Concubine

Chapter 528 Killing Dumplings
Yang Qiuchi, Hongling, and Yang Tashan sat down.Yang Qiuchi asked Chudie, "Did your family suffer from any diseases before their lifetime?"

"Returning to the Elder Master, the prisoner's husband was not in very good health during his lifetime. He was relatively weak and often suffered from colds, so I did most of the housework. The three children have always been in good health and have never had any serious illnesses. .”

"Where were your former men? How were they physically?"

Chudie thought for a while: "It's not bad, there's nothing special about it."

"Then what symptoms did they have before they died?" Yang Qiuchi continued to ask.

Recalling the past is always painful, Chudie looked sad, thought for a while, and then said slowly: "I married three men successively, and they all died within a few years. Before they died, they were all vomiting and diarrhea. Rolled all over the floor, and died within two days. At first, I thought it was an accident, but later, when one married and the other died, I also doubted whether I really had a fate. This time, not only did I die Killed my man, and killed my three children..."

Chudie sobbed and began to cry.

Yang Qiuchi was not in a hurry, waited for her to calm down, and then asked, "What did you three men eat before they died?"

Chudie said: "My last man ate rabbit meat dumplings before he died. The first two... It's been too long, I can't remember clearly."

"Then tell me about the process this time."

"That day, Zheng Baigan from the village sent us a few wild rabbits. I stir-fried one of them, chopped the rest into stuffing, and made rabbit meat dumplings for them to eat. They usually like to eat this kind of dumplings, because I have always been a vegetarian, so I didn’t eat with them. After eating, at night, my husband and three children complained of stomach pains, pale faces, vomiting and diarrhea, and rolled on the ground. I hurried to the village to find Doctor, when I invited him here, the four of them were already convulsed and lost their minds. By dawn, they died one after another..." After Chudie finished speaking, tears flowed down again.

"Then what did the doctor say?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

"The doctor said that this happened because he ate something unclean. However, the patriarch later said that I poisoned it, because I was the only one who had nothing to do. They ate in the same pot with me, but they died."

"Think about it again, did the two men in front of you also die after eating hare meat?"

Chudie lowered her head and thought for a while, then shook her head affirmatively: "No, eating hare meat was something I did after I married into Baijia Village. Our family had never eaten hare meat before that."

"Then what staple food do you eat on weekdays?"

"Rice, noodles, and meat dumplings during festivals."

"What kind of noodles are dumpling wrappers? Is it fermented rice noodles?" Yang Qiuchi frowned.

"Yes, it turns out that the adults are also very good at farm work."

Yang Qiuchi said: "Tell me about how your fermented rice noodles are made?"

Chu Die explained the production process in detail, and at the end, asked suspiciously: "Is there any problem with this side? My mother taught me to do this since I was a child. We have eaten it for many years, and nothing happened."

Yang Qiuchi shook his head and sighed softly: "I'm afraid this is the price of ignorance!" Standing up: "Okay, Shan'er, we need to go to Baijia Village again. Let's go!"

After leaving the cell, Yang Tashan asked Yang Qiuchi: "Father, why do you still want to go to Baijia Village?"

"It is estimated that there is something wrong with the dumpling skin of the rabbit meat dumpling. It may be food poisoning."

Yang Tashan patted his head: "That's right, why didn't I think of that."

Hong Ling smiled and deliberately teased him: "You, seeing that girl Chudie, her eyes are so straight, why would you think about these things?"

"I don't have it! I only like Cheng... Hehe, anyway, I have never liked this girl Chudie."

"Okay! Your sixth aunt is teasing you!" Yang Qiuchi laughed.

The entourage had already prepared the horses, and the three of them got on the horses, took Cheng Ziqin and all the arresters, and the group returned to Baijia Village in a mighty manner.

After finding the patriarch to explain his purpose, the patriarch hurriedly led Yang Qiuchi and his party to Chudie's house.

Chudie's husband and children were dead, and the house was locked. After opening the door, she found leftover rabbit meat dumplings on the kitchen dish shelf.

Yang Qiuchi conducted an inspection in person, and as a result, exotoxin A from Flavobacterium oryzae was detected in the dumpling wrappers.

Yang Tashan never encountered this kind of bacteria when he was studying forensic medicine with his father Yang Qiuchi, so he didn't understand it.

Yang Qiuchi explained: "It was this kind of poisonous dumpling wrapper that killed Chudie's husband and three children. Just now, after I heard Chudie tell her how she made dumplings, I became suspicious. I have only encountered this kind of case before. I have seen two cases, very rare, because they often occur in single-family households, so they are often suspected of killing by poisoning. In fact, this is a kind of bacterial poisoning. People like Chudie do not have the ability to use bacterial poisoning to kill Ability, therefore, should be an accident."

"Bacterial poisoning? How did this kind of bacteria get into the dumpling skin?" Yang Tashan asked.

