Chen Gui is forty-seven this year. Although he is nearly half a century old, his sideburns are completely white and one of his back molars has become loose. But he is still sharp-sighted and nothing can escape his eyes.
After Chen Gui knelt down respectfully to the body, he looked up and saw that lying there was the most noble man in the world, the master of all peoples. Wearing Gong robes and a court crown on his head. Lying there quietly and peacefully, he was obviously still just a child.
Chen Gui has been in the prison for nearly thirty years. He has examined many corpses and figured out the truth about countless deaths. He is well-informed and skillful, making him the leading spy in Daqi.
Chen Gui calmed down a little and took out various exquisite tools for inspection from the sheepskin bag.
After so many years in the industry, I have dealt with respected scholar-bureaucrats and even princes, as well as bandits and beggars with different statuses, but the situation I encountered this time was different from the past. No matter what was found this time, it would be a secret that had to be kept until death. He did not want to involve the lives of hundreds of members of the Chen family.
Chen Gui's hands holding the tweezers were trembling slightly, and large beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. In the past, he had his apprentice help him, but this time he did it all by himself.
Chen Gui didn't dare to wipe off the sweat on his face. He carefully inspected every part of the body, including the nostrils, ears, mouth, and even the nails on his hands and feet. The hair was also carefully flipped.
Seeing the various forms of corpses and smelling strange smells are the basic skills of their profession.
Chen Gui looked very carefully. It took him a full hour to finally check all the places. He also took out the secretions from the mouth and observed them carefully. He even cut off a section of his fingernails and studied them carefully.
When Zhao Qian saw that he was putting away his tools and wiping his sweat, he knew that everything was over, and he hurriedly rearranged his remains with Fu Guang. After tidying up, Zhao Qian held incense and worshiped again, and then said to Chen Gui: "Come with me."
Chen Gui lowered his head and followed Zhao Qian out of the Xianju Palace and headed elsewhere.
Later, they entered a room with candles lit and a young woman vaguely visible above. Although Chen Gui didn't know his identity, he could only kneel down and kowtow.
"Explain the results of the examination to the Queen Mother in detail. If there is any concealment, I will not be lenient."
That young woman is the Queen Mother! ? Chen Gui was used to seeing big scenes, so he didn't panic and quickly saluted and promised.
"For the Queen Mother and the Prince Regent, after careful inspection, the Emperor's body showed no obvious abnormalities, no external injuries, and no obvious lesions on the body surface."
"Then what do you mean, Your Majesty, that he died of natural causes? He was just a child who had just turned seven years old. He had caught wind and cold before. Although he had a high fever, everything was getting better. Why did he die suddenly? He had to There is a reason why he died suddenly?" Li Wei just couldn't figure it out.
Chen Gui couldn't answer, so he continued: "The younger one carefully inspected the emperor's ears, nostrils, hair, etc., and found nothing unusual. However, the fingernails and toenails were a bit purple, so the younger brother When I checked my mouth, I found a peculiar smell, which was not the smell of corpses, but a slight smell of almonds."
"Is it the smell of bitter almonds?!" Li Wei read a lot of detective novels at that time. The smell of bitter almonds in detective novels meant that someone used cyanide to kill people.
Chen Gui nodded and said, "It tastes like almond, but I don't know whether it's bitter almond or sweet almond."
Fu Guang was poisoned? This thought quickly emerged, but who was so hateful that he would kill a seven-year-old child.
Li Wei only felt that the blood in his body was boiling for a moment. Because he was so excited, he felt that all the blood was rushing upwards.
Someone is attacking Fuguang, who is it? ! She would risk her life to find out the murderer.
After Chen Gui reported the results he found, Zhao Qian let him go.
Li Wei was still full of doubts. Zhao Qian saw that her expression was not right and asked quickly: "Is there something wrong with the almond flavor?"
"It could be the smell left by some highly toxic substance."
"If there is really a highly toxic substance, there is no way that there will be no reaction at all on the body."
This is true, but there is no chemical synthesis here, so where does the cyanide come from. Li Wei wanted to use the knowledge he had learned to explain, but found many difficulties.
Zhao Qian then said, "How can I help?"
Li Wei said: "Just take care of the government affairs. In short, we can't cause any more trouble."
The rebellion of King Shu left a huge shadow on her. If someone really does harm intentionally, what is the purpose? Who could do it. A series of doubts troubled Li Wei, but he couldn't find the answer.
The next day was the day of burial. Li Wei looked at the shadow of him there and thought that he died inexplicably. Is there nothing that can be done? When no one was around, she deliberately opened her mouth and smelled it hard. However, she did not smell the almond smell that Chen Gui mentioned, but another very unpleasant smell that gradually began to change in the body over the past few days. odor.
Efforts to find out the death of the little emperor was Li Wei's most important thing at the moment. She called several imperial doctors separately and questioned them individually. From how to use medicine to how to use acupuncture, I asked in detail. She also got the prescription in her hand, and it did say "bitter almond" on the prescription.
Almonds are a good medicine for relieving coughs and asthma. The dosage is within the prescribed range and is not used in large quantities. So is it normal for Fu Guang to have an almond smell in his mouth? Li Wei expressed doubts.
She found Fu Guang's pulse records again. Although she didn't understand medical science and couldn't understand these pulse records, everything became much easier with Cai Zhi's help.
Li Wei's movement became louder, and Concubine Jinggui and Concubine Ning all expressed doubts: "Queen Mother, is there something wrong with the emperor's death?"
Li Wei said: "The emperor left too suddenly. I just followed the procedure. You don't need to panic." She said very calmly.
Li Wei and Cai Zhi worked together and after various verifications, they concluded that everything was normal.
Li Wei didn't know whether to be happy or worried about this answer.
"Caizhi, besides almonds, what other things do you think have the smell of almonds?"
Caizhi shook her head in confusion and said, "People's women don't know."
"You don't know either. Then do you know what cyanide is? Is there such a substance there?"
"I have never heard of what the Queen Mother said."
Although Li Wei could not hide her disappointment, she still thanked Cai Zhi for her hard work. Starting from these difficulties, it is time to interrogate the people who serve Fu Guang one by one to see if there are any confessions between them, and perhaps some details will be discovered.
(End of chapter)