The first paparazzi in the Red Chamber
Chapter 16 Detecting the Cause of Death
Jia Amnesty looked back at Song Xi calmly, and bowed his hands to Song Xi without being humble or overbearing, "Then I will trouble Mrs. Song to investigate the case of Zhuo Jing thoroughly, and give her justice."
Song Xi nodded, "Of course. Brother Enhou, don't worry, I, Song, will definitely arrest the real culprit and bring him to justice, and I will never easily wrong a good person."
Song Xi deliberately put the word "wronged" very seriously.
Jia Amnesty heard that there were voices in his words, but he didn't bother to pay attention, and asked Song Xi directly if he could let him see Mrs. Xing's body.
Song Xi simply nodded, and then personally took people to the Fulai Inn with Jia Amnesty.After Jia Amnesty got out of the car, he saw Yamen guards at the entrance of Fulai Inn.He looked around and saw a beggar squatting in a corner across the street, his clothes and face were dirty, and he couldn't tell what he looked like, but he nodded slightly at him, and Jia She knew that he must be a black pig.
Jia Amnesty then followed Song Xi into the Fulai Inn.
Mrs. Xing died in Tianzi No. [-] room, so she went up to the second floor and turned left to the innermost room.
Jia Amnesty followed him into the house, and when he entered, he saw the outside room, where there were tables, chairs, flowers and plants, high-grade furniture, and a calligraphy and painting hanging on the wall, which was nothing special.Then go inside to the inner room, there is unfinished tea on the table, and there is a vomit-stained veil on the floor, Mrs. Xing is lying on the couch, her face has been covered by the white brocade veil.
At a glance, Jia Amnesty saw that the fingernails of Mrs. Xing's exposed hand were bluish purple.Song Xi obviously also discovered this.
Song Xi just stood at the door of the inner room, keeping a long distance from the corpse.He turned to order his subordinates, "Go and call that maid."
Jia She looked at Song Xi suspiciously.There are still maids in this world?
"There happened to be a maid in the palace. I knew you wanted to solve the case, so I borrowed someone from the empress. This way, I can not only investigate the case, but also preserve the name of your lady."
"Thank you." Jia She said.
Song Xi and Jia Amnesty then withdrew and waited for Wu's autopsy.After a while, the result came out, as expected by the two of them, he died of poisoning, the poison was most likely water mangcao, and the vomit smelled of alcohol.
Jia Amnesty did know that Water Mangcao, another name for Tripterygium wisteria, can cure rheumatism and is also highly poisonous.He learned about this thing during an interview in Henan. It is said that ingesting six or seven pieces of the buds can cause dizziness, abdominal pain, kidney failure, and even symptoms of heart paralysis and shock.However, the onset of this poison takes time, usually half a day to one day later, of course, if the dose is large, the onset time will be shortened.
Song Xi sent the maid away, and then asked Jia She about Mrs. Xing's situation when she left home this morning, the food she drank and so on.
Jia Amnesty then detailed one by one according to the facts.
"It sounds really strange. Since Madam returned to her natal family once yesterday, why did she go again today? Also, the money that was supposed to be sent back to her natal family yesterday was not sent, and she only said it this morning."
Jia Amnesty nodded, "It's my fault. Originally, she didn't want to go back to her mother's house, or I often persuaded her to take more money back to make up for it."
"It's not your fault." Song Xi affirmed, he took a special look at Jia She, and strode out, "It's time to visit Xing Zhong's house, if you want, follow."
Jia Amnesty followed Song Xi to Xing's house.
Xing Zhong didn't seem to know the news of Mrs. Xing's death. He was shocked when he heard the news, and couldn't help but beat the table in grief.Mrs. Xing's younger brother, Xing Dequan, happened to be there too. He wailed and howled, then knelt down to Jia She, grabbed his robe and begged him to bury Mrs. Xing properly.
Mrs. Xing's sister-in-law, Mrs. Zhou, was also helped out by the maid immediately. She was shaking all over, crying until she was in tears, and even fainted for a while.
