Demon detective

Chapter 4 Poisoning
Although the little donkey pulling coal was exhausted all day, it still showed amazing strength and speed. Under the instigation of Xu Zhen's leather whip, it pulled the coal cart to the gate of the county government office in a short while.

At the gate of the county yamen stood four yamen servants standing on duty. They suddenly saw Xu Zhen driving a donkey cart stop, and they all gathered around curiously.

"Quick!" Xu Zhen jumped out of the donkey cart, pointed to Qiu Batian in the cart, and assigned tasks to the servants, "You, come and help me lift the man out of the cart;

"You, hurry up and inform the elder, and say that Qiu Batian has arrived;

"You, notify everyone immediately and prepare to be promoted;
"And you, hurry up and get a basin of cold water!"

"Ah? Qiu...Qiu Batian? No...Didn't you say that you want to summon him? Why..." The four yamen servants didn't know why, and they were shocked.

"Hurry up! Don't be dazed!" Xu Zhen urged, "This is what the old man ordered, hurry up!"

Hearing what Xu Zhen said, the servants didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately acted according to Xu Zhen's instructions. Some ran to the inner hall, some ran to the public house, some went to fetch cold water, and one with Xu Zhen brought the unconscious Qiu Batian was carried into the county government office.

Soon, Qiu Batian, covered in coal dust, was dragged to the county government office, where one of the government servants brought a basin of cold water.

Xu Zhen took the water basin and said to the servant: "Okay, you can bring the plaintiff now!"

The yamen servant responded, and immediately ran to the direction of the county yamen south prison.

At this time, the yamen servants and police officers who received the news came to the lobby one after another. Xu Zhen saw Chen Tiefeng appearing from a distance, and poured a basin of cold water on Qiu Batian's head!
"Oh oh oh..."

Qiu Batian shivered several times, and was instantly awakened by the cold water.

Just at this time, Chen Tiefeng had already run into the lobby, Xu Zhen had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and directly handed the water basin to Chen Tiefeng's hand.

The so-called inertia effect means that if you hand something to others naturally, others will take it naturally.

Sure enough, Xu Zhen handed it naturally, and Chen Tiefeng received it very steadily, and he was only curious after he finished the hand.

"You..." Chen Tiefeng just wanted to ask Xu Zhen why he gave himself a water basin?
But at this moment, Qiu Batian who came to his senses sat up screaming, and roared at Chen Tiefeng like a raging lion:
"You? How dare you splash me!?"

Chen Tiefeng was an old man in the arresting house, so he naturally recognized this man in red robe as Qiu Batian whom everyone feared in Yanping County!
"Ah? This..." Only then did he realize that Xu Zhen had played a trick on him, and hurriedly threw away the water basin while looking for it with angry eyes.

However, Xu Zhen has long since disappeared.

"You..." Qiu Batian yelled at Chen Tiefeng angrily, "What's your name?"

"I..." Chen Tiefeng didn't have time to react, but subconsciously replied, "I'm Chen Tiefeng."

"..." Qiu Ba was furious, "It's unreasonable, it's unreasonable!"

"Qiu... Boss Qiu..." Chen Tiefeng was startled, and quickly squatted down to help Qiu Batian, and at the same time hurriedly explained, "Listen to me, I didn't splash it just now, it really wasn't me..."

"Get out!" Qiu Batian was furious and pushed Chen Tiefeng away, and got up by himself.

But seeing that his body was covered in a mixture of coal and water, and his hair was disheveled, he was extremely embarrassed.

"Oh! What... what's going on here?"

At this time, Song Zhili, the county magistrate, and Cheng Xiao, the head catcher, rushed over after hearing the news. Seeing Qiu Ba naively arriving in the courtroom, the two greeted him in a panic.

"Yamen... huh... this is... Yamen?" Qiu Batian squeezed his drowsy head before realizing that he had arrived at the county government office.

"My lord, it's all that Xu Zhen!" Seeing this, Chen Tiefeng hastily complained, "He brought Boss Qiu here!"

"Xu Zhen?" Song Zhili was so anxious that he hurriedly asked Cheng Xiao, "Cheng Butou, what's going on?"

"I..." Cheng Xiao was also at a loss, and justified casually, "I just asked him to summon Boss Qiu, but I didn't expect, I didn't expect it to turn out like this!"

"Oh, Boss Qiu, it's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding..." Song Zhili hurriedly clasped his fists to Qiu Batian.

"Huh!" Qiu Batian covered his head and shouted angrily, "Stop acting! I don't think there is any misunderstanding, don't you just want to punish me? Okay, then come on, let me see if you can get me how?"

