The Delicate Lady Coroner

Bo Ruoyou looked at the cook, "How often do you pour your water? How do you pour it?"

When the cook listened to Bo Ruoyou's questioning, her face became uneasy, "Usually every morning there will be a slop of water, we go out through the back door and fall down, but we are not many, and sometimes we forget it in the morning."

"Then how many times have you poured in these two days?" Bo Ruoyou asked as he stepped forward to look at the bucket. At the moment, the bucket was filled with food waste in half a bucket and half a bucket. Somewhat pungent.

"I have poured it three or five times in the past few days. I only poured it once yesterday morning."

The cook answered cautiously, and Bo Ruoyou frowned. These wild cats ran in, mostly to find food, but the bucket here has been poured several times, so why does the cat still die?

She asked the attendant to come over with a torch, and looked at the cat's body without being too foul. The cat's body has been frozen for a long time, but there is no obvious corruption. It seems to be dead within today, and the two cats have the color of their coats. They were all dirty, there were no obvious blood stains in the nose and mouth, and there were no obvious wounds on the body. It was difficult to judge how he died for a while.

But at this moment, Bo Ruoyou saw a pile of broken porcelain pieces piled up next to the water bucket illuminated by the torch. This pile of broken porcelain pieces could vaguely be seen to be broken by things like cups, cups, dishes, etc., because they piled up for a long time. Not only did mold moss grow, but also the food and sewage from many buckets of water condensed on it, which is quite disgusting when you look closely.

But Bo Ruoyou's eyes were fixed on it, because she found that the top of the pile of broken porcelain pieces was slightly far away from the water bucket, and actually pressed a few pieces of white porcelain. This white porcelain was just the same as the cup she used to drink tea in the lobby. They were exactly the same, and she was almost certain it was the same model.

Although the broken porcelain under the pile of tiles is quite stained, the top pieces of white porcelain are very fresh. Except for some dust, there is almost no mildew and dripping dirt. Thanks to these few days. The weather is very good, and besides the porcelain pieces of the tea cup, there is also a broken porcelain bowl that seems to have just been thrown here in the past few days.

Bo Ruoyou asked the cook, "Aren't these broken porcelain pieces cleaned up?"

The cook said hurriedly: "Even though these things are broken, I can't bear to throw them away. This pile has been piled up for more than half a year."

Ceramics are considered precious to the poor, and all the tea shops here can be regarded as high-grade, and it is also common sense to be reluctant to throw it away. Bo Ruoyou picked up a piece of white porcelain from the ground and asked the little servant who had been following him. : "Look at it, is this cup made by you specifically for serving Biluochun?"

Xiao Si stepped forward to look at it carefully and nodded, "The girl has good eyesight, which is used to make Biluochun."

"Then think about it. When Master Song came, he used the same cup? Was that cup broken on that day?"

Bo Ruoyou's voice is gentle, not as compelling as the attendants, so the little servant does not have to think about it: "It is true that the same cups are used. We have a fixed number of teas and cups in our tea shop, and they will not be changed randomly. Yes, Master Song ordered the tea that day, and after drinking alone for a while, we went to the backyard with the owner. When he left, we went to the private room to collect his tea set. The villain brought it to the kitchen, just how to break it. The villain did not know that when the villain delivered the teapot and tea cups, they were still in good condition.” After he said that, he turned and asked the cook, “Aunt Zhang, do you know when this cup was broken?”

The cook came forward and looked at it for a moment, and then her eyes shone slightly, "Agui smashed it. It seems that it was smashed seven days ago. She was also deducted half a month's wages for this." She is a neat temperament, just talking. Turned around and walked to the front yard, and not long after, brought a little girl over.

That girl was fifteen or sixteen years old. She had a yellowish face and thin skin, especially on her hands. She was soaked in water for a long time. The cook said: "It's her, she broke it. She is We wash the dishes here, and the ordinary tea cups also made her clean. This cup is precious. She broke one that day and cried for a long time because of scolding."

A Gui was quite nervous, looking at Bo Ruoyou cautiously, as if afraid of being reprimanded again. Bo Ruoyou’s voice slowed down a bit, and she asked her to come closer before asking: "Look at this cup, but you broke it. Yes? If so, can you remember the day?"

