A carriage stopped in front of the gate of the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment, and the coachman waved his whip and shouted: "Let one go, let one go!" He shouted, "Bump it carefully!" ”

While shouting, I couldn't help but be amazed in my heart, so that I really couldn't help it, and turned to the girl sitting in the carriage and sighed: "Lord Qiao, I have been driving in the capital for many years, and it is really the first time I have seen so many people in front of the yamen of the criminal department!" ”

The people of the capital all know that the yamen of the criminal department, which cannot be watched at will, is so lively today! It's the sun coming out in the west!

The open space in front of the yamen of the Criminal Department was full of horse-drawn carriages, and there were officials and errands walking around, so that veteran drivers like him were a little worried about hitting people.

"Because one of the prisoners in the prison committed suicide." The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the girl looked at the bustle in front of her, and there was no joy or anger in her tone, "You put me down, and I will go by myself." ”

The news came too suddenly, Zhen Shiyuan was originally going to come over in person, but after thinking about it, he still asked her to come over. One is that she is the one who handled this case from beginning to end, and she should have been ordered to come, and the second is that Yingge will commit suicide. For Zhen Shiyuan, this is not a big deal that he has to do, so he asked her to take the end of the case herself.

After getting out of the carriage, Qiao Ran crossed the carriage and walked into the yamen of the Criminal Department.

She didn't come early, after all, the Criminal Department was not close to Dali Temple. Therefore, when I arrived at the prison of the Criminal Department, there were already many people inside.

Among the officials who rushed to hear the news, even Qiao Ran, who was already tall among the girls, stood behind the crowd and was inconspicuous.

However, that didn't stop her from looking beyond the crowd to the body with its head hanging from a stake.

Song of the warbler.

The cause of death was probably ...... Looking at the severed tongue in the pool of blood, Qiao Ran probably bit his tongue and committed suicide.

Didn't expect it to be so fast...... She was a little surprised.

Yingge will find a way to find death, and the Ministry of Punishment will definitely find a way to prevent her death, which is not surprising to both parties. But she really didn't expect Yingge to die so soon, with the sophistication of the Criminal Department, she died in less than half a day after being sent, and she really ...... Some can't make sense.

This is a dereliction of duty on the part of the Yamen of the Criminal Department.

In this regard, Zhou Dong did not refuse.

"This is a dereliction of duty on the part of my criminal department, it has been examined, and the cause of death is a bone." Zhou Dong pointed to a triangular bone placed on a wooden plate on the side, and said, "At noon, the yamen of the Criminal Department ate bone broth, and she hid a piece of bone, and after the person left, she cut off her tongue with the help of a sharp bone." ”

I have said that there are thousands of ways to kill yourself, no matter what, cutting off the tongue is an extremely painful method, if the will to die is not resolute enough, generally speaking, it is to bite the tongue constantly.

"Didn't you have anesthetic?" An official asked.

Zhou Dong said: "It's on." He said and looked at a criminal department official who was squatting on the ground and didn't know what he was doing, "Zhao Ruyi, come on!" ”

Qiao Ran noticed that when Zhou Dong mentioned the name "Zhao Ruyi", there was a sudden silence around her, she couldn't help but be stunned, and her eyes naturally fell on the criminal official named Zhao Ruyi.

Zhao Ruyi, a small official of the Criminal Department who was mentioned by name, stood up, then turned around and faced everyone.

It was not until this time that Qiao Ran saw this Zhao Ruyi's appearance clearly, tall and thin, with a delicate face that was a little pale, as if he had not seen the sun for a long time, and his lips were amazingly red.

Like this...... Compared with ordinary people, you can see it at a glance, after all, the appearance is a little too special.

"I've been drugged." He spoke, his voice soft, "It's just that because I still have to interrogate, in order to let her speak and not have the strength to bite off her tongue, the anesthetic is not aggravated." ”

When the words "bite off the tongue" were mentioned, the official who asked "Haven't you been anesthetic" let out a sneer, he pointed to the severed tongue in the pool of blood, and said, "Then tell me what this is?" ”

Zhao Ruyi lowered his eyes and glanced at it, and said, "Tongue." ”

The official said, "Didn't you say you didn't have the strength to bite off your tongue?" Zhao Ruyi, don't you want to do things well at all? Or is it deliberate? Or was it in the company of the prisoner who had committed suicide? ”

What a curse!

Zhao Ruyi was stunned, and his expression was blank.

Zhou Dong frowned and said, "Master Zhu, this is the place of my criminal department, if Zhao Ruyi really does something wrong, I, Zhou Dong, will be the first to not let him go!" ”

That Lord Zhu sneered when he heard this, and said, "This official is just afraid that Lord Zhou, you will be deceived by some people who are used to pretending." ”

Qiao Ran looked at the loud Lord Zhu with some surprise, although he had never grown a beard, the wrinkles on his face and the half-white hair were enough to show that this Lord Zhu was very old, and it seemed that it was rare for an official in such a position to express his personal likes and dislikes so bluntly.

is so aimed at a small official of the criminal department, is there a grudge between this Lord Zhu and the little official named Zhao Ruyi?

