Jingzhao Prefecture, morgue.
A group of people surrounded a charred corpse. It was the dung picker, Old Man Zhang. When Yang Yuxuan and Zhu Yipin entered, he had already been charred.
"How strange." Zhu Yipin said doubtfully after examining the corpse.
"What's wrong? What did you find?" Yang Yuxuan asked.
Zhu Yipin pointed at the corpse." He's burnt to a crisp. The fire must be very strong. Not to mention his thatched cottage, even the wooden house next to it will be burned down. But when we went there, not only was the house fine, but even the toilet paper at the head of the bed wasn't lit up.”
"But is there a need for an old man to be so attentive?" Zhu Yipin shook his head. Moreover, you see, the so-called people who were burned to death were most likely injured by the smoke and inhaled too much dust, so there must be a lot of accumulated dust in their mouths. However, his mouth was very clean. There was nothing in it.”
"Yeah, there's nothing in this old man's mouth except for the stench.”Liu Ruoxin looked at the old man's mouth," Unless it's ghost fire.”
"Ghost fire?" The few of them looked at each other.
Chen Pingping was a little helpless. Why was there even ghost fire? It seemed that he had to spread science."What ghost fire? Don't talk nonsense. I think it's probably white phosphorous."
"White Phosphorus?"
" Yes, white phosphorous. It has an extremely low ignition point, and the flame is blue-green in color. As long as it is exposed to the air, it will burn violently. If a person's body was contaminated with white phosphorous, it would be difficult to extinguish it unless the burning part was removed.”Chen Pingping explained," If a person's body is covered with white phosphorous, this person will have a miraculous spontaneous combustion phenomenon. Let's go to Old Man Zhang's house again. We should be able to find a container for white phosphorous.”
Old Man Zhang's house.
The four of them observed the environment in the room. Chen Pingping pointed at the sink and basin on the ground."Found it. This is the murder weapon."
"A basin for washing your face?" Zhu Yipin was very smart after all. He immediately understood." Oh right, the murderer put the white phosphorous in the water in the basin. When Old Man Zhang washed his face, he smeared the white phosphorous on his face. The white phosphorous immediately burned and burned him alive!”
Even Liu Ruoxin and Yang Yuxuan, who used to be secret agents, shivered when they heard about this kind of death.
"But who would use such a method and spend so much effort to kill a dung picker?”Liu Ruoxin asked," Besides, the smell of white phosphorous is so strong. How could Old Zhang not notice?"”
"Not necessarily. As a dung picker, Old Man Zhang has been in a smelly place all day long. His nose has long failed.”Chen Pingping looked around the ground and saw an obviously loose brick."There are obvious cracks around this brick. It should have been moved often.”As he spoke, he squatted down and took out the brick, revealing the five hundred taels of silver inside.
The remaining three people looked at each other. Where did this old man get so many silver notes?
When he returned to the clinic, he had five silver notes in his hand. He looked at them carefully. There was no mark on them. He did not know which bank they came from.
"How do we check? There's no mark at all!" Zhu Yipin couldn't help but frown.
Chen Pingping dipped one of the banknotes in water and waited for the banknote to change."The banknotes of any money house have their own imprint, unless it's the black money house. However, there would not be an underground money house in a place like the capital. The only explanation was that they had used some means to hide it. Look, it's out."
Yang Yuxuan took a look and said,"So it's a water mark."”
Chen Pingping dipped the other four sheets in water and soon, the same words appeared: "Yongchang Bank."
After some investigation, he found out that the Yongchang Bank had recently sent out three such banknotes, but he didn't know who they belonged to. However, a few days ago, a person called Li Ghostly Hand had cashed out all his silver.
When they arrived at Li Guishou's house, they saw a strange scene. A person was burning with blue-green flames and lying on the ground. It seemed that he had been dead for a long time. The person had completely changed shape and soon, only a pile of charcoal was left.
Even Yang Yuxuan and Liu Ruoxin broke out in cold sweat, let alone Zhu Yipin. Even though they knew that the reason for the strange blue-green flames was because of the white phosphorous, they still unconsciously associated it with the ghost fire.
"Sigh, after performing plastic surgery on others for a lifetime, you don't even have a human form in the end. How ironic.”Zhu Yipin looked at the charred remains on the ground. It was unknown whether he was talking to the dead Li Guishou or talking to himself.
Chen Pingping flipped through the room and found Li Guishou's account book and a painting."This Li Guishou's business is really good, most of them are girls from the Misty Cloud Pavilion. Hmm, the last record was very strange. It was a disguise for a man, but there was no name.”
She opened the painting and saw a portrait of a man in his thirties."It should be this person, but I don't know who it is. Now, let's go and report the case. We should keep this painting. It should be useful.”
When he came to the capital city to report the case, he heard of another case. A blacksmith named Wu Gang was burned to death in bluish-green flames under the watchful eyes of the public.
Another one. The four of them looked at each other and went to Wu Gang's house without stopping.
As soon as he entered the door, Chen Pingping smelled a little white phosphorous. It was obvious that he had died the same way as the previous two people.
"Another five hundred taels!" Zhu Yipin found silver notes from Yongchang Bank in a basket.
Chen Pingping nodded. He came to a box and picked up a small bowl-like hemisphere shell."Old Zhu, come and take a look. What is this?”
Zhu Yipin took it and stared at it for a long time."No reaction."
"What about this?" Chen Pingping picked up the other one, and the two intertwined to form a sphere.
As such, the scroll in Zhu Yipin's mind immediately reacted.""This is the weapon of the Fiery-Thunder King.”
"Same Boat Meeting!" As expected, this matter was not simple. It was related to the Same Boat Club again!
"I didn't expect that we would find out about the same boat association when we were only investigating a dung picker.”Zhu Yipin almost broke down and shouted," Are you done?!"”
Chen Pingping grabbed Zhu Yipin's collar and dragged him out.""Stop howling. It's a blessing or a curse. If it's a curse, we can't avoid it. Let's go back to the clinic and analyze it properly.”
As soon as he returned to the clinic, Zhao Buzhu ran over.""Why are you guys only back now? The medicine in the clinic is not enough. The saltpeter is out of stock!”
"Ah, what?" Zhu Yipin looked at the clinic and realized that there weren't many patients in the clinic today, but there were quite a few people getting medicine.
" I don't know why," Chen Anan said." The supply of saltpeter in the city has been out of stock these days. Brother, Brother Zhu, please think of something."”
"What's so difficult about that?" Zhu Yipin said," Old Zhao, go to the toilet and dig a few stones. Soak them in clean water and filter them. Then, take them under the sun. After the sun is done, the crystals that appear on the surface of the stones will be saltpeter.”
"Will this work?" Zhao Buzhu said in disbelief.
Chen Pingping smiled." Yes, this method is indeed useful. It's just that it's too dirty, so I don't use it much."”
Zhao Buzhu obediently went to the toilet to dig for stones. By the time the saltpeter was extracted, it was already evening. It was already dark after he made the medicine for the customer.
At this time, they could not come to any conclusion. The few of them went back to rest.
However, when Chen Pingping returned to his room, he realized that there was a person lying on his bed, a woman!
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