A deputy head catcher didn't understand the reason for this, and said with a smile: "Zhiyi, the deceased Zhishui is locked up in the prison, if you want to kill her, you must enter the prison, but no outsiders have been found to invade?" If the people in the prison are poisoned, then we just need to investigate the people in the prison? ”

Xiao Jiading said: "Of course, we have to carry out an investigation around the people in the prison, including the possibility of outsiders infiltrating. This is one aspect, what I asked you to investigate is the periphery, if we find out that one of Zhishui's enemies disappeared that day, or that there is some kind of grudge with Zhishui that has reached the point where we must kill her with our own hands and then quickly, then this person is the target of our investigation. If he has something to do with someone in the prison, then wouldn't the scope of our investigation be clear? This is called an internal and external attack. ”

The head catcher suddenly realized, and said in a loud voice.

Xiao Jiading asked the catcher to go to the evidence room to bring the paper extracted from the vomit, and the paper had already dried. Xiao Jiading observed it carefully, and there was no special directional characteristics, so he handed the paper to Dai Zhutou and said, "You take this paper to the calligraphy and painting hall in the city, and let them identify the type and source of the paper." ”

Dai Zhutou agreed, carefully took the paper and put it away.

Next, the heads of the captors began to act. And Xiao Jiading went to report to Tang Lin.

Tang Lin also felt that this case was a little tricky, and asked Xiao Jiading what was the next direction of detection? Xiao Jiading had already thought about it, and said: "Expand the scope of the investigation, first investigate the entire prison and the people who entered the prison that afternoon, and at the same time, investigate Zhishui's relatives and social relations, and find out whether anyone may have a motive for poisoning her, and this motive is so big that she can't wait for her to be executed." ”

Tang Lin did not evaluate Xiao Jiading's detection direction, because he did not have a better way. Then he nodded: "You can do what you think, I only have one request, and that is to solve the case!" ——I have reported this case to the prince of Shu this morning, he very much agrees with my decision to hand over the case to you to undertake, and is very shocked by the poisoning case that happened in the prison of the yamen of the state capital, if even the prison of the yamen of the state capital cannot guarantee safety, then where else is safe? Wang Ye Li is very concerned about this case, so you must do everything you can to solve this case! This is your rare opportunity to impress Prince Li. ”

Xiao Jiading smiled bitterly: "I will definitely do my best, but we don't have enough manpower in Shaocheng County." To conduct such a large-scale peripheral survey, manpower is key. ”

Tang Lin thought for a while and said, "The people from the yamen of the state capital can't participate, so let's do it, I'll send some people from Wenjiang County to help you investigate." ”

"Okay."

Naturally, the effectiveness of work in ancient times was not as fast as in modern times. The catchers dispatched by the neighboring Wenjiang County also rushed to the yamen of the state capital to report to Xiao Jiading in the afternoon of the next day. The team was led by Liu Zhutou of the county.

The reason why Xiao Jiading did not let Dai arrest the head and they directly conducted a comprehensive investigation of the people in prison. It's because Shaocheng County is in Yizhou City. The people of Shaocheng County often have contacts with the people in the yamen of the state capital, and many of them have a close relationship. He was worried that some of them would not be able to erase their feelings and did not conduct in-depth investigations, and even some of them engaged in favoritism, so he asked them to carry out peripheral investigations, and asked the arresters of Wenjiang County to investigate the jailers of the state capital's Yamen Prison. They have to get less to deal with, and this worry is relatively smaller.

Xiao Jiading himself was not idle, he focused his energy mainly on the investigation of whether there were light martial arts masters infiltrating the prison. He learned the skills of coming and going with Huiyi in Emei Mountain, although it was only some skins, but the basic things were already known, and he knew that if a master of light skills wanted to sneak in. What avenues are most likely.

However, a detailed survey of these paths did not reveal any traces of the cornices. Undeterred, he expanded the scope to cover the entire prison. All roofs and fences are included. But to his disappointment, there was still nothing to discover.

He didn't believe anyone could walk through the snow and get into prison without a trace. If there was such a person, he would just kill Zhishui and do it directly, so why bother to give him an ordinary poison like arsenic?

In this way, it is not a martial arts master who invaded and poisoned and murdered.

Liu Zhutou, who is in charge of the investigation of the internal personnel of the prison, is very serious, and all the people are cross-examined, that is, everyone has to go through at least two different inquiries to ensure that no questions are missed, and to avoid favoritism and fraud, which makes the progress of the investigation very slow. By the time all the procedures are completed, the Yizhou Poetry Club will be held soon.

After Xiao Jiading learned that the external and internal investigations were going on similarly, he summoned Liu Zhutou, Dai Zhutou and several deputy heads to a meeting to discuss the case.

