ancient criminal minds

Qingluan followed Lu Zheng listlessly. Lu Zheng's words had a huge impact on him, making him unable to react for a while, but Lu Zheng didn't feel too much, but went to find those few House on fire for interrogation.

The first house they went to was a farmer, and it was also the closest to the fire in the post house.The family's surname is Zhang, and Zhang is the common surname here. They also have some close relatives with Zhang Lin.The family originally had a brick and tile house, but it also disappeared in this fire. Fortunately, no one was killed in the fire.Because it is temporarily impossible to build a new house, they can only build a few thatched huts to make ends meet.

Lu Zheng asked the head of the house: "What happened to the fire that day?"

The head of the house was in his prime, but there were already deep wrinkles on his forehead. He sighed: "That day was my daughter's engagement, and our family was so happy, so I drank a few more glasses. I didn't expect to go out in the middle of the night." and burn the house down."

"Did anything strange happen?"

The head of the house thought for a while, then shook his head: "No."

At this moment, his youngest son ran over and almost bumped into Lu Zheng's leg. Lu Zheng was startled, and soon the child's mother chased after him and slapped the child on the buttocks: "What a mess!" What are you running, apologize to this young master!" After speaking, he took a careful look at Lu Zheng, and then took the crying little son away.

The head of the family hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, my lord, this child has been like this lately..."

Lu Zheng shook his head: "It's nothing."

Qingluan saw that he was not needed here, so he simply took out a piece of candy to tease the child. The child saw the candy drooling, and the child's mother said embarrassedly: "Young master, this..."

Qingluan smiled, and stuffed the candy into the child's hand, the child quickly stuffed the candy into his mouth, then ran away without looking at Qingluan.

"Damn boy..." The head of the house saw it from the side, and immediately cursed.

Lu Zheng and Qingluan looked at each other, feeling a little helpless.After the interrogation, no more effective information was asked, so the two went to the second family.

Compared with the success of the first family, this one is much more troublesome, because this one is a widow with a daughter.As the saying goes, there are many gossips in front of the widow's door, but for Lu Zheng's interrogation, the widow directly locked the door.

Lu Zheng knocked on the door repeatedly but got no reply, so he had no choice but to give up.

Except for these two households, the others are far away. Originally, Lu Zheng planned to go there in the afternoon, but seeing that it was still early in the daylight, he said to Qingluan, "Why don't we go to the next household?"

Qingluan rubbed her chin and didn't know what she was thinking, she suddenly came back to her senses and asked, "What did Young Master Lu just say?"

"I said how about we go to the next household to see?" Lu Zheng repeated.

Qingluan didn't answer, but asked: "I feel a little strange."

Lu Zheng didn't expect him to say that. After all, they didn't get any effective information this morning. Hearing what Qingluan said, he immediately lifted his spirits, and hurriedly said, "Say it."

Qingluan spread her hands and said: "I see that the whole family seems to have signs of poisoning, and the widow who just opened the door was pale and her lips were black. It should be that the poisoning has not recovered. The moment I opened the door, I also smelled the smell of frying pan. The smell of medicine, her daughter should be lying on the bed right now."

Lu Zheng was surprised: "Poisoned?!"

Qingluan said: "Exactly, and it seems that the child in that family is the most seriously poisoned."

Lu Zheng suddenly had a serious expression: "Let's go back first and find Doctor Wang to have a look."

When the two returned to the other courtyard, Qingluan reported what happened to Rong Zhen, while Lu Zheng went to find Doctor Wang, who knew that Doctor Wang was shocked when he heard his words: "Poisoned?!"

Lu Zheng nodded.

Doctor Wang frowned and said, "My lord, can I take your pulse for you?"

Lu Zheng put his wrist on the medicinal pillow in front of Dr. Wang, and Dr. Wang took his pulse carefully, and then switched to the other hand. After a long time, he sighed: "Young master also has slight signs of poisoning. If the old man hadn't looked carefully, he might not have found it at all."

Lu Zheng hurriedly said, "Can you tell what kind of poison it is?"

Dr. Wang shook his head: "The toxicity is too mild to be judged yet. It seems that we have to wait for a few other people before we can be sure."

Without further ado, Lu Zheng didn't even intend to eat, he dragged Dr. Wang and Qingluan towards that house, but as soon as he approached his house, he heard panic crying from inside, and there were heavy objects The sound of landing.

The three of them became tense, and ran over quickly, only to see the child in the morning lying on the ground with a black face and foaming at the mouth, his mother was crying hoarsely beside him, and the head of the house looked flustered and bewildered.

As soon as Dr. Wang entered, the family seemed to see the hope of saving their lives. The child's mother knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing: "Dr. Wang, save my child!"

Doctor Wang's face was stern, he ignored the other things, walked over quickly, put his hand on the child's wrist, and then took out a golden needle to prick a few acupuncture points on his face, but the child didn't get better because of this, and he started to roll his eyes up.

