On the carriage back, An Ying shook his groggy head and said, "My head feels like exploding."
Mrs. Shen smiled and said, "You are not afraid at such a young age."
"Where. I always feel that there is something wrong with this matter. I can't remember it." An Ying couldn't help but hit his head with his hand.
Mrs. Shen quickly grabbed her and said, "Hey, don't hit your head. This is not allowed."
The carriage soon arrived at the intersection of Dipu Street. An Ying entered the yard in a daze, only to see a man standing in the yard with his hands behind his back, looking at some lotus plants growing in the water tank in the yard.
Only when the person turned around did An Ying react and asked in confusion: "Why did Mr. Su get home earlier than me? This?"
Su Huangzhe said with a smile: "It's much faster for me to come directly from the back street of Yuanwailang Mansion than for you and Mrs. Shen to take a carriage and go around Qianmen Street."
"Then why did Mr. Su come to my place?" An Ying was a little confused.
"Just now at that foreign minister's house, I think what you said is quite right. I thought the same way at the time. I always felt that there was a reason." Su Huangzhe smiled and shook his head, "But everyone else in the Prison Department and Guo The doctor has the same idea."
At this time, Yayu came out and saw An Ying and saluted: "Miss An, this gentleman said that he came to you for something important. So I decided to stay. I set up tables and chairs in the yard behind. If it's inconvenient, you can Let’s talk in the back yard.”
Su Huangzhe said with a smile: "This girl of yours is quite clever." Then he followed Yayu through the hall.
"What Dr. Guo said makes sense. But there is one thing. Poisoning fifty kilograms of tea cakes is not easy. Even if half of the tea cakes are poisoned with these poisons, is it more likely that Su Fei will die of poisoning? Some?" An Ying took a sip of the sweet tea brought by Yayu and said, "I also want to ask about the Man Yin poison. I see that Mrs. Shen and the others are very nervous. Is this poison special?"
"This poison is very famous." Su Huangzhe said slowly, took a sip of sweet tea, and stirred the bottom of the bowl with the silver apricot leaf spoon.
"Famous? Why have I never heard of it? I still have some research on medicinal materials. I originally thought I would open a medicinal materials shop and a beads shop if I had enough money. I read books for a few years and studied seriously with the pharmacist of Zhongdetang. "An Ying was a little surprised, "That's because this drug was ordered to be deleted from the pharmacopoeia." Su Huangzhe said: "This poison was developed by the famous doctor Cai Xiaoting during the Yongkang period. In the third year of Yongkang's reign, Emperor Xie used this drug. He poisoned three of the emperor's heirs, shocking the government and the public. Emperor Zhaode burned the poison recipe and no records were allowed in any classics."
"That's it. So I don't know, and Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Yuan Wailang were so surprised when they suddenly heard about it. Oh, by the way, what does this poison look like? How did this poison get into that tea, and what exactly did this poison do? What you can tell is that it has a light almond flavor?" An Ying asked.
"No one knows how this poison was administered. Everyone related to this poison was killed. Those who participated in the judgment of the case died and disappeared. The old warden happened to mention something during the Xie case. As a student of the Department of Prisons, this was his first case in the Department of Prisons, so he still remembers the symptoms of the poison. I checked the files and the poison was administered to the milk points used by several emperors every day. In my heart, it was the smell of almonds that allowed the current sage to avoid disaster. The sage happened to not like almonds." Su Huangzhe said in a low voice.
"But it's not strange that the milk cakes have the flavor of almonds, but it's strange that the tea cakes have the flavor of almonds. Don't the maids and eunuchs in the waiter know that tea cakes can't have any peculiar smell?" An Ying was very surprised.
