Dongdu Pavilion Case Record

Half an hour later, Wen Tao came back, he closed the door of the evidence room and said to Tang Wuyi, "It's Crane Top Red."

It turned out to be red on the top of a crane!Tang Wuyi expected it to be highly poisonous, but he didn't expect it to be the crane-topped red that only the court can have.Hedinghong is similar to arsenic, but its purity is much higher than that of arsenic.So if you take arsenic|arsenic, it usually takes several hours before you die, and the poisoned person is in unbearable pain, with unbearable gastrointestinal colic.However, taking Hedinghong can take as fast as a quarter of an hour and as slow as half an hour, and the poisoned person will die immediately.

"That's not right!" Tang Wuyi came to his senses, "If it was Hedinghong, he would have been poisoned and died within half an hour at most. Zhao Er's troupe leader's shadow puppet show was performed for almost an hour before he was beaten by Qiu Jian. He was beaten at the end of the play and didn't eat anything, how did he get poisoned?"

Wen Tao also frowned and said: "It seems that those people in the Chunxi class also have to ask, it's not too late."

Tang Wuyi nodded: "You can go together, and help me record it. They can't get the crane crest, so they are not suspects. I don't need torture techniques."

The two came to the room where the Chunxi class was temporarily detained.There are four people in the Chunxi Troupe including Zhao Er, the head of the class. They are a family. The old man who is in charge of props is Zhao Er’s uncle Zhao, the one who is in charge of the female roles is Zhao Er’s sister Zhao Niangzi, and the young man is Zhao Er’s younger brother. Brother Zhao Si.This Spring Festival was completely run by Zhao Er. Now that Zhao Er died suddenly, these people gathered together like headless flies with sad faces, and Mrs. Zhao's face was covered with tears, seeing people dressed as officials coming in , quickly shrank in one place, eyes full of horror.

Tang Wuyi quickly put on a warm smile and said, "Don't be afraid, everyone, I'm here to uphold justice for you."

Those who heard the words quickly kowtowed and knelt down and said: "Master Qingtian, you have come! We have been wronged!" Zhao Sidao: "My second brother died for no reason, and he locked us here, please save us! "

Tang Wuyi quickly helped them up, comforted them a little, and said, "If you want your class master to die in peace, you must carefully think back to the few questions I asked below. Only when the truth comes to light will you have a chance to go out."

Several people nodded like pounding garlic.

"Your team has always performed in the West Market, who invited you into the palace?" Tang Wuyi asked.

Zhao Sidao: "I don't know the details. A few days ago, my second brother said that a nobleman approached him, saying that he liked our shadow puppet show, and invited us to enter the palace to perform at the Holy Majesty's Dragon Boat Festival. We were all ecstatic, although There are often song and dance troupes from West Market selected for the Dragon Boat Festival, and we never thought that we would have the opportunity to perform in the palace."

Tang Wuyi nodded: "When did you enter the palace on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival?"

"Second brother asked us to wait outside the West Palace wall at Sishi. At [-]:[-] Sishi, some servants searched us and brought us in."

"Did you eat and drink after entering the palace?"

Zhao Si thought for a while and said: "Those servants led us to a courtyard, not far from the main hall that we went to later. Inside were the outside singing and dancing troupes that were going to perform at the Dragon Boat Festival. There was no food, but there was tea. A mug of tea, pour it yourself if you want."

"Have you all drunk?"

"I've drank it all, why, can't I drink the tea?" Zhao Si was full of doubts.

Tang Wuyi quickly shook his head and said, "No, just ask casually. Did you bring your own food into the palace?"

Zhao Sishang was still thinking, and Mrs. Zhao said: "Originally, I brought a few mustard pancakes to feed my hunger, but the guards at the palace gate didn't let us bring them in after they found them, so I didn't bring them."

"Then you didn't eat anything after entering the palace, so you were hungry when you performed at night?" Tang Wuyi asked.

"Hey, what else can people like us choose? It's the virtues accumulated in several lifetimes that can make us see the sky." The old man Zhao said, "That morning my second nephew specially asked us to eat more before entering the palace. I didn’t feel hungry after that.”

Tang Wuyi and Wen Tao glanced at each other, sure enough, they couldn't find the source of the poison.After entering the palace, except for the tea that everyone drank, Zhao Er didn't eat anything else, so how did Zhao Er get the Hedinghong in his mouth?

Seeing that there was nothing to ask, Tang Wuyi was about to end the show when he suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, when did you start to line up for "Double Dragon Seizing the Pearl"?"

Zhao Si thought for a while: "About a month ago, the second elder brother had a good playbook, and it must be released. It must be popular."

Tang Wuyi remembered that he had asked Zhao Er for the first time in West Market. The play was originally bought in a book store in Chongwenfang. It seemed that he had to go there, so why not ask clearly now, so he said: "Your troupe master Tao Where is the place to buy the playbook, do you know?"

Both Zhao Si and Mrs. Zhao looked at each other and said, "We are illiterate, we only know that we are in Chongwenfang."

"It's a family called 'Baicao Pavilion'. I can barely read a few words, and I've been there a few times with my second nephew. It's in the northwest corner of Chongwenfang. Just ask around." Old man Zhao said.

"Thank you!" Tang Wuyi said, "I have some clues about this case, and I still need to investigate it. Once the truth comes out, I will definitely release everyone." Wen Tao knew that Tang Wuyi's words were to comfort them, but seeing The faces of those people were begging, and they couldn't bear to expose it.The two were about to leave the room one after the other when Wen Tao tripped over a big wooden box.

Wen Tao let out a soft cry, and Tang Wuyi hurried over to check: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, nothing." Wen Tao waved his hand.

Tang Wuyi was attracted by the box and asked, "What is this?"

Zhao Sidao: "This is the guy we eat. It is a prop from our Chunxi class. It was brought into the palace. There was no place to put it, so we moved it here together."

Tang Wuyi opened the box to check, mainly white cloth, brackets, and many lifelike shadow puppets.Tang Wuyi saw that it was exquisitely made, so he asked casually: "Who made these puppets? Are you the class leader?"

Uncle Zhao replied: "I did it as an old man. When I was young, I went out to follow other people's shadow puppet troupe and learned the unique skill of making puppets. I made them one by one."

Tang Wuyi nodded: "It's really exquisite." He fiddled with the puppets on his face, they were all from the last "Double Dragon Seizing the Pearl", there was a refined and handsome eldest prince, and there was a heroic one who was good at fighting. The second prince, and the beautiful Princess Xirong.

"Hey, where is the puppet of the third prince?" Tang Wuyi searched back and forth, but he couldn't find it.

Uncle Zhao also came over to check after hearing the words, turned back and forth several times, and asked with a puzzled face: "Why is it gone? There were still some during the performance that day."

"Could it be left behind when it was sorted out later?" Zhao Sidao.

Uncle Zhao nodded hesitantly, and said to Tang Wuyi: "I'm afraid it fell in the Linde Palace. If the master saw it, I would be very grateful if you could bring it back to us. This shadow puppet is a unique skill of our Chunxi class. If Picked up by another team, we have no one to eat."

"If you find it, I will definitely send it back to you." Tang Wuyi nodded.