TSBFL Chapter 73
Chapter 73.3: 真相
[The Truth]
The woman’s shrill voice rang out in the court, causing those around her who heard it to frown, and some even looked at her, revealing a look of disgust.
Gu Lang looked at the mad woman without changing his face and said in an icy tone, “Don’t worry, we won’t do something like that.”
The originally mad woman was subdued by Gu Lang’s emotionless words and lost her voice likened to a chicken with its neck pinched.
Gu Lang restrained the noisy woman, turned his head again, looked at the coroner not far away, and said gently, “Sir, the method to find out whether or not one died from poisoning, there is a third method, which is to use a silver needle; only this method has limitations, only a few specific poisons can be verified in this way.”
Saying this, Gu Lang looked at the corpse and the dead chicken again, and slowly said, “Now that we have seen with our own eyes that the chicken was poisoned to death; test it with a silver needle, if the silver needle changes color, then it proves the poison, and the silver needle can be verified. Next, directly insert the silver needle into the mouth, throat, and stomach of the chicken and the corpse, and after pulling out the silver needle to see if it changes color, then we will know whether the deceased was poisoned or not.”
When the people present heard Gu Lang’s theory, they couldn’t help but burst into uproar. Their impression toward Gu Lang changed and only one person with a puzzled face looked at Gu Lang and asked him a question, “Why can you test if one person was poisoned to death like this?”
The curvature of Gu Lang’s lips widened a few points as he explained, “If the person was poisoned to death just like the chicken, then the silver needle inserted into the stomach would have changed color too. If the person is dead first before being poisoned, because the intestines and stomach no longer move when the person is dead, at most only the throat will show symptoms of poisoning. Therefore the usual method can’t test if he died of poisoning, then it can only prove if he was poisoned before or not.”
Hearing Gu Lang’s explanation, the people present only came to a realization, and that coroner could not wait to test it according to Gu Lang’s method. He is also not afraid of the smell of that corpse and directly covered his nose with gauze, ruffled the clothes of the corpse as he inserted the silver needles into those parts that Gu Lang had just mentioned one by one, and the chickens next to him were treated the same way.
After two incense sticks of work, the coroner first pulled out the silver needles inserted in that chicken, and saw that the silver needles were black which could easily let people see that the chicken was poisoned to death.
Waiting for the person at hand, the coroner does not know why he was somewhat nervous. Next to the onlookers, a few people also have the same expression, a look of breathlessness.
The coroner first pulled out the silver needle in the dead man’s mouth, black. Next was the one under the tongue, black. Next one in the throat, black. The esophagus, half black, half white.
The coroner’s breathing became slightly ragged, and even the people next to him tensed up, and then they saw that all the way to the stomach, the silver needles that the coroner □□□□□□□, all of them were white.
“You guys see, this person did not die because he was poisoned.”
It was unknown who shouted it, and only then did everyone look as if they were awakening from a dream, looking at this scene and ‘Tsk-tsk’ in wonder.
Only Gu Lang did not have any change in his complexion from beginning to end, as if he had already guessed this scene. He slowly removed his eyes from looking at the corpse, turned his head to look at the pale woman next to him, and said in a low voice, “Madam, now do you still insist that your husband died from poison?”
The woman opened her mouth, wanting to say a few words to defend herself, but when she met Gu Lang’s eyes that were so cold as to be almost harsh and seemed to have pierced her through, she couldn’t say anything. The woman who was like a shrew just now could only stick her neck there, like a castrated chicken that had been strangled, unable to make a single sound.
“Good you poisonous woman, it must be you who killed your husband first, and then poisoned him afterwards, wanting to shift the blame to the surname Chen small restaurant, wanting to use this to plan a future for yourself!”
This scene gave a loud bang, breaking the silence in the court. Everyone heard the sound and looked over, only to see that the voice was issued by the ghastly pale county magistrate.
At this time, the county governor’s scholarly and refined (well-educated) face, but also brought a few points of anger, pointing at the woman as he said: “You killed your own husband, but also in a grand scale shift your blame to others. Not only is your heart poisonous, but you are incurable. This official must punish you properly today, otherwise if more people follow suit in the future, where is the prestige of the royal court? !”
Hearing the county magistrate’s accusation, the woman seemed to have suddenly come back to her senses, kneeling on the ground at once and looking at the county magistrate, she cried bitterly and said, “No, no, sir. This civil woman did not kill my husband, he died on his own.”
The woman on the ground cried a handful of snot and a tear, if a beautiful woman cried like this, can not help but attract the onlookers to have a few feelings of pity. But this woman on the ground was ordinary looking, rude, really even vaguely also gave birth to a few points of ‘dislike feeling’.
The county governor looked at her then he frowned, soon with no trace of politeness as he said: “You do not need to be here to create a dishonest story, if you did not cause the death of your own husbands, why do not you have to be so intent on framing others and deliberately plan this? An evil minded woman like you can only be drown in a wicker basket, a form of chéntán [沉潭: to sink sb to the bottom of a pond (a kind of private punishment, especially for unfaithful wives)] aka pig cage to serve as a warning to others!”
“No, no, Your Excellency, I really didn’t kill my husband. He died of his own illness, I really didn’t do anything unfair or disappoint him!” Hearing the county magistrate’s words, the fear of the pig cage immersion caused the woman to panic more and more, and her crying and howling became louder and louder.
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