Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 169 The Truth About Death
"You're gone, who will block the breach? If the gap is not blocked, you will never return home. Is this what you want?" Li Canghai said sharply, stopping in front of everyone.

"My lord, we all understand what you said. But...how can we fight the Dragon King!" The man stretched his neck slightly, looked at the Dragon King Temple in fear, and said in horror.

"Who said he was killed by the Dragon King?" Li Canghai raised his eyebrows and said coldly, "I tell you clearly that he was killed by people, not by the power of ghosts and gods."

"My lord, what evidence do you have to prove that he was killed by someone?" The man and the people around him looked at each other and asked in surprise.

Li Canghai's sharp eyes swept over everyone, and said in a deep voice, "I have found the murderer and proved that this matter has nothing to do with the gods, so what should you do?"

"If he hadn't died in the hands of the Dragon King, we would have followed your lord's orders and stayed here to block the breach." The man thought for a while and said.

"Okay, I will find the murderer with you!" Li Canghai's handsome face showed determination, he walked to the side of the corpse, and said: "I inspected the corpse, the eyeballs of the corpse were protruding, and there were red spots on the lower eyelids. There are traces of being pinched around the neck, and this official can confirm that this person died of being killed."

Li Canghai probed the mouth of the deceased with a white cloth, and the white cloth he pulled out did not contain any sand, so he showed everyone: "Anyone who drowns must struggle to die in the water. This flood is so turbid. There must be sand in it. However, the mouth of this corpse is very clean. According to my guess, this person was first strangled to death and then pushed into the water, which has nothing to do with the Dragon Lord."

Everyone surrounded him suspiciously, and nodded when they saw the clean white cloth in his hand.

"My lord, we believe you, but we don't know who the murderer is?" the person before asked respectfully.

Li Canghai pondered for a moment, then said: "The murderer is most likely the scar and severed finger from the escape last night, but you can rest assured that I will definitely catch the murderer and give everyone an explanation!"

At this moment, Chang Feng took a few soldiers, tied up a few ragged people into rice dumplings, and turned them over.

"My lord, these guys wanted to sneak out last night, but I bumped into them, and now I leave them to my lord!" Chang Feng pushed them over and scolded angrily, "These bastards are going to kill you!" , We actually wanted to climb over the mountain wall, we were digging below, and we were almost crushed to death by the stones they kicked down!"

After kicking several people fiercely, Chang Feng suddenly caught a glimpse of the corpse lying on the ground, and said in astonishment: "My lord, what's going on?"

Li Canghai briefly explained the matter to him, and Chang Feng suddenly understood.

He grabbed the scar and shouted: "Boy, tell me the truth, did you kill him?"

Scar's whole body was tied up like a rice dumpling, he struggled hard twice, and snorted hard.

"Hehe, you have a tough temper. I can tell you that the person in front of you is the current magistrate of Zhengyang County. Your old man is not complete, and he was chopped off by the lord. I advise you to be honest, so as not to suffer flesh and blood. Chang Feng sneered, clenched his fists.

Li Canghai folded his hands in front of his chest, and he stared at the few people closely, secretly observing their expressions.

He found that, except for the scars, the other three looked very nervous.

Chang Feng cracked his fists. He took the stick from the soldiers at the side, stretched his muscles and bones, and raised the stick to hit several people.

"Wait a minute!" Li Canghai stopped him at the right time, walked up to the severed finger, and asked calmly, "Let me ask you, do you know the deceased?"

"Recognized...recognized." Kneeling on the ground with severed fingers, he said tremblingly.

He had heard Lin Laosan say about Li Canghai's supernatural powers before, even people like Wang Buquan who covered the sky with their hands were cut off, how could he not be afraid of a ruffian?
"Tell me exactly what happened last night, and I may consider your charges as appropriate. Don't try to lie, or if I find out, you will be charged with homicide." Li Canghai's eyes were cold. drank.

The severed finger inadvertently caught a glimpse of Scar's fierce eyes, and was so frightened that he couldn't help shaking.

Li Canghai looked at the scar and knew it in his heart.

He pondered for a while, and said: "Chang Feng, take this person to the temple, and I will interrogate him personally."

Chang Feng was a little surprised, thinking, the adult's mind has changed too quickly.

After thinking about it, Chang Feng still brought the scar to the temple.

After a while, there was an indistinct begging for mercy and voices from the temple.

It lasted for a whole stick of incense before Li Canghai came out. He brushed off his sleeves and came out with a confession in his hand.

The ink on the confession was still wet, as if it had just been written.

Li Canghai walked up to the severed finger, threw the confession on his face, and said coldly: "Scar has already confessed the murderer, saying that you strangled Lin Laosan to death last night, and you are the murderer."

With the severed finger and hands tied, he could only look down at the confession on the ground.When he saw that it said that the murderer was actually him, Duan Zhi jumped up suddenly.

"My lord, I am not the murderer! He is the murderer!" Severed Finger shouted furiously.

Li Canghai snorted coldly, "You said he was a murderer, and he said you were a murderer, who should I listen to?"

The severed finger said eagerly: "My lord, the younger one was wronged, his scar is the murderer! Last night he bewitched us to run away, but Lin Laosan didn't want to run away. Scar worried that he would betray our whereabouts, so he killed him. The two of them witnessed this matter with their own eyes, don’t you think so?”

Severed Finger turned his head and pointed at the two kneeling beside him. The two looked terrified and couldn't help but nodded.

"My lord, we have been wronged, we are all scars! He did all of this, please spare your life!" He kowtowed with his severed fingers.

At this moment, the scar that was bundled into a rice dumpling rushed out of the Dragon King Temple. He thumped and fell to the ground, cursing angrily: "Dull finger, you idiot! When did I call you a murderer? He wrote this on purpose to deceive you!"

Chang Feng followed and ran out, he pressed the scar, and shouted: "Shut up!" As he said, he stuffed a ball of smelly socks into Scar's mouth.

Scar could only make a whining sound, struggling hard without stopping.

Broken Finger was stunned. He looked at the scar, then at Li Canghai, and said in a daze, "This... isn't this a confession?"

Li Canghai smiled calmly, picked up the confession and said, "Now it is."

The severed finger turned pale, and he immediately slumped to the ground.

Chang Feng twisted the scar covered with stinky socks in his mouth, and sneered, "Just you idiots who want to deceive adults, you simply don't know the heights of heaven and earth!"

(End of this chapter)