He only saw one doubt, but could not get any confirmation.
Shen Ning smiled slightly and said, "Lord Zhou, do you still remember that the concubine and the servant confessed that they put arsenic in the roast mutton dish for the banquet that night, but why so many people at the banquet ate this roast mutton dish? , but only one person, Magistrate Yu, was poisoned, while the others were all safe. This is the first doubt. "
"That's right! That's right! This is indeed very suspicious. If Miss Shen hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have thought of it." Zhou Zhongkang clapped his hands fiercely.
"Actually, this suspicion is obvious. It's just that because there are all the witnesses and material evidence, no one noticed this suspicion."
Shen Ning put away her smile and said in a deep voice: "There is a second doubt. It is recorded in the case file that roast lamb was the sixth main course at the dinner party. After this roast lamb, four more main dishes were served. It took at least an hour for the roast mutton to end, but Magistrate Yu died of the poison in the middle of the night. "
"Is there anything wrong with this?" Zhou Zhongkang looked at her intently with a look of confusion on his face.
"According to medical books, arsenic is an acute poison that will react quickly after taking it. The poisoned person will have abdominal pain and diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and headache, and finally coma and death. But these symptoms after poisoning , During the banquet, Magistrate Yu did not show any concern. After the banquet, he stood outside the door to see off the guests. If he had really eaten the roasted lamb with arsenic added, how would he have survived until that time? "
When Zhou Zhongkang heard this, he struck with both palms as if he was enlightened, and shouted: "That's right, that's not bad at all! This matter really doesn't make sense!"
He paused and then asked: "So what Miss Shen means is that Magistrate Yu did not die of poisoning? But it is clearly written in the file that during the autopsy, Magistrate Yu had bleeding from all his orifices, protruding eyes, and rotten tongue The skin all over his body turned black, as if he had been covered with a layer of black paint. Is this a sign of death by poisoning? Or could it be that the autopsy was performed incorrectly?"
Shen Ning shook her head and said: "It's not that the autopsy was correct. I just said that County Magistrate Yu did not die of arsenic poisoning, but I didn't say that he was not poisoned. He was indeed poisoned, but it was definitely not arsenic. There was absolutely no arsenic in the roasted lamb that night!”
"It's not arsenic, what kind of poison is that?" Zhou Zhongkang was extremely shocked and murmured.
"What kind of poison is it? Then you have to ask the person who poisoned it." Shen Ning said calmly.
"But the concubine and servant who poisoned them are already dead." Zhou Zhongkang frowned and sighed.
"Does Mr. Zhou think that the concubine and servant were the ones who poisoned me?"
Shen Ning's eyes were fixed on him, and Zhou Zhongkang was shocked.
"Do you also suspect that those two are not the real murderers?"
"Of course they are not the real murderers. This is the third doubt. The two of them have admitted to having an affair with each other. This is a capital crime for women. The men will be exiled and the women will be dipped in pigs. Cong, for that concubine, whether she admits to murder or not, it is a word of death. She admitted the adultery, but why has she refused to admit the poisoning until she was tortured? A lot of suffering, it doesn’t make sense,” she said, shaking her head.
Zhou Zhongkang nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, this does not make sense."