Facing two pairs of bright eyes full of curiosity, Lin Dan couldn't help but smile. However, even if the two didn't ask, she would tell the truth, not for anything else, but for those innocent souls who died in vain.
"Actually, I'm not an immortal, but I know some medical principles." She was the first to confess.
"I and Uncle Huang know this, Xianchang, you can go on and get to the point." The little emperor urged the little table in the carriage.
Lin Dan smiled again, gaining a deeper understanding of the little emperor. Although he has suffered a lot and suffered a lot of sins, his xinxing has not been broken, but he is very cheerful, full of vigor and righteousness. I heard that he used to follow Prince Jin to wander in the northern desert for a few years. It can be seen that Prince Jin is also a very good person, otherwise he would not have taught a child who was in deep despair so brightly.
Lin Dan was very relieved to interact with them, and after a bit of consideration, he slowly said, "Then let's get straight to the point. You know, I'm not an immortal, but a doctor..."
"I know, Xianchang, why do you keep repeating this sentence? It's not like your thunder style. Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up."
Lin Dan was completely helpless, Prince Jin stretched out his hand and gave his nephew a shudder.
The little emperor covered his forehead and screamed, and then he was honest, just staring at Lin Dan with a pair of longing eyes. With his trouble, Yao Bishui and Xu Miaomiao, who were extremely nervous, relaxed without knowing it, and couldn't help but smile.
Lin Dan took turns pouring tea for a few people and continued, "I'm a doctor, so as soon as I walked into Young Master Cai's door that day and saw his bloody hands, I knew what was wrong with him."
"What's wrong with him?" The little emperor quickly leaned over and asked in a low voice.
Lin Dan glanced at him with a smile and said slowly, "He has an extremely rare skin disease called Ghost Tear Skin."
Yao Bishui was frightened by these three words, hugged Xu Miaomiao and exclaimed.
"Ghost torn skin? I know this disease." Prince Jin seemed to remember something, and took the opportunity to take the conversation: "I was fighting in Beihuang, and I saw someone in the military camp suffering from this disease. These people are responsible for cleaning the battlefield. , the most work is to collect the corpses of the comrades and bury them on the spot. Sometimes, a battle will drag on for several months to end, and by then, the corpses are already decomposed, and they have come into contact with more carrion. , a lot of herpes will appear on the surface of the skin, and then slowly fester, and spread to the whole body, as if a layer of skin has been ripped off by a ghost. This is a terminal illness, once you suffer from it, you can only wait for death. At first, no one in the military camp realized the cause. Later, the rules were found, and the corpse was strictly ordered to wear gloves when burying the corpse, so the occurrence of the disease was cut off. Then, after Cai Xiaogong was a famous family, he was also a scholar who stayed in the prosperous place of the capital all the year round. Got this disease?"
"Yeah, this disease can only be contracted by long-term and frequent contact with rotting corpses, so you guess, how did the young master Cai get sick?" Lin Dan drank tea slowly, his flat expression seemed to be talking about An extraordinary thing.
Yao Bishui quickly covered Xu Miaomiao's ears so as not to scare her. Lin Dan, however, took Xu Miaomiao into his arms and warned, "As a doctor, the diseases you will encounter in the future will only be more terrifying, so if you are afraid now, don't follow me. A doctor needs kindness. , also need the heart of the brave."
Xu Miaomiao gritted her little white teeth and said, "Master, my disciple is not afraid. When my disciple saw Cai Xiaogong's hand that day, he didn't tremble at all. Instead, my aunt trembled so much that she secretly hid behind me."
Yao Bishui blushed with embarrassment, but Lin Dan smiled comfortably, and pinched his disciple's round face again.
Prince Jin, who was still thinking about the strange case, somehow caught Lin Dan's eyes. Her temperament is very cold, but when she faces the people she is close to, she suddenly reveals an unbelievably gentle inside. Faced with her like this, those who are in the cold and the abyss of despair will always approach her involuntarily.
Prince Jin looked away, looked at the back of his hand, which had lost his shape, and couldn't help shaking his head with a wry smile.