Song Xi sat in the first place indifferently, and said to the Xing family: "According to what the maid next to Madam said, Madam only started to faint and vomit after she left your house after lunch."
Xing Zhong hurriedly defended: "The villain was wronged. The villain did keep his sister at home for lunch, but at that time we all ate and drank together, there was no difference."
Xing Zhong then pointed out that several maids in the family could testify.
"Then before lunch?" Song Xi continued to ask.
Xing Zhong and others shook their heads.
Zhou Shi kept shaking and crying, out of breath, and seemed to faint again.Xing Zhong hurriedly went to help him, and begged Song Xi to forgive him and let his wife go back to the room to rest first.
Song Xi nodded.
"Have you received the bank note?" Jia Amnesty asked.
Xing Zhong was stunned for a moment, nodded, and took out 200 taels of bank notes to show Jia Amnesty.
Xing Dequan's eyes were bright at this time, staring at the bank note.
"Why did she return to the province for two consecutive days?" Song Xi's sharp eyes cut Xing Zhong up and down, "As far as I know, Madam came back to the province yesterday to visit you because of your health. But it seems that you are not sick. .”
Xing Zhong bowed his head in embarrassment and explained: "Don't be afraid of adults' jokes. Yesterday, our brother and sister really had an unpleasant quarrel. Our family came to Beijing from Yuzhou, and now everything has just been settled. The family is very difficult, and we can't do it anyway. And my sister I'm a bit stingy on weekdays, and it doesn't work to beg her several times, so I resorted to such an obscene method to favor her, begging her to take pity on me.
When she came to see me yesterday, she accidentally exposed my flaws, and in a fit of rage, she didn't give me any money.I think today she was soft-hearted, so she came again, sent the money, and told me again, asking our brother not to hold her back, I also admitted my mistake and agreed, otherwise she would not stay to eat I left after lunch. "
What Xing Zhong said was very sincere, it sounded reasonable, and it really didn't look like a lie.But since their brother and sister have reconciled, how did Mrs. Xing die of poisoning?
Jia Amnesty was very puzzled by this.Looking at Xing Dequan again, he looked timid, as if he was guilty of something.
Song Xi nodded to Xing Zhong, didn't ask any more questions, and sent him to summon four servants from the mansion for detailed interrogation by the Yamen.
Song Xi turned his head and asked Jia Amnesty, "What do you think?"
"I'll go out to get some air." Jia Amnesty felt that the investigation here couldn't find anything useful, so he walked around to the back door and asked Zhu Mao about the situation.
Zhu Mao: "According to the tofu vendor in the back street, usually in the afternoon, there will always be maids coming out from the back door of her house to buy some vegetables, but no one came out today."
Jia Amnesty nodded and went back through the back door.Taking advantage of the time when all the servants in the mansion were being interrogated, he looked around the kitchen, and sure enough, there were no new dishes in it.It was getting dark at this time, and the whole family didn't seem to want to eat at night.
Jia Amnesty saw broken tea bowls piled up in the corner outside the kitchen, and there was a piece of broken porcelain with a small piece of tea stuck to it.Jia She picked it up and looked carefully, but felt that the leaves did not look like tea leaves.
He turned back to the front yard and listened to the questioning of those yamen servants.
When Mrs. Xing arrived early in the morning, Xing Zhong was not at home, only Xing Dequan was there.After chatting with Mrs. Zhou, Mrs. Xing met Xing Zhong and Xing Dequan, and then gave the money. The family had lunch early and then left.
Song Xi came out of the house. He knew that Jia Amnesty was not only going to vent, but also asked him if he had gained anything.
Jia Amnesty handed over the piece of broken porcelain.
Song Xi knew it at a glance, and sneered, "The murderer is in the Xing family, which is expected, because this water mang grass is a common thing in the mountains and fields of Yuzhou."
Jia She didn't expect Song Xi to be quite well-informed, even knowing what the leaves of the tripterygium vine look like and where they were born.
"Based on what you know from your family, who is the murderer?" Song Xi continued to ask.
Jia Amnesty: "Zhuo Jing said that his two brothers are not very good-natured, but I feel sorry for her sister-in-law Zhou who brought her two children to suffer."
