delicious little cook

Chapter 551 It's a Mess
Before dawn the next day, before the gate of the workshop was opened, the lights of He's house were turned on. Holding the light, Wang Xiaodong's daughter came to his father's door to wake him up.

After knocking on the door a few times, there was no response. Wang pushed the door open and entered, and placed the candlestick in his hand on the bedside table. After the candlelight stabilized, he glanced away and suddenly saw a figure rushing in front of the washstand, and made a loud noise on the spot. Heart-piercing screams.

"Ah!!!!!! Daddy!!!!!!"

This early in the morning, the He family members suddenly heard such a voice, and immediately ran to check in a panic. They saw Mrs. Wang sitting on the ground in front of the washbasin stand, and a man fell face down in the washbasin. She had been out of breath for a long time, but Wang was holding the corpse's leg and crying unceasingly.

The He family members were shocked, and stepped forward to forcefully drag Wang away. Several men hurriedly put Wang Xiaodong on the ground. Although the charcoal fire in the room was still on, his body was cold and stiff. Already gone.

"My in-laws, why did you go like this! Leave your family behind, what will they do!" He Jie knelt on the ground, beating the ground with his hands sadly.

Mrs. Wang was forcibly dragged out of the door by the family members so that the men could work in the house. She was crying so hard that her children were also crying non-stop beside their mother.

He Jie's son, that is, Wang's husband wiped away his tears, helped his father to the door.

"Father, let's stop crying, hurry up and call Marquis Wu, and report to the officials as soon as the gate opens. Father-in-law is a seventh-rank official, so you have to go to the imperial kitchen to report the funeral for this matter."

"That's right, now is not the time to be sad, there are still important things to do, you go and call Marquis Wu."

The young man went out immediately, and the He family also started to clean up the scene. The female relatives took the children to the back house to cry, and returned to Wang's house to report the funeral at dawn.

Marquis Wu was woken up from his sleep by his family. Hearing that something happened to the He family, he hurriedly put on his clothes and rushed over. When the gate of the workshop opened, report the case immediately, and invite the coworker to come for an autopsy before collecting it.

Thanks to Marquis Wu's calm command, the chaotic He family finally regained some order and was no longer in a mess. The disturbed neighbors also came to help, and prepared a carriage to send Wang back to her natal family to report the funeral.

Just as the He family was preparing to express their condolences, it was time to open the gate. Wang's husband was about to go to the yamen to report the case, when the yamen servants of Yingtian Mansion suddenly got off their horses outside the street gate and walked in.

"What's going on?" The yamen servant asked standing in the yard. The scene was chaotic, and it seemed that something bad had happened.

"Several servants, someone from this family has passed away, and we are going to report to the officials." Marquis Wu immediately went over to explain.

"Someone died? Who was it?"

"It's the in-laws of He Jie, the head of the household, named Wang Xiaodong."

"Wang Xiaodong is dead?! How did he die? Where is He Jie?!"

The yamen servants turned pale with shock, Wuhou felt a little bit in his heart when he saw this, with a bad premonition.

"He Jie's here, he's here, he's fine, I'll call him right away."

Marquis Wu turned and ran, dragging He Jie over.

"Several bad guys, he is He Jie."

"Prepare the car, take Wang Xiaodong with us to Yingtian Mansion. As for you, He Jie, Lin Leren confessed you, and your lord ordered you to be imprisoned. Let's go." Without further ado, the yamen servants put the chain around He Jie's neck. He quickly tied him up and left.

"What did I do?! Why did you take me! I was wronged!" He Jie struggled to be dragged out of the street.

Seeing this scene, the family members who had just regained some sanity also rushed up howling like crazy to snatch him away. Marquis Wu hurriedly called the neighbors in the neighborhood to help stop him, because beating up the yamen servant will lead to prison.

The neighbors smelled gossip and tragedy, rushed up to form a human wall, stopped the crazy He family, and pushed them all back to the courtyard, so the yamen servants were able to hold He Jie to stand in the alley.

Then Marquis Wu called to prepare a car, and asked two young men to carry Wang Xiaodong's body out, put it on the car and go back to the yamen with the yamen servants.

Before leaving, the yamen servants gave Marquis Wu an order to keep an eye on all the members of the He family, and to question him if he got away.

Naturally, Marquis Wu didn't dare to be negligent, so he borrowed a pair of padlocks from the neighbor, closed the door of Hejia Street and locked the door, and asked his subordinates to inspect the front, back, left, and right walls, in case someone in his family jumped over the wall to escape and splashed the sky on the inside. The cries fell on deaf ears.

Such a big incident happened before dawn, some curious neighbors couldn't wait to hear other people's rumors, but went to Yingtian Mansion with the yamen servants, so they could hear the first-hand news.

Lin Leren was also able to bear it. From the time he arrived at the Yamen last night until after the fourth watch, he was exhausted and finally couldn't bear it. To tell the truth, that's why Fu Yin immediately ordered He Jie to be arrested. Who knew that Wang Xiaodong's death happened, and the prince's After searching all night, no one was found, so he just died at He Jie's house.

The timing is also really coincidental.

The yamen servants led the suspect back to the yamen, followed by the spectators in the neighborhood, a few figures in ordinary clothes sprang out from the shadows of the alleys and street corners, and followed them out of the yamen in a leisurely manner, and went straight back to the princess mansion to report.

Arriving at Yingtian Mansion, the governor heard that Wang Xiaodong had died, so he hurriedly called Wu for an autopsy, and then asked the master to prepare the necessary case files, and then Mr. Fuyin, who also hadn't slept all night, yawned and went back to the back house to catch up on sleep, preparing to enter the palace in the morning. St.

Because of He Jie's confession, he knew the circumstances of Wang Xiaodong's death. Wu Zuo conducted another autopsy and found that there was no trauma to his body, and there was a faint smell of alcohol on his body. His mouth, nose, and eyes all fit the death pattern of drowning, confirming that the cause of death was indeed drowning. It is presumed that the reason is probably drunk and thirsty, getting up in the middle of the night to drink water, unsteady feet, and an accident that happened accidentally.

On the side of the criminal house master, He Jie did not have the backing of Wang Xiaodong, so he simply took advantage of the situation to push all the crimes on him, and identified it as Wang Xiaodong's idea. The main purpose was to take revenge on Bai Kou. The dead rat was easily solved, which made the prince dissatisfied with the royal kitchen, thinking that the royal kitchen deliberately wanted to be unfavorable to the princess. In fact, the royal kitchen was very wronged. The daily diet and food intake were recorded in detail, and he had never murdered the princess.

Wang Xiaodong was the head chef of the Seventh Grade Royal Kitchen before his death. If he was dissatisfied with Bai Kou and wanted to take revenge on her, he would indeed have a motive. After all, the matter of the Crown Princess is now well known in the capital.

The master copied He Jie's testimony, and then made a copy of all the confessions made throughout the night. He also made a copy of the autopsy file, and sent them all to the back house for the Lord Fu Yin to use when he was interviewed.

Fu Yin was woken up by his wife after sleeping for more than an hour, had breakfast, dressed neatly, and rushed into the palace with all the cases.

(End of this chapter)