The little emperor never noticed anything unusual about his uncle, he slapped the table with all his strength, and said in awe: "I understand! Then, Young Master Cai must always be in contact with rotting corpses to get sick. I sent someone to investigate him. In order to prepare for the scientific examination, he He has not been out for more than half a year. Even if he has occasional social events, it is mostly in other people's houses or restaurants, and there is no chance to come into contact with carrion. His disease must have been contracted in his own home! Carrion! Immortal Chief, am I right?"
"Yes," Lin Dan guided, "Through his illness, you have already guessed that Cai Guogong's mansion is hiding a carrion, so can you determine the specific location of the carrion?"
Prince Jin looked at Lin Dan with a smile, he knew that she was playing a puzzle game with her little nephew, which was precisely what her nephew liked to do. She is a wonderful person, and she will always see into your heart clearly at the first time, but this kind of prying is not offensive. Of course, her gentleness and tolerance are not unlimited. If she thinks you are immoral, she will abandon you mercilessly, just like her ex-husband and a pair of children.
The little emperor was really in high spirits, and after pondering for a while, he said firmly: "It's in Cai Yi's yard, and it's very close to his bedroom, otherwise he wouldn't be able to hide Cai Guogong."
"That's right, so the first time I saw Young Master Cai, I knew that there were corpses hidden in the flower beds outside his house. The flowers in his yard were more beautiful than anywhere in the house, and that was because of these plants and trees. The root system of the plant has been nourished by the carrion. One of the flower beds has signs of withering of the grass and trees, and the soil layer is also renovated. When you twist a pinch and put it on the nose, you can clearly smell the rotten odor. It can be seen that the rot in this flower bed The corpses are often dug up and played with. There are at least three corpses buried in his yard, and the root of his disease is here."
The little emperor exclaimed as he listened to Lin Dan's words. This is much more interesting than grading a score!
"However, why did he do this? How did these corpses come from? Could it be that he killed them all? It's too, too..." The little emperor couldn't find the right words to describe Young Master Cai's actions.
"Yeah, why? This is the third question I've considered, so I lit an alchemy talisman, which made everyone sleepy. I wanted to test whether Young Master Cai had a problem with his heart."
"Why is everyone tired, so you can see that there is something wrong with Young Master Cai?"
"Because drowsiness is the most contagious, if everyone is yawning, you will also feel sleepy and yawn with it, right or not?"
"Yes, yes, I know this too well. When the master was in class, when the companions yawned, I would also want to sleep! I said it was no wonder I, it was all influenced by others, and the uncle even scolded me. Sophistry!" The little emperor gave Prince Jin an aggrieved look.
Lin Dan shook his head and smiled, and Prince Jin said helplessly, "Then I apologize to you?"
The little emperor was instantly complacent, and blinked a pair of star-like eyes to look at Lin Dan: "So, what's the mystery in this yawn?"
"The mystery is that those who have a particularly cruel nature and cannot feel the sorrow and pain of others at all will not be contagious yawning. Because they have no idea that you are sleepy, and they will not be affected by you. Their hearts are only themselves, their feelings are the most important, others are optional, or ants that can be trampled to death at will."
The little emperor exclaimed, as if he felt incredible, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was very reasonable.
"Is Cai Yi such a cold-blooded and ruthless person? Sure enough, those people were all killed by him, right?"
"Just using a yawn to test Young Master Cai's heart felt too arbitrary, so I went to his study and looked at his paintings. His paintings are filled with large blocks of black, gray and red, with twisted lines. And full of hostility, it can be seen that he advocates dark and warm things. Hidden in his perfect skin is a very aggressive heart, so I have a deeper suspicion of him. However, just because of Calligraphy and painting can't fully explain the problem, so I read his articles again. He is very good at making meanings, and almost every article will quote many allusions or the words of saints. It's just a pattern. All his articles are piled up according to a mold, without any substance. In contrast, his poems and prose are all messy and disordered words, and the viewer can't feel it at all. To what he wants to express. This is one of the most important characteristics of people who are cruel and ruthless at heart - they can't express emotions, because they don't have that kind of thing at all. They can't do anything that requires a lot of emotion to carry out, such as Write poetry and prose, such as being saddened by the death of someone close to you."
