Chapter 37: Poison
When Hua Chong and Emperor Renzong heard that it was Chen Lin and Guo Huai eating together, they were all stunned. www.biquge.info Renzong said: "Chen Lin, is it you?"
Hua Chong looked around, in addition to the bed, there was a table of eight immortals, two circle chairs, a coffee table, and the rest were all kinds of furnishings.
After Hua Chong's reasoning just now, Renzong was already convinced, and when he saw him speak, he asked, "What did Hua Aiqing find?"
"Long live, this matter should have nothing to do with Gonggong Chen, his move is just to interfere with Banzai's investigation of this case. ”
"Let's talk about it!"
Hua Chong nodded, pointed to a wine jug on the table, and said to Chen Lin, "Gonggong Chen, why are you drinking at noon?"
It is said that they are on duty and should not be able to drink, if they are out of duty, long live no longer summoned, it is okay to drink some, at noon, this wine is indeed very inappropriate.
Chen Lin hurriedly explained: "I didn't expect this meal, this is Guo Huai asked his nephew Guo An to invite me, accompanied by Ma Chaoxian, the head of the four executive warehouses. ”
Hua Chong hurriedly said: "Go and arrest Guo An!" and then murmured: "I hope he is still alive......"
The forbidden army officer, who had been kneeling on the ground, hurriedly got up and said, "Bring him here!"
Saying that, he ran out as if he was flying.
Renzong looked at Hua Chong: "Hua Aiqing, how do you know that this matter is related to Guo An, isn't it Ma Chaoxian or Chen Lin?"
Hua Chong shook his head, picked up the wine jug on the table and threw it to the ground, and with a snap, the wine jug fell apart. Hua Chong pointed to the wine pot and said: "Long live, please see, this pot has no screws, if the wine is poisonous, Guo Huai is not the only one who died, so there should be no poison in the wine." ”
After that, Hua Chong looked around the house: "Long live, take a closer look, there is something missing in Guo Huai's house!"
Renzong also looked around, but found nothing, and then asked, "What is missing?"
"Teapot!"
Sure enough, there was no such thing as a teapot or bowl on the coffee table, and Renzong looked around again, although there were a few sets of tea sets elsewhere, they were obviously not used, at least not today.
Emperor Renzong realized: "You mean that the tea is poisonous!"
Hua Chong smiled at Renzong, turned around and asked Chen Lindao, "Gonggong Chen, did you go back to drink tea after drinking?"
Chen Lin nodded and said, "Yes, yes, the old slave didn't dare to take a sip of wine to see Banzai, after I went back, I ate a few pieces of dim sum, drank two pots of tea, and even chewed a few mouthfuls of tea." ”
Hua Chong said to Emperor Renzong: "Guo Huai must have also drunk tea, of course, he is so poisonous." ”
Renzong was overjoyed and said: "Then Guo An must be the culprit!"
Just when he was happy, the officer who ran out to arrest Guo An ran in, spoke with a crying tone, and knelt down as soon as he entered the door and said: "Long live, Guo An is gone!"
Guo An's house is smaller than Guo Huai's, and at this time, the sky is already in charge, and sixteen butter waxes are lit in the house, and the room is extremely bright. But in such a bright room, Emperor Renzong took a closer look and didn't find a single blood stain.
"Hua Aiqing, this Guo An shouldn't be dead, right?"
Hua Chong nodded and said, "Yes, he shouldn't be dead." Did this thief run away?"
Chen Lin hurriedly shook his head and said: "Impossible, there must be official documents for entering and exiting the palace, and you can't enter and leave the palace at will." ”
Hua Chong lowered his head and was silent, pondering for a long time, then suddenly his eyes flashed, and asked Chen Lindao: "Gonggong Chen, can you gather all the eunuchs in the palace together?