"I think Xing Dequan is quite suspicious. According to the servants of Xing's family, this person eats wine and gambles, enjoys sleeping in flowers and sleeping in willows, spends money recklessly, and has no heart for others."
"But their whole family relies on Zhuojing's money to support them, so why would they harm her?"
"Maybe your wife has changed her mind again and still doesn't want to give them money." Song Xi analyzed.
Jia Amnesty: "If you don't want to give it, you won't bring money. If you change your mind, you won't stay for lunch."
"It makes sense, so let's ignore it, just call the two of them for another trial." Song Xi then asked his subordinates to search the courtyard of Xing's house carefully to see if they could find any more clues.
During the interrogation, Jia Amnesty did not participate and just waited outside the door.Not long after, he heard Xing Zhong and Xing Dequan howling ghostly and howling, shouting that they were wronged and didn't know.After a while, the search servants found freshly turned soil near the back window where Mrs. Zhou lived, and then dug out some decocted water mang grass leaf buds.Then Zhou was brought up, and soon confessed.
According to Zhou, she had a quarrel with Xing Zhong, and when she was angry, she tried to scare Xing Zhong by pretending to commit suicide with water.But I didn't want Mrs. Xing to visit suddenly, mistaking her bowl of poisonous soup for tea, and drank it all in one gulp.Mrs. Zhou was in a panic and was too frightened to speak up, which finally caused Mrs. Xing's death.
"Xing Zhong said that he didn't know about it, and that he would not have married the Zhou family if he had known about it earlier." Song Xi relayed to Jia She.
"If he really didn't know, why would he specially warn the servants in the mansion not to allow anyone to leave the mansion after Mrs. Xing left? I sent someone to inquire. Mrs. Zhou is timid and cowardly, and she always obeys her husband's words. How can she do that?" Such a big matter was concealed and Xing Zhong was not told. I don't understand. Since it was a misunderstanding at the time, why the couple didn't ask a doctor to treat Xing in time, so that her life could be saved. A brother and a sister-in-law, they both No, just watch her leave like that."
Jia She never thought that the lively Xing family he had just seen this morning would die in the blink of an eye.
"If Xing Zhong lied, I'm afraid that he had planned his way out long before we came. If he had warned Zhou with some threats, it would be impossible for her to bear the full responsibility once it was exposed. After all, as you said, Zhou She is cowardly and afraid of her husband." Song Xi sighed softly.
Jia Amnesty suddenly remembered that Wu Zuo had said that Mrs. Xing drank alcohol.Just now, the servants of the Xing family also said that the lunch was early, and Xing was happy to drink a few more glasses.
It is alcohol that shortens the time of poisoning.
Otherwise, normally speaking, the Xing family would have returned to the Rong Mansion before becoming ill.In fact, even if he did not die in Ningguo Mansion, according to the custom of ordinary big families not to show their ugliness, Xing's death would be hidden.If he hadn't insisted on the autopsy, there would be no investigation now.
Jia She was silent for a moment, then rushed directly into the hall, and questioned Xing Zhong who was kneeling on the ground: "You live in Yuzhou, so you know that the poison of Shuimangcao will take half a day to a day. As mentioned above, you were eager to urge Xing Shi to leave quickly, why? I am afraid that you want Xing Shi to die in the Rong Mansion, and you can use the death of your poor sister to blackmail the Rong Mansion a huge sum of money."
Xing Zhong rolled his eyes, waved his hands in panic and kowtowed to Jia She, "Brother-in-law, I was wronged, I really don't know, if you don't believe me, ask that bitch Zhou."
Mrs. Zhou looked at Xing Zhong, cried and kowtowed to Jia She: "Master She, I'm the one who is vicious, I'm sorry sister... I'm sorry you...I deserve to die, I will pay for your life!"
After finishing speaking, Mrs. Zhou took out the scissors she had prepared earlier from her sleeve, and thrust them into her stomach.
Yacha hurriedly went to stop him, but it was too late.