A Gui looked lighter, "I broke it. It was seven days ago. It was after noon. I was dozing off, and my reaction was slow. As soon as it was delivered to my hand, an unstable cup slipped to the ground. The white porcelain was thinned, and it shattered."

It was the time when Song Yu came to the tea shop in the afternoon seven days ago.

This answer seemed to be getting closer and closer to what she suspected, and she asked again: "Besides this tea cup, are there still teapots?"

Agui said, "Yes, there is still half a pot of tea soup in the teapot. I was scolded at the time and felt quite uncomfortable. I was too lazy to go far, so I poured the tea soup into the flowerbed next to the well behind and washed the teapot again. clean."

Bo Ruoyou frowned and asked her to lead the way to the well. Agui led her around for a moment. Suddenly Bo Ruoyou saw a well with a low platform. The ground next to the well was paved with bluestone. At this moment, a large wood The bucket is lying aside.

Agui said, "The cups and dishes on weekdays are all cleaned by the well. On that day, when I poured tea soup, I poured it there—"

She pointed to a small flowerbed under the backyard wall not far away. It was a gardenia. Now the branches and leaves are green, the buds are swaying, and there is a sweet fragrance of flowers. Seeing the dried tea leaves in one place, she pointed to that place, "Is the tea here you spilled earlier?"

A Gui nodded hurriedly, "That's it. I'm abiding by the rules on weekdays. I don't dare to mess around with the tea and kitchen waste at the well. But that day, I was really regretful and uncomfortable, so I splashed it nearby."

This well is used by the entire tea shop, and she does have a lot of ideas on weekdays, but Bo Ruoyou is very fortunate that A Gui poured tea soup here. She never expected that after these seven days, she would still be able to find it. The leftover tea that Song Yu drank that day.

She asked the attendants to help find utensils, packed the dried up tea leaves with the next piece of soil, and looked at the tea carefully. Although there was no tea fragrance and the color changed greatly, she could still tell that it was Biluochun. When she returned, she asked Xiao Si again, "When Master Song came, did anyone in your tea shop order Biluochun?"

Xiao Si shook his head hurriedly, "It was not long after noon. Not many people came to have tea for fun. Except for Mr. Song, there seemed to be only one or two tea customers, and no one ordered the best Biluochun."

Bo Ruoyou's heart is certain, so he can be sure that the leftover tea splashed in the flower garden and the broken white porcelain on the ground are what Song Yu used that day!

When he reached the bucket of water, Bo Ruoyou carefully picked out the porcelain pieces of the tea cup and the pieces of the porcelain bowl, and then looked at the yard with some difficulty.

After a while, Bo Ruoyou asked the cook, "Do you have mice in your kitchen?"

The little servant had just said that there were mice and cotton worms in the warehouse, and the cook nodded when she heard that, "Yes, we are thinking about catching mice every day!"

The corners of Bo Ruoyou's lips were slightly curved, "Then please help me, catch a few mice and live." She looked at the attendants in the Hou Mansion and asked them to help.

Although everyone was puzzled, her status was extraordinary at first glance. The servants of the Hou Mansion did not dare to disobey. Naturally, the ladies of the cook also promised. Several servants followed the ladies of the cook to the front yard to catch mice. Then let Agui fetch a few big bowls for help.

She put the porcelain pieces in two bowls separately, and then used a bowl to fill the dry tea soil in the flower garden, and pour water into them separately. The porcelain pieces were also stained with a lot of dust and dirt, and the water quickly changed when poured in. It was muddy, Bo Ruoyou didn't mind, and then he carefully cleaned his hands. He was busy, and a group of people came over at the kitchen yard. Bo Ruoyou looked up and saw that Huo Weilou was bringing people.

Huo Weilou waited for her to disappear in the lobby for a long time, and then asked him to come to look at the back and came over immediately after learning that the cat's body had been found in the courtyard.

"What is this doing?"

Huo Weilou walked to Bo Ruoyou and saw that the two large bowls in front of her were filled with muddy porcelain water. He subconsciously wanted to stretch out his hand, and Bo Ruoyou hurriedly stopped him, "Master Hou may be poisonous."

