Criminal investigation in ancient times

Tongzhou Mansion has not been peaceful these days, mainly because it has been disturbed by three people, or it can be said that they are three children.As the eldest child, Lin Xiaoze was under a lot of pressure. Not to mention he was the same age as his cousin, he was ten months older than him, but in the end, his cousin was already the prefect of the fifth grade. Besides, he was still fighting against these brats every day...

Lin Xiaoze rubbed his head and put down the brush in his hand: "Can you two let me practice calligraphy quietly for a while?"

Huzi snorted and said, "This kid makes trouble for my master every day. If I don't cure him, the sky will be turned upside down."

Qing Luo: "Bah! Who are you, you little dog! Smelly rascal!"

Huzi said angrily, "You little bastard, say one more thing! Young master, what kind of bastard or rascal am I?"

Qing Luo rolled his eyes and said: "You are full of hooligans."

Hu Zi stretched out his hand to hit him, Qing Luo hurriedly ran behind Lin Xiaoze, chasing each other and the two surrounded him to play catch.

"Bang Dang, bah..." The table fell over, the inkstone fell off, ink splashed all three people's feet, and the written characters were messed up.

Qing Luo and Hu Zi swallowed their saliva and ran out of the house.It so happened that He Ming was walking in, and seeing the two running away, he shook his head and laughed, these two children must have made Lin Xiaoze angry again.

Upon entering the room, Lin Xiaoze was lying on the ground, motionless.

He Ming walked over, lifted the table, flattened the written characters, and put his hands on his shoulders.

Lin Xiaoze: "Laugh if you want to."

He Ming rubbed his head and said, "How do you know it's me?"

Lin Xiaoze sniffed and raised his head, "I can smell the medicine on your body."

He Ming frowned and said, "It smells bad?"

Lin Xiaoze shook his head and said, "It smells good."

The two were silent for a while, Lin Xiaoze said: "Am I particularly useless? Up to now, I can only write some useless characters, and I can't help you at all."

He Mingdao: "Why do you think that way, you are good at writing but others can't learn it even if they want to."

Lin Xiaoze curled his lips and said, "Compared to you, it seems useless."

He Ming patted him on the shoulder and didn't know how to comfort him. He still doesn't know what he can do now.Only when he really uses them can he feel how powerful he is.

"Forget it, don't write it yet. Yesterday, my lord sent me a message asking me to go to Zhaoshui County. Do you want to go?"

Lin Xiaoze's eyes brightened and he said, "Can I go too?"

He Ming nodded and said, "Well, if you want to go, I'll take you with me."

Lin Xiaoze nodded hastily: "I'll go, I'll go, I will be obedient and not hold you back."

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"In the murder case back then, the death of the woman was quite suspicious. The owner of the inn said that the body was only found a few days later, which should not be the case. Take the two of us as an example. We didn't go out in the house yesterday evening. The mistress then knocked on the door and asked if we wanted food, so it can be inferred that if the woman had never left the house, the mistress would definitely go to the room to ask."

Zhou Yin: "So, the little girl found out that the girl was dead but didn't tell the shopkeeper?"

Zhang Rui shook his head and said, "I suspect now that the girl was killed by this little girl!"

After returning to the government office from the inn, Zhang Rui ascended to the hall and brought Xiaoer up.

That Xiao Er knelt in the hall and lowered his head, unable to see his face clearly, and remained silent.

Zhang Rui: "Xiaoer, I'm asking you, do you know what this is?" He waved his hand and asked Duan Xiaobai to pass the ponytail over.

Xiaoer looked up, shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Zhang Rui sneered, slapped the gavel and said, "I'm asking you, was that big man scared to death by your tricks?!"

Xiao Er shook his head and said, "Your Excellency was wronged. I stayed with Your Excellency at that time, so I didn't have time to frighten that person at all."

Zhang Rui was taken aback for a moment, that was indeed the case, but all the evidence showed that this case was inseparable from Xiao Er, what method did he use to scare people to death?

