Concubine

Chapter 143 The Bee Killer
Song Yuner blushed, and asked puzzledly: "What's wrong with this leaf? Why can't you touch it? Could this leaf still eat me?"

"That's right, this leaf can be eaten by you!" Yang Qiuchi didn't have a smile on his face, he lifted up the leaf and looked at it, "This is the leaf of oleander, it's poisonous!"

ah?Song Yun'er was startled, and quickly threw away the branch in her hand, and asked with lingering fear: "Brother, you didn't mean to scare me, did you?" Her face was stern, her almond eyes glared: "If you dare to scare me, hum! "

Yang Qiuchi didn't speak, but still stared blankly at the oleander leaf in his hand, raised his head and looked around, and saw that the mountains and plains were full of oleanders. It is conceivable that in the spring and summer flowering season, the oleanders all over the mountains and plains will be full of flowers. The flowers are all blooming, how beautiful it should be.

But Yang Qiuchi has no time to imagine that beauty now, because he has discovered a very serious problem.Turning around, he asked Mi Lizheng behind him: "Why are there so many oleanders on this mountain?"

Mi Lizheng also looked up, and said: "Wild ones, in spring and summer, the mountains are full of oleander flowers, red, yellow, and white, very beautiful."

Yang Qiuchi turned his head and looked back and forth, only to see that the small wooden houses on the hillside of Mrs. Wang had turned into a few small black spots.Wei Yi pondered, and said: "We made a mistake, go back immediately!"

Hu Jiang behind was taken aback, and asked, "Young Master Yang, what did you do wrong?"

"Let's talk when we get there, and return to Mrs. Wang's house right away." After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked up the mountain again.Seeing Yang Qiuchi's serious expression, Hu Jiang and the others turned around and walked up the mountain.

When Mrs. Wang's family saw Yang Qiuchi and others go and return, they were a little surprised and a little nervous, not knowing what happened.

Yang Qiuchi went directly to the room where the honey was kept, and told the police to catch another duck, and shoveled a lump of honey from the porcelain bowl next to the honey bowl that Hu Jiang inspected just now. Feed the ducks.

Although the duck was fine, it began to wilt, a little unsteady, fell and got up again.Yang Qiuchi shoveled another lump of honey to feed the duck, two lumps in a row.This time the duck struggled to hold on for a while before falling to the ground and dying in convulsions.

Hu Jiang and others were very surprised. Could it be that the honey is really poisonous?I found another duck, shoveled honey from another porcelain bowl, and fed it. After feeding two big lumps continuously, the duck lasted for a stick of incense, and died of convulsions.

After experimenting with almost all the ducks from Mrs. Wang's house, it was confirmed that the honey in six of the eight porcelain bowls was poisonous.

Hu Jiang asked Mrs. Wang what was going on?Mrs. Wang, her son and daughter-in-law are terrified. They don’t know how it happened. They have been keeping bees for several years, and nothing has happened to them. Now they have also seen ducks die after eating honey. How can they say this? Be clear.

With a wave of Hu Jiang's hand, he wanted the government servants to arrest him again, but Yang Qiuchi waved his hand again to stop him.Said: "Don't catch them, it doesn't matter to them, they don't know that this honey is poisonous."

Hu Jiang looked at Yang Qiuchi suspiciously.Yang Qiuchi pointed to the two non-poisonous porcelain bottles in front and asked Mrs. Wang: "These two porcelain bottles are honey harvested after September (lunar calendar) this year?"

Mrs. Wang's daughter-in-law was very surprised and asked: "That's right - how did you know, my lord?"

Yang Qiuchi didn't answer, and pointed to the remaining six porcelain bowls solemnly and said, "The honey in these six porcelain bowls should be honey harvested before August this year, right?"

Mrs. Wang was even more surprised, she nodded and said, "Yes, sir, you are right."

Song Yuner was very strange, she looked at Yang Qiuchi in surprise and asked, "Brother, have you ever raised bees before?"

Yang Qiuchi shook his head, sighed and said, "The real culprit who killed Lu Xueru has been found."

Hu Jiang asked Yang Qiuchi pleasantly: "This is Mrs. Wang's family, right?"

Yang Qiuchi shook his head again: "No, the murderer who poisoned and killed Lu Xueru is not a human being."

