Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 231
"The river god empress who gave birth to the Bai nationality has been passed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years. Unless the previous river god empress has no daughters, she will choose a girl from her own clan to replace her."

"From ten to 20 years of the River God Ceremony, the River God Empress bathes and cleanses herself... naked, blindfolded, on the altar, silent and motionless, only human milk can enter her life, so that the selected males of the Bai nationality can live every day." Climb to the altar at night to have fun with the river god empress until the empress is pregnant."

"If Miss Mei is the Empress of the River God, then Anu will be next."

"Now that you are locking yourself in prison, aren't you afraid that Anu will be taken to Dongchuan? Or, you don't have to be afraid, Anu is no longer qualified to be the Goddess of the River."

After only saying such a long paragraph in a low voice, seeing Zhou Wenrui's face pale and sweating profusely, Su Tong walked out of the prison steadily.

Su Wencheng was taken aback: "...Why don't you continue to ask? I think Zhou Wenrui may not be able to bear it anymore. If you keep asking, you will definitely know the whole story."

Su Tong sighed: "My daughter thinks it's better to take it easy."

Zhou Wenrui could be considered a firm-minded person at that time. Before he was sure that the person he cared about was safe and sound, he would not commit suicide in despair. But when dealing with this kind of person, it is better not to be too urgent, and it is better to break his psychological defense little by little.

Besides, Su Tong was defrauding him based on the collected information, and he didn't know the details of the case at all.

There is no way, the handling of cases now is not as good as in later generations, check fingerprints, footprints, DNA, policemen and appraisers, as long as they are willing, they will definitely find clues.

In the Song Dynasty, people's eyesight and experience were the most reliable to solve crimes.

Although Su Tong observed the situation and guessed that Zhou Wenrui was not the real murderer, he couldn't prove it. Besides, Zhou Wenrui himself admitted it, who would ask for trouble to help him reverse the case?

Leaving the dark prison, the sun is shining outside.

If you don't go to that kind of dark place, you will never know how rare the warmth in the sun is.

Su Wencheng glanced sideways at his daughter, frowned and said, "Is Zhou Wenrui's killing of Miss Mei related to the River God Ceremony of the Bai Tribe?"

"Whether it's Zhou Wenrui, my daughter doesn't know."

Su Tong smiled, seeing his father's tangled face, he didn't want to be too tight-lipped, "Daughter asked a friend specifically, the River God Ceremony of the Bai people is very secret, the government doesn't even know about it, not even the other Wuman people in Dongchuan , but this kind of barbaric ceremony does exist, and, for the Shengbai people, it is a very sacred ceremony, which is held every ten to twenty years, and the elders decide the time of the next one at the end of the previous ceremony. Determine the next Empress of the River God."

"Of course, after the elders have confirmed the Empress of the River God, they usually hand her over to the previous Empress of the River God to raise her as an adult. She will wait for the next ceremony and conduct inspections. The requirements for the Empress of the River God are quite high. She must be perfect. , there must be no disabilities, good looks, and many other requirements, for example, the next Empress of the River God has to send the Empress of the River God to the Pudu Mountain in Dongchuan Mengshan before the ceremony begins..."

Su Tong stopped talking suddenly, his eyes flickered, he stretched out his hand to tear off the car curtain made of beads, gently wiped the sweat from his forehead, and didn't look at his father's bad face.

At this moment, Su Wencheng really couldn't bear to see his daughter casually inquiring about such dark things, but he didn't care about these things at this time.

"You mean, the next ceremony is coming, Zhou Wenrui killed Anu's mother in order to protect Anu? This is very illogical..."

Su Wencheng patted his thigh, dropped his horse, and got into his daughter's carriage. He took out his pen and ink, spread out the paper, and wrote down the messy relationship between the characters in this case.

This is learned from his daughter.

When Su Tong forced himself to recite the background relationship of the characters, he made a table according to the status of the family and officials, and carefully drew the relationship diagram of the characters for a long time.

After the picture is finished, she can recite it at the same level. At least she will give gifts and write posts, so that she won't be too pretentious.

"Kou Yu killed the Meng family, but Mei Xinru, an orphan from the Meng family, became Kou Yu's concubine. Not only did she not take revenge for so many years, but she also gave birth to a daughter for him, Anu."

"Mei Xinru's other identity is the river god empress who gave birth to the Bai nationality. Her daughter is the successor. If there is no accident, Anu should go to Dongchuan to be her river god empress in the next river god ceremony. But Kou Yan Anu has already made an engagement, and wants her to marry immediately, judging by Anu's appearance, it doesn't seem like he knows about this."

"Strange, what's the matter with Zhou Wenrui here? It has nothing to do with him." Su Wencheng looked at the relationship drawing for a long time, but still couldn't see any problems here, and there was nothing about Zhou Wenrui at all. "Did he kill Miss Mei, Anu doesn't have to be the Empress of the River God anymore? Ah Tong, does the Shengbai have a rule that if the former Empress of the River God dies, the successor must also change?"

Su Tong shrugged: "I don't know anything. The number of people who gave birth to the Bai people is small, and the place where they live in seclusion is remote. They don't usually deal with Han people. If Dad wants to know the result, it's better to interrogate Zhou Wenrui directly. I think I'm going to scare him today." If you scare him, let him think that we know everything, maybe he will recruit."

"By the way, I'll prescribe a medicine. Put it in his food. Don't worry, it's not poison, and it's not harmful to the body. It's just to make him less nervous."

After saying a few words, Su Tong yawned and couldn't help leaning against the car wall to doze off.

In the prison just now, she seemed to be speaking very simply and plainly, but in fact she had expended a lot of effort, expression, voice, and tone, trying to stimulate Zhou Wenrui in every way, making him suspicious and restless. Tired and thirsty, just want to go home and sleep.

When they got home, she had already fallen asleep. Su Wencheng was speechless and reluctant to wake up his daughter, so he carried his daughter back to the house and told Ah Zhen and the others to let her sleep.

These days, my daughter is indeed tired.

Su Tong slept comfortably all night. When he opened his eyes the next day, the sun was already high. He stared vaguely at the dappled sunlight on the ground. He got up in a daze and asked Ah Zhen to bring water, and finished washing.

As soon as she took a deep breath and tried to wake herself up, she heard A-Zhen say: "Your Majesty wants A-Zhen to tell the young lady that Zhou Wenrui met Kou Yu last night and explained clearly the whole story of the case."

Su Tong's eyes widened all of a sudden, and he regained his energy in an instant.

"Because Miss Mei insisted that his daughter go back to Dongchuan and let her be the next Goddess of the River, he had a conflict with Miss Mei, and accidentally killed Miss Mei by mistake. Only afterward did she know that Kou Yu was going to die soon. Hey, I couldn't avenge my clansmen, I already had the idea of ​​dying, and I ate the snake venom specially made by the Shengbai tribe. During these days, Zhou Wenrui's mind was also in a mess. At one moment, he wanted to kill Kou Zhen for revenge, and at the other moment, he thought, since Miss Mei He refused to make a move, and he couldn't go against the wishes of the woman he liked, and when he was found by the prisoner, he simply surrendered himself."

With a snap, Su Tong fell on the bed with mixed feelings in his heart.

(End of this chapter)