Huo Weilou suddenly twisted his eyebrows, and Bo Ruoyou pointed to the far corner. "There was a wild cat corpse, not far from the water bucket in the kitchen. Their water bucket was poured several times, but I was in the porcelain next to the water bucket. Shards of white porcelain were found on the pile. When I asked, it turned out to be the cup used on the day that Mr. Song came. The teapot used by Mr. Song was washed, but the remaining tea soup that day was thrown away by the person in charge of washing the dishes. In the flower garden, I dug up the soil together."

Huo Weilou looked at her and listened to her rather seriously. She continued: "In addition to the porcelain pieces of the cup and the soil that has been soaked in tea, there is also a large bowl here that is also broken. It seems that it is dirty. It was also thrown in the past two days. I also picked up the tiles and poured water. No matter which is poisonous, I can try them out. Common cats steal food and like to sniff and lick. If they have licked poisonous tiles, It's not uncommon to die from poisoning."

As she said, she pointed to the buckets and the backyard wall. "It is also possible that these buckets are poisonous, or the poison came in after eating some poison from the outside, but the possibility is unlikely. Try mine first. guess."

Huo Weilou frowned, "How do I try?"

After asking this, he realized that the attendants were much less, and Bo Ruoyou blinked, "Try with a mouse."

Huo Weilou raised his eyebrows. At this moment, several attendants came out carrying a bamboo cage, "Master Hou, girl, we caught five, is that enough?"

Bo Ruoyou nodded and glanced in the bamboo cage, and she saw a few big mice three to five inches long. Although she was not afraid of corpses, she still felt a little crippled when she looked at these filthy living creatures. Huo Weilou saw that, Stepped forward and stood beside her and asked, "Give the mice water?"

Bo Ruoyou felt that it was difficult to feed water, and turned to the cook and said, "Is there porridge and rice here?"

The cook should have it, turned around and found a half bowl, Bo Ruoyou mixed the rice with water, and found more cages to separate the mice, and put the mixed and divided meals into them, and the mice immediately ate the smell.

Huo Weilou stood in front of the cage, Bo Ruoyou couldn't help being closer, and whispered softly: "Although it hasn't rained in the past few days, but I don't know that there are poisons remaining on it. If you can't try it out, there will be no way. Help."

She raised her eyes to look at Huo Weilou again, "What did Hou Ye say when he saw Wei San Ye?"

There was a lot of suspense between Huo Weilou's eyebrows and eyes, "He said that Song Yu did indeed come to the teahouse that day. They went to the backyard. It was just that he wanted to send Song Yu some good tea and asked him to choose it, but Song Yu didn't like it later. Yes, Song Yu left."

Is it that simple? Bo Ruoyou frowned, and then set his eyes on the bamboo cage containing the mouse. "There was no other evidence that day, and now there is no way to prove that what he said is true or false."

Huo Weilou frowned, "It is true, but I have already asked him to take him back to prison."

Bo Ruoyou was a little surprised. When she turned her eyes, she saw Huo Weilou's brows and eyes a little cold and solemn. She knew that when Huo Weilou came, she looked calm, but she had already thought about leaving no room for it, but the third master of Wei was Wei Shu. Clan brother, this time Wei Shu is mostly reluctant, and if the golden anointing appeared here, and it is related to Song Yu's death, then what role did Wei Shu play in it?

She thought about it for a moment, but did not ask, she was sure that Huo Weilou had a plan in her heart.

"If it can be found out that the cup is poisonous, it will be considered ironclad."

Bo Ruoyou whispered a little hopefully, and stared at the bamboo cage again. However, the mixed food was almost finished by the mouse, and she did not see anything unusual about the mouse. She frowned, "The mouse is small, and it is easier to die than a wild cat. That’s right, can’t I guess wrong, especially the soil in these flowerbeds, if it doesn’t rain, the poison should be on the soil.”

She muttered to herself, Yinhuowei Building has arrived, and the others have already pushed it open. At this time, she did not dare to intervene easily. Fen, she looked at Huo Weilou anxiously, "Master Hou, I'm afraid I guessed wrong."

