Song Yi

Chapter 360 Inspection
Pang Yuqin said: "Hetao Chengqi Decoction is mainly used to expel blood stasis, and also to attack pathogenic heat. It can treat various diseases caused by stagnation of blood stasis. As far as this syndrome is concerned, the medicine peach kernel in the prescription can break blood, activate blood and relieve stasis. Blood can remove blood accumulation, decoagulation, and disperse blood knots in the liver meridian. The minister drug rhubarb also has the effect of breaking stagnation and promoting blood stasis. Eliminate all stagnation. Peach kernels and rhubarb work together to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and complement each other."

"Yes, there is cinnamon twig in this prescription. Gui twig is the first choice for sweating and relieving muscles. Is it suitable for the disease? Do you want to cut it?"

"No need. In addition to sweating and relieving muscles, Guizhi also has another important function, which is warming the meridians and dredging the collaterals, expelling the yang and promoting Qi. It should be noted that the blood works when it is hot, and it is suspicious when it is cold. If you want to remove blood stasis and activate blood, you must warm the meridians and unblock the yang." , so cassia twigs cannot be spared."

Du Wenhao praised: "Your understanding of medicinal materials has also improved a lot."

"Hee hee, it's Mr. Xiang who teaches well. After studying medicine with Mr. Xiang for so many days, I can feel that I have made a lot of progress. If I read the book by myself, I don't know if I can learn it in a monkey year, or I will meet a quack doctor's father. No matter how hard you work, you won’t be able to learn. You need to have both in order to achieve today’s results. The most important thing is that Xianggong taught well.”

Xue Fei'er shaved her pretty face with her fingers and said shyly: "Okay, stop flattering each other, and continue talking. What's the use of Glauber's salt and licorice in the prescription? Glauber's salt seems to be a common medicine for sores and ulcers."

"That's right, Glauber's salt can soften firmness, dissolve accumulation, and reduce carbuncle. It is an indispensable medicine for sores and ulcers. However, Glauber's salt also has the function of dissipating bad blood, so it is suitable for this syndrome. Licorice is not only used here to harmonize various medicines. In addition, it also has the effect of dredging the meridians and sharpening the blood. —— Am I right? Mr.

"Very correct, let's go down, Mr. Da Da."

Pang Yuqin smiled, picked up a pen and wrote the prescription, and handed it to Du Wenhao for review.

Du Wenhao handed the prescription to Mrs. Huang, and told Xiaoyu: "Miss Xiaoyu, you must remember not to eat cold food or drink cold water during menstruation. You should take this prescription first. If your menstruation is not over, you can continue to eat it." , don’t take it when it’s over. Because your mood is normal and you don’t need to take medicine. When the next menstruation comes and you start to feel irritable, you can eat it until the menstruation is over. Take it several times , should be able to cure your illness."

Sure enough, after Xiaoyu took it, her mood improved a lot. In the second month, she took a few more doses during her menstrual period, and her symptoms were greatly reduced, except that she was still a little irritable, but it was already under control. After that, she continued to take it during her menstrual period for the next few months. Finally all the cards disappeared, and the drug was stopped afterwards, and there was no recurrence.The family is naturally very grateful to Du Wenhao.

At this moment, a servant ran in to report: "Master, someone wants to see you."

Huang Zhizhou asked, "Who is it?"

"Reporting to the master, it is the wife and family members of Shopkeeper Han of Xianyun Restaurant in Hengshan. He said that he needs to see him urgently."

Huang Zhizhou frowned and said to the servant: "It must be because of her husband's disappearance again! What are you doing? Didn't you tell them? If you want to see a dead body, you have to make sure that your husband was killed before you can report to the authorities! No Did you see this officer talking to Mr. Ti Xing, tell them to leave quickly!"

The servant was a little embarrassed, he stood there whimpering but didn't leave.

Huang Zhizhou stared: "What? Are you deaf? Didn't you hear what I said?"

The servant nodded and bowed, blushing and finally mustered up the courage to say: "This..., master, Mrs. Han and the others..., what they are asking to see is..., it is the Elder of Execution."

"Ah?" Huang Zhizhou was stunned for a moment, then looked at Du Wenhao, "What are you doing? They also want to see Mr. Prisoner as soon as they want? Tell them to leave quickly!"

Du Wenhao said: "Wait, shopkeeper Han disappeared strangely. His wife came to look for me a few days ago, and I even gave her some attention to see if I could find her husband's whereabouts. She came here in such a hurry My officer, there may be some consequences, let her come in."

