After knocking on the door for a long time, a waiter in slippers, yawning and impatiently opened the door.

"Why are you knocking in the middle of the night? Are you rushing to attend a funeral?"

The smell of alcohol hit his face. This guy seemed to have drank a lot.

Seeing the two people wearing six-door clothes, he frowned, let the two people in, pointed to the coffins in the store and said, "The ones on the left are two taels a piece, and the ones on the right are on clearance, buy one, get one free, you are prepared to pay zero

Buy or wholesale? If you want more goods, I can give you a discount."

"We are agents."

"See, detective, are you doing it for your own family, or are you purchasing it for the government? As long as the price is right, I will give you a rebate."

The two of them took a look to see if this guy was lacking in strength. They didn't know how the store owner recruited him, so they said, "Let's investigate the case."

"Investigating the case? Don't want to buy a coffin?" said the waiter, "There's nothing to say. I have to sit upright so that I'm not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. There's nothing here for you to check, so hurry up and leave."

When Zhao Xing saw this, he asked, "What's the matter? Are you taking gunpowder?"

"How do you talk?"

Zhao Xing glared, "Why are you talking? The government is handling the case, and if you keep talking nonsense, I will put you in jail and eat a small meal for two days."

"Aren't the people in the government great? Don't people in the government use coffins? Is there something wrong with what I say?" The clerk Niu Er looked angrily, "I've been very unlucky these days. I can't get paid, and there's no one to buy from the warehouse.

I was threatened by people from the government in the middle of the night!”

Fan Xiaodao noticed that he was speaking in a toneless manner, so he changed the subject, "Has anyone come to buy coffins in the past few days?"

"No!"

"Think again?"

Niu Er said, "I don't even think about it. Why, if it doesn't happen, you have to let me make it up and say that it does. Is this how your government handles cases?"

Zhao Xing stepped forward, stretched out his hand and slapped Niu Er, causing Niu Er to spin three times in pain. Zhao Xing came to him and said fiercely, "I, Mr. Zhao, will catch three or five people like you in a year."

Ten, stop playing tricks with me. From now on, you will answer whatever I ask you, and don’t say any other nonsense. Do you understand?"

Niu Erdao, "For a catcher like you, I am a Niu Eryi..."

Snapped!

With another slap, Niu Erdeng was so drunk that he woke up and fell to his knees with a thud. "Whatever you ask, I will say."

Zhao Xing patted the dust on his hands and said, "Wouldn't it have been easier if we had done this earlier? We have to cause trouble. Has anyone come to buy a coffin recently?"

Niu Er said: "Really not!"

"Nonsense!" Zhao Xing pointed to an empty space next to him, "Your store is full of coffins, but this place is empty. Looking at the traces on the ground, there should be coffins there as well. Where are those coffins?"

Niu Erdao: "It's really not for sale, we use it ourselves."

"use it yourself?"

Niu Erdao, "Yes, our boss and a few friends used these coffins a few days ago."

"I've heard of people treating guests to dinner, but I've never heard of people delivering coffins. Where's your boss?"

"Dead!" Niu Er said, "I have been dead for a few days. The shop is gone and wages have not been paid. We guys are thinking of clearing out the coffins in the shop to repay wages."

"How did you die?"

Niu Erdao said, "He brought some friends from his hometown and invited them to Baihualou to drink wine. I heard that they died on women. I don't know the details. Their bodies are still at home.

."

"Is there anyone else in his family?"

"The boss lady? She took her children back to her hometown in Baoding. Otherwise, how could we dare to do this to this store?"

The two looked at each other, and there was something wrong.

The boss had only died a few days ago. He had not been born for seven years, and there was no funeral or burial. His wife and children ran away. If he said there was no problem, it must be a lie. The two of them picked up Niu Er and said, "Lead the way to your boss's house."

Led by Niu Er, the two came to the house of the owner of the coffin shop not far away.

"Right inside!"

Pushing the door open, I saw three coffins placed in the yard.

Li Manniu, the son-in-law of the Wei gang leader, the owner of the coffin shop, and his friends all died in Baihualou. As long as the bodies are brought back for examination and it is proved that they died of poisoning, there will be reason to open an investigation into Baihualou. The two came to the hospital

In the middle, order Niu Er to open the coffin.

The coffin was opened and there was nothing inside.

Niu Er said in shock: "How could this happen? It shouldn't be, the body was still there in the afternoon."

Someone took the lead and moved the body in advance! It seemed that some of the opponents had taken this into consideration. Fan Xiaodao said to Niu Er, "Don't mention this matter to anyone!"

The two left the house.

