Chapter 337: Asking for help

Although the physician can only temporarily suppress Howard's poison and cannot eradicate it, he is confident that he will cure John's illness.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with John, Leach explained the general situation to Lena and the girls, and then returned to the barracks again.

Unsurprisingly, Howard was poisoned in his wine, because after some questioning, Leach learned that Howard had not eaten or drunk anything other than alcohol all day long.

And all the people who handled the jar of wine that Howard drank that day are now all in prison, but the reason has not yet been clarified.

"Are the same people you locked up with the same people who usually bring drinks to Howard?"

"It's the same. "When it comes to the lives of his good brothers, the herald naturally knows everything.

"Well......" Leach thought for a moment, "I wonder if I can ask them a few questions?"

"Of course, you can wait a minute, I'll go pick up someone!" As soon as the words fell, the herald turned and ran out.

In a few moments, three prisoners in prison uniforms were brought to Leach.

"My lord, I'm wronged, the little one really didn't harm the commander!" As soon as they met, the richest of the three shouted injustice.

"Are you?" Leach naturally couldn't know the identities of the three people, but seeing that the person in front of him was obviously not tortured to extract a confession, but instead snorted and cried, and he didn't know how much he had suffered, and suddenly became a little curious.

"The little one is the owner of the winery, you must be aware of it, it's really none of my business! The little one is just a businessman who does his duty, how can he do that kind of thing that murders the lives of others, not to mention that he is still the commander of the town, and he doesn't dare to borrow a thousand or ten thousand dares!"

Seeing that Leach was obviously very talkative, the prisoner, who claimed to be the owner of the winery, hurriedly told his grievances, and finally tried to crawl over and hug Leach's thigh, but was stopped by the soldiers who were guarding him.

Leach is also well-informed, but it is really the first time to see such a shameless person, and I can't help but feel very speechless.

As for the remaining two prisoners, under questioning, Leach also knew that one of them was a guy from the winery, who was responsible for drinking, serving wine, and delivering wine to the barracks, and the other was the cook of the barracks, who specially brought food and drink to Howard.

Other factors aside, Howard's poisoning is indeed the most suspicious of the three people, and it is no wonder that they will be arrested and interrogated after the incident.

Leach would call these three people, not because he thought the murderer was among the three of them, but just to ask if there was anything special that happened in the process of the wine from the winery to Howard that day, and that's all.

Whether it was the process of making wine in the winery or what happened after it was sent to the barracks, it was no different from usual, but it was only from the mouth of the winery guy that Leach finally heard something different.

According to the man, that day he got the news that he was going to send wine to the barracks again, and when he specially sent wine to the commander, he ran into a particularly annoying drunk.

After all, it was a fine wine for high-ranking officials, so naturally it couldn't be an ordinary product, but when he was moving the wine jar to the truck, a drunk man suddenly stumbled over and said that the wine was so fragrant that he had all the bags.

Of course, it is impossible for the man to sell the wine that he wants to give to the Lord Commander to others, but if he says whatever he wants, the drunk will not listen, and in the end he will even go straight to grab it.

The man was caught off guard and was successfully snatched away by the man who had placed a jar of wine on the outermost side, but fortunately, the man reacted in time and snatched the wine back before the man could move his mouth, and then the drunk man may have been more sober, and left with a curse.

"Do you remember what the drunk man looked like?" asked Leach again.

"I'm really sorry, my lord, the drunk man didn't know where to rub his face all over the gray at the time, plus he was full of alcohol, and the little one didn't look closely at all, so he looked like this...... Small...... The little ones don't remember, please don't blame the little ones!"

After saying that, the guy thought that he had made a big mistake by failing to remember the drunk's appearance, and he didn't even dare to raise his head when he lay on the ground.

Leach was still quite disappointed that he didn't get the information he wanted, but when he saw the guy's trembling look, he didn't say anything, but said gently: "It's nothing, you don't have to be afraid, I don't mean to blame you." ”

After saying that, Leach turned his head to Howard's herald again: "I'm done, if you don't have anything else, I suggest you let the three of them go, it's unlikely that the murderers are the three of them." If it were them, they would have been poisoned a long time ago, so why wait until today?"

However, the fact that it is unlikely does not mean that there is no suspicion at all. The herald glanced at the three prisoners kneeling on the ground, "It's true that they've been preparing drinks for Howard for more than a day or two, but maybe they're doing something bad on the fly?"

"There's some truth to what you're saying. Leach's words made the eyes of the three prisoners who had just raised a glimmer of hope turn into ashes, but then the conversation changed, "If it weren't for the drunkard that the guy bumped into, I still think the three of them are the most suspicious, but now, it is the drunkard who is the most suspicious." Besides, the three of them don't usually have anything to do with Howard, so why do they have to kill him, and if they put themselves in the suspect?"

Seeing that the herald was a little moved, but he didn't make a decision for a long time, Leach thought for a while and added: "If you still feel uneasy, you can continue to send someone to monitor the three of them, but it's better to keep them detained, after all, it's not them who are the most suspicious now." ”

"Okay!"

After seeing off the three grateful Dade, Leach turned his attention back to Howard's condition. The matter of arresting the murderer can be put aside for the time being, but the rescue of Howard is urgent.

After giving Howard a pill brought back from the prairie that was said to ease the spread of any toxin, Leach had time to take a closer look at the symptoms that followed his poisoning.

Judging from the appearance alone, Howard's symptoms were no different from ordinary poisoning, his face was blue and his breathing was weak, but in his chest, there was a small purple-black sarcoma the size of a peanut.

According to the herald, this sarcoma has not always existed, and the sarcoma is gradually getting larger over time, and it is precisely because of the appearance of this sarcoma that everyone is not sure what kind of poison Howard has.

The same goes for Leach.

After much consideration, Leach decided to go back to Ambrera and ask Wright, and by the way, ask him for help in finding out the origin of the button found in the mountain village.