Chapter 41 (1/2)

The Imperial Physicians were frightened and could not speak, the group of state officials kept silent. Yan Hong Tian was just about to get angry, Dan Yu Lan’s clear and steady voice echoed timely: “Before Princess died, the four limps of the body, jaw, breathing, were firmly obstructed, her complexion was dark purple color, her pair of eyes protruded after death, her four limbs were stiffed and cold, so she should be infected by a snake venom. What kind of snake venom could be effective in this short time, only the ‘red scarlet worm’.

So it was really poisoning, looking at the expression of the deceased that manifested in this state, Zhuo Qing was also judging like this, but the little thing that she understood was, there were many deadly venom’s cases, but the one that resembled the Seventh Princess’ quick flared up was rare, or was it possible that she was already poisoned before coming here? Also impossible, when she was dancing, it was completely normal.

Zhuo Qing sank into her own pondering, the group of state officials who were near Dan Yu Lan spoke out ‘red scarlet worm’, after several moment, there was another uproar, Zhuo Qing secretly thought about what was the red scarlet worm’s venom?

“Official Dan, Bei Qi’s Princess died in the main hall of my Qiong Yue, this was not a small thing, must not comment easily! This case will be handed over to you to investigate fully, must find the real cause of death and murderer.” Because Dan Yu Lan reported the name of the venom, Yan Hong Tian’s voice, even though still maintained a country monarch’s dignity like before, his complexion was also dark for a moment.

Half kneeling on the ground, Dan Yu Lan loudly answered: “Chen receives the Imperial decree.”

All along, the corpse was still tightly held on Xu Xun Si’s bosom, he appeared to regain some rationality, his young face was in the capacity of the son of a country’s King so he should have some dignity. Raising his head to look straight at the high position of Yan Hong Tian, coldly narrated: “If I am not mistaken, the red scarlet worm was a distinctive venom from Qiong Yue, Seventh sister died tragically at the main hall of Qiong Yue now, Bei Qi, courteously asked Qiong’s Emperor to give us one statement. Official Dan will investigate this case personally, Xu Xun Si does not have any objection, but hoping that Official Dan can investigate the case in my presence.”

“Granted!” This matter was already like this, this request could not be regarded as excessive. After all, no matter what, the Princess died at the palace hall, that was already a fact.

“In this main hall, where did the poison snake come?! The Princess was still well a moment ago, only drank one cup of wine, maybe the wine was poisonous!” A rough voice echoed in this spacious main hall, unexpectedly could also hurt people’s ears because this voice was so loud.

Everyone was facing to look at the person who just talked, it was another Bei Qi’s envoy, General Hu Zhang Yu’s eldest son, Hu Xi Ang. His body shape was as rough as his voice, his hand was holding Princess’ wine pot, mutually communicating with Xu Xun Si who was trying to control his emotion, his face showed anger that could not be concealed.

Dan Yu Lan walked over towards him, seized the wine pot that was on his hand, he muttered a few sentences towards the chamberlain who was next to him afterwards, the chamberlain hurriedly ran out.

Zhuo Qing used her shoulder lightly to bump into Mo Bai, lowly asked: “What is this thing, red scarlet worm?”

Mo Bai originally did not want to pay attention to her, but looking at her for one glance, only saw her eyes were radiant, staring at the woman’s corpse on the ground, she was usually somewhat different. Mo Bai was silent for a moment, finally he lowered his voice to answer: “Red scarlet worm is Qiong Yue’s northwestern specific type of viper, because its body is small, a little thinner than a finger, the length is no more than two chi (one chi equals to 1/3 of a meter so this snake is not quite one meter length), so the local people call it a worm. This type of snake lives in the underground drain stones, extremely wet and extremely cold ground, only comes out at night time, will not see the sunshine all year around, its entire body is scarlet red, the toxicity is extremely strong, if it bites, you will immediately get killed, even if it only touches or mistakenly uses its venom, you will also die certainly and undoubtedly.”

Touching it could also die certainly and undoubtedly? Zhuo Qing was frightened, looking at Mo Bai, urgently said: “If the hands do not have any wound, touching its venom will also be poisoned.”

Mo Bai did not say anything, only coldly nodded his head.

Very powerful venom, the same snake venom was a neurotoxin (substances that are poisonous to the nerve tissues), or blood circulation poison (blood poisoning), another powerful thing was both types contained their own, but touching to the skin could be poisoned, was there also corrosion osmosis!? Zhuo Qing secretly felt a pity, this era did not have the equipment to examine the venom, otherwise she could research it carefully!

Not knowing whether or not Dan Yu Lan had any trick, Zhuo Qing raised her head to look towards the opposite of Dan Yu Lan.

The chamberlain brought in a white porcelain dish, also a silver needle with approximately more than 10 cm in length.

Only seeing that he put the wine pot inside the small dish, originally, the wine should be pure like floating faint red color, but she did not see the pure wine color inside of the greenish cup, the hand that was holding a silver needle put it in the small dish, the silver needle was submerged in the wine and it immediately changed to black color. Dan Yu Lan took out the silver needle, used a plain white cloth to wipe it clean afterwards, the silver needle was still black as before.

Zhuo Qing slightly frowned, could be sure that the poison contained a heavy toxic sulfide, the silver would turn black, besides this, what more components were there?! Zhuo Qing continued to look down, but unfortunately, Dan Yu Lan did not make any other movement.

Hu Xi Ang was already impatience, urgently asked: “Was the wine poison or not?!”

Collecting the silver needle, Dan Yu Lan did not try to justify anything, realistically said: “The silver needle was black, the wine was slightly red, smelled fishy, the wine really contained red scarlet worm’s poison.”