Daxuanti criminal officer

Chapter 263 Produced by Xuanmen
Inner Guard Mansion, in Xu Zun's office.

Xu Zun spread out those materials on the table again, and I don't know how many times he carefully checked them.

Prior to this, Xu Zun had almost rummaged through these materials, and Huo Anu couldn't figure out what exactly Xu Zun wanted to find in it?
"My lord," at this time, Li Xing brought a person in from the outside and reported to Xu Zun, "Here he is! This guy is the head chef of Beiya, and he has already recruited him. Arrange for the Imperial Army to enter the left yamen."

Saying that, the inner guard behind pushed a fat man who was beaten to pieces and barely looked like a human being in front of Xu Zun.

"My lord... my lord, please spare me!" The fat man hurriedly knelt down and knelt down to Xu Zun, "I...we didn't know that such a big thing would happen, we just added some spices to today's catering according to his instructions. It's just..."

"Aren't you talking nonsense with your eyes open?" Xu Zun frowned, "Whose order? Didn't the servant of the Ministry of Officials, Yan Hai, die in the assassination?"

"Yes... it's Yan Hai's butler," the fat man said hastily, "Yan Shilang died in an assassination, but his butler still has some power, saying that as long as we do what he tells us, we can still get promoted!"

Butler again...

Unexpectedly, people from Xuanmen also set up eyeliner around Yan Hai.

"You said you just now, how many of you are there?" Xu Zun asked.

"There are... about a dozen people!" Fatty replied, "They were also arranged by the housekeeper, let them follow my command."

"My lord..." Li Xing murmured in Xu Zun's ear, "These are only from the big camp in the northern yamen, and if you count the partial camps, there are also forty or fifty people in the southern yamen.

"We have caught more than two dozen, and the rest are still wanted."

"Well," Xu Zun nodded, and asked the chef again, "Tell me everything you know, if you want to survive, you must be honest, otherwise..."

"Confess, I will confess!" The fat man kowtowed like garlic, and hurriedly confessed, "The young one was originally the cook of a small restaurant in Chongning, Qian'an, Songzhou.

"Later, as if I had won a great fortune, the butler of Yan Hai, the official minister, found me and pointed me to a way to make money.

"I never dreamed that I could get in touch with the official officials, so I invested a sum of money and bought a small official from the Holy Capital to do it.

"Later, under the operation of the housekeeper, I was assigned to the Beiya Imperial Army, and I worked there for a year...

"During this period," the fat man said, "the butler would often come to see me in the back kitchen of the Beiya, and sometimes he would bring General Chai from the Habayashi Guard with him. It was very face-saving..."

This General Habayashi Weichai is the general manager of the delivery of supplies in the Forbidden Army camp, including the oil, salt, rice and vegetables brought in by the back kitchen.

"Sometimes, General Chai and the housekeeper will bring me some condiments and ask me to add them to the meals in the barracks. They say that the prescription is prescribed by the Imperial Hospital, which can strengthen the body..." the fat man said, "Of course I dare not If they disobeyed orders, they did everything, but nothing happened!"

Seasoning...

Xu Zun hurriedly asked, "What kind of seasoning?"

"It's a pill like a elixir," the fat man replied, "dissolve it in warm water first, and then add it to the vegetable soup.

"How dare I disobey the general's words? In fact, I did have suspicions in my heart, but I didn't dare to suspect indiscriminately. After all, my future is in the hands of others!"

"What happened later?" Xu Zun asked.

"Later, it was today," said the fat man, "probably near the end of the day, when the butler suddenly came!

"I don't know where to pull a few big boxes, and the boxes are filled with that kind of white pills.

"He told me that there has been chaos in the holy capital in recent days, and the imperial guards have to step up their patrols and have heavy tasks, so they need to add these condiments so that they can keep up their spirits and protect the holy capital..."

Gee...

Xu Zun frowned more and more when he heard it.

"Although Yan Shilang and General Chai are gone, I dare not disobey the steward's words," the fat man said, "so when it's time to start cooking at Sishi, I will distribute the pills and let those little cooks, Mix it into each pot in the back kitchen...

"To tell you the truth, I saw the sudden increase in the dose, and I also muttered in my heart, but...the housekeeper has been monitoring everything we do, and I dare not ask random questions...

"Afterwards, dinner was served," said the fat man, "then the inner guards came over and arrested the rest of us!

"My lord, the little one is really wronged, I feel..." the fat man knelt down and begged for mercy, "Please interrogate those little officials, they ran away when they saw the inner guard calling their names, I think they should know more than me! "

"You said they brought a big box," Xu Zun asked, "except Yan Hai's housekeeper, who else?"

"Yes, yes!" The fat man hurriedly said, "It's those little officials, they brought it here with the housekeeper."

Carrying it over, Xu Zun pondered, it seems that those pills should have been transported to the barracks long ago, but when the time comes, they can be used directly on the spot.

"The pill...is there any left?" Xu Zun asked.

"Yes," Li Xing quickly took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and when he opened it, a white pill appeared. "I found a few pills in the box, most of which were broken."

Xu Zun held it in his hand and looked at it carefully. From the appearance, the pill was almost the same as the pill they gave Li Jinlou back then.

The pills are covered with a layer of wax, probably because the ingredients in the pills will volatilize and affect the efficacy of the medicine.

Ani also came over to identify it, and after just a slight sniff, she was sure it was produced by Xuanmen.

"My lord," Li Xinghui reported after the fat man was taken away, "the fat man is right, except for Yan Hai's housekeeper, those little officials really have problems.

"It's a pity that the offender in question was either not caught, or committed suicide by taking poison, and the rest were all deceived, just like the head chef."

Xu Zun took the pill to his nose and sniffed it. Just as he was about to assign some task, his eyes froze suddenly!

"My lord," Li Xing guessed what Xu Zun meant, and asked, "Is it true that we should find the place where the poison is hidden first? It should... it should be in a room in the back kitchen of Beiya, right? My lord..."

While Li Xing called softly, Hou Zhen and Zhao Yu suddenly entered the room with their heads downcast.

"Master Xu, you're back so soon?" Zhao Yu's first words were exactly the same as Huo Anu and Ani's, "Did the Empress Dowager ask you to thoroughly investigate this case?"

"Old Zhao," Xu Zun asked hurriedly when he saw that Zhao Yu was still wearing the bloody clothes, "Is your injury okay?"

"It's all right, it's just... oh..." He said angrily, "That Luo Jia's mouth is really hard, he didn't say anything.

"He lost his arm and went blind, but he just broke the jar!"

"Yes, my lord," Hou Zhen echoed, "We don't dare to use too much torture, for fear that he won't be able to survive, so we can only heal him first, so..."

"Hou Zhen," said Xu Zun, "make arrangements quickly, I'm going to Zuoge to lead Bi Sheng!"

"Oh?" Hou Zhen wondered, "Are you going to the Zuo Mansion? Okay, I'll report it right away..."

"My lord," Zhao Yu hurriedly asked seeing Xu Zun holding the pill, "Do you have any new clues?"

"Yes," Xu Zun nodded, lifted the pill and said, "I seem to have smelled this kind of smell somewhere before..."

(End of this chapter)