"What!" Magistrate Hu exclaimed, looking at Hu Er with a tense face: "What's going on!"
Hu Er looked at Magistrate Hu with a look of horror on his face. He knelt on the ground with a thump and said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with me. I really don't know about it!"
"Sir, this..." Magistrate Hu turned his head to look at the silent Ye Yun with some hesitation, not knowing what to do for a moment.
Hu Er has been with him since he became the magistrate of Donglin County. Over the years, although his case handling skills were average and he was lazy, he was not evil-minded. He did not believe that Hu Er would do such a thing.
The only possibility is to be framed, but who would risk poisoning in public?
Once discovered, wouldn't it be equivalent to throwing yourself into a trap?
"It's not him!" Glancing at the brown fruits mixed in the mushroom pieces on the ground, Ye Yun asked coldly: "Where did you get this?"
Hu Er didn't know why and looked up at Ye Yun, a little confused for a moment: "I don't know what the adults are referring to..."
"That brown thing." Ye Yun pointed to something on the ground.
Looking in the direction pointed by Ye Yun, when he touched something familiar, Hu Er suddenly said: "Sir, are you talking about this fruit? When I went to the back mountain to pick mushrooms, I found a ravine, and the ravine was full of this fruit. The fruit in the shade is green, while the fruit in the sun is brown. There are many footprints around the ravine. The little one was curious and took a closer look. He found that there were traces of someone picking in some places, so he picked it conveniently. I came back with a few fruits, and I thought about using this rare thing to give everyone a taste, but I didn't know... The little one was really damned. He didn't do anything right, but he took the poisonous fruit, and almost made a big mistake!" At the end of the sentence! , Hu Er is extremely regretful!
"Ayun, is this fruit really poisonous?" Yan Yan asked curiously. When she lived at the bottom of the cliff before, she had never seen any poison, but now this fruit was really something she had never heard of or seen.
"This fruit is called poppy fruit. Before it is ripe, its appearance is green, and there is a layer of milky white liquid inside. This liquid is highly toxic. If eaten by mistake, it will cause addiction at least, and foaming at the mouth and mental disorder at worst. , died of madness!" Ye Yun explained while lowering his eyes and thinking. Thinking of the cyan fragments Yan Yan had taken out from the stomach of the corpse before, Ye Yun had a suspicion in his heart. I am afraid that all the murders in Xisha Village are related to the accidental ingestion of poppy fruits!
Thinking of this, Ye Yun's eyes darkened and he said, "Did you just say that there are many poppy fruits in the back mountain?"
"Yes, the entire ravine is densely packed with them." Hu Er said hurriedly.
With a sharp flash in his eyes, Ye Yun said: "Let's go, take me to see it." Such harmful things must not be allowed to flow to the market!
"This way, sir!" Hu Er hurriedly walked in front to lead the way. As soon as they stepped out of the door, Ye Yun saw several government servants sitting at the corner behind the courtyard door. At this time, they were holding bowls. They gnawed on a bowl of pork bones, while a large pot of chicken and mushroom soup was placed beside them.
So, Ye Yun warned: "Don't drink the soup, the soup is poisonous."
After saying that, several people quickly walked out of the yard and headed towards the back mountain.
Looking at the direction where Ye Yun and others were leaving, several government officials glanced at the untouched soup and hurriedly poured out all the soup, throwing the basins far away as well, fearing that the poison would not flow away with the soup. It will still remain inside, and when the time comes, it will be contaminated on the hands and accidentally swallowed in the stomach.
On the other side, Ye Yun and others climbed to the top of the mountain under the leadership of Hu Er, and then followed the path on the other side of the mountain back to the bottom.
Looking at the green poppy fruits in front of him, Ye Yun decisively ordered: "Burn them all!"
"Sir, is there anything wrong with doing this? There are other villages at the foot of this mountain. If we set fire to these poisonous fruits and ignite other vegetation at the same time, when the fire breaks out, I am afraid that all the vegetation on this mountain will be destroyed. Bao, how will the official explain to the nearby villagers when the time comes!" Magistrate Hu arched his body and said in disapproval.
"Master Hu, this thing must not be kept. If it is maliciously dispersed by people with evil intentions, not only a few people will die, but a whole country!" Ye Yun said firmly while looking at the lush poppy forest. .
Ye Yun's words sounded exaggerated and shocking to Magistrate Hu! They are just poisonous fruits. As long as he returns to the county government and issues notices and orders people to preach in various villages, no one will eat the fruits by mistake, and the tragedy in Xisha Village will not happen again.
Although he did not agree with Ye Yun's actions in his heart, the official level was overwhelming, not to mention that this official was hired by someone else. Therefore, Magistrate Hu could only swallow all his dissatisfaction and let Ye Yun let it go. Yun directed his subordinate Hu Er to look for the wine jar and the hay man.
Not long after, Hu Er returned from the bottom of the mountain, holding two jars of wine in his arms and carrying a bundle of hay on his back.
Putting the things on the ground, Hu Er raised his sleeves and wiped the sweat from his head. He looked at Ye Yun and said, "Sir, the little leader searched the village inside and out and only found two jars of wine."
For such a large poppy forest, two jars of wine alone were far from enough. However, resources were scarce, so she could only make do with what she had.
"Hu Er, spread the hay on top." Ye Yun said.
"Yes!" Hu Er hurriedly picked up the hay, tore off the straw poles holding the haystack, spread the hay neatly, and spread it on the outermost layer of poppy seedlings.
"Chu Ci, light the fire!" Ye Yun ordered.
"Yes!" Chu Ci casually picked up a dead wood branch from the ground, took out the fire stick from it, opened the lid, blew it a few times, and the flames burst into flames. Seeing this, Chu Ci put the dead wood branch up. After a while, the dead wood branches were ignited. Chu Ci took advantage of the dead wood branches to burn at their peak and threw them hard at the hay.
When dry branches meet dry grass, it is like dry crops meeting rain and dew, and they suddenly burst into flames.
Seeing the fire getting bigger and bigger and the poppy seedlings emitting thick and choking smoke, Ye Yun said: "Chu Ci, throw the wine jar into the fire now."
Chu Ci didn't dare to delay. He stretched out his big hand, picked up the wine jar, and then threw the wine jar out at an extremely fast speed.
"Crackling~" The wine jar shattered in response, and the wine splashed everywhere. With the addition of wine, the fire, which had been sluggish and about to subside, was rekindled. In an instant, the ravine turned into a sea of fire, and countless poppy fruits were buried in the sea of fire.
Looking at the burning green seedlings, Yan Yan sighed with emotion: "Burning this damn poisonous fruit will give an explanation to the dozens of villagers in Xisha Village who died unjustly."
"It's all caused by greed. If they weren't greedy, such a sad thing wouldn't happen." Bai Zhi said sadly.
"That's right! It shows that being too greedy is not a good thing!" Yan Yan nodded in agreement, then turned to look at Ye Yun and said, "Ayun, are you right?"
Hearing this, Ye Yun did not answer, but quietly watched the tongues of fire in front of him swallow up the source of sin little by little, not knowing what he was thinking.