Zhang Rui: "Then you said that in the case five years ago, why did you only find the body of the deceased a few days later? Didn't you knock on the door of each house every day?"

Xiaoer: "This... I forgot."

After interrogating for a long while without asking anything, Zhang Rui blushed angrily.Zhou Yin said: "Should we be severely punished? I'm not afraid that he won't tell the truth."

Zhang Rui: "How can that be done? Before finding absolute evidence, isn't the use of severe punishment an act of torture?"

Zhou Yin: "..." Dali Temple seems to often handle cases like this, right?

Zhang Rui: "Forget it. When He Ming comes tomorrow, let him look at the big man's body to see if there is anything unusual. I suspect that the little girl used poison." Zhou Yin nodded and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't Too anxious, the murderer will definitely not be able to escape."

It took two days for He Ming and Lin Xiaoze to rush to Zhaoshui County. It turned out that the two met a woman with dystocia on the way. This woman probably ate too well when raising the baby, but the baby was too big to be born. , The amniotic fluid was drained, and the midwife couldn't help it, so they had to send him to Tongzhou City as soon as possible to see if he could save the adult's life.

The family hastily borrowed a carriage from Lizheng's family, and took the woman Zhe to rush towards Tongzhou, but they didn't expect that the woman would die halfway, with more breath and less breath, it seemed that Zhe couldn't survive.

Her man was wailing anxiously, just happened to be He Ming passing by, he got out of the car to have a look when he heard the sad sound, and explained his purpose of coming, the peasant man hurriedly knelt down and grabbed He Ming, asking him to save his wife.

He Ming said: "Little brother, get up first and take me to see Mrs. Zun."

He led him to the carriage and saw the woman lying on her back in the carriage, covered with a thin quilt, her face was pale, her head was covered with sweat, and her breathing was weak.

He Ming hurriedly asked Lin Xiaoze to bring the medicine box in the car, took out the silver needles and stuck the woman's Qihai, Baihui, Yongquan, Laogong and Tanzhong points to hang her life.

The lady took a sharp breath, then groaned, opened her eyes slightly and said, "Er Niu...Er Niu..."

When the man saw his wife wake up, he wiped his tears and knelt beside his wife and said, "Hua, I'm here. I'm looking for Dr. Zhe. Just keep going."

The madam nodded slightly and said: "Well, well... I still want to... see us... the baby grows up."

Er Niu wiped away his tears and said, "Yes, we still need to see Zhe Wazi grow up."

He Ming checked the lady's lower body, and saw that a small part of the fetus's head had been exposed, and if it didn't regenerate, it would be a dead body and two lives!Wiping the sweat, he said to the man next to him: "Get out of the car first, I'm going to deliver your wife, Xiao Ze, write this man a copy of the life-threatening prescription that I usually copy with you, and then lend him a copy." Two taels of silver. This medicine is quite expensive. I'm afraid he doesn't have enough money. By the way, bring the two new obscene clothes you brought.

Lin Xiaoze nodded hurriedly, went back to his car and wrote the prescription to the man, and gave the man some taels of silver, Er Niu didn't take the money and said: "I still have some."

Lin Xiaoze: "Hurry up and take it, it's life-saving money, if you want to pay it back in the future, it's okay to go to the prefect of Tongzhou."

Er Niu knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times, took out the spare stool on the cart to support the shaft, untied the horses on the cart, and rode alone towards the city.

He Ming took out a pack of dry grass from the medicine box and handed it to the woman, "You chewed this grass."

The woman nodded, and opened her mouth weakly. After chewing the bitter grass, she felt her tongue was numb, her head was dizzy, and she didn't even feel any pain in her lower body.

He Ming said: "Can you still hear me?"

The woman opened her eyes and watched He Ming's mouth open and closed in a daze, shook her head, and fell asleep after a while.