Chen Lin didn't know what he was going to do, so he replied truthfully: "This thing can naturally be done, but there are too many people, and there should be more than a thousand people who are not currently serving in the palace." The old slave went to get the roster and ordered all the eunuchs to gather downstairs in Yaowu, where there was a spacious place. ”
Thousands of eunuchs in the entire palace gathered under Yaowu Tower, it was getting late, and a group of people who were densely packed with black pressure were talking one after another, talking to each other.
Hua Chong also had a headache, he didn't expect that there were so many eunuchs in the palace, so he asked Zhanzhao to be a helper. Zhan Zhao entered Beijing with Hua Chong and Bao Zheng, and was invited by Bao Zheng to stay in Kaifeng Mansion. At present, there was no official decree, so he temporarily lived in Bao Zheng's mansion.
Hua Chong introduced Zhanzhao to Emperor Renzong, and Renzong also read the previous recital, Hua Chong said that he wanted to ask him to enter the palace to help temporarily, and Emperor Renzong agreed. Emperor Renzong was very curious, he didn't know what Hua Chong was going to do, he only knew that he gathered these eunuchs, and he should be able to purge the traitors of the King of Xiangyang around him in one fell swoop.
Since his accession to the throne, he has been very jealous of the affairs of the king of Xiangyang, and there are still border troops guarding the border pass, but the king of Xiangyang has been lurking in the shadows, who is under him, and who is his person around him, it is all unknown. Although they got some information from Chen Zhou, Jiang Wan, Lu Yunpeng and others were not directly subordinate to the King of Xiangyang, and what they could get was very limited.
When Zhan Zhao entered the palace, the eunuchs had not yet arrived, Hua Chong took the opportunity to pull him aside and said in a low voice: "Brother Zhan, among these eunuchs, some people use ecstasy to destroy their bones, they are the traitors of the King of Xiangyang, I hope Brother Zhan will help me hold them together!"
Zhan Zhao frowned: "How can I know who is the mole?"
Hua Chong said: "It's getting late now, and it's best to tell at night." This soul-destroying and bone erosion is one of the 'Zhejiang Two Poisons' of the desperate swordsman Ye Qiusheng's unique secret method, this traitor has this thing, it must be Ye Qiusheng's disciple, and even Ye Qiusheng himself. Anyone who practices poison skills must have an obvious flaw. ”
Zhan Zhao came from a famous family and didn't know much about these side doors, so he asked, "What are their flaws?"
Hua Chong stretched out his hands and said, "Their hands are very white, white and different from ordinary people, this is the result of long-term exposure to poison!"
Zhan Zhao nodded: "Understood, just find out the people who have problems with their hands among these people!"
"Not only that, if they have a disguise technique, it will not be easy to detect, you need to hold their hand, use internal force to force it, to see if there is any change in his skin color, if it is a disguise technique, through a layer of skin, there is absolutely no change in blood color, normal people are pressed by your internal force, and the complexion will inevitably be red, which is a manifestation of palm congestion. As long as you observe these two points, you will definitely be able to find them!"
"Okay!" Zhanzhao agreed. He already had a good impression of Hua Chong, Zhanzhao was an upright person, in his opinion, from the meeting in Chen Zhou to the present, Hua Chong has always given him a serious impression and strong martial arts. As a "three-good student" who has just entered the rivers and lakes, Zhanzhao is very willing to work with Hua Chong.
The two soldiers divided into two ways, one left and one right, checked the hands of each eunuch respectively, and only after checking a dozen people, Hua Chong took the hand of a little eunuch and asked, "Little father-in-law, what is your name?"
The little eunuch was fifteen or sixteen years old, his face was red, and he said timidly: "I... I... My name is He Changxi. ”
"Where are you waiting?"
"I'm from Wanshou Mountain Guo (Guo An). ”
"Oh, let's talk about where Guo An went. ”
"I... I..."
Hua Chong said slowly: "Don't worry, speak slowly." ”
The little eunuch's face became more and more red, and he finally opened his mouth after holding it for a long time, but he didn't speak, but spewed out a yellow mist from his mouth!