The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty. 《成化十四年》Chengnian Shisi Nian
The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, Chapter 11: The Baihui acupuncture
Xue Ling secretly groaned bitterly, when he left, Sui Zhou had just been approached by Master Commander Qianhu to speak, and casually instructed him to invite Tang Fan to this here place, Xue Ling followed Sui Zhou for a short time, and naturally understood that such an order was not very urgent, so who knew that Sui would sit here and wait.
He hurriedly said, "Brother, Master Tang is here, if it's alright, I'll go down first?"
Sui Zhou yelled, if Xue Ling was granted amnesty, he was busy, and he didn't forget to throw Tang Fan a self-seeking look before leaving.
Tang Fan coughed lightly: "I have not thanked the General Sui Zongqi for the medicine, after using it three times, all traces have disappeared, it works very well."
Sui Zhou's gaze swept over the restored whiteness of the other man's collar, said, "Follow me," and he got up to walk outside.
Tang Fan followed him, crossing the courtyard and coming to the front of another house, and after entering, he went all the way down through the steps, and as he went further down, the temperature around him was much lower than the ground.
Because of the lack of daylight and sunshine all year round, the surroundings are very dark, but not humid, and the candles wavering on either side seem likely to go out at any moment.
The two men stepped on the steps, the sound of footsteps echoing in the distance, and one couldn't help but tense up along with them.
This place was originally used to house some of the torture weapons of the Northern Administrative Court Division, but now there is an additional corpse storage chamber.
In order to store the corpses, Sui Zhou ordered a number of ice cubes to be carried over and piled around the bodies.
The saltpeter ice production originated in the late Tang Dynasty, when it reached to the Ming Dynasty, ice technology has been very developed, every summer, vendors will sell cold drinks and cold food in the streets, large households will also use ice to cool off the summer, the Northern Administrative Court is rich atmosphere, not to mention in need of the ice.
"Zheng Cheng?" When Tang Fan saw the corpse, he did not hide his surprise, and there was some unexpected surprise.
This is not Tang Fan's psychopath, because he is not interested in Zheng Cheng's corpse, but he originally thought that Eastern Depot was on fire and Zheng Cheng's corpse was burned to ashes, but he did not expect Sui Zhou to be prepared and transferred Zheng Cheng's body out.
Tang Fan said: "General Sui Zongqi predicted it first, and Tang admired this very much."
Although there are quite a few people who can think of this move, there are really not many people who dare to do so.
If the Eastern Depot had known that it was a "fake Zheng Cheng" that it had taken with it, it would have come to Sui Zhou to cause trouble.
But given Sui Zhou’s background, I don't think there's anything to worry about.
But Sui Zhou heard his praise, and his face was not proud of it: "We found nothing in him.
The Tang Fan eyes fell on Zheng Cheng, the life of the fangirls, the playboy, now has turned into a silent corpse, the whole body was stripped naked, quietly lying here, because of the ice cooling preservation, the corpse presents a strange greenish-white, but largely intact, and no decay.
In fact, on the night of his death, Tang Fan had already examined it carefully, and at that time the coroner also said that he had not found anything, and later it was also normal for them to examine and find nothing, if not for the fact that there were too many suspicions, it would have been quite reasonable to put a cause of death of "dying from excessive libido energy" on him.
Tang Fan's eyes took a closer look at Zheng Cheng's body, and the examination procedure was more detailed than that night.
When Sui Zhou saw that he was not avoiding the obscenity of the situation, he was slightly moved.
As the foundation of the dynasty became more and more solid, the importance of kung fu aimed officials further decreased, the large country is equivalent to a group of civil officials in governance, which makes the vast majority of officials like Tang Fan to advance to the rank of science and technology, in the bones of the innate sense of superiority, they studied hard for dozens of years in the window, once the parents become officials, they cannot exploit the people, and they can be called good officials only through hard work, let alone specialize in business, do a line of what one loves, as a professional position to study.
Sui Zhou was surprised because he had seen so many officials in positions similar to Tang Fan, not to mention inspecting corpses himself, that he would frown at the sight of the corpses and avoid them all the same, but all work was dependent on the officials underneath, and because he was not familiar with them, they said nothing without suspicion, which led to a particularly serious situation of being kept in the dark and deceived.