The sentence "the murderer is not a human being" startled everyone, and reminded Song Yun'er that in Yunya Mountain, Yang Qiuchi also said about the murder of Bai Xiaomei's ghost. Shivering, he asked, "Could it be the murderous hands of ghosts again?"

"Look at how brave you are," Yang Qiuchi cursed lovingly, "It's not ghosts that poison you, but bees!"

"What?" This sentence confused everyone, Song Yuner asked in surprise: "Bee? How do bees poison people?"

Yang Qiuchi didn't give a shit, and said to Song Yun'er: "Have you noticed that there are many oleanders growing all over the mountains and fields around here. The whole plant of oleander is poisonous, and the leaves, branches, and seeds are all poisonous, even its beautiful petals and leaves are poisonous. The stamens are also poisonous. Mrs. Wang’s house bees collect honey from the stamens of the phlox, so the honey they pick is poisonous.”

Mrs. Wang's daughter-in-law argued: "Then, why is the honey in other porcelain bowls in our family not poisonous?"

"The flowering period of oleander is from May to August (lunar calendar). After August, the flowers have withered. Bees can't collect poisonous oleander honey. Honey collected from other non-poisonous flowers, Of course it is not poisonous. The honey in the two porcelain bowls at the back was collected after this, so it is not poisonous."

Now Hu Jiang and the others understood. After a long time, it turned out that the bee poisoned and killed Lu Xueru, which is really unexpected.

Yang Qiuchi asked Mrs. Wang's son to recall when Mr. Fan, the wife of Mr. Nalu in Nanshao Village, bought honey with him.

This old Mr. Lu seems to be very famous in Nanshao Village. He is an old scholar in his 50s who has failed many trials.Mrs. Wang's son goes down the mountain once a month to sell honey on average, so I immediately recalled that Mrs. Fan bought honey with him around Chongyang in September.This is consistent with Fan's statement.In other words, what Fan bought was also poisonous honey.

Hu Jiang thought, since the poison was poisoned by bees, there is nothing to do. We can’t catch a few bees and go back to work. The old lady Wang’s family didn’t know that the nectar collected by the bees was poisonous. OK.After much deliberation, I decided to put some poisonous honey in a porcelain bottle and take it back to clear the case.

Hu Jiang looked for honey in a porcelain bottle, but Yang Qiuchi stared blankly at the honey and began to daze again.

Song Yuner saw Yang Qiuchi squatting there staring blankly at the honey in those porcelain bowls, and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother, why are you still in a daze? The case is solved, let's go down the mountain and go back to sleep. If you don’t sleep at night, everyone will be sleepy.”

Yang Qiuchi frowned and waved his hands: "No!"

"What's wrong?" Song Yuner asked.

"This case is wrong! The bee is not the murderer, and Lu Xueru didn't die from eating poisonous honey."

Upon hearing this, Hu Jiang asked in surprise, "Young Master Yang, what did you say? Didn't you just say..."

Yang Qiuchi interrupted him: "I thought wrong earlier," pointing to the honey in the honey jar, and said: "Look, these poisonous honeys are almost sold out, since this honey can poison Lu Xueru to death , can also poison people to death, why haven't you heard of people dying from eating honey?" Turning around, he asked Mi Lizheng, "Has anyone died in the village in the past two years?"

Lizheng shook his head: "No." After thinking for a while, he said, "This old lady Wang's honey is very good. Many people in the village buy her honey, and I bought it too, but there is nothing wrong with it. They I have also sold it in neighboring villages, but I have never heard of anyone who ate his honey and died."

The judge, Hu Jiang, asked, "Then the duck died after eating it. How can you explain it?"

Miri was scratching her head: "This, this..."

Yang Qiuchi said: "It's easy to explain. It doesn't mean that you will be poisoned and die if you eat poisonous things. The poisoning dose must be reached. Moreover, different individuals and different physical conditions will affect whether they are poisoned. The same dose Adults may not necessarily be poisoned if they eat poisonous substances, but children may be poisoned if they eat them. It’s fine for children to eat them, but ducks may be poisoned if they eat them.”

Song Yun'er understood a little, and said, "Brother, do you mean that the dose of honey poisoning is not enough to kill a person, but it can poison a duck?"

"Smart!" Yang Qiuchi boasted.

Song Yuner giggled.

Mi Lizheng found another problem and asked, "The baby is about the size of a duck. Why didn't you hear that the baby died after eating honey?"

