The Delicate Lady Coroner

Huo Weilou's eyes sank, "Suicide?"

Bo Ruoyou thought seriously for two moments, "Master Song sent away his wife and children after the incident in Weicang, Qinshui County, and confessed that if his life could be kept, he would return to his hometown to see them. If they can’t keep it, they will never return to Beijing, indicating that he had already sensed the danger at the time. If the corruption of the household is really related to him, could his sins be fatal?"

"Maybe, this time, Wei Cang in Qinshui County has corrupted hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, coupled with the acceptance of bribes between officials, and the crime is not small. It just depends on whether he was instigated or he was the main culprit."

Bo Ruoyou said again: "He should not be the main culprit. If he is poisoned, the person behind the scenes is the main culprit."

Huo Weilou showed his approval. The Secretary used this to check before, and she went on to say: "And if he committed suicide, then he feels a little sacrificing his life, because he didn't know he was afraid of committing crimes."

Huo Weilou instantly understood her speculation, "Before he died, he invited Changning Hou and Li Yuan into the mansion. He also went to the Weijia tea house and left jade pendants in the Yunzhou restaurant. He originally wanted to leave clues for the court to find these. People?"

Not to mention that the court has not convicted him, but he has been convicted. He still has time to struggle. He disguised himself as a homicide, and the clues of Huhu's corruption seemed to be broken here, but the people he implicated in that day became suspects.

Changning Hou and Li Yuan were imprisoned on the same day, and Bo Jingqian was not spared. Then, there was Beauty Smile. The seeds of that Beauty Smile were so small that Song Yu had not even thought of this episode. He was buried in Wei's house. The clue is that piece of jade pendant.

If the Wei family is not found from Li Yuan and Chang Ninghou, then this jade pendant will appear ten days later, proving that he had been to the Wei family tea shop that day. This seemingly inadvertent clue will point the finger at him. Weijia.

"I remember my foster father said that Wei Shangshu was very powerful. Back then, the queen mother was involved in a **** murder in the court and relied on him to protect the entire Xu family. Everyone is afraid of death, so Master Song can use this method. Suicide must be due to the fear in his heart. This fear made him dare not speak out even if he knew anything, and knew that he had little life, so he chose this way."

Regarding the dispositions of these powerful officials, there is no one who knows better than Huo Weilou. He nodded and said: "It is true. Wei Shu has tried to protect the prince over the years. If not, your majesty would have appointed the second prince as the prince."

Bo Ruoyou didn't inquire too much about these, only thinking about the joints in the case, "Such an analysis, Lord Song's reason for suicide makes sense, but there is still a lack of evidence... Arsenic, he used this poison, and he knew it before he wanted to come. After that, he was always carrying poison on that day..."

Huo Weilou's eyes were slightly solemn, and he got up and went out and ordered the outside attendants, "Call Ning Xiao."

After ordering him to come back again, "He changed his court clothes that day and left. I am more inclined to buy the arsenic that he temporarily bought that day. In this way, even the most trusted servants don’t know how he was poisoned, and now he knows where he went that day. It’s not difficult to find a place to buy the medicine.

Arsenic is highly toxic, and it may not be available in ordinary drugstores. If someone came to buy it from the drugstore, he would have some impression. But Bo Ruoyou did not expect that after investigating for many days, he would eventually come to such a conclusion. Is the person he fears really Wei Shangshu?"

Huo Weilou was seated next to her again, “It’s not impossible. The Husband is the leader of Wei Shu. This time, he can’t get rid of the corruption of the Husband. He just can’t find evidence. But now, especially Wei Shu. Quan was involved, and following the investigation, Wei Shu could always be found, but he had never thought that Song Yu would commit suicide before."

Bo Ruoyou thought of Song Yu sending his wife and children away, and dismissed most of his servants. When he went to Yunjian that day, he ordered a table full of wine and food but didn't move anything. He had been poisoned at the time, but he was waiting with pain. , What was he thinking in that little hour sitting in the private room? The pungency of Yunzhou shochu made him think of his wife and children and his homeland thousands of miles apart?

Bo Ruoyou asked Huo Weilou, "Is Lord Song a good official before?"