Qiao Ran looked at the officials present one by one.

Zhou Dong also spoke again at this time: "It's not the problem of anesthetic, it's the borrowing of this severed tongue." This is the dereliction of duty of the yamen of my criminal department, and it has nothing to do with Zhao Ruyi. ”

"If you can kill yourself with bones, you can kill people, so wouldn't the only food you can provide to the prisoners in the future is green vegetables and tofu?" An official sighed twice and sighed, "It's really hard to prevent!" ”

As soon as these words came out, there was an immediate response.

It's getting harder and harder to deal with criminals these days, not only to prevent them from killing themselves, but also to prevent them from killing people.

In this regard, Zhou Dongdao, the secretary of the Criminal Department, said: "The matter has come to this point, the dereliction of duty of the Yamen of the Criminal Department, the official will bear it with all his might, but before that, he ......" He said this, paused, his eyes passed through the crowd, and fell on a girl at the back of the crowd.

When Zhou Dong looked here, Qiao Ran's heart jumped, and she intuitively felt that Zhou Dong seemed to be looking for herself, and sure enough, after Zhou Dong's eyes fell on her, Zhou Dong spoke: "Master Qiao, do you think there is any problem with this woman's death?" ”

As soon as he said this, the officials in front of him immediately turned their heads, and Qiao Ran was stunned at the attention of everyone, and at this moment, he heard Zhou Liang, who had never spoken, say loudly: "If Lord Qiao can't see clearly, you might as well come closer." ”

These adults are also embarrassed, all of them are burly...... Uh, at least compared to a little girl like Master Qiao, such a burly human wall blocked people's way, and the eldest brother spoke out, and he didn't know how to let him.

After Zhou Liang's voice, sure enough, a group of officials stepped aside, and invariably made way for the girls. Zhou Liang was a little happy when he saw this, but he couldn't help but secretly glance at his brother on the side, and saw that his eldest brother didn't say anything, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Being so "powerful" to give way to a way, Qiao Ran twitched the corner of his mouth and walked in.

"The cause of death is indeed this severed tongue." Zhao Ruyi, who had not spoken for a while, suddenly spoke, and then picked up the wooden plate with sharp bones and presented it to the person, "There are still remnants on the sharp bones." ”

The originally delicate atmosphere suddenly became strange, and even if the remaining meat crumbs were almost negligible, for some reason, looking at the sharp bones in the wooden plate still made people think about it. The bones are pig bones, but the skin and meat crumbs on them are human ......

An official's face turned pale, and he immediately threw up his sleeves and strode out.

Qiao Ran glanced at Zhao Ruyi, who was holding the wooden plate with a calm expression, and looked down at the sharp bones in the wooden plate.

That bone was sharp and abnormal, and it did have the ability to cut off the tongue.

"It doesn't look like it was bitten off by itself, but it looks like a cracked bone from the beginning." Qiao Ran said.

Just like tissue paper can also scratch people, this kind of broken bones is not unseen when I usually drink bone broth, and when it is sharp, bones can naturally scratch people.

Zhou Dong glanced at the girl thoughtfully when he heard this, and said, "There is a possibility of coincidence, but just in case, my criminal department still has to investigate." ”

The handyman who delivered the meal at noon was an old man from the Criminal Department, and after saying the story of "not changing rice for soup", Zhou Dong said: "How can she be sure that what you two give her must be meat with bones, not meat?" ”

The two handymen who delivered the food immediately changed their faces, and before they could speak, they heard Lord Zhu, who had spoken before, speak again.

"Who else can choose a piece of meat to share with the prisoner in the process of delivering food?" He snapped, "Don't tell me who ordered you!" ”

Zhou Dong frowned slightly, this Lord Zhu snatched the words in front of him, and he was still in the prison of the Criminal Department, obviously looking back for Zhao Ruyi's matter.

However, he didn't have a seizure, Lord Zhu said well, who else can do it except these two miscellaneous servants?

Seeing that the two miscellaneous servants were trembling, Zhou Dong waved his hand and said, "If you don't say it, you will be punished!" ”

This sentence made the two handymen immediately turn pale, and then knelt down with a "poof" without thinking about it, and said, "It's Chef Zhang who cooks." He said that the new prisoner was an old acquaintance with him, and he was afraid that she would not be able to survive, so he asked me to take care of her when I scooped the soup, but I really didn't know if I had moved my hands and feet in the flesh! ”

There was such a piece of meat in a bowl of bone broth, and they were still a little hesitant, afraid that they would be wronged by the jailer if they only gave the woman the meat, but they didn't expect the jailer to allow it, so they gave the piece of meat to the woman.

