Chapter 3: Died young
After lunch, Qin Hexuan came back from Uncle Chu's house, burping all the way, thinking: Uncle Chu is really blessed, Aunt Chu cooked a good dish, the loach at noon was slippery but not fishy, and the aftertaste was endless. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Unconsciously, Qin Hexuan walked to Taihe Street, and suddenly heard the crying sound coming from the Li Mansion that he had been to yesterday, and a white hexagram was hung at the door, and he asked passers-by about it, it turned out that the master of the Li family passed away this morning. Thinking of the master of the Li family, Qin Hexuan also had a little impression, as if he was only in his early thirties, wouldn't he die young. Qin Hexuan has loved to join in the fun since he was a child, and when he saw some people standing at the gate of the Li Mansion, he squeezed into the crowd and inquired about the details.
According to the rumors of passers-by, half a month ago, Master Li was bedridden after returning from a long trip, and Shi Langzhong, the most famous Yongjie pharmacy in Anzhou City, personally came to check the pulse and was helpless, saying that he could only come to his door every day to ventilate his acupuncture and moxibustion to relieve his condition, but he could not cure it. There are different opinions about what kind of disease he had, and later there was a ghost theory, saying that Master Li went out and was possessed by a ghost in the mountains before he got an incurable disease, resulting in an untimely death.
After listening to the chatter of passers-by, Qin Hexuan shook his head, squeezed out of the crowd with the attitude of taking care of the funeral, and went home.
At night, Qin Hexuan lay on the bed tossing and turning, always fantasizing that he would be admitted to Tianzhao Academy and become famous in one fell swoop, becoming the first head catcher in Anzhou City.
In the early morning of the day, Qin Hexuan, who hadn't slept all night, got up early again, thinking that he couldn't sleep anyway, so he had better go out to breathe. At this time, the sky was slightly bright, and every family had not yet gotten up, and there was no one on the road. Qin Hexuan was strolling down the street alone, and suddenly saw a white team faintly walking in front of him. Take a closer look, it turned out to be the funeral team of the Li Mansion.
"This Li Mansion is about to go out of the funeral before the first seven days have passed? Could it be that the ghost rumors are true? They want to be buried as soon as possible?" Qin Hexuan suddenly shivered when he thought of this, and he had goosebumps, and hurriedly lowered his head and leaned aside to avoid the team.
The funeral procession walked to Qin Hexuan's side, and suddenly a gust of wind struck, rolling up the dust, and the family carrying the corpse staggered, and the stretcher tilted, just so that one of Master Li's hands slipped out of the white cloth and put it on Qin Hexuan's shoulder, Qin Hexuan was startled, and instinctively waved his hands, and accidentally made Master Li's body slide out entirely. Looking at Master Li's corpse, Qin Hexuan was even more frightened, only to see that Master Li's face was withered and his fingers were black, just like the appearance of being sucked dry by ghosts in spirit novels.
The Li family reprimanded Qin Hexuan, and hurriedly placed the old man of the Li family and continued to walk towards the cemetery area.
"Cut, still scold me, I haven't even asked you for mental damages, such a ghostly look, but it scares me. Qin Hexuan said.
Gradually, the sun rose into the sky, and there were more pedestrians on the road. Qin Hexuan saw Xiao Ni playing shuttlecock on the road again.
"Xiao Ni", Qin Hexuan shouted, "recovered from Xiaohua's grief so quickly?"
When Xiao Ni heard this, she remembered Xiaohua's tragic situation again, and suddenly choked up again.
Qin Hexuan saw it and reminded Xiao Ni that she was sad, and immediately panicked, "Don't don't, Xiao Ni, my brother will take you to buy candy to eat." ”
Qin Hexuan helplessly led Xiao Ni to the candy store, thinking: "Xiao Ni is really pitiful, Xiaohua who gets along day and night suddenly left without symptoms, and in the end she was thrown in the garbage heap, such a miserable situation." Suddenly, Qin Hexuan had a flash of inspiration and remembered something.
"Wait, Xiaohua died at the back door of the Li Mansion, and a few days later, Master Li also died. Xiaohua looked skinny when she died, and Master Li also had a withered face when he saw it this morning, why are the two deaths so strikingly similar? Could it be?" Qin Hexuan became more and more excited the more he thought about it, and he suddenly felt that he might have encountered a case that was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.
Suddenly, Qin Hexuan stopped and said to Xiao Ni, "Xiao Ni, do you want to know how Xiao Hua died?"
Xiao Ni was taken aback, "Brother Hexuan, what did you say?"
Qin Hexuan said solemnly, "I think Xiaohua may have been murdered, let's go, let's go and see Xiaohua's corpse." As he spoke, he led Xiao Ni to the place where Xiao Hua was buried.
Qin Hexuan picked up the soil where Xiaohua was buried and took out Xiaohua's body, at this time, the corpse had already decomposed, emitting a foul smell. Qin Hexuan held his breath and tossed Xiaohua's corpse, wanting to see if there was anything else unusual. Since Xiaohua had been piled up in the garbage, her whole body was dirty and black, Qin Hexuan found water to clean Xiaohua, and suddenly, Xiaohua's claws attracted Qin Hexuan's attention. Xiaohua's four claws are pitch black, exactly the same as Master Li. Qin Hexuan laughed in his heart: "This time I finally encountered a big case, and it was my turn to come out of the Anzhou little god." After the ecstasy, Qin Hexuan calmed down and thought to himself, "The similarity of the two corpses alone is not enough to explain anything, who is the murderer? Where is the evidence? These are the things that need to be done next." ”
"According to the general procedure, an autopsy is required first, but it is definitely not appropriate for me to rush to find someone to examine Master Li's body, but to find someone to examine Xiaohua's body, I will definitely be ridiculed by others, and no one will come to help. I don't understand medical theory myself, how can I perform an autopsy?" Qin Hexuan fell into deep thought.