He Ming took out a leather bag from the medicine box. This leather bag was small and delicate, and inside it was a small black knife. The blade of this knife was as thin as a cicada's wing and extremely sharp.Gently cut a small cut on the woman's lower body, and the bleeding stopped immediately. He Ming hurriedly took out the hemostatic gold medicine from the medicine box and sprinkled it on the wound.Another small opening was made underneath, and the "Gulu" baby's head slipped out from the lower body. He Ming stretched out his hand to hold out the baby's head, pulled it out little by little, and lubricated with the blood, the baby was born safely, cut off Umbilical cord, a faint cry came from the child's mouth, it was a boy.

"Huh..." He Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Although the child was covered in bruises, it meant that nothing was wrong. Fortunately, we were lucky.

Standing outside Lin Xiaoze was taken aback when he heard the baby crying, and hurriedly handed in the prepared obscene clothes.

He Ming wrapped the baby in the underwear and placed it next to the woman. He began to sew up the wound on the woman's lower body with catgut, sprinkled the medicine, tore off the rest of the underwear and bandaged the wound. Everyone was rescued.

When the sun was about to set, the man came back from the city, and the horse ran and foamed.Seeing that the mother and child were safe, tears filled his eyes, and Lazhe Heming kowtowed more than a dozen times.

He Ming hurriedly helped him up and said: "Your Madam, don't touch water before the wound is healed, otherwise the wound will be hard to heal. I'll write you a prescription for you, boil three bowls of water a day, make one bowl, and give it to Madam to replenish your vitality."

Er Niu was so grateful that he didn't know what to say, so the two of them insisted on going to their village for dinner.

The two really couldn't shirk away, and He Ming was worried that the lady would have a fever at night, so he followed Zhe to Erniu's village.The people in the village came to congratulate Erniu's daughter-in-law who was not only fine, but also gave birth to a fat boy. Erniu said without hesitation: "This is my wife's lifesaver, and my family's lifesaver!"

The folk customs in the village are simple and respectful to the doctor, and they all praised He Ming and Lin Xiaoze.Erniu's relatives also brought a lot of egg souvenirs to the two of them.

He Ming hastily declined and said, "I'm a doctor, and it's my duty to cure diseases and save lives, so you don't need to be too polite."

The people in the village thought simply that when they saw that he said you were not welcome, they really were not. If they were older, they would come to him for diagnosis and treatment. He Ming couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to take his pulse one by one and write a few prescriptions, and they left at sunset.

He Ming rubbed his sore shoulders, Lin Xiaoze stood behind him and thumped up: "Doctor He, you are really amazing today! I used to think that you can only cure colds and fevers, but I didn't expect to be able to connect students!"

He Ming said: "What is this? If my father comes, he will be much stronger than me."

Lin Xiaoze: "You are amazing too~! If I'm afraid, I'll faint from fright"

He Ming: "There is a specialization in surgery. Since I have learned medical skills, I am naturally better than you. Well, don't hammer it and go to rest. I will take a look at this woman again. If everything is fine, we will rush to Zhaoshui as soon as possible. Your Excellency may We are in a hurry.

Lin Xiaoze nodded, he had been busy all day, and fell asleep on the stool next to him after a while.He Ming got up and took out a cloak from the carriage to cover him, silently watching their sleeping faces.Thinking back when he first came to trouble people, not to mention his bad temper, but now he has become so calm and stable, as if a piece of raw jade is being carefully carved, slowly revealing his own brilliance, only he himself does not know how much it is. People can't take their eyes off.He Ming stretched out his hand and gently brushed the broken hair from his forehead behind his ears, even he himself didn't realize that it was full of love at the moment.

The woman really had a fever in the middle of the night, He Ming hurriedly took out the needle in the medicine box, and then slowly backed off after the needle was administered and fed the medicine. The man next to him was sweating nervously, wishing he could suffer for his wife .

The next morning the woman woke up, she was in good sanity, Baozhe's baby had already started breastfeeding, He Ming and Lin Xiaoze bid farewell and hurried to Zhaoshui, in the afternoon, Zhaoshui asked others and went straight to the government office.

