Concubine

Chapter 441 Finding out the real culprit (seeking a monthly ticket)

For Song Yuner, Yang Qiuchi doesn't need to hide the progress of his investigation. On the contrary, he needs to tell her to let her learn some practical investigative techniques, especially common forensic knowledge that does not require modern equipment (except for some too modern things, of course). , let her see things that will cause chaos in the world, such as computers, microscopes, digital cameras, etc., you can’t let her know), let her learn it, and hope she can become her right-hand man in the future.

Yang Qiuchi asked Zhang Zhixian, post envoy, Nan Gongxiong and others to wait outside the post.Then he brought Song Yun'er to the room where the emperor and the concubine Xian lived at that time, pointed to the place where he was lying on his stomach and observed just now, and said, "Yun'er, take a closer look here, see if you can find anything?"

Song Yuner also followed Yang Qiuchi's example, lying on the ground with her buttocks up, her nose stuck to the ground, looking at it for a long time, and said dejectedly: "It's nothing but dust and small lumps of soil."

"Very good, it's those little lumps of soil. Pay attention, what are they?" Yang Qiuchi only picked up a few grains just now, and there are still some on the ground.

Song Yun'er pinched a small particle the size of a needle nose with her fingers, looked at it for a moment under the bright light, and said hesitantly, "It seems...it seems to be charcoal."

"That's right, your eyes are very good!" Yang Qiuchi praised, thinking that I have to rely on a microscope to see it, which is really shameful.Then he said, "Have you ever thought about it, when Concubine Xian and the others lived here, it was hot summer. If you want to use charcoal fire for heating, it is only used in winter. If you want to use charcoal fire to simmer medicine for cooking, you will not get The bedroom of the emperor and empress made a mess of smoke. So, don’t you think it’s strange that the charcoal on the ground is here?”

Listening to Yang Qiuchi's analysis, Song Yun'er nodded: "Yes, how could there be charcoal residues on the ground in Kuxiali's room? The concubine Xian was poisoned to death by charcoal poison. Could it be that someone put the charcoal stove Come in and murder the concubine Xian?"

Yang Qiuchi smiled and patted her on the shoulder: "This possibility is very high! I also judged in the same way, so I checked every room where people lived at that time."

Song Yuner asked suspiciously: "Why do you check the room...?" Just halfway through speaking, she immediately thought of the reason and said excitedly: "I know, the murderer is going to put charcoal fire into the room of the concubine Xian, without anyone noticing. To poison the empress to death with charcoal, you must first raise the charcoal stove in your room, then bring it to the empress's room, and put it in quietly. However, with so many windows, how do you know that the murderer opened this window to put Where did it come in?"

"It's very simple. The maid Lian'er said that she has been waiting for the concubine Xian at the door, so the murderer can only stay as far away as possible from the maid Lian'er. This is the last window, so of course I chose this place. Moreover, this location happens to be at the head of the bed." In the facing position, the concubine Xian who sleeps on the bed can't see the movement in front of the head facing directly. It can guarantee the maximum concealment."

Song Yun'er nodded, and then said doubtfully: "I remember Lian'er said that the imperial doctor said that the concubine is yin deficiency and needs to avoid the wind and cold, so she can't sleep with the window open in the hot summer. Since the window is closed, how can the murderer come from outside?" Can it be opened?"

"This shows that the murderer has entered the empress's room before!" Yang Qiuchi said with certainty, "while no one was prepared, he quietly pulled up the latch of the last window."

Song Yuner thought about it again, then shook her head and said: "It's still not right, even if the charcoal stove is placed on the side of the empress's bed, she won't be able to find out that the murderer opened the window and put the charcoal stove in, but the light from the charcoal fire will also make the empress alert, I remember the maid Lian'er said that the empress is afraid of light when she sleeps! So she should be very sensitive to light."

Yang Qiuchi said: "That's right, but if the murderer can enter the empress's room, it means that the murderer should be someone close to the empress. Therefore, the murderer is fully aware of this and will definitely find a way to block the light so that the empress will not find out." .” Yang Qiuchi said with a smile.

"Block it? With what?"

"Let you look at one thing first, and you should know the answer." Yang Qiuchi took Song Yun'er's hand, came to the room that was inspected just now, and pointed to the iron pot for boiling water on the table: "Look Look, what did you find?"

Song Yun'er picked up the iron pot, shook it, it was empty, looked carefully, but found nothing, just in doubt, suddenly let out a snort, stared at a round slightly yellowish imprint on the table and said: "This What is it?"

She slowly placed the iron pot in her hand on the imprint, and it matched perfectly!Song Yuner happily exclaimed: "I see, this is the imprint of the iron pot on the table! It means that the murderer used this iron pot on the stove to block the light of the fire, so as to prevent the empress from discovering it. It was scalded by the fire, which made a burnt mark on the table!"

