[75] I treat you as a brother

Xu Miao was startled by him, trembling and almost choked herself to death with saliva.

"Zhan Zhan, Mr. Zhan..." He lifted the quilt and knelt down in his middle coat, "Mr. Zhan, please forgive me! I will change my clothes and freshen up now, Mr. Zhan, please move to the flower hall and wait a moment!"

Zhan Zhao didn't go to the flower hall, but strolled around the back garden of the county government with his hands behind his back.

After a while, Xu Miao came out and changed into an official uniform.

"Xiao Miao, my subordinate..."

As soon as he saw Zhan Zhao, he was about to kneel again, but was interrupted by Zhan Zhao's wave of his hand: "Master Xu, you're welcome, I'm here today, I want to ask you something."

Xu Miao guessed that she changed her clothes in a hurry just now, and the hat on her head was not straight: "Whatever Mr. Zhan wants to ask, I will definitely tell you everything!"

Zhan Zhao took a look at him, saw his crooked hat, and held his hand up for a moment, so he helped him up: "I'm passing here, I heard that there seems to be a murder case in your place recently?"

Xu Miaocheng said fearfully, "It's true."

Zhan Zhao: "May I lend you the dossier?"

Xu Miao quickly ordered her servants to fetch it, and said to Zhan Zhao, "Master Zhan, we will wait in the flower hall."

When they arrived at the flower hall, a nimble little girl immediately came up to serve Zhan Zhao some tea and refreshments.

Zhan Zhao was not as polite as him, he picked it up and tasted it decently, thinking: This tea is far worse than Bai Yutang's.

So put it aside and don't move anymore.

When the servants brought the file, Zhan Zhao took a closer look, and found that the cause of death of the Cao family really made him guess correctly.

It's just that the cause of death was guessed correctly, but the lethal weapon has not yet been found.

According to the dossier, they have searched Cao's mansion up and down, and all meals, tea, refreshments, and everything that can be imported have been inspected.

"The bodies of the Cao family are still in the county government office?" Zhan Zhao asked him, "What did Wu Zuo say?"

Xu Miao replied: "The body is still there. Wu Zuo has already experienced it. Except for the trauma of the right ear being cut off, only the poison was found in the abdomen. It has been determined that the cause of death is the poison in the abdomen."

The poison was in the stomach, which meant that they ate or drank something, but whether it was the mouse or Xu Miao's own investigation, they could prove that there was no poison in the food.

Zhan Zhao asked, "But find out what kind of poison they have?"

Xu Miao was puzzled and said, "This...Master Zhan, I don't understand."

Zhan Zhao got up immediately: "Lead the way, I'll go and see those corpses."

A total of seven corpses were neatly placed in the morgue.

Zhan Zhao didn't let anyone follow, he strode in and inspected each corpse carefully from top to bottom.

The lips and nails of these corpses have all turned black, the skin is blue-blue, and there are fine blue lines in the whites of the eyes.

It does look poisoned.

Previously, Wu Zuo had disemboweled them and examined the food in their stomachs.Zhan Zhao then scanned the hidden and imperceptible places such as the top of the hair, behind the ears, and soles of the feet in turn—still found nothing.

So far, the case is hanging here.

Zhan Zhao couldn't help frowning and pondering: How did the murderer poison people?Could it be that they opened their mouths and poured them down one by one?

After he settled down, he turned his gaze to the ear on the right side of the corpse.According to what they heard earlier, the corpse's right ear had been cut off. Judging by the flatness of the wound, it should be a sharp knife with a thin edge.

To cut off the ear, but also to take away the "Tongtian ear", it means that the murderer must have appeared.

So, is it possible that the poison...was injected through the missing right ear, and then the murderer destroyed the body and wiped off the ear?

"Not very likely."

After leaving the county government office, Zhan Zhao went to the teahouse to meet Bai Yutang.

He told him all about his trip to the county government office, and raised his own guesses, but in the end he got such an answer from Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang said: "If it is injected from the ear, the color of the blood will turn black, especially the cut wound - you went to check for a long time, but the wound has changed color?"

Zhan Zhao said, "It's changed, but it's not serious."

Bai Yutang concluded, "That should not be the case."

"Besides, if it is really injected by the ear, the toxin will not be found in the abdomen anymore - one place is already deadly, and what is the use of another place? Isn't that taking off your pants and farting? Or this The murderer is really too free, not afraid of being arrested, not worried about being discovered, and playing with a room full of people who are dying."

Zhan Zhao can't laugh or cry.

But after thinking about it, it makes sense.

The murderer cut off the ear, maybe it was just for a sense of ritual, not to hide anything by destroying the corpse.

If you can't figure something out, just don't think about it.

Zhan Zhao changed into a comfortable position, took a sip of Bai Yutang's teacup without looking outside, "Aren't you here to taste tea? How is the tea here?"

After asking, he realized that the taste in his teacup was the same as the one he drank in his room earlier.

Seeing him using his own teacup, Bai Yutang glanced emphatically at the rim of the cup he touched, looked away and said, "I can't drink it, so I changed it to my own."

Zhan Zhao nodded: "Drink it out. I don't know if it's my illusion, but I always feel that the tea you brought is extra refreshing and sweet——Is there any more cups? Give me some too."

After eating and drinking enough, the two paid the money and left, ready to go shopping in the street.

Passing by a pharmacy, I met the beautiful and generous proprietress coming out of it.

"Madam Boss." Zhan Zhao's eyes were sharp, and he smiled first when he saw someone, then glanced at the pharmacy, and asked worriedly, "What's wrong with you? Is there something wrong?"

The proprietress smiled and turned to Zhan Zhao, then pointed to her mouth and waved to him.

Zhan Zhao understood her gesture, was startled, cupped his fists and said, "I'm sorry."

The proprietress smiled and shook her head, as if she was used to it.

Zhan Zhao glanced at the medicine bag in her arms, and asked, "This medicine is..."

The proprietress pursed her lower lip, as if she was thinking about how to express it so that he could understand.

Zhan Zhao hurriedly said, "I understand a little bit of sign language."

The boss was relieved now, and began to gesture to him: "A few days ago at the inn, I was fortunate to meet a wonderful doctor with a weird temper. The doctor saw my situation and gave me a prescription. Although I have been used to it for many years, after all, I am greedy. Can be like a normal person, treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, grab the medicine and try it."

Zhan Zhao said with a smile, "Madam Boss is kind-hearted, and God can't bear to see you lose your voice in pain. Presumably, taking this magic medicine will surely cure Madam Boss from her illness."

He has a very sweet mouth, and is handsome and handsome.After all, the proprietress is a woman, and she is not as old as him, so she blushed immediately, and quickly gestured to him: "You two are busy, I'll go back and prepare dinner first."

After that, holding the medicine, lowered his head, and ran away in a hurry.

With a smile on his face, Zhan Zhao watched her off for a while, and then turned around to talk to Bai Yutang, but unexpectedly, when he turned his head, he met Bai Yutang's probing and meaningful eyes.

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