Chang County.

Prison.

There was a very complex foul smell in the air.

foul smell of sewage, foul smell of fecal waste, foul smell of food......

All sorts of smells, mixed together, in this damp and dim prison where the air was turbid and uncirculated, mixed into an indescribable stench.

There was even the smell of blood, the smell of rotting corpses.

I don't know if it was a rat who died in prison and his body decomposed after his death.

Hula-la.

Zhang Xianling, whose robe was embroidered with flying birds, had an angry expression on his face, and under the leadership of the officials and jailers, he hurried all the way to the deepest part of the prison where the death row prisoners were held, regardless of the foul smell in the prison.

"My lord, my lord, help us, save us, there is evil in this cell!"

"Help! there's dirt in this cell!"

"Zhang County Order, please change my cell, I recruit, I recruit, I am willing to confess anything, just ask me to change my cell!

At both ends of the torch-lit corridor, a pair of arms stretched out from behind the wooden fence, and one by one unkempt and foul-smelling prisoners cried and shouted at Zhang Xianling.

As if there really was something in this prison.

These prisoners were frightened.

"What's going on with these people?"

"Back to my lord, since Li Dashan died evilly, the prisoners in the prison have been crying and shouting to change the cell. ”

The cell boss hurriedly explained with a panicked and pale face, desperately wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

Zhang Xianling didn't have time to deal with these people now, so he glared at the cell head fiercely and continued to walk deeper into the cell.

Finally.

Under the leadership of the jailers, a group of 120 people came to the cell where Li Dashan was being held.

At this point, the cell door had been opened by the jailer.

Li Dashan's death was very strange, not long after he died, black spots and corpse spots appeared all over his body, and there was a large pool of water stains under his body, but the clothes on his body were dry, and he was curled up, and died in pain at the door of the cell.

Li Dashan raised his head high, like a turtle poking out of the water to breathe on a rainy day, his neck stretched out, and the green tendons bulged out.

The facial features on his face were distorted and hideous, as if he had experienced a lot of pain before he died, and he had struggled for help before he died, but none of the jailers heard the movement here.

Zhang County's order, county Cheng, several head catchers and officials, the first time they arrived, there was such a strange way to die, and they were all shocked.

Looking at Li Dashan's strange death, it was like the absurd feeling of the old turtle looking at the moon.

The head of the prison is called Sun Fu, and he has a pair of rat whiskers on his lips.

He is an old fritter in this prison, and he often scavenges oil and water from the prisoners in the cell on weekdays, which is a fat gap with a lot of oil and water. On weekdays, this Sun Fu is the emperor of the soil in prison, and he is used to being powerful, and no one dares to disobey his words.

But now he is in front of Zhang Xianling, his face is pale and ugly, and he doesn't even dare to let go of a stuffy fart, so he quietly suffocates his stomach and leaves. Now he is not worried about whether he can keep this fat gap with enough oil and water, but he should worry about whether he will bear all the responsibility for Li Dashan's death, and whether he will live.

The cell boss Sun Fu looked at Zhang County's order with sweat on his forehead, and he saw that Zhang County's face sank after seeing Li Dashan's strange death, and he hurriedly tried to behave in front of Zhang County, just hoping to avoid this catastrophe.

Promise to sweep the ancestral graves during the New Year's holidays in the future, and no longer stay at the widow's house at night, so as to leave a yin virtue for yourself.

"Lord County Commander, our brothers know very well that this Li Dashan is important and involves a big case of private possession of gunpowder, so they have never dared to slack off and refused anyone to visit Li Dashan. ”

"Lao Qian, Lao Xu and a few of them never dared to lynch Li Dashan. ”

"We all understand the priorities of this, so we have been closely watching Li Dashan. ”

"White, daytime... This Li Dashan is okay, tonight's prison dinner was given by Lao Qian, I can testify to this, everything was normal at that time, Li Dashan could eat, drink, sleep and pull a sas. ”

"And in the two days I was in prison, no one was allowed to come in to visit Li Dashan, and Li Dashan has been held alone in the past two days, except for a few of us jailers, and I have not contacted a single outsider. ”

"But, that's where the blame is......"

"When we delivered the prison meal during 酉 (yǒu), the person was fine, there was nothing abnormal... There was only half an hour in between, and at 戌 (xū), Lao Qian inspected the cell at regular intervals, as was customary, and then we heard Lao Qian's screams... When Lao Xu and I ran to the door of Li Dashan's cell, we saw Lao Qian sitting on the ground in fright, and Li Dashan had died mysteriously in the cell. ”

"The cell door where Li Dashan is held is locked, and there are no other signs of damage to the cell, and no one can enter the cell. But Li Dashan died in it so mysteriously. ”

The cell boss nervously talked about the ins and outs.

"Master Zhang, could it be food poisoning?"

"Li Dashan is very involved behind him, maybe there are other comrades who have slipped through the net, they are afraid that Li Dashan will confess to them... So there's a murder?"

The person who spoke was the county officer.

When the cell boss heard this, he hurriedly explained: "It is impossible for someone to poison the food in advance, and the prisoners in this prison all eat the same pot of food." ”

"If someone really poisoned the food, it should not be just Li Dashan who died, but all the prisoners in the prison died together, and it is impossible for these prisoners to survive. ”

"And the prison meals are randomly sent to each prison meal, and it is impossible for anyone to know in advance which bowl of food is for Li Dashan, and then poison it. ”

After listening to the words of cell boss Sun Fu, these jailers are indeed dutiful.

Zhang Xianling's face was very ugly, and he turned his head to look at a middle-aged catcher with a knife beside him.

"Feng Zhutou, what clues have you found in this prison?"

Feng Zhutou: "The county order, I have already brought the prefectural order." How did this person die, whether he was poisoned in his food or not, and he died of poison, and after an autopsy, I believe everything will come to light. I implore the prefectural order to agree to let the post-mortem be conducted. ”

At this time, everyone was standing outside the cell.

Without the personal consent of Zhang County's order, no one dared to enter the cell without permission.

"Then let's do an autopsy! No matter what, this matter must be investigated before the Shangtou Mansion City comes to mention people, and I can give an explanation to the superiors!"

With Zhang County's order agreeing to the autopsy, among the people crowded in the corridor outside the cell, a thin old man with a medicine box on his back became the first person to step into the cell.

The ancients did not have the concept of gloves.

Perhaps because of the perennial contact with the corpse and the infection of various bacteria on the corpse, the hands of the man have a lot of scars and thick sores, which is good and infected, and the infection is good, and the hands are scarred again and again.

The air in the prison was not well circulated, it was foul and foul-smelling, so many people were crowded together, and everyone was breathless.

But no one dared to complain at this time.

Even if his legs and feet were numb after standing for a long time, he only dared to quietly lift his buttocks and continued to grit his teeth and insist.

After this torturous wait, the autopsy finally had a result.

"Yu County Order, Feng Zhutou, Li Dashan's cause of death was not poisoning, but drowning. Strangely, although the skin has already appeared corpse spots, the internal organs seem to have been dead for less than an hour. ”

"Died by drowning?" the crowd was dumbfounded.

"Ridiculous!"