ancient criminal minds

Lu Qing seemed to be taken aback by Lu Zheng's words, he raised his hand and slapped him: "What nonsense, are you not Lao Tzu's son, or whose son?"

Lu Zheng clutched his red forehead, his original sentimental emotions were instantly wiped out, and he swallowed what he wanted to say.

Lu Qing glared at him: "If you talk nonsense again, I will still beat you!"

"Understood." Lu Zheng rubbed his forehead again, and complained again, "Father, you are too hard!"

"You'll know it hurts when it's heavier!" Lu Qing cursed again, and pretended to be casual after a long time before saying, "If you still get red after a while, I'll ask the doctor to rub some medicine on you."

The corners of Lu Zheng's lips slowly turned up, and his heart that was soaked in ice water slowly warmed up. He rubbed his nose, and replied in a low voice: "En."

The wheels of the carriage were turning, and the small wind lanterns hung on the eaves, showing a different kind of warmth in this cold winter night.

But at this time, in the Lu Mansion, the young lady Lin hurried through a small path, but stopped when she saw a figure standing in front of her.

"I knew...you won't let me go." Lin smiled miserably, and tightly hugged the cloth bag in her hand.

The figure did not speak.

Lin seemed to accept her fate, and said in a low voice: "I should have known...you won't let me go." Her lips trembled, "I know, I know..."

The figure took a step forward, and the woman's voice came through the veil of the curtain, which seemed ethereal and blurred in the wind: "You see what you shouldn't see... Actually, I didn't want to kill you."

"You..." Mrs. Lin suddenly remembered something, and her face suddenly became fierce, "My husband, and my child... Did you kill them?"

The other party sighed: "Yes."

Lin's eyes shattered: "Why!!"

"They blocked the way." The woman's light voice came, "They went quickly and did not suffer any pain."

"You poisonous woman! I'm going to kill you!" Lin's voice was full of hatred, she rushed straight towards the woman, but her expression changed halfway, her hands tightly grabbed her neck, There was a "cluck, cough" sound in the throat.

She stretched out her hand to grab it forward, but she could only fall to the ground in vain, watching the cloth bag in her hand being taken away by a slender hand.

Lin tried her best to grab her clothes, but she couldn't control her fingers because of the poison, so she could only watch her walking away with the cloth bag.

Lin's eyes gradually became blurred, and she let out an indistinct curse from her throat: "...don't...don't... die..."

The next day, while the Lu family was having breakfast, they received news from the Lu residence that last night, the eldest and youngest grandmother, Mrs. Lin, died of poisoning. The body was found in the abandoned garden, and was only discovered by the maid this morning.

Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that it was the young lady who was a bit mentally abnormal. Two cases of poisoning occurred within a few days, and Lu Qing's expression became ugly.

"Go and have a look."

The father and son led a group of guards to the Lu residence, and found that all the servants looked panic-stricken, the masters were also at a loss, and the family was almost in chaos.

Before coming, Mrs. Yun realized that such a thing might happen, so she asked Nanny Yu to follow. Seeing this scene, Nanny Yu got Lu Qing's approval, so she stepped forward to direct the servants of Lu's family. The backbone.

The second son, Lu Yuan, was imprisoned in the Jingzhao Mansion. The third son, Lu Cheng, and the fourth son, Lu Juan, were in charge of the house for the time being. However, these two had never taken care of the house. It's dizzy.

The eldest wife, Mrs. Wu, was lying in the room under the pretext of suffering from the wind and cold. The second young lady, Mrs. Qu, seemed to be a little out of sorts since the second young master was taken away. In the end, only Mrs. Tong stood up to be the director.

"Third Tang uncle is offended." Tong Shi said a blessing, "People in this house are in panic now, and my niece and daughter-in-law don't know what to do."

Lu Qing quickly said, "Let Madam Yu stay at the house and help out for a few days."

Tong quickly said gratefully: "That's really great, thank you Third Tang Uncle."

Before Lu Qing could ask what happened, Tang Min and Zhao Xueqian came along with a group of arrests.

Lin's family is a woman, and Dendrobium, who is a master, can't take off her clothes for an autopsy, but can only observe from her face, and confirm that it was poisoned, and it was also a hook kiss.

"Then how did she get poisoned?" Tang Min asked.

Dendrobium circled around Lin's a few times, but inadvertently noticed some baldness on the side of her head. He stretched out his hand to fiddle with Lin's hair, and leaned over to smell it, his face suddenly changed.

"what happened?"

Dendrobium ignored it, but carefully pulled out a few of Lin's hairs, and rubbed lightly on the silver needles that he carried with him, and the silver needles immediately turned black.

Immediately, everyone around understood.

"Arsenic on her head?"

"No, it should be in the hair." Zhao Xueqian immediately said, "Brother Tang, please send someone to surround the room of the young mistress immediately, the poison may be in the room."

