Chapter 97: The Poisonous Corpse

  The kitchen of Yao Wang Cao Lou is very clean and has all kinds of cooking utensils and food.

  Everyone went into the kitchen and stared at Hua Lang. They didn't understand what he was doing with the rice and duck eggs.

  Just as everyone was puzzled, Hualang had someone light the fire and add water to the pot. He then wrapped the glutinous rice in a cloth bag and steamed it in the pot. When the rice was almost cooked, Hualang cracked open the duck egg, took out the egg white, mixed it with the rice, and then wrapped it up again to steam.

  Everyone saw Hualang like this and felt very strange. Was this another way of eating rice?

  But think about it, it's unlikely that Hua Lang is verifying the body at this time and experimenting with new ways to eat rice.

  When Dà Huā Láng felt that the glutinous rice was almost cooked, he hastily took out the rice and then used his hands to knead those glutinous rice into balls about the size of a duck egg. Afterwards, he hurriedly carried the rice balls to the mourning hall.

  Everyone followed hastily, and saw that Hua Lang had stuffed the rice ball, about the size of a duck egg, into Ye Fengluo's mouth. Murong Changqing felt this was disrespect to his master, so he wanted to step forward to stop it, but Gong Sun Ce took hold of him first, saying: "Big Brother Master, before Hua brother began the autopsy, he already said that this method is somewhat indecent, and we all agreed; I think let's just wait."

  Murong Changqing let out a helpless sigh, it can't be helped.

  After Hualang stuffed the rice balls into Yefengluo's mouth, he immediately covered the corpse's mouth, ears, nose and anus with white paper. Then, he boiled vinegar fiercely and cooked cotton in the vinegar pot for half a time. After that, Hualang took out the cotton and put it on Yefengluo's mouth and nose.

  Everyone saw that Huā Láng had finished all this, and they no longer took any action, thinking that he had already completed the autopsy. However, they couldn't see any clues. At this time, Mù Róng Cháng Qīng stepped forward and asked: "Huā Gōng Zǐ, you've done what you needed to do, but did you find out the cause of my master's death?"

  The young man smiled faintly and said, "Soon!"

  "What's the hurry?" Ximen Long also asked impatiently, because during the process of steaming rice and cooking vinegar earlier, they had wasted too much time, so that it was almost noon now.

  Just as Ximen Long finished asking this question, Hualang glanced at the corpse and saw that it had some unusual signs. Hualang's eyebrows suddenly spread apart, and he said: "Alright!"

  Hearing the flower gentleman say it was okay, everyone hurriedly took a step forward. At this time, the flower gentleman picked up those cotton balls and saw that there was foul-smelling liquid sprayed on them. Later, the flower gentleman took out the rice ball from Yao Wang Ye Feng's mouth and saw that there was also foul-smelling liquid on it, black in color and smelly.

  Everyone was shocked by this, and Mu Rong Chang Qing's forehead was even more covered in cold sweat. At this time, he couldn't be bothered to wipe it away, and hastily asked: "Hua Gong Zi, have you found out the cause of my master's death?"

  Hualang nodded slightly, then placed the rice ball and cotton wool on the table, looking at everyone and said: "The Medicine King was poisoned to death. I used the method just now to force out the toxic liquid from the Medicine King's body. The smelly liquid on this rice ball and cotton wool must have been seen by everyone, which is the poison that Ye Feng took."

  Everyone stared at the rice balls and cotton wool in shock. At this time, Ximen Long came to the table, carefully examined the poisonous liquid, but after looking at it, he shook his head helplessly and said: "I have never seen such a poisonous liquid before, I don't know what kind of poison it is, does Huagongzi know?"

  Hualang understood autopsy, but did not understand poison. He shook his head and said: "I don't know what kind of poison this is, but now it can be confirmed that your master was poisoned to death."

  "But is this really poison?" As soon as Huā Láng finished speaking, Mù Róng Cháng Qīng began to question the foul-smelling liquid that was forced out of Yè Fēng's body by the Medicine King.

  Hualang saw this and said: "If Master Muyong doesn't believe it, then find a hen to try it out. I guarantee that this is highly toxic."

  Hua Lang said so affirmatively, Mu Rong Changqing hesitated for a moment, but after a long while, he still had a child bring over a hen and fed the rice balls to it. The hen had only eaten a few grains when it slowly became limp and lifeless, finally closing its eyes and not moving at all.

  Everyone was stunned after seeing that hen, they didn't expect this poison to be so overbearing.

  Everyone believed in themselves, and Hu Lang looked at the crowd and said: "Yao Wang Ye Feng Lou did not die suddenly, but was poisoned by someone. Now that a murder case has occurred in Yao Wang Cao Lu, I don't know what Mu Rong Shixiong, Ximen Shixiong, and Gong Sun Xiansheng want to do?"

  Hualang asked a bit more, and since there was a murder case, it was natural to find the murderer. However, Hualang wanted to ask them a few questions, apart from Medicine King Ye Fengluo being their master, he also wanted to see their reactions.

  After Hualang said this sentence, the three of them looked at each other and then chorused: "We must find out the murderer and avenge our master."

  Seeing the three of them like this, Hua Lang was somewhat surprised. Originally, he suspected that the murderer was between Murong Changqing and Ximen Long, but looking at their conversation just now, it seemed that they really wanted to find out the murderer and then cut him into pieces.

  Maybe the murderer among them is acting.

  With this in mind, Hua Lang smiled faintly and said: "Finding the murderer is not impossible, but I have a habit when handling cases. That is to treat all people related to the case as suspects and then slowly investigate them one by one. In other words, if I were to investigate, Mu Rong Shixiong, Ximen Shixiong, and everyone present at Yao Wang Cao Lu would have to accept my interrogation. Can you agree to this?"

  The hall fell silent after Hualang finished speaking, and everyone's eyes turned to Murong Changqing, Ximen Long, and Gongsun Ce. The three of them looked hesitant, but in the end, Gongsun Ce nodded slightly.

  It was useless for Gongsun Ce to nod, he wasn't at the Medicine King's hut at that time, so naturally he didn't have any suspicion on him, he wasn't afraid, but could Murong Changqing and Ximen Long endure being questioned back and forth like suspects by Hualang?

  Just as Hua Lang felt it was a waste of time to wait for their response, Mu Rong Chang Qing and Xi Men Long spoke up at the same time: "We agree to let Master Hua investigate this case, and we also agree to be questioned by you."

  When he saw the two of them finally agreed, Hua Lang felt a bit strange. What were they thinking? Why did they agree?

  Is it because they're afraid of doubting themselves, or is there another purpose?

  Hualang didn't know, but anyway, now that the two of them agreed to let Hualang investigate the case, everything would be easy to say. At this time, the mystery was still in chaos, but Hualang believed that his arrival would cut through the chaos.