Concubine

Chapter 142 The Beekeeper

Yang Qiuchi said to the two of them: "Your husband, Lu Xueru, died today while taking the exam at the Yingtian Mansion Tribute Academy."

ah!Both of them exclaimed, and the trembling voice of the original partner Fan asked, "How did our master die?"

"He was poisoned to death!"

When the concubine Shen heard this, she covered her face and burst into tears: "My lord~! Why did you leave us behind so cruelly? How can you make us live~!" Crying with a tune, the voice Mellow and crisp, the voice is not bad.

"Don't cry!" Hu Jiang shouted.

The concubine Shen's crying stopped abruptly, as if a quacking duck was suddenly strangled by the neck.The hand covering the face was slowly lowered, and there was not a single tear on the face.

Hu Jiang pulled his face straight: "We still have something to ask you, it's not too late for you to cry when we leave!"

At this time, the old lady began to sob and cry in a low voice.Hu Jiang wanted to stop drinking, but was stopped by Yang Qiuchi.Yang Qiuchi took out the small porcelain bottle from his arms, and asked, "Who gave this thing with honey to your master Lu Xueru?"

The concubine, Shen Shi, glanced at her, and nodded at her ex-wife, Fan Shi.

Fan raised his head, his old eyes were dim and he couldn't see clearly.Yang Qiuchi handed over the porcelain bottle.Fan took it and took a closer look: "It's for our master. It's filled with honey."

When Hu Jiang heard that it was the old lady who poisoned and killed Lu Xueru, he couldn't help being furious, and cursed: "Good old woman, I just heard that you were seriously ill and almost died. It was Lu Xueru who went bankrupt and cured you of your illness, how could you avenge him by poisoning him to death? It’s simply worse than a beast! Someone, arrest this godly old woman for me!”

Several yamen servants at the door agreed in unison, the iron chains in their hands rattled, and they stepped forward to arrest people.

The original partner, Fan Shi, was terrified, and cried: "My lord, where did you start, I didn't, I didn't poison our lord, I was wronged!"

"Are you still complaining?" Hu Jiang said coldly, "Your master Lu Xueru died of poisoning. We have found out that the honey in this porcelain bottle is poisonous, and you gave this honey to your master Lu Xueru. The evidence is conclusive, do you still want to deny it?"

When the little concubine, Shen Shi, screamed, she jumped at Fan Shi, scratched and scolded, "It turns out that you are the old bastard who killed the master, I want to kill you!"

The original partner, Fan, was old and frail. Where was her opponent? She just hugged her head and cried out her wrongdoing. There were already several bloodstains on her face.

Yang Qiuchi winked at Song Yuner, Song Yuner got up and grabbed the concubine Shen Shi's arm, pulled back, and shouted: "The elder is here, don't be unreasonable!" I took a few steps back, almost fell down, and didn't dare to act anymore.

The policemen were about to go forward to arrest Fan Shi, Yang Qiuchi raised his hand, signaling not to do anything yet.Hu Jiang was a little puzzled, he waved his hand to stop the servants, sat down and asked, "Young Master Yang, haven't you found the real culprit? Why..."

Yang Qiuchi didn't answer his question, but asked Fan, "Why did you give your master this honey?"

Mrs. Fan was terrified. Seeing Yang Qiuchi's gentle face, the yamen servants seemed to listen to him. It seemed that if he explained clearly to this young master, he would hope to get rid of his grievances. He said, "Young master, I am wronged. It wasn't poisoned."

"Old lady, don't worry, speak slowly, before we figure it out, we won't arrest people randomly."

Hearing this, Fan felt a little more at ease, and said: "Our master has repeatedly failed the imperial examinations. He is irritable, internally angry, and often has sores on his mouth and tongue. Sometimes the pain is so painful that he can't eat or even drink water. I went to a doctor but couldn't cure it completely, and then I got a folk prescription, mixed honey according to the folk recipe, and applied it to the master, it was very effective, so the master kept the honey with him all the time."

It turns out that Lu Xueru has mouth ulcers. No wonder he only ate porridge and pickles every day when he lived in a small inn. He never finished eating half of the steamed buns. It must be because of oral ulcers. The steamed buns were hard to chew, and he couldn’t eat half of them. No, I can only drink porridge.And the honey in this porcelain bottle was given to him by his original wife, Mrs. Fan, for medical treatment.

