Dongdu Pavilion Case Record

Chapter 129 5.21 Caoge

Wen Tao remembered that old man Zhao said that Baicao Pavilion was in the northwest corner of Chongwenfang, and the place where he and Tang Wuyi were located was only a few miles away from there.Although the two were tired all day, when they thought that there might be important clues to the origin of "Double Dragon Seizing the Pearl" in the Baicao Pavilion, they unconsciously quickened their pace.In just a cup of tea, the two had arrived at the gate of Baicao Pavilion.This is not so much a book store as a book stand, but once you enter the small shop, there are books of classics, histories, zi, and collections piled up inside, but no one cares about it. Instead, there are a few sheds at the door , there are a lot of fashionable unofficial histories, novels, drama books, story books and the like, and many people read them, some just look at them with great interest, and some pay a few copper coins to buy a copy back, but there is a lot of traffic endlessly.There was only one clerk sitting at the door of the book shop, greeting the guests.

Tang Wuyi walked over, pretending to be a scholar, flipped through the playbooks on the book stand, and asked leisurely, "Are there any good playbooks and story books recently?"

"Yes!" The guy's eyes lit up, and he began to introduce: "This book "The Legend of Zhang Sheng Yingying" was written by a great writer, the diction is very good, it is really lingering..."

"Oh, I don't like to read these things." Tang Wuyi interrupted at the right time, "Are there any elders who read about plots, palace secrets, etc.?"

"Then read the "Three Kingdoms" storybook, there are a lot of people who bought it." The guy brought another stack of "Three Kingdoms", Tang Wuyi pretended to look through it with interest and said, "I've read it all, and some people have read it." Nothing new? It would be better if it’s something from the past, court secrets or something like that.”

The guy racked his brains and managed to scrape together a few copies. Tang Wuyi saw that it was not the "Double Dragon Seizes the Pearl", so he continued to follow the advice: "I have a friend who bought a playbook from you a few days ago. Looks good, I want to buy the same one, it seems to have the word 'Double Dragon' in the name, it tells the story of several princes seizing the throne, do you have any more?"

The guy looked confused and said: "I've never heard of it, but we have a lot of family books, and I don't know where they are piled up." Tang Wuyi stared at his reaction closely, feeling that it didn't seem like a disguise, and was surprised.The guy didn't want to lose this business, so he went back to grope around, and after searching for a stick of incense, he came out with an apologetic face and said, "I really can't find it, sir, did you remember correctly?"

Tang Wuyi said: "Are you in charge of this bookstore?"

"Hey, our boss was in charge, and he was the one who selected the books, so he hired me to help out. But yesterday, the boss had a bad stomach, so he died like this. It's really an impermanent world. The boss has no relatives For no reason, I have been in charge of this book shop for the past two days..." The guy looked regretful.

"What? The boss of Baicao Pavilion is dead?" Wen Tao asked in surprise.

"Yeah, what's the matter?" The guy looked puzzled.

Tang Wuyi secretly pulled Wen Tao back, gave him a wink, and pretended to be asking about something, and said in a tone of nosy: "Why did he die so well, who examined the corpse, and who collected the corpse?"

"The corpse for the autopsy has been collected in Yizhuang. I have been thinking about going to Yizhuang to bring back the ashes of the boss's body for a proper burial in the past two days. Although he has no relatives or relatives with me, I have received a lot of care from him. I'm planning to go there in two days." The guy said it very sincerely.

"You are also a caring person." Tang Wuyi said, but he was secretly anxious. Yizhuang's corpses are usually cremated. If it is a step late, I am afraid that there will be no evidence left.

The guy smiled embarrassedly, Tang Wuyi didn't bother anymore, and was about to leave, but the guy didn't want to lose this business easily, especially he didn't give up and said: "Who is that friend of the guest officer? I Maybe if I have an impression, I can help the guest officer find that book."

Tang Wuyi thought for a while, but still took the risk and said, "Master Zhao Er of Chunxi Class, do you know him?"

"Oh, Mr. Zhao, that shadow puppet master who likes to touch his mouth. He's a regular customer. He knows my boss very well. He comes here several times a month," said the clerk.

Wen Tao suddenly felt a flash of light in his mind, but he was not sure what it was yet.

Tang Wuyi said: "Then what playbook did Leader Zhao buy the last time?"

The guy scratched his head: "My boss sold it to him, and I don't know the exact title."

Seeing that it was hopeless to find the source of the book, Tang Wuyi was eager to get away, bought two copies of "Three Kingdoms" and left with Wen Tao, whispering in his ear as he walked, "Let's go to Yizhuang."

The Yizhuang in Kyoto is located outside the Tonghua Gate not far from Dali Temple. With the gold medal bestowed by Li Shu, the two entered the Yizhuang. The body was originally scheduled to be cremated tonight, but when he saw them coming, he pointed out to them where the body of the owner of Baicao Pavilion was.Both of them couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, and the night shift continued: "This corpse was delivered yesterday. I have already experienced it. He said that the boss himself was fat and had a weak spleen, and he drank a lot of realgar wine too much. It happened that he The wine he drank was given too much realgar, and his spleen and stomach were weak, so he died."

Tang Wuyi said casually: "The world is impermanent, what kind of person is easy to die when drinking?"

The servant was obviously a little embarrassed, and murmured: "This is what an old foreman here usually said when he was talking nonsense with us. We just listened casually. He said that some things are easy to be poisoned if mixed together. Sulfur is afraid of nitrate, cinnabar is afraid of arsenic | frost and so on. But don't listen to his nonsense, he just dropped the book bag."

Seeing that this person was not an expert, Tang Wuyi had no choice but to go into the morgue with Wen Tao first to examine the body of the boss of Baicao Pavilion.He couldn't believe that the boss died so coincidentally that he had just sold "Double Dragon Seizing the Pearl" to Zhao Er of the Chunxi Class, and then died of a bad stomach on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.If it weren't for the old man Zhao from the Chunxi class who still remembered the name of Baicao Pavilion, I am afraid that neither he nor Wen Tao could have found it so quickly, and if it was a little later, they would have found nothing...

"The body has been dissected, and you can see if it is the cause of death that the coworker said." Tang Wuyi said.

Wen Tao probed with the silver medal and said: "The throat, esophagus and stomach all have slight signs of poisoning, but the deceased drank a lot of realgar wine during his lifetime, so it's not surprising that the realgar is slightly poisonous."

"Then there is nothing to check?" Tang Wuyi frowned.

"Who said that?" Wen Tao smiled slyly, "When I went back for the drug test in the afternoon, I specially brought all kinds of reagents that my uncle gave me. Ordinary tests can only find out the poison, but it is difficult to determine where it is poisoned." One poisoning. My uncle Lingxuzi is proficient in the reaction changes of various pills, so he can detect the specific poison."

Seeing his complacent look, Tang Wuyi couldn't help laughing: "Okay, okay, it's better than a class of teachers with you."

Wen Tao got the compliment, and he cheered up even more.Tang Wuyi dragged a stool and looked at him quietly.Throughout the day today, he forced himself to focus on the case, because once he was free, like when he was in the restaurant just now, memories about his elder brother, Mr. Pu, and Dongdu Pavilion would flood out, and he Before his emotions can digest these, he must use reason and willpower to do what he should do most at the moment.

"Tang Yue!" Wen Tao called him suddenly.

Tang Wuyi was shocked, and looked at Wen Tao, Wen Tao's eyes reflected the burning candlelight: "It's the red crest of a crane!"

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