Seeing this, Xing Zhong jumped up, pointed at the dying Zhou and shouted: "Bitch, you deserve to die! It's been eight lifetimes of bad luck for me to marry such a vicious mother-in-law like you!"
Song Xi nodded, "Of course. Brother Enhou, don't worry, I, Song, will definitely arrest the real culprit and bring him to justice, and I will never easily wrong a good person."
Song Xi deliberately put the word "wronged" very seriously.
Jia Amnesty heard that there were voices in his words, but he didn't bother to pay attention, and asked Song Xi directly if he could let him see Mrs. Xing's body.
Song Xi simply nodded, and then personally took people to the Fulai Inn with Jia Amnesty.After Jia Amnesty got out of the car, he saw Yamen guards at the entrance of Fulai Inn.He looked around and saw a beggar squatting in a corner across the street, his clothes and face were dirty, and he couldn't tell what he looked like, but he nodded slightly at him, and Jia She knew that he must be a black pig.
Jia Amnesty then followed Song Xi into the Fulai Inn.
Mrs. Xing died in Tianzi No. [-] room, so she went up to the second floor and turned left to the innermost room.
Jia Amnesty followed him into the house, and when he entered, he saw the outside room, where there were tables, chairs, flowers and plants, high-grade furniture, and a calligraphy and painting hanging on the wall, which was nothing special.Then go inside to the inner room, there is unfinished tea on the table, and there is a vomit-stained veil on the floor, Mrs. Xing is lying on the couch, her face has been covered by the white brocade veil.
At a glance, Jia Amnesty saw that the fingernails of Mrs. Xing's exposed hand were bluish purple.Song Xi obviously also discovered this.
Song Xi just stood at the door of the inner room, keeping a long distance from the corpse.He turned to order his subordinates, "Go and call that maid."
Jia She looked at Song Xi suspiciously.There are still maids in this world?
"There happened to be a maid in the palace. I knew you wanted to solve the case, so I borrowed someone from the empress. This way, I can not only investigate the case, but also preserve the name of your lady."
"Thank you." Jia She said.
Song Xi and Jia Amnesty then withdrew and waited for Wu's autopsy.After a while, the result came out, as expected by the two of them, he died of poisoning, the poison was most likely water mangcao, and the vomit smelled of alcohol.
Jia Amnesty did know that Water Mangcao, another name for Tripterygium wisteria, can cure rheumatism and is also highly poisonous.He learned about this thing during an interview in Henan. It is said that ingesting six or seven pieces of the buds can cause dizziness, abdominal pain, kidney failure, and even symptoms of heart paralysis and shock.However, the onset of this poison takes time, usually half a day to one day later, of course, if the dose is large, the onset time will be shortened.
Song Xi sent the maid away, and then asked Jia She about Mrs. Xing's situation when she left home this morning, the food she drank and so on.
Jia Amnesty then detailed one by one according to the facts.
"It sounds really strange. Since Madam returned to her natal family once yesterday, why did she go again today? Also, the money that was supposed to be sent back to her natal family yesterday was not sent, and she only said it this morning."
Jia Amnesty nodded, "It's my fault. Originally, she didn't want to go back to her mother's house, or I often persuaded her to take more money back to make up for it."
"It's not your fault." Song Xi affirmed, he took a special look at Jia She, and strode out, "It's time to visit Xing Zhong's house, if you want, follow."
Jia Amnesty followed Song Xi to Xing's house.
Xing Zhong didn't seem to know the news of Mrs. Xing's death. He was shocked when he heard the news, and couldn't help but beat the table in grief.Mrs. Xing's younger brother, Xing Dequan, happened to be there too. He wailed and howled, then knelt down to Jia She, grabbed his robe and begged him to bury Mrs. Xing properly.
Mrs. Xing's sister-in-law, Mrs. Zhou, was also helped out by the maid immediately. She was shaking all over, crying until she was in tears, and even fainted for a while.
Song Xi sat in the first place indifferently, and said to the Xing family: "According to what the maid next to Madam said, Madam only started to faint and vomit after she left your house after lunch."