Judging by Fan's expression, he probably didn't know that the honey was poisoned.Could it be that the honey she bought had been poisoned before that?Yang Qiuchi asked Fan: "Did you make this honey yourself?"

"No, I bought it from Mrs. Wang who keeps bees on Dongmenpo."

"Beekeeping? Does anyone in the village keep bees?"

Mi Li on the side said: "Yes, there are several families in the village that keep bees. Our village is surrounded by high mountains and there are few fields. It is difficult to live only by farming, so there are some people who keep bees and sell honey to earn money. Some money to support the family."

Yang Qiuchi asked Fan: "When you bought honey, did you choose it yourself or Mrs. Wang sent it to you. Please recall it carefully and explain it in detail as much as possible."

Mrs. Fan nodded, thought for a while and said: "Usually, it is the son of Mrs. Wang who comes down the mountain with a load to sell in Chuzhou City. When passing by our village, he will yell all the way, so I just buy it casually. The two ends of the load Each was filled with a large porcelain bowl, and the honey contained in it was prepared by anyone who wanted to buy it. When I bought it, I remember it was around September this year."

Yang Qiuchi thought to himself, could it be Mrs. Wang's son or even Mrs. Wang who poisoned him? Although there is no evidence, he still went to check to see if there were any clues.

You must know that most of the clues to solve the case are found through investigations, visits, and thorough investigations, not just sitting at home and thinking of them out of thin air.Yang Qiuchi asked, "Where does Mrs. Wang's family live?"

Mi Li just interjected, "It's on the middle of Dongmen'ao Mountain."

"Take us to find her!" Yang Qiuchi said.

Mi Lizheng hesitated, and said: "It's already the third watch, and there are still more than ten miles of mountain roads to reach them. It's pitch black, and the mountain roads are not easy to walk..."

Hu Jiang looked at Yang Qiuchi and said, "It's not too late. If the criminal escapes, are you responsible?"

Mi Lizheng was startled, and kept saying that he didn't dare, and ran out to prepare torches and lanterns, and called several village folks.After getting ready, Hu Jiang ordered two policemen to stay behind to guard Fan Shi and Shen Shi, and then led by Mi Lizheng, the group went up the mountain to find Mrs. Wang who sold honey to Fan Shi.

The mountain road is indeed difficult to walk, and the slope is steep. In some sections, horse riding is not allowed, and you can only dismount and lead the horse on foot.

With lanterns and torches in hand, it took about two hours to arrive on the mountain road of more than ten miles, and it was already five watch when we arrived.

The beekeeper Mrs. Wang's family lives in several wooden houses on the mountainside, and several rows of beehives are neatly placed beside the wooden houses.Now it's freezing cold, the bees don't fly randomly, they gather in the hive, occasionally some bees are disturbed by the light, they fly buzzingly, but they fly back to the hive soon.

The police, Min Zhuang and Yang Qiuchi's guards quickly surrounded the houses.

Just as Mili was knocking on the door, the police rushed in, took control of Mrs. Wang, her son and daughter-in-law, and quickly searched the room.

Mrs. Wang, her son and daughter-in-law were frightened by the sudden search.But after seeing clearly that it was the Yamen's arrester, he knew that it was not a robber, so he felt a little relieved.

After a search, it was found that in one room there were eight large porcelain bowls, all of which were filled with honey.

Seeing the policemen searching around, Mrs. Wang asked cautiously with some puzzlement: "Masters, what are you looking for?"

Hu Jiang said to Mi Lizheng: "Just tell him."

Mi Lizheng agreed, and said to Mrs. Wang: "There is something wrong with the honey you sold to Mr. Lu's house in the village. Mr. Lu took the honey and was poisoned to death."

"Ah~!" Mrs. Wang and her son and daughter-in-law turned pale with fright.Mrs. Wang said: "No, we, we have been selling honey for so many years, and no one has ever said that something happened to me after eating my honey, let alone being poisoned to death."

Hu Jiang said: "That's why you deliberately poisoned Mr. Lu to death!"

"I've been wronged~!" Mrs. Wang knelt on the ground with a groan, and kowtowed again and again, "We have no grudges against Mr. Nalu, why did you harm him?" Mrs. Wang's son and daughter-in-law also knelt down and kowtowed.