At this moment, Zhang Rui and Zhou Yin are worrying, why is this person still in the future?Suddenly, a sound came from outside.

He Ming: "My lord! Where is the corpse?"

Hearing the sound, Zhang Rui got up and said, "It can be regarded as coming. Are you in trouble on the way?"

He Mingdao: "It's nothing, I was delayed for a day by meeting a woman with dystocia."

Zhang Rui nodded and said: "It's fine if there's nothing to do, come and see the dead man with me." He said that he had gone to the mortuary of Ming Dynasty.

Because the corpse had just died not long ago, and it still kept its appearance when it died, He Ming covered his mouth and nose with a cloth towel, lifted the man's clothes, looked up and down, and said: "There is no fatal wound on this man, the adults said he died of fright." What?" Zhang Rui nodded.

He Ming looked away from the dead man's eyes and said, "This man didn't die of fright, but died of poisoning."

Zhang Rui said in surprise: "Poisoned?! Why is Zhongdi poisoned?"

He Ming said: "That's right, you can see that this person has a purple spot behind each ear."

Zhang Rui looked at it and nodded, "That's right, isn't this a corpse spot?"

He Mingdao: "No, this is a poison called Turtle Dove Grass. It is bright in color and sweet in taste. This kind of herb is abundant in southern Xinjiang. People there are good at using this herb as a voodoo. When people take it, they will suffer from heart disease. Died of poison."

Zhang Ruidao: "Then what is the use of this turtledove grass?"

He Ming: "Other effects, a small amount of dovegrass can make people confused and see strange things..."

Zhang Rui clapped his hands and said, "That's it!" After speaking, he hurried out of the morgue.Gong Yuan was waiting anxiously outside the door, when he came out, he asked, "Did you find anything?"

Zhang Rui: "Immediately send someone to the inn to search this little girl's room and search for a red herbal medicine for me, no, search all the rooms in the guest room."

Gong Yuan cupped his hands and said, "I obey your orders!" After saying that, he sent more than a dozen yamen servants to the inn to search.In the end, I found the remaining half pack of turtle dove grass in the room of the young couple.

The turtledove grass was placed in front of Xiao Er, and he still wanted to deny it, saying that it was just an ordinary herb.

Zhang Rui sneered and said: "Since you said it is an ordinary herbal medicine, you might as well eat it!" He asked the guard next to him to stuff the herbal medicine into Xiaoer's mouth.

Xiao Er was so frightened that she hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, put her fingers into her mouth and squeezed the herbal medicine out.

"The grown-ups and the little ones know their mistakes, and the little ones know their mistakes, please forgive the little ones."

"Crack!" Zhang Rui slapped the gavel and said, "Now that the stolen goods have been stolen, what else do you say?!"

The little boy knelt on the ground and kept begging for mercy for a while before he sighed, "I added this turtle dove grass to his dish."

Zhang Ruidao: "Why did you want to force him to come from the truth!"

Xiaoer said: "Don't blame me...you can't blame me...I thought no one would mention that incident back then, but he came that day! He actually spoke out about it without shame! He said it in front of so many people. Come out! And call that woman a mountain spirit..."

Zhang Ruidao: "You killed that woman, didn't you!"

Xiao Er said with a frightened look on his face: "No... I didn't intend to kill her, it was her! It was herself! She committed suicide! Don't come to kill me...don't kill me!" Xiao Er was breathing fast, his face was blue Backwards.

Zhang Rui asked strangely, "What's going on?"

He Ming said, "The poison is coming!" Said Zhe hurried over and sealed his five senses with needles. Xiaoer lay on the ground and twitched all over. It took a long time to recover.He Ming pulled out the needle.

Xiao Er lay on the ground and wept bitterly: "Kill me! Don't let me suffer from this torture again! Every night when I sleep, she will appear in my dreams lingeringly and ask for her life! I really can't live anymore. "

Zhang Rui said: "How did that woman die!"

Xiao Er closed her eyes and said slowly...