Chapter 93 The Brilliant Poison on Pufferfish
Later, Mrs. Xu came to visit Ni Yunlin and stayed at Ni's residence at night. This made Ni very worried. He was worried that his friend would dirty his house, causing him to lose sleep. In the middle of the night, Ni heard Mrs. Xu coughing, which made Ni Yunlin very worried.
He was so anxious that he couldn't sleep well all night. The next morning, he hurriedly asked his servant to look for traces of phlegm. The servant searched all over the house and couldn't find any traces of phlegm. He was afraid that he would get scolded, so he found a rotten leaf.
To fool him, it was used as Xu's "evidence" of the night before. Ni Yunlin covered his nose, closed his eyes, and ordered the servant to throw the leaves three miles away, and also asked the servant to carry water to wash the tree. It really took the hypocrisy of celebrities to the extreme.
Seeing this, Mr. Xu could only leave in anger. This wonderful story was made more lifelike by the painter Fu Baoshi's wonderful pen, which turned words into images.
However, no matter how clean you are, you always have to go to the toilet. The toilet in Ni Yunlin's house is naturally very unusual - there is a wooden grid under the toilet, and the middle is stuffed with goose feathers. When it is convenient, if the dirt falls, it will be blown away immediately.
It's covered in goose feathers and has no odor at all.
Because of mysophobia, Ni Yunlin was very restrained in women's sex, and he actually stayed single for most of his life. Once he fell in love with a geisha, so he took him home to spend the night, but he was afraid that she would be unclean, so he asked the geisha to take a bath. After washing,
After rigorous inspection, he still felt it was not clean, so he asked her to wash it again and again. It was almost dawn, so he had no choice but to give up.
Women were unclean, powerful people, and money were even more unclean in his eyes. Zhang Shixin, the younger brother of Captain Zhang Shicheng, sent someone to send silk and gold coins to ask for paintings. Ni Yunlin tore the silk on the spot and said that he could not become a painter for powerful people, which offended him.
Zhang Shixin. Zhang Qiu couldn't draw, and he held a grudge. One day, Zhang Shixin met Ni Yunlin. On the pretext that Ni was rude to him, he ordered people to capture him and behead him. Others pleaded for mercy, so Zhang Shixin ordered people to beat Ni Yunlin dozens of times to relieve his hatred.
Ni remained silent while being beaten. Later, when someone asked him why, he said, "When he makes a sound, he becomes vulgar."
It was precisely because of his obsessive-compulsive disorder that Ni Yunlin offended many people. Later, someone arrested him and sent him to jail. When the jailer brought him food, he asked the jailer to lift the food high. The jailer was puzzled and asked him why, but he did not answer. Others
Said: "He is afraid that your spit will splash into the rice." The jailer was very angry and tied Ni Yunlin to the dung bucket, which made him miserable.
He was such a man who regarded purity as his destiny, but he ended up being unclean. There are two theories about his death, both of which resulted in an unclean ending.
One said that Ni Yunlin suffered from dysentery before his death, and his stools were all over the bed. The stench was so strong that no one dared to come near him; another said that he was thrown into a manure pit and drowned by Zhu Yuanzhang.
These men with extreme mysophobia are indeed very different, but why does this nunnery need such men the most? Xiaoli really can't understand.
He finally found an excuse and hurriedly said goodbye to the nunnery owner and Mrs. Zhang as if running away. In order to avoid letting the two women see that he was going to Mr. Zhao's place, he did not go directly to the cross-yard where Mr. Zhao lived, but took a detour.
After walking around in a circle, I came to the door of Mr. Zhao's room.
Before he knocked on the door, he heard Mr. Zhao in the room and asked softly: "Is this the Third Young Master? Please come in." Xiaoli knew that this Mr. Zhao always had extremely keen observations of everything around him.
He quickly pushed the door open and went in, finding Mr. Zhao sitting upright on the bed meditating. Seeing Xiao Li come in, he smiled slightly, then pointed to the chair next to him and motioned for Xiao Li to sit down.
Xiaoli moved his chair, approached Mr. Zhao, and reported to him in a low voice everything that had happened recently, especially the recent batch of craftsmen who were sent out, all of whom died mysteriously within four or five days.
After listening to this, Mr. Zhao asked about the symptoms of the deceased, then frowned and began to think deeply. Regarding the most magical and difficult-to-prevent poisons in the world, there are detailed records in the two books passed down by their family. According to
From the information provided by Xiao Ling, Mr. Zhao roughly guessed the cause of death of these craftsmen - they ate pufferfish seeds and ground them into powder.
The most amazing thing about this poison is that it will not take effect immediately after being eaten. Instead, it will take four or five days for the effect to take effect. However, as soon as it takes effect, the person will die immediately.
The person who could come up with such a superb poisoning method must not be Zhang, but the nunnery owner. It seems that that woman is indeed a powerful character.
