Because of a heavy rain, Mingzi and Hu Niu spent the night at Gu Si's. In the early morning, when the rain stopped, the two of them left the pharmacist and returned to the cottage.

Far away from the cottage, the two heard bursts of crying coming from the cottage. Mingzi raised his eyes and saw that the cottage was covered with white spirit flags. Akiko was stunned for a moment. Hu Niu said, "What's wrong?"

Akiko shook her head and said "impossible" twice in a row. He understands that the only thing that can make the cottage cry so much is Zhong Kunlun's death. Although Mingzi is honest, he is not stupid, but has great wisdom. During this time, under the tutelage of the pharmacist Gu Si, he had already mastered pharmacology. He had observed Zhong Kunlun before, and it was definitely not that he was suffering from a serious illness. Therefore, if it is a sudden death, there must be something strange. With this thought, Akiko did not dare to move forward. He looked at the tiger girl.

Tiger girl has been losing her appetite lately and is tired and short of breath. Gu Si gave her a pulse, which was a happy pulse. Mingzi was surprised and delighted, although he couldn't return to his teacher anymore, but if he could be with the tiger girl for a lifetime, it was also his big wish.

Mingzi made up his mind in his heart, and he said to Hu Niu: "The cottage is so arranged, I'm afraid that Zhong Kunlun has an accident." ”

The tiger girl let out an "ah" and said, "Let's hurry up and see if we can help if we can." ”

Mingzi stretched out his hand to stop her and said, "No, I'll just go." You go back to the pharmacist immediately now, tell him the news, and say that the Black Dragon Village is hanging up and down, I will check the situation now, and then I will go to the pharmacist to pick you up." ”

Tiger Niu refused at first, but Akiko firmly disagreed with her going with her. Helpless, the tiger girl had to turn around and think about it.

Mingzi saw the tiger girl walking away, and hurriedly used light skills to rush back to the Black Dragon Village.

Everything was as he expected, the mountain gate made of boulders was covered with white cloth, and the people of the Black Dragon Village walked back and forth on the bluestone slabs, everyone had a solemn face, busy and hurried.

Akiko stopped one of them and asked him what was wrong. Before the man could speak, he began to cry, and then intermittently told Mingzi that Zhong Kunlun was gone.

Mingzi was shocked and asked him what the four village owners were. The man knew that Mingzi had an unusual status in the village, so he hurriedly told everything he knew. It turned out that Wu Weiqi, the owner of Sanzhai, found that the owner of Zhongzhai was dead in bed early in the morning. Now the four village owners and the other village owners gathered in the council hall to discuss countermeasures.

Mingzi recognized that this person was under the account of Shi Zhiyong, the master of the second village, and he took off the pure gold Buddha bead bracelet from his hand, stuffed it into the person's hand, and said, "You recognize the nameless herb garden of the pharmacist." You go to the herb garden immediately now and tell Senior Gu Si and Hu Niu the news about it. ”

Who Gu Si is, that person doesn't know, for them, Gu Si, the owner of the herb garden, is the pharmacist nameless. He recognized the tiger girl, so he excused himself twice, and when he saw that he couldn't push Mingzi, he stuffed the bracelet into his arms, said "rest assured", and left in a hurry.

Mingzi said in his heart, Zhong Kunlun single-handedly created the Black Dragon Village, and he has been in charge of all affairs for decades. But the four village owners below him had already leaked signs of discord, which even Hu Niu could understand. Now that Zhong Kunlun has died suddenly, the four owners of the Black Dragon Village have their own military rights, and it is difficult to be compatible, and I am afraid that the Black Dragon Village will fall apart.

I just asked the man to deliver the letter and gave him a gold bracelet as a reward. If Zhong Kunlun was alive, that person would never dare to accept his gift. Now that he dares to accept his own gift, it means that he has lost Zhong Kunlun, and his position in Black Dragon Village is also in jeopardy. Moreover, as Shi Zhiyong's subordinate, that person dared to accept his own gifts, and I am afraid that he did not plan to stay in the Black Dragon Village anymore, so he could fish as much as he could. Among the four village owners, Shi Zhiyong's power is the lowest, and the people below him have probably seen it a long time ago. I just hope that this person can really send the information to Gu Si and Hu Niu. People's hearts fluctuate, when there are many events.