Hu Jiang sneered: "That's why we asked you for questioning. You should explain obediently, how did you poison Mr. Lu to death? Be honest, otherwise, you will suffer!" All the arresters shouted and threatened in unison.

"The women are really wronged. We sell honey to earn some money to support our family. Why do we poison others for no reason. I beg the Lord Qingtian to see the details and make decisions for the women!"

"How dare you deny it!" Hu Jiang roared. He saw Yang Qiuchi test the honey in the porcelain bottle with ducks to be poisonous in the small inn, so he wanted to show his hand and shouted: "Come on, go and catch me a duck." !"

There were some poultry in the backyard of Mrs. Wang's house. A catcher agreed to run to the backyard and caught a duck.

Hu Jiang pointed to the honey in the large porcelain bowls in the room, and ordered: "Shovel a lump of honey and feed it to the duck!"

The police quickly shoveled a big lump out of a porcelain bowl and fed it to the duck. It was so big that the duck stretched its neck. After a long time, it was still quacking and wagging, and nothing happened.

Hu Jiang was disappointed and looked at Yang Qiuchi with some embarrassment.

Yang Qiuchi smiled wryly, and thought, if it was really the old lady Wang who poisoned Old Master Lu, it would be fine to just put the honey in the porcelain bowl that was going to be sold to Old Master Lu, not all the honey, besides, according to According to Fan, the honey was bought in September, and it has been almost three months since the poisoned honey was destroyed long ago, so why is it still kept for us to investigate?

Mrs. Wang did not admit to poisoning, and it seemed that Mrs. Wang did not appear to be lying. Now there is no evidence that Mrs. Wang poisoned the honey, so there is no reason to arrest her.Since no clues were found, we had to go down the mountain first and think about what went wrong.

Judging from the current situation, Lu Xueru's original wife, Fan Shi, is most likely to be poisoned.However, Yang Qiuchi has a feeling that this Fan family is not like someone who poisoned and killed Lu Xueru, her life was saved by Lu Xueru, and she is an old woman, so what is the benefit of killing Lu Xueru?Yang Qiuchi couldn't think of the reason why the Fan family killed Lu Xueru, but he felt that the concubine's behavior was weird.But again there is no evidence.

Even Yang Qiuchi had no idea, so Hu Jiang and others had no choice but to leave with Yang Qiuchi dejectedly, and the group walked down the mountain along the way they came.

Although he didn't sleep all night, Yang Qiuchi didn't feel tired at all. This kind of night errands has almost become his daily routine in modern society. Stuck in a dead end, what's the next step?Yang Qiuchi didn't have a clue at all, he had something on his mind, so why was he tired?

Song Yun'er was holding a branch that had been broken off from the side of the road in her hand, shaking it casually, seeing Yang Qiuchi burying her head sullenly while walking and thinking, but she couldn't help at all, so she wanted to draw his attention away Li, waved the branch in his hand, pointed to the distant mountain on the opposite side, and said, "Brother, look, the scenery of this mountain is so beautiful."

They had been walking down the mountain for a long time. At this time, the sky was already bright, and the sun showed its red face from the mountains. Emerald green dress.

The thin morning mist is like a jade belt, winding between the distant mountains.The curved mountain terraces reflect sparkling waves in the morning light.There are already early pedestrians walking on the mountain path.A few kingfishers chirped, showing the tranquility of the valley even more.

Yang Qiuchi stopped, took a deep breath, and sighed: "Yeah, it's such an idyllic scene. If we can spend a day of picking chrysanthemums here and seeing Nanshan leisurely under the eastern fence, that would be great. ah."

Song Yuner blushed slightly, and spat lightly: "Who is with you, you have so many concubines, ask them to accompany you." After finishing speaking, she picked up the branch in her hand, broke off a leaf, and bit it lightly on her mouth Here, feel the comfort of the green leaves moistened by the morning dew.

Yang Qiuchi turned his head and smiled slightly, looked at Song Yun'er, was startled suddenly, and shouted: "Yun'er, spit out that leaf!"

Song Yun'er was taken aback, thinking there were some bugs on the leaves, she spit them out quickly.

Yang Qiuchi picked up the leaf and said, "You, you, you young lady, you have entered the mountains, and you must not touch things you don't know."

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