193 There are no leftovers

The four of them returned to the Banshan Temple, met with Yan Rui and others, and talked about the rapid promotion of Dan in the past year. After a little admiration of the strange flowers and colorful lotus, everyone brought the two cooks of the Yishan Grass Courtyard to the main hall and handed them over to Xu Wancun for questioning in front of everyone.

The two cooks are in their early forties, a husband and wife, and in the past five years, Su Xianbai and his wife's food and drink have been taken care of by these two people.

Xu Wancun started by asking about the water used to cook and make tea, then asked the Su couple about their dietary preferences, and finally asked how to dispose of the leftovers in the draft courtyard.

Although everyone couldn't guess what his intention was with this question, they also knew that this question was extremely critical and could not be ignored. Even a person like Zhi Miao, who loves to talk a lot, didn't dare to say a word.

The male chef said first: "Mr. Xu, the two heroes are very simple to eat, it is not difficult to wait, as long as it is clean and neat." If you have more than four dishes per meal, if you have less, there will only be two dishes, and the salary is higher than that of other families. ”

Xu Wancun said: "Who will cook your people's food?"

The male chef said: "The subordinates eat and cook separately, and take turns to cook." ”

Xu Wancun said: "What about the leftovers of the two of them? Are they thrown away? Or are the cats and dogs eating? Or are they distributed to the next people?"

When everyone heard this, they seemed to understand a lot, and Qi Shushu turned their eyes to the kitchen couple in the field.

The cookess replied, "Don't throw it out, give it all to your subordinates." ”

Xu Wancun said: "This is not a little bit of leftovers, how to divide it?"

The female chef said: "There are not many dishes, but there are still a lot of leftovers." Mr. and Mrs. are not ordinary people, they rarely go to other people's houses, and there are still many people who come and go to the house. Many people come over on time and according to festivals every year, and they all know that when they give gold and silver, Mr. and Mrs. will not accept it, so they will give food and all kinds of strange things from all over the world. Some people leave a name, and some people don't even have a name. Let's put it this way, what the emperor can eat, Mr. and Mrs. can also eat, and what the emperor can't eat, Mr. and Mrs. can also eat. Some of them are all ----- whole vehicles."

Xu Wancun waved his hand and said, "This kind of thing that is casually delivered to the door, the two of them dare to eat it with confidence? They have benefited a lot, and there are also many enemies, so they are not afraid that someone will harm them?"

The female cook said: "We people also know this truth, and we have also persuaded Mr. and Mrs. The two of them said that they always bothered to send it, and they always had a lot of thoughts. Even if someone is poisoned, after all, there are still fewer poisonous ones and more non-toxic ones, and if they throw them all away because they are afraid of being poisonous, they will also fail the hearts of the people. Besides, if people want to poison it, then what we buy in the villages and towns, will some people poison it?" Don't look at it as a woman, her speech is clearer than that of a male cook.

Xu Wancun said: "Then they will cook more meals and find someone to try and test the poison?"

The female chef said: "Mr. and Mrs. went to the Western Regions and found a strange stone, only the size of an egg, which can recognize whether there is poison on the thing, and it is very spiritual." ”

Xu Wancun said: "Whose hand is this stone usually in? Is it in Mrs. Su's hand?"

The cookess said, "In my hand." Mr. and Mrs. did not regard the stone as anything great, but only as an object. When I left the grass courtyard, I returned it to Mrs. Su. ”

Xu Wancun said: "Let's talk about leftovers." ”

The male chef said: "In this way, although the number of dishes is not much, the amount of each dish is still quite a lot." Sometimes, when I encounter something rare, the subordinates can't do it well, and they won't do it, and Wen Nuxia specially instructed me to make more, so that the subordinates can also taste it, and Mr. and Mrs. eat less. ”

Some of the people in the hall breathed a long sigh of relief, while others secretly shook their heads.

Xu Wancun said to obscurity: "Mr. Zhang, please ask someone to bring pen and ink, and I have to ask you to be a secretary." ”

After a while, the servant took the pen and ink, and said humbly: "I have heard for a long time that Mr. Xu's calligraphy is no less than that of medicine, with you here, how dare I mention the pen?" Although he is a fake monk, he is quite modest.

Xu Wancun said: "Mr. Zhang, I am just good at writing, but my words are very ugly, and I can't see anyone." I really can't write while asking, and that's why you're tired. ”

I couldn't excuse myself when I saw the obscurity, so I had to lay out the paper and grind the ink. Xu Wancun ordered to bring the male chef down first, ask the female chef first, and then ask the male chef after asking. This time, it was the taste of each servant, who didn't eat this, who didn't eat that, who ate the most of these leftovers, and who ate the least. After asking the question, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to everyone: "This is the evidence of the crime." ”

Wei Shuoren said: "If you use this as evidence of the crime, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince people." ”

Xu Wancun ignored him and said, "Mr. Zhang, please quickly order someone to bring the bones of the dead servant's family to this temple, I will be useful." We must do things convincingly and leave no mistakes. ”

Obscure said: "Don't worry, I will take someone to handle this matter to ensure that you don't make a mistake." With that, he got up and walked out of the hall.

There are a total of nine male and female servants in the Yishan Grass Courtyard, except for one person whose home was burned to death and one person who is missing, the remaining seven people are all in the temple. After many days of interrogation by five old officials, they still couldn't identify the real culprit, but they didn't suffer much.

Xu Wancun ordered people to take these seven people down to take a bath and change clothes, and she didn't even eat lunch, and retreated into the small room to recuperate.

After most of the hour, the seven people were brought into the small room one by one, and they looked at each one in detail without saying a word.