"Xianchang, you made my hair stand on end! However, I remembered a small incident when I was young. That Cai Yi was once my playmate and often went to the palace to play with me. Once, we were in the imperial garden. I found a litter of wild rabbits that were just born, and they were all about the size of their fingers. They were very cute. I wanted to bring them back to the dormitory to feed them, but the maid stopped them. Then Cai Yi said to help me bring them back to raise them in a few days. He told me that those rabbits died of illness. But I knew he was lying because another playmate told me that Cai Yi just walked out of the palace gate and threw a litter of rabbits to death under the wall. I was only seven years old at the time, and he was older than me. He's still a year younger. I thought he would be like this because he didn't hold on to it, but now I want to come, but it was intentional."
The more the little emperor thought about it, the more he felt a chill in his bones, he never expected that he would become friends with such a person.
Lin Dan nodded and said, "The killing of small animals is an early symptom of this homicidal disease. I think that Mrs. Cai must have known about it long ago, but she kept it a secret and let her son indulge him, which made him worse. She often covers up for her son, and her handling of the aftermath will not be so sophisticated, and even Cai Guogong has concealed it from the past."
The little emperor agreed deeply, nodded and said: "Yes, her incense should be always on hand to prevent Cai Yi's violent murder. However, even if you are aware of Cai Yi's nature, how do you know that he will treat the old lady? What do you do?"
Lin Dan shook his head and said, "This is the second crime committed by Mrs. Cai. After covering up for Young Master Cai for many years, she may have gradually realized that her son will not get better, in order to control his condition, and at the same time It was also to protect him, so she decided to send him away. But Cai Yi didn't want to leave, so he ran over to argue with her, but the old lady was persuaded by Mrs. Cai and decided to send him away, leaving little room for manoeuvre. Not at all. Luckily, Cai Yi remembered that in a few months it would be the day when the old man was removed from his uniform, and he wanted to stay on this excuse."
"What do you think of when you mention removing the clothes?" Lin Dan looked at the little emperor.
"Naturally it is death." The little emperor said without thinking.
"Yes, at this moment, Young Master Cai finally realized that death can solve this predicament, the death of the old man, the death of his mother, the death of his grandmother, even the death of his father, no matter which one, as long as someone If he dies, he can stay. So, I tried to put myself in his role to guess which target he would choose to attack. Cai Guogong was a formidable powerhouse for him, he dared not touch him, so There are only two choices left. Mrs. Cai knows too many secrets about him, and Mrs. Cai insists on sending him away. Both of them hinder him, and one is weak and the other is old. The most suitable prey. Yes, people like him dare not provoke the strong, they will only vent their murderous desires on the old and weak women and children. What they do seems cruel, and they are powerful everywhere. But in reality, they're nothing more than downright cowards."
"A person like him never breaks his hand in order to achieve his goals. Seeing him angrily come to argue with the old lady and the eldest lady, but he didn't get the result he wanted, but left in high spirits, I guessed. When it comes to what he will do, I said that to the old lady, hoping that she will be warned."
Lin Dan sighed and said, "It's a pity that I'm soft-spoken, and in the end I can't save anything."
"So that's how it is!" The little emperor was fascinated and clapped his hands again and again: "Xianchang Lin, I have learned more from you than the master has taught me over the years! You have a pair of insight into people's hearts. Your eyes, do you know that even though you told me that you don’t know how to do magic, I still think you are a god! You are really amazing!”
Prince Jin listened to the conversation between the two in silence. Although his face was expressionless, his heart was full of shock.
Yao Bishui and Xu Miaomiao clearly experienced this incident personally, but if Lin Dan didn't reveal it, they would not have even discovered the slightest clue. This is probably the gap between ordinary people and wise people, right
"Hurry up and bring the carriage back. I want to personally see the flower beds, articles and paintings that Lin Xianchang said." The little emperor commented on the whole story, and then knocked hard on the wall of the carriage.
