Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 460
As the flame rose, the cook's expression softened a lot. After being grateful to Li Canghai, he said: "I was cooking that night, and Ling Ji came with a bag of herbs, saying that the princess was unwell and was often haunted by nightmares. Wake up, let me boil this medicine, send it to the shrine with dinner, and ask me not to tell anyone about it, especially Master Conan."

"Why?" Li Canghai asked.

"Ling Ji said that this was the princess' order, and that Master Conan has to deal with many things. You don't need to tell Master Conan about such a small matter, so as not to worry Master Conan." The cook said.

Li Canghai snorted, then looked down at the medicine dregs in his hand and fell into deep thought.

He put the dregs of the medicine in his hands and examined them carefully. These dregs of the medicine were not just a single medicine, but contained a variety of medicinal materials.

Li Canghai is not a doctor, but he has read many medical books and is relatively familiar with medical principles. After separating these medicinal materials one by one, he quickly identified them all after observing their shape, color and smell. .

After knowing these medicinal materials, he also knew the effect of this medicine.

Immediately, a guess appeared in his mind, and he suddenly realized, as if he had figured out something, he whispered to himself: "I see, this must be the deal between you?"

After carefully putting away those medicine residues, Li Canghai left the backyard, found the two fat and thin guards and questioned each other before returning to the place where the man was tied.

Conan didn't kill the man, he just knocked him out.

Li Canghai came over and said to Conan: "Brother Conan, I trouble you to call everyone here, just say that I have found out the murderer who killed the princess, and I want to expose him in public!"

Conan looked at him in surprise, and said in disbelief: "Brother Li, are you serious? You really found the murderer? Tell me, who is so bold? But Zhang Da?"

Li Canghai smiled at him indifferently, and said, "Brother Conan, don't panic, you will find out later."

Conan saw that he was very confident, so he didn't ask any more questions, and immediately ordered everyone to come.

Not long after, everyone gathered in one place.

Conan saw that the number of people was complete, so he said: "Brother Li, everyone has come here, can we talk now?"

Li Canghai nodded, he coughed, and said loudly: "The purpose of calling everyone here today is to explain the death of the princess. The princess's body was found in a swamp, and the swamp was full of poisonous snakes, and the princess did So on the surface, it seems that the princess ran to the swamp and was bitten by a poisonous snake and died. However, what I want to say is that the princess was murdered to death, and the murderer is in this shrine! "

When everyone heard the words, they showed different expressions. The cook stared at him with a sad look on his face, as if he was very loyal.The fat guard took out half a piece of wild vegetable pancake from his arms, gnawed it into his mouth, and muttered to himself.The thin guard was still surprisingly lazy, sitting on the ground casually, dozing off with his head tilted.

Among the crowd, the most astonished person was none other than Ling Ji.Her almond eyes were slightly closed, her face was full of sadness, and she said in disbelief: "How is this possible? Who would be so bold as to murder the princess?"

Li Canghai glanced at her and said: "The death of the princess seems to be an accident, but it is actually a long-planned murder! Since the discovery of the princess's body, Brother Conan and I have checked the princess, and found that the princess is He was poisoned by the snake and died, but there is no trace of the snake bite on his body."

"There was no bite wound, but he died of snake venom? What's going on?" Ling Ji asked in bewilderment.

"Because the princess was not bitten to death by a poisonous snake, but died after eating poisonous snake soup!" Conan said with a gloomy expression.

"Snake soup?" Ling Ji was stunned for a moment, then she suddenly looked at the cook, her mouth shut in surprise, and said, "Could it be that you harmed the princess?"

Seeing this, the cook immediately yelled, "I didn't know that snake soup was poisonous! If you knew that those were poisonous snakes, even if you gave me a hundred courage, I wouldn't dare to take the snake soup to the princess! The murderer, I think the most suspicious one is Fatty! He told me about the snake soup, he knew it was a poisonous snake, but he didn't explain it clearly to me, he clearly wanted to frame me!"

The fat guard who was gnawing wild vegetable cakes suddenly froze for a moment. He was furious, pointed at the cook and cursed: "What are you talking about? I'm a murderer? I also heard from Nobi-kun about the snake in the swamp, you You actually say that I am the murderer? I think you are the murderer! As a cook, you don’t know how to identify poisonous snakes? You think about gold, silver and jewelry all day long. You must be the one who planned something wrong and was discovered by the princess, so you killed him with snake soup Princess!"

"Nonsense!" The cook stared and said angrily, "You are the murderer! You killed the princess, but you want to frame me and Nobi-jun, you are a bastard!"

The fat guard was a little annoyed, he kicked the skinny guard, and said: "Tell me, there are snakes in the swamp, you can make snake soup, but you told me!"

The skinny guard screamed in pain from being kicked, and lazily said: "Yes, I said it. But Lingji told me this too!"

Ling Ji was stunned for a moment, and she said in a daze: "Nobi-jun, are you sleepy? When did I tell you this?"

The thin guard tilted his head, thought for a while, and said to himself: "Is it the morning before yesterday? Or the night before yesterday?"

"Nobi-kun, did you remember correctly? I have served the princess for more than ten years, and no one knows her eating habits better than me. The princess never eats snake soup, so how can I ask the cook to make snake soup? Also, I have never After leaving the shrine, how do you know there are snakes in the swamp east of the shrine?" Lingji said.

Hearing this, the skinny guard couldn't help being stunned. He was a little dazed at first, but now he became even more confused, and said to himself: "It seems to be like this? Am I dreaming?"

Everyone was speechless for a while, shaking their heads secretly, their hearts were full of contempt for the skinny guard, who was not only lazy but also talking nonsense.

Several people accused each other, making this already complicated case even more complicated and confusing.

"Brother Li, since you know the truth, just tell it directly, so as not to keep accusing each other!" Conan said.

Li Canghai nodded and said: "Everyone, please be quiet. After I tell you who killed the murderer, everyone will know. But if you want to know who the murderer is, you must first know how the murderer killed the princess. Only Only by making the murderer's killing method public, can the murderer have no way to deny it."

"Didn't the princess be poisoned to death by the poisonous snake soup? What other methods of killing?" Wanyu asked puzzled.

Li Canghai shook his head and said: "Although the fatal cause of the princess' death was poisoning, there are many things involved in it. It has to be said that the murderer's method of killing is very unique, because the murderer designed everything, he used many people, Let many people become his accomplices unintentionally."

Conan pondered: "The murderer killed the princess with snake soup, but sent the princess's body to the swamp. The purpose was to confuse the public, making us think that the princess was unfortunately bitten by a poisonous snake and died when she was looking for night flowers."

Li Canghai said: "That's right, that was the murderer's original plan. After killing the princess, in order to clear himself of suspicion, he sent the princess's body to the swamp, trying to make the illusion that the princess died accidentally. However, he ignored One thing, the princess has no scars on her body. This is because the princess was poisoned by snake soup beforehand, and a lot of toxins have accumulated in her body, and a poisonous snake will not bite a cold dead person, let alone a body with a lot of snake venom corpse."

(End of this chapter)