun rode back to Wentang Village by moonlight, the Yang brothers and two girls were waiting for him to have dinner, Zhilan had already gotten out of bed, and his injury was greatly improved. After the meal, I went to the hot spring cave at the bottom of the slope to continue bathing and fumigation.