Huo Weilou's eyes were dim, "He was in the top two, and then went to Luozhou as a magistrate for ten years. He repaired water canals, built wharves, reclaimed Sangtian, and opened waterways for freight transportation, so that Luozhou silk and the two lakes were as famous as the two lakes, south of Luozhou. It took less than ten years for his appearance to change drastically. In ten years, most of his performance tests were excellent, and then he entered the capital. After two years of experience in the staff department, he became the household assistant. If this question is asked Luo The people of the state, they will definitely praise him."

Only the common people would judge court officials as good or bad. Standing in the position of Huo Wei Tower, they would definitely not make such a clear judgment. Bo Ruoyou sighed, "It is enough to be praised by the people."

Huo Weilou held her hand and said, "Many people joined the officialdom. At the beginning, they were in the blood of the city, and they could see the people in their eyes. But then they stood tall and saw more, and they were getting farther and farther away from the people. Not anymore."

Bo Ruoyou could not help but think of He Cheng who was still in Qingzhou. The local officials could always see the people suffering more. For a while, she secretly hoped that she was right to speculate that no matter how serious Song Yu had committed, at least her previous deeds were true. His power to expose other people is still a bit courageous.

Ning Xiao arrived very quickly. He was also a little surprised when he heard that Song Yu might have committed suicide in order to expose the corruption in the household. He frowned and glanced at Bo Ruoyou, knowing that this thought was probably Bo Ruoyou guessed. I was a little unbelievable in my heart, and immediately led someone to investigate.

When he left, Bo Ruoyou looked at him from behind and said, "Deputy Commander Ning does not seem to believe it, and he must have guessed that I came to talk to Master Hou." She hesitated, "Deputy Commander Ning is sure. Knowing that Lord Hou told me about corruption in the Ministry of Households, would he think it was wrong?"

Ning Xiao has followed Huo Wei Tower for many years, and she can see that Ning Xiao must be full of respect for Huo Wei Tower. This can be imagined as long as Ning Xiao’s words and deeds have the shadow of Huo Wei Tower. People will imitate him intentionally or unintentionally, and over time, they will become more and more consistent.

Bo Ruoyou used to face Ning Xiao. Although he felt that this person was exposed and sometimes looked colder than Huo Weilou, he never felt afraid of him. But now she is a little guilty in her heart. Emboldened.

"Why does he feel wrong?" Huo Weilou was puzzled at first, and then came to understand, his eyes were dark, "You know that the emperor's hands are not only staring at the words and deeds of the civil and military officials, but also pay attention to them. Madam?"

Bo Ruoyou didn't react for a while, and Huo Wei said in the corridor: "Any courtier, no matter how important things are, he will probably not help but talk to his wife when he returns to his house. Why is this strange? Not to mention this. It’s for tolerance."

Bo Ruoyou's face suddenly turned red, he actually compared her to the wives of the court officials, but she is not his wife and younger right now, she retorted in a low voice, "But I am not..."

"No right now, they will be yes sooner or later. If they don't even see this, they have been with me for many years." Huo Weilou's eyes were dark and he looked at her up and down for a moment, wondering what he was planning.

Bo Ruoyou felt a little hairy in his heart. Seeing that it was not early, he wanted to leave and return home. Knowing that he had not returned to the house last night, he could not help but persuade him to stop. Huo Weilou's eyes changed again, and he wanted to speak for a few moments. , Somewhat depressed people sent her home.

Bo Ruoyou left with the brocade box, and he didn't know why he was suddenly upset.

Huo Weilou stood under the corridor and watched her walk out of the hospital. He asked Huo Qinghong about his situation before returning to the bedroom. He was indeed a little tired, but after lying down, there was a thin shadow in his mind. At noon, when the sun rises into the sky, it is the hottest time, and he just took the brocade box, and smelled the sweet and greasy smell, always feeling a little unstable.

Huo Weilou closed his eyes and really didn't want to take a cold bath anymore, so he went down under the cover of the brocade. He half-closed his eyes impatiently, and the room where the needles could be heard was only rubbed by the robe. After rustling, after a whole cup of tea, he heard a depressive gasp, a thin layer of sweat spread on his face, he calmed down for a moment, and finally got up and went to the bath room.

After Bo Ruoyou returned home, he saw that Cheng Yunzhi had written a few more prescriptions. She presented the brocade box. This was the first time Cheng Yunzhi saw this. He looked at the golden ointment and listened to Bo Ruoyou’s general in the southern sick camp. thing.

It stands to reason that if he wants to treat the disease, he had better go and see the patients, but he was inconvenient, so he listened very carefully. Unable to control it."