Xing Zhong hurriedly defended: "The villain was wronged. The villain did keep his sister at home for lunch, but at that time we all ate and drank together, there was no difference."
Xing Zhong then pointed out that several maids in the family could testify.
"Then before lunch?" Song Xi continued to ask.
Xing Zhong and others shook their heads.
Zhou Shi kept shaking and crying, out of breath, and seemed to faint again.Xing Zhong hurriedly went to help him, and begged Song Xi to forgive him and let his wife go back to the room to rest first.
Song Xi nodded.
"Have you received the bank note?" Jia Amnesty asked.
Xing Zhong was stunned for a moment, nodded, and took out 200 taels of bank notes to show Jia Amnesty.
Xing Dequan's eyes were bright at this time, staring at the bank note.
"Why did she return to the province for two consecutive days?" Song Xi's sharp eyes cut Xing Zhong up and down, "As far as I know, Madam came back to the province yesterday to visit you because of your health. But it seems that you are not sick. .”
Xing Zhong bowed his head in embarrassment and explained: "Don't be afraid of adults' jokes. Yesterday, our brother and sister really had an unpleasant quarrel. Our family came to Beijing from Yuzhou, and now everything has just been settled. The family is very difficult, and we can't do it anyway. And my sister I'm a bit stingy on weekdays, and it doesn't work to beg her several times, so I resorted to such an obscene method to favor her, begging her to take pity on me.
When she came to see me yesterday, she accidentally exposed my flaws, and in a fit of rage, she didn't give me any money.I think today she was soft-hearted, so she came again, sent the money, and told me again, asking our brother not to hold her back, I also admitted my mistake and agreed, otherwise she would not stay to eat I left after lunch. "
What Xing Zhong said was very sincere, it sounded reasonable, and it really didn't look like a lie.But since their brother and sister have reconciled, how did Mrs. Xing die of poisoning?
Jia Amnesty was very puzzled by this.Looking at Xing Dequan again, he looked timid, as if he was guilty of something.
Song Xi nodded to Xing Zhong, didn't ask any more questions, and sent him to summon four servants from the mansion for detailed interrogation by the Yamen.
Song Xi turned his head and asked Jia Amnesty, "What do you think?"
"I'll go out to get some air." Jia Amnesty felt that the investigation here couldn't find anything useful, so he walked around to the back door and asked Zhu Mao about the situation.
Zhu Mao: "According to the tofu vendor in the back street, usually in the afternoon, there will always be maids coming out from the back door of her house to buy some vegetables, but no one came out today."
Jia Amnesty nodded and went back through the back door.Taking advantage of the time when all the servants in the mansion were being interrogated, he looked around the kitchen, and sure enough, there were no new dishes in it.It was getting dark at this time, and the whole family didn't seem to want to eat at night.
Jia Amnesty saw broken tea bowls piled up in the corner outside the kitchen, and there was a piece of broken porcelain with a small piece of tea stuck to it.Jia She picked it up and looked carefully, but felt that the leaves did not look like tea leaves.
He turned back to the front yard and listened to the questioning of those yamen servants.
When Mrs. Xing arrived early in the morning, Xing Zhong was not at home, only Xing Dequan was there.After chatting with Mrs. Zhou, Mrs. Xing met Xing Zhong and Xing Dequan, and then gave the money. The family had lunch early and then left.
Song Xi came out of the house. He knew that Jia Amnesty was not only going to vent, but also asked him if he had gained anything.
Jia Amnesty handed over the piece of broken porcelain.
Song Xi knew it at a glance, and sneered, "The murderer is in the Xing family, which is expected, because this water mang grass is a common thing in the mountains and fields of Yuzhou."
Jia She didn't expect Song Xi to be quite well-informed, even knowing what the leaves of the tripterygium vine look like and where they were born.
"Based on what you know from your family, who is the murderer?" Song Xi continued to ask.
Jia Amnesty: "Zhuo Jing said that his two brothers are not very good-natured, but I feel sorry for her sister-in-law Zhou who brought her two children to suffer."
