His eyes suddenly lit up, and before Zhou Yu'an could see Shen Chongming's expression clearly, he grabbed him and picked him up. Zhou Yuan's mind went blank, and she subconsciously put her arm around Shen Chongming's shoulders. It wasn't until Shen Chongming carried her towards the tomb in the middle of the secret room that she slowly came back to her senses.
Shen Chongming didn't push her there intentionally. There was a mechanism on the wall that could turn on the ever-burning light in the secret room.
But how did he discover the mechanism and the ever-burning lamp?
kerosene! He smelled the scent of lamp oil.
Zhou Yu'an looked at Shen Chongming's nose.
He has a very good nose. When treating his injuries, he can smell the difference in the smell of the medicine every time he adjusts the medicine, even if it is just a slight adjustment. Not only that, he would also force her to take out the prescriptions for each medicine, and tell her each piece, and smell them one by one, for fear that she would mix some messy things into those medicines.
Zhou Yu'an wrinkled her nose and found Shen Chongming staring at her, so she quickly leaned into his arms.
"No more rats!"
Shen Chongming placed Zhou Yu in front of a corpse that had been bitten to pieces by rats.
The deceased knelt down in front of the tomb, his expression distorted, and his eyes widened, as if they might fall out of their sockets at any time. His face was bitten by a rat and several pieces of flesh were missing, but his facial features could still be clearly distinguished.
"It's the missing Mr. Tan!"
When he pushed his hair aside, he found a relatively large blood stain on his head. I touched it with my hand and saw that the blood was still sticky. The skull is sunken and shows signs of being hit with a heavy object. Judging from the size of the marks, they should have been left by the flowerpot in the room.
"Mr. Tan was still alive when he was dragged down."
Zhou Yu'an raised his head and glanced at Shen Chongming: "Even in a coma, he couldn't have such a fearful and painful expression. He watched those rats pounce on him, and watched himself being forcibly killed by the rats. Bite to death."
Pulling aside Mr. Tan's clothes that were bitten to pieces by rats, I saw his true condition under the rags - there was no good piece of meat below his neck, and even his internal organs were bitten piece by piece by rats. The white ones are the skeleton, with rat hair and bits of flesh and tissue attached to it.
Even though he had seen too many dead people, Zhou Yuan still felt sick when facing the corpse in front of him.
"Why did Tan Xingzhi do this?" Shen Chongming squatted down next to Zhou Yu'an. After carefully viewing the body at close range, he asked Zhou Yu'an: "You know Tan Xingzhi, so you may guess his purpose of doing this."
"I'm not familiar with him, I just know him." Zhou Yu'an took off the hairpin and took some minced meat from the bones. "These rats seem to be crazy. I suspect Tan Xingzhi put something on Master Tan. In addition to the bloody Besides the smell, there is a smell in this secret room, an indescribable smell."
"It should be the smell of some kind of grass. I seem to have smelled it somewhere." Shen Chongming sniffed carefully: "Snake aconite."
"It's Snake Aconite. It's the smell of Snake Aconite rhizome. It's the favorite thing of rats." Zhou Yu'an's expression became joyful: "Tan Xingzhi ground the Snake Aconite rhizome into powder and sprinkled it on Mr. Tan's clothes. These mice are waiting for them all year round. There is nothing to eat in the secret room underground, so when you smell the smell, you will naturally rush towards it like crazy. Do you also know about medicine? I remember that when I was in Qinglu, I didn't let you smell snake aconite."
"Remember that purple gold box?"
"Purple gold box? You mean the one in the He family's secret room. It's painted with Linglong grass, which is exactly the opposite of the snake aconite. It's poisonous to kill rats. The He family's secret room is hidden under an artificial lake. There are also rats in the wet lake. , that exquisite grass juice protects the purple gold box and the things placed in the box."
"You're not too stupid, and you know Linglong Grass."
"I'm a female doctor after all, and I don't know as many herbal medicines as you." Zhou Yu'an put his hands on his hips, remembering that his hands were still stained with blood, and gave up the gesture halfway through: "Shen Chongming, when did you learn to pop people's heads."
"I just learned it, it's not bad." Shen Chongming looked at Zhou Yu'an's forehead and flicked it again: "Whose grave is it over there?"
A round grave with no tombstone or name in front of it, only the fruit that had been gnawed by rats.
It's not surprising that there are offerings of fruits in front of the grave. What's strange is that there are two copies of the offerings.
Could it be that two people are buried in this grave?
Zhou Yu'an walked around the tomb and asked Shen Chongming, "How about we open the tomb and take a look?"
"please!"
Shen Chongming stretched out his hand and stepped aside.
"You let me come? I'm just a weak female doctor. You can't let me open this grave with my bare hands, can you?" Zhou Yu'an pulled Shen Chongming with a grimace: "You are a general after all, this Generals are all skilled in martial arts, right?"
"Martial arts are for fighting the enemy, not for digging graves." Shen Chongming said coolly: "I can help you watch the mice over there, but you'd better hurry up, I'm afraid Tan Xingzhi escapes."
"Don't worry, he won't run away. He doesn't want to part with such a huge property of the Tan family." Zhou Yu'an squatted in front of the grave and used a hairpin to pluck the chewed-up fruits on the ground: "Almonds, Schisandra chinensis, these are traditional Chinese medicines. I won’t use this as an offering fruit. Peach pits, date pits, peaches and dates are the things Tan Xingzhi likes to eat. Peaches are okay as offering fruit, but what’s going on with these dates?”
"The offered fruit is for the people over there. Since it is placed in front of the grave, it must be liked by the people in the grave." Shen Chongming stood behind Zhou Yu'an: "How do you know that Tan Xingzhi likes to eat peaches and dates, and you pay close attention to him? "
"I still like him." Zhou Yu'an rolled his eyes: "The first time I came to Tan Mansion, it was because of the herbs in the yard. It was Tan Xingzhi who took the initiative to chat with me, and I just didn't refuse. At that time, Mrs. Tan She has a very cold temper. When she knew Tan Xingzhi brought me in, she asked Linglong to kick me out without saying a word. Thanks to my cleverness, I noticed that she had a serious illness and helped her prescribe medicine, so she became kind to me."
Zhou Yu'an pinched a date core and said: "Mrs. Tan doesn't seem to care much about her son. She can't even tell the difference between his favorite and most hated fruits. Cantaloupe is what Tan Xingzhi hates the most, and peaches are his favorite. His mother remembered it wrongly."
"How could a mother remember wrongly what her son likes to eat?" Shen Chongming stared at the date core: "Maybe, he is not really Tan Xingzhi."
As soon as she finished speaking, a gust of wind came from the darkness. Just as Zhou Yu'an was about to move, Shen Chongming was already blocking her.
When Zhou Yu'an looked again, Shen Chongming was already entangled with the man in black.
"Murderer? Killer?"
Zhou Yu'an took the date core and figured out where to hit it so that Shen Chongming wouldn't be suspicious.
"Stand away, be careful of the knife in his hand hurting you!"
Before he finished speaking, the long sword in Shen Chongming's hand suddenly flipped back, and the tip of the sword accurately penetrated the chest of the man in black.
Blood dripped along the edge of the sword and onto the floor of the secret room.
The man in black was kneeling on the ground, with a hint of pain in his eyes. Zhou Yu'an ran over, took off the scarf on his face, and said without surprise: "Tan Xingzhi, it's really you!"
