female catcher

Chapter 173 Fraudulent Confession
In the prison of the government office, the cell boss was drinking and chatting with a young guard. When he saw Jiang Xiyuan and Xia Chu coming in, he picked up the wine pot on the table and quickly threw it into the bamboo basket next to him, and bowed to welcome them.

"The wine is hidden, how do you hide your breath?" Jiang Xiyuan asked him.But a joke made the prisoner's whole body tense, and he was about to kneel down when his knees softened.Jiang Xiyuan waved his hand, "Okay, Tang Baoxin, let's lead the way."

The cell boss didn't dare after talking a few times, so he took the lantern off the wall and lit it, and told Xia Chu and Jiang Xiyuan to be careful.There was no lamp in the cell, because the prisoner would light the cell with a lamp, but there were a few oil lamps in the corridor, but the lamps were like beans with little oil, and they were useless at all.The tissue paper lantern at the head of the cell swayed and illuminated a small piece of dim yellow ground. Xia Chu walked with his head down, his eyes sore from staring.

Jiang Xiyuan slowed down and turned around, stretching out his arm to her: "May I lend you a hand?"

"No need. Is it possible to fall down on flat ground?" Xia Chu pursed her lips and smiled, the dark oil lamp was reflected in her eyes, it was shining brightly.Jiang Xiyuan withdrew his arm and didn't force it. He just asked her to be more careful, saying that there were a lot of mice in the cell, as big as cats.

Xia Chu swallowed, walked forward a few steps without any trace, and followed Jiang Xiyuan closely.Jiang Xiyuan pretended not to understand so he asked her what was wrong, she shook her head and said it was nothing, she looked down at the road and missed the wicked smile in his eyes.

The cell boss stopped in front of Tang Baoxin's cell, raised the lantern, and patted the wooden fence vigorously, "Tang Baoxin!"

Tang Baoxin was tossed about in the German class for a long time, was interrogated again, and cried bitterly. At this moment, he was tired and fell asleep. When he heard someone calling his name, his eyes were slightly sleepy, and he hummed but didn't get up.

"Get up!" The prison chief roared angrily, and there was an echo in the cell, which was particularly noisy.After yelling, Tang Baoxin woke up and got up from the grass bed, and walked to the wooden fence.Xia Chu asked the cell boss to leave first, took the lantern and raised it towards Gaoli.

Tang Baoxin squinted his eyes under the light of the lantern, grabbed the arm-thick fence, and said reflexively: "Guan Ye, I didn't kill Xiao Jiu."

Xia Chu looked at his expression carefully through the light, and asked, "Have you been to the pharmacy recently?"

Tang Baoxin thought about it in a daze, but he didn't understand, so he said: "Pharmacy store? No."

Jiang Xiyuan passed the jar of medicine forward, "You said you gave Yue Xiaohong medicine for wounds, see if it's this jar."

Tang Baoxin reached out to take it, but Jiang Xiyuan dodged it, "Just look."

He tilted his head and looked carefully, as if recalling the past memories again, he nodded slightly with the corners of his lips drooping.

"On the night of April [-]th, you sent her the medicine, did she wipe it off?" Xia Chu asked.

"Wipe it off?" Tang Baoxin said uncertainly, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I had a fight with her that night, and then I put down the medicine and left. When Xiaojiu was buried, I cleaned her body and changed her clothes... He had a sore throat and choked up his throat, "There are injuries all over his body from practicing exercises. Those scratches looked like they were applied with medicine, and I wiped them off with water."

Xia Chu and Jiang Xiyuan looked at each other, and Jiang Xiyuan asked again: "This medicine has been kept in your place before? Has anyone else touched it?"

"Xiao Jiu stayed with me after helping me with the medicine that time, others..." Tang Baoxin tilted his head and thought for a while, "A little apprentice of Fifth Brother was stabbed in the hand with a tassel gun a few days ago, and I borrowed him. "

"When did it happen? He took the medicine away?"

"I remember... on April 25 or 26, my fifth brother asked me to borrow the medicine and wiped it in the house, and it was over. The child's injury is not serious." After he finished speaking, he seemed to have tasted the smell When the son came, he frowned unconsciously, "My lord, what's wrong with this medicine?"

