Dali Temple Conspiracy Records

Gu Zhai, Zhiyuan lives in the dormitory.

After lunch, Gu Mingyuan leaned on the recliner, drank the concoction in one gulp, and asked the servant to bring over the recent account books of Jishitang.

"Third young master, your health is not well yet, don't you want to rest?"

"No need."

The boy knew his son's temper, so he didn't try to persuade him.At this time, the servant outside said: "Master, Li Sizhi is here."

When Gu Mingyuan heard this, he just wanted to get up to greet him, when Li Quan had already stepped into the door, followed by Bai Sanxiu.

"Don't be too polite, just sit down."

Having said that, Gu Mingyuan still crossed his hands to salute, and only sat back after Li Quan and Bai Sanxiu sat down, asking, "Is there any progress on the case?"

Li Quan said indifferently: "That's right, I have an inference about your mansion's case, and I would like to ask the third son to listen to it."

"Si Zhi, please tell me. Serve tea."

"I'll just tell the case in chronological order."

Li Quan was not in a hurry, and calmly started from the beginning.

"About two to one and a half years ago, the murderer brewed a small amount of cinnabar in Dr. Gu's daily diet, causing Mr. Gu to be slowly poisoned. As his auditory hallucinations became more and more serious, Mr. Gu suspected that he was haunted by ghosts, so he frequently drank cinnabar talisman water in order to drive away evil spirits. , and eventually died of poisoning.

Mr. Gu didn't know that he had already taken too much cinnabar, and after his death, the cinnabar talisman was drawn out by accident to cause trouble.Xiaoxiu and I were suspicious of the cause of Gu's death. From an old case of short scales in Jishitang, we discovered that someone had stolen the scales in the pharmacy. Then the third son was poisoned by drinking daughter red, and the second son was poisoned by drinking medicinal wine. These two cases The poison in it is aconitum.After the Second Young Master passed away, private accounts were found from his room, and tampered medicine scales were also found in the pharmacy in the back hall.

When the incident developed to this point, it seemed that the second son poisoned and murdered the third son in order to cover up the matter of poisoning Mr. Gu and stealing the scale, but there were two doubts.First, it was Nvhong from Kaifeng who was poisoned by aconitum, but no canned container of poisoned wine was found on the second son's body or in his room.Second, since the Second Young Master had already stolen the scales in the pharmacy, there was no need to take the risk of being discovered to do the same in the front pharmacy.Therefore, this is likely to be an omission intentionally left by someone, with the purpose of exposing the Second Young Master's stealing act.The missing poison container may have been missed by the murderer, or it may have been done on purpose.

And all this, what is the picture?The purpose is to draw our attention to the eldest son, Gu Chengyan.During the period when Mr. Gu was poisoned, the Eldest Young Master's business was not going well. He frequently went in and out of the pharmacy, and went back to the main house to meet Mr. Gu. The well-known property distribution plan of the Gu family also gave the Eldest Young Master sufficient motivation to commit crimes.

Unexpectedly, just as I was about to inquire further, the eldest son died of an allergic emergency. "

Having said that, Li Quan paused for a while, and looked at Gu Mingyuan calmly and sharply with his black eyes, "Does the third son know what the eldest son is allergic to?"

Gu Mingyuan remained calm, his tone was still the same as usual, calm and indifferent.

"Si Zhi found out?"

"I found a few older servants. According to their memories, the Eldest Prince had an allergic reaction and it happened after he secretly opened a large wooden box belonging to the old lady. At that time, everyone thought it was caused by insect stings or unclean dust. He can't touch..."

Li Guan narrowed his eyes slightly, stared closely at Gu Mingyuan, and said the answer slowly but surely: "It's mothballs."

Hearing this, Gu Mingyuan's eyebrows and eyes moved slightly.

"So, Gu Chengyan's death was not an accident. He heard that I was going to visit him the morning before yesterday, and he started to get a headache when he was nervous, so he wanted to put some Qingxuan ointment on his temples as usual. But he didn't know that one of the boxes had been replaced with He took qing liang oil and died of an acute reaction caused by camphor allergy."

Every word and every word of Li Quan is like a sharp thin blade, calmly and quickly, one layer after another, the tricks wrapping the truth are separated, forcing the real murderer to have nowhere to hide.The mask that had been trying to be calm all this time finally began to crack, and the pieces fell apart, making it impossible to pretend anymore.

"Si Zhi's deduction is very reasonable, I... admire it." Gu Mingyuan licked his dry lips, his voice was a little hoarse.

Li Guan looked at him with cold eyes: "You are a smart person, do you still need me to continue? It is impossible for those who really do it to take Jishitang's cooling oil directly, so they can only buy a box from another place, and then pack it in Jishi by themselves It’s in a pocket iron box specially made by the church. It’s easy to find out who made it.”

Gu Mingyuan's eyes trembled, his mouth opened slightly, and after a long time, he smiled faintly.

"Master Li was a young man, and he was an official in Dali at a young age. He really lived up to his reputation. I thought no one would find out about changing the medicine."