Although the yamen had tidied up the house, there was still a cold, damp, musty smell lingering in the house.
Taking out the handkerchief, Ye Yun covered his mouth and nose, coughed untimely, and then sat down under the guidance of Magistrate Hu. Seeing this, Chu Ci and Bai Zhi immediately stepped forward and stood behind him on the left and right sides.
"My lord, are you feeling unwell?" Magistrate Hu looked at Ye Yun with concern, fearing that something might happen to her that would affect the progress of the case.
"Cough~" Ye Yun cleared his throat, put away the handkerchief, and said, "It's just that the smell is choking my throat, it's not a problem."
"How about I order someone to clean up the stove outside and boil some water for everyone to relieve their fatigue?" After some consideration, Magistrate Hu suggested.
Ye Yun raised his head and looked at the sky outside. The sun was in the sky, and it would be noon in half an hour. Thinking that everyone had been trekking since early in the morning, and there was still no water in them, he said: "We might as well send someone to a nearby village to buy some rice, noodles and vegetables from the villagers." When we come back, everyone has been busy since early in the morning, and now it’s noon, so I think we’re already hungry.”
"The official was negligent. I will send someone to go immediately." After saying this, Magistrate Hu stood up and went out. At the door, he ordered the six government officials guarding the door: "Hu Er, Chen Feng, you two go to the nearby village." Come back with the villagers to buy some rice, noodles, vegetables and meat."
"Yes, sir!"
"She Liu, Gu Si, go clear the stove and boil a pot of hot water first."
"yes!"
After receiving the task, the four people immediately got busy. Seeing this, Magistrate Hu turned back to the house and sat down again.
Time passed by drop by drop. Magistrate Hu secretly glanced at Ye Yun, who had been staring out of the house intently, and took the initiative to talk to him: "I wonder how Master Ji is doing?"
After hearing this, Ye Yun looked back at Magistrate Hu and said, "I'm sorry for you, Mr. Hu. Mr. Ji, everything is fine." After a pause, Ye Yun said again, "I heard that Mr. Ji and Mr. Hu are classmates and friends?"
"Yeah~" The mention of old events, each and every one of them, was vivid in his mind. For a time, Magistrate Hu felt a lot of emotions, as if everything happened yesterday and was clearly visible.
Just when Magistrate Hu was about to make a fuss, Yan Yan came in from outside the house.
"Hey, I'm exhausted, but the examination is over. The deceased's eyes are protruding, and there are traces of dried saliva on the corners of his mouth. There are no other external injuries on his body. His throat and stomach are black. It can be concluded that he died of poisoning."
"What kind of poison?" Magistrate Hu asked.
"I don't know about this." Yan Yan spread her hands and said she was helpless: "However, I found this in the stomach of the deceased."
As she spoke, Yan Yan took out a folded square handkerchief from her arms, put it on the table and opened it. There were some cyan particles lying quietly inside, and there were still wrapped in the cyan fragments. A few very small white seed-like things.
"This is..." Ye Yun picked it up, put it in his palm and looked closely at it, feeling as if he had seen it somewhere.
"Do you recognize this, sir?" Magistrate Hu's pupils expanded slightly and he looked at Ye Yun expectantly.
Putting down the handkerchief, Ye Yun shook his head and said: "It seems familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it. Maybe I remembered it wrong."
Hearing this, Magistrate Hu's eyes flashed with disappointment. It seemed that even Dali Temple could not do anything. The autopsy results of this girl just now were exactly the same as those concluded by the county government. If there was any difference, it should be the conclusion of the county government. The cause of death was determined, but the contents of the deceased's stomach were not found.
"Do all the deceased have the same cause of death?" Ye Yun asked after thinking for a moment.
"Here... let me go take a look." Yan Yan turned around and strode out. After crossing the threshold, she paused and said, "You two, take this girl to the cellar."
"Yes!" After saying that, the three of them went to the cellar one after another.
At the entrance of the cellar, the yamen officer who came with him explained his purpose to the yamen officer responsible for guarding the cellar. The latter lifted up the wooden board covering the cellar entrance, revealing a wooden ladder. Yan Yan stepped on the ladder and went down from it, looking at the piles of corpses in front of her. , a flash of compassion flashed in his eyes.
