[Seventy-five] Cat control the rivers and lakes

On the seventh day after the summer solstice, that is, the second day after Meng Ruoxu committed suicide, the sky in Bianjing was clear, and there was not a trace of white clouds in the blue and spotless sky. Such a pure and thorough blue was pleasing to the eye.

In the pharmacy in Kaifeng Prefecture, since Xiaohong entered the late pregnancy, she didn't interfere much in matters big and small. Instead, she cared for her baby and waited for the birth of the child. Occasionally, she would go to the pharmacy to help patients grab some medicine.If Gongsun Jun returns from Luoyang, the matter will fall on her, and she has to go back and forth between the imperial palace and Kaifeng mansion to see a doctor for Concubine Pang, so she is basically very busy, and the pharmacy has invited a few people to help her. Xiaohong spent several months teaching them before, and now they can help.

After dinner in the afternoon, Gongsun Junruo was standing in the courtyard of Kaifeng Mansion drying herbs. Although Pang Fei’s body looked better after being nourished, as she said, even if it recovered, it was just an empty shell. motivation to survive.But Song Renzong said that if Concubine Pang wanted to live well, she could only do her best to cooperate with acupuncture on the basis of pharmacology to restore Concubine Pang's consciousness. Whether she finally wakes up or not is a matter of Concubine Pang's own will. .

As soon as she spread the herbs on the bamboo plaque, she heard the panicked voices of Wang Chao and Ma Han. Following the sound, she saw the two of them helping the pale Zhan Zhao in.The red official uniform on his body was dyed a large area on his chest, showing a dark red color, which was shocking.

"What's the matter?" She went up to meet them, and without waiting for their answer, she said, "Hurry up and take him back to the room, and we'll talk about other things later."

Wang Chao and Ma Han glanced at each other—the tone of the queen's order is really not ordinary domineering!

After returning to the room and putting Zhan Zhao on the bed, Wang Chao didn't know how to explain it.Because when he saw Zhan Zhao, he saw that he was already injured, and the front of his clothes was covered with blood, so he didn't ask him, just said it was okay.Gongsun Junruo rubbed his temples, and nodded to them both to show that she already knew.

"Two big brothers, please help me get some hot water."

After Wang Chao and Ma Han called for hot water, he saw that Zhan Zhao had been stripped down to his trousers. There was a deep wound on his left chest, and blood was still oozing out. Fortunately, it was summer, and the blood Not yet solidified.It's just that such a bleeding wound is a bit shocking.

"Who is so powerful that he can actually hurt Master Zhan." Wang Chao asked.

Ma Han glanced at him, and replied: "I don't think the opponent is strong. It is also very likely that Mr. Zhan did not fight back and let the opponent hurt him. Looking at the world, how many can beat him?"

Wang Chao nodded, looking as if he had suddenly realized that, and was severely despised by Ma Han.In the end, the two of them saw that there was nothing wrong with them, so they went out first.

Gongsun Junruo sat on the edge of the bed, cleaned up Zhan Zhao's wound with a soaked veil, and wiped away the mottled blood. It didn't take long for the white veil to turn into a red veil, and the water in the washbasin was also stained red.The hemostatic medicine was applied to his wound, and the bleeding stopped after a while. He never said a word from the beginning to the end, and she didn't ask him, knowing that if he wanted to say something, he would naturally tell him. All she could do was Wait until he wants to.

"Any more, and even the gods won't be able to save you." She wrapped him in clean gauze and said, "It's only half a finger away from your heart. You really survived a catastrophe, and your life is hard."

Because of the severe blood loss, Zhan Zhao's face turned abnormally pale, and his ability to stay awake was entirely due to his amazing willpower.After all, it is a person who practices martial arts, his body is different from that of ordinary people, if he were someone else, he would have passed out long ago.

"Two sword wounds in the same wound, the other party hates you so much that he wants to kill you, right? But..." She straightened up and looked down at his pale face, "The other party has shown mercy, Otherwise, I would be a widow."

It is true that he is merciful, the coincidence of the wound and the strength of the wound can make the victim very painful, but he cannot die.Even if he didn't say it, she could guess who did it.

Who else could have such an obvious love-hate sword mark besides his junior sister?Only Meng Chunni, he would let the other party slaughter him and not fight back.

There was only the sound of his breathing in the room, and there were faint blue stubbles protruding from his chin, dotted with stars.Compared with the vigorous and energetic him before, the silent knight lying on the bed now seems to be much more depressed.

After carrying the wooden basin, she said softly "have a good rest", closed the door and left.

The sunlight outside the house was in full bloom, it could even be said to be dazzling, but for some reason, Gongsun Junruo always felt that there was a transparent barrier blocking her, preventing the sunlight from entering her heart.

That night, at the inn where Meng Ruoxu had stayed before, Gongsun Junruo and Gongsun Ce stood in the middle of the wing room, looking up at the four big blood-red characters on the wall.

ungrateful.It is said that this was left by Meng Ruoxu before he hanged himself.And these four characters, with strong strokes, don't seem to be left by an old man who has no strength.

Gongsun Junruo stepped forward and stared at the wooden bed for a long time.

"What's the matter, is there any problem?" Seeing her thoughtful look, Gongsun Ce stepped forward and asked.

Under his gaze, she lifted the quilt and straw mat, and saw several depressions on the wooden bed.