Zhao Xingdao said, "We came to check the body on a spur-of-the-moment plan tonight, but the other party was still one step ahead of us. Someone must have leaked the news."

But apart from the source of the news, the only one who knew about it was deputy chief executive Yang Deshui.

If Yang Deshui deliberately leaked this matter, then the matter might be far beyond their control.

Fan Xiaodao said, "Do you suspect it's Mr. Yang?"

Zhao Xing shook his head, "How can a person like Yang Deshui, who knows how to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune, risk his career? Betrayal of the prince will not do him any good. I hope that my opponent will think more carefully and be one step ahead of us in everything.

Moreover, Wei Baoguo also said that there are people from Baihualou watching over his home."

The two of them went back to the Yamen first.

The results of Sun Wuzuo's autopsy have come out, but he looked sad.

Fan Xiaodao asked, "Any questions?"

Sun Wu said, "I don't know."

Fan Xiaodao was surprised: "Don't know?"

Sun Wuzuo said, "I have been a gangster for so many years, and I have never seen anything like this. Pathologically, this man has enlarged liver and spleen, and there are blood clots in his eyes, nostrils, and ears. It seems that he died of poisoning, but it is harmful to his stomach."

Toxicological analysis of the contents of the intestines found no traces of poisoning." He pointed at Li Manniu's heart and said, "The cause of death of the bitter master was a blood vessel rupture and infarction. It does not look like poisoning."

Yang Deshui asked, "What's the conclusion?"

"It's like being poisoned but not like being poisoned."

Yang Deshui said, "What does it look like or not? We can't use this result to open a case to investigate Baihualou? In a few hours, they will come to withdraw the case."

Fan Xiaodao thought for a while, "I'll ask someone first."

After taking the body sheet, Fan Xiaodao went to Cell No. 1 in Tianzi to look for a flower.

After coming out of Suolongjing, Fan Xiaodao didn't come to see him, and even handed over the task of delivering food to others. Yi Zhihua didn't fall asleep. She was lying on the bed reading a book of Taizong's Records. When she saw Fan Xiaodao, she didn't even think about it.

He said politely, "I don't have anything to do without going to the Three Treasures Hall. If you have anything to say, just say it."

"How did you know something was wrong with me?"

"It's okay, will you come to see me?" Yi Zhihua said, "I didn't even prepare food and wine this time. It seems like the matter is quite urgent."

Fan Xiaodao didn't hesitate and handed over the autopsy sheet directly, saying that he had encountered a difficult case and asked him to take a look at it. Yi Zhihua looked at Sun Wuzuo's autopsy sheet and said, "What do you want to ask?"

"How did he die?"

Yi Zhihua said coldly, "Poisoned."

"But the toxicology test found no signs of poisoning." Yi Zhihua said, "Not all poisons can be detected. Looking at the corpse description, the deceased should have taken a strong aphrodisiac called 'Happy Pill' before his death.

The medicine has a hallucinogenic effect. Taking a small amount can increase the pleasure of the boudoir. However, the preparation method is extremely complicated. If the dosage is not careful, the aphrodisiac can turn into a poison that kills people. People who are poisoned will have enlarged heart, liver and spleen, and the silver needle will not detect it.

If it doesn't come out, it can still be cured if treated in time, but the biggest fear is that after taking it, you will have sex in bed, and sudden death will easily occur."

"Then how do you prove it's poison?"

Yi Zhihua said: "Cut the skull open and you will know at a glance."

Fan Xiaodao heard this and left in a hurry. Yi Zhihua suddenly asked, "Is your emperor not dead yet?"

"What's the meaning?"

Yi Zhihua felt a little surprised and waved her hand, "It's okay, you can go."

Thinking of what happened at Dingguo Temple, Fan Xiaodao said, "The blacksmith Liu from the east of the city died, and Huang Youcai stayed at Dingguo Temple."

Hearing these words, Yi Zhihua trembled all over, and the volume of Taizong's Records slipped from his hands. After a long time, he said: "I went there after all!" There was something in this sentence, but Fan Xiaodao had other things on his mind, so he didn't

Before I could ask more questions, I had to say goodbye.

Yi Zhihua said: "Two years ago, when Song Jingang came to Beijing, we met."

Hearing this, Fan Xiaodao stopped and was about to ask when he heard Yi Zhi Hua Dao, "When you finish your work, find a time for us to set up the dragon gate properly."

…

Craniotomy.

Inside Li Manniu's head was a black blood clot, which emitted a foul odor because it had been left for too long. Sun Wu tried it with a silver needle, but it still showed that it was not poisonous. Sun Wu said, "It seems that three doses are needed."
To be continued...