Before the four of them came to Master Su, the first person waiting was Deacon Bai and a group of students.
The leading students were Zhu Zhuzhi and Yang Shen.
Mr. Guo straightened his clothes and sat at the front seat, and said in a deep voice, "Everyone is quite early."
Butler Bai clasped his fists, "The students were scared and didn't bother to attend classes in the morning. They finally waited until noon, and then they hurried over. I believe the adults from the Criminal Department can come up with a conclusion today."
Yang Ye from behind gave An Ying a wink. He was very anxious, fearing that the Punishment Department would be in trouble this time.
An Ying saw it after a while, and nodded to him to express his peace of mind.
Yun Pan saluted and said: "The two murder cases in the academy have been cleared up. Today I will tell you about the case." He sat down facing Liu Shanchang and Deacon Bai.
"The two cases are actually closely related. So, let me start with the Zongzi case. This is also the starting point of the case."
"It is currently confirmed that the rice dumplings Zhu Kexin ate contained oleander fluid. Judging from the degree of poisoning, the poisoning would not have lasted more than six hours. Zhu Zhuzhi left for the academy from home in the morning, and poisoning at home has been ruled out. , they cooked rice dumplings to eat that night, and although Zhu Zhuzhi stopped twice on the way, the rice dumpling gift boxes were watched by the driver and there was no chance for outsiders to get close."
"That is to say, the time period for poisoning the rice dumplings can be narrowed down to Zhu Zhuzhi's two hours from noon to dinner, and the only people who could come into contact with the rice dumplings during these two hours were the six people in the canteen and the people in the kitchen."
"Various kitchen helpers work in the academy all year round. If you want to poison Zhu Zhuzhi or Zhu Kexin, there are plenty of opportunities. You don't have to wait for the students to bring rice dumplings from home before poisoning them. Moreover, there are four steps in the whole process of steaming rice dumplings. Cooks and cooks can support each other in the kitchen.”
"Then the problem lies with the six of you." Yun Pan paused, looked at the six people and said, "Liang Su, please tell me more about the situation that day. Those present who don't understand can listen again. Tell me. The more detailed it is, the better.”
When Liang Su's name was called, she was stunned for a moment and then walked up with a smile, "You must think that I am more concerned about eating."
"A total of ten rice dumplings were served that day. I am a delicious person. I can tell at a glance that they are Mr. Fang's rice dumplings. They are delicious. His rice dumplings have many flavors. There are five flavors in total for these ten rice dumplings. Different flavors use different ingredients. Differentiation of tying ropes. I remember at that time..."
Liang Su explained the situation in detail, blinking at Yun Pan during the process, while An Ying looked anxiously at the door, when An Ying suddenly saw a blue figure.
Master Su is here!
An Ying quietly went out and whispered a few words to Mr. Su.
After returning, An Ying winked at Yunpan and Master Guo. Both of their expressions remained unchanged, but they couldn't help but become excited.
Yun Pan relaxed his body with a smile and sat down slowly. He heard Liang Su explain the whole process clearly and in detail. After half a stick of incense was used up, he said: "Everyone, after investigation, these ten Only this one among the rice dumplings was poisoned."
Yang Shen had been impatient for a long time. He tried to interrupt Liang Su several times but had no chance. He finally got into Liang Su's room and finished speaking. After hearing what Yun Pan said, he couldn't help but asked: "This shows that Brother Zhu is lucky." not good?"
Butler Bai lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "Does this mean that this poisoning has a specific target?"
"Yes!" Yun Pan saluted to Executive Bai: "Liang Su also said just now that the poison needs to be extracted, which is not an easy task. If you want to poison successfully, the safest way is to put the entire box of rice dumplings into it. Poisoned. But the murderer only poisoned one rice dumpling."
Liang Su immediately answered: "Unless this murderer can ensure that the person he wants to poison to death will be able to eat this poisonous rice dumpling."
Yang Shen was still a little confused: "But how can this be guaranteed? It's better to have the whole box as insurance."
Yun Pan smiled and said: "Because he doesn't want to poison himself or others. He just wants to poison Zhu Kexin!"
Chief Liu Shan, Deacon Bai and many students all looked surprised, and Yang Ye couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you going to poison Zhu Zhuzhi?"
"How can we accurately pick out the poisonous zongzi among the ten zongzi?" Yun Pan asked everyone.