"This..." Song Zhili frowned tightly, and persuaded again, "You are worrying too much, this... this is really a misunderstanding! I..."

"Okay," Qiu Batian suddenly thought of something, immediately interrupted Song Zhili, pointed to his nose and said, "Isn't it because someone wants to sue me that you have put in so much effort? Okay, you call him out, I want to see how holy he is?"

As soon as Qiu Batian finished speaking, there was a commotion outside the yamen, and after a while, Qiu Batian's vicious servants rushed into the courthouse aggressively.

"Master Qiu, Master Qiu... are you alright?"

Seeing Qiu Batian covered in cinder stains, all servants immediately protected Qiu Batian, and glared at the servants present.

Even though this was the county government office, County Magistrate Song and a group of government officials still turned pale with fright, completely losing their official majesty.

"It's far away, it's far away!" County Magistrate Song calmed down and said in a hurry, "Boss Qiu, you're going far away if you say that. Come on, please come to the inner hall to talk, and let me explain the whole thing to you in detail." Speaking of which, this... this is really a misunderstanding!"

"Report..."

Unexpectedly, just after County Magistrate Song finished speaking, the yamen servant who was going to bring the plaintiff ran in in panic and reported to County Magistrate Song:

"Grand... Grandpa, it's not good! That old man——is dead!!!"

what! ! ?
The entire county government hall was suddenly quiet.

When the yamen servant reported, Xu Zhenzhen hid behind a certain desk to watch the excitement.

After hearing such shocking news, I couldn't help but froze in place...

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A quarter of an hour later, the county government went to the South Prison.

The county magistrate Song Zhili, the arrester Cheng Xiao, the arresters, Qiu Batian and others all came here.

"What... what's going on here?" County Magistrate Song asked anxiously.

"No... I don't know!" A jailer said in a panic, "It was fine just now, who knew he died just like that..."

Everyone quickly looked into the cell, but saw a person lying on the ground, it was the old man who sued Qiu Batian.

He was lying on the ground, his body twisted, and he seemed to have experienced excruciating pain before he died.

With rich experience, Cheng Xiao rushed into the cell first and turned the old man's body over.

"Ah!?" With just one glance, Cheng Xiao frowned, turned to look at the county magistrate Song Zhili, his eyes became extremely complicated.

"What... what's wrong?" Song Zhili noticed something strange and hurriedly asked.

Cheng Xiao still didn't answer, but his face became extremely ugly.

"Oh, what's the matter!" Song Zhili was anxious, "Tell me!"

"It's... poisoning!" Cheng Xiao said in a very low voice, "It's poisoning."

"what!?"

Song Zhili felt dizzy for a while, and immediately took a few steps back, almost falling down.

Among the crowd, Xu Zhen looked through the gap, and sure enough, he saw the old man's distorted face and purple lips, which were indeed obvious signs of poisoning.

No one expected that in just a few hours, the old man was poisoned to death in the county government prison!
How could this be?
Only then did Xu Zhen understand why Cheng Xiao looked at Song Zhili with that look just now.

He obviously suspected that the old man was poisoned to death by someone sent by Song Zhili. In this way, the old man's death could not be proved, so he could not sue Qiu Batian again.

But... Judging from Song Zhili's current appearance, he doesn't seem to be aware of it.

Besides, even if Song Zhili really wanted to kill the old man, he shouldn't be allowed to die in the county government prison. Isn't that a fire?

Besides, in such a short period of time, Song Zhili was still unable to determine the cause of the case, so how could he kill Qiu Batian?

Who killed the old man?

"It's really bad luck!" At this moment, Qiu Batian shook off the dirt impatiently, and said to Song Zhili, "I said, old magistrate, if you don't give me an explanation for this matter, don't blame me and you guys." I can't get through the Yamen!"

"This..." Song Zhili was completely confused, not knowing what to say.

"It's really inexplicable, hum..." Qiu Batian snorted angrily, turned around and waved to his subordinates, "Let's go, those little golden cats in Wanhualou are still waiting for me!"

After speaking, he led his servants and walked out of the prison.

Logically speaking, Qiu Batian has a major relationship with the case in front of him, so he should stay in the Yamen for review.

However, who would dare to stop Song County Magistrate or the Yamen servants?He could only watch Qiu Batian swagger out of the prison.

Gee...

Looking at Qiu Batian's leaving back and looking at the old man's body in the cell, Xu Zhen frowned tightly, feeling more and more that this case was very unusual.

But in the next second, Xu Zhenxin thumped in his heart, and suddenly thought of another important thing.

Damn!

Since the old man was poisoned to death in the prison, then... where is the old man's daughter?

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(End of this chapter)