"Ah Bing! You save me, save me! You know what I'm expecting, how could I possibly go poisoned?! Yanjie kneeled to her sister's feet, grabbed the corner of her skirt, and cried, "I'm afraid that something will go wrong, and I've tasted and tasted everything—someone is going to hurt me, someone is going to hurt me!" ”

The strength of toxicity is related to the dosage and the physique of the user, a small amount may be fine, and a large amount is bad if you are weak. Everyone had eaten, and everyone else was fine, but Wen Heng had wheezing, and then there was the old Ah Weng......

Yan Bing lowered her head and looked at Sister Shu with regret in her eyes. It is certain that someone borrowed Yanjie's hand to harm others, but after all, she was involved in a murder case, even if she could get away with the crime, her life would be completely ruined, how high her expectations were, and how bad she fell now.

Seeing Sister Shu crying into tears, Yan Bing wanted to try her best to catch the real culprit, and couldn't help but speak again: "In addition to cassava, almond flour may also have problems, if sweet almonds are naturally non-toxic, bitter almonds contain the same poison as cassava." Sister, who gave you almond flour? Have you ever tasted it after you sprinkled it with flour? ”

Almond flour, almond flour...... Yan Jie's eyes were extremely flustered, and she grabbed her collar and desperately recalled the previous situation, and then suddenly raised her head and said, "The cook lady gave it, and there is a big black mole at the corner of her mouth!" Served in a round white porcelain cup. ”

Hearing this, the eldest uncle finally played his role again, and hurriedly ordered the servant to find authentication and physical evidence.

Everyone silently guarded the grandfather who was stiff on the bed, and in the silent room where only the crying of Yanjie could be heard, suffering and waiting. After a while, a servant hurriedly ran back and forth, saying, "The cook has run away, and the round white porcelain cup is not seen." ”

"Find, keep looking! Must find! After the uncle yelled at the slave, he turned his head to look at the Li family, "Brother and sister, you see this trouble, grandpa probably really killed someone as the little niece said!" I can't let my father die without turning a blind eye, so I can only report to the official, this eldest niece ......"

Li Shi followed his line of sight and looked at his concubine, and said with a sad face: "It's natural to report to the official, but this, it is not very good to involve Siniang, can you take her out?" ”

"This, this is not very easy to do," the uncle also looked embarrassed, and spread his hands, "Almond flour can be said to be the missing cook's fault, but the cassava was brought by the eldest nephew herself." ”

Seeing that there was nothing to be done, Li glared at his daughter with hatred, grabbed her arm and scolded in a low voice: "You are troublesome!" Where did you learn this poison at a young age? Look how miserable you hurt Siniang! ”

I shouldn't have said? If you don't say that your grandfather is gone, isn't it just gone? How can you say that I did it! Moreover, the murderer came to Ah Yi, and he let it go this time, and he may not be able to escape with such a good life next time.

Yan Bing reflected on herself for three seconds, and then decisively thought that she had done nothing wrong, raised her head and stalked her neck and said in a child's tone: "Sister is an unintentional mistake, the one who harms people should be caught!" ”

Standing outside the window listening to the corner of the wall, Xi saw that there was no room for maneuver, and she should not have entered the room according to her identity, because the protector was anxious, she suddenly dragged Aunt Pan into it together.

Xi pulled Aunt Pan to death, as if grasping the only life-saving straw, and shouted at the uncle: "The cassava is sold by her mother's brother, don't do Siniang's business!" ”

After speaking, she knelt on the ground, kowtowed to the Li family with a bang, and pleaded continuously: "Please be kind, poor and poor Siniang, she is still so young...... So small...... Please, please! Protect her......"

Seeing this scene, Yan Bing couldn't bear to look at it directly, and her already red eyes slowly moistened, and she suddenly felt guilty in her heart.

And if the eldest aunt Qian hadn't been worried about her father-in-law, who had just died, she would have wanted to laugh. Qi lived, a plate of dim sum involved a second room, a wife and a daughter, and it was the son-in-law and daughter-in-law who had to shout to report to the official, and the missing cook would not have been bought by her own family.

