Chapter 19. Detecting the poisoner
The Inca Lesson (Fiction) "The Demolition of the Inca Empire" (Volume 2) Zhang Baotong
Pizarro was already very annoyed that Juan interrupted his dream. He was so angry that he couldn't get better. Seeing that Juan had turned off the oil lamp, he took the opportunity to get angry and said, "Are you a ghost or you lost your soul? Why are you anxious? Why are you panic? The sky hasn't collapsed yet?"
Juan was so scared that he quickly took out a match from his pocket and lit the oil lamp. Usually, the captain was always arrogant and arrogant, and even in front of Pizarro, he always acted like a brother rather than a subordinate. However, at the moment, he looked embarrassed and guilty.
Pizarro shouted angrily, "What's the matter, let's talk about it slowly." Before Juan could speak, his body could not hold on, and his waist was bent so hard that he almost fell to his knees. He sneered for a while before he talked about it. He said, "The Inca King Topalca had someone poisoned him to death." Pizarro asked, "Who released the poison, have you found out?" Juan said, "It's not found out yet." Pizarro cursed, "Food, waste. What else can you do except gambling and playing women?" Then, he shouted loudly at Juan, "Go and call Antonio and Martin for me." Juan replied immediately, "Yes, Commander-in-Chief."
Pizarro quickly put on his military uniform, put on his sword and pistol, put on his hat, and went out to his headquarters office. After lit the light, he sat in a chair and waited for others. About ten minutes later, Juan called Antonio and Martin. However, Pizarro did not get up immediately, but asked Antonio while smoking, "Who do you think this kind of thing might be done?" Antonio thought for a while and said, "Is it related to that knot?" Pizarro nodded and said, "It should be something."
.Or, if the incident was found in the morning, it happened in the evening. But, what is the meaning of it?" Antonio shook his head and said, "I don't know, but there must be a relationship between the two." Pizarro pondered for a while and said, "But no useful clue was found from the knot." Antonio said, "Or, let's go over and check it out?" Pizarro threw the cigarette butt, stood up, and said, "Let's go and see where the Inca live first." As he said that, he took Antonio, Juan and Martin straight into the barracks.
When he arrived at the place where the Inca kings and princes and ministers lived, the entire row of houses was filled with guard posts. The torches illuminated the entire row of houses. Pizzaro led his men into the house where the Inca kings lived.
A good oil lamp was lit in the room, which made the spacious room very bright. On the big bed inside the room, the young and weak Inca king lies. Several young women gathered around him and sobbed in a low voice. Seeing Pizarro bringing people, they quietly stood up and stood aside.
Pizarro walked to Topalca's bed and saw that the Inca king had been covered with a large piece of black cloth, but the deceased frowned, his facial expression seemed a little painful, and there were some unwiped black blood on the corners of his mouth. Obviously, this was poisoned by someone. Pizarro looked very sad and sad, bowed his head to the deceased and greeted him silently for a while, and then said to Juan, "Please take good care of the Inca king's body. No one should be allowed to get close without my order." Juan replied loudly, "Yes, Commander-in-Chief."
Pizarro left Topalca's house and asked, "Where are those people?" Juan pointed to a room next to him and said, "It's all locked in this room." Pizarro came to the door, and the guards opened the door and entered the room with a torch to illuminate Pizarro. The room was very large, and there were almost all the princes and nobles who followed the Inca king this time, and there were twenty or thirty people. Seeing Pizarro bringing people in, the people in the room stood up from the ground and stood in a whole.
Pizarro swept the people in the room with a very fierce look, and then said, "The young Inca king Topalka was poisoned by poison. I think one of you should be responsible for this." Then, he shouted in an angry voice, "Who did it?" His voice was so loud that it shook the whole house a little. The people in the room were scared by his fierce and violent voice. However, no one answered his question.
"Who did it? Please stand up." He shouted loudly again, but no one still made him feel embarrassed and disobedient. At this time, he saw the familiar figure with a crutch.
This low and thin old man always gave him a kind of hatred and jealousy, but he couldn't figure out why he hated and hated him so much. Maybe he was the ever-winning general of the Indian army, but more importantly, he had indomitable cunning and stubbornness, and this cunning and stubbornness made him feel angry and helpless many times. On this land he conquered, even the Inca king was obedient when he saw him, but this tough old man was always playing a game of wisdom and quality with him, which could also be said to be a contest of internal strength, and he made him both embarrassed and helpless every time. Therefore, he was always looking for a reason and way to subdue him.
At present, he seemed to have found such a reason and solution. Because he had always believed that the death of Santos was related to him, and now that the Santos incident had not been clarified, the murder of Topalka appeared under his nose. This matter clearly shows that among these Inca princes, some people were secretly echoing the outside world with the inside and outside. This person must be Chalkuccima. So he walked up to the old man and said coldly, "General Chalkuccima, don't you think you should be responsible for this matter?"
Chalkuccima slowly raised his head, but asked Pizarro with a very disdainful expression, "Why am I responsible for this?" Pizarro asked Pizarro instead. Pizarro stared at Chalkuccima with a fierce look and said decisively, "Because no one else dares to do this except you?" Chalkuccima smiled contemptuously and said, "Why do I dare to do what others dare not do?" Pizarro said, "This is determined by your personality and identity, and your courage."
Chalkuccima seemed to ask funny, "Is that true?" Pizarro did not like the Indian-like harmony of Chalkuccima, and said viciously, "You may not admit it, but I will let you explain it honestly." But Chalkuccima smiled contemptuously and said, "I have nothing to admit. This young Inca puppet king was poisoned by me with poison."
Pizarro wanted to torture and force the inquiries, but he didn't expect that Chalkuccima would admit it himself, which made him feel a little overwhelmed. He stood in front of the old Indian man, looked at him with a stare for a long time, and asked, "But why did you poison the young Inca king? You, an unfaithful and unrighteous minister, are going to commit a death sentence." Chalkuccima disagreed, "The country is about to be over, what's the point of being alive?"
Pizarro nodded and asked again, "That is also related to you to say that Santos and their arrest and murder?" Chalkuccima said, "Nothing to be told." Pizarro's ferocious eyes showed blood, and he said gritting his teeth, "Very good, I will give you a good ending." As he said that, he said to Juan beside him, "Take him down, put on shackles, and put him in death corpses. When he arrived at Cusco, I would burn him to death."
(Please pay attention to Zhang Baotong's contracted work "Poetic Emotion", including short essays, life essays and short and medium-stories. Today, the novella "Women in the Mountain" (12 sisters' blind dates)
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