Concubine

Chapter 161
Of course Mrs. Lu knew the pros and cons, and said in a trembling voice, "I'll recruit, I'll recruit. Yes, it was my second aunt Zhang's instigation, and she gave me the arsenic. Not long after Aunt Guo died, Aunt Zhang said Shan My son is a wicked seed, so I can't keep it, so she gave me this small bag of arsenic, and asked me to take a little bit of arsenic to the young master every day, and slowly poison him to death, so that no one else would find out. She also gave me the money. Afterwards, I will be rewarded with 20 taels of silver."

Yang Qiuchi asked Mrs. Lu: "How much arsenic did Second Aunt give you?"

Lu gestured: "Probably one or two."

Yang Qiuchi picked up the bag of arsenic and looked at it. There were about three or four dollars left, so he asked, "When did you start poisoning?"

"Not long after Third Aunt died."

"It's been almost two years, why are there so many?"

"I don't dare to release too much, for fear that it will be poisoned to death all of a sudden, and I will be suspected, so I only pick a little bit with my little fingernail every time. Sometimes when I see that the young master is dying, I don't dare to release it again. Wait until he gets better. Continue to poison. Because of this, the second aunt said I was useless and urged me to poison Shan'er to death quickly, but I really can't do it." The nurse cried.

After hearing this, Mrs. Yang almost fainted from anger, and shouted: "It's the opposite! It's the opposite!" He called Steward Pang to get the second wife.

Steward Pang ran out with his servant, and after a while, dragged the second aunt by the hair.The second aunt's daughter, Yang Aixiao, also cried and followed behind to intercede.

The second concubine, Mrs. Zhang, saw the nurse Lu, and those silver ingots and a small packet of arsenic. Although her face turned pale, she denied it, and insisted that it was the nurse Lu who made a random confession.

Seeing Mrs. Zhang's denial, Mrs. Yang was even more annoyed, and ordered Steward Pang to use family law.Butler Pang ran out and brought a long leather whip, and beat the second wife hard across the head and face.This is exactly what Song Tongzhi hoped for. With Old Master Yang doing it for him, he would be happy to relax and not interfere.

It seemed that the housekeeper Pang often enforced the family law, and the whip was accurate and hard, but it didn't hurt the vitals. The pain caused the second aunt to roll on the ground and scream.

The second concubine's daughter, Yang Aixiao, lay on top of her mother, shielding the whip with her body, begging Mrs. Yang to spare her mother.Old Mrs. Yang was already mad and ordered to be beaten together. As a result, Yang Aixiao also took a few whips and saw that she was useless, so she quickly ran away.Kneeling aside and begging his father for mercy.

The second aunt was finally beaten until she passed out, and was woken up by the servants pouring cold water on her.But the second aunt still refused to plead guilty.

Old Master Yang ordered two more servants to fight together.The three people's whips fell like raindrops, and soon beat the second aunt until she passed out again.After waking up, he still pleaded not guilty.

Perhaps, the second aunt has already seen clearly that only she and the nanny know about this matter. As long as she denies confession in a one-on-one confession, there is no way to convict her.

Although extorting confessions by torture was legal in the Ming Dynasty, if Yang Qiuchi continued to fight like this, he might be beaten to death.If you use Jin Yiwei Niu Qianhu's method of extorting a confession with severed fingers, few people can afford it, and it should be useful. However, if it is not a last resort and there is no sufficient evidence, Yang Qiuchi still does not want to use that method of extorting a confession to obtain a confession.

According to Yang Qiuchi's analysis, the Lu family has kept the silver ingots in a hidden compartment. She will definitely attract attention if she spends so much money. Besides, she hasn't poisoned the child yet, and her task has not been completed, so she can't use the silver ingots. use.Therefore, after the silver ingot was placed in the secret compartment, no one should have touched it. That is to say, if the silver ingot was given by the second aunt, there must still be the second aunt's fingerprints.Old fingerprints left on this metal surface can last for many years.

However, fingerprint identification can only help you identify the murderer, but since it cannot be used as evidence in the Ming Dynasty, this identification has no evidentiary significance.

There is another way, that is to check the source of the virus.

Yang Qiuchi told Butler Pang and the others not to fight, but to take the second aunt, Mrs. Zhang, into custody.After Mrs. Zhang was escorted away, Yang Qiuchi asked Steward Pang, "Is there anyone selling arsenic in our Yang Family Village?"

