The petite wife in ancient Alpha

Chapter 20 It's too late to go now

After vowing never to mention the "post-mortem" incident again, Tong Hu finally got Ling Zhi's "magnanimous" forgiveness under the witness of the ancient banyan tree.

Ling Jiaoma and Tong Jiaotong supported each other, and returned to Liyin's house hungry, and when they entered the door, they were gagged by Zhao's chicken legs that had been ambushed.

Seeing Ling Zhi tear off a piece of chicken leg meat with his tiger teeth, and stuff the rest into Tong Hu's mouth, Zhao Wanli showed a big brother-like gratified smile, and he just prepared a chicken leg...

It's okay, the sun rises as usual, and his little monk will never leave.

"Where's the dog, Old Zhao?" Ling Zhi slurred his words while chewing on the meat.

"It smells like you've been waiting, I'll go to the corner to cool off, so as not to get maggots."

Zhao Wanli explained while leading the way, walked along the bluestone bricks to the half-person-high firewood stack at the back of the house, opened the old straw mat with holes, exposed the furred and thorny dog ​​carcass in the sun, and three or two flies were buzzing. flutter.

The dog corpse was exposed to the sun for a whole noon, and the rate of decay can be imagined, and the smell is many times stronger than that in the tomb passage.

Ling Zhi swallowed the chicken leg meat in his mouth, squatted down with a calm expression, turned his palms and said, "Old Zhao, what the hell."

Although there is still a certain distance from being a professional police officer, Ling Zhi is one of the few policemen in the six gates who can do autopsies. This is all due to Song Debao's careful cultivation in his early years.

"I'm taking it with me." Zhao Wanli took out a buffalo leather tool bag from his pocket and put it in Ling Zhi's hand, and then chased after him with white gloves on, "Do you want it?"

"Of course." Untied the strap of the tool bag and put it by his feet, Ling Zhi took the white gloves and put them on his hands, then took out the knife in the tool bag.

Glancing at Tong Hu who was squatting on the other side of the dog's corpse, Ling Zhi stroked the dog's neck with his white-gloved hands and said, "I still remember that the old woman said that the dog was dead, and she made a gesture of choking her throat. The movement of the dog? To confirm whether the dog was strangled or strangled, it will be clear after shaving the dog’s hair.”

Ling Zhi flexibly scraped his wrist up and down, making a rustling sound like shaving pig hair, and after a while, the five-finger-shaped dark corpse spots on the dog's neck were exposed.

Seeing this, Tong Hu asked Ling Zhi before he could open his mouth: "If the dog was strangled alive, how can you explain that there was no trace of kicking on the old woman last night? There are no signs of binding on the limbs of the dog's corpse. If the dog was fed poison in advance , why bother to do it yourself?"

"The old woman's son was bitten by a dog and died of an illness. It is reasonable if he wants to avenge himself." Ling Zhi held a knife in his hand and cut open the dog's belly, and then opened the dog's stomach again.

The undigested unknown matter in the stomach was mixed together, Ling Zhi poked the unknown matter with a knife, and found some thorny fruit fragments.

Datura is not something new to the eye. The flowers, leaves, and seeds all have medicinal properties, such as analgesia, anesthesia, convulsions, epilepsy, and cold cough, but they are also very poisonous.

Covering the dog's corpse with a straw mat, Ling Zhi stood up and said, "This old woman is not an ordinary person. Her son died of mad dog disease, so she killed the dog with a mandala."

Zhao Wanli slapped his forehead; "I said, why does this thorny thing look so familiar?"

"Well, you have used it, the amount is small." Ling Zhi smiled at Zhao Wanli, and then said to Tong Hu: "Brother Huzi, you don't know that Datura can produce general anesthesia on humans, monkeys, and dogs. .Being poisoned by Datura will cause dysphagia, convulsions, elevated body temperature, auditory and visual hallucinations, body hyperactivity and other symptoms, which are half consistent with the symptoms of mad dog disease. It is also good for the old woman to kill dogs with Datura poison , or strangle the dog with your own hands, it’s nothing more than venting your anger.”

"This can only explain the cause of the dog's death. Why is it so certain that the murderer must be an old woman?" Tong Hu is skeptical about handling the case based on the motive and inference. After all, there is no definitive evidence such as DNA in this period.

"First of all, based on the corpse spots, the dog died around the time when he met the old woman last night. Second, the old woman wore an old silver wrench on her right hand last night, which is consistent with this." Ling Zhi leaned over and lifted the straw mat again, pointing his finger at the dog's neck A dark indentation on the last place.

"What's more, we should be able to find unused mandala flowers in the old woman's house when we come to visit with the dog's corpse." Ling Zhi straightened up after speaking, tilted his head and raised his eyebrows at Tong Hu, "explain like this May I?"

Tong Hu was shown off by Ling Zhi's stinky show, and he smiled and sighed: "Give you to the smart one."

"No, you two wait for a while." Zhao Wanli really didn't want to do the burying job, he tiptoed a little on the edge of the straw mat, and said with his mouth curled up, "This messed up my stomach, how can I lift it?"

"Then let's use this as a pretext to visit the door." Ling Zhi picked up a bunch of dog's neck hair and wrapped it in the white gloves that he took off, "Old Zhao, take it, I'll wash my hands and see if there is any You can eat food on the road."

Zhao Wanli's expression froze, the raised corners of his mouth didn't have time to fall down, and his frown was full of the helplessness of a spoiled child, who made him a younger brother...

After half a stick of incense, the three of them held the cold cooking cake with meat in their hands, as if they were going to fight a battle that must be won.

Ling Zhi held a water bag filled with warm water under his arm, took two mouthfuls of cooking cakes and a mouthful of water, and bumped Tong Hu with his elbow from time to time, asking vaguely whether he would drink or not.

