The group pet prince is a full-scale boss

Chapter 163
Wan Yanzhang's confession, the evidence found in Zhuangzi, and Lin Fu also found a lot of relevant evidence. These people have conclusive evidence of colluding with Jurchen, collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country, and they have no excuse to argue.

Several low-level officials quickly confessed, not only admitting their crimes, but also identifying Lin Dongping.

On the contrary, this Lin Dongping was a bit tough, and he refused to speak out after being tortured and tortured.

Song Yucheng had no choice but to stop the interrogation.

Although the emperor gave him the order to act cheaply during his border inspection, Lin Dongping was the defense envoy of East Huainan Road, and his official position was there.

Song Yucheng would definitely be impeached when he returned to Beijing without the emperor's clear will, but died because he failed to receive the punishment.

After all, he is only a member of the clan now, only a candidate for the prince, not a prince, and he still needs to be careful about many things.

After several days of arrest or interrogation, everyone was very tired, so they went back to the station to rest.

Others could just fall asleep, but Song Yucheng still had to work hard to write a memorial, summarizing what happened in the past few days, together with the evidence collected, and ordering people to send it to the capital to wait for the emperor's instructions before doing it. relative disposition.

After finishing all this work, the midnight was over, Song Yucheng couldn't bear it anymore, so he hurried to sleep.This sleep was deep enough, and he slept until almost midnight, only to be woken up by the noise outside.

"Duke, Mr. Lin who was imprisoned in the prison of the state government office, and the Jurchen prince, both died last night." The guard knocked on the door outside and said.

Song Yucheng got up from the bed in a jerk, put on his clothes and went out to open the door, "What's the matter? Isn't there someone closely guarding the state government prison? Those two people are very important, and they are watched by others, so why are they still dead?"

Song Yucheng was about to die of anger. He had arranged such a thorough defense, how could he let people die?

"Let's go, go to the prison and have a look." The two most important people died, this is definitely not an accident, we must find out who did it as soon as possible.

"Where's the princess? Hurry up and ask the princess." Bai Mengjin is probably better at examining the corpse.

"I'm here, let's go, hurry up and go to the prison." Bai Mengjin also heard the news, and hurried over, the two of them didn't have time to say anything when they met, and hurriedly left the post station to go to the state prison.

When they arrived at the gate of the prison, Chen Zhizhou, who had just received the news, also arrived. Several people entered the prison together and went to the cells where Lin Dongping and Wan Yanzhang were held.

The prison was gloomy, filled with an indescribable smell, Bai Mengjin couldn't help frowning, and resisted to walk in.

The cells where Wan Yanzhang and Lin Dongping were imprisoned were at the innermost part of the state government prison. There were two independent cells surrounded by stone walls. The door was made of iron, leaving only a small opening.

Seeing Chen Zhizhou and Song Yucheng's group coming, the guards of the cell rushed forward to open the cell door.

"Last night, the humble officers were guarding nearby. They heard voices inside in the first half of the night, but there was no movement in the second half of the night. In the morning, they brought water to the people inside, only to find that the people were dead." The guard briefly explained what happened. .

"The cell door is locked, and the key has always been with the squad leader. A few of us were guarding there. No one approached the cell door at night. The death of these two people is too strange."

The guards were puzzled. They all knew that these two people were very important. They didn't close their eyes last night and kept guarding them. How could they still die?
The cell door opened, Song Yucheng and Bai Mengjin walked in, looked around, and there was nothing unusual.

The surrounding walls are flat and smooth, and it is absolutely impossible for someone to break through the wall. The ground is paved with three layers of bluestone and plaster, and there is no trace of being excavated.

The iron gate was locked last night, and there were still guards outside. It was really strange that these two people died without a sound.

Bai Mengjin and the office worker from the state government came forward to examine the corpse carefully, "He died of poisoning." Seeing Wan Yanzhang's face was dark and dark, which was different from the color of a normal corpse, Bai Mengjin immediately concluded that this person died of poisoning.

"We checked him when we caught him. There was no poison on him. How did he get poisoned?"

Song Yucheng was very puzzled, the cell was so strictly guarded, who could quietly approach and poison him?
Bai Mengjin signaled Zuo to tear off all the clothes on the corpse, and after careful inspection, he found a small wound on Wanyanzhang's calf.

"It's snake venom. It should be a small snake with strong poison." Compared with the wound, the snake was no more than the thickness of a finger.

The light in the prison is dim, even if there are snakes crawling, others may not notice it.It is not difficult for the snake to crawl into the cell, bite the person and crawl away.

"Come on, let's take a look over there." Song Yucheng got up and walked towards Lin Dongping's cell.

If Lin Dongping was also bitten by a snake, it would prove one thing. Someone sneaked in last night and let a poisonous snake bite Wan Yanzhang and Lin Dongping to death. This was obviously a murder to silence them.

Bai Mengjin went with him and also checked the body of the deceased, this time he found a wound on his arm.Sure enough, they were all bitten by snakes, which proves that this is by no means an accident.

"It seems that we still overlooked something. In Chuzhou City, there are many capable people hiding behind the scenes." Bai Mengjin sighed.

"No matter what monsters are hiding, there will always be times when they will be exposed. Check, check everywhere." Song Yucheng was furious.

These two people must know some crucial secrets, but unfortunately they were not allowed to confess yesterday, and now that they are dead, it is impossible to know who the high-ranking officials of the DPRK and China were involved in this matter.

The person is dead and useless, so he has no choice but to order people to send the two corpses out for burial.

Song Yucheng returned to the post station, and wrote another memorial, pleading guilty to the emperor, saying that he was careless for a while, which caused Wan Yanzhang and Lin Dongping to be bitten to death by poisonous snakes in prison.

After finishing writing, I hurriedly sent someone away, and hurriedly sent this copybook to the capital.

On the other side, Chen Zhizhou ordered the inspection department to conduct a strict inspection of all places in the city, and found suspicious persons to be arrested first.

For a time, there was a lot of noise in Chuzhou City, and people panicked. The people closed their doors and closed their houses and tried to hide at home as much as possible, so as not to get into trouble.

Before noon, Zou Mingen and others who went to Baoying to arrest people also came back, Baoying County Governor and several related people were taken to the state government.

This guy is smart, as soon as he saw Song Yucheng, he immediately told him everything he knew, including the fact that Lin Dongping sent someone to send him a letter, asking him to find a way to cooperate with the Jurchen spies to assassinate Duke Yasukuni.

"My lord, the villain can't do anything, the villain dare not disobey the orders of the defense envoy Lin.

That afternoon, it was the villain who urged the county magistrate to go to Zhuangzi to visit the Duke and the princess, just to hold the Duke back so that he could assassinate at night. The villain was guilty, and he asked the Duke to spare the relatives of the villain. "

The county magistrate knelt on the ground and kowtowed non-stop, his forehead was broken, and a trace of blood flowed down, but he didn't notice it at all, and kept kowtowing.

"Master Chen, this person has been handed over to you, and now the relevant personnel are almost arrested. Master Chen can write a note and hand it over. I'm tired these days, go back and rest first."

Song Yucheng knelt down on the county magistrate without reason, handed over all these matters to Chen Zhizhou, and was about to leave with Bai Mengjin.

"Princess, those military doctors and doctors have already arrived, do you see?" Chen Zhizhou suddenly remembered this matter.

(End of this chapter)