Huang Zhizhou hurriedly agreed, and told the servants: "Didn't you hear what the old man said? Hurry up and tell them to come in."

The servant bowed and agreed, turned around and ran out, and soon brought in the fat lady Mrs. Han and several children.

When Mrs. Han saw Du Wenhao, she knelt down with a groan. She was a little too fat, and the floor trembled.He kowtowed and said: "You two elders, my master was really murdered!"

Huang Zhizhou asked, "Have you found the body?"

"No!"

Huang Zhizhou snorted: "Then how can you be sure that your master was killed?"

"We found the master's belongings!" The fat old lady whimpered, and took out a jade finger wrench from her bosom, "We heard what the master said, and sent all the servants to various shops to check, and finally found a The Li Family Jade Store found our master's jade finger ring! We told the shopkeeper Li and redeemed it!"

Huang Zhizhou said naturally: "Submit it to me and have a look..." Then he remembered that Du Wenhao was still at the side, he was a criminal officer sent by the imperial court, with him there, how could he speak for himself, so he quickly changed his mouth and said: "Yeah ..., this, show Master Du the jade finger."

The fat old lady wanted to get up, but she was too fat to get up for a while. Ke Yao had already stepped forward, took the jade wrench, and handed it to Du Wenhao.

Du Wenhao turned around and looked around, there was no special mark on it, and asked: "Why do you say this is your master's jade wrench?"

"The color and texture of this finger ring are exactly the same as our master's. There is absolutely no mistake."

Du Wenhao knew that ancient jade wares were all natural, and there was no possibility of artificially synthesizing jade, and each piece of natural jade has its own characteristics, and it is impossible to find two pieces of natural jade that are exactly the same.The fat old lady said it with such certainty, it should be true.Shen Sheng asked: "What did the shopkeeper of the jade shop say?"

"The shopkeeper Li said that Aunt Tan from the back alley sold him this piece of jade ring a few days ago."

"Aunt Tan? Who is Aunt Tan?"

"I don't know each other either. Shopkeeper Li does. He told me to live in their back alley."

"Have you gone to see Aunt Tan?"

"Haven't gone yet, sir, you said, don't startle the snake, so we didn't go looking for it, and told shopkeeper Li to keep quiet, and then we went up to Hengshan to find the master, and only then did we know that the master has gone down the mountain. So we went all the way Inquiring about this came to the Yamen."

Du Wenhao nodded, and said to Zhizhou Huang: "Master Zhizhou, this case is a bit strange, and now that we have found this important clue, you can send the county captain to take a few people to investigate with me."

The county lieutenant is in charge of criminal cases in prefectures and counties, and the magistrate is usually not directly responsible for the detection of cases, and he doesn't understand these things, so he quickly agreed and ordered the servants to call the county lieutenant immediately.Hengzhou County Wei's surname is Sun, he is a big and tough man, he brought the head arrester and several arresters to come quickly, and came forward to salute.

Du Wenhao took County Captain Sun and all the arresting officers, followed the fat old lady out of the Yamen and went straight to Aunt Tan's house.Shopkeeper Leng saw that Du Wenhao hadn't said anything about it, but arranged for Meier to perform at night. He probably had other plans, so he didn't dare to say more.

Here Huang Zhizhou is in a hurry to arrange a dinner party, and the criminal officer has already ordered Meier to perform. This is a good opportunity to flatter, and it must be arranged.

He arranged the dinner in the best restaurant in Hengzhou, and notified the yamen assistant officials, gentry and celebrities to attend.

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Du Wenhao brought Mrs. Sun, Hong Butou and others to the jade shop of the Li family first, and asked the shopkeeper Li, and learned that the jade ring was indeed sold to him by Aunt Tan a few days ago. Under the guidance of shopkeeper Li, They came to Aunt Tan's house.

Aunt Tan's house is a detached house with a relatively large house. It seems that Aunt Tan's family is not bad.Hong Butou knocked on the door, but no one answered for a long time.

Du Wenhao walked to the gate of the courtyard, suddenly, he let out a cry, sucked his nose hard, frowned, slowly put his nose on the crack of the door, and sucked hard again.Turning to Lin Qingdai, he said, "There is a smell inside. It seems to be from a dead animal, or it may be a person. You go in and open the door. Remember! Wrap your hands with a handkerchief, and then remove the latch. Don't touch anything else."