Steward Pang was sweating from the beating, and he bowed and replied, "Master Yang, there is no arsenic seller in our village. If you want to buy arsenic, you can only go to the pharmacy in Guangde County."

Yang Qiuchi nodded, and then asked Song Tongzhi, "Uncle, how many pharmacies in Guangde County sell arsenic?"

"There are three." Song Tongzhi was very familiar with Guangde County, so he didn't know why Yang Qiuchi asked this question.

Song Yun'er had already guessed it, and said pleasantly: "Brother, I understand, do you guess that this piece of arsenic bought by my aunt from Guangde County and then given to the nanny Lu Shi?"

Yang Qiuchi smiled approvingly and nodded: "Smart! I don't know if it has been two years, does this shop remember that Second Auntie went to buy arsenic?"

Song Tongzhi also understood, and said happily: "Well, don't worry about this, just, as long as she bought it in Guangde County, you can find out, because because pharmacies sell poisons such as arsenic, they must be clearly registered and purchased. , the situation of the purchaser, if it is used for medicine, it needs to be based on the doctor's prescription, if it is used for rodent control, it needs to be based on Li Zheng's identity certificate. You have to sit down."

It turns out that the management of poisons in the Ming Dynasty was quite strict (but it is still not as good as modern times. The current laws of our country have directly stipulated that private trading of poisonous substances is a crime).In this case, it is easy to handle.Just check the registration at that time and you will know.

Song Yun'er thought of another question: "Then she asked someone else to buy it? Then it won't be clear."

Yang Qiuchi shook his head: "For things like this kind of poisoning and murder, the fewer people who handle it, the better. It's unlikely that it will be done by others."

With clues to solve the case, Song Tongzhi was very happy and decided to go back to Guangde County to investigate in person. By the way, he called people from the Guangde County Yamen to solve the case together and arrest the culprit.Mrs. Yang sent several servants to protect Song Tongzhi and went to Guangde County together.

Before leaving, Song Tongzhi asked Yang Qiuchi to continue to investigate the case of Guo's being strangled to death, saying that he would return immediately after finding out the results. However, it is estimated that he will not be able to return to Yangjiacun until evening.

Unexpectedly, this is actually a case within a case. The case of checking whether Shan'er is the son of Mrs. Yang led to the murder of the third concubine, and the murder of the third concubine led to the case of Shan'er being poisoned.

Among the three cases, Old Master Yang is most concerned about the first case. If it is found out that Shan'er is the son of Old Master Yang, the two cases of his son's mother being strangled to death and his son being poisoned, will get his attention.Otherwise, if Shan'er was an evil seed in the first place, he would not care about Mrs. Yang's affairs when he was poisoned and his mother was killed, and he might even say that he was killed well.

Now it seems that the person who instigated the nanny to poison Shan'er to death was probably the second concubine, Mrs. Zhang. Of course, the motive was jealousy, for fear that the third concubine would give birth to a son, and her status in the Yang family would be higher than her own.Since she was ruthless enough to kill the child, of course she could also be ruthless to instruct the nanny to kill the third concubine.Therefore, the third aunt probably ordered the nurse to strangle to death by the second aunt.

But the nanny has always refused to admit that she killed the third aunt.Yang Qiuchi decided to take advantage of the psychological impact of the poisoning case on Lu to bring the nanny Lu to trial again, hoping to make a breakthrough in Guo's strangled death case.

Since hard things are not enough, let's be soft, so this time Yang Qiuchi did not torture to extract a confession, but used psychological warfare.

Unexpectedly, no matter how earnestly Yang Qiuchi tried to persuade Mrs. Lu, anyway, killing one would be death, and killing two would be death. Why didn’t they confess together? Crying for injustice, saying that he did not strangle the third aunt to death.

Yang Qiuchi was at a loss, this Lu family refused to admit it to death, and it didn't look like he was lying.That would be strange, could it be that a ghost really came and went without a trace, strangling the third aunt to death?
Now that the nanny has not pleaded guilty, then go back and interrogate the second aunt, Mrs. Zhang, to see if she can find out with her conscience and admit the crime.However, even if it is true that the second aunt ordered the nanny to strangle the third aunt, since she does not admit to the poisoning case, she certainly will not admit to the strangulation of the third aunt.