There were big beads of sweat on Dr. Wang's forehead. He took off the child's clothes, put the child on his knees, and said to the child's mother, "Go and boil mung bean water!"

The child's mother was already in despair, but when she heard his words, her eyes lit up, and she ran from the ground to the earthen stove, where she was about to cook mung beans.

Dr. Wang took out a piece of ox horn scraping board that was polished to a smooth texture from the medicine box, and scraped vigorously along the child's back. Soon the child's back was scraped red, and then, some blue-purple blood Points slowly emerge.Doctor Wang did not stop, but continued to scrape vigorously until the child in his arms trembled and let out a low cry.

Only then did Doctor Wang heave a sigh of relief, throw the scraping board back into the medicine box, and turn the child over. Compared with when they first arrived, the child's complexion is much better, but there is still a lot of white foam at the corners of the mouth.

Dr. Wang wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked the child's father, "Get some dried mugwort leaves, hurry up."

"Oh...oh." The child's father responded blankly, and ran out quickly.Not long after the Dragon Boat Festival, many people had mugwort leaves in their homes, so the child's father took mugwort leaves back after a while.

Dr. Wang used moxibustion and managed to save the child's life.

After he prescribed the medicine and fed the child a bowl of mung bean water, it was already past meal time.Because they were grateful to Dr. Wang for saving the child's life, the family tried their best to keep them for dinner, and even cut the meat specially.

Because they wanted to check their pulse, they didn't put it off without hypocrisy.

After the meal, Dr. Wang checked their pulse one by one, and as expected, all of them showed signs of poisoning to some extent.But Doctor Wang's expression became weird.

Seeing this, Lu Zheng couldn't help asking: "Doctor Wang, what's wrong?"

The family also looked at Doctor Wang nervously.

Dr. Wang shook his head: "It's strange, the characteristics of the poisoning on the several of you are different. This child is poisoned by heat, his face is blue and his lips are bright red, and the onset of the poison is urgent and fast, presumably He has been restless these days, doesn't he?"

The child's mother nodded again and again: "Exactly, he has been moving around non-stop for the past few days, and he always cries at night. We thought he was frightened by the fire, and we even invited the sorceress to calm him down."

Dr. Wang nodded: "As for you husband and wife, you are different from him. Your complexion is pale and your lips are dark. This poison hurts your lungs. Thinking about it, you have been coughing a lot these days and even have blood in your phlegm. Is that okay? "

Looking at the expressions of the husband and wife, it was clear that what Dr. Wang said was correct, and their other children had milder symptoms of poisoning, so Dr. Wang prescribed medicine and explained to them how to take it.

Lu Zheng looked serious and asked, "Did you eat anything on the day of the fire, or did you touch anything strange?"

The husband and wife both nodded blankly, the same as the previous answer.

Unwilling to give up, Lu Zheng asked many other questions, but all got negative answers.

Just when they were about to leave for the next house, the little girl who had been sitting in the corner with her elder brother and sister suddenly said timidly, "I...I smelled a strange... smell..."

Everyone's eyes immediately turned to the little girl, who was so frightened that she quickly shrank into her sister's arms.

Lu Zheng asked kindly: "What did you smell? Can you tell uncle?"

The little girl hesitated for a moment, then whispered: "That night... I... I got up at night, I was afraid... so I asked my elder sister to accompany me... Elder sister, you also smelled it, right?"

The eldest daughter is the girl who was engaged. She was supposed to be beautiful and happy waiting to be the bride, but she looked pale and sad. This fire not only destroyed her home, but also destroyed her good marriage. ruined.

Hearing what her sister said, the girl was obviously in a trance, and nodded sullenly.

Lu Zheng asked again: "Can you describe what it smells like?"

The little girl hesitated for a long time this time and did not speak, but turned her eyes to her sister for help.

The girl just sat there, motionless.

Lu Zheng finds it a bit tricky, the little girl is obviously young, it is already very good to be able to recall these things, and the eldest daughter of this family may be mentally disturbed after being hit, he doesn't know whether to continue to ask her this shocking question Questions I don't want to recall.

Unexpectedly, it was the child's mother who erupted. She rushed over, slapped her daughter, and screamed, "What's the smell! Tell me! Who the hell is killing us! Tell me!"

The girl's face was directly thrown to the side, but she didn't turn her head back, but kept this posture until a tear fell from her cheek, and she seemed to have finally emerged from the shadow brought by the fire Zhong woke up, holding his mother and crying loudly.

After a long time, the girl finally calmed down. She swallowed a mouthful of saliva and replied with certainty: "That smell is very pungent, it smells like rotten eggs."

The author has something to say: I made up the knowledge of Chinese medicine in it, please don’t take it seriously...