"We can't find out the cause of Yue Xiaohong's death now, so we suspect that the medicine is poisonous." Jiang Xiyuan said: "Tang Baoxin, you'd better tell the truth, lest you suffer from flesh and blood."

"Toxic?" Tang Baoxin didn't seem to have reacted, he repeated the two words in a daze, then his expression changed, and he shouted loudly: "Impossible!"

He reached out to grab the pot of medicine, Jiang Xiyuan took half a step back and put the medicine behind him, without saying anything, just looked at him.Tang Baoxin grabbed the wooden fence anxiously, and his voice became louder, "This is the medicine Xiaojiu gave me, she wiped it on me, and I used it a few days ago! How could it be poisonous!"

Xia Chu raised his voice and said deceitfully, "You still haven't told the truth!"

"It's the truth!" Tang Baoxin's voice was louder than hers, and he stretched out his hand again, "If you don't believe me, give me the medicine, and I'll try it for you!"

"Okay. If it's poisonous, it means you killed the person, and you deserve it if you die!" Xia Chu put down the lantern, took out a small wooden spoon from his sleeve, took out the medicine jar from behind Jiang Xiyuan, and dug out a brown piece of it. The ointment was handed to Tang Baoxin.

Tang Baoxin reached out to take it, but Xia Chu hid again, staring at him seriously and said, "Tang Baoxin, you have to think about it! It's too late to recognize it now, if you have some unavoidable inside story to kill Yue Xiaohong, say If you come out, you may not be guilty of death. Think clearly."

Without saying anything, Tang Baoxin snatched the wooden spoon from Xia Chu's hand on tiptoe, put it in his mouth without thinking, glared at Xia Chu angrily, and swallowed it forcefully, " I know it very well!"

The two looked at him, Jiang Xiyuan nodded after a while, picked up the lantern and said to Xia Chu, "Let's go."

"Officer..." Tang Baoxin was stunned, seeing that Jiang Xiyuan and Xia Chu were really going to leave, he followed the fence and moved a few steps, squeezing hard to poke his head out, "Officer! I'm not dead! "

Xia Chu turned around and smiled: "Of course a spoonful of Qiuli ointment won't kill you." After speaking, he walked away with Jiang Xiyuan.

Tang Baoxin smacked the taste in his mouth, it was cold and sweet, and he knew he was cheating, and shouted loudly: "I didn't kill Xiaojiu! I didn't! You must believe me, sir, Give Xiaojiu justice!"

Jiang Xiyuan walked to the door, put the jar of Qiuli ointment on the table, and said to the cell boss, "This stuff is pretty good. Your throat will brighten up immediately after you eat it. I'll give it to you."

After leaving the cell, Xia Chu breathed out, and said in unison with Jiang Xiyuan: "It should not be him."

This move is not clever, but it is just a little bit of aggression, and then taking advantage of the common people's ignorance of the government's case handling process. It is only Tang Baoxin's first reaction that is deceitful.And Tang Baoxin didn't hesitate about the jar of medicine from the beginning to the end, and he didn't show any speculation. He really didn't believe that the medicine was poisonous.

This shows at least three points. The first point is that someone touched the jar of medicine without his knowledge; Three, the time of poisoning is in the few days from April 25th to [-]th.

Xia Chu said: "Then the problem now is that the medicine is with Tang Baoxin. If he didn't kill the person, how did this person know that he would send the medicine to Yue Xiaohong?"

"There are two possibilities. One is that the poison was released when the medicine arrived at Yue Xiaohong's place, and the other is that the person this person wanted to kill was not Yue Xiaohong, but Tang Baoxin."

Xia Chu blinked and looked at him, and he also looked at Xia Chu, Xia Chu was thinking about something, and he was thinking about Xia Chu.

After a while, Xia Chu nodded very seriously, "In this way, the scope is not too big. If it is the first possibility, then Lan Suqiu is the most suspected; if it is the second possibility, it is Cheng Shiyun. Or Guan Wuzi, both of them have motives."