"This is?!" Gongsun Tzuyu was surprised. After all, he was also a person who followed Baogong to solve the case all the year round. He calmed down all of a sudden, "You continue to check here. I will go down and ask the shopkeeper about something."

Gongsun Junruo nodded, "Well, you go."

After half a stick of incense, Gongsun Ce rushed over and brought a shocking news.It turned out that the shopkeeper said that after Meng Chunni left, two people visited Meng Ruoxu, one named Jiuweihu and the other named Sha Qianli, and when they left Meng Chunni and came back, they saw the man who had hanged himself. Meng Ruoxu.

"From this point of view, Nine-Tailed Fox and the others are inseparably related to this incident. It is obvious that this is a blame game." Gongsun Ce stroked his beard and concluded.

"Go back and report to Master Bao." She pressed the center of her eyebrows wearily, her body suddenly staggered, and she almost fell to the ground.

"Jun Ruo! What's wrong with you?" Gongsun Ce stepped forward and asked concerned, "Why is your face so ugly?"

"I'm fine." She shook her head, she couldn't tell him that there was still traces of ecstasy in this room, very faint.She has always been more sensitive to those things about rice noodles than others, so even if it is a small amount of medicine rice noodles, she already knows it without being noticed by others.Gongsun Ce couldn't detect it, so it didn't help if she said it.

Gongsun Ce looked at her suspiciously and didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he looked her up and down, his eyes often lingering on her flat belly, until he felt uncomfortable looking at her, then he looked back and said, "Then let's go to her sooner." Go back and get some rest."

The two returned to the Kaifeng mansion, but they still had nothing to do. It turned out that when they entered the inn to investigate, a corpse wrapped in a straw mat was parked at the gate of the mansion, and this corpse belonged to Meng Ruoxu.The corpse came in a strange way, and it was wrapped in a straw mat casually. Zhan Zhao asserted that it would never be done by Meng Chunni, but who would bring the corpse here?Doing so is simply showing disrespect to the deceased and outrageous.

But Zhan Zhao was all focused on Meng Ruoxu, and he felt that Meng Ruoxu's death was definitely not a suicide as seen by outsiders, and the corpse was the most reliable evidence, so he didn't think too much about it, and even carried the corpse back with a straw mat. I want Gongsun Junruo to do an autopsy.Just at this time, Meng Chunni and the Five Rats came to Kaifeng Mansion together. When Bai Yutang saw Meng Ruoxu's body, he not only slandered Zhan Zhao for stealing it, but also caused conflicts between the two parties, further deepening the misunderstanding between the two parties.

Because Meng Chunni didn't want to return Meng Ruoxu's body, Bai Yutang, Meng Chunni and the other four mice went to the Kaifeng Mansion to ask for someone and brought his wife.

Meng Chunni beat drums outside the government office to appeal for grievances. After Baogong put on his official uniform, he ordered someone to bring her up.Bao Gong expected that several of them would come, so he asked Gongsun Ce and Gongsun Junruo to stand aside and listen to the trial together.

This time, Zhan Zhao became the target of the lawsuit. Meng Chunni accused him of stealing the corpse without authorization, and the four guards all testified for him. Before the corpse appeared in Kaifeng Mansion, Zhan Zhao was with them all the time.

"Miss Gongsun, I don't know how your examination of Senior Meng's body is going." Bao Gong turned to Gongsun Junruo and asked.

Bai Yutang looked at Gongsun Junruo, he knew that she had excellent medical skills, but he was there when Meng Ruoxu hanged himself, too much evidence pointed to Zhan Zhao forcing old Meng to hang himself, so even if she had something to say, he would Her confession could be overturned.

Gongsun Junruo bowed to Bao Gong, and said: "Returning to your lord, Jun Ruo didn't do an autopsy because he was afraid of disturbing old senior Meng's sleep, but... If Miss Meng doesn't mind, I will use it when I do the autopsy later." Bring a bowl of lye water, use a needle to take rice dust from random places on the old man's body, put it into the lye water, and see if the lye water will change color, I believe the master will know the reason."

"You haven't even done an autopsy, so why should we do it?" the straightforward Xu Qing stepped forward and asked.

"Then why did you bring Wu Zuo?" She asked softly, and Xu Qing couldn't answer the question, so he had to retreat behind Lu Fang angrily.

"Jiang Ping deeply admires Miss Gongsun's understanding of the general situation and her reluctance to disturb Senior Meng's rest. In comparison, some people do not hesitate to disturb the deceased in order to shirk their responsibilities. It is really..."

"Fourth Young Hero Jiang, don't forget that among these people, you also have a share." As he spoke, Gongsun Junruo's eyes fixed on that Zuo Zuo again.

Jiang Ping's face changed slightly, and he was speechless.It was still Lu Fang who said that he was hired to prove who was right and who was wrong, and Meng Chunni agreed.

Wu Zuo first pierced Meng Ruoxu's neck with a silver needle to check. Seeing that the silver needle had not turned black, he followed what Gongsun Junruo said, carefully hung the rice dust off Meng Ruoxu's body, and put it in a container filled with alkali. bowl with water.Not long after, the original pure lye water suddenly changed color, and there was an "ah" sound, which immediately attracted the attention of other people.

"My lord, the deceased was once drugged."