If you want to have a beautiful wife and concubine in your arms, you have to take the risk, you don't have the ability to be a man, but you will never cause trouble with three wives and four concubines.

At this point, everyone withdrew from the old lady's inner room after a little discussion to protect the crime scene. The uncle's family beckoned the servants to perform their duties and get busy, either reporting to the official or the funeral, or hanging white lanterns, or building a mourning shed.

Pan and Siniang were temporarily locked in the guest room of the big room to restrict movement, and Xi volunteered to accompany his daughter and guard his rival. Si Yang stayed outside the house to prevent the two mothers and daughters from bullying their own mothers.

Yanqing was too young, and he was taken home by his eldest brother Xingsheng to rest first, and he commanded the steward to order everyone to change into plain clothes and hang white cloths.

Ah Yi and Yan Bing were then taken home by the Li family to change their filial piety clothes, and they were scolded a lot along the way.

After that, the two children couldn't participate anymore, and it wasn't until they returned to the uncle's house that night to wake up that Yan Bing and Ah Yi quietly sent their respective maids Nuan Xiang and Qingfeng to find out the news.

In the second half of the night, taking the opportunity of Gonggong, several people began to exchange information after they converged: a steward said that because the old lady was a six-grade official, even if it was a joy and funeral, it had to be examined, and this was a homicide.

"It's really bitter almond poisoning, and there are many precedents for that. As for sweet potatoes, everyone has never eaten this thing, and we have to study it again. Nuan Xiang replied, and looked at his master as if he was looking at the gods, he was only ten years old, and he could understand so many things!

Ah Yi's personal maidservant Qingfeng added: "The almond powder porcelain cup was found in Gongfang, and it was broken and dirty, and I don't know how to find the evidence." But who threw it is completely unclear. ”

Then Yan Bing asked her the question she was most concerned about: "What happened to Siniang and Aunt Pan?" ”

"Oh, it's because it's the official eunuch of the county uncle's mansion, and there is no motive and evidence for directly poisoning and murdering the old lady, so it will not be taken into custody for the time being, and the head of the family will take care of it himself, and he will only need to go over when he is summoned to court to judge the case." After Nuan Xiang finished speaking, she pointed to the corner of the inner courtyard, "I can only lock it up here first." ”

"And then, is there any other news? Ah, do you still have to wait for the cook to be caught and interrogated? Yan Bing looked at the shadows of the bushes and trees under the light of the yellow lanterns, and couldn't help but feel a little flustered, Aunt Pan's previous expression was not a little weak, it was very likely that she was not the murderer, so who was it?

If you can't catch it, wouldn't you really have to carry the pot? What kind of sin should it be to poison my grandfather for non-subjective reasons? She has read "Qi Lu Shu Discussion", but she has not paid special attention to the detailed articles of felonies in the back.

Sometimes, I'm really afraid of what's coming. Yan Bing took a nap in the lobby at noon the next day, and as soon as she woke up, she heard bad news from Nuan Xiang: she found the cook...... The corpse that committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, the clue was cut off.

At dusk the next day, Wen Yuan brought Wen Heng to incense after school, although it was not yet the time for the guests to formally mourn, but they were close to the Shu family, and they could barely return to relatives and friends to come to the door early.

When the two brothers said goodbye, Xingyi and Yanbing both went to send it, and they got another piece of not very good news.

"The cassava has been verified to be sold by Aunt Pan's maiden brother, he got two kinds of sweet potatoes from the maritime merchant, one is non-toxic and the other is poisonous, but he doesn't know it, and his family also mistakenly ate the poisonous one, but only has symptoms such as wheezing, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, etc.," Wen Yuan said in a deep voice, and especially emphasized, "This point is testified by the shopkeeper of the shop next door, the guy and others, according to the law, the seller does not know and does not sit, and he is not guilty." If the cook can't find anything, Pan can also get rid of suspicion. ”

Hearing this, Yanbing was very frustrated, if the person who really poisoned did not deserve it, it was Siniang who suffered...... She suddenly looked up at the eldest man of the Rong family, and asked seriously: "Brother Yuan, how will you judge your grandfather if you accidentally poison your grandfather according to the law?" ”

Rong Wenyuan replied without thinking: "Three thousand miles." ”

Yan Bing was immediately taken aback and exclaimed, "So heavy?!" She was completely unaware. ”

"If the manslaughter is a bystander, one hundred and twenty pounds of copper can be atoned for, but the grandfather and the granddaughter have a difference of dignity and inferiority, and they cannot be redeemed." Wen Yuan said that, and suddenly found that the little girl standing in front of him showed an expression of wanting to cry without tears.