In addition, Mr. Zhao believes that the reason why Zhang and the nunnery owner wanted to kill only this batch of craftsmen and not kill other batches was that this was probably the last batch of craftsmen and they were the ones who directly transported a large amount of property to the Yin Mansion, so
, Zhang and the others wanted to kill them and silence them to avoid causing further trouble. They were really cruel and ruthless!
Xiao Ling could never have guessed that grandma and the nunnery owner would use this method to kill these most important craftsmen. He really wanted to investigate the family's property to see how much was used by grandma, but all the accounts
It was all in grandma's hands, and he had no way of finding out.
When Zhang's two confidants excitedly reported to her that the "Yin Mansion" to be built had been basically completed, and a large amount of gold and silver treasures had all been moved to the "Yin Mansion", as well as the last batch of
The craftsmen responsible for transporting the gold and silver to the Yin Mansion also "solved" it perfectly according to the original plan, and all steps went very smoothly.
After hearing this, Mrs. Zhang was of course very happy and rewarded these two men heavily. The two men went down to receive the reward ecstatically. Looking at the backs of the two men, Mrs. Zhang sighed deeply and looked at the people sitting there.
The head of the nunnery next to him said, "Hey, don't tell me, I'm really reluctant to get rid of these two people."
After hearing this, the nunnery owner smiled coldly and said: "Sister, please don't be benevolent as a woman. These two are the people who know the overall plan best. If they are greedy together, the consequences will be disastrous. Your treasure hiding plan,
But it is about to be destroyed. From the looks and behavior of these two people, I know that they are people who are greedy for money and benefit, so leaving such people behind will cause endless troubles!"
These words were very effective for Zhang, and she nodded as if she had made up her mind: "My sister is the one with the foresight, so let me follow her, but these two guys are ghosts, and they may not be easy to deal with. We need to find them."
A sure way is."
The nunnery owner sneered a few times with contempt: "Don't worry, sister, although they are smart, it depends on who they compete with."
Mrs. Zhang nodded towards her. Based on their decades of friendship, she certainly understood the personality of the nunnery master - he was proud and vicious, but he had wisdom and methods that ordinary people could not understand.
Mrs. Zhang only vaguely knew that the father of the nunnery owner was originally a high-ranking official in the court. Later, he committed some serious crime. Not only was he killed, but the whole family was also in trouble. All the family property was confiscated and the male family members were exiled.
, the female family members were sold into slavery, so this lady, who had been pampered and well-educated since she was a child, was suddenly sold to a brothel, where she was ravaged by men at the bottom of society, and suffered endless bitterness and pain in the world. Since then,
Her temperament also changed drastically.
Later, an official friend of his father found out about her whereabouts, secretly ransomed her, and arranged for her to go to a nunnery through his own connections. Coincidentally, a few years after she arrived at the nunnery,
, the original old nunnery owner died, because she was arranged by officials, she was well-read in poetry and books, and she was smart, so she became the nunnery owner at a young age.
Even though Mrs. Zhang has been close friends with her for decades, she rarely takes the initiative to talk about her origins and experiences. Therefore, Mrs. Zhang only has a superficial understanding of her. On the contrary, Mrs. Zhang likes to share everything about herself.
I told this nunnery owner without reservation. This nunnery owner is also a person with a very weird temper. Although she is vicious-hearted, she usually targets men, but she is very good to the nuns in the nunnery. She never beats, scolds or abuses her.
, and he is very caring and does not hesitate to spend money to help them.
For Ms. Zhang, the nunnery’s master was her best sister. No matter what she did, no matter how rebellious she seemed to others, the nunnery’s master would support her regardless of reasons and try her best to help her. This moved Mrs. Zhang extremely. For example,
In her early years, she had an affair with a Jew and became pregnant. Fortunately, with the full help of the nunnery master, she was able to give birth to the child smoothly. It was precisely because of having this child with a Jew that Zhang felt that her life was not in vain.
Although she had to abandon the child because of the situation at that time, she thought about that child almost all the time for decades. Although she had no idea about the child's life, death and whereabouts, for some reason, she
I firmly believe that the child must still be alive in the world.
What's even more strange is that although she and Yuan Wai had a son before, she didn't know why, but she had no feelings for that son, as if he was not her biological child at all.
Only the abandoned son inspired her strong maternal instinct. She herself couldn't figure out why she liked the abandoned son so much. Maybe it was because she loved Wujiwu. She projected her heartfelt love for the Jew to him.
That abandoned child. And her crazy "burying property" plan was actually all for that abandoned child - because she wanted to leave this huge amount of property to her poor, abandoned child before she died.
The son whose whereabouts are unknown is regarded as compensation for him. This may seem ridiculous to others - not knowing the whereabouts of his son, but trying to leave so much property to him.
But for Ms. Zhang, this was her usual style of acting. She knew that she was past her seventies and had not many days to live, so she felt that this was the only way she could compensate the abandoned child during her lifetime.
But perhaps what Zhang didn't expect was that the son she longed for was actually not far away from her, only a few dozen miles away, at least for ten or twenty years; what she didn't expect even more was that the son she was dreaming of was not far away from her.
Chapter completed!