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Chapter 349 There Is a Third Person

When Dali Temple Minister heard the words, he turned his head to look at the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, and said, "Master Ling, what do you think of the post-mortem examination made by Wu Zuo?"

After all, Liu Liangji was the minister of the Ministry of Punishments of the third grade, even after he entered the sky prison, Emperor Qi Cheng did not convict him, if he was an ordinary prisoner, he would have been disemboweled and autopsyed.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs glanced at Liu Liangji's body, gritted his teeth, nodded and said, "Let's do the inspection, after the inspection, the body must be sewn up."

Otherwise, when Liu Liangji was buried, his body would still be disembowelled, which would be too disgraceful.

Wu Zuo took Liu Liangji's body and left, and the imperial physician stayed behind to help identify whether there was any problem with the handkerchiefs found in the search.

There were a total of 36 guards in the prison, including the head of the cell. The Beiya imperial guards searched their bodies carefully, and actually found five handkerchiefs and seven scarves for them.

The Imperial Army of the Beiya was ordered to carefully observe the expressions of the guards being searched when they found the handkerchiefs and scarves, and to write down anything they found strange.

Because they were afraid that there would be problems with the handkerchiefs, the Beiya Imperial Guardsmen all wore sheepskin gloves during the body search, put a handkerchief on a tray, and twelve trays were presented to the three Ministers of the Ministry of Punishment.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Justice looked at the imperial physician, who nodded and ordered twelve bowls of water to be prepared, and then soaked the handkerchiefs in the bowls.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour, the imperial doctor fed the cat one by one the water in the bowl.

When the third bowl of water was fed, the cat suddenly went berserk, foamed at the mouth, convulsed and died.

Having a clue, Minister of the Ministry of Justice and the others cheered up, and immediately asked, "Who owns this handkerchief?"

The Beiya imperial guard checked the record book and replied: "It's the jailer named He Zhu."

The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment memorized the name, and was not in a hurry, and continued: "Catch another cat over here, and continue to feed the water to see if there is any other poisonous water."

Tried one by one again, after feeding all the water in the bowl, another cat died, and the symptoms were exactly the same as the previous cat.

This time, there was no need for the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment to ask, and the Beiya Imperial Army directly said, "This man is called Qin Xiang."

"Are there only two?" The Secretary of the Ministry of Justice frowned, but there were three people who were poisoned.

But for a while, I couldn't find a third problematic scarf, so I had to give up.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Justice looked at the imperial physician, "I will trouble the imperial physician to take these two bowls of poisonous water back to see what kind of poison it is."

The imperial physician nodded, and was about to leave with two bowls of water soaked in handkerchiefs, but Dali Siqing stopped him.

"Wait a minute!"

Seeing that other people were looking at him, Dali Siqing ordered, "Bring two more clean bowls here."

When the Beiya imperial guards came over with two clean bowls, Dali Siqing took two spoons from the two bowls of poisoned water and put them away.

Dali Siqing explained, "Maybe it will be useful later."

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice did not stop him, and when the imperial physician left, his eyes turned cold, and he said in a deep voice, "Let's go, let's interrogate them."

The first ones to be interrogated were not the two jailers who found out that there was something wrong with the handkerchiefs, but the jailer who delivered food to Chen Zhengxin.

"What's your name?" The Secretary of the Ministry of Justice asked in a deep voice.

The jailer looked very calm, "Go back to your lord, the villain's name is Fan Dahe."

Minister of the Criminal Ministry nodded, "Fan Dahe, do you know that Chen Zhengxin was poisoned?"

Fan Dahe nodded, "I know, the accident happened after he had dinner."

Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice suddenly changed his face, "Since you know that you gave him the food, why don't you confess?"

Fan Dahe pointed to the sky and swore, "My lord, there is a god standing three feet above my head. I, Fan Dahe, swear that if I inflicted the poison, then I will die a terrible death. The sky will be struck by lightning, and there will be no incense to worship after death."

This poisonous oath can be said to be non-poisonous, but the Secretary of the Ministry of Justice sneered, "If everyone can prove their innocence by taking a poisonous oath, is there still a need for the Ministry of Punishment and the Heavenly Prison in this world?"

Fan Dahe actually nodded in agreement, "My lord is right, but I did not inflict the poison. Even if my lord tortured me, I would not admit it."

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment turned cold, "Okay, if you are so hard-spoken, it depends on whether you are really what you said, come here, use torture!"

The executioner was the Beiya imperial guards, whose hands were much stronger than the guards, and the lashes on his body were very painful, but Fan Dahe took thirty lashes without saying a word.

After beating the Minister of the Ministry of Punishments and asking again, Fan Dahe still insisted that he had not poisoned himself, and even said, "My lord, how did this meal get into my hands? I will give it to Chen Zhengxin. I have not tampered with it. If there is something in the meal It is really poisoned, adults should track down the cook who cooks the food."

After the minister of the Ministry of punishment came, the jailer was locked up. The unaware jailer did not know that there was no poison in the food.

Seeing that Fan Dahe couldn't ask here, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment could only ask the Beiya Imperial Army to take him back and keep him locked up.

The second interrogator was the jailer who brought food to Li Shihong. Although he was not as calm as Fan Dahe, he also said that he had not tampered with the food.

When this person was taken down by the Beiya Imperial Army, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment sighed, with a helpless expression on his face, "These people are veterans, and they have seen too many interrogation scenes, so they can bear it. Then Chen Zhengxin Li Shihong and Li Shihong, two frail scholars, can endure three days of torture without opening their mouths, it is very difficult to ask useful things from them."

Doctor Yu Shi was thoughtful, "I think those two people should be innocent, after all, the food is not poisonous, and the poisonous veil found is not theirs, if we didn't find the poison from the venom, We will definitely think that they were poisoned, but they refuse to admit it, and then we will torture them severely. They are actually regarded as scapegoats."

The Secretary of the Ministry of Justice also felt the same way. In fact, Fan Dahe swore a poisonous oath just now without panic, which made him believe that he was innocent.

If they really regarded Fan Dahe and others as thugs, they might miss the real murderer.

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice originally wanted to interrogate the jailer who delivered the food. Even if the food was found to be fine, it didn't mean they were fine. But seeing that they couldn't ask any questions, he said, "Bring He Zhu up."

Since the handkerchiefs of He Zhu and Qin Xiang were poisoned, maybe we can learn something from them.

Dali Temple Secretary stopped him, "Lord Ling, you only interrogated two jailers who delivered food, and you didn't interrogate the other one."

The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishments was taken aback for a moment, and then he heard the Minister of Dali Temple say, "The jailer who brought Mr. Liu food must also be interrogated. We have to find the murderer who poisoned Mr. Liu."

(End of this chapter)