Bo Ruoyou nodded, "Exactly, most of the prescriptions prescribed by the Taiyuan Hospital today are mainly warming and tonic. It is difficult to see from the pulse because of the addiction, and the poisoning only takes a moment. No one knows what the addiction is. I got it, today I told Lord Hou about this method of my adoptive father, and Lord Hou felt that this method of adoptive father might be surprisingly successful."

Cheng Yunzhi raised his brows, "Don't you want to go to the Yamen?"

Bo Ruo quietly coughed, "Because I still want to ask Master Song's case..."

Cheng Yun's face looked like a female congress. Bo Ruoyou hurriedly explained Song Yu's case. When it came to suspecting that Song Yu was a suicide, Cheng Yunzhi also expressed emotion, "Luozhou Silk is indeed famous for more than ten years. It only emerged, and after a group of local officials in Luozhou changed, it is now declining."

At this point, Cheng Yunzhi’s voice was chilled, “Temple politics is full of knives that kill people without seeing blood. If Song Yu really committed suicide, after committing suicide, so many people were implicated. He was poisoned in the middle, that was his fate, let's see if we can find evidence."

Bo Ruoyou responded, and accompanied Cheng Yunzhi to read the pharmacopoeia. In the past two days, the yamen was also busy with the troubles of the golden ointment. Bo Ruoyou never went to Yingmao. In the evening, he accompanied Cheng Yunzhi to visit Huang Lin, Huang Lin at this moment. He was a lot more sober. Seeing Cheng Yunzhi troubled him and made his parents sad and tired. He also looked guilty. Although he couldn't drink the soup, he forced himself to swallow half a bowl.

The father and daughter stayed until the second watch before returning home. Cheng Yunzhi wanted to wait to see if Huang Lin would get poisonous, but he never waited. He also hoped that the interval between Huang Lin's poisonous episodes would get longer and longer, so he went home and rested first. , And made the Huang family call at any time.

After Bo Ruoyou rested, he was a little concerned about Song Yu's case, but when he slept until the fifth time that night, the door of the Bo family's courtyard was knocked suddenly, and the servant of the Huang family came in panic, saying that Huang Lin's poison had attacked. !

Bo Ruoyou and Cheng Yunzhi went to Huang's house very quickly, and when they entered the inner room, they saw Huang Lin struggling on the bed again. His hands and feet were tied up, making a bruise of bruise, Cheng Yunzhi will spend the day. The fragrant pill made in it ignited quickly, and then it was placed beside Huang Lin. The smoke came out. Huang Lin never smelled the golden ointment at first, but soon, the convulsions on his body eased slightly. , The tears in the corners of the eyes were also contained.

Although it couldn't cure the root cause, it still gave him a little comfort. He leaned close to the incense burner with the fragrant pills, inhaled frantically, almost intoxicated, took a few breaths, and looked relieved. When the pain came up again, he went. He took a few more breaths, and went back and forth like this a few times, the strength of his struggling body was weakened, and his consciousness did not completely disintegrate.

After dawn, his drug addiction was finally overtaken. The first two troubles made him want to find short-sightedness. After this time, he was still awake, and he did not lose his strength and fainted. Cheng Yunzhi hurriedly asked for his pulse. It is also much milder than the previous two.

Cheng Yunzhi exhaled, "It seems to be small and effective. I only added a little gold ointment in it. The rest are all sandalwood spices and a few herbs. The damage to him has been minimized. Today, he must be well prepared to take medicinal food. Never be careless."

Cheng Yunzhi pondered for a moment. In addition to asking for pulse, he stepped forward and touched the acupuncture points on Huang Lin's shoulder and back to the top of his head. When he returned home, he said: "When the poison is on, the patients will be crazy. Give it to me. Feeling, as if hurting the veins on my head, so I wondered whether I can use acupuncture and moxibustion plus medicine, the effect will be faster."

Bo Ruoyou knows that some hand-foot-palsy and madness can be cured by acupuncture. This detoxification, but has not thought about it. He can not help but admire Cheng Yunzhi for his previous family background, which is not comparable to her. She naturally encourages Cheng Yunzhi to stay ahead. After leaving the house, Cheng Yunzhi went straight to the study, and then immersed himself in the study, Bo Ruoyou looked in the bottom of his eyes, feeling very relieved, and then lay hands on the side.

