Demoness, Where Are You Fleeing To?

Chapter 323 The truth (please vote)

"My Lord Returning to the School, His Royal Highness the Prince and I arrived at Hanyuan Pavilion at the end of Chenshi that day."

Xi Huai'en, the chief eunuch of the East Palace, was not treated as a prisoner. He had no chains on his body and was still wearing the clothes of the chief eunuch. However, Huai'en's face was still as pale as paper: "The prince was careful and found that the snacks in front of Dr. Fei were gone, so he Someone sent another snack to Dr. Fei. This snack was delivered personally by me as the outside receiver at Hanyuan Pavilion."

Li Xuan heard this and asked thoughtfully: "So Fei Yuan only ate these snacks? Didn't he eat anything else?"

Xi Huaien thought for a while, then clasped his fists again: "I also drank tea, but only after the lecture."

"Then have the prince and Dr. Fei's tea been changed? Did you change it, Eunuch Xi?" Li Xuan looked at the snow outside the door. He estimated that in this weather, a cup of hot tea would cool down in less than three seconds.

"The person in charge of changing the water is not the slave, but Gong An!" Seeing Li Xuan's doubts, Xi Huai'en explained: "That was the dead chamberlain. He was responsible for testing the poison for the tea and snacks in Hanyuan Pavilion. He is also the supervisor of Hanyuan Pavilion. I personally saw him change the water for the prince and Dr. Fei twice."

The Attendant Supervisor is of the eighth rank, and there is a hierarchy.

Li Xuan then looked at the two young chamberlains behind Xi Huaien: "What about before that?"

He had actually asked them just now and knew that these two people were the so-called 'Chen people' who were on duty at Hanyuan Pavilion every day.

The so-called Chenren is a type of chamberlain. As the name suggests, it refers to a chamberlain with a little qualification. Under a supervisor, there are usually several "leaders", a dozen "chens", and dozens of apprentices.

One of them immediately kowtowed and replied: "After Dr. Fei had some snacks, he also drank the tea. Superintendent Gong might have been busy with other things at the time and forgot to refill Dr. Fei's water, so Dr. Fei went to get a copper pot and refilled it himself. So before His Royal Highness came, Dr. Fei not only ate snacks, but also drank two cups of tea."

Li Xuan looked around and saw a large copper pot in the corner. He raised his eyebrows slightly and walked over: "Is this the copper kettle you use? What was the waiter Gong doing at that time that he forgot to add water?"

After the prince arrived, Gong An obviously changed the water very frequently.

Zuo Daoxing and Yu Yunhuang couldn't help but frown when they saw this. The questions Li Xuan asked seemed to have nothing to do with this case.

The face of Demon-Subduing Captain Zhen Chun gradually became solemn. The two details Li Xuan discovered so far were things they had not noticed before.

It can be seen that his colleague from Zhuque Hall is really capable and does not live up to his fame.

But there was still a little dissatisfaction in Zhen Chun's eyes. In his opinion, the main reason was that he was not authorized to preside over the investigation of the case. It was inconvenient for him to ask many questions and it was inconvenient for him to do many things.

The two young chamberlains looked a little embarrassed, while Xi Huai'en said with a cold expression: "It's because of your poor training that I neglected Dr. Fei."

When Li Xuan heard this, he understood that it was just one way of doing things in front of the prince, and another face in front of Fei Yuan, the Hanlin.

He looked at the copper pot carefully for a moment, then turned around and said, "It's almost done here. Could you please take me to the morgue."

According to Zuo Daoxing, the corpses of the eunuchs, including the eunuch Gong An, the two eunuchs who delivered the snacks, and the cook of Renshou Palace who made the snacks, are all parked in a small warehouse in the backyard of the East Palace. , under the joint supervision of the Internal Police Supervisor, the Embroidery Guard, and the personnel from the Three Law Departments.

The group of people walked through the snow and arrived at the morgue warehouse in about half a cup of tea. A total of four corpses were placed on the floor in the warehouse. Not only was this place surrounded by a group of forbidden troops, there were also three officials wearing seventh-grade robes on duty.