He couldn't help but soften in his heart, and deliberately found another way to say that he was relieved: "The law specifically refers to manslaughter, and there is no clear regulation for people like Siniang who inadvertently made poisonous food. ”

"Brother Yuan, can you find some old files? I really hope that the offenders will be punished, not the innocent. She looked up at Rong Wenyuan expectantly, and gave him twelve points of expectation.

"The old rules in the palace may be known from the clan uncle, but I don't know if they can be passed on...... I'll do my best. "It's nice to be stared at by a good-looking little girl with anticipation, but it's a pity that the task is quite arduous.

In the end, Wen Yuan left with Wen Heng with a glorious mission. When he returned, he began to busily continue to study the law and ask for files.

At the seventh hour of Old Lady Shu's first day, Wen Yuan was finding a file suitable for Siniang, and the case suddenly turned around.

It is reported that the Ya Gongmen found the cook's family, and found that her family suddenly became rich a few days ago, and the family affair was ruined because she could not give her son a dowry to marry a daughter-in-law the month before, but this month she had hurriedly hired a wife.

"It's actually at the door of Pan's mother's shop, and a man came out of it to give stolen money!" Qingfeng relayed the news with an inexplicable ecstasy on his face.

The concubine always raised eyebrows at his little master, and now Aunt Pan has been detained and tortured, look at how crazy he will be in the future!

In the blink of an eye, the old lady had stopped to Sanqi, and Aunt Pan was tortured, but she confessed that it was because the old lady did not agree to correct her in the early years, so she was angry and bought the cook to find an opportunity to poison her.

Because she had a precedent of arranging for the cook to assassinate the housewife, everyone felt that it should be Aunt Pan who harmed people, and the county order sentenced her to be executed and reported to Jing Zhaoyin for a review.

As for Siniang, thanks to the help of the Rong family, he stayed up all night and turned out a sentence from the first emperor's reply to a similar case: "The thief kills with a sword, how innocent the sword is." ”

Therefore, the little lady was only fined, not punished. Of course, there is nothing to be done about the ruin of reputation.

In this way, everyone thought that the case was understood, and when they were waiting for Shu Hongyang to come back for the funeral, this matter actually made waves again.

On the twenty-second day after the incident, Rong Wenyuan hurried to Shu's house without even having time to find a proper excuse, only saying that his classmate wanted to borrow a certain solitary book of Ah Yi for a look, and then pulled the two siblings to talk privately.

"I thought to carefully examine the cook's corpse again, and found that there was residual meat scrap between her fingernails, Ah Bing, you once said that she was not a red case cook who needed to be deboned and chopped meat, but specialized in white case dim sum?" Before Wen Yuan's words fell, he saw the little girl nodding violently.

He frowned suddenly, and sighed: "This is bad, the cook did not commit suicide but murder, and the murderer's arm should have scratches." Since you want to kill people and kill people, giving gold and silver in the Pan family's shop is likely to be a false accusation! ”

Yan Bing couldn't help but gasp, and asked rhetorically: "Also, that is to say, in fact, the real murderer is still squatting in this house?" ”

"That's right!" Wen Yuan immediately nodded, and then said, "You need to observe more in the inner courtyard, and you must do your best to find out before the other party heals his injuries." Most of them should be men in the prime of life, and there was a dispute about pushing the fat cook down the river, but he didn't fall down and drowned, either he had great strength or was good at swimming. ”

Hearing this, Yan Bing's mind moved, and she suddenly remembered someone.