Chapter 81: The circumstances of the case have changed
Kong Du's suicide shocked Xia Ji, and he didn't think about his life, why did he choose to end himself when the Chinese New Year was about to begin?
In addition to being shocked, Xia Ji felt that this matter would not be so simple, so she immediately ordered Jiang Lu to close the scene first, pull a rope from the location of the hut as a cordon, and send someone to the yamen to find Ling Shi to conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Without waiting for the people from the yamen to come over, Xia Ji herself began to inquire about the cause of the incident first, and in order to carefully understand the process, she put her mobile phone aside and recorded all the interrogation process.
First, she summoned the servant who found Kong Du dead, a middle-aged maid who was a full-time cleaner, for questioning.
"Madam, I don't know what to command?" The maid was still trembling a little as she spoke, apparently not recovering from the horror of finding out that Kong Du had died.
"Don't panic, I just want to hear from you about the process of seeing the dead this morning." Natsuhime said.
"Early this morning, I went to the backyard to clean, and saw a soldier guarding the hut, and after cleaning the yard, I was ready to clean the room, and then the soldier asked me to watch the door of the hut, and he said that he wanted to go up to the hut, and I agreed, I thought he would come back in a while, but after waiting for a long time the guard did not come, I curiously stood on tiptoe and looked inside the hut from the window, and found a person hanging in the middle of the hut, and I was so frightened that I screamed, and the guard heard my cry, So he rushed over, opened the door, and saw someone hanging inside. ”
"Did you go in later? What else do you see? ”
"I didn't go in, and when I opened the door, the guard and I saw someone hanging from the beam in the center of the house, and I was scared and didn't go in. I just saw an upside-down stool underneath the hanging man. ”
"Did the guard go in?"
"He went in."
"What did he do when he went in?"
He walked up to the man, drew his sword, and cut the rope that was hanging, and the man fell to the ground. Then he came out and closed the door. ”
"Did he check on the hanging man after he fell to the ground?"
"No, he turned around and walked out after the hanging man fell to the ground."
"Can you be sure that the hanged man is dead?"
"I can't say that because I didn't go up to see it."
"Okay, you can go, you let Jiang Lu come over with that guard, I'm going to ask them." Natsuki said to the maid.
"Hmm." The maid said, and then retreated, and after a while, Jiang Lu and the soldier guard came to Xia Ji's place.
"What's your name?" Natsuki asked the guard.
"If Mrs. Hui speaks, the little one is called Li Wei."
"Good. Jiang Lu, didn't I ask you to arrange two people to be on duty yesterday? Why weren't these two people there when Kong Du was found hanging himself? ”
"Back to Mrs., I arranged two people to be on duty last night, in addition to Li Wei, one is Chen Fang. The latter thing is best for Li Wei to say that he is the party. Jiang Lu said.
"Li Wei, what were you doing when the maid found someone hanging herself this morning?"
"Back to Madame's words. I started last night with Chen Fang two people on duty Kong Du, after the third watch after the middle of the night both began to have stomach pain, diarrhea, Chen Fang even pulled to the point of weakness, almost to the fourth watch when he said he really did not have the strength to be on duty, let me be on duty alone, go back to the dormitory to sleep. After Chen Fang left, I endured it, and in the morning, when I saw the maid cleaning, I asked her to help take a look at it, and went to the thatched house by myself, but the maid found Kong Du dead in the house. Li Wei said.
"Did you two leave at the same time when you were on duty?" Natsuhime asked.
"No, and the time I'm not there is when the maid comes to take care of it for me in the morning." Li Wei said.
"Do you go to the hut before the maid cleans the yard or after cleaning?"
"After cleaning the yard."
"You two have diarrhea at the same time, you should have eaten something before, tell me, what have you eaten?" Natsuhime asked.
