Chapter 30: The Truth Emerges
This is the inference that Mo Shuoyue had at the beginning, and now he can't help but feel a little sad when he sees such an ordinary tea set, without a mechanism or a hidden grid.
It seems that the poison will not be on these tea sets in advance.
Because, the confession of the maid on duty that day mentioned that Jia Shixiang would ask them to carefully scrub the tea set before drinking tea, and he would also check them one by one to confirm that they were non-toxic before they were used.
Mo Shuoyue took out the silver needles she carried with her and examined them in turn, all of them were faint dark blue. Poisonous, but there doesn't seem to be much left on these tea sets.
She walked over to the water bladder, and felt something tripped at her feet, and when she looked down, she saw that it was a fine wooden box with luodian embedded in it, not large, about ten inches long, quite delicate.
Mo Shuoyue squatted down and opened it, and found that there was actually a small bamboo pipe inside, she counted it, eleven, and compared with the one in her sleeve, the length and size were similar, but after being placed for a long time, the bamboo joints lost their greenness, and some of them were shriveled.
Mo Shuoyue was surprised and asked the person on duty: "What are these?" ”
After all, he was from the Gongjing Palace, and he came with the young lady of the Yin family of the Jiang Mansion, and the guards were naturally polite and did not dare to slack off.
"Back to Miss Mo, these are all physical evidence taken from Jiafu, and they are said to be used to draw spring water."
"How can there be so many?"
"This, the humble post only heard the person who sent it mention it, saying that every time Jia Shixiang drank tea, he used a newly cut bamboo pipe to lead the spring into the copper kettle, and asked to change it every day. However, it is said that Mrs. Jia was troublesome, so she secretly only replaced one in two or three days, and the replaced ones were all placed in this wooden box, because they had tested them one by one on the day they were sent, and no poison was found, so they placed them here first. ”
Mo Shuoyue's eyes lit up unconsciously, no wonder that section of Hsinchu was not taken away, it turned out that a bunch of them had already been taken here.
She didn't say anything more, but casually took out a piece of bamboo from the wooden box, looked at the incisions at both ends, and fell into deep thought.
This poison, if it is on this, is consistent with her previous deduction.
However, this seven-inch-long thin bamboo tube has a narrower inner diameter, and if it is really arsenic, the dose needs to be large, not to mention easy exposure, and it is rarely killed instantly.
So what the hell......
"Found it, found it, I finally understand what poison Jia Shixiang died of!"
Jiang Zhen was overjoyed and rushed all the way, but such news seemed to be happy with her...... There is a distance between north and south.
Although Mo Shuoyue was anxious, she still felt a little crying and laughing, "What poison? ”
"It's poison." Jiang Zhen was proud, "Thanks to my careful heart, otherwise I would have relied on Xu Yan in the government office, and such an important detail would have almost been ignored." ”
"What details?"
"The time of the poison, and the amount of poison."
"Oh." Mo Shuoyue lowered her eyes and continued to look at the small bamboo pipe in her hand, "This point, anyone with a long brain, can think of it." ”
Jiang Zhen didn't seem to feel her ridicule at all, and said with a fluttering eyebrow: "I think you are a smart person when I see it, no wonder the prince sent you, you see, you will understand as soon as I say it." It's just a little bit of a good idea. Aren't we now the so-called combination of two swords, a combination of beads, and a combination of jewels? With such a strong team as ours, what other mystery in this world can stump us! ”
For the first time, Mo Shuoyue knew that the three idioms could still be used in this way, and they could be used like this.
I am afraid that the ancients who invented these words and phrases, if they knew it, they would also be angry.
She really didn't want to have anything to do with this person anymore, so she directly picked up the small box of quimb on the ground and walked out.
It's a pity that Jiang Zhenwei may not be able to understand this kind of explicitly, let alone this kind of obscure expression.
She immediately followed, and said to herself: "The symptoms of the poison and the arsenic poison are similar, but the poison only needs one drop to kill people instantly, it is the king of poisons, but the poison is difficult to find, and it is difficult to match, who has this Jia Shixiang offended?" I always feel that this person's status is not ordinary. ”
Mo Shuoyue paused, and silently glanced at the girl next to her, who was half a head shorter than her, the same age as her, but looked at the girl who was a few years younger than the actual one, and suddenly sighed.
Her last sentence is finally a useful one.
Yes, poison is extremely rare among the people, and many people have never even heard of their names. But there is a place where this poison, the name, is heard from time to time.
Mo Shuoyue raised her head, and her gaze fell on the city wall in the distance.
It is said that the imperial merchant is not good, if it is in the way of someone else's wealth, that person may not be financially better than the Jia family, but the power is ......
The glow in the distance grew more and more red, and the bright colors fell on the towering walls, and a yellow-orange edge appeared along the great city, and the light moved slowly.
It is a sign that a new day is about to begin.
The morning breeze blows green grass. The willows are graceful, and the flowers are like jade. On the blue and white glazed tiles, the glittering gold of the sun floats.
Mo Shuoyue stepped on the tiles of the road, and hurriedly swept the budding Erqiao peony beside the road, and walked quickly to the fog and rain hall.
This is Li Yunmin's residence, after she came, she has been there a few times, but unlike the previous times when she was empty-handed, this time she held the small luodian inlaid wood box with both hands.
On the other side of the curved path of the tiles, three or two eunuchs wearing silk palace robes greeted them, led by middle-aged eunuchs, who seemed to have a smile on their faces, but there was an imperceptible edge in their eyes.
Such a bearing, a eunuch of such an age, but appeared in the palace of Gongjing at this sunrise, although Mo Shuoyue was surprised, but also guessed the identity of the other party, immediately stopped, avoided the side, and bowed slightly.
The middle-aged eunuch didn't stop, just looked at her quietly and walked past her.
When Mo Shuoyue's back was about to disappear at the end of the tiled road, the middle-aged eunuch stopped, turned to look at the slender white back, "This is the woman surnamed Mo that Prince Gongjing brought into Beijing?" ”
"Yes Master," replied a young eunuch beside him, "he was brought to Kyoto from Lishui County, and it seems to be called Mo Shuoyue." ”
"Hmm." The middle-aged eunuch nodded, he has been with the king for decades, his memory has been exercised since he was a child, and he can remember the royal people and the people around them by heart, in case of sudden inquiries from the emperor.
He looked at the direction in which Mo Shuoyue disappeared, was stunned for a while, and muttered to himself: "How can this woman's appearance look a little familiar......
"Master, what did you say?" The young eunuch did not hear and asked.
"Nothing." My father-in-law came back to his senses, "Let's go, I have to hurry back to the palace to resume my life." ”
Qin Ji and one of Li Yunmin's attendants, Yuyang, were waiting in the front hall, and when they saw Mo Shuoyue coming, they were still holding a small box in their hands, and asked with a smile: "What is this?" ”