Seeing her a little annoyed, Huo Weilou’s eyes light pulsed, “It’s okay if you can’t find poison. After all, after so many days, Shi Cai asked the other servants in the tea shop carefully and confirmed that Song Yu was halfway through noon. In the shop he visited, he walked from Sanqingguan to this place, and it happened to be right. Adding your income from the restaurant opposite, it is enough to prove that this is where he was poisoned."

Based on this alone, it is enough to capture the person, and as to whether or not some evidence can be tried, it is a means of directing the secretary.

Bo Ruoyou sighed and looked into the bamboo cage again, but saw that the rats in it were still running around in the cage. She was completely disappointed. Huo Weilou took a look at the sky and said, "It's too late, I'll give it away first. When you go home, you don’t have to worry about other things."

Wei Quan was caught, and that was indeed what she could do. She nodded dejectedly, thinking in her heart, if Song Yu’s tea outside was poisonous, then it must have been after Song Yu and Wei Quan entered the backyard. The poison was just that no one was present at the time, and it was impossible to know if Song Yu had eaten or drank after entering the backyard.

Bo Ruoyou left the courtyard with Huo Weilou. Seeing her looking down, Huo Weilou couldn't help holding her hand. Bo Ruoyou only felt it was wrong, but Huo Weilou just held her palm. So let go, he said: "Even if there is no iron proof, there are too many ways to interrogate a Wei Quan, and it will be clear in three or two days at most."

Bo Ruoyou couldn't help looking at him, "What if Wei Sanye is a particularly determined person?"

Huo Weilou looked at her puzzled appearance, only to feel that her knowledge of Zhishisi was not accurate enough, but he did not want to tell her this, but said: "A person has weakness, and no matter how strong the will is, it is also possible. If there are weaknesses, the right medicine is the right thing to do."

Bo Ruoyou looked at Huo Weilou thoughtfully. In her eyes, Huo Weilou was a person with no weakness, a strong-willed, unshakable person. She pressed this thought to the bottom of her heart and did not say it, but just When the two were about to enter the lobby, someone suddenly caught up on the trail behind them.

"Master Hou, girl, the rat poison has fallen to the ground!"

The two stopped at the same time, then turned around to look, and saw the Houfu attendant who had been left behind for the aftermath chasing him out, and Bo Ruo quietly asked, "Is there a rat poison?"

The attendant nodded, and Bo Ruoyou's eyes suddenly brightened. She turned to look at Huo Weilou, "Hou Ye——"

Huo Weilou raised his lips, "You are right. Go back and have a look."

Bo Ruoyou answered, almost trotting all the way back the same way, she was really too happy, she couldn't turn around like that!

When I returned to the kitchen yard, I saw several cooks leaning on the edge of the cage. They didn't seem to expect that after Bo Ruoyou's weird behavior, she was really poisoned by her. A cage was marked, and she thought, this time it must have been two rats poisoning together, and the bowl must be non-toxic.

At first glance, she saw the cage for the big bowl, and she saw the rat rustling still moving inside. She was certain in her heart, and looked back again. With this look, the light in her eyes was dim, and her eyebrows were frowning. Up.

In the other two cages, only one mouse was crooked on the ground, and the other mouse was also rustling. Not only that, Bo Ruoyou hesitated even more after seeing the mark on it.

Huo Weilou's shoulders are wide and the legs are long and the meteor is striding, and he is not behind her, so he watched her complexion change a little, and couldn't help asking, "What's the matter?"

Bo Ruoyou looked at it carefully for a few moments, then straightened up and said: "It is a little different from what I guessed. It should be non-toxic on the big bowl, but if it is poisonous, the other two mice should be poisoned. Or, one is seriously poisoned, and the other is slightly poisoned, but now, it is contrary to what I thought."

Huo Weilou stared, he understood what Bo Ruoyou meant, "You guessed that the mouse that tried to pour the mud of tea soup was the fastest poisoned, but now it is the one who tried the tea cup?"

Bo Ruo faintly nodded, "Half a pot of tea soup is in the soil. It is reasonable to say that the toxicity is the most preserved, and the tea cup is only covered with a thin layer of tea soup, and after it is broken, it is thrown in the corner, even if it is toxic. , There should only be some remnants."

