Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 134
The jailer's face turned blue from vomiting, he curled his lips and said, "No, he has been sitting against the wall and never moved."

"During this period, has anyone else been here?" Li Canghai stood up and asked.

Donggua tilted his head and thought for a while, then said: "During this period, only the cripple came to deliver the food, and no one else came besides him."

"Who is the cripple?" Li Canghai questioned.

"The cripple is our cook, and he personally delivered all the prisoners' food." Donggua replied honestly.

Li Canghai stomped a few steps back and forth, and said in a deep voice, "Go get that cripple for questioning."

Donggua responded, and hurriedly ran out of the cell.

"My lord, you said just now that what you saw with your own eyes may not be true. You suspected that he was killed by someone?" Taking advantage of the fact that there were only two people in the cell, Chang Feng hurriedly raised his doubts.

In Luofengji, although Chang Feng acted a little stupid, but his mind was rough and fine. As long as he cultivated a little, he might be able to become his right-hand man.

Thinking of this, Li Canghai poured out half of his tongue, picked it up with tweezers, and said, "If you bite your tongue to kill yourself, the broken part of the tongue should be uneven, but the wound on his tongue is neat and smooth, so he definitely didn't bite his tongue." suicide."

Chang Feng stared at the tongue for a while, and as he said, the severed tongue was extremely flat, and he suddenly realized: "I understand, what your lord means is that the deceased's tongue was actually cut off by someone!"

Li Canghai nodded, and said solemnly: "Not only that, but his tongue was cut off after death."

Chang Feng was astonished, he said in disbelief: "Sir, how can you be sure that he didn't die by cutting out his tongue, but was cut out after death?"

"If someone grabbed your cheekbones and tried to cut off your tongue, would you struggle?" Li Canghai asked rhetorically.

Chang Feng said honestly: "Of course I will resist."

"That's right, but if you look around, there is no sign of chaos, which means that the deceased did not struggle." Li Canghai pointed to the withered grass on the ground, and continued: "Also, the jailer also said that the deceased did not enter the cell. Sitting here without moving. A person whose tongue was cut out made no sound or struggled. Do you think a living person can bear it?"

"But my lord, since he is dead, why would someone still want to cut off his tongue?" Chang Feng understood what he meant, but he became more and more confused.

Li Canghai thought for a moment, then let Chang Feng listen to him, and muttered about it.

After a while, Donggua walked in with a stooped old man.

"Brother Chang, he is lame."

The old man was indeed a lame man, walking with a limp, as if he might fall down at any moment.

"Little old man has seen some uncles." The cripple said tremblingly with his head lowered.

Li Canghai gave Chang Feng a wink, Chang Feng accepted it with a nod, he cleared his throat, and shouted suddenly: "Well, you lame man, you are quite courageous, you dared to sneak into the prison and kill repeat offenders. Now your deeds have been exposed , don’t hurry to confess your guilt and subdue the law, and bring it from the truth!”

The two of them were taken aback by Chang Feng's sudden roar, the lame man tightened his expression, and said: "What the old man said, the little old man can't understand."

"Don't understand?" Chang Feng smiled coldly, raised his eyebrows, and shouted: "You took advantage of the food delivery opportunity to sneak into the prison and kill the key criminal, and cut off his tongue with a sharp knife. Do you think you can hide the truth? I mean I will give you a chance to confess your sins and repent, as long as you commit the crime honestly, you may be able to reduce your guilt, otherwise if you are convicted of this serious crime of murder, you will be decapitated!"

Chang Feng's face was full of flesh and blood, but now with a straight face, there was a ruthlessness between his brows.

Hearing such a roar, the cripple turned pale with fright, plopped and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy tremblingly: "I...I will do it, I will do it all. I cut his tongue, but he is not me. kill it!"

"Nonsense, it's clear that you cut off his tongue, which caused him to bleed to death. Now that the evidence is solid, you still dare to quibble?" Chang Feng shouted sharply with wide-eyed eyes.

The lame man's old face was wrinkled into a ball, and he cried and said: "Master, when the little old man cut his tongue, he had been dead for a long time. Otherwise, even if the little old man had the guts, he wouldn't dare to do such a thing." Murder!"

Chang Feng was amazed in his heart, and the secret path was hit by the adults again.

He glanced at Li Canghai, seeing Li Canghai nodding to him, he continued to say with a stern face: "Since he has been dead for a long time, why do you still want to cut his tongue?"

The lame man suddenly hesitated.

"You'd better do it honestly, so as not to suffer from flesh and blood!" Chang Feng glared at him fiercely and shouted sharply.

The cripple was trembling with fright, and hurriedly said: "The little old man was entrusted by someone, so I cut off his tongue while delivering food."

Li Canghai and Chang Feng looked at each other, their eyes showed surprise.

"Who is the person who instructed you? What is his purpose?"

"The man covered his face, and the little old man didn't know who it was. He gave me an ingot of gold, and asked me to open his mouth and break his tongue with his teeth while delivering the meal at night. The little old man was afraid of being involved in a life lawsuit, so he didn't dare to agree, but the man said he was a dead man, as long as I broke his tongue, he would give me another [-] li of silver, the little old man was greedy, That's why you do such things." The lame man knelt on the ground and said tremblingly.

Li Canghai walked over, he frowned and said, "You just said that the masked man asked you to bite off your tongue with the teeth of the dead?"

"Exactly, but the dead man's teeth were not strong enough to bite, and the little old man was afraid of being discovered, so to save trouble, he cut off his tongue with a knife." The cripple kowtowed.

"Is what you said true?" Chang Feng asked.

"Everything that the little old man said is true, don't dare to lie to the uncle." The cripple said tremblingly.

"My lord, look..." Chang Feng turned around and slightly bowed to Li Canghai, pointing at the lame man, wanting to ask for advice on how to deal with it.

Li Canghai rubbed his brows, and said: "Write down everything and let him mark it. Regarding tonight's matter, they are not allowed to reveal a word, and continue to let the cripple be the prison cook, but his actions must be strictly prohibited."

Chang Feng nodded yes, and then led the two out of the cell, went to the guard's office to get a pen and ink to record it, and asked the cripple to draw a charge, strictly prohibiting them from revealing what happened tonight, before returning to the cell.

Li Canghai squatted beside the corpse, lost in thought.

Obviously, the servant died before entering the prison, and someone wanted to disguise it as suicide, which allowed the lame man to sneak into the prison.

However, he didn't expect the lame man to cut off the dead man's tongue with a knife in order to save trouble, which made him discover the clue.

Although it was confirmed that the deceased was killed, the real cause of death gave him some headaches.

(End of this chapter)