But Akiko didn't have time to think about it, and went straight to the council chamber-

"What are you kidding, I, Tian Zhige, are still here, how dare they do this. "Dazhai Master" Leng Yanlang "Tian Zhige" slapped the table hard.

Xiao Junnan, the owner of the fourth village, smiled and said, "Brother Tian, the master of the stone village has always had no prestige in the village, and now it is normal for the people below him to mutiny." ”

Wu Weiqi, the master of Sanzhai, turned ashen and bowed his head silently.

In the conference hall, Tian Zhige, Wu Weiqi, and Xiao Junnan each sat here with a few henchmen. Only Shi Zhiyong, the master of the second village, disappeared and they were in one vein.

The people at the door couldn't stop Akiko and let Akiko break in.

As soon as Mingzi came in, Wu Weiqi immediately stood up and said, "Master Mingzi, you know." ”

Seeing that it was just them in the house, Akiko stopped and nodded. The doorkeeper outside nervously came in. Tian Zhige glanced at it, waved his hand, and those people retreated again.

Xiao Junnan looked sad, held a handkerchief in his hand, and said, "Master Mingzi, you are here." ”

Mingzi looked at him, recited the Buddha's name, and said, "A few village owners, what's going on?"

Wu Weiqi told how he found his master's body this morning.

While listening, Mingzi recited the Buddha's name in a low voice, and after a while, Fang asked, "Where is the master of the stone village?"

Xiao Junnan said: "The Tunliang army rebelled, and the master of Shizhai went to fight the fire." ”

Mingzi knew that Shi Zhiyong, the owner of the second village, was responsible for the grain storage work of the cottage, and the people of the second cottage he brought were also called the grain army. But Mingzi didn't expect that at this time, why would the Tunliang Army rebel. He remembered the man he had sent to deliver the letter before. It turned out that the man was going to escape from the cottage.

Mingzi thought that no matter what happened, it was an internal matter of the cottage, and what he did was to leave here after Zhong Kunlun's funeral. Where are you going? Mingzi hasn't thought about it yet, so let's go and ask Gu Si's seniors first.

Tian Zhige stood up and asked, "What does Master Mingzi think?"

Akiko asked, "What?"

Tian Zhige said: "The master of the stone village mutinied and shook the foundation of the cottage, and Master Mingzi felt that what should be done." ”

Mingzi shook his head and said, "I want to go and see Lord Zhong Zhai first." ”

Tian Zhige glanced at Xiao Junnan. Xiao Junnan said: "In this way, I will accompany Master Mingzi." ”

Wu Weiqi said: "I will also go over." ”

Tian Zhige thought for a while, and instructed the left and right people: "Pass my order, the cottage is closed, and anyone is strictly forbidden to leave the cottage without the consent of our three village owners." The criminal law team, anyone who is found to have left the cottage in violation of the prohibition will be killed. Then he said to Mingzi, "I'll go with Master Mingzi too." ”

Akiko shook her head, thinking that the messenger should have left the cottage. So several people went to Zhong Kunlun's residence together-

Zhong Kunlun lay on his bed. Family members and retinue knelt on the ground. When the most powerful owners of the Black Dragon Village came now, the medical officer had just completed the autopsy.

Wu Weiqi dragged the medical officer and said, "What is the reason?"

The medical officer shook his head and said, "The chief consultant himself has been paralyzed for a long time, and he has recently felt serious external evils, and he is worried and sad, resulting in a deficiency of qi and blood, a blockage of heart qi, and a blockage of the pulse, so he has a heart attack, so he ......."

Under the guidance of Gu Si, Mingzi read the "Neijing" and "Lingshu Sutra", etc., and knew that the heart was bad. He just wondered, when did Zhong Kunlun suffer from dirty malpractice, and he still "didn't heal for a long time", he had never heard anyone mention it before.

