After the separation, the family had a lot of fish and meat every day, and the best was furious

Old Madam Qu narrowed her eyes slightly. She wondered why Lin Ting was asked to go to the coroner's office when everything was fine.

The nice name for that place is the coroner's room, and the unpleasant name is the morgue. The coroner goes there to examine the deceased.

Lin Ting also turned to look at the yamen runner, then looked at Old Madam Qu. This...

"Young man, are you sure it was Master Qu who asked me to come over?"

The yamen runner nodded confidently: "Yes, Lord Qu said that Madam Lin is with the old lady and wants you to go over and help look after something."

Lin Ting didn't want to get involved in these government cases, but as a friend, she went anyway.

I followed the young yamen runner around for several circles before I finally arrived at the coroner's room, which was the farthest from Madam Qu's place.

As soon as Lin Ting approached, she smelled the stench of a rotting corpse, but fortunately, she had smelled all kinds of smells on the human body, so she could still accept the stench.

Seeing Lin Ting coming over, Qu Yuanxun stepped forward and said, "Madam Lin, Wan Weiran is out seeing patients, so I have no choice but to ask you to come over and help."

Qu Yuanxun covered his mouth and nose with a cloth with one hand, and handed a new piece of cloth to Lin Ting with the other hand.

Lin Ting took the cloth from Qu Yuanxun's hand, but she didn't need it.

"What does Master Qu want me to help you with?"

Qu Yuanxun waved his hand, and a coroner brought a bowl of liquid and something wrapped in cloth to Lin Ting.

The smell of these two things went straight to the top of my head, a mixture of stomach acid, rotting corpse, and rotting food.

Although Lin Ting was mentally prepared, he still squinted his eyes because of the smoke.

"I'm sorry, Madam Lin, because we found these things in the deceased's stomach, and they look like medicinal residue.

In terms of knowledge of medicine, you and Wan Weiran are the strongest in Wenzhu County, so I want you to come and make some judgments."

Lin Ting nodded and first used a silver needle to measure the liquid in the bowl. The silver needle was slightly black.

It's not very black, but it's slightly toxic. Looking at the contents inside the cloth, it looks a bit like medicinal residue, but it's green. I don't know if it was corroded by stomach acid or if it was originally like this.

The residue was crushed into small pieces, and if you look closely, it looks a bit like thick leaves.

But there are so many leafy herbs, and it’s really hard to tell them apart when they’re broken into such small pieces.

"Give me a bowl of salt water and a bowl of white wine."

Lin Ting's request was answered by Qu Yuanxun, who ordered the yamen runners to prepare immediately.

After getting some salt water and white wine, Lin Ting first picked up some green residue and washed it in the salt water. When he took it out and looked at it, he found that the green thing had not changed at all.

Take a little more and put it in white wine, the same result.

Generally, fresh leafy herbs will wilt when exposed to salt water, but this one does not.

It's okay if it comes with liquor, there's only one thing that will do this.

"Did you take this thing out from the deceased's esophagus or stomach?"

The coroner standing next to Lin Ting said, "All of these were found in Bri's esophagus."

Lin Ting's expression was heavy: "Master Qu, can I go see the body?"

It would be best if he could see it. Qu Yuanxun was afraid that Lin Ting would be scared, so he didn't dare to mention it. But since Lin Ting brought it up himself, of course there was no problem.

"Take Madam Lin in!"

Lin Ting came in and put aside the cloth that Qu Yuanxun had used to cover her mouth and nose.

The coroner helped her open the cloth covering the body and explained it to her again.

"Mrs. Lin, those two female corpses over there were about thirty years old. They died of suffocation, not drowning. They were probably thrown into the water after death and were discovered after being soaked into giants.

This one actually drowned. I found river sand and tiny water plants in her nasal cavity and esophagus."

Lin Ting roughly understood what the coroner meant, but why there was still toxic substance in her stomach was what Qu Yuanxun wanted to investigate.

Looking at the disassembled parts, Lin Ting borrowed the coroner's tools and carefully observed the esophagus and stomach.

Where there was that green substance, the muscles were obviously black. Seeing this, Lin Ting confirmed his guess.

She went back to look at the liquid taken out of the deceased's stomach and verified it with soda stone. It turned black, and she finally understood.

"Master Qu, there are two kinds of medicines taken from the deceased's body, and both are uncommon medicines."

Lin Tingyong pointed to the juice mixed with stomach acid in the bowl and explained with her most professional knowledge.

"This liquid contains a large amount of white quartz, which comes from deep mountains and is a stone-like substance. It is non-toxic, but it should not be taken for a long time.

When boiled with other herbs, it tastes sweet and is used to treat thirst, impotence and insufficiency. It also has the effect of making one feel as light as a swallow. However, it should not be chewed or ground into a fine powder.

This medicine doesn't sound like it can be connected to the murder case. It is still unknown whether the deceased used it to treat illness or for other purposes.

"What about this medicine residue?"

Lin Ting picked up a piece of the residue and put it in front of him, explaining to Qu Yuanxun.

“This thing is called Pyatama, and it usually grows in arid deserts. Few people here use it as a bonsai.

It is very small and contains hallucinogenic alkaloids, which can cause hallucinations if ingested."

Qu Yuanxun looked at the crushed things. He had never heard of the name that Lin Ting mentioned.

"We don't have this thing here? And now it appears here, it must have been brought here by the murderer.

And the murderer may have used this peyote to cause the deceased to hallucinate and commit suicide by jumping into the river."

Lin Ting: “Maybe, but we need to investigate the whole matter thoroughly to know the whole story.

But if Lord Kuroba Tamakome wants to see the real thing, I know where it can be found."

"Where can I find such a thing?"

Qu Yuanxun kept his eyes fixed on Lin Ting. The actual medicine was very important to the case.

Lin Ting washed her hands and thought about it in her heart before she told Qu Yuanxun about Wu Yuyu.

"I have these plants in the small yard my sister rented. The original owner had raised them, but they were almost dead. But my sister felt sorry for them, so she changed the pots and kept three more alive."

Lin Ting wanted to clear Lin Lin of suspicion. After all, the murderer used black feather jade to harm people, and in the entire Wenzhu County, only her sister had this thing.

Instead of waiting for Qu Yuanxun to find out the truth himself someday, she might as well tell him now, or take the pot of black jade to the county government office, and then Lin Lin will be fine.

"Can you show me this black feather jade?"

"Well, Master Qu, you have to ask my sister."

Because of the case, Lin Lin said goodbye to Mrs. Qu and took Lin Ting and Qu Yuanxun into her yard. She took the pot of black jade from the flower pot rack and handed it to Qu Yuanxun with both hands.

"This seems to be what you call the black jade. I was cleaning the house and saw that they were still alive, so I wanted to raise them."

The flowerpot is not big, about the size of a bowl. There are three black jade plants in it. They are green, round and plump, about the size of a country egg.

This thing doesn't look poisonous at all.