The first thing Li Xuan looked at was the attendant Gong An. When he used the 'Yuan Yi Technique' on his hands and started to turn over Gong An's body, the first thing he noticed was the bloody cherry-shaped corpse spots on Gong An's body.

Next, he was still very careful, looking at every inch of hair and inch of skin, and at the same time asked: "Has anyone touched these four corpses?"

"Our soul has undergone a preliminary autopsy." Zuo Daoxing frowned and replied: "Don't worry, Mr. Jing Anbo, the entire autopsy process was in full view of the public. No one dared to do anything. Our soul was in Gong An's body. The blood cherry red toxin was found, and the toxin came from the food in his stomach."

Princess Yu Yunhuang of Changning County looked a little impatient: "Li Xiaowei, the bodies of these people have been seen by the deceased members of our family. The key to this case is to find out who was behind these people. Captain Li, do you know that the officials and Imperial College students who are knocking at the Meridian Gate have been kneeling outside for three days, and now some people are fainting every moment?"

Li Xuan ignored what he heard. He continued to examine Gong An's body, and at the same time continued to ask: "Why was the time of this person's death more than half an hour later than Dr. Fei Yuanfei?"

"It must be because his poisoning was mild." Zuo Daoxing was also a little impatient at this moment: "Gong An only tried six pieces of pastries, which was far less than Fei Yuan, our soul. The amount of blood detected in his blood Cherry red is indeed less toxic than Gong An."

"But it shouldn't be postponed for so long. Fei Yuan's powerful cultivation should have reached the sixth level of the tower. His resistance to toxins should be far stronger than Gong An's."

When Li Xuan said this, he found a wound about half an inch long on the tip of Gong An's finger. It should have been scratched by some sharp instrument.

Li Xuan immediately turned to Xi Huaien and asked: "Eunuch Xi, do you know where the injury on Gong An's finger came from? From the looks of the wound, it should be an injury that this person suffered shortly before his death."

Xi Huai'en thought for a moment and then replied: "It should have been when I was cutting the paper for His Highness the Crown Prince. When Fei Yuan was giving a lecture, he asked His Highness the Crown Prince to silently write down the essence of the "Book of Rites*", so Gong An cut it for His Highness. Two pages of rice paper. I heard him say "Ah" at that time, and the servant was angry for a while. This person is also a senior person, how could he be disrespectful in front of His Highness?"

Li Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and then he continued down to inspect Gong An's feet.

He didn't find anything unusual, so he opened Gong An's chest.

Unlike Fei Yuan whose body was intact before, Gong An's chest had been opened and the stomach inside had also been cut open.

Li Xuan first tested the toxin. He used the 'Whale Needle' to stir the food in Gong An's stomach, and then put it into the special potion. The tail end of the narwhal needle turned purple-black as expected.

"Have you finished reading it?" Yu Yunhuang snorted coldly: "The old widows in the palace are not inferior to you, Li Xuan."

She was first called Jing Anbo, then Li Xiaowei, but now she calls him by his first name.

Zuo Daoxing also thought that Li Xuan would give up, but then he saw Li Xuan and started rummaging through the food again. He actually took the trouble to search inside bit by bit.

Li Xuan had done this step before when examining Fei Yuan's body. But at this moment, Zuo Daoxing felt even more impatient: "Li Xiaowei, the emperor has just sent someone over to ask."

Li Xuan turned a deaf ear, and then he took out a knife from the tool box, cut open Gong An's esophagus and throat one by one, and looked through it carefully.

He found small blood clots in Gong An's stomach and esophagus.

He couldn't help but frown, and turned back to look at Xi Huaien: "Eunuch Xi, after Gong An injured his finger, did he suck his finger?"

At this time, Zhen Chun, the captain of the Demon Subduing School who had been watching, seemed to have thought of something. His pupils suddenly shrank, and a flash of surprise appeared.