Su Huangzhe tapped his head with his fingers, looked at the little girl, and said: "Well, it seems I didn't explain clearly. The prison temple roasted the tea cake slowly on the fire before the faint almond smell came out. On weekdays, It's just the normal tea aroma, without even a trace of odor. I heard from Naji Temple that this poison is extremely difficult to detect. The temperature of the roasted tea should not be too high or too low. If it is too high, the tea aroma will come out quickly and the tea will soon be taken away. The almond flavor is suppressed. If it is too low, the toxicity will not be released at all, and there will be no trace of the flavor."
Hearing this, An Ying fell into deep thought. Su Huangzhe raised his head from the sweet tea bowl without hearing the sound for a while, waiting for An Ying to continue speaking. Unexpectedly, An Ying just sat quietly, looking at the tea bowl in a daze.
The two of them sat quietly in the garden, it was already dark. When Yayu came over and asked about dinner, An Ying came back to his senses and said, "I've been thinking about things and got distracted. Mr. Su, why don't we have dinner together."
Su Huangzhe knocked the tea bowl with his hand and said with a smile: "This sweet tea is made authentically and the craftsmanship is good. How about the dishes?"
After Yayu receded, An Ying said to Su Huangzhe, "I probably know how to poison him."
Su Huangzhe nodded clearly and motioned for her to continue.
"I just started thinking that if I just sprinkled the poison on the tea cake, how could I make it tasteless when it is on weekdays, but smell when baked? I always thought that the poison is colorless and odorless, and then it emits a smell after being heated. But how to poison tea cakes? If the poison is water-like, the tea cakes will definitely get damp, and the tribute tea will be discarded if it gets damp at all. If it is powdery, then the tea cakes are contaminated with foreign matter, which is easy to distinguish. Later. You mentioned that the almond flavor appears only when the tea leaves are baked, and I thought that adding this poison would completely solve all the problems when the tea leaves are put into the mold and baked."
"Put it into the mold for baking?" Su Huangzhe said suddenly: "It makes sense. Poisoning at this time, as long as the weight is accurately controlled, all the problems you mentioned earlier can be solved. I didn't think about it before making tea because I thought about it. With so many tea farmers involved, it would be too difficult to poison them uniformly."
"Actually, there is no need for tea households to poison." An Ying raised his head and said.
"Oh? You were silent just now because you thought it might be your father who poisoned you? Now you think of how to solve this problem?" Su Huangzhe picked up the newly served tea soup and took a sip. The smoke in the tea soup , but his handsome face was serious.
An Ying shook his head and said: "It is difficult to explain why the tea households should uniformly poison. But there is one thing that can unify the tea households."
"Model." Su Huangzhe reacted suddenly.
"Yes. It's the mold. If the poison is in the mold, all the problems have reasonable explanations. Why are all the small phoenix dumplings poisonous? If it is to please Su Fei, the big phoenix dumpling can be poisoned. Why does fifty kilograms of tea The cakes are all poisonous. There are three tea households involved. If there are hundreds of people involved in making tea, how can these people be unified to poison? Why is the amount of poison so light? Why can tea cakes, which are usually tasteless, be able to disperse the poison after being baked? , precisely because of this way of poisoning.”
Thinking of this, An Ying hurriedly shouted, "Uncle Zhou, Uncle Zhou!"
Uncle Zhou ran out of the kitchen in a panic and said, "Miss, what happened?"
"Uncle Zhou, where is the mold of Xiaofeng Tuan?"
Uncle Zhou was puzzled: "It's in the woodshed behind us. I always carry it with me."
"Where did your model come from?" Su Huangzhe asked.
"The molds are from Min. Oh, by the way, I remembered. The master came back that day and brought back a pack of molds. He said they were brought from Mr. Zheng, the manager of the tea shop, Zheng Ping."
Su Huangzhe stood up and walked out of the courtyard. Some people from the government arrived at the door. An Ying hurriedly followed Su Huangzhe. Su Huangzhe said to Xiao Yi as he walked: "Xiao Yi, give her a horse and let her follow. You lead a group of people to take Zheng Ping to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and tell Chen Dong to take people to the capital government office."