"Yes. What did Lan Suqiu say and do to Yue Xiaohong? All we heard were his own words. After all, he was the last person who saw Yue Xiaohong. He said he was only standing at the door. For a while, there was no one to prove it."

Xia Chu nodded vaguely, thought for a while and said: "But the first time we heard about 'medicine' was from him. If he put the poison, why should he bring it up? Besides, it's still the same problem. It has been so many days since Yue Xiaohong died, won't he destroy the evidence?"

Jiang Xiyuan lightly waved his fingers, "Now that we have found this doubtful point, isn't the finger pointing at Tang Baoxin?"

"Planting? Killing with a knife?"

"If the medicine is not found, Yue Xiaohong may eventually be determined to have died of asthma. If it is found, the medicine was also sent by Tang Baoxin, and it can be wiped clean. If it is not him, then it is the person who has recently had conflicts with Tang Baoxin , Cheng Shiyun or Guan Wu. Cheng Shiyun is in the German class, so it is convenient to do things, but it is not difficult for Guan Wu to bribe the people inside the German class, after all, there are many people in the yard."

Xia Chu bit his lip, without frowning, "It seems to be quite clear, but now there is really a problem."

"I know." Jiang Xiyuan smiled after hearing this, "The government doesn't want to torture him, if he refuses to confess, now we have no solid evidence to convict."

Why officials like to hit people with a board is really because this method is too easy.If you don’t say anything, it’s fine when you get hit. If you say something, you did it. Once you press your fingerprints, you don’t need to care about the evidence.

Now they can confirm that the medicine is poisonous, and they can pinpoint a few suspects, but without the deterrent of the board, the murderer is likely to refuse to plead guilty, even if they feel that this person is suspicious during interrogation, there is nothing they can do.It is easy to believe in your own judgment, but to convince everyone, you have to rely on evidence.

Just like she couldn't let Tang Baoxin go even though she didn't think he was the murderer, it was also because there was no convincing evidence.

"Insist on not being sentenced?" Jiang Xiyuan asked her.

Xia Chu nodded without hesitation, "My lord, don't make things difficult for me."

"How natural. How can you break your promise when you say you will help you?" Jiang Xiyuan held the medicine jar in his hand and said, "It's not that there is no evidence, but that it is already in hand. Find out what the poison is and where it came from , just follow the vine and follow the melon."

"That's right! I got myself involved." Xia Chu's eyes lit up, "Okay! I'll go and ask Dr. Liu, the medicine is from Guangjitang, he must know what the original ingredients are and what ingredients are added. "

Jiang Xiyuan grabbed her, "Doctor Liu is not from the government office, so going there at such a late night is not too disturbing?"

"Then I'll go and look at the file to see if there are any doubts I missed."

"Stop!" Jiang Xiyuan looked at her desperately looking for things to keep him busy, and felt funny and distressed, "If you really don't want to go home, come and have dinner with me."

"I don't have one." Xia Chu said as if he didn't understand.

"Well, it's because I don't want to go home. On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year's Day, I will accept the ceremony, and three days later, the emperor's wedding will be held. I will be busy at home these days." Jiang Xiyuan smiled slightly at the beginning of Xia, "For you to accompany me for dinner , I haven't seen you for a few days."

"I'm about to be promoted to the emperor's relatives." Xia Chu made a reluctant expression, "Well, anyway, I am not qualified to attend such a high-standard wedding, so I have a meal with the emperor's brother-in-law in advance, so I can feel happy it is good."

"That's right." Jiang Xiyuan weighed the medicine jar in his hand, and suddenly his expression changed, "Oh no! This is the jar of Qiuli ointment!"

"Ah?!" Xia Chu turned pale with shock, turned around and ran to the cell, but Jiang Xiyuan laughed loudly behind her.Xia Chu stopped and looked back, seeing him standing in the light of night, smiling openly and recklessly, which made her want to be annoyed, and smiled after a moment of tension.

How childish!I'm afraid this person has no worries at all, he is really enviable..., Xia Chu thought.

(End of this chapter)