"Sucked it! And more than once." Xi Huaien fell into recollection: "I saw it three times with my own eyes. I didn't know that his finger was scratched at the time, so it was very strange."

Li Xuan couldn't help but fell into deep thought. He was still very surprised that Gong An ate snacks before Fei Yuan. In theory, his death time should also be before Fei Yuan. But Gong An's death was more than half an hour later than Fei Yuan. So what caused this situation? Could it be that the time when this person was poisoned was actually later than Fei Yuan?

At this time, he thought of the yellow dust in Fei Yuan's nails, the copper pot the two touched together, and the blood stain on Gong An's hand.

Li Xuan's face immediately darkened: "Eunuch Xi, are the snacks sent to Fei Yuan later made separately or from the same batch?"

"It should be the same batch," Xi Huai'en replied: "The snacks in the palace are usually made early in the morning by the dining room and then served throughout the day. After I sent someone to summon them, the snacks were delivered within half an hour. "

At this time, Li Xuan was already walking in a hurry, walking directly in the direction of Hanyuan Pavilion.

The few people behind, except for the Demon-Subduing Captain Zhen Chun, looked at each other suspiciously, and then hurriedly followed.

Luo Yan walked directly to Li Xuan and asked curiously: "Li Xuan, have you discovered it? What is going on?"

"It was discovered that there were some small blood clots and blood streaks in the deceased's stomach and esophagus, but there were no wounds in his digestive tract."

There was a bright light in Li Xuan's pupils: "I need to do a test now. If my guess is confirmed, then this case will not be far from getting to the bottom of the truth."

This time he even used his escape technique and stepped into Hanyuan Pavilion with steps like the wind. Then he took out another brush and continued to scrape Fei Yuan's fingertips.

Since he had already cleaned Fei Yuan's nails very clean before, this time he worked hard for a long time and only collected a tiny bit of yellow dust.

Next, he picked up two pieces of mung bean cake from the snacks that had been turned over on the ground. These two pieces of mung bean cake were originally non-toxic, but Li Xuan very carefully used a handkerchief to grab them: "Come here, get me a bowl of water."

At this time, Tongzhi Zuo Daoxing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Xiuyi Guard, who was following from behind, and Princess Yu Yunhuang of Changning, both looked thoughtfully at the things in Li Xuan's hands. The former suddenly waved his sleeves: "Didn't you hear? Hurry up and go. ! Hurry and get a bowl of water for Uncle Jing’an.”

The governor's colleague looked at Li Xuan with a hint of admiration in his eyes. Zuo Daoxing is by no means stupid, on the contrary, he is extremely smart. By this time, he had already seen some clues.

The bowl of water was quickly delivered to Li Xuan. UU Reading www.uukanshu.net He then crushed the mung bean cake in his hand and threw it into the tea bowl. Next, Li Xuan sprinkled the yellow dust he collected into it.

He waited until he had taken about twenty breaths, then inserted the narwhal needle inside and stirred it for a moment.

Later, when Li Xuan took out the needle and put it into the special potion, the tail end of the needle immediately turned purple-black.

At this moment, there was a sudden silence in Hanyuan Pavilion. Everyone, including Zhen Chun, the captain of the Demon-Subduing School, who had already suspected it, looked frightened.

Li Xuan raised his head and looked at everyone present: "It seems that it is just as I suspected, it is a mixture of poisons. The powder in Fei Yuan's nails, combined with the seemingly non-toxic refreshments, will turn into highly toxic . They used this method to deliver the poison in front of the prince. And Fei Yuan, the doctor of the Five Classics, if others had not stuffed these unknown dust into his fingernails, he could only have committed suicide."

The problem is, even if Fei Yuan committed suicide, he even killed Gong An intentionally or unintentionally. So how did the cook and the two eunuchs who delivered the food die?

This food comes from Renshou Palace. Is it a party from the East Palace, or is it directed and performed by the Empress Dowager Sun?

But the specific details still need to be further explored.