After the second concubine was interrogated, as expected, the second concubine not only denied instigating the nanny to poison her, but also categorically denied that she had instigated the nanny Lu to strangle the third concubine to death.

The detection of the murder of the third aunt has reached a stalemate again.

Yang Qiuchi needs to think about it carefully, what is the problem? If the two people in the small attic are not murder suspects, then who killed the third aunt Guo?How can outsiders enter the room with locked doors and windows to kill Guo Shi?

Yang Qiuchi paced around in the Yang family's courtyard thinking, Song Yun'er didn't dare to disturb him, and followed him closely.

Jin Yiwei's personal guard Nan Gongxiong followed a few steps behind them like a shadow.Ever since Yang Qiuchi met a ghost and fell into a coma last night, Nan Gongxiong has never left him. There is Xia Ping's lesson in front of him, and he doesn't want to follow in his footsteps.

Although what happened last night was that Yang Qiuchi left the protected area and ran into the haunted small attic without saying hello. Strictly speaking, Nangongxiong could not be blamed, and Yang Qiuchi did not blame Nangongxiong, but Nangongxiong knew very well in his heart. Yang Qiuchi is the one whom Master Ji and even the emperor placed high hopes on to destroy the Jianwen remnant party, so he must ensure absolute safety.

The reason why I was fine was because Yang Qiuchi was safe and sound last night. If something really went wrong, I would never run away. If Yang Qiuchi died, I would [-]% be buried with him. This is what Eunuch Li decided early on. Under the iron rules.

Therefore, Nan Gongxiong was very glad that Yang Qiuchi was fine, and never dared to take it lightly, and became Yang Qiuchi's little tail like Song Yuner.

Old Mrs. Yang and Butler Pang also followed Yang Qiuchi, expecting him to discover something in a flash of inspiration.

After all, Yang Qiuchi is not brother Yixiu, he can figure out the problem by turning his head twice.He looked around the Yang family compound all over, thinking about it all over, but he didn't come up with any tricks.

Yang Qiuchi went to the second floor of the haunted attic again, and didn't talk to the people following him, lying on the railing of the corridor and staring at the cloudy sky in a daze.

It started to snow.

Since the morning, the sky has been so gloomy, and now, it is finally snowing heavily.

It was snowing heavily, the cold wind was mixed with snowflakes, and it rolled all over the sky. After a while, the roof and the yard were covered with thick white snow.

Yang Qiuchi couldn't figure out the case. Seeing that it was snowing, he simply forgot about it and lay down on the railing of the corridor to watch the snow scene.

Song Yuner also lay on the railing, accompanying Yang Qiuchi.Old Mrs. Yang and Butler Pang stood behind them, not knowing what they were going to do.But seeing that the two of them didn't speak, they didn't speak either, just watching Xue Xue quietly.

In fact, there is no way to be quiet, because the cold wind is blowing, whining, and it hurts people's faces.

Yang Qiuchi sighed: "What a heavy snow, what a strong wind!"

"Yes," Mrs. Yang stood beside Yang Qiuchi, looking at the heavy snow outside, "Our Yang family village is on the mountainside, and there is an open field in front of it. Hurrah, especially in the winter and spring months, the cold wind can blow away stones."

Butler Pang also echoed from the side: "Yes, our village is just on the wind. When the wind blows, the people suffer the most. The straw on the roof will be gone in a gust of wind. The stones can't hold it down. It's pitiful."

Yang Qiuchi also sighed: "Yes, in such a cold day, the straw on the roof was blown off, and there was no money to buy charcoal fire. The cold wind and heavy snow rolled into the room. How can people live?"

Speaking of the cold, Yang Qiuchi couldn't help shivering.He was most afraid of the cold. Although he was wearing a thick fur coat and a thick cotton hat, the cold wind seemed to come from hell, and no amount of thick clothes could stop it.

Song Yun'er has martial arts and is not afraid of the cold. Seeing Yang Qiuchi frozen like that, she giggled: "Brother, let's go back to the house and warm yourself by the fire. If you are completely frozen, my sister-in-law will give me a supercilious look when she comes back."

Old Mrs. Yang also smiled and said, "Yes, my nephew, how about we go to the Nuan Pavilion to warm up the fire, boil two pots of good wine, make some side dishes, and enjoy the snow scene while drinking?"