You must know that if you have heart malpractice, you must use massage, acupuncture, medicine, dietary therapy, recuperation and other means to recuperate yourself. But Zhong Kunlun almost didn't do it. Akiko looked at the tea bowl on the table and walked over. He reached out and picked up the tea bowl, lifted the lid, and saw that there was still half a cup of strong tea left inside. If you really have a bad heart, how can you drink strong tea?

Mingzi asked, "Who cooks the food of the master of Zhong Zhai?"

No one answered.

Wu Weiqi looked up at Mingzi and looked around again. Tian Zhige said: "Master Mingzi asked, who cooked." ”

At this time, one of Fang's female relatives whispered a person's name.

Tian Zhige asked, "What about her?" The female dependent lowered her head, indicating that she didn't know.

Wu Weiqi walked over and asked Mingzi in a low voice, "What does Master Mingzi think is the problem?"

Mingzi hurriedly shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'll just ask casually." ”

As he spoke, he put down the tea bowl, but his hand reached into his sleeve.

At this time, someone came in from outside, it was Tian Zhige's cronies, and whispered a few words in the ear of the master of Dazhai. Tian Zhige nodded and said, "Brother Wu, Brother Xiao, there is news from the master of Shizhai." But we need to make a trip. With that, he turned and walked outside.

Xiao Junnan followed him out. Wu Weiqi was puzzled, so he had to follow. Before leaving, he turned around and whispered to Mingzi: "The medical officer is my person, he has experienced, it is non-toxic, and I ask Master Mingzi to investigate." ”

At this time, Xiao Junnan, who had already walked out, suddenly came back and said to Wu Weiqi: "Senior brother, hurry up." Wu Weiqi hurriedly followed and walked out.

When Akiko saw them leave, she hurriedly avoided the eyes and ears of those others and peeked into her sleeve. It turned out that he hid a small toy in his sleeve, which was given by Gu Si. I saw that this little toy was made of pure copper, with a flat and round shape, which was very exquisite. Akiko pressed her fingers against the tension spring, "click", and the small copper box opened, revealing the mechanism inside. Mingzi's fingertips just dipped the strong tea left by Zhong Kunlun, tapped the middle mechanism with his fingertips, wiped the tea on it, and then he closed the mechanism, turned the dial on it, and let the arrow point at the word "tea".

All these actions are done with one hand, and I have to say that Gu Si's thing is exquisitely made. What's even more amazing is that only a moment later, the pointer on the copper box "snapped" and turned. It turns out that this dial is engraved with a unicorn and a beetle snake. Now, the pointer pointed to the pattern of the beetle snake, and Akiko's heart tightened, and there was indeed a foreign object in this tea.

What Gu Si gave was a test box, as long as the food and other things to be tested were placed in the copper box, it could be detected whether it contained other ingredients. In ordinary drug tests, medical officers use silver needles, and when the silver needles turn black, they are judged to be poisonous. Gu Sichang said, there are thousands of strange poisons in the world, how can a silver needle be checked out. So he made this inspection box. Gu Si believes that if he wants to check out all the poisons, he can't do it himself, but he can check if there are any additional ingredients in it.

When using the inspection box, first turn the dial to determine what substance to be monitored, and then observe the pointer pointing. The pointer is usually pointed in the middle, but when the test is performed, depending on the result, the pointer will point to the unicorn or the beetle. Pointing to a unicorn means that what is being tested contains no other ingredients, while pointing to a beetle snake is the opposite.

Mingzi secretly checked the tea Zhong Kunlun drank last night, and he could tell that other things had been added to the tea when he checked the box. Although she is not sure if it is poison or not, or what kind of poison it is, Akiko uses the inspection box to find something that has been overlooked by the medical officer's silver needle.

If it is really poisoned, the murderer's courage is not small. You know, the tea as evidence is placed in the room like this, and the murderer must be confident that the medical officers will not be able to check it out. Although he is not sure whether the contents of the tea are poison or not, according to the results of the inspection box, he has to carefully examine Zhong Kunlun's body.