"The two of us didn't eat dinner together, I ate at home, and Chen Fang ate in the house. Later, when it was almost the third watch, we were both hungry again, and I thought that it would be worth the night, so I went to the kitchen to get some food, and then I found Jiang Wei and asked him to order two bowls of noodles, and we ate them together after they were brought over. Li Wei said.
"When did you start to feel sick to your stomach after eating?" Natsuhime asked.
After a while, Chen Fang said that his stomach hurts. Li Wei said.
"Chun'e, Dongyu, come here." Natsuhime called two maids.
"You two go and see if there are two bowls of noodles near the hut, and if there is, bring them here, and take the two bowls separately, and the rest of the contents are not to be thrown out or mixed together." Natsuhime commanded.
"Okay." The two of them went out at once, and after a while they did bring two bowls, and there was some leftover soup in them.
"Chun'e, you ask Jiang Wei to bring two healthy piglets to the pigsty." Natsuhime commanded again.
After obeying the order, Chun'e found Jiang Wei and brought over two little piglets. Xia Ji asked Jiang Wei to feed the two piglets the leftover noodle soup in the two bowls, and then put them in the courtyard outside the house to observe. At this time, Xia Ji keenly felt a little unnatural panic flashing in Li Wei's eyes.
After a while, I saw that one pig began to have diarrhea, pulling and pulling, while the other was normal.
"Li Wei, you also saw it, one pig is strained, the other is not, how do you explain this?" Xia Ji stared at Li Wei and asked.
"I don't know, maybe the two pigs have different physiques, right?" Li Wei replied hesitantly.
"Someone. Tie this man up for me. Natsuki said to the two guards standing in the doorway.
"Why did you arrest me? Kong Du committed suicide, what does it have to do with me? I was wronged. You doubt me just because this pig doesn't have diarrhea, why? Li Wei said after being held down by the two soldiers.
"Then I'll tell you why you're a suspect. The first point is that the maid found that someone had hanged herself, and you opened the door and swung your sword to cut Kong Du's rope, and then turned around and left, without leaning over to confirm whether Kong Du was still saved, which means that you already knew that he was dead, if you knew that he was dead, why didn't you report it in time? is clearly a thief. ”
"He's hanging there motionless, obviously dead, what's there to see." Li Wei argued.
"You don't even look at him, how do you know if he has one breath left to save him? You are not convinced by this, and there is a second point: from the condition of these two pigs, it can be concluded that only one of you and Chen Fang has diarrhea, and the other must be pretending. There is only one possibility that two people eat noodles made at the same time and only one person has diarrhea, and that is that someone has given one of the bowls of noodles a cathartic medicine. And there are only two people who can drug the noodles, one is Jiang Wei, who makes noodles, and the other is you, who serves noodles to Chen Fang. You're pretending to have an upset stomach just to cover up the fact that you're drugged. Why am I sure that you are dying, it's very simple, you said that Chen Fang went back to sleep after the fourth watch, and you have been enduring it. I ask you, since you have been enduring it, it must be very uncomfortable, but why didn't you go when the maid first came, and waited until she finished cleaning the yard? It's clear that you don't have a stomach problem at all. ”
"No, as soon as the maid comes into the courtyard, I will immediately let her watch it for me, and I will go to the hut. Besides, Kong Du committed suicide, what does it have to do with diarrhea? Li Wei began to deny it, he didn't expect that a small trick that was normal before would be caught like this.
"You don't want to deny it. Whether Kong Du committed suicide or not, so that history will conclude. If you commit suicide, what is your intention in drugging Chen Fang? If you don't commit suicide, you won't be guilty. Xia Ji said sharply, Xia Ji didn't believe that Kong Du committed suicide at all, because there were many people who wanted him to die.
"I didn't kill anyone, I was sick to my stomach all the time." Li Wei was unwilling to be planted in the hands of a delicate lady, and he was still desperately denying it.
It's just that he couldn't have imagined that this delicate lady didn't read the Sherlock Holmes novels, and the whole conversation process was recorded.