The mind-reading coroner drove the court crazy

"How did you know that? No, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Lu Qingchen frowned unhappily. How could she tell that this woman had any relationship with Pan Xun?

Qin Miaoxi kicked him under the table and continued innocently, following Wen Ran's words, "Sister, you really have a good eye. When Pan Xun came to your place that day, he lost the Dushan jade crown I gave him. Did he give it to you?"

Wen Ran denied it repeatedly, "No, I have never accepted anything from Lord Pan."

Qin Miaoxi looked at her deeply, "But his servant said that the things were with my sister, and they are gone."

She pursed her lips and hurriedly explained, "You misunderstood, I really didn't take it."

Lu Qingchen sneered, "You said you didn't take it, so you didn't take it!"

"Okay, I believe you, sister." Qin Miaoxi smiled in response, without any doubt on her face.

Lu Qingchen: "..."

"Sister, do you know where Pan Xun went after he left you?"

Wen Ran thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "He never mentioned it."

Qin Miaoxi suddenly moved in front of Wen Ran, facing her. Their noses were so close that they seemed to be touching, and their breaths seemed to be entangled in the lightness of their hair.

Wen Ran subconsciously leaned back slightly, her eyes revealing a kind of panic, but also full of doubts and puzzlement. She didn't know what this girl disguised as a man was up to.

"Sister, do you know what heinous things Pan Xun has done?"

Wen Ran's expression suddenly changed, and he stammered, "I don't understand what you are saying."

Lu Qingchen's eyes lit up, and with a little excitement, he asked, "That day, Pan Xun was drinking with someone at your place, and he blurted out that the Imperial Censor Tian Guangyuan had grabbed his pigtail. Didn't he tell you what the pigtail was afterwards?"

Wen Ran's silence had already answered this question, and Qin Miaoxi suddenly reached out to Lu Qingchen.

He blinked blankly, "What?"

Qin Miaoxi rolled her eyes at him, ripped open his shirt, took out a stack of banknotes and placed them all in front of Wen Ran.

She met her eyes sincerely and said, "I can redeem you. With the remaining money, you can do some small business on your own. You don't have to waste your life in this place of prostitution."

Wen Ran stared at the stack of banknotes with burning eyes. It wasn't that she didn't have the money to redeem herself, but what would happen after she did? How would a woman survive? That was her biggest concern.

So even though she was tempted, she was still hesitant.

Qin Miaoxi quickly gave Lu Qingchen a look, and then she understood what was going on. She patted her chest and promised, "Don't worry, you have me as your protector from now on. If anyone dares to bully you, I will break his legs."

If you have concerns, then we will break them and let you have no worries.

"I……"

Qin Miaoxi held Wen Ran's hand tightly, "Sister, I hope you can look back again. The boat has already passed through thousands of mountains."

This time, Wen Ran didn't hesitate at all. She looked up at Lu Qingchen and asked, "Young Marquis, are you serious?"

"I always keep my word, so you can rest assured."

"Okay, I'll tell you." She gritted her teeth, as if she had made some kind of decision. "Master Pan once said that someone found evidence that he stole the exam questions and wanted to report him, but he stopped them."

"How did he stop it?"

"It seems that Lord Pan also discovered the other party's secret, and the two of them used it as a bargaining chip."

Qin Miaoxi and the others left Zuihualou. Lu Qingchen kept muttering to himself along the way, "Tian Guangyuan had evidence that Pan Xun had stolen the exam questions, so he had a motive to kill. But on the night Tian Guangyuan was murdered, Pan Xun was at home sleeping, which means he didn't have the time to kill."

"Think about it another way. Would Tian Guangyuan take off his clothes and do such explicit things in front of Pan Xun?"

Lu Qingchen only thought about it for a moment before he couldn't help but feel a chill, goose bumps all over his body. "Impossible, absolutely impossible. So you never suspected Pan Xun was the murderer?"

"Yes, I came to Zuihualou just to find out where the jade crown is." Qin Miaoxi pondered, "Pan Xun brought the jade crown to find Wen Ran, but disappeared after returning home. So as long as we find out where he went and who he met during this period, we can know who took the jade crown. That person is very likely related to Tian Guangyuan's murder."