What hatred? Just drive out all the people in a village!
"Girl, if you have any other instructions, just ask." One of the yamen servants asked.
The yamen servant's question made Yan Yan's emotions go away in an instant. She raised her head and waved her hands to the yamen servant: "Just watch from above. If there is anything I can do to help, I will call you."
After saying this, Yan Yan stopped delaying. She squatted next to the body, took out a silver needle and a medicine bottle from her cuff, then opened the mouth of the bottle, put the silver needle inside and stirred it at will. After a moment, Yan Yan took out the silver needle, put the medicine bottle on one side, and stabbed it into the throat of the corpse.
After a slight pause, Yan Yan pulled out the silver needle, and saw that the silver needle that was shiny just now was dyed black at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Seeing this, Yan Yan raised a smile, put the silver needle into the bottle again, shook it, took out the silver needle, and pierced the throat of the next corpse.
In this way, Yan Yan dipped the silver needle into medicine every time she pricked a corpse. When all the dozens of corpses were examined, there was not much medicine left in the medicine bottle.
Yan Yan shook the bottle with a little pity, and then put the medicine bottle and the silver needle away together.
Using the ladder to come up from below, under the sunshine, Yan Yan finally felt that the chill on her body was lessened. She rubbed her stiff wrists and said, "Let's go back."
Yan Yan had been doing this for more than an hour. The government servant sent to a nearby village to buy rice and noodles had already returned. At this moment, before Yan Yan entered the courtyard, she smelled a strong aroma of rice and immediately stepped in from the outside. , staring straight at Hu Er who was busy in the shed and said: "What are you making? It smells so good!"
"The younger one went to a nearby village and bought a chicken, half a pound of pork, and went to the mountain to pick a lot of mushrooms. The girl went inside to rest, and the food will be ready soon." Hu Er said while busy.
"Okay!" Hearing this, Yan Yan entered excitedly. As soon as she entered, her buttocks hadn't even touched the chair before she hurriedly shared the fruits of her labor.
"I have examined all the corpses in the cellar, and they all died of poisoning. Tsk tsk, how cruel, even children of several years old are not spared. Ayun, you must catch the murderers and execute them on the spot!" At the end of the sentence! , Yan Yan’s eyes were filled with anger.
"Don't worry, the Skynet is vast and will not leak out. Those who do evil will definitely pay the price." Ye Yun said firmly with a heavy look in his eyes.
"Ayun..." Yan Yan was halfway through her words when she was interrupted by Hu Er who came in with a plate of steaming stew: "You two adults can start dinner..."
He walked quickly to the table and put down the plate. Hu Er turned around and went out again. After a while, he came back with a pot of chicken and mushroom soup. He said sheepishly: "The little one is not good at learning, so I can only give in to the two adults for a bite. When we get back to the county office, let the cook make up for the two adults."
"You must be humble. This food is much better than mine in terms of appearance and taste!" After saying that, Yan Yan was about to taste it first. Unexpectedly, there were no bowls and chopsticks on the table, so she couldn't help but urge: "Go quickly. Find some bowls and chopsticks!"
"Yes!" Hu Er hurriedly went outside to grab a bowl, then trotted in with chopsticks.
Unable to wait for Hu Er to place the bowls and chopsticks in order, Yan Yan grabbed a pair of bowls and chopsticks from Hu Er and reached out to the chicken and mushroom soup under the eyes of everyone.
"Wow~ It smells so good!" Yan Yan praised while scooping, and inadvertently scooped something brown like a clay pot into the bowl.
Ye Yun looked at something floating on the surface of the soup, his pupils shrank sharply, he snatched the chicken and mushroom soup from Yan Yan's hand and threw it to the ground. The bowl broke into half, and the soup spilled all over the floor.
Everyone looked at this turn of events in shock, while Yan Yan blinked her eyes and said in confusion: "Ayun, what's wrong with you?"
"Don't drink it, it's poisonous!"