The fat old lady behind him had been paying attention to what he said, and when she heard this, she passed out with a groan.The group of children were so panicked that they beat their backs, stroked their chests and pinched them. After a while, the fat old lady woke up, sat on the ground, beat her chest and cried loudly: "Master...!"

Ke Yao said: "Okay! Don't cry, my brother just said that there might be the smell of dead animals in it, only that it might be a human corpse, let alone your master's corpse, the matter is not clear, you What are you crying for?"

The fat old lady stopped crying as soon as she heard that she was reasonable. With tears shed, she struggled to get up, leaned over and asked, "Master, the criminal judge..."

Du Wenhao waved his hand: "You all step back first and wait aside."

At this moment, Lin Qingdai had climbed over the wall and entered, and immediately, the courtyard door was opened.Lin Qingdai stepped out.

After the door was opened, the smell of the corpse became stronger, and now everyone could smell it, and their faces changed color.

Du Wenhao was not in a hurry to enter the door. He stood outside the door and glanced at the yard. The yard is not too big. There are wing rooms on both sides, and a small two-story building in the middle.They are all brick structures.There was nothing remarkable in the yard.

Du Wenhao asked everyone else to wait outside the door, and then said to Lieutenant Sun and Butou Hong: "You two follow me, don't wander around, and be careful of destroying the traces."

The two smelled the stench and felt that the problem was serious, so they nodded in agreement.

Du Wenhao avoided places where traces might be left, followed the direction of the smelly corpse, and came to the front door of the main room. The door was not locked, and the stench coming from inside became stronger.

Du Wenhao pushed open the door, and a few flies flew out of it!One landed on Du Wenhao's shoulder.Du Wenhao glanced at it, it was a meat fly!
After an animal dies, many flies and other insects lay their eggs on the carcass.But these seemingly chaotic processes are actually very regular, and mastering this regularity often becomes an important basis for inferring the time or even the place of death.

The life cycle of meat flies is relatively long. It takes about 20 to 30 days to change from eggs to larvae to pupae and finally to adult flies in such weather and temperature.This time coincided roughly with the time Shopkeeper Han disappeared!

Inside the main hall is a hall, with nanmu chairs and square tea tables in the center and on both sides.There is a nave in the middle, which is painted with landscapes, and couplets are hung on both sides, and the colors are very old.

The ground is clean, nothing suspicious.

Du Wenhao continued to identify the direction of the smell coming from the back of the nave.He came carefully behind the screen and found that it was a ladder going upstairs.The smell seems to come from above.

He first checked the stairs and found no suspicious traces, so he went up the stairs to the second floor.

The second floor is a large suite with a living room in the middle, a study on one side and a bedroom on the other.That smell came from the bedroom!

He came outside the bedroom door. The door was closed. With a slight push, the door creaked open, and a strong stench rushed straight to his nose!The smoke made Sun Xianwei and Hong Butou pinch their noses and retreat again and again.

Du Wenhao didn't move, he looked up and was stunned, only to see a dead body lying on his back on the floor of the bedroom.

Judging from the messy dress, it should belong to a woman, and it has been highly corrupted.

The room was messy, with drawers drawn and wooden cabinets open.The quilt on the bed was also a mess.

Du Wenhao carefully avoided places where there might be traces on the ground, came to the side and squatted down to check carefully.

Sun Xianwei and Hong Butou stood at the door and looked around.Du Wenhao turned around and asked Hong Butou to notify Huang Zhizhou immediately, and sent the yamen to do the autopsy. At the same time, he sent someone to call Lizheng and Aunt Tan's neighbors on this street to prepare for identification.

Lieutenant Sun was so dizzy from the smoke that he didn't dare to enter the room at all, but he had to show his face, and asked, "Master Ti Xing, the humble officer also came in to help with the investigation, right?"

"Just don't come in at the door, don't destroy the traces in the house!"

"Yes!" Lieutenant Sun was eager to have this sentence, "Then..., what can I do to help you?"

"Find me a pair of scissors, a ruler, and a broom. Don't take it from the house, borrow it from the next door."

Sun Xianwei agreed, and went downstairs with a sigh of relief.

Du Wenhao first checked the situation in the house and found that the jewelry in the jewelry box was gone, and no jewelry was found on the neck, ears and hands of the corpse.There are no hair pins on the head.A small cash box in the chest of drawers was thrown on the ground, the lid was opened, and it was empty.

(End of this chapter)