Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 133 Servant Suicide
Ledger?

Li Canghai's eyes suddenly lit up, this is a good starting point, as long as he finds the ledger, will he worry about not being able to fix Wang Buquan?
"Can you find out where he kept the ledger?"

Chang Feng scratched his head in embarrassment, "I've only heard about it, whether it happened or not is another matter."

"My brother is still clear about the accounts. As a businessman, Zuo Hongji will definitely record it." Li Canghai pondered.

"My lord, there is one more thing, I find it very strange." After hesitating for a moment, Chang Feng decided to say.

"What's the matter?" Li Canghai propped his chin with his hand.

"I just heard from Zuo Hongji that he was robbed by bandits two years ago, and I remembered something. Back then, when we went to wipe out the bandits, there were only a few minions in the entire village, and we broke through it easily. Later, the ropes used to bind people were found in the dungeon of the cottage, but the person who was tied up was nowhere to be seen. Thinking about it now, could the person who was tied up be Zuo Hongji?" Chang Feng wondered.

Hearing these words, Li Canghai suddenly felt that he had grasped some key points.

He sorted out what the two said, and the time and place were extremely consistent, but the two didn't meet, which was a bit strange.

Zuo Hongji said that he was rescued by Wang Buquan, which is certain.

Chang Feng said that Wang Buquan asked them to suppress the thieves, but he himself hid behind, this is also certain.

So here comes the question, if Zuo Hongji was rescued by Wang Buquan, why did Wang Buquan hide it from everyone?

"Who proposed the elimination of bandits?" Li Canghai asked after thinking for a moment.

"Wang Buquan."

Li Canghai smiled lightly, and immediately guessed the general idea.

"My lord, what are you laughing at?" Chang Feng looked puzzled.

"If my guess is correct, this should be a good show directed and performed by Wang Buquan himself. He colluded with the bandits, captured Zuo Hongji, and then proposed to exterminate the bandits. While you were going to suppress the bandits, he Then secretly rescue Zuo Hongji." Li Canghai said with narrowed eyes.

Chang Feng's eyes widened, "But what is his purpose in doing this?"

"When you see their relationship now, you should guess his purpose."

"But he didn't know Zuo Hongji at that time!" Chang Feng said puzzled.

Li Canghai smiled calmly and said, "I haven't seen it before, I must have heard of it. You also said that the Zuo family has been merchants for generations, and they have quite a lot of money. They are well-known wealthy gentry in Zhengyang City. Wang Buquan must have heard about it. Then he colluded with bandits and arrested Zuo Hongji."

Chang Feng suddenly realized that by doing this, Wang Buquan not only wiped out the bandits, but also gave Zuo Hongji a great kindness.

"Damn, this guy is really treacherous." Chang Feng felt ignorant when he thought of being used as a gunman.

"Wang Buquan made such a big circle, I'm afraid it's not just to win over Zuo Hongji. If you want to get rid of Wang Buquan completely, you need solid evidence." Li Canghai thought of the servant being kicked by him. The matter of dizziness, I feel that this matter is by no means as simple as it seems on the surface.

"Don't worry, my lord, I will try my best to collect evidence." Chang Feng clasped his fists and said solemnly.

"Chang Feng, go to the prison and ask that servant again, I think he hasn't said anything yet." Li Canghai pondered.

Chang Feng nodded, and then left Zuo Zhai.

At this time, it was already midnight.

Li Canghai paced back and forth in the gazebo, thinking about how to separate Wang Buquan and Zuo Hongji.

Wang Buquan was deeply scheming, and Zuo Hongji trusted him a lot. Without conclusive evidence, Zuo Hongji would never believe what he said.

After thinking for half an hour in the gazebo, just as he was about to go back to sleep, Chang Feng suddenly rushed over.

"My lord, something happened, the servant died."

Li Canghai stopped and hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"

"I don't know what happened. When I arrived at the prison, the servant was already dead." Chang Feng wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.

"Where is the body now?"

"Still in prison."

A gleam of light flashed in Li Canghai's eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "Let's go and have a look."

Zhengyang County Prison.

Covering his face, Li Canghai followed Chang Feng into the room.

"Brother Chang, where's the job?" A jailer rubbed his hands and asked eagerly.

Chang Feng pointed to Li Canghai behind him and said, "Hey, this is the new work."

"Why is he covering his face?" the jailer asked suspiciously.

"I've been feeling cold recently, so I covered my face for fear of infecting you. Where is the corpse? I'm going to do an autopsy." Li Canghai coughed a few times on purpose, and said in a hoarse voice.

The prisoner's sudden death in prison, if it is investigated, the jailer will inevitably be punished, he is not interested in who the prisoner is, he only asks the prisoner to prove that the prisoner's death has nothing to do with him, and let him Amitabha.

The jailer hurriedly led the two of them to the innermost prison cell, pointed at the corpse lying in the prison, and said, "This is the corpse."

Li Canghai lifted his feet and walked in. The previous servant had been dead for a long time, his eyes were wide open, his expression was painful and grim, and a lot of blood flowed from his mouth.

Squatting in front of the corpse, he observed it carefully, and said in a deep voice, "The body temperature of the deceased is still there, and the time of death should not exceed two hours."

Opening the corpse's mouth with his hands, Li Canghai frowned.

"What did you find?" Chang Feng saw his brows furrowed, and hurriedly moved his head towards him. When he saw it, he gasped: "Why is his tongue broken?"

"The root of his tongue is broken, it seems that this is the cause of his death." Li Canghai said, looking at the half of his tongue in his mouth.

Chang Feng resisted the urge to vomit, he swallowed hard, and said, "So, he bit his tongue and committed suicide."

Li Canghai didn't speak, he took out tweezers from his cloth bag, pinched half of the tongue out of the deceased's mouth, put it in front of his eyes for a while, and shook his head involuntarily.

Seeing him take out his tongue from the corpse, the corner of Chang Feng's mouth twitched violently a few times, and the jailer couldn't help but ran to the corner and vomited.

"My lord, what are you doing?" Chang Feng felt a little strange when he saw him clipping his tongue out and putting it in a cloth bag.

"Extract the evidence for inspection." Li Canghai put away the cloth bag and said in a deep voice.

"My lord, since it is confirmed that he committed suicide, is there still a need to test it?" Chang Feng asked in a low voice, a little puzzled.

"How do you know that he committed suicide instead of being killed?" Li Canghai asked back without raising his head, rolling his hands over the dead man's eyelids.

Chang Feng scratched his head and said, "Bite your tongue and kill yourself, isn't it an obvious suicide?"

Li Canghai smiled slightly: "What you saw with your own eyes may not be true. You can ask the jailer if the deceased had any abnormal behavior before death."

Chang Feng stood up and asked the jailer, "Winter Gua, let me ask you, did the deceased have any abnormal behavior before he died?"

(End of this chapter)