Lu Qingchen was scratching his head in thought, "Forget it. It's getting late now. I'll go back and rest first. We'll talk about it tomorrow."

Qin Miaoxi nodded. On the way back, they passed by Tian Mansion and saw a middle-aged man kneeling at the door.

She asked curiously, "Who is that person? Why is he kneeling outside the Tian family's door?"

Lu Qingchen took a look, a rare expression of admiration and regret on his face. "That's the third son of the Tian family, Tian Guangyuan's third uncle. He's a bastard of the Tian family, disliked by Old Madam Tian. After he grew up, he went out to do business. The Qian family's wealthy life was all earned by him."

[It's a pity that he has no status in the Tian family and has always been a tool for the Tian family to make money. It's a pity for his talent.]

Qin Miaoxi was surprised. She hadn't realized that Lu Qingchen had such a high opinion of this man. She couldn't help but look at the man again.

The night was silent, and the next day the news came that Pan Xun had died.

Qin Miaoxi hurried to the government office and asked, "How did Pan Xun die?"

Liang Hongkai said solemnly, "Last night, Pan Xun went out to drink wine and fell down the stairs, breaking his head and dying on the spot."

"I want to see his body."

"Everyone present at the time witnessed his fall, and there is no suspicion of death."

Qin Miaoxi stared at him with eyes as deep as a pool and repeated, "I want to see the body."

Liang Hongkai sighed slightly, "His body has been taken back by the Pan family."

Qin Miaoxi went straight to Pan's house without saying a word.

She didn't believe it was a coincidence. He died just after the investigation into Pan Xun. How could such a coincidence happen in the world?

"Woman, don't be impulsive!" Lu Qingchen followed closely behind.

When they arrived at Pan's house and explained their purpose, Pan's mother drove them out without hesitation.

Qin Miaoxi almost fought with her, "Do you just want your son to die in obscurity?"

Lu Qingchen held her back and advised, "Don't talk, I'll do it."

No one knew what he said to Pan's mother, but Pan's mother's expression changed from anger to calmness. Finally, she nodded with tears in her eyes and left alone.

"Come on, let's go in now."

"What did you tell her?"

"Just to help them plead with the emperor, asking him not to blame the other members of the Pan family."

Qin Miaoxi secretly approved of the fact that if court officials openly went out to drink and have fun, even if they died, it would be recorded in the emperor's record.

The two came to Pan Xun's body, and Lu Qingchen said, "I heard that he fell on his head and died from heavy bleeding."

"No, people who have lost too much blood will have pale skin and won't have cyanosis."

As she spoke, she checked Pan Xun's face and limbs. The tip of his nose, earlobes and fingertips were all bluish purple, as if they were frostbitten.

She lifted Pan Xun's neck slightly again. There were dark red spots behind his ears and the back of his neck, like blood clots.

"If Pan Xun's fatal injury was to the head, how did these injuries occur?"

Lu Qingchen was speechless. The symptoms displayed by the corpse were indeed quite different from those of a person who had been killed by a car accident.

Qin Miaoxi opened Pan Xun's mouth to check, "Do you smell it?"

Lu Qingchen swallowed his saliva and carefully moved closer. Then he said in surprise, "It smells like ginger and garlic. Did he eat these when he was alive?"

"It stands to reason that he must have drunk quite a bit of alcohol before he died, but now there's only a faint smell of alcohol in his breath."

Qin Miaoxi then opened his mouth wide and examined it carefully, and her hand suddenly paused.

"What did you find?"

Confidence shone in her eyes as she said with certainty, "Pan Xun didn't die from falling. He was poisoned by Pinellia ternata."

"Ginger and garlic are the flavors of Pinellia ternata poisoning. He experienced dizziness, numbness in the mouth, and cramps in his hands and feet. His speech became slurred, as if he were drunk, leading people to mistakenly believe he fell and died from excessive drinking."

Qin Miaoxi hurried out the door. "He's consumed a large amount of Pinellia. He'll definitely die within an incense stick of time. The wine he drank from must still contain Pinellia poison."

"I will go with you."