.The white banners of the Lu Mansion, which are unfavorable, are flying, and the filial sons and virtuous wives have already cried and dried up. However, before the day of burial has arrived, mourning has become torment. Almost counting the time, waiting for the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month... Lu Bing's auspicious day will come.
But there are also people who have opposite expectations, such as Chen Zhi and Zhu Jiu, who are responsible for solving the case, wish they could stop because their errands are already in trouble... Since the day they were ordered, Chen has devoted himself to the investigation of Lu Bing's murder case, and his mind is full of how to solve the problem, and he has no time to take care of it.
One widower: Those Taoists were out of the danger of declaration, so he went over to ask what the Dragon and Tiger Pills were made of, and to see if it could contain crane red. Qiu Jizi's junior brothers were very clear about the ingredients of this pill, which was made of eight medicinal materials such as grass bird, Atractylodes, White Angelica, **, Angelica sinensis, Achyranthes, Asparagus, walnut meat, and there was no lead and mercury component... Chen Shu also asked Li Shizhen, who was fashionable in the palace. Li Shizhen told Chen Shu that the so-called crane red is "red letter stone, because it is red in color, like the crane's pill, so it is named, and there is also a more terrible name, called "arsenic,". This thing is a mineral, and can also be made of realgar, rosin, and saltpeter. According to Li Shizhen's judgment, these things will not produce crane red after being refined.
The test results of the remaining elixirs came out soon, and there were no crane red, and there were even any toxic ingredients. In Shen's opinion, this could eliminate the suspicion of Taoists... All elixirs were produced in one furnace, and the ingredients should be consistent. After the refining was successful, the eunuchs collected and put them in boxes. The Taoists had never contacted each other again, and there was no chance to make trouble again, let alone let the poisonous ones mix into the box that came into Jiajing.
So Chen can be sure that Lu Bing was poisoned, instead of taking the elixirs from Taoists... In fact, since the elixirs have developed, Taoists no longer refine the poison that will kill people after taking it. Most of the medicine they are practicing now cannot kill people, and there are some benefits... chronic poisons.
Although the elixirs tested by Chen were transferred to him by Dongchang after being transferred to him. Chen believed that Dongchang would not kindly help the Taoists to replace the toxic elixirs with non-toxic, because it was equivalent to helping the Taoists to escape from the crime and causing trouble for the factory... Chen had already learned that after the elixirs were refined, they were kept by Chen Hong, and Jiajing gave the elixirs to Lu Bing that day, which was also for Chen Hong to hand over. If the elixirs were fine, then Chen Hong would have a big problem with the custody and handover.
Moreover, Chen adopted the method of "fish eyes mixed with beads" and mixed many different but similar elixirs together, so that the Taoist priests of Quanzhen Sect could identify them separately, but they all admitted their mistakes. This is enough to prove that the elixirs have not been replaced and those that have been refined.
But B could not prove whether Lu Bing died of sudden illness or poisoned... Although he did not believe that Lu Quanran died of illness, he could not confirm his judgment without opening a coffin and taking action against Ren Weiren.
But there was almost no room for negotiation on opening the coffin, so it was completely rejected by Lu Bing's two sons, Lu Gang and Lu Lu Lun. Chen was not that he had never done the work of those two guys, but they didn't know whether they were elm-headed or ungrateful, but they never agreed to disturb their devil father... When Lu Bing was alive, he didn't see them filial. After he died, he became filial sons. He didn't know whether he should be relieved to laugh or scold his mother.
In desperation, Chen had to act separately, Chen continued to do the work of Lu Gang and Lu Lu Lun, and Zhu Jiu went in from other ways to see if he could find a breakthrough. Today is their magnetic head time...
When the two of them were ready, they were both worried.
"This is the second day of the twelfth lunar month, and there are still five days left to be the day for the Grand Governor to be buried." Zhu Jiu said with concern: "Once the seventh day of the lunar month and the Grand Governor is buried, it will become a headless case, and it will be left alone in the end."
Chen nodded and said, "My mouth is almost worn out. It is really rare to see such mixed guys who don't get into the oil and salt.
"The only one who can make the first-class verbal skills admit defeat is that the only one who is more powerful than him is the fool who is obsessed with the devil. The Yu Lu brothers are obviously not the former.
"It's not that there is no gain at all." Zhu Jiu clapped the Case Sect in his hand and said, "Through these days, after working with the servants in the inner study, the guards' inquiry can tell that during that time, only the second son and the Thirteenth concubine whom the Grand Supervisor loved the most... "Is the situation accurate?" Chen asked, "Will the gentleman on Liang sneak in to commit the crime?"
"Haha, you can't afford our Jinyiwei." Zhu Jiu smiled and said, "The Lu Mansion has many backyards, and there are also three floors of light and dark whistles inside and outside. Even if a fly enters, it will be separated from the male and female. Outsiders cannot commit the crime at all." Zhu Jiu said for granted: "What's certain is that no one has ever been in except the two of them."
