The Golden Hairpin

To the west of Shu County, next to Yinxingling on the outskirts of the city, there are countless tombs in the south.

"It is said that this land is very good in Feng Shui, so many wealthy people buy cemeteries here. After Huang Shijun died, Huang Zixia fled, and his clan fell away. No one came to collect the bones. It was raised by a few squires in the county. Money, buried him here." Zhou Ziqin took the tools he had just brought from home and circled the small tomb. He looked at the words on the tombstone and sighed, "There is no Huang Zixia on the tablet. Name."

Li Shubai said lightly: "It will be added eventually."

"I don't know if Huang Zixia has ever come to see his parents' grave." He said, looking for a gap in the tomb built with blue brick urns. When Huang Zixia quietly returned to Shu to worship, I jumped out and grabbed her and told her, let’s work together to solve the murder of your parents! Lord, will you be touched by me and stay with me since then? Come and solve all the strange cases in the world with me..."

"No." Li Shubai interrupted him coldly.

Zhou Ziqin doesn’t know what to say, and he still said happily, “That’s right. So my current direction is also correct. I am going to join forces with Chonggu to solve the case of Huang’s family first. Will return to Shu County, find me and thank me, then I said to her—"

Zhou Ziqin said, as if Huang Zixia was right in front of him, waved his hand and laughed boldly: "You don’t need to be polite, Huang Zixia, this is what the head catcher should do! If you want to thank you, you Just stay, we work together to solve the case for the benefit of the people of Shu County, and achieve a good name for a generation!"

Li Shubai was rather helpless, so he changed the topic directly: "Where do you think it is more convenient to start?"

Zhou Ziqin studied the tombs of his wife and uncle next to him, and then said: "It is too difficult to dig five tombs in one night. In my opinion, although the tomb of my uncle is also made of blue bricks, it is much smaller in shape. . And the squires of the Shu county just helped him converge by the way, and did not do a good job. In my opinion, he punched a hole diagonally from the back of the tomb, and he should be able to dig it out before dawn."

The two compared the position of the tombstone and dig an oblique hole behind the tomb. After all, it was the new burial soil, which was very soft, and it hit the tomb very smoothly. After the tomb bricks were dug out, one end of the coffin appeared.

"This should be the direction of the head, and then I will cut a lock of hair and go back." Zhou Ziqin said while removing the coffin board, "We are lucky this time. Last time we were in Chang'an, there was also a mystery, Dali. The temple asked for an autopsy to be opened. As a result, the family was really rich. The soil around the tomb was mixed with egg white and glutinous rice juice. The wind and the sun were as hard as iron. It took four or five days for a dry person to dig at Dali Temple. The tomb was dug out, but copper juice was poured on the joints of the bricks, an airtight cage, and finally we lifted the whole to finish..."

"Your father also kicked you off, right?" Li Shubai asked.

Zhou Ziqin stuck his tongue out and said, "The prince is really like a god."

When it was about to dawn, Li Shubai returned to the inn and saw the faint light in Huang Zixia's room. He hesitated. Seeing that the people in the kitchen were already preparing breakfast, he ordered them to order two bowls of soup and cracked them on. Huang Zixia's door.

Huang Zixian opened the door in response. She was obviously waiting for news from him all night, and her eyes blushed.

Li Shubai put something on the table and motioned to her to eat a little first.

The sky will dawn, a lonely lamp in a room. Huang Zixia held the warm soup cake and looked at him silently.

He looked at her, and finally opened his mouth and said, "It's poisonous, it's correct."

Huang Zixia stood up abruptly, the bowl of soup cake was almost knocked over by her. Li Shubai calmly raised his hand to hold the bowl and said, "I heard about me first."

Huang Zixian bit her lower lip and nodded, but couldn't restrain the slight trembling of her body. She reluctantly raised her hand to press on her throbbing temple, trying to calm herself down and look at him.

"If you care about everything, you will be chaotic. Although you are always calm, after all, it is a matter of relatives and there will be a mess. Therefore, I will not let you follow us. I am worried that you will be too excited by then, but it will not be good."

"Um...I know." She reluctantly said.

"Now that your parents' case has made a major breakthrough, I believe you are just around the corner." He said, pushing the bowl of soup and cakes in front of him. "But the most important thing for you at the moment is to take care of yourself first. If you If you have trouble sleeping and eating, and be trapped by sorrow, how can you reverse the case for your family?

She nodded silently, then picked up the bowl, finished eating it all in one bite, and then put it down to look at him.

Twilight has been revealed from the horizon, and it will be another summer morning.

Li Shubai said to her: "According to the characteristics of poisonous poison, your parents, like Fu Xinruan and Wen Yang, were all poisoned by the second refined poison. Therefore, the person who poisoned the poison is definitely not you with arsenic in hand. ."

She nodded silently, barely suppressed the tears in her eyes, and tremblingly said: "Yes...for so many days, I have been trying to find a breakthrough, but no matter how back it is, all the evidence is not good for me-until now, Finally, the first decisive evidence has appeared, and the possibility of me as a murderer may be overthrown..."