Yang Qiuchi was taken aback, he hadn't thought about this question, and said: "Maybe, maybe it has something to do with the dose swallowed at one time. The baby eats less, just use the tip of the chopsticks to pick up a little bit of water to drink, but just now we put this The poisonous honey fed the duck two lumps, which is enough for a baby to eat for many days, and the daily dose is very small." Pointing to the duck, he said: "Besides, no matter how small the baby is, it is better than this duck. Big."

Mrs. Wang interjected, "Babies can't be fed honey."

"Why?" Yang Qiuchi and Mi Lizheng both asked strangely.

"Unweaned children will cry non-stop after eating honey, and the crying sound is weak, and they will not be able to feed. If the baby eats too much honey, it will die. So we will remind you when we sell honey."

What Mrs. Wang said is correct. According to modern medical tests, soil and dust often contain bacteria called "botulism". When bees collect pollen to make honey, the pollen may be polluted. and honey back to the beehive.These trace toxins contained in this kind of honey are fine for adults to eat, but babies will be poisoned or even die if they eat them.Therefore, babies under one year old cannot be fed honey.

This baby can't eat honey, and Yang Qiuchi doesn't know the truth.In modern society, he doesn't even have a girlfriend, let alone the opportunity to have children, so he doesn't care about these issues.Now after listening to the old lady Wang's words, I have also gained insight.

Yang Qiuchi saw that Song Yuner, Hu Jiang and others still didn't believe his thesis that the poison that can poison ducks may not be poisonous to people, and he didn't bother to explain, so he said to Nan Gongxiong: "Take two people to Mrs. Wang's pigsty. It takes more than 100 catties to lead a pig out."

Nan Gongxiong agreed and did not call anyone else. He entered the pigsty alone, and the screams of pigs were suddenly heard in the pigsty.After a while, Nan Gongxiong came out carrying a fat pig. The fat pig was about the same size as him. This Nan Gongxiong was really strong. The pig was hugged by his hands, and it couldn't move at all except for humming in its nose.

Yang Qiuchi asked a catcher to shovel two lumps of poisonous honey to feed the fat pig, and then put the fat pig back into the pigsty.Everyone waited around the pigsty for a long time, but the fat pig was still alive and well, with no symptoms of poisoning.

Now Hu Jiang and others believed it.The same two lumps of honey poisoned the duck but failed to poison the fat pig.It seems that Yang Qiuchi's statement that poisoning kills a person needs to reach a certain dose is correct.

Since this fat pig cannot be poisoned by this honey, of course it cannot be poisoned by Lu Xueru.Besides, the duck was poisoned to death because it took two lumps of honey in a row, but Lu Xueru only used honey to smear oral ulcers. One was taken internally and the other was used externally. The dose of poisonous honey absorbed by Lu Xueru's body was even smaller. Therefore, it is even less likely to be poisoned by this poisonous honey.

Yang Qiuchi was in a daze just now when he discovered this problem.

In this way, it was not the poisonous honey collected by the bees that poisoned and killed Lu Xueru, so who was the real culprit?

While Yang Qiuchi was thinking about what to do next, Song Yuner was very excited because she had learned a lot about poisons.She learns martial arts so that one day she will be able to walk in the rivers and lakes and act chivalrously. However, the rivers and lakes are dangerous, and if she knows a little knowledge about poisoning and anti-virus, she may be able to use them in the rivers and lakes in the future.

Song Yuner happily asked: "Brother, apart from what you just said, what else can determine whether a person will not be poisoned after taking poison?"

Yang Qiuchi was very satisfied with her diligent study, nodded approvingly, and said: "In addition to the dose size and individual differences can determine whether poisoning or not, the method of use can also determine whether poisoning. For example, many snake venoms are not poisonous if swallowed orally. But if it enters human blood, it can poison people."

"Lu Xueru smeared the honey with the medicine on the sores of the mouth and tongue, instead of taking it directly..." At this point, Yang Qiuchi stopped suddenly, and repeated to himself: "The honey that has been prepared with medicine Honey……"

A flash of inspiration flashed in her head, and she even said damn it, how did she miss this? Didn't the original partner, Fan Shi, say that she got a folk prescription, using honey to make Lu Xueru a sore mouth.

I only noticed the honey for dispensing, so why did I ignore the dispensing.It is very likely that there is something wrong with the medicine mixed with honey, or there is something wrong with the folk prescription, or there is something wrong with the person who gave Fan's folk prescription!

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