Song Wen squatted down again, trying to fix his eyes on the man's face.

Really.

Apparently about sixty years old, his face was still so white that he didn't even have anything like stubble.

The key is: this old eunuch, Song Wen knows!

The chief eunuch of Wu Youning's family!

In the Shezhou poisonous tree sap case, His Majesty did not clean up Princess Taiping, nor did he clean up Princess Taiping's husband, Wu Youji, let alone clean up Wu Youning.

So much so that these three masterminds behind the scenes can still get away with it.

It's just that the three little eunuchs who were bought by Princess Taiping and took advantage of the sprinkling and sweeping opportunity to smear the sap beads on the wooden utensils.

And Di Ying.

Di Ying was also unlucky because of this.

In this matter, Song Wen was very sorry and panicked.

Now I see the chief eunuch in Wu Youning's mansion......

Song Wenxu narrowed his eyes, feeling that he had finally touched the corner of the task that Master Di had secretly given him.

This workshop is not small, the wood stacked in it is still relatively valuable, and the carpenters' craftsmanship is also good.

Look at the attitude of the old eunuch and the shopkeeper when they talked......

Could it be that the owner behind this workshop is Wu Youning?

Quite possibly.

Song Wen suddenly blessed his soul.

The sap beads were smeared on the wooden objects in the palace that His Majesty frequented. This is probably not a coincidence.

Otherwise, according to the idea of normal people poisoning, it should be smeared on the utensils commonly used by His Majesty.

Why did you choose wood?

Because the utensils are all white, if the sap beads absorb His Majesty's blood and appear red, will they be noticed?

No, not only.

Master Di once said: This sap needs to be heated to work. And the higher the temperature, the greater the effect.

If it is applied to the utensils, the smell of the sap will become strong as soon as it is exposed to high heat. can't pass the level of the imperial doctor and the person who tests the poison.

Only when applied to wood will the wood be directly exposed to heat and will be less noticeable.

Wu Youning is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the royal carpenters, woodware, etc. in the palace are also responsible for the Ministry of Industry.

Now it makes sense.

However, Song Wengang figured out this truth, but he was confused again.

Now that even His Majesty already knows that it was Wu Youning's hands and feet, so why did Di Ying take the extra step to let herself discover and figure out this layer?

You can't just want to clean up the carpenter and the workshop, right? That's too pediatric, and it's too unlike Di Ying's handwriting.

The more Song Wen thought about it, the more unlikely he felt.

At this time, Song Wenyou noticed that the corner of the warehouse where the wood was baked quietly poked out.

It was the head of a man under twenty years of age.

The man stared at the chief eunuch, his eyes full of hatred.

Song Wen's heart sank, and he was about to take a closer look, but he saw that the man had retracted his head again, and he didn't know where to go.

The man's arm against the wall, and the placket of his head, showed that he was a carpenter. It's still a low-ranking little carpenter.

Song Wen continued to squat on the tree. Wait until it gets dark.

……

It was dark, only the light pulled out by the torches as they swayed in the rain and fog.

Di Ying climbed up, and let Peng Liang, who jumped back again, shine a torch near the branch he was holding.

There, there are still some broken branches, quite fresh ones.

Next to this steep mountain road, that is, under the broken branches, there are still some traces of grass being pressed and sliding.

After carefully inspecting it, Di Ying perked up, sat down on the ground again, and slid down the road.

Slipping to the bottom, he stood up, and motioned for the guards to search along the gap between the two mountains, on both sides.

He himself climbed the trail on the opposite hill, carefully examining the branches and turf on both sides.

It wasn't until it was confirmed that there were no traces of them being "alarmed" that Di Ying returned to the mountain crevice.

"My lord, there is a discovery!"

Yuan Twenty-eight, who was good at setting traps, suddenly shouted.

Di Ying walked over quickly.

Not far from the right side of the V-shaped mountain road, among the trees and weeds, there are quite messy traces. It's like someone has rolled on it.

There are also drag marks.

There are also blood stains.

There are no large beasts or even carnivorous animals on the side of the road that people often walk. Even though there was a lot of blood in the area, it didn't attract the animals.

A lot of blood was sprayed on the blades of grass, and then it was wet by the drizzle, and it fell into the mud with dripping down the tips of the leaves.

Di Ying picked up the grass below the place where the blood stained the most, and her nose moved.

There are not only blood stains here, but also some white unidentified objects. Because it is semi-mushy, it is not carried underground by rainwater.

Di Ying got closer and sniffed.

Well, it's familiar - the smell of brains.

And based on the amount of blood left in the area, and the amount of brains, it is clear that at least two people died here.

It was around the morning of today.

Di Ying then ordered the guards to expand the search along the drag marks.

Soon, deeper in the mountain crevice, two headless bodies were found.

According to the clothing, dress, etc. described by Qiu Chuanyan, these two bodies are his missing third brother and wife.

Qiu Chuandong and Cai Hongxia.

Di Ying asked Nie Bo and the others to pull up the oil tarpaulin, and then under the light of the torches, they immediately conducted a preliminary examination of the two corpses.

"According to the separation marks left on the cervical vertebrae, it can be basically judged that the murder weapon is: an axe.

However, the axe should not be large or heavy. Similar to hand axes. Its blades are thinner and sharper. It is long but short, as large as the small arm and hand, which is easy to carry.

The female victim's two forearms were scarred by axe blades, which were pre-mortem injuries. There were also brain plasma and a large amount of blood stains on it.

It can be preliminarily judged that it is a resistance injury.

It is believed that when he was protecting the head of the male victim, he was slashed by the murderer with an axe. First he slashed off her two forearms, and then went straight to her head.

The male victim had only minor resistance injuries on his body, and he felt as if he had been hacked to death.

The fracture mark on the cervical vertebrae is a prenatal injury.

In other words: the murderer's axe blade came directly to his neck.

Neither of the deceased showed signs of struggle too strongly, only those left by rolling and being dragged on.

There were no foreign objects left in the fingernails.

Pack them up properly and carry them back to the county autopsy. There is a high probability that they were poisoned first and then hacked to death. ”

After Di Ying's initial inspection, he stood up and instructed the guards while taking off his gloves.

When he had finished speaking, he stood there in a trance.

According to Qiu Chuanyan: Cai Hongxia urgently left home with Qiu Chuandong after receiving the burden sent by the postman.

From Yanghua Village to here, it takes at least half an hour to walk. The trail is halfway up the mountain, and does not pass through any villages or inhabited places.

So, how did they take poison, or drugs such as sweat medicine, by the two of them?

Was it someone who drugged the water bladder they were carrying?

Thinking of this, Di Ying instructed again: "Continue to expand the search, in addition to looking for the head, also pay attention to looking for any suspicious objects." ”