Dongdu Pavilion Case Record

"So, what the Taoist priest means is that among the left and right protectors and the five poison envoys who were together all the time, someone poisoned Lan Cangyue before she went to the Nuwa Hall?" Meaning, said with difficulty.

"Exactly." Wen Tao's voice was clear.

"Nonsense! Who among us will poison Miss Lan?" The Holy Snake Envoy was furious, "Master Wen, you are talking nonsense here with empty teeth. All of this is just your speculation without any real evidence!"

"Of course there is evidence. You will know when you go back to the Temple of Five Poisons with me to see the body of the saint." Wen Tao has a plan in mind.

A group of people returned to the Temple of Five Poisons.Wen Tao walked to Lan Cangyue's body, and lifted a corner of the white cloth covering her body, exposing her calf.

"Look, there are two wounds bitten by poisonous insects on the saint's calf. From the color and shape of the scars, it can be seen that they were bitten by the same kind of poisonous insects, but at different times. One is an old wound and the other is a new wound."

Everyone walked over to have a look, and the few people in Bozhou couldn't see the clues at all, while the remaining Zuo Hufa and the five poison envoys were all masters of poison use, but most of them were only good at their own commonly used poison, and no one identified them when they saw it. Thinking about it in their hearts.

Wen Tao continued: "This old wound should be the trace of being poisoned on the day of the succession ceremony."

"Then, what's the matter with this new injury?" Dong Sheng asked.

"Good question." Wen Tao commented, "Mr. Dong, the saint has been imprisoned in the cell on the top floor of Chiyou Tower since the [-]th, and has never left there. So, her new injury was in the prison cell. bitten."

"Didn't Ah Lan commit suicide? Could it be that she was killed by someone?" The Scorpion Envoy was shocked.

"That's right. Pavilion Master Tang originally wanted to interrogate the Holy Maiden that day. With Pavilion Master Tang's torture technique, the Holy Maiden would probably confess that the person she had an affair with was not Mr. Yang, so Mr. Yang might be released that night." Wen Tao said, "The murderer will never let this happen, so the saint must die before Pavilion Master Tang interrogates her."

"Impossible, Ah Lan jumped down in front of us!" The Scorpion Envoy stared at her beautiful eyes.

"What we saw was actually only the scene of the saint falling from the building. As for whether she jumped down by herself or because of other reasons, we didn't know at the time." Wen Tao looked at the crowd calmly, Everyone recalled that when Yelan Cangyue fell from the building in front of everyone, because she was locked in a cell, and the cell was a secret room, everyone took it for granted that she committed suicide in shame and indignation.

"At that time, everyone was under the tower. How else could she fall down?" the Scorpion Envoy continued to ask.

"On the day of the leader's succession ceremony, the saint was poisoned and made her unconscious. Later, she was given the same poison, so it is obvious that this poison can make her lose consciousness for a period of time." Wen Tao analyzed, "Saint The woman fell through a transom window, which was sealed. Just imagine, if someone jumped to his death, he would first break the transom window, and then jump from the hole in the transom window. It should be that the window lattice was broken first. The pieces fell, and people jumped down again. On the night the saint fell from the building, the saint fell with the broken pieces of the window lattice.”

"Is there something wrong with this?" The Scorpion Envoy stared at her beautiful eyes, but still didn't understand.

"Of course not. The saint and the broken window lattice fell together, which means that she jumped out without even breaking the transom. This is not a state of suicide at all."

"Then how did she die?" The Scorpion Envoy asked anxiously.

"In the first step, the murderer destroyed the transom. The transom of the cell where the saint was in was damaged by termites in advance, so it was extra loose. Although termites are common in wooden buildings, there is no reason why the transom of the cell below does not have termites, and the transom on the top floor There were termites on the transom instead, so the termites were artificially let in to damage the transom." Wen Tao paused and continued, "The second step, the murderer went to the cell to release the poisonous insects when Pavilion Master Tang was about to reach the Five Poisons, biting the saint, so that She lost consciousness. The last step is to put the unconscious saint on the tall case by the window."

Seeing that everyone was still confused, Wen Tao sighed and said, "The high case is next to the transom. The high case is narrow, and it must be uncomfortable to lie on. After waking up, the saint will definitely move her body towards the wall subconsciously, and the wall It was the transom that had been loosened, and when the saintess exerted force, she fell down directly from the damaged transom. And this scene happened to be seen by all of us."

"So that's it!" Yang Fang admired, "Wen Daochang is indeed a master of Dongdu Pavilion."

Dong Sheng also murmured: "In this way, the murderer can make Lan Cangyue fall to his death in the secret room without being present at the scene."

"Master Wen Dao," Sheng Ha looked at him with cloudy eyes, "You said just now that someone released poisonous insects to bite the saint. This is easy to do, as long as the poisonous insects are released in the crack of the door, but the saint must be killed. Moved to the high case, the person must have the key to enter the cell. What the Taoist priest means is that the murderer is among the few of us who have the key, right?"

Chiyou Pagoda is a site of five poisons, and only the left and right guardians and five poison envoys have the key to the cell.If Wen Tao's words are correct, it means that the murderer is among them.It was mentioned just now that it was Wu Jinhua who brought Yang Han back to the Five Poisons and induced him to go directly to the preparation room of Nuwa Palace. So, could the murderer be Wu Jinhua, the left protector who never asked about world affairs?

Wen Tao thought for a moment and said, "It can be said that way, but it's not that simple."

"Please tell the priest's name clearly," Sheng Ha envoyed.

"To open the cell and move the saint to the high case, you really need a key. But poisoning the saint and arranging all this may not be done by one person."

Wen Tao's words were ambiguous, and everyone was at a loss.Wen Tao said: "Don't you all want to know which kind of poisonous insect caused the saint's calf injury?"

"Hmph, all of them are proficient in insect poison and Gu poison. If they know what kind of poisonous insect it is, how can they tell who made it?" Yang Fang said contemptuously.

"No. The five poison envoys each have their own strengths, and Zuo Huan uses his own blood to make poison. Since Lan Cangyue was injured by poisonous insects, the poison should come from the five poison envoys." Dong Sheng explained.

"Hmph, you can't tell just by looking at the wounds. Besides, the wounds of centipedes, spiders, scorpions, and even poisonous snakes are similar. I didn't do the left and right!" The Holy Snake Envoy said fiercely.

"The wound may not be visible, but the cell has left evidence." Wen Tao said while taking out a handkerchief, which contained the key evidence he finally found after turning the cell upside down.

It was a molted molting that had lost its moisture. When everyone looked closely, it turned out to be the molting of an eight-legged spider!