A few people rushed to Lin's room, because it was a filial piety, Lin's room was extremely clean, and there were no other ornaments on her dressing table except for a few wooden hairpins and a pair of yellowed pearl earrings , This is not like the dowry of a young lady from a rich family, even a small family must have several gold and silver ornaments.

Lin's eldest maid knelt on the ground and shivered.

"Tell me, what do you know?"

The servant girl said with a trembling voice: "The day the second young master was arrested... the young mistress went out for a trip, and after she came back, her face has been very ugly... The servant girl, the servant girl asked her, and was scolded by her, and the servant girl... just didn't like it." Dare to ask again."

"Yesterday, the young mistress suddenly went back to the yard with a panicked expression... She even kicked me out. The servant was worried, so she hid behind the window and peeked... Seeing the young mistress hurried out with a cloth bag, the servant thought... It was the uncle who came again... came to ask for money again, so they didn't follow, and didn't see the young mistress came back until very late, so the servant...the servant went to find the wife."

"But... but the elder sister in the wife's room said that the wife was not feeling well, so she went to bed early, and the servant has no other choice, just...just..."

The maid broke down in sobs: "Young Mistress...it's all the slave's fault...it's all the slave's fault..."

Tang Min and Zhao Xueqian looked at each other, while Lu Zheng lowered his head and thought about it. At this moment, the policeman who was looking for the poison said, "My lord, I found it."

He held a round box with a picture of a lady in his hand, and when he opened it, there was a light yellow oily substance inside, which still had a faint fragrance, but the silver needle inserted into it had turned black.

"Take away the evidence and bring it back to the Yamen."

Tang Min heaved a sigh of relief. The case has not made much progress. Although Lu Yuan was caught, Lu Yuan refused to admit it, and the evidence was not conclusive. It was given to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the case may become what it will become when it is in Lu Che's hands.

Although another person died now, at least some key evidence was found, which gave him the capital to investigate.

Tang Min asked the maid again: "Where did this oil come from?"

The servant girl raised her head carefully and glanced: "The hair oil is the government's order, it's the servant girl... The servant girl went to get it from the housekeeper..."

"The housekeeper?"

"Yes...it's my wife's companion..."

At this time, the news of Dendrobium also came. According to Lin's symptoms, it was not a sudden poisoning like Lu Zhi's, but a chronic poisoning that accumulated over time. Judging from Lin's appearance, it has been at least half a year. To achieve this level, the murderer must be a master of poison.

But Lu Zheng suddenly asked the servant girl: "Did the young lady never wear gold and silver ornaments?"

The servant girl whispered: "Since the eldest master passed away, the young mistress put away most of the jewelry in order to keep her filial piety, and she wore very little on weekdays. It wasn't until the young master passed away, and the young mistress believed in the Tao, that she put away all the gold and silver jewellery. I put away all the jewelry, and I only wear wooden hairpins on weekdays, and I am a vegetarian."

Lu Zheng nodded, and asked again: "You said earlier that you thought the sister-in-law of the lobby went to see the uncle, who is that?"

"That's Young Mistress's elder brother. Ever since Young Mistress' natal master passed away, and my uncle was not good at management, he often came to Young Mistress for help. Almost all of Young Mistress's dowry... subsidized it."

Lu Zheng asked what he wanted to know, and got Zhao Xueqian's attention, but soon, he followed Tang Min to the main hall.

Wu's complexion was not very good, she occasionally coughed twice, and the mother at the side supported her, wiping her tears and said: "Master Qingtian, this old slave has been wronged! This oil was bought by the steward, although it was in the old This slave got it here, but whoever gets it takes everything by himself, how does this old slave know that there is poison in this box, this old slave is wronged!"

Although the Lu family is a bit chaotic, it still has the rules of a big family. The account books purchased and the account books received by the housekeeper can be matched with the account books received by the housekeepers, which shows that she is not lying. Could it be that the poison was placed after receiving it? poison?

If you want to poison Lin's hair oil for many years, you must be someone who is very close to her, but Lin lives in the mansion and doesn't have much contact with others, and after she lost her husband and son, her personality changed. It was so weird that even the maids didn't dare to get close to her easily.

Tang Min sent someone to investigate Lin's daily relationship, while asking Wu: "Where did Mrs. Lu go last night?"

Wu's face turned pale, and her voice suddenly became sharp: "What does Mr. Tang mean by this?"

"It's not interesting, it's just that the dew is deeper. Mrs. Lu still has the pleasure to go to the garden to enjoy the scenery, no wonder she has a cold."

Everyone followed his gaze and found that the embroidered shoes exposed under Wu's skirt were covered with mud.

The Lu family's yard was almost paved with bluestone slabs. Except for the garden, there was indeed no place where so much dirt could stick.