"Brother Hexuan, let's bury Xiaohua again", Qin Hexuan forgot that Xiao Ni was still on the side, and didn't remember until Xiao Ni opened her mouth.
"Xiaoni, you go home first, I still have some things to do, don't worry, I will help you find the murderer of Xiaohua." Qin Hexuan said. After speaking, Qin Hexuan remembered that there was someone who could help, and that was Chu Bo, according to the many stories Chu Bo had told before, there were details of the autopsy during the period, and Chu Bo must know a little bit about it. Qin Hexuan picked up Xiaohua's corpse and walked towards Chu Bo's house.
When Chu Bo saw Qin Hexuan coming over, he laughed, "What's the matter, the loaches haven't eaten enough? ”
"No, Chu Bo, I have something to ask you to help with", as he spoke, Qin Hexuan put Xiaohua's corpse in front of Chu Bo.
"What the hell, it stinks," Chu Bo cried as he covered his nose.
"The corpse of a flower cat, I want to trouble Chu Bo to help me perform an autopsy", Qin Hexuan said solemnly.
"Autopsy, I'm not a pretence, I'm not Langzhong, I don't know how to perform an autopsy, and it's the corpse of a cat," Chu Bo said with a wave of his hand.
"Chu Bo, take a closer look, this cat died a little abnormally, its four claws are black, its whole body is sparsely flesh and blood, and it looks like it is skinny and bone", Qin Hexuan said with a straight face.
"Oh, the four claws are black?", Chu Bo listened, staring at Xiaohua's corpse and examining it carefully.
"Well, it looks like a poisoning phenomenon," Chu Bo said.
"Poisoned?" Qin Hexuan asked, "What poison?"
"I don't know what kind of poison," Chu Bo said to himself. "You can ask Chen Zhutou of your Anzhou Yamen, they must have learned all kinds of medicine, poison, pathology and other knowledge in Tianzhao Academy, and professional things still have to be done by professional people. ”
"Okay, I'll go home and ask my dad to ask Chen Zhutou, thank you Chubo, I'm leaving. Qin Hexuan finished saying goodbye and hurried home.
The next day, Qin Hexuan insisted that Qin Zheng take him to the yamen in the name of studying.
When Qin Zheng reported to Chen Zhutou, Qin Hexuan wanted to come forward to ask about Xiaohua's poisoning, but today it was strange that after the catchers arrived at the Yamen, they all went to patrol according to the prior arrangement, and they didn't see Chen Zhutou. It is said that Chen Zhutou was meeting with dignitaries from Zhongzhou City.
Qin Hexuan walked out of the yamen and strolled through the streets, thinking in his heart that he would wait for noon to go to the yamen to see if he could meet Chen Zhutou. Qin Hexuan wandered around all morning, thinking about the case, when two patrolling catchers passed by, chatting and talking about Chen Zhutou's ability to drink tea during his work, he was quite envious, so he immediately rushed to the tea shop, and found that Chen Zhutou was still sitting in the tea shop drinking tea and had not left, so he hurriedly ran forward.
"Chen catches the head," Qin Hexuan shouted.
"Hmm, you are....Qin Zheng's son, tell me what's the matter, I'm on business, I'm going to leave after drinking tea," Chen Zhutou said.
"I won't bother you for much time, everyone knows that Chen Zhutou is very knowledgeable, I just want to ask you, is there a poison in this world that can make poisoned people's nails black and their faces withered?" Qin Hexuan asked.
"You kid, where do you come up with these strange ideas, but as far as I know, I haven't heard of this poison. Chen Zhutou said with a smile.
"Seven-colored flowers", before Qin Hexuan could answer, a voice suddenly sounded. At this time, Qin Hexuan found that there was a young man sitting next to Chen Zhutou, holding a gourd in his hand, and when he smelled it carefully, a smell of wine hit, thinking about how this person was drinking in the tea shop.
Chen Zhutou was taken aback, "Seven-colored flowers?"
Before Chen Zhutou could continue, the young man who was drinking had already interrupted and said, "Little brother, can you tell me where you saw the death you mentioned just now?", as he spoke, he raised his eyes and looked at Qin Hexuan, looking at this person's eyes, Qin Hexuan was suddenly startled, it was a kind of deep eye that could directly look through your heart, and it seemed that he could see all his secrets at a glance in front of it. Qin Hexuan hurriedly avoided the other party's eyes, thinking that I still have to investigate by myself, and I can't cheapen you, so he said, "I heard it from the storyteller, I'll leave first if it's okay", and left quickly.
Seeing Qin Hexuan leave, the young man who drank continued to taste the wine in the gourd, as if this was the most beautiful wine in the world.
"Ouyang Shenzhu, isn't the seven-colored flower the exclusive secret poison of the Feipeng thief you are chasing? There is no such coincidence in the world, this kid must know something, I will chase him immediately." Chen Zhutou lowered his voice and said.
"Don't worry, leave it to me in the follow-up", the young man who drank took a sip of wine and said, "Good wine, good wine."