Yang Qiuchi is a drunkard. Hearing what Old Master Yang said so attractively, Gu Lu couldn't help swallowing, and nodded his approval again and again.

Old Mrs. Yang brought Yang Qiuchi and others to the Nuan Pavilion in the Yang family compound. From here, you can overlook most of the village and see the Tianba in the distance by opening the window.

Several large pots of charcoal fires were placed in the room, and they were burning vigorously. Most of the windows were closed, and only a few leeward windows were opened for ventilation. The warm pavilion was as warm as spring.

Song Yuner praised the place and sat down next to Yang Qiuchi. The room was warm, and Yang Qiuchi felt a little hot. Song Yuner helped Yang Qiuchi take off his leather jacket and cotton cap.

At that time, there was no such thing as space cotton or silk cotton. The leather jacket and cotton hat were made of genuine cotton. Although they were warm, they were very heavy.As soon as he took it off, Yang Qiuchi immediately felt a lot more relaxed, and he couldn't help stretching his arms and legs in the field to fight wildly.It made Song Yuner laugh out loud.

Song Yuner smiled and said, "Brother, stop dancing around there, if you want to learn martial arts, I can teach you."

When Yang Qiuchi heard this, he shook his head again and again: "I'm not going to do it. I'm so tired after practicing in winter and summer in summer. Besides, I have you as my bodyguard anyway, so why should I suffer that?"

"What if I'm not here? Like last night."

"Then you can follow me at any time and never leave, won't that be enough?" Yang Qiuchi teased her.

"Inseparable?" Song Yun'er giggled, "I'm not your wife and concubine, why can't I stay inseparable?" After saying this, Song Yuner felt that there was something in her words that could easily be misunderstood, and she couldn't help but blushed slightly.

Yang Qiuchi didn't dare to make such a joke with her. If she wanted to take it seriously, it would be no joke.Although Song Yuner is indeed very good, she is beautiful and has high martial arts skills, she just looks like a boy, not the kind of woman I want.Yang Qiuchi prefers to regard her as his own sister or a good friend.

Besides, I don't dare to take concubines casually now, that female thief is elusive, her martial arts are unmatched, and she has a hobby of stealing her own concubines, if she takes Song Yuner by herself, don't she steal Song Yuner away too If you can't even see each other face to face, then you will lose a lot.

Yang Qiuchi said: "You are my younger sister, why can't we be inseparable? The two of us slept in the same room that day."

"That was a special situation. There was no other house. Fortunately, we lived together that day. Otherwise, I don't know what would have happened if my head was chopped off by the enemy." Speaking of the thrilling day in Beishao Village, Song Yuner said nothing. Some lingering fears, her attention was diverted because of this.
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Yang asked with great interest, "Encountered an enemy? What's going on?"

Song Yun'er then kept blowing about how she met the enemy that day.

The maids have already warmed the wine and prepared side dishes.Yang Qiuchi and Mrs. Yang were drinking while listening to Song Yuner's formation.

Blowing happily, Song Yun'er also picked up the wine and drank it.After a few glasses of wine, the blood boiled, and the blowing was even more miraculous, blowing Yang Qiuchi like a god who did not know the prophet, even Yang Qiuchi felt that he admired himself very much.

The north wind is raging outside the house, and the house is full of spring.Before we knew it, it was evening.

Not long after dark, Song Tongzhi and others finally rushed back despite the wind and snow.Along with him came Luoxian Cheng of Guangde County and several policemen, and there was also a little old man who was always smiling when he saw everyone, and he looked like a businessman.

After Song Tongzhi was promoted to Ningguo Mansion Tongzhi, Guangde County had no new county magistrate, so the former Luo County Chancellor temporarily acted as the county magistrate.

Butler Pang and his servants led Song Tongzhi, Luo Xiancheng and others to the Nuan Pavilion.

Although Song Tongzhi's head was covered with white snow and his face was as cold as an old carrot, his face was full of spring breeze.Seeing his expression, Yang Qiuchi fell to the ground with a stone, and things must be going well.

Sure enough, Song Tongzhi didn't even have time to shake off the snowflakes on his body. He excitedly took out an account book from his arms and handed it to Yang Qiuchi: "Look, I found it, this is the account book! The second aunt Zhang is in the pharmacy of the shopkeeper Jiang. I bought it. I, I brought shopkeeper Jiang too."

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