"The guard should know the reason why they entered?" Chen said, "That is, there must be no freedom to enter and exit in such a confidential place."
"Yes." Zhu Jiu nodded and said, "The Thirteenth Concubine said she was getting a book for the Grand Tutor, and the second young master often went in and out of the study. The guards had long been accustomed to it, so they didn't ask the reason.
"Have you had any abnormalities between the two recently?" Chen asked in a deep thought.
He said: "These two people have noble identities and cannot act rashly even if they are suspicious."
"What's the background of that Thirteenth concubine?" Chen asked... Although Lu Lun was not very tuned, he couldn't think of the possibility of a lucky boy killing his father. In comparison, the motive of the third concubine was easier to imagine, such as Lu Bing forcibly robbing a girl from a girl, or a girl's room, etc.
"Haha," Zhu Jiu knew Chen Ju's idea and said disapprovingly: "The Thirteenth Lady was originally a woman from a small family. Her ancestors were innocent, and her whole family moved to the imperial village of Jinyiwei, so there would be no problem."
"Can they say that those eunuchs are so bold?" Chen said softly: "For the sake of the revival of Dongchang, dare to take the world's terror?"
"Chen Hong? When most people are here, they evaluate him as having a strong ambition and a little courage...
Zhu Jiu said disdainfully: "He dares to attack the Grand Governor? He has to take the courage of the ambitious leopard."
"That's not necessarily. Maybe some reason will touch him to take risks." Chen Ji smiled. He felt that Chen Hong had this motivation. As for the courage, he couldn't do it accurately. Maybe someone fooled him and felt that there was no problem.
"They do have this suspicion." Zhu Jiu also smiled and said, "Then you ask the Silijian for someone. Let's detain all the eunuchs who have passed that day, and then we will know one by one." But he also knew that it would be difficult to reach the sky if he wanted to ask for someone from Chen Hong.
"Although this idea is not good, there is no choice." Chen nodded, "I'll go and ask for someone." His tone sounded as relaxed as going to a door. He said, "As for Lu Lun and the Thirteenth concubine, you have to keep an eye on it, maybe you can see something."
Chen said what he said, and the next day he went to Xiyuan to ask for someone. Ma Quan knew Jiajing's attention to this matter and knew Chen Hong's suspicion, but he said helplessly: "Although we are both eunuchs on the pen, Eunuch Chen is a mat, so I don't care if I look for him, otherwise... are you going to find the emperor?"
"Forget it." Chen shook his head and said, "The emperor's sage to the emperor was still the one who was the father-in-law, what does that mean? Didn't he just tell the servant not to cause trouble for him?" He said, and smiled bitterly and touched his neat lips and said, "So if there is a problem, I have to solve it myself.
"Then, do you need any help from our family?" Ma Quan asked, and was afraid that he would speak loudly, so he quickly added: "If you can't help with a big help, you will have no problem with a small help."
"I really have something to ask for," Chen smiled and said, "Please send someone to take the official to find Chen Hong.
"This is no problem... Although Eunuch Chen is in jail, the adults can still see him with an imperial edict," Ma Quan sighed and said with relief: "Let us take the adults."
"It's a good father-in-law." Chen nodded and followed Ma Quan and walked far away to a secluded place in the palace, a small house with iron railings. Ma Quan stopped and said, "Bangmo is the residence of Eunuch Chen." As he said that, Chen looked at Chen and said, "Do you want me to report to you?"
Chen saw his forced look and smiled and said, "No need, I'll just go by myself."
"Okay, be careful." Ma Quan didn't be polite to him and never walked forward again.
"Don't worry, I'm convinced by reason." Chen walked up alone and looked in through the railings. He saw that the room was amazingly small, and it was hard to distinguish the length of the Gongyuan old mansion, but it was a little wider, and could accommodate a single bed, a small chair, and a small toilet.
Chen Hong lay on the bed covered with quilts. Although he was covered with quilts, he could still see that he was wrapped in a thick bandage on his back and was lying in a strange shape... He was a northerner, tall and long legs. At this moment, he could only press his head into the gap in the railing, but his feet were unable to move because they were on the deck and could only rest on the back wall, looking very funny.
"Put the food on the ground and sing a song for our family!" He was admiring Chen Hong's unique look, but he heard his angry voice say, "Hurry up! Otherwise, you will go out and kill you!" It seems that eunuchs will become men after being kept in this cage for a long time.
"Ha, Eunuch Chen still has a real hobby?" Chen couldn't help but smile and said, "What do you want to hear? Or kill Ma Su?"
"It's you..." Chen Hong heard his voice, and his tone immediately became cold and said, "What do you want to do?"
Chen squatted down, just in line with Chen Hong, who was lying on the bed, and his expression turned to the point of being serious: "I will handle the case under the orders and come to ask Eunuch Chen.
"I refuse to answer any of your questions." Chen Hong said with his head to the side.
But when Chen heard this, he said calmly: "Record... the Sili Supervisor Chen Hong refused to answer his collection and transferred the Dragon and Tiger Pill."
