Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 156

What was done was flawless, the body had been burned to ensure that there was no trace at all, now it seems like it's all fucking nonsense!
So many flaws will be discovered by others if it is flawless?The corpse was burned, what is this in front of me?
The anger in Wang Buquan's eyes burned almost instantly, and he stared at Zhu Wen coldly, wishing he could kill this idiot who failed to accomplish anything but failed.

"Jail guard Donggua and prison cook Lame, tell the county captain what you saw and did that day." Li Canghai put his hands behind his back, and his words contained unquestionable majesty.

The jailer Donggua bowed his body, and said honestly: "That night, I was on duty. Around You, Captain Zhu quickly dragged a man to the prison, saying that this man was a repeat murderer. He was ordered by the county captain to arrest him. He was imprisoned in the cell for repeat offenders. The younger one didn’t dare to neglect, so he took him to bring the prisoner into the cell. Later, when the regular arrester came to visit the prison, he found that the prisoner was already dead.”

"Let me ask you, did you check the prisoner when he was brought into the cell?" Li Canghai asked.

Dong Gua shook his head and said: "No. According to the law, prisoners do need to be inspected when they enter the cell, but Captain Zhu said that he has already searched the prisoner, and the prisoner was beaten into a coma by the master for stealing, so there is no need for further inspection, so Xiao I didn't care."

Li Canghai nodded and said, "Besides Zhu Wen, is there anyone else who has come into contact with the prisoner?"

"No, Captain Zhu was the only one who brought the prisoner here." Dong Gua replied honestly.

Li Canghai asked him to step aside first, and turned to the lame man, "Tell me what you did, verbatim."

The lame man bent over, said yes again and again, and said: "The time for serving meals to prisoners in the prison is a little later than outside. That night, I was preparing meals for the prison, but a masked man found me suddenly. He He gave me an ingot of gold and asked me to break the tongue of a felon who had just entered the death row while delivering food. I was afraid at the time and dared not agree, but the man said that the felon had been dead for a long time, This is not considered murder. At that time, I was greedy, thinking that I could earn twenty li of silver by breaking off a dead man's tongue, which is simply a good thing, so I agreed."

"What happened next?"

"When I delivered the food, I did find that the prisoner was dead, so I had the courage to let the prisoner bite off his tongue with his own teeth according to the person's instructions. But the prisoner was already dead, so it was quite laborious to do it. I was afraid When I was discovered, I cut off the prisoner's tongue with a dagger, thinking that as long as the prisoner's tongue was cut off, I would have completed my confession, and left the cell in a hurry." The lame shrank his neck and said tremblingly.

Li Canghai walked in front of him and said in a deep voice, "If that masked man appeared in front of you again, might you recognize him?"

"I know, I know, the little old man has no other skills, but in these years in prison, he never makes mistakes in knowing people." The lame man said hurriedly.

"Okay, cover him up." Li Canghai nodded, and then ordered.

Chang Feng heard the words, took out a black cloth from his arms, and quickly covered Zhu Wen's face.

"It's him! He was the one who gave me the money that night!" The lame man only glanced at Zhu Wen, and immediately pointed at him and shouted.

Li Canghai waved his hand to let him back down, then took off the black cloth on Zhu Wen's face, stared at him and said indifferently: "Now, it's your turn."

Zhu Wen's face had been pale for a long time, and he was trembling all over. There were all the witnesses and evidences, and it was impossible for him to deny it even if he wanted to.

"I confess, I confess everything. County Captain Wang ordered me to do it, and I followed orders!" Zhu Wen knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Canghai.

"Nonsense! You are a slave full of nonsense, what did I order you to kill?" Wang Buquan jumped up, and he rushed over angrily, and kicked him in the chest hard.

Seeing this, Chang Feng hurriedly dragged Zhu Wen behind him, and at the same time kicked out his right leg, meeting Wang Buquan.

The two staggered at the same time, and fell backwards one after another.

Li Canghai narrowed his eyes slightly, and said calmly, "County Wang, are you going to repeat the old trick?"

"What kind of old trick is repeated? This person framed the imperial court official, I just taught him a lesson." Wang Buquan secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, and said coldly.

"After arresting the servant that night, he confessed his crime, but when he confessed to the messenger, he was kicked unconscious by you. Do you think I can't see it?" Li Canghai sneered.

Wang Buquan said grimly: "I was teaching the evil servant for brother Zuo, but you misinterpreted it to this point!"

Li Canghai chuckled lightly: "Oh, you can ask brother Zuo this, see if he believes it or not?"

Wang Buquan glanced at Zuo Hongji, and found that Zuo Hongji was looking at him with a livid face.

"Zhu Wen, keep talking." Li Canghai said lightly.

Zhu Wen's face was a bit strange, he could see that Wang Buquan made it clear that he wanted to kill him, and when he thought that he had worked so hard for him for so many years, he actually wanted to kill him to silence him, he suddenly felt angry, and said, "It was Wang Buquan who ordered me to kill him." , that night I heard that a murder case had occurred in Mr. Zuo Dashan’s home, so I took people there. Unexpectedly, after arriving at Zuo’s house, I learned that the murderer had confessed to the crime. When I took the prisoner away, Wang Buquan secretly gave me a bottle of poison, so that I killed people and silenced them during the escort.”

"You spitting blood! Zhu Wen, you are so bold. Just because I didn't promote you to be a head catcher, it's unreasonable for you to slander me like this!" Wang Buquan shouted angrily, his veins exposed.

Zhu Wen's face was sullen, and he also said angrily: "Wang Buquan, don't you want to say it in a high-sounding way, the poison you gave me is still in my hands, do you still want to deny it?"

Li Canghai raised his chin to Chang Feng, and Chang Feng immediately took out a porcelain bottle from Zhu Wen's arms, and handed it to him respectfully.

Taking a look at the porcelain bottle in his hand, Li Canghai immediately handed it over to Xiao Wu.

"Xiao Wu, check to see if the poison in full bloom here is the same as the poison in the deceased."

Xiao Wu took it, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, and said with certainty: "The poison in this bottle is exactly the poison of 'Rat Mangcao', which is exactly the same as the poison poisoned by the deceased."

Li Canghai nodded, and asked Xiao Wu to put away the evidence. He looked at Wang Buquan and said, "Xianwei Wang, what else do you have to say now?"

Wang Buquan's face was gloomy, he stared at Li Canghai coldly, and said angrily: "You are in collusion and want to frame me! I don't know that servant, why should I kill him?"

"It's very simple, because 'snails turn into jade'." Li Canghai said plainly.

The pupils of Wang Buquan's eyes suddenly shrank, and his eyebrows trembled involuntarily.

(End of this chapter)