"Northwest people generally use fermented rice noodles to make dumpling skins, that is, soak corn, millet or other coarse grains in water for ten days or a month or two, and then wash, grind, filter, settle, and dry to form a dough. Then make dumpling wrappers. There is no problem in the production process itself, but because Pseudomonas cocotoxin is widely distributed in the natural environment, and the fermented rice noodles made are very suitable for the growth of this bacteria, so it is easy to be affected by this bacteria. pollution, and under appropriate temperature and other conditions, it can produce a large amount of highly toxic oryzinic acid and toxoflavin, so it is highly toxic."

Yang Tashan said: "Don't noodles and dumplings have to be boiled in boiling water, father, didn't you say that high temperature can sterilize?"

Yang Qiuchi shook his head: "This is not an ordinary bacterium. No matter it is fried or boiled at high temperature, this toxin cannot be killed. Once poisoned, the mortality rate is extremely high. Gastrointestinal symptoms will appear first, within a day or two at most. It will cause substantial damage to internal organs, and eventually die from hepatic encephalopathy, toxic encephalopathy or acute renal failure."

Yang Tashan stuck out his tongue: "Then I won't dare to eat dumplings anymore!"

"Then there's no need to give up eating because of choking," Yang Qiuchi said with a smile, "However, we'd better not use fermented rice noodles as dumpling wrappers, haha."

"Since fermented rice flour is poisonous, why do so many people still eat it?"

"So I said, this is the price of ignorance. Since the occurrence of this kind of highly toxic bacterial pollution is very accidental and the probability of occurrence is relatively low, it is often not taken seriously by people. Once poisoned, it is often the whole family. Dead light, so it is often mistaken for someone deliberately poisoning."

Yang Tashan said: "Then we have to remind the villagers of Baijia Village to pay attention to making fermented rice noodles in the future..."

Yang Qiuchi shook his head and said: "No matter how careful you are, it's not easy to prevent. It's best not to eat fermented rice noodles. Okay, let's open the coffin for an autopsy to see if the cause of death is in line with what I said. If so, Even if the case is broken."

A group of people came to the cemetery of Chudie's husband and children, and opened the coffin for an autopsy.

This time there were no villagers watching, and the whole Baijia Village was shrouded in a very dull atmosphere. There were no more scenes of men farming, women weaving, and children playing in the past. In a few days, six people had died. Every day, everyone went from novelty to fear and then numbness. There were only a few people in the village working in the fields, and no one looked at the officers and soldiers going to the cemetery, as if they had nothing to do with them.

The sky was overcast, as if it was going to rain, Yang Tashan recalled the day when he saw Qu Mei's body, and he became a little depressed.

After the coffin was opened, Yang Qiuchi personally conducted the autopsy.Sure enough, the cause of death was completely consistent with Yang Qiuchi's previous judgment.

Yang Tashan said again: "Father, this Chudie married three men successively. According to what Chudie said, the symptoms before death were similar. Could it be that he died from the toxin of Flavobacterium rice flour?"

"It should be. The two men in front of her have been dead for many years. The corpses are estimated to have been bones, and there is no way to examine them. We can only speculate from the symptoms that they died of poisoning by this kind of highly toxic bacteria. You can know from what Chudie said in the cell just now." , this method of making dumpling wrappers was taught to her by her mother. She has been doing this since she was a child, and she has never had any accidents. This is the accident of yeast rice noodle poisoning. Some people eat it all their lives, and some people eat it once She died. She married the two men in front of her and made meat dumplings for them in the same way, but she didn't eat meat, so she escaped three poisoning incidents by chance."

Yang Tashan sighed: "Although she escaped the god of death, she was regarded as the god of death. She has never had a good life, which can be regarded as karma."

Yang Qiuchi shook his head and said: "No, this matter has nothing to do with her. It was caused by this kind of ignorant eating habits. It was an accident that happened by chance. She should not be responsible for it. After going back, tell your prefect Han that the Let her go."

"Yes! Father." Yang Tashan bowed.

Back in Qingyang Mansion, Yang Tashan told Cheng Ziqin about the investigation of the case, and the two reported to the prefect of Han together.

The prefect of Han already knew that Yang Tashan was the eldest son of Yang Qiuchi, the elder of the Ming Dynasty. Even if Yang Tashan didn't tell the truth of the case, and let him go, the prefect of Han would not dare to say no.What's more, Yang Tashan spoke clearly and logically. Although the magistrate Han heard it in a cloud, he still nodded and praised Yang Tashan for solving the case like a god, and immediately ordered Chudie to be acquitted.

Yang Tashan brought Chudie out of the cell, and told her the truth. Chudie knew that the dumpling wrappers she made had killed her three husbands and three children, and she collapsed powerlessly on the ground. , Wept bitterly.

Before he was released, Yang Tashan sent someone to notify Bai Yuefeng of Baijia Village. Bai Yuefeng had already been waiting at the gate of the yamen.

With tears all over his face, Chudie knelt down and kowtowed three times to Yang Tashan, thanking him for being a bright mirror, cracking the case and returning his innocence.

Yang Tashan smiled wryly in his heart, if his father Yang Qiuchi hadn't been involved in this case, it would have been impossible for him alone.

After watching them go, Yang Tashan came to Qingyang Mansion Station and reported to his father Yang Qiuchi that all the bizarre murder cases in Baijia Village had been concluded.

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