When Chen Hong heard this, he looked over and saw this guy bringing him: "What are you doing with a clerk?"
"Otherwise, how can you condemn your sin?" Chen smiled faintly and said, "Don't remember this passage first.
"What is our family guilty of condemning me?" Chen Hong said with dissatisfaction.
"You don't need to stare, no matter how big the bull's eyes are," Chen smiled slightly and said with a solemn look: "I now suspect that you are trying to kill the regicide..."
"Don't swear!" Chen Hong said furiously when he heard this: "Don't think that our family is locked up in a small house and you can bully it. I will go out sooner or later!" He twisted his body with excitement, pulled the wound, and screamed in pain.
"I will not swear." Chen sneered: "Think about it yourself, who did the box of Dragon and Tiger Pills Lu Taibao ate for?" Although it was Sanjiutian, when Chen Ju said that Chen Ju, he instantly sweated profusely and even forgot the pain on his body.
How could he forget that if Li Fang had not stopped him on the grounds that he had recovered from a serious illness, the box of elixirs would have been in Jiajing's stomach. Although he was sure that the box of elixirs was non-toxic, his opinion was not important. What was important was that after all these things, once the emperor became suspicious, he could not explain it clearly.
"Now the suspicion of the Taoist priests has been ruled out. You said that if the emperor suspected that the person who kept the custody and submitted it, there was something wrong with it." Seeing that Chen Hong was stunned by his words, Chen hit the railway while it was hot: "You know, the emperor is in a bad mood recently..."
Although Chen Hong was scared, he was one of the top eunuchs after all. He was smart and he was not going to come to laugh at him immediately. Then he changed into a smile and said, "I said to Lord Shen, don't scare me. If you have anything to do, just say it." Those who are eunuchs are most afraid of losing the emperor's favor, let alone making the emperor suspicious. That is definitely a dead end. Chen even took Chen Hong's seven inches at once.
Chen was not surprised by his Xun's reaction. This was the quality that a large eunuch in the East Factory should have. It was not the golden age when the eunuchs decided to belong to the throne, persecuted or even killed the emperor at will. Now it was the Ming Dynasty. The eunuchs were just dogs raised by the emperor. Even if they were as powerful as Liu Jin, they would be exposed by a ridiculous emperor who ignored political affairs. In such an era, a eunuch who made a fortune, regardless of whether he succeeded or not, would be executed by the emperor or the next emperor, and there was no other way.
Jiajing would not believe that Chen Hong dared to kill the lord, or even that he would betray him. But in two ways, if all the evidence was not good for Chen Hong, Jiajing would not have tried to help him get rid of his crime, and it would be very likely that he would have hooked him with his own hands. So Chen Hong judged that Chen was threatening himself, which means there was room for negotiation.
Looking at Chen Hong's face with a stiff smile, he smiled slightly and said, "Actually, I don't believe it. You will be so ruthless."
"Of course." Chen Hong said loudly: "You have to go and check the Lu family, it is theirs to get out of the inner thief!"
Chen Zhi's eyes flashed, but unfortunately Chen Hong couldn't see it while lying down, so he could only listen to him slowly and said: "But he is a wealthy family with three princes and three orphans, a noble family, and a new mourning. The dead are the most important. Not that he is fully confident, who will go to their house to make trouble?"
"How can I be fully confident?" Chen Hong asked in a muffled voice. He was already conscious of being blackmailed.
"In addition to their family, there are two suspects, your people and Taoist priests." Chen stretched out his index finger and middle finger and said, "Now the Taoist priests have been eliminated." As he said that, he bent his index finger and raised his middle finger in front of Chen Hong and said, "You must also be eliminated, otherwise I will not be able to go to the Lu family to catch the inner demon."
Although Chen Hong did not know the meaning of the middle finger, he could feel the gesture was provocative and contempt, and he wanted to bite it off in one bite, but through the iron railing, he could only think about it and give up... After pondering for a long time, he finally nodded and said, "Okay, I will cooperate with you whatever you want."
Chen Hong did what he said, and his attitude was very consistent. He said to Chen: "I went there in person that day and the eunuch who came to the hall held it in his arms all the way, and he didn't give it to the third person."
"Who can come into contact with it during the collection process?" Chen asked.
"It's still our eunuch Fang Shitou." Chen Hong said: "But there are seals on each box, and I only know that the hidden mechanism is hidden, so I can't recover it if I touch it... Most people can't see the clues of such a box, but our family will not take it out and harm themselves."
Chen nodded and said, "I want to take this square stone back and ask. There are also the box you mentioned, so I need a few checks."
"Okay..." After pondering for a long time, Chen Hong made up his mind and said, "I'll write you a note and take it to him." As he said that, he picked up the pen with great difficulty, wrote a note and handed it to Chen Ju, looking up at him and said, "He is also a person around the emperor, don't leave him hurt."
Chen took the piece, patted Chen Hong on the back with great strength, and smiled heartily: "No problem...
Chapter completed!