At noon, the door of Cheng's house was knocked again. Zhou Liang thought it was the Huang family, but when he opened the door, he saw that it was the attendant of the Hou Mansion who had come to give Bo Ruoyou a message. Bo Ruoyou reached the door, and the attendant said: "Girl, Master Hou asked the little people to give you a message. The place where Master Song bought the medicine has been found. It is as good as you expected. Master Hou, please don't worry about this case. If you are free, you can go to the Hou Mansion. I will tell you the details."

After Bo Ruoyou responded, the attendant turned and left. She thought for a while, only to realize that the case was a suicide, and the murder case was solved, so she went to the Hou Mansion to inquire, and she went back to the study to help Cheng Yunzhi.

After the results were told to Cheng Yunzhi, Cheng Yunzhi was also a little bit sorrowful, "I just don't know what's going on in it."

Bo Ruoyou expected that Huo Weilou was interrogating Wei Quan at this moment, and he didn't know whether it would go smoothly. The father and daughter talked about the ups and downs of the court officials, and put their minds on understanding the poison.

The murder case is over, and the most important thing now is to relieve the poison of the golden ointment. Not only Huang Lin is anxious, Huo Qinghong is anxious, and more than a thousand patients in the entire capital are looking forward to it, and Zhou Liang can hear about it every day when he goes out. There are many rumors that the culprit is the golden ointment. Although Cheng Yunzhi's face is not obvious, he is becoming more and more urgent. He prescribes many prescriptions and prepares many fragrant pills and medicines, and wants to find alternatives. The other medicinal herbs of the golden ointment, but within two days, the entire courtyard of the Cheng family was covered with medicinal materials purchased by Zhou Liangxin. I don’t know, I thought that the Cheng family was going to do medicinal material business.

In the past two days, Cheng Yunzhi was also trying acupuncture and moxibustion for Huang Lin. The effect is not obvious for the time being to relieve drug addiction. However, the headache and physical weakness caused by the poison have been reduced a lot, and the poison is eliminated. It was still quite uncomfortable during the hair, and the rest of the time was able to take medicine to eat, and the person's spirit and spirit had recovered a little, Cheng Yunzhi felt that he had found the right way.

Seeing that Huang Lin had regained a certain level of energy, Bo Ruoyou remembered Huo Qinghong's death. In the evening of the day, she said what she thought in her heart, and wanted to invite Cheng Yunzhi to see Huo Qinghong. He doesn't treat others to the doctor, and this time is also the home of his neighbors, and the addiction to his illness is under his nose.

She was a little nervous. After some hesitation, Cheng Yunzhi sighed and said, "I know that the Huo family's elder son is also infected with this poison, not to mention your current mind, only Wu Zhaohou saved you several times, this It should be, but now I have not yet determined how effective this method is, and it is not easy to come to the door rashly, especially because of his honorable status, maybe he has to understand the method of poison?"

In the past two days, Zhou Liang went out, but he didn’t hear that Chengnan sick camp had learned about poison. Therefore, Bo Ruoyou guessed that the Hou Mansion was mostly clueless, but she also thought it would be better for Huo Qinghong to see a doctor. "Then my daughter will go tomorrow. Take a look at the Hou Mansion, and tell the foster father after you have asked them clearly. If we need our foster father, we should go and see it. If we have already understood the poison, we have done our best."

Cheng Yunzhi responded with a smile. Only then did the father and daughter return to their rooms to rest. The next day they had breakfast. Bo Ruoyou took the carriage to the Hou Mansion. She counted that she hadn't seen Huo Wei Building for three days. In the mansion, when I heard that the Huo Weilou people were in the mansion, my heart was overjoyed. However, before they reached the main courtyard, they saw two attendants hurriedly heading to the guest courtyard with the decoction.

That is the direction Huo Qinghong lives now, Bo Ruoyou frowned, and hurriedly followed to the guest courtyard. As soon as he reached the courtyard gate, he heard the noise in the house. At a glance, Huo Wei Building stood sideways in the main hall. , The body is like a carved stone, but his eyes are looking at Nuan Pavilion.

"Brother, kill me!" Huo Qinghong roared in pain.

"I don't deserve to be your brother—"

"The uncle was born as the elder son of the government official, he was originally more expensive than my father, and later married the eldest princess... even more... more noble. You have been a role model for the juniors since you were a child... I will compare everything with you. I can't beat you. My father also told me that you are destined to be in power. A Huo family can’t have both powers on me. It’s good for him to make me a rich little grandfather. I...I just thought about it. Nothing compares, I am willing to be a dude, since I was young, no one knows that I am unwilling..."

