Chapter 54: The Contest
The four of them didn't wait for Master Su to come, and the first thing they were waiting for was Deacon Bai with a group of students.
The leading students are Zhu Zhuzhi and Yang Shen.
Master Guo straightened his clothes and sat in the first seat, and said in a deep voice, "You guys are still early. ”
Deacon Bai clenched his fists, "The students are scared, and they don't have the heart to go to class in the morning. It was easy to get to noon, so I hurried here. Presumably, the adults of the Criminal Department can come to a conclusion today. ”
Yang Ye in the back gave An Ying a dead look, he was very anxious, afraid that the Criminal Department would make a big mistake this time.
An Ying saw it for a while, nodded at him, and signaled relief.
Yun Pan saluted and said, "The two murders in the academy have been clarified. Today, I will tell you about the case. He sat down with Chief Liu Shan and Deacon Bai.
"The two cases are actually closely related. So, let me start with the zongzi case. This is also the starting point of the case. ”
"At present, it can be determined that the zongzi eaten by Zhu Kexin has oleander juice, and judging from the degree of poisoning, the poisoning will not exceed six hours. Zhu Zhuzhi is from home in the morning to the academy, the home poisoning has been eliminated, that night they cooked zongzi to eat, although Zhu Zhuzhi stopped twice on the road, but the zongzi gift box is watched by the coachman, and there is no opportunity for outsiders to approach. ”
"That is to say, the time period when the zongzi was poisoned can be narrowed to the two hours from noon to dinner of Zhu Zhuzhi, and the people who can touch the zongzi in these two hours are the six people in the canteen and the people in the kitchen at that time."
"All kinds of helpers in the kitchen work in the academy all year round, if you want to poison Zhu Zhuzhi or Zhu Kexin, you have a lot of opportunities, you can't deliberately wait for the students to bring zongzi from home and then poison them, and there are four cooks in the kitchen during the whole process of steaming zongzi, which can corroborate each other."
"Then the problem is with the six of you." Yun Pan paused his tone, looked at the six people and said, "Liang Su, please tell me more about the situation that day, and if you don't understand it, you can listen to it again." The more detailed the better. ”
Liang Su was named, stunned for a moment, and then walked up with a smile, "Presumably adults think that I am more concerned about eating." ”
"There were ten of them that day. I'm delicious, and at first glance, I know that it's Fang Lao's zongzi, which tastes good. There are many flavors of his zongzi, and there are a total of five flavors of these ten zongzi, and different flavors are distinguished by different ties. I remember ....."
Liang Su explained the situation in detail, and blinked at Yun Pan during the period, while An Ying looked anxiously out of the door on the side, and then An Ying suddenly saw a blue figure.
Su-sama is here!
An Ying quietly went out and whispered a few words to Master Su.
After coming back, An Ying glanced at Yun Pan and Master Guo. Both of them had their faces unchanged, but they couldn't help but get excited.
Yun Pan smiled and let go of his body, sat down slowly, and heard Liang Su explain the whole story clearly and in detail, and only after the time was exhausted was half a pillar of incense, he said: "Everyone, after investigation, only this one of these ten zongzi has been poisoned. ”
Yang Shen had been impatient for a long time, and he had no chance to interrupt Liang Su several times, so he was easy to finish speaking, and when he heard Yun Pan say this, he couldn't help but ask: "This shows that Brother Zhu is unlucky?" ”
Deacon Bai lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "It means that this poisoning has a specific goal?" ”
"Yes!" Yun Pan saluted Deacon Bai: "Liang Su also said just now, it is not easy for this poison to be extracted. If it is to succeed in poisoning, in fact, the safest way is to poison the whole box of zongzi. But this murderer only laid a zongzi. ”
Liang Su immediately answered: "Unless this murderer can ensure that the person he wants to poison will definitely be able to eat this poisonous zongzi." ”
Yang Shen was still a little confused: "But how can this be guaranteed?" It's not as good as the insurance that the whole box is down. ”
Yun Pan smiled: "Because he doesn't want to poison himself, and he doesn't want to poison others." He just wants to poison Zhu Kexin! ”
Liu Shanchang, Deacon Bai, and many students all looked surprised, and Yang Ye couldn't help asking, "Isn't it to poison Zhu Zhuzhi?" ”
"How do you make sure that the poisonous ones are picked out accurately?" Yun Pan asked everyone rhetorically.