When everyone was deep in thought, Liang Su exclaimed: "I understand! Only the murderer knows which rice dumpling was poisoned. The first person to pick the rice dumplings that day was Brother Zhu who brought the rice dumplings. He was the head of the family, so he must have been the first. Take it. Therefore, only Brother Zhu poisons himself to ensure that the poisonous rice dumpling he gets is just a poisonous rice dumpling, and others will definitely not compete with him to get it first."
"Did Brother Zhu commit suicide?" Shen Pingxiu, who never spoke much, looked at Zhu Zhuzhi in confusion.
Zhu Zhuzhi's face remained calm, and despite the incomprehensible expressions of the crowd, he stood like a green bamboo among the crowd.
Yang Ye looked at Zhu Zhuzhi in disbelief: "Brother Zhu killed Zhu Kexin?"
"That's not right." Liang Su lowered his head and thought for a while, "I just said that Zhu Kexin came in and took the rice dumplings from Zhu Zhuzhi's hand. This was an accident. If Zhu Kexin didn't take it, would Brother Zhu commit suicide?"
Others nodded and said, "Yeah, who would have thought of this?" "It's probably just Brother Zhu's whim."
Yun Pan motioned to the guards to bring a stack of bamboo paper and asked, "Look, everyone, is this a painting by Zhu Kexin?"
Everyone took turns to look at the stack of paper carefully. Butler Bai nodded and said, "This is indeed Zhu Kexin's early painting. In his early years, Zhu Kexin's colors were always too exaggerated and his colors were sinister."
At this time, An Ying took various copies of the works of great painters and spread them out: "Everyone, please take a look. What if the discordant cinnabar and stone green in all Zhu Kexin's paintings were exchanged?"
"Hey, isn't this Li Sixun's green landscape?"
"Oh, this is the landscape of Ma Yuan's school."
Yun Pan saluted to Chief Liu Shan and said, "Chief Liu Shan, do you know that there is a kind of person who is born unable to distinguish between red and green?"
Mr. Liu Shanchang was stunned and asked hesitantly: "I have read about it in books, but I have never encountered it. Could it be that Zhu Kexin is such a strange person?"
Liang Su had already squeezed to the front unconsciously and said: "I know this. My family has been practicing medicine for generations, and the problem of not being able to differentiate between red and green is common. But this problem does not harm people's health, and it cannot be cured."
As he was talking, he suddenly realized: "That's why Zhu Kexin couldn't distinguish the red rope, and he knew that Zhu Zhuzhi only ate meat fillings, and the one in his hand must be meat rice dumplings, so he went to get it." People have always been close, regardless of you and me, so this behavior is understandable. Everyone will think this is an accident."
Guo Xi added from the side: "I have ordered people to go to Zhu Kexin's hometown of Wu County. His parents died when he was young, and he was raised by Zhu's parents' room. According to Zhu Tongli, Zhu's parents' room, Zhu Kexin's father could not distinguish the color of Zhu. Zhu Kexin had not been able to distinguish the color of Zhu since he was a child. Distinguishing Zhu Color, several elders in the family know about this.
"Zhu Tongli was afraid that this matter would affect Zhu Kexin's future imperial examinations, so Zhu Kexin carefully concealed it. Therefore, Zhu Kexin did not even know about the girl and servant who was taking care of him. This is why Zhu Kexin did not reveal it in the academy, even if he failed the painting class assessment, he did not want to reveal it. "
Guo Xi continued: "Zhu Zhuzhi and Zhu Kexin are cousins and lived together when they were young. Zhu Tongli is very sure that Zhu Zhuzhi knows about Zhu Kexin's inability to distinguish the color of red. This is why Zhu Zhuzhi often does the homework for Zhu Kexin's later painting classes. The reason for coloring.”
"Coloring for you?" Liang Su on the side answered: "Most of the academy knows that Zhu Kexin is not good at painting, so Zhu Zhuzi often does the work for him. It turns out that he only does coloring."
"That's right." Yun Pan said to everyone, "We are sure that Zhu Kexin's eating of the rice dumpling was not an accident, but a careful plan."
Zhu Zhuzhi, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "This is just your inference, you just found a reasonable reason to explain it. Even if what you said is true, he and I are brothers and grew up together, why should I be poisonous?" Kill him?"