The guard hurriedly turned the car around and returned to Duke Cai's mansion. The officials of Dali Temple were still interrogating Young Master Cai, and he didn't want to say a word, just stared at these people and smiled coldly, looking very ill-fated. But he was a seriously ill person, and he was also the direct son of the grandfather of the country, so several officials did not dare to torture him.
The eldest lady was under too much mental pressure and was unable to commit suicide. She was brought to the old lady's coffin by the officials and asked her to look at the old lady's remains and speak. She couldn't stand the condemnation of her conscience and could only confess.
For killing his grandmother, what Cai Xiaogong did was enough to sentence him to a lingchi execution. But Cai Guogong seemed to be still struggling. He actually locked the door to prevent these officials from taking his son away, and invited Dali Siqing into the study for a secret conversation, as if he wanted him to be extra-judicial.
"Master Guo, it's not that the lower officials are unwilling to help you, but the emperor and the prince have made a note of this case. If we do not handle it impartially, it will be another day. When they ask, how should we deal with it? On one side is the mother. , on the other side is the son, the lower official knows that you are very embarrassed, but you must know that the grace of giving birth is far more important than the love of licking a calf."
Cai Guogong fell into a long silence, and it seemed difficult to make a choice between the two.
At this moment, the little emperor and Prince Jin actually left and returned, personally inquired about the situation of the court trial, and checked the case summary. They found that the eldest lady had only confessed to one murder case, and immediately showed a very dissatisfied expression.
"Come on, let me dig up all the flower beds in Cai Yi's yard!" said the little emperor in a loud voice.
Although the officers of Dali Temple felt that the order was inexplicable, they quickly pulled up all the flowers and plants and smashed the soil. Dali Siqing thought that the little emperor was making trouble again, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Your Majesty, why do you want to level Cai Xiao Gongzi's courtyard? This has nothing to do with the case, right?"
"Because the death of the old lady is just the tip of the iceberg of this case." As soon as the little emperor's voice fell, the officers dug up three carrion corpses in the flower bed. It was a woman; the other was a man with rotten flesh hanging on it, and the skeleton was very thick; the last one turned out to be a young child less than three feet tall, rotten like a man, but wearing a brand-new clothes, which should be It was just replaced a few days ago.
The little emperor and Prince Jin went in and out of the battlefield several times, and they were all used to seeing dead bodies, so there was nothing unusual on their faces. Dali Siqing was okay, but he just covered his nose a little, but Cai Guogong stared at the corpse a few times, then ran to the corner and vomited.
"Look, open your eyes and show me! That's how Dali Siqing investigated the case? If I don't come, this shocking case will be closed by you in a confused way? Continue to interrogate Mrs. Cai and Cai. Yi, be sure to give me an explanation!" The little emperor pointed at Dali Siqing's nose and reprimanded him, his face was displeased, but his heart was very happy. These ministers always use his youth as an excuse to reject his various decrees. If it is not for the millions of troops in the hands of the uncle, he will not be able to sit on the throne.
It's good now, for the first time in his life, he has trained these ministers like grandsons. This is the pinnacle of his life!
"How dare the emperor know that there are still corpses buried in this yard?" Dali Siqing asked curiously while wiping cold sweat.
"Hmph, it's not easy..." The little emperor processed Lin Dan's words, made them his own, and told the Dali Siqing. The Dali Temple Secretary said convincingly: "Your Majesty is indeed wise, if you hadn't seen the fire clearly and seen clearly, Wei Chen would have been deceived by these two prisoners! Wei Chen will go to interrogate!"
After saying this, the way he looked at the little emperor had completely changed. No wonder Prince Jin wanted to support this one to ascend the throne, even beheading the rest of the princes, but it turns out that this one is really unusually intelligent and will definitely become a bright master in the future!
Aware of the admiration of the people around him, the little emperor coughed, and his heart felt dark for a while.