Mei Zhanxue was impatient, and even said "pretending to be a ghost". Chu Qingliu said: "You, you just have no memory and no patience. When a person is dead, his body is poisonous, and he can still see it through a coffin buried in the ground, and if a living person is poisoned, can't he even see it?"

Mei Zhanxue said: "Then why don't you just pull these subordinates out to look at their anger, and even go to the grave to run?"

Chu Qingliu said: "If you don't go to the grave, how do you know if there is poison in the grave? Where to dig up that colorful lotus? How can you convince people, it's you, will you take it?"

Mei Zhanxue said: "Even if you can see which servant is poisoned, which one is more poisoned, which one is less poisoned, and which one is not poisoned at all, then what is the use? Can you say that this is out of hope? Will people believe it?"

Chu Qingliu said: "I'm not worried about this, as long as these people are really poisonous, Mr. Xu will definitely have a way for everyone to see the evidence." What I'm worried about is that it has been more than two years since Su Daxia passed away, and there is not much residual poison on these servants, and even Mr. Xu can't find out. That's a problem. ”

After Xu Wancun finished looking at the gas, he ordered someone to bring the seven people together, pointed to Che Liunian and said: "Su Xianbai did die of poisoning, I have clear proof, and it is not much different from opening the coffin for an autopsy." Among the seven of you, you have the least poison on your body, and you have eaten the least leftovers removed by the Su couple, you go back and think about it, how can you justify yourself and convince me. ”

Che Liunian didn't think about it and said, "You don't need to get up." Isn't it strange that I eat the least leftovers and the least poison?"

Xu Wancun said: "Why do you eat the least leftovers?"

Che Liunian said: "I don't like to eat people's leftovers by nature, even if it's Su Daxia's leftovers." Is that a sin?"

Mei Zhanxue said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense! When your family of three was begging for food in Hangzhou City, didn't you eat all the leftovers? ”

Che Liunian sneered: "Just because I ate too much leftovers at that time, when I didn't have to eat leftovers, I would never eat leftovers again." Those of you who have not eaten a surplus of food will not understand this truth. ”

Zhi Xiang Mu said quietly: "The surname Che, you don't have to be proud, a god like Mr. Xu, there must be a way to convince you." If you still have a little bit of eyes, then hurry up and give an account to the Lord, and I will make sure that your son's car is all right. And if at last you have someone pry open your mouth and find out, your son will be finished. ”

Che Liunian said: "I didn't do this, how can I know who is the envoy? Even if you cut me off, I just said this." ”

Xu Wancun said: "If I don't kill you, I don't kill you, I don't need to kill you." ”

Xiang Fool Wolf said: "Mr. Xiang, please keep this surnamed Che separately and detain him separately, and send more people to take care of him, and never let him commit suicide or escape." He said that he was not afraid, but his heart was really afraid. I can't wait to die, we can't let him get his wish. The foolish wolf agreed.

The big thing was decided, and everyone gathered around one after another, once again to look at the rare flower "Colorful Lotus". Gu Xianglong, the leader of the White Tiger Gang, only glanced at it hurriedly, then came to Chu Qingliu Mei Zhanxue's side, and said: "Chu Shaoxia, you see, Su Daxia is indeed poisoned, and this strange flower in front of him, is this a secret first, or is it a gong and drum to publicize it?"

Strictly keep the secret or spread it around, Chu Qingliu really didn't think about this kind of thing, and he couldn't answer it for a while. Mei Zhanxue said: "Keeping secrets? For such a big matter, we have to dig up the grave of the servant's family who burned to death, and we have to transport several coffins back, can we keep the secret? Of course, we have to publicize it everywhere, and if we can get everyone to know about it, then it would be good! It is also good that the person who is in charge of the envoy will not be able to sleep and eat, and this will be called beating the grass and startling the snake." Can you do that?"

Gu Xianglong said: "Miss Mei, if you really want to startle the snake, I can really do it." ”

Mei Zhanxue said: "But is my words useful? You better go back and ask you Miss Qu." ”

Gu Xianglong said: "Of course, such a major event must be reported to the alliance leader and the young lady. But you also have to ask what the young man means, if you don't ask clearly, you will return, if the young lady asks, I can't answer, I must blame me for not being able to do things. Chu Shaoxia, what do you say?"

Chu Qingliu said: "Gu Gang Master, if you can publicize it, it is not a bad thing to alarm the people behind the scenes who instructed the poison." However, propaganda should also speak truthfully, not out of nothing, let alone bring the reputation of Su Daxia and Wen Nuxia. ”

Gu Xianglong said: "Chu Shaoxia is right, I will go down the mountain, and we will meet tomorrow." He walked away quickly.

When everyone had seen enough, they blindly said in embarrassment: "Mr. Xu, can I touch your flower?"

Xu Wancun said: "You can still touch it, but you have to be careful, if you break even a little branch, the juice flows out, and it is contaminated, it is not very easy to heal." ”

Zhi Yi said: "Since ancient times, I have paid attention to eating puffer fish desperately, and I am desperate to touch the flowers today, which can be regarded as an elegant thing." I've been vulgar all my life, and I've been elegant like this once, and it's worth it to leave a story to tell future generations. He stepped forward and touched it carefully, and said, "It looks like this, I understand." Mr. Xu, what is the use of this flower?"

Xu Wancun said: "This colorful lotus flower has come to my hands, and it can brew the best poison and the best antidote." ”

Zhi smiled and said, "Then you have to be careful, don't let people steal it." ”

Everyone laughed and dispersed, Mei Zhanxue said: "Mr. Xu, where are we going? What are we going to do? Just go back to drink tea?"

Xu Wancun smiled bitterly: "It stands to reason that you should go to Yishan Grass Courtyard." But you also have to let me rest and catch my breath, my day is really not easy. Whatever happens, we'll do it tomorrow. ”