In contrast, Tang Runqing can be described as a pragmatic official, not to mention whether he understands the autopsy or not, the spirit of this willingness to get his hands dirty is enough to impress people of his intent to do a good work.
Tang Fan had already examined the body again, not just the head, he did not even let go of examining the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet, his gaze moved slowly inch by inch over Zheng Cheng's body, from his navel upwards, sweeping over his chest, neck, chin, nose, forehead, and finally landing on his head.
Zheng Cheng's hair was disheveled when he died, but now it's in a bun as usual.
The lack of any visible trauma to his face, coupled with previous speculation about the cause of death, has caused more attention to be focused on the neck down and ignoring the top of his head.
"Who combed his hair?" Tang Fan asked.
"It was like this when it was brought back from the Marquis of Wu’an Mansion." Sui Zhou said.
Tang Fan didn't say anything more as he reached out to untie Zheng Cheng's hairdo, thrusting his fingers between the other party’s hair and slowly fumbled up.
Suddenly, Tang Fan’s hand gave a lump and his face turned a bit odd.
Sui Zhou found out immediately: "What is it?"
Tang Fan: "You come and touch here, the top of the head, the Baihui acupoint."
Sui Zhou reached over as he said, fumbling for a moment, his brows locked up deeply.
"At the Baihui acupoint, slightly depressed." He said.
Tang Fan, who knew a little bit about medical science, said, "I remember that acupuncture and striking of the Baihui acupuncture points has the effect of awakening the mind and calming the mind."
Sui Zhou was a man of martial arts and knew more about fighting using acupunctures than Tang Fan: "Because the Baihua acupuncture point is the meeting of the three yang energies and hundred chakras of the Qigong pathway, it has this name, and a heavy blow to the Baihui acupuncture point can cause a person to be seriously injured and faint and die."
Tang Fan said: "But on the night of the incident, only the servant girl A-Lin was present, she was a weak woman and Zheng Cheng was awake, so he could not have been killed by the blows, besides, A-Lin, herself intended to seduce Zheng Cheng, which means that the relationship between the two was really a matter of mutual consent.”
Sui Zhou nodded his head: “There is another situation in which there is no need to strike heavily, as long as one is familiar with this acupoint and strikes it day by day with a moderate force, the person struck will not immediately faint and die right there, but over time, the meridians will disorderly rupture and he will die."
In that case, the people who spend time with Zheng Cheng the most are the most likely to be the murderers.
Tang Fan shook his head, "No wonder, the top of his head is not easy to find because of the hair covering it, and the cause of Zheng Cheng's death is even more straightforward so that people will not immediately think about it."
Sui Zhou: "Have you seen Zheng Cheng's wives?"
Tang Fan: "Not bad, I found another thing on my way here, just in time to tell you."
Sui Zhou: "?"
Tang Fan: "I just bumped into the man in the portrait who went to buy Chaihu, and also remembered where I had seen him."
Sui Zhou stared blankly.
Tang Fan: "He is from the Marquis of Wu’an Mansion."
Sui Zhou: "Are you sure?"
Tang Fan nodded his head, "I won't be mistaken, on the night of the incident, the Marquis of Wu’an Mansion was in chaos, and there were so many people at that time that I just felt like he was familiar and I had seen him before, and after I saw the person again just now, I remembered that I had seen this person that night in the Marquis of Wu’an Mansion servants."
This is a very important discovery.
The two left the ice cellar, and Sui Zhou sent someone to bring Zheng Fu over, while Tang Fan went to clean his hands.
Just now, he touched the body with his hands because of the work, so he had no choice but to do so, and the good and clean Master Tang almost did not wash his hands off checking every patch of skin before giving up.
Zheng Cheng manservant Zheng Fu has been detained in the Northern Administrative Court Division, and was soon found over, the Jinyiwei although famous for the imperial prison, but that is at a certain level of talent needs to have treatment, to deal with such a small person, but also does not need the Jinyiwei to go on all kinds of means, but Zheng Fu after Zheng Cheng's death, and has been imprisoned, mentally he was extremely nervous, the whole person quickly pine down, and Tang Fan initially saw him with that witty look, now it was simply as two different people.