After she finished speaking, she went to look at the mouse cage, but saw that the one lying on the ground seemed to have died, and the other two were equally alive and kicking.

Bo Ruoyou's eyes were dim.

This is the only explanation, but Bo Ruoyou looked at Huo Weilou, "But the arsenic is in the form of white powder. Although the tea cup is white porcelain, it is too obvious to put the poison in the cup. Song Yu could not fail. I found out, could it be the hands and feet the little servant made while pouring the tea?"

Huo Weilou narrowed his eyes, "Song Yu said that he wanted to see Wei Quan while he was drinking tea. Wei Quan came out to meet him first, and then the two of them left together to the backyard. The situation was unknown at the time, but they could get along with Song Yu. In addition to Xiao Si, there is Wei Quan!"

The ordinary Xiaosi and Song Yu have no grievances and no grudges, and it is impossible to kill casually. The only suspicion lies with Wei Quan. Bo Ruoyou thinks about it and finds it reasonable, "Indeed, if you put the poison in the teapot, When people pick it up, they have to be afraid of something wrong, but if they are only in the tea cup, the tea cup will be cleaned, which is silent to everyone in the store."

She only felt that this made sense, and she was certain in her heart, so she made this inference for the time being. After all, she found poison. Bo Ruoyou was no longer heavier a moment ago, and her eyebrows and eyes were relaxed and happy. She was afraid of something wrong. After waiting for a while, in the end, it was confirmed that only the tea cup was poisonous. At this time, when the child was approaching, Huo Weilou took her to the front yard.

Because of the discovery of the poison, although Wei Quan was most suspected of it, the others could not pick it up to a certain extent. The shopkeeper who was waiting first saw Huo Weilou arrested Wei Quan without saying anything, and heard that a poisonous thing was found in the backyard. , The moment anxiously shouted injustice.

"Master Hou Mingjian, how could we poison the court ordering officer? Whether it is the boss or the subordinates, we dare not. This is the place where we depend for our livelihood. It hurts here."

The shopkeeper knelt down and begged, Huo Weilou ordered the others to continue to search for the person, and he had to send Bo Ruoyou home first. He ignored the shopkeeper, and when the two went out, he saw that the shopkeeper chased him out again. He was stopped as soon as he walked to the door, so he said bitterly, "Master Hou Mingjian, we really didn't poison us. The poison must have been brought by others to frame us!"

On the carriage, Bo Ruoyou was moved while listening to the shopkeeper's crying roar, and she twisted her eyebrows for a while. Huo Weilou looked at her and said: "Don't think about what he said. The poison has been detected. Any sophistry is In vain."

The carriage started to move, but the shopkeeper's roar was still lingering, and Bo Ruoyou asked, "Are they all going to prison?"

Huo Weilou nodded, "When you enter the Zhaoyin Yamen of Beijing, all of you will have to testify before going to court. It is not ruled out that someone who knows and does not report, or is an accomplice, must be carefully interrogated."

The dead person was a fourth-rank imperial order officer, and the involvement was very wide. Of course, Huo Weilou would not let it go, but somehow, the cry of the treasurer lingered in Bo Ruoyou's mind, "Hou Ye, I am now I was also thinking, why did they kill Master Song in the tea shop? Master Song is noble, and he is familiar with the Wei family, and is in full view, how can they dare to be murdered in their own place... "

"Don't follow what he says." Huo Weilou held her hand and stopped her from continuing to worry about it. "The details of the truth, until the Secretary will continue to inquire, you don't have to think that they will not behave like this. Stupidity and arrogance can sometimes exceed your imagination, and no one knows what Song Yu came here for that day. What did the two of them say? Perhaps it was Song Yu who did something that caused Wei Quan to do something, and when the dog jumped the wall in a hurry. Isn’t it more convenient to be in your own place? And the poison did not happen on the spot, he only needs to quibble to the end, and he can’t do anything about it.”

Huo Weilou's words persuaded Bo Ruoyou. She couldn't help but feel calm. No matter what happened that day, Song Yu's murder case finally made great progress today. She was still quite happy in her heart, but she was happy. , But there is always a trace of anxiety, as if she really missed something.