The jailer's face turned blue, he pursed his lips, and said, "No, he has been sitting against the wall, and he has never moved." ”

"During this period, have anyone else been here?" Li Canghai stood up and asked.

Winter melon tilted his head and thought for a while, and said, "During this period, only the cripple came to deliver food, and no one has ever come except him." ”

"Who's the cripple?" Li Canghai asked.

"The cripple is our cook, and he personally delivers all the prisoners' food." Winter melon replied honestly.

Li Canghai stomped back and forth a few steps, and muttered, "Go and find that cripple for questioning." ”

Winter melon answered and hurriedly ran out of the cell.

"My lord, you just said that what you saw with your own eyes is not necessarily true, do you suspect that he was killed by someone?" Taking advantage of the fact that there were only two people in the cell, Chang Feng hurriedly raised the question in his heart.

In Luofengji, although Chang Feng behaved a little stupid, his mind was also coarse and fine, as long as he cultivated it a little, he might be able to become his right-hand man.

Thinking of this, Li Canghai poured out half of his tongue, picked it up with tweezers, and said: "If you bite your tongue and commit suicide, the fracture of your tongue should be uneven, but the wound on his tongue is neat and smooth, so he definitely didn't bite his tongue and commit suicide." ”

Chang Feng stared at the tongue for a while, and sure enough, as he said, the broken tongue was extremely flat, and he suddenly realized: "I understand, what the lord means is that the tongue of the deceased was actually cut off!" ”

Li Canghai nodded, and he said solemnly: "Not only that, but he also had a tongue that was cut off after death. ”

Chang Feng was surprised, and he said in disbelief: "My lord, how can you be sure that he did not die because of having his tongue cut, but was cut off after his death?" ”

"If someone grabbed your cheekbones and tried to cut out your tongue, would you struggle?" Li Canghai asked rhetorically.

Chang Feng said honestly: "Naturally, I will resist." ”

"Yes, but if you look around, there is no sign of confusion, indicating that the deceased is not struggling." Li Canghai pointed to the dead grass spread on the ground, and then said: "Also, the jailer also said that the deceased has been sitting here since he entered the cell, and he has never moved. Do you think a living person can bear a person who has his tongue cut out, has no sound and no struggle? ”

"But my lord, if he is dead, why should anyone cut out his tongue?" Chang Feng understood what he said, but he felt more and more confused.

Li Canghai thought for a moment, he asked Chang Feng to come over, and muttered to him.

After a while, Winter Melon walked in with a slender old man.

"Brother Chang, he's a cripple."

The old man was indeed a cripple, and walked with a limp, as if he would fall down at any moment.

"Little Lao'er has seen a few masters." The cripple lowered his head and said tremblingly.

Li Canghai gave Chang Feng a look, Chang Feng nodded and received, he cleared his throat and shouted violently: "Okay, you cripple, you have a lot of courage, you dare to sneak into the prison and brutalize the felon." Now that your deeds have been revealed, you are not quick to confess your sins and surrender to the law, and invite them from the truth! ”

The two of them were taken aback by Chang Feng's sudden roar, the cripple looked tight, and said, "What the uncle said, the little old man doesn't understand." ”

"Don't understand?" Chang Feng smiled coldly, raised his eyebrows, and shouted: "You took the opportunity of delivering food to sneak into the prison to kill the key criminal, and cut off his tongue with a sharp blade, do you think you can hide from the world and the sea?" I'm here to give you a chance to confess and repent, as long as you come from the truth, you may be able to reduce the guilt, otherwise if you are guilty of this felony of murder, you will be beheaded! ”

Chang Feng's face was already full of meat, but at this time, his face was stiff, and his eyebrows revealed a ruthlessness.

When the cripple heard him roar, his face was bloodless with fright, and he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy tremblingly: "I...... I recruit, I recruit all. I cut off his tongue, but I didn't kill him! ”

"Nonsense, it is clear that you cut off his tongue, which caused him to bleed to death due to excessive blood loss, and now the evidence is conclusive, do you dare to quibble?" Chang Feng's eyes widened angrily and shouted sharply.

The cripple's old face was wrinkled, and he cried and said, "Uncle, when the little old man cut his tongue, he had been dead for a long time. Otherwise, even if you give Xiao Lao'er ten guts, you won't dare to do such a murderous thing! ”

Chang Feng was amazed in his heart, and the secret path was said by the adults again.

He glanced at Li Canghai and saw that Li Canghai nodded at him, he continued to say with a straight face: "Since he has been dead for a long time, why do you still cut off his tongue?" ”

The cripple suddenly hesitated.

"You'd better come from the truth, lest you suffer from flesh and skin!" Chang Feng glared at him fiercely and shouted.

The cripple trembled with fright, and hurriedly said: "Little Lao'er was entrusted by someone, so he took advantage of the meal delivery to cut off his tongue." ”

Li Canghai and Chang Feng glanced at each other, and there was surprise in their eyes.

"Who is the one who commands you? What is his purpose? ”

"The man covered his face, and the little old man did not know who it was, and he gave me a piece of gold, and told me to break his mouth and break his tongue with his teeth while the evening was being served. Xiao Lao'er was afraid of getting into a life lawsuit, so he didn't dare to agree, but the man said that he was a dead man, as long as I broke his tongue, he would give me another twenty miles of silver. The cripple knelt on the ground and said tremblingly.

Li Canghai walked over, he frowned and said, "You just said that the masked man asked you to bite off your tongue with the teeth of the dead?" ”

"Exactly, but the dead man's teeth are not biting enough, and the little old man is afraid of being discovered, so in order to save trouble, he cut off his tongue with a knife." The cripple kowtowed.

"Is what you said true?" Chang Feng asked.

"What the little old man said is true, don't dare to deceive the uncle." The cripple said tremblingly.

"Your Excellency, look ......." Chang Feng turned to Li Canghai and bowed slightly, pointing at the cripple, wanting to ask for advice on how to deal with it.

Li Canghai rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Write down everything and let him draw it." They are not allowed to divulge a word about tonight's events, and continue to let the cripple serve as a prison cook, but he must be strictly forbidden from acting. ”

Chang Feng nodded yes, and then left the cell with the two of them, went to the guard to take pen and ink and recorded it, let the cripple draw it, and strictly forbade them to divulge what happened tonight before returning to the cell.

Li Canghai squatted beside the corpse and fell into deep thought.

It was clear that the servant had died before entering the cell, and someone tried to disguise him as a suicide, which allowed the cripple to sneak into the prison.

It's just that he didn't expect that the cripple cut off the deceased's tongue with a knife in order to save trouble, but let him find the clue.

Although it was confirmed that the deceased was killed, the real cause of the deceased's death gave him a little headache.