Chapter 42: Death by Poisoning
The former's voice resounded through the dungeon, Xie Lingxu was stunned, and stepped forward to grab the man:
"Where ......"
"Here, here......"
Xie Lingxu hurriedly ran over with him, and Mrs. Li behind him couldn't catch her breath, couldn't speak with her mouth open, and was held by Xiao Qixin before she narrowly stopped. Xiao Qixin helped her and walked forward slowly.
Groove ...... shot, just wanted to learn about the case from Boss Li, and then Boss Li was killed, it seems that the murderer knows the process of investigating the case very well, and he is pressing it step by step.
"What's the poison?"
"Yes...... The prisoner asked for water, and he died a quarter of an hour after drinking it, and it was found that someone had poisoned the water. ”
"Does anyone who gave him the water know?"
"This ...... Someone just found the stunned guard in the corner of the wall, it should be someone pretending to be poisoned, but the person who poisoned him can no longer be found. ”
Xie Lingxu didn't squeak and stopped in front of the cell door where Boss Li was being held.
In the rusty iron gate, several people from the Nine Governors Gate were consigning Boss Li's body outward. The unkempt man in front of him seemed to be Boss Li who had been poisoned and died, the sallow skin under the former's dirty hair was clinging to the facial bones, and the cheekbones could clearly see the scars left by sharp weapons, and the man's face was like a knife-cut dead wood branch, only the wide eyes suddenly came out, and it was a human face.
Xie Lingxu approached Boss Li, who was skinny and bones, and turned to look at an empty bowl in the corner of the cell and asked the guards on the side:
"He was poisoned by drinking the water in that bowl?"
"Yes."
"Who was the stunned guard?"
"Yes...... It's me. ”
Xie Lingxu raised the corner of his eyes: "What did you see before you were knocked unconscious?"
The person in front of him looked embarrassed: "I, I don't know, I didn't see anything, someone drugged a black cloth and covered my mouth and nose, I don't know anything."
Xie Lingxu sighed: "There is no one else around you?"
"I was in a hurry to urinate at that time, and no one followed me when I went to the hut, so I was alone."
"What a coincidence."
The guard scratched his head and smiled, and Xie Lingxu understood that it was a begging smile.
Just wanted to search Boss Li's body, Mrs. Li on the side broke free from Xiao Qixin's support and stumbled to the corpse. Looking at Boss Li, who was still talking and laughing together at the dinner table a few days ago, saying that the child is a boy with his surname, and if he is a girl, he has his wife's surname, and there is only one corpse left at this moment, and the cold corpse lying on the ground is no longer able to hold his hand and petition in front of the Bodhisattva as before, it is impossible to decoct medicine with sweat when he is seriously ill, and the husband who is flesh and blood, and occasionally quarrels with him, can no longer stand up and say a word.
Mrs. Li knelt down beside Boss Li with a "plop", and the food in the bamboo basket was scattered on the ground. The woman helplessly grabbed the man's corpse, buried her head in the hem of his bloodstained clothes, and cried silently.
Xie Lingxu: "Mrs. Li, don't be too sad, you are still pregnant, and your emotions are too excited...... Bad for your child. ”
Mrs. Li raised her head and looked directly at the familiar and unfamiliar face of her husband in front of her: "Old Li...... Lao Li ......, you say, what kind of sin have we created! Why, God, why did you do this...... That's what ...... for us."
Mrs. Li stretched out her trembling hand and slowly closed the man's eyes that had not been closed, and a series of falling tears stuck to the broken hair on her cheeks, embarrassed.
Xiao Qixin let out a "hey" and turned his back with a complicated mood.
Xie Lingxu has never been comforting, and he lowered his head and looked at his toes, thinking about asking Mrs. Li to calm down and solve the case.
Mrs. Li wiped her face with her cuffs and staggered to her feet. The woman on the verge of despair didn't know where to get the strength, pulled out the sword of the guards of the Nine Governors Gate beside her, and said to her neck with her backhand: "Dead Lao Li, what's the point of you leaving me to live alone, I'll come to you now......"
"Stop her, stop her!" Xie Lingxu hurriedly stepped forward.
Between the lightning and flint, Mrs. Li's actions were unexpected, and everyone didn't have time to react, she had already clamped the blade of the sword around her neck.
Groove ...... Don't look for death, you still have children......
Mrs. Li was discouraged, holding her sword and killing herself, the sharp blade was only a millimeter away from her skin, but when she was about to make a move, her eyes went black, and she fell straight down, and her sword fell to the side.
Xie Lingxu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was okay that she couldn't hold it and fainted, otherwise she would have died twice.
"Xiao Qixin, let someone take her out, take care of her first, Mrs. Li is emotionally unstable, and it is estimated that she will not be able to get out for a while."
After Xiao Qixin gave the order, he turned around and punched the cell door: "What the hell is going on?" The murderer has mastered our movements? ”
"It seems that Boss Li may really know something, but now...... The trail is broken again. ”
Xiao Qixin exhaled, his brows tightened, and he could feel the anxiety on his body from a distance of one zhang.
Xie Lingxu straightened out his thoughts, and wanted to comfort Xiao Qixin a little, but he was blocked by the Jiudumen patrol who came in a hurry.
The patrol who came to open his mouth was the news that made Xiao Qixin want to hit the wall: "Report - just now in Dongshi, a male corpse was found."
"What!" Xiao Qixin turned his head and glanced at each other, hoping to see some information from the other party's eyes.
Xiao Qixin didn't understand the current situation at all, and asked Xie Lingxu, who seemed to be quite calm: "Is this murderer addicted to murder?" Fuck,
When we go to the scene, we don't believe we can't catch him!"
"Nope."
Xiao Qixin was taken aback, Xie Lingxu frowned and continued indifferently: "Just now this case was handed over to the Nine Governors."
Xiao Qixin couldn't help but make a broken sound: "Nine Governors? The case that we can't solve can still be solved by the group of rice buckets in the Nine Governors? ”
Xie Lingxu saw that the guards of the Nine Governors Gate around him had unkind faces, and he stroked the broken hair in front of his forehead and said:
"I mean, this case has nothing to do with the case we want to investigate, let the people of the Nine Governors Gate interrogate the people who came into contact with the deceased one after another, and treat the case as an ordinary small case, this little thing should not be difficult to handle."
"Unrelated? How can it be irrelevant? ”
Xie Lingxu just wanted to explain something, but he stopped talking and shrugged, "I...... Guess. ”
Seeing that Xiao Qixin wanted to say something, Xie Lingxu stopped him and said:
"By the way, where did you get the note from Sleeve Yilou?"
"Yes, here." Xiao Qixin took out a small notebook from his arms, took out the note he was holding, and raised his hand to hand it to Xie Lingxu.
"I can't see any clues after pondering this note for a long time, what are you going to do?"
Xie Lingxu held the paper in his hair and looked at it, leaned under his nose and sniffed:
"Don't you think it's a strange material?"
"It's very strange, this paper is the royal rice paper, I originally suspected that the murderer was from the palace, but this kind of paper, rich people should be able to get it, so I can't be sure."
"Well......" Xie Lingxu looked at the irregular handwriting and said, "Not only paper, but also ink." ”
Xiao Qixin raised his eyebrows, and listened to Xie Lingxu continue:
"This doesn't seem to be ordinary ink."
"What's that?"
Xie Lingxu put down the paper and slowly raised his head: "I think, we should ask someone." ”