Prince Jin glanced at him with a half-smile but not a smile, and then walked into Cai Xiao Gongzi's study to check his paintings and articles.
"Xianchang is right, his system seems to be wonderful, but in fact it is just a model, and he has no own experience in it. Oh, this is a poem he wrote? What is it! This picture of "Setting Sun" "However I look at it, I feel uncomfortable, it's too dazzling!" The little emperor looked through everything Lin Dan mentioned one by one and muttered words in his mouth.
Prince Jin watched for a while and then went out, staring into the distance, not knowing what he was thinking. When the little emperor came out, he asked suspiciously: "You said, why did an extraordinary person like Lady Lin end up being abandoned by her husband?"
"I don't know about this either, probably because Xu Zuguang is blind and blind. Then again, Uncle, didn't you say that you want to repay Lady Lin for saving her life and uphold justice for her? Then why didn't you take action against Xu Zuguang? "
"Don't worry, I'll wait for the imperial examinations to come, just to help you solve some hidden cancers in the Imperial College." Prince Jin's tone was gentle, but the meaning of his words indicated that Xu Zuguang would face a more tragic experience than in his previous life.
When the two returned to the front hall, Young Master Cai and Madam Cai had already confessed, but it turned out that he first killed the maid who was crawling on his bed. During the rejoicing, Young Master Cai suddenly got excited and pinched the maid fiercely. The neck... This is the ultimate joy he has never experienced in his life, but after waking up, he is afraid again. Fortunately, it was quiet at night, and even if the servant heard the scream of the maid, he only thought that the two of them were deeply in love. I can't control myself, I don't think much about it. He secretly found Mrs. Cai to deal with the aftermath, so the body was buried in the flower bed, and he made a random excuse to cover up the disappearance of the maid.
The second corpse was the maid's brother, and killing him was just to silence him.
The third body was the child of an ordinary farmer who was kidnapped by Mr. Cai when he was out playing. When he saw the child playing by the roadside, Yuxue looked cute, he suddenly had the desire to strangle her. After the murder in the carriage, he ordered the nurse to hide the body in a box and carry it back to the courtyard and bury it on the spot. It's just that the parents of the poor child still don't know that the child is dead, and they only look for her every day when she is lost.
While transcribing the confession, Dali Siqing's back shivered with chills, and Cai Guogong, who was listening in, grabbed his son's collar several times and forced him to ask him why.
Naturally, Young Master Cai couldn't answer his father's question, because he didn't think there was anything wrong with what he was doing. Isn't it normal to want to destroy something cute when you see it? Besides, his grandmother stood in his way, and he naturally wanted to eradicate her.
Cai Guogong was unable to communicate with his son, and when he walked out of the partial room, he seemed to be several decades old, and his spirit suddenly collapsed. He knew that his wife and son could not be saved, and the reputation of the Cai family was completely ruined, and the family fell apart at this moment. If he had obeyed Chief Lin's warning and sent his son away immediately, nothing would have happened. It's just a pity that there is no if in life, and he is stubborn and missed this only chance.
Thinking of this, Cai Guogong fell into deep remorse, and the next day he made a request to the emperor to serve. The tragedy of his family had spread throughout the capital. The emperor, seeing that he could not even manage the family well, naturally no longer trusted his ability to run errands, and immediately agreed. In fact, Cai Guogong, as the auxiliary minister, has become more and more arrogant recently, and the little emperor's patience with him has already come to an end.
No one in the court spoke for him, just because the case was too tragic and the inside story was terrifying, it was unheard of and unseen. It is said that the son does not teach the father's fault, and can raise a beast like Cai Yi, and Cai Guogong's character has also been strongly questioned.
Marquis Yongxin, who was recovering from illness at home, said triumphantly to the visiting guests: "Look, I said that Daoist Lin is a living god, so he must obey Daoist Lin's orders, but he doesn't believe it!"
While the guests agreed, they put Lin Dan into the ranks of those who must not offend and must befriend. For a time, her prestige spread almost all over the capital, from the royal family to the common people, there is nothing disrespectful to mention her.