I don't know that a piece of meat can be used to kill itself.

Hearing the name "Chef Zhang", Zhou Liang asked people to go down and bring people, but when he didn't expect it, the official who went to look for people came in to report and said, "Chef Zhang committed suicide by cutting his wrists with a knife." ”

Hearing this, Lord Zhu couldn't help but sneer, and even the faces of the few adults who had never spoken on the side became ugly.

"It is rumored outside that your criminal department is a piece of iron bucket, but it is a joke when I see it today. Anyway, since the person is dead, there is nothing more to say, so let His Majesty decide! Lord Zhu waved his sleeves and strode out, and several adults on the side gave Zhou Dong a salute and left.

After the adults left, Zhou Dong turned to Qiao Ran and said, "Today, I let Master Qiao see a joke." As he spoke, his eyes fell on the two miscellaneous servants, "I didn't expect such a thing to go wrong." ”

Qiao Ran was silent, his gaze was retracted from the group of adults who left, and he turned to look at the two miscellaneous servants with his gaze, and then said loudly: "Lord Zhou, the matter of Yingge's suicide has now appeared as a chef Zhang who provided bones as a sharp weapon, and there has been a jailer who distributed flesh and bones to Yingge, which seems to be round, but there are too many uncertain factors in between. After all, it is not easy to divide the meat in the prison of the Criminal Department. ”

There are too many uncertainties in the case of food distribution and jailer surveillance, for example, the two handymen were worried about giving a piece of meat to the woman for no reason, if the jailer felt that it was wrong to stop it, then Yingge's plan to commit suicide would be in vain.

"So, there must be one less help in the whole thing, if Yingge herself asks for meat is help, to make sure that she can successfully get that piece of meat, she still needs the help of others."

Zhou Dong's eyes darkened: "Jailer." ”

Zhou Liang was surprised when he listened: "Big brother is saying that Chef Zhang is not behind the scenes?" ”

"If he is behind it, how can he die?" The girl shook her head and said, "If he had planned the whole thing, he would have run away early rather than stay and suddenly kill himself." ”

Zhou Dong glanced at the girl and said: "The only one who can be sure that she can get that piece of meat is the jailer, if these two handymen don't give it or they are greedy for meat, they can't be sure, unless there is a jailer on the side to guarantee." If they don't take out the meat, there are jailers who can let them take it, and if they do, it's better, and they go with the flow. Therefore, the only one who could ensure that the woman could get the piece of meat smoothly was the jailer. ”

There are prisoners' accomplices in the prison of the Criminal Department! Zhou Liang snorted lightly and said busily: "Big brother, I will order all those jailers to be controlled, no matter how many comrades there are, even if they are all of them, I will definitely find out." ”

"There should be only one." When the girl heard this, she reminded him, "And it must be one of the two jailers who watched over him and his meal at noon." ”

Zhou Liang was even more surprised when he heard this: "Why is there only one, can't two conspire?" ”

"If it's two conspirators, there's no need for such a troublesome way at all," Zhou Dong spoke, his eyes were taken back from the girl, and he bowed his head slightly at her, "If you conspire, after these two people leave, they will re-enter the cell, even if they can't save people, it will be easy to give a happy one, as for the many ways to frame these two miscellaneous servants, poisoning is much easier than this method of suicide, let alone pulling Chef Zhang in." ”

So if it's two, there's no need to be so troublesome at all, there is only one real party, and it's one of those two.

Through Zhou Dong's explanation, Zhou Liang completely understood, and while looking at the girl with a little more surprise in his eyes, he was also relieved.

If it is really because of an unintentional mistake of a bone, it is the negligence of the criminal department, the lack of its own duties, and the problem is even greater. However, if it is a rescue by the same party, it is not a good thing to do, and although it is also wrong to not find out in time, it is obviously much better than "unintentional mistakes".

A bone is actually so exquisite, thinking of the process of the girl who has just seen the case, Zhou Liang's eyes are a little more praised.

Although the explanation was given by the eldest brother, when she said the sentence "there is only one" with the party, it showed that she had understood.

That's amazing!

The rest of the matter is the criminal department's own business, Qiao Ran returned to Dali Temple and went straight to Zhen Shiyuan's house.

Zhen Shiyuan glanced up at her, and said, "Yingge's specific death process doesn't need to be told to this official, this official has no interest in this matter." ”

"I'm not going to talk about Yingge." The girl said, "Lord Zhen, I met a lot of adults in the Ministry of Rites in the Criminal Department today, isn't the Ministry of Rites idle?" How could the suicide of a prisoner in the Criminal Department attract so many adults in the Ministry of Rites? ”