Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 741 Feeling Guilty
After a pause, Li Canghai pointed to the ruins behind him and said, "All the people imprisoned here have been poisoned by a strange poison. This kind of poison is very contagious like the plague. Anyone who is bitten or scratched people will be infected with this poison, and thus lose their minds and do crazy things. You elders should have heard of the Nancheng murder case. I can tell you that the real cause of death in the murder case was the head of the family, Bai Lao. The Han was infected with this kind of Gu poison, and went mad and killed the whole family."

When everyone heard this, they gasped.

In the past two days, Chang'an City has been publicizing this matter everywhere, saying that the old man Bai's family has been cursed and died in an extremely miserable state. I didn't expect the truth to be like this.

Li Canghai saw that everyone's emotions gradually stabilized, and continued: "Although I have found out the truth, I am helpless against this kind of poison. After the incident of human and animal wounding happened, in order to avoid more casualties, they ordered all the infected people to be detained in a centralized manner and have people detoxify them for them.”

Speaking of this, Li Canghai sighed for a long time and said, "It's just that I didn't expect such a tragedy to happen. Speaking of it, it was because of my lack of thoughtfulness that caused them to be killed."

After listening to Li Canghai finished speaking, the scene suddenly fell into silence.

After all, Li Canghai was well-known, and the people in Chang'an City, whoever mentioned it, didn't they praise him?
Judging from what he said, Li Canghai was also thinking about their safety, and the occurrence of such tragedies did not really have much to do with him.

As Li Canghai's Minister of Dali Temple, being able to patiently explain to ordinary people like them is enough to make everyone believe what he said.

The man was stunned for a long time, then suddenly knelt down to Li Canghai and said, "It turns out that the truth is like this. It seems that the grassroots misunderstood your lord. You just offended your lord, and I hope your lord will forgive you!"

Li Canghai helped him up, and said solemnly: "This matter is my fault. I was afraid of causing panic, so I didn't reveal the truth, and I was negligent in safety measures. This is my fault. However, I have a question I want to ask you, and I hope you can answer it truthfully."

"My lord asks, but grass people dare not lie." The man said.

Li Canghai nodded and said, "You said earlier that your brother was seriously ill? Could it be that he wasn't infected?"

The man scratched his head, and said in a daze, "My lord, forgive me, the grass-roots people don't quite understand what your lord means by infection."

"Well, let me ask you a little more simply, has your brother been bitten or scratched by cats and dogs in the past two days?" Li Canghai asked.

The man shook his head and said, "No... My brother has been seriously ill recently and has been coughing up blood. But he was not bitten by a cat or dog, I can be sure of that."

Li Canghai frowned slightly, and remained silent.

I heard the man continue to say: "Sir, we believe that you are doing it for our own good, but I can't figure it out. My brother is clearly not poisoned, and he hasn't done anything excessive. Why should he be imprisoned?"

"It's the same with my husband, he just caught a cold so he was imprisoned."

"Oh, and my poor child, he just went out to buy some herbs for the old man, but he was arrested just like that, and now he died here in a daze."

As the man spoke, more and more people followed suit.

"How did this happen? Could it be that Han Qu caught the wrong person?" Li Canghai frowned and said to himself.

At this moment, there was another disharmonious cold snort from the crowd: "Master Li killed our relatives for no reason with a single word! This is clearly an intentional shirk of responsibility!"

This time, Li Canghai keenly caught that person's voice, but it was a white-faced scholar.

"Since you are dissatisfied, you can bring it up to the official directly. Why do you need to cover it up?" Li Canghai stared at him and asked indifferently.

The scholar was a little embarrassed and stood up hesitantly.

After gritting his teeth, the scholar said: "Since your lord has said that, then the grass-roots people will be outspoken! Your lord said that we arrested our relatives because they were poisoned, but as far as the grass-people know, none of them were poisoned." , but died in the sea of ​​fire because of the wrong decision of the adults, in the opinion of ordinary people, this tragedy was not an accident, but man-made!"

Li Canghai remained silent, he always felt guilty about this matter.

Dozens of people died in the sea of ​​fire. I didn't kill Boren, but the guilt of Boren's death because of me has always lingered in my heart.

Li Canghai sighed, facing the scholar's accusation, he was powerless to refute.

"What? Sir, have you nothing to say? I have heard that frontier officers and soldiers risked killing people's heads as rewards for their military exploits. I never thought that such a thing would happen in the capital! If they hadn't seen this with their own eyes, who would believe the majestic Dali Temple?" Is Qing also such a cruel and merciless person?" Seeing that Li Canghai was silent, the scholar asked loudly with a more serious tone.

"..."

After a long silence, Li Canghai bowed deeply to the crowd and said, "Give me a little time, and I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer."

The scholar wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the man before: "My lord, you are a good official, we trust you! We just want an explanation."

Li Canghai nodded solemnly, and then asked Lu Jitong to collect information from everyone, while he returned to the ruins.

Among the ruins, a group of yamen servants under the leadership of Wu Zuo were carefully carrying the corpses. There were more than a dozen charred corpses in each house that was burned into ruins. It was really miserable.

Looking at those corpses, Li Canghai felt extremely heavy in his heart.

But immediately after, a doubt flashed in his mind.

This room is not big, and there are more than ten living people imprisoned in it. Why did no one escape when the fire broke out?

Even if those people were poisoned by Gu, and they were tied up in order to heal them, at least Huiguang and Hongyan were still there.

According to his understanding of the two of them, it is absolutely impossible to be so careless that the house flooded, let alone it was too late to save people after the fire broke out.

Li Canghai believed in the martial arts of the two, and he never believed that the two would die in the fire.

If you want to know what happened, you can only find out if you find the two.

But if the two of them escaped from birth, it is impossible not to go to Li Canghai, and now the two of them have disappeared inexplicably. The only explanation is that the two of them encountered some kind of trouble, which restricted their steps. That's why I haven't come to look for him so far.

However, the two of them came here just to observe the epidemic situation and prepare an antidote, so what troubles would be able to restrain them?

(End of this chapter)