Liu Zhutou introduced the whole investigation process and results, because the death row area is the most heavily guarded place, there are special jailers in charge, except for the jailers in charge of guarding in the district, the rest of the people must be approved by the warden and issued tokens to enter. Handed over to the gatekeepers, the only jailers who entered the area within two days were three other prison guards. The purpose is to bring goods to death row prisoners on behalf of others. After checking, they were all in the form of regular entry and holding waist plates, and were accompanied by the jailer in charge of the death row ward. After repeated checks, none of them had contact with Zhishui, nor had they been to Zhishui's cell. In addition, no one has entered the death row area.

Xiao Jiading was very disappointed and muttered: "Is the death row area of the state capital yamen so strictly managed?"

Liu Zhutou smiled and said, "Yes, I'm also a little strange, I have also been here to escort and transfer prisoners before, but it was not so strict at that time." However, after I asked the prisoner, I found out what was going on,—— three days ago, Zhong Facao of the Yamen of the state capital had personally inspected the death row ward. He was very dissatisfied with the management of the death row ward, and reprimanded the prison severely, so the warden immediately rectified the death row ward, reprimanded all the jailers, and formulated a strict management system. Therefore, the management in those days was very strict, and I didn't expect that under such strict management, there would still be an accident. ”

If others entered the inspection, Xiao Jiading would not have paid attention, after all, Fa Cao was in charge of the entire Yamen's comprehensive criminal trial work, including the prison, and it was a normal duty for him to come to the prison to inspect. However, it was this Zhong Facao, and Xiao Jiading had evidence in his hand that Liu Xiangzheng confessed to bribing him, proving that this person was a corrupt official. Plus his son still has a holiday with himself. Although he didn't seem to mind this on the surface, Xiao Jiading could feel that this person actually had a grudge against himself in his heart. So when I heard that he had visited the prison three days ago, I couldn't help but pay attention to it and asked, "Did he go alone?" ”

Xiao Jiading asked this question and felt a little stupid, Zhong Facao is also a seven-rank official, and he is also the official in charge of the prison, he wants to inspect the prison, how can he wander around like a visit? It's definitely going to be a score.

Sure enough, Liu Zhutou said: "This shouldn't be, right?" I didn't ask who was following me, but it stands to reason that the judicial and deputy Si Zuo of the torture room should accompany such an inspection, and in addition, the chief secretary and recorder of the official documents of the yamen should also go, which is an important event of the yamen, and it is necessary to record the work of the officials and report and issue it. Coupled with the entourage, the number of people should not be small. ”

Xiao Jiading himself would not think that someone like Zhong Facao would poison Zhishui, an old nun. Besides, when he went down to inspect, he was surrounded by people, and there were so many eyes watching, he was afraid that he would not have this opportunity if he wanted to poison him. Even if it is his accompanying officials and entourage, there will be no chance to poison it, and it is not a place to eat, and there is no place to poison it, so you can't forcibly feed the old nun Zhishui into her mouth in front of so many people, right?

However, according to the requirements of the investigation, all the people within the scope of the investigation must be investigated one by one, and the investigation is meaningful, so Xiao Jiading still routinely said: "You still have to find an opportunity to ask these participants in an appropriate way to investigate." See if there are any problems. You must pay attention to the ways and means, and don't make these officials unhappy. ”

"What a shame!" Liu Zhutou smiled bitterly and nodded in agreement.

Xiao Jiading set his sights on Dai Zhutou.

Dai Zhutou smiled awkwardly and said, "We have been investigating in the periphery these days, and we also went to Emei Mountain again and told the new head Huiyi Shitai about this matter. A detailed investigation was also conducted, mainly to investigate the enemies of Zhishui. After investigation, the person suspected of having a grudge against Zhishui did not go down the mountain at the time of the crime, and he did not know the person in the yamen prison of the state capital. Then we investigated the people who have a grudge against Zhishui on the rivers and lakes, and found that although Zhishui is vicious in his heart, he is still very kind on the outside, especially when he walks on the rivers and lakes, he has almost no enmity with anyone, and there is no deep grudge. The only few people who have a small festival did not appear in the Yizhou boundary. In this way, we again began to investigate around his relatives and relatives. We found her family before she left home. Her parents have both died, and there is an older sister who also married out of town and is not in Jiannan Province, her husband has already died in an accident, and her husband's parents have also died. Her only relative in Yizhou was her son before he became a monk, named Wu Liangde, who opened a silk shop in Yizhou City. ”

Xiao Jiading immediately remembered, when escorting Zhishui back to Yamen and preparing to send him to prison, Zhishui once told Xiao Jiading that she had a son named Wu Liangde, who opened a silk shop in Yizhou, and asked herself not to tell her son about her, she wanted to die quietly alone.

Xiao Jiading asked, "Did the son know the news that she was killed?" (To be continued......)