Asked once, Tong Hu took it once, Zhao Wanli, an outsider, could clearly see the idea of ​​drinking without thirst, Ling Zhi felt as if his brain had been punctured, and he didn't know if he was really innocent or pretending to be innocent.

Pushing open the gate of the old woman's house with the "hard spirit" of an uninvited guest, the three of them all had the attitude of coming to do business.

Hearing the clanging of the courtyard door, Wu Wang strode out of the main room, and saw Zhao Wanli, who was no longer polite, faintly aware of something strange.

"Master Wu, I'm sorry to bother you." With a decent smile on his face, Zhao Wanli cupped his hands carelessly, and immediately made a "search" gesture.

Ling Zhi and Tong Hu had to be ordered to enter the room, and then the sound of jingling, bang, bang, and bang came from the half-covered window.

Wu Wang clenched his hands behind his back into fists, pretending to be calm and said: "Catcher Zhao, this is it?"

"The crazy woman used the mandala to torture and kill the dogs in the village. This poison must be confiscated." Zhao Wanli took out the glove wrapped in the dog's hair and shook it in front of Wu Wang, "Otherwise, what if she is thrown into the village well or the river insanely?" , the consequences can be imagined."

"Does Detective Zhao mean the Datura flower?" Wu Wang raised his eyebrows and shuddered.

It stands to reason that the old woman has long lost her mind under his "careful care". How did she manage to kill the dog with a mandala?

If the old woman pretended to be confused on purpose, would he not be aware of the colorless and odorless chronic poison in his body?

Wu Wang's face turned pale under careful consideration, and he wished to fry a bowl of kudzu root juice immediately to dissolve the residual poison in the body by diluting it.

"That's right, it's a mandala flower."

The emphatic voice came from Ling Zhi, who had found evidence of the crime, and Tong Hu followed closely behind the old woman who was in a trance after drinking the medicine.

"Master Wu, although we are here to investigate the case of a strange disease in Ningping Village, we accidentally discovered that a large number of dogs were murdered in the village. It is really difficult to ignore it. Today, we took him to Qinglu County overnight. Yamen, decided by the county magistrate."

Ling Zhi respectfully bowed to Wu Wang, thinking in his heart that Zhao Wanli would use this as an excuse to go back to Shengdu City overnight to rescue soldiers, so that the sinful village could be taken away at noon tomorrow.

Wu Wang was in a hurry to decoct the medicine to detoxify, and wished that the six-door police would take the old woman away immediately, and it would be better if she died on the way to Qinglu County.

The reason why he has been slow to move the old woman is nothing more than the fact that the old woman holds the map of the mechanism of the tomb.Now that the six doors have found out where the tomb passage is, the secrets in the valley are already on paper and cannot be covered.He reined in the precipice at this time, so as not to steal chickens and lose money.

Wu Wang looked at Ling Zhi, even though he felt unwilling, he could only politely say: "In that case, please go ahead."

The three of them bowed their heads to say goodbye to Wu Wang, and escorted the old woman along the main road of Ningping Village generously. The sight that might jump out of the courtyard wall has long been ignored by Ling Zhi. Seeing may not be heard, and seeing may not be believing.

Who is he?

The No. [-] actor in Six Doors.

"You also know that we fiddle with the six doors on a daily basis, not to mention the ground and the ground."

Ling Zhi tapped Tong Hu's chest with the back of his hand. Anyone who looked like he was chatting with Tong Hu, but actually said every word to the old woman who was pretending to be in a trance.

When they broke the door and entered the house to search, the old woman changed from her usual nagging, her eyes were clear and her words were sharp, she confessed to the dog cruelty, and she used the secret of Ningping Village as a bargaining chip to negotiate with him, saying that she would Leave the village to find a safe place to bury the bones.

Probably because of his honest and decent face, the old woman had the illusion that he would do what he said, and as soon as he agreed, the old woman really thought he could be the master of the six doors.

Although killing dogs is not like killing cattle and horses, it is the same as stealing.But if the flower field is not wrong, it is a hibiscus flower that is forbidden to be planted privately by the imperial court.

"Punishment Records" has a saying: All kinds of poisonous flowers and traffickers, beheaded;

No matter what kind of punishment, the old woman cannot escape death at this age.What's more, this matter is related to the survival of the entire village. Once the villagers know that the disaster is coming, they will either destroy the corpses and wipe out the traces, or resist stubbornly.It was also because of this that he did not dare to act rashly.

Thinking about it going well, once the case is solved, the imperial court will definitely allocate the reward money, and Tong San's money for making clothes will be available again.If you think about it in a dead end, you might lose your life.

But he can't leave. There are gardeners in the village. Once he escapes, he may plant such harmful things. As long as he manages to keep the villagers safe, Jinyiwei will definitely arrive at noon tomorrow, not to mention the village, even Qinglu County. Song An, the former county magistrate, was also involved.

Thinking so, Ling Zhi took out the dregs of the medicine that had been pressed under the boulder outside Li Yin's courtyard and stuffed it to Zhao Wanli, and whispered in his ear, "Abandon her in a place where there is no place in the front of the village or behind the store, and call Jin Yiwei to bring someone to help quickly. In addition, we I think Wu Wang might abscond in fear of crime, so don't forget to issue a warrant."

"I see, don't worry." Zhao Wanli patted Ling Zhi's arm and did not dare to speak deeply, but said solemnly: "Wait for me."

Watching Zhao Wanli ride his horse towards the entrance of the village, Ling Zhi's heart was heavy. He lowered his eyes and said lightly, "There is still time to go now, so that Uncle Tong won't worry."

Tong Hu remained silent, and took a half-step sideways, blocking his back that was afraid of the wind.

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