"I think Xing Dequan is quite suspicious. According to the servants of Xing's family, this person eats wine and gambles, enjoys sleeping in flowers and sleeping in willows, spends money recklessly, and has no heart for others."
"But their whole family relies on Zhuojing's money to support them, so why would they harm her?"
"Maybe your wife has changed her mind again and still doesn't want to give them money." Song Xi analyzed.
Jia Amnesty: "If you don't want to give it, you won't bring money. If you change your mind, you won't stay for lunch."
"It makes sense, so let's ignore it, just call the two of them for another trial." Song Xi then asked his subordinates to search the courtyard of Xing's house carefully to see if they could find any more clues.
During the interrogation, Jia Amnesty did not participate and just waited outside the door.Not long after, he heard Xing Zhong and Xing Dequan howling ghostly and howling, shouting that they were wronged and didn't know.After a while, the search servants found freshly turned soil near the back window where Mrs. Zhou lived, and then dug out some decocted water mang grass leaf buds.Then Zhou was brought up, and soon confessed.
According to Zhou, she had a quarrel with Xing Zhong, and when she was angry, she tried to scare Xing Zhong by pretending to commit suicide with water.But I didn't want Mrs. Xing to visit suddenly, mistaking her bowl of poisonous soup for tea, and drank it all in one gulp.Mrs. Zhou was in a panic and was too frightened to speak up, which finally caused Mrs. Xing's death.
"Xing Zhong said that he didn't know about it, and that he would not have married the Zhou family if he had known about it earlier." Song Xi relayed to Jia She.
"If he really didn't know, why would he specially warn the servants in the mansion not to allow anyone to leave the mansion after Mrs. Xing left? I sent someone to inquire. Mrs. Zhou is timid and cowardly, and she always obeys her husband's words. How can she do that?" Such a big matter was concealed and Xing Zhong was not told. I don't understand. Since it was a misunderstanding at the time, why the couple didn't ask a doctor to treat Xing in time, so that her life could be saved. A brother and a sister-in-law, they both No, just watch her leave like that."
Jia She never thought that the lively Xing family he had just seen this morning would die in the blink of an eye.
"If Xing Zhong lied, I'm afraid that he had planned his way out long before we came. If he had warned Zhou with some threats, it would be impossible for her to bear the full responsibility once it was exposed. After all, as you said, Zhou She is cowardly and afraid of her husband." Song Xi sighed softly.
Jia Amnesty suddenly remembered that Wu Zuo had said that Mrs. Xing drank alcohol.Just now, the servants of the Xing family also said that the lunch was early, and Xing was happy to drink a few more glasses.
It is alcohol that shortens the time of poisoning.
Otherwise, normally speaking, the Xing family would have returned to the Rong Mansion before becoming ill.In fact, even if he did not die in Ningguo Mansion, according to the custom of ordinary big families not to show their ugliness, Xing's death would be hidden.If he hadn't insisted on the autopsy, there would be no investigation now.
Jia She was silent for a moment, then rushed directly into the hall, and questioned Xing Zhong who was kneeling on the ground: "You live in Yuzhou, so you know that the poison of Shuimangcao will take half a day to a day. As mentioned above, you were eager to urge Xing Shi to leave quickly, why? I am afraid that you want Xing Shi to die in the Rong Mansion, and you can use the death of your poor sister to blackmail the Rong Mansion a huge sum of money."
Xing Zhong rolled his eyes, waved his hands in panic and kowtowed to Jia She, "Brother-in-law, I was wronged, I really don't know, if you don't believe me, ask that bitch Zhou."
Mrs. Zhou looked at Xing Zhong, cried and kowtowed to Jia She: "Master She, I'm the one who is vicious, I'm sorry sister... I'm sorry you...I deserve to die, I will pay for your life!"
After finishing speaking, Mrs. Zhou took out the scissors she had prepared earlier from her sleeve, and thrust them into her stomach.
Yacha hurriedly went to stop him, but it was too late.
Seeing this, Xing Zhong jumped up, pointed at the dying Zhou and shouted: "Bitch, you deserve to die! It's been eight lifetimes of bad luck for me to marry such a vicious mother-in-law like you!"
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