"Yes, Thousand Miles of Wasteland, there is finally a glimmer of life." Li Shubai's voice was low, slightly exhausted. He and Zhou Ziqin excavated the tomb that night, and he didn't care about his own habit of cleanliness, and even held the hair cut from the dead body-although he put on the gloves Zhou Ziqin gave him in advance.

Huang Zixia was excited, and forgot to thank him, and only asked: "My parents' bodies...how are they doing now?"

"Because the symptoms and food of the five people are the same, and the time is a little short, so we only cut your uncle and brother's hair and came for inspection. It is undoubtedly poisonous. I think maybe we can let Ziqin borrow first. When the case broke out, the autopsy was performed for your parents dignifiedly. If it is determined that it is poisonous, you can wash your charges in one fell swoop, overthrow the old case, and reopen the case for retrial."

"I'm...worry now, I don't know what to do..." she said, reaching out and pulling out the hairpin on her head, and slowly scratching it on the table.

At first, her hands were still trembling, and the lines drawn were stagnant and slow, but later, her hands were drawn faster and faster. With the poison in the middle as the connection, the lines derive one by one. As she drew, she whispered her questions one by one: "First of all, where did the poison come from? Is the person who started it related to the court? Is it for the same person?"

"Second, the same poison, what is the connection between my family's tragedy and Fu Xinruan's case? Where is the handover point between the two parties?"

"Thirdly, how did the poison go in the yote soup that I personally served?"

"Fourth, where did the poison of Fu Xinruan and Wen Yang come from? Why did you die in this way?"

Li Shubai looked at the questions she had listed, pondered for a moment, and said, “Of these, the most convenient ones should be the third and fourth. Ziqin investigated all the people in the mansion who had made it possible to come into contact with that yote-foot soup. In the afternoon, we should have the result if we go there."

Chuanshu County Shoufu is located in the middle of Chengdu Fu. The high wall encloses most of the street.

Enter from the gate of the county guard house, the front is the main hall of the Yamen, on the left is the largest warehouse in Shu County, on the right is the residence of the Sanban Yamen, behind is the residence of the county guard, next to the residence is a small garden.

This is the place where Huang Zixian can go out with her eyes closed. Her most beautiful girlhood has been ruined here forever following the murder of that day.

She followed Li Shubai into the arresting room from the side door. Zhou Ziqin was eating pine nut candy with her feet upright. Seeing them coming, she quickly divided a piece of paper into her arms, then took out a roll of paper from her arms and said, "Come on. , Let’s study it."

Now it is the end of the noon, and there is no one in the arresting room.

"Last night, the prince and I cut our hair and sealed the tomb as it was, and immediately returned to the courtyard where I lived and tested the poison. It was indeed a poisonous poison." Zhou Ziqin said triumphantly, "The prince immediately gave his order. I investigate everyone in the mansion, and with my popularity and identity, is it not easy to find out this kind of news?"

He unrolled the roll of paper and wrote clearly on it. Although Zhou Ziqin's handwriting was mediocre, it was better than correct, which was extremely easy to read.

The first chef, Lu Songniang, is in charge of the kitchen food. The handler who locked the unfinished Yotejang in the kitchen and other ingredients into the cabinet on the night of the incident. Status: The day before yesterday, his son fell ill and borrowed money from the porter Ah Ba for two hangs.

The second chef, Liu Siniang, is in charge of the stove, and the two girls who burn the fire. Leading a fire girl to cook in the kitchen on the day of the incident. Current situation: Basically as before, a small silver ring has been added to show off to others everywhere.

Mrs. Cook III. Mrs. Qian...

Handyman one, two, three...

Maid one, two, three, four...

Huang Zixia couldn't help but admire Zhou Ziqin. There were more than forty people waiting in the county guard house. He inquired clearly in the whole morning, and the matter was not big or small, which was even more powerful than the eighth-laws of the city.

"This...I always pay attention to this. Isn't this the daily quality of the detective, right?" Zhou Zi Qin Yi said sternly, "I believe that Huang Zi Xia must also pay attention to this."

"I don't think so." Huang Zixia's mouth twitched slightly.

Li Shubai glanced at her with a faint smile, read the information at a glance, and then threw it on the table, saying: "So, in your investigation all morning, no one is suspected?"

Zhou Ziqin was finally a little ashamed: "Yes...yes. Because poisonous poison is a secret medicine for the royal family. If someone gives the poison to the mansion, the poisoned person must be either killed or regarded by the other party. The confidant flies to the top-but no one has changed now, which suffices to explain that obviously no one has been involved in the upper echelon due to the poisoning, and has changed."

Huang Zixia nodded, affirming his thoughts: "Zi Qin's analysis is correct this time."

Zhou Ziqin immediately became proud: "So, in fact, I am a very talented person. With time, I will join forces with Huang Zixia, and your status as the No. 1 detective in Beijing will be difficult to maintain hahaha~"

Huang Zixian and Li Shubai looked at each other helplessly, and unanimously decided to ignore this person.

"So, the next breakthrough for us is to start with the martyrdom case of Fu Xinruan and Wen Yang."