When everyone was deep in thought, Liang Su exclaimed: "I understand! Only the murderer knows which zongzi was poisoned. The first person to pick the zongzi that day was Brother Zhu, who came with the zongzi, he was the main family, and he must have taken it first. Therefore, only Brother Zhu poisoned himself to ensure that he got the poisonous zongzi, and others would definitely not compete with him to get it first. ”
"Could it be that Brother Zhu is committing suicide?" Shen Pingxiu, who had never spoken much, looked at Zhu Zhuzhi with some confusion.
Zhu Zhuzhi's face did not change, and with the indisputable looks of everyone, he stood in the crowd like a green bamboo.
Yang Ye looked at Zhu Zhuzhi with some incredulity: "Zhu Kexin who Zhu Brother killed?" ”
"That's not right." Liang Su lowered his head and thought for a while, "I just said, Zhu Kexin came in and took the zongzi in Zhu Zhuzhi's hand." This is an accident, if Zhu Kexin doesn't take it, then Brother Zhu will commit suicide? ”
The others nodded their heads and said, "yes, who would have thought that?" "It's probably just a whim of Brother Zhu."
Yun Pan motioned to the guards to bring a stack of bamboo paper and asked, "Let's see, this is Zhu Kexin's painting?" ”
Everyone took turns to look at the stack of papers, and Deacon Bai nodded and said, "This is indeed Zhu Kexin's early paintings. In the early years, Zhu Kexin's colors were always too exaggerated, and the colors were dangerous. ”
At this time, An Ying took all kinds of works copied by the great painters, spread them out, and said, "Everyone, please take a look." What if you swap the discordant cinnabar and stone green in all of Zhu Kexin's paintings? ”
"Hey, isn't this Li Sixun's green landscape?"
"Oh, this is the landscape of Ma Yuan's faction."
Yun Pan saluted to Liu Shanchang: "Liu Shanchang, do you know that there is a kind of person who can't distinguish between red and green by nature?" ”
Mr. Liu Shanchang was stunned for a moment and asked hesitantly: "I have read it in books, but I have never encountered it." Could it be that Zhu Kexin is this kind of strange person? ”
Liang Su had unconsciously squeezed to the front and said: "I know this, my family has been practicing medicine for generations, and this problem of not distinguishing between red and green is common. But this disease does not hurt people's bodies, and it cannot be cured. ”
As he spoke, he suddenly realized and said: "So Zhu Kexin can't distinguish the red rope, and he knows that Zhu Zhuzhi has always only eaten meat filling, and the one in his hand must be a meat dumpling, so he will take it." The two of them have always been close, regardless of you and me, and this behavior is understandable. Everyone will think it was an accident. ”
Guo Xi added on the side: "I have ordered someone to go to Zhu Kexin's hometown of Wu County. His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by the Zhu family. According to Zhu's family room and Zhu Tongli, Zhu Kexin's father also couldn't distinguish Zhu color. Zhu Kexin has not been able to distinguish vermilion since he was a child, and several elders in the family know about it.
Zhu Tongli was afraid that this matter would affect Zhu Kexin's future imperial examination, so Zhu Kexin was careful to cover it up, so Zhu Kexin didn't even know about the girl she took care of. This is also why Zhu Kexin has never revealed it in the academy, even if he can't pass the assessment in the painting class, he doesn't want to reveal it. ”
Guo Xi continued: "Zhu Zhuzhi and Zhu Kexin are cousins, they lived together when they were young, Zhu Tongli is very sure that Zhu Zhuzhi knows that Zhu Kexin does not distinguish vermilion, which is why Zhu Kexin's later painting class homework is often colored by Zhu Zhuzhi. ”
"Coloring on your behalf?" Liang Su on the side continued: "Most of the academy knows that Zhu Kexin's paintings are not good, and they are often replaced by Zhu Zhuzhi, and it turns out that they are just coloring. ”
"Exactly." Yun Pan said to everyone, "We are sure that Zhu Kexin's eating of this zongzi was not an accident, but a careful plan." ”
Zhu Zhuzhi, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "This is just your inference, just to find a reasonable reason to explain, even if you are right, I am like a brother and sister with him, and I grew up together since childhood, why should I poison him?" ”