When he heard Tang Fan say that he had seen this man in the Marquis of Wu’an Mansion he said, "Now that I think of it, this man is really in the Marquis of Wu’an Mansion!"
Sui Zhou glared at him: "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Zheng Fu kowtowed repeatedly: “There are a lot of people in the marquis, even though I am with the young master, I may not be able to recognize all of them, besides, this man is not from the marquis family, he is a distant relative on his mother's family who has come to join Madam Hui, he always lives outside the courtyard, I have only met him once or twice......."
Sui Zhou: "How long has he been living in the mansion?"
Zheng Fu said: “She said he was a serious relative, and then Madam Huai came to beg The Young Master saying that all her family members were dead, and that there was only one cousin left who wanted to find a job in the marquis mansion and make a living. The young master rarely rides horses and travels in sedan chairs which is the job this man had, I have rarely seen this man, but I heard that he is still honest and has not caused any trouble, if not for Master Tang's reminder, I really wouldn't remember him!"
Sui Zhou said no more, and at once had Zheng Fu brought down, and ordered Xue Ling and others to prepare for the Marquis of Wu’an Mansion.
The Tang Fan, who had been sitting by the side without making a sound, watched him inquire about Zheng Fu but suddenly opened his mouth, "Hold on!"
With this sound, not only did Xue Ling stop in his tracks, but even Sui Zhou looked over.
Tang Fan said to Sui Zhou, "What are the consequences of this, General Sui Zongqi?"
Sui Zhou reacted even more quickly, hearing this sentence with no head or tail, and not understanding: "What do you mean?"
The fact that Zheng Fu said the man was a relative of Madam Hui's who bought Chaihu to kill Zheng Cheng must have been known to her, but Madam Hui was a woman who could not even read. It must be that someone is controlling the plot behind the scenes, and this involvement may bring out the secrets of the Marquis of Wu’an Mansion. Although the Marquis of Wu’an Zheng Ying has no real power in his title, after all, his title is also a respected noble personage, so it will not do you any good if this matter gets big."
Sui Zhou's face went cold: "Master Tang if you are afraid, feel free to indulge in it, I don't force it on others."
Xue Ling also said, "We've gotten to this point, and the murderer is about to be found out, so how can we not do it? I said to Master Tang, if you're not too bold, so you can only hang out with Master Pan!"
Tang Fan shook his head: "You misunderstood, I'm not afraid, I just urge you to think about it first. This matter was the result of the Shuntian Mansion's initial inability to handle the case. If there is merit afterwards, I will never talk about robbing the Northern Administrative Court, but if you need to take the responsibility, please count me too.”
As soon as these words were uttered, Xue Ling first froze, and then he laughed and gave a thumbs up: "Good, Master Tang you're a man, this old Xue likes you!"
He and Tang Pan had established an initial friendship with him over a bowl of wontons before, but it was not a strong one, and it was only after listening to Tang Pan's words that Xue Ling felt a hint of admiration for this civilized official.
These days, there are many people who run take the credit and grab the credit, but very few who are willing to take the responsibility when shit hit the fan.
Sui Zhou's face also eased: "I'll take care of it, don't worry."
The background of Sui Zhou connectedness, Pan Bin has already spoken to Tang Fan before, and since the other side can say that, it must be unhindered.
The Jinyiwei are used to being a tyrant, and it is true that these imperial soldiers does not need to respect or kowtow of the powerless nobles.
Thinking about this, Tang Fan nodded and said no more.
This is something he must say, and it is someone else's business whether or not to accept it.
This attitude of his, however, won him the favor of Sui Zhou and Xue Ling.
Sui Zhou rose: "Go away, go to Marquis of Wu’an’s house."
The author has something to say: Note: Baihui acupuncture points is an important acupuncture point, usually you can massage it yourself, but if then it is subjected to a heavy blow that may also lead to unconscious to death, these are true, but the article said, if mastered skillfully, the prolonged striking will unknowingly lead to sudden death, this is not based on facts, but I have heard hearsay, so do not be serious, and do not imitate and go knocking people off.
Before some pundits guessed the murderer, between the principle of not being able to reveal, I can't say right or wrong, but I suggest you all spread your mind again, do not limit yourself to the original basis, and the murder itself has nothing to do with the imperial plot, my goodness~.
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