"That's right!" Yang Qiuchi nodded approvingly, walked to the place in the room where he extracted the granules just now, and said, "There are also some charcoal slag particles here. The characteristics of the slag are very similar, indicating that it is the same kind of carbon slag.”

Song Yun'er clapped her hands and said: "It's clear now. When the murderer was in the concubine's room, he quietly pulled out the latch of the last window. Then he sneaked into the small room where the charcoal was kept, took the charcoal stove and charcoal, and went back to his own room. In the room, a charcoal fire was lit, and the iron pot was put on. It is estimated that the empress was asleep, so she carried it to the back window of the empress's room, put it in, closed the window, and poisoned the empress to death with charcoal poison. It was taken from the charcoal room, and there was a lot of charcoal slag on the ground, so the bottom of the furnace was also stuck to the charcoal slag, which was left where the fire was lit in the murderer's room and where the charcoal stove was placed in the concubine's room."

"The analysis is very good!" Yang Qiuchi praised, "Because the post station is very simple and the room where the emperor and the empress live is also very small, the charcoal poison quickly pervades the whole room. This poison is colorless and tasteless, and the poisoned person will feel Headache, nausea and vomiting, but at this time, the poisoned person has muscle weakness due to severe hypoxia in the body, unable to call for help or escape, and eventually died."

"Then since there is charcoal poison in the room, why didn't the people who came in behind get poisoned?"

"If it is poisoned, wouldn't it be a leak?" Yang Qiuchi smiled, "The murderer uses charcoal poison to kill people so that others can't find out. To be honest, if you use this method to kill people in the hot summer, those imperial doctors I'm afraid they really won't notice. They are not good at seeing a doctor, but they are not good at investigating the cause of death. They only habitually think about the disease. Therefore, when the murderer quietly took the charcoal from the concubine's room, he must have opened the window at the back Let’s scatter the charcoal poison inside, probably enough, and then close the windows. One night is enough for the murderer to use.”

Song Yuner thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Brother, you came to such a conclusion based on a few grains of charcoal on the ground, isn't it a bit sensational?"

Yang Qiuchi smiled, pulled her to the small room where the charcoal was placed, pointed to the stove outside and said: "These stoves were sealed up after the emperor left, and they still retain their original appearance. Take a closer look, See if you can spot something?
Song Yuner squatted down, checked each one, and shook her head: "Nothing special!"

Yang Qiuchi sighed slightly: "Didn't I say that any crime will leave traces, and it depends on whether you can find them. The traces are right in front of you. If you can't find them, you won't be able to solve the case."

Unconvinced, Song Yun'er knelt down and checked it carefully again, suddenly let out a snort, lifted a stove, looked into the stove carefully, then reached in and picked up a handful of black crumbs: "What is this? Okay. strangeness."

There was already a smile in Yang Qiuchi's eyes: "You found something strange, then think about it again, what's so strange about it?"

Song Yun'er observed it carefully, and suddenly her eyes lit up, she put down the stove, went into the room, inspected it carefully for a while, then ran out and shouted happily: "I see!"

"Know what?" Yang Qiuchi was very satisfied with Song Yuner's quick response.It's really a child can teach.

Song Yun'er pointed to the stove on the ground: "This is the stove that the murderer used to burn charcoal and poisoned Concubine Xian. After the murderer guessed that Concubine Xian was poisoned to death, he went back to the back window, lifted the stove, and returned to the room. , used the water in the iron kettle to pour out the coals in the stove, then put the iron kettle on the table casually, carried the stove back to the room where the charcoal was placed, poured the extinguished coal on the ground in the back room, and put The stove was put back in the outer room. Just now I found more than half of the charcoal that was doused by water in the inner room, and the handful I picked out was the traces of charcoal ash that was doused by water in the stove!"

Clap clap!Yang Qiuchi applauded and laughed: "Wonderful! The case is repeated, very exciting! After finding this evidence, it is connected with the previous evidence of charcoal slag and evidence of scalding iron pots to form a complete chain of evidence. This reasoning can Founded!"

Song Yuner also laughed, thought for a while, and asked, "Then who is the murderer?"

"From the investigation, it is obvious that the person who killed Concubine Xian must be someone close to her. The scope is very small, so it is not difficult to find the real culprit. If you think about it carefully, you should be able to find out who the real culprit is."

Song Yun'er frowned and thought for a while, then said: "The people around the empress! The murderer will start the charcoal fire, it won't be short, and he will put out the charcoal fire later, and the smoke produced will easily attract the attention of others, so it must be done before A hidden place, so it is most likely in your own room, there are not so many houses in this post station, and the person who can live in a room alone should not be a maid or an ordinary eunuch, could it be..."

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