"Now I have become such an appearance that life is worse than death..."

"You kill me, I really can't stand it..."

The attendants didn’t dare to look at their noses, noses, and heart. Bo Ruoyou was also a little shocked. Soon Father Fu’s voice came out, waiting to be pleading: "My son, you don’t have to say it again, Hou Lord, it’s all for your good. You drink the medicine obediently, and it’s good to drink the medicine..."

"Either give it to me or kill me, stop torturing me like this, I'm really uncomfortable, brother, why can't you be soft-hearted to me, you never soft-hearted to anyone, you are the same as the eldest mother, Back then, the uncle was forced to death in this way..."

"Shizi!" Duke Fu yelled anxiously, "Don't talk about Shizi, you can't say such things..."

"I can say, I can say anything, anyway, I can't live long anyway, I'm tortured to death like this, where am I still the son of the National Palace, I want to say, I want to say what I have been holding back all these years... …"

Huo Qinghong was exhausted, but still yelled his voice hoarse in spite of it. Father Fu persuaded him bitterly. There was also Ming Guilan's whispering voice, but Huo Qinghong continued to talk as if intentionally. He said in a voice: "I know how I beg you, you won't be softhearted. You don't even care about your own biological mother. You are in power, but look, look at yourself, you are useless than me. The people of you are even more pitiful, and your family of four is not doing well—"

Something broke, and Bo Ruoyou heard an unprecedented sharp voice reprimanding Huo Qinghong from Duke Fu, but Huo Qinghong laughed hoarsely, and then began to talk intermittently, but it was almost full of throat. The roar was broken, the words were hard to make a sentence, and Father Fu was full of angrily reprimanding something.

There are distinct noises in his ears, but Bo Ruo looks at Huo Wei Tower, but feels that there is a chilling silence around him. The attendants in the yard bow their heads, as if they have become stone statues, thin and quiet. The heartstrings were tense, and her mind hadn't moved, and she had already stepped out. She walked a little anxiously, but she was about to cross the threshold, when Huo Weilou heard the sound and turned her head.

At the moment when his eyes were facing each other, Bo Ruoyou saw an invisible void under Huo Weilou's eyes, as if all the compelling light had been swallowed by the abyss, and he himself was about to be submerged in the cold dimness, and so on. When Bo Ruoyou walked up to him, his eyes were a little bit bright. He turned around and said, "Why are you here."

He did not know how long he stood here, nor did he know how long he had listened to Huo Qinghong’s nonsense. When he opened his mouth, there was a dumb voice that had not been heard for a long time. Mansion, has Lord Hou forgotten?"

Huo Weilou thought for a while, remembering the case that Ri ordered someone to tell her Song Yu, he nodded, and walked out the door, "You come with me."

Bo Ruoyou hurriedly followed, his steps were not hurried nor slow, but also very steady, his back was straight and straight, like a cold blade wrapped in a scabbard, but even if it was behind the scabbard, he would not be close to anyone. Bo Ruoyou quickly followed him into the study.

When he arrived at the study, he turned around and pointed to the low couch under the window to make Bo Ruoyou sit down. Seeing that she hadn’t moved, he didn’t say much, but said with his usual eyebrows: “Song Yu is indeed the medicine he bought that day, and he didn’t have the money. Yes, when he bought the medicine, he gave him a dozen or so silver dollars to the store, but only a small pack of arsenic. Because of this, the shopkeeper who sold the medicine had a very deep impression on him. The medicine was shopped in the alley east of Sanqingguan. The lane is very remote. It took some time that day and I found it in the middle of the night..."

He thought she was really here to ask about the case, and he didn't stop as soon as he spoke. Her eyes were dull and difficult to see. Under his usual solemn tone, there is a bit of anxious difficulty.

"Song Yu also matched the time when he bought the medicine. After buying the medicine, according to the schedule, it coincided with the time when he went to the tea shop, and the doctor in the shop said that the same dose of arsenic should be used. It takes more than three hours for a person to die, and it also closes with Song Yu's poisonous death that day..."

Huo Weilou continued speaking, his tone was calm, as if giving him the most bitter Huanglian in the world, he could swallow without changing his face, Bo Ruoyou listened, suddenly stepped forward, leaned forward and hugged him. To live.