What happened in the Criminal Department happened very suddenly.

When Wu Jinliang hurriedly drove back to the criminal department, no one dared to clean up the mess caused by poisoning.

There were people around the scene, and apart from the pools of black blood and the dirt of the food that had been knocked over, there were only a few corpses on the ground covered with white cloths and lying side by side on the ground.

The other less poisoned servants have all been carried away.

Wu Jinliang squatted on the ground and looked at the corpses that were bleeding from the seven orifices, their faces had changed color, and they were very terrifying, and they hurriedly covered them with white cloths, and their faces were extremely unsightly: "In addition to the five of them, how many other people have had an accident?" ”

Xu Dai, the servant of the Criminal Department, was on an errand in the yamen today, and he was in the yamen when the accident occurred, and he also knew the most about the poisoning.

Hearing Wu Jinliang ask, he hurriedly whispered back to the side: "The five of them were poisoned and died on the spot, and then two more died on the way to the hospital, and the remaining seven were also quite toxic and almost died, but fortunately, I met Imperial Doctor Ning outside the hospital, and he saved the person." ”

"Imperial Doctor Ning?" Wu Jinliang was surprised, "Such a coincidence." ”

"It's not just a coincidence, Imperial Doctor Ning took the medicine boy to look for a medicinal herb in the city Chinese medicine hall today, and it happened to bump into him, and he had to take action, otherwise the lives of those seven people would not be saved." Xu Dai was afraid when he said it.

The Criminal Department called people in broad daylight and poisoned them, and so many people died at once, even if there was another culprit, they couldn't escape a single charge of dereliction of duty.

Although we still have to be responsible for it now, there are a few fewer deaths.

That's human life after all, who can do indifference.

Wu Jinliang stood up while intervening with the handkerchief: "What about Peng's son?" ”

"I've been frightened, I've already arranged to go elsewhere first, and I can't let people guard it, but my lord ......" Xu Dai hesitated a little when he spoke, "I'm afraid this matter involves the Chengguo Mansion, what should we do next, do you want to go to the Chengguo Mansion to bring someone back for questioning?" ”

"Do you dare to go to the Zheng family to get someone?"

Xu Dai was speechless.

Wu Jinliang said: "The Zheng family is not an ordinary portal, don't rush to break through before the matter is clarified." ”

Those who want to take the Guogong Mansion have to ask for a decree, otherwise unless he goes in person, otherwise those errands will go in vain, I am afraid that they will not even be able to enter the gate of the Chengguo Mansion, Wu Jinliang said: "Don't be in a hurry to manage the Chengguo Mansion first, what about the person you caught who poisoned it?" ”

"I'm already in prison."

"I'll go see him first, you arrange for an autopsy and poison test, and let people check the identity of the person who died after hitting the pillar."

Wu Jinliang went to the prison without stopping and saw the person who poisoned him.

That person's name is Ma Cheng, he is the soap of the Criminal Department, and he was originally responsible for the matter of flogging and cane punishment, and he took the initiative to ask Ying for help when Minzhuang injured his legs and feet today.

Ma Cheng is a clever and popular person on weekdays, and he has never had any problems before, and no one expected him to poison his food.

The torture and detention places in the prison of the Criminal Department were separated, and Ma Cheng had already been interrogated for a round after he was arrested, and at this time, the other person was covered in blood, and when his hands and feet were tied, he hung his head as if he had passed out.

Seeing Wu Jinliang coming, the people inside hurriedly saluted: "My lord." ”

Wu Jinliang glanced in through the iron door window before asking, "How is it, have you recruited?" ”

The torturer shook his head: "It's still the same set of arguments, saying that they collected the money from the Chengguo Mansion to kill Peng's son for them, and also said that the poison was originally given to Peng's son, but it turned out that those brothers were mistakenly ...... ingested by mistake."

Wu Jinliang sneered when he heard this: "More than a dozen were poisoned, several were killed on the spot, and the poison in the rest of the meal was afraid that many people could be poisoned, he killed Peng's son, did he think that the child was invincible or something, for fear that he would not die, so he took a bunch of poison just to poison that little doll?" ”

The dose that poisons one person can't poison so many people even if they misplace the meal.

The errand officer also said: "The subordinates also think so, this person is clearly talking nonsense, Lord Xu has already come to interrogate it before, but this Ma Cheng bit Cheng to death Cheng Guogong and did not let go, and all the punishments that could be used were used, all of which were useless." ”

Wu Jinliang's eyebrows furrowed: "What about the confession." ”

"Go down and get it."

The man opened the door and went in, and after coming out a moment, he took out Ma Cheng's confession just now.

Wu Jinliang lowered his head and looked at the confession in his hand, and pointed directly at the Chengguo Mansion, but there was no useful sentence, he pinched the paper and said: "Continue to interrogate and see if you can pry something useful out of his mouth, but people can't be killed, they have to keep his life......"

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!!"

Before Wu Jinliang finished speaking, someone outside hurriedly barged in.

"Why are you so reckless?"

"Nishiki ...... Jin Linwei is here......"

Wu Jinliang's face changed.

The man gasped and said anxiously: "The people brought by Lord Feng himself are now outside, Lord Xu asked me to tell you to go out quickly, saying that Jin Linwei's people want to take away Peng's son and all the people involved in the criminal department today......"

Jin Linwei's people acted like bandits, they didn't care about any etiquette when they broke into the Criminal Department, and they just opened their mouths to take people away, that Feng Yuan had been standing quietly aside, but with the dogs beside him talking, Xu Dai and the rest of the Criminal Department didn't dare to stop them at all, and they couldn't stop Jin Linwei who was like a mad dog.

Wu Jinliang didn't expect that before today's matter was found out, Jin Linwei came to the door, and he thought about why Feng Yuan was involved in this matter, but he said to people on his face: "A few of you, pick up Ma Cheng, I'll go to the front first." ”

The prison of the Criminal Department was in the southwest corner of the yamen, and when Wu Jinliang led the people to hurry over, he saw Feng Yuan leading the people standing in front of the hall from a distance.

The crimson flying fish python pattern suit, on the top of the black background and gold pattern beam crown, the red tassel hairpin is tied under the chin.

Unlike ordinary eunuchs with a feminine face or improper posture, Feng Yuan stood at that time with a straight back, and the outline under the long eyebrows and starry eyes was deep, revealing an awe-inspiring look, at first glance he was a person in a high position.

"Lord Feng." Wu Jinliang adjusted his mood before stepping forward quickly.

When Feng Yuan turned around, he showed a shallow smile when he saw Wu Jinliang, and when the lines at the corners of his eyes wrinkled, he looked very easy-going: "Wu Shangshu." ”

Xu Dai breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Wu Jinliang, and hurriedly took half a step back and took the initiative to stand behind Wu Jinliang.

Wu Jinliang then spoke: "I don't know what is the important matter for Lord Feng to come over suddenly?" ”

Feng Yuan said softly: "Your Majesty was very angry when he heard that there was a mess in the Criminal Department, and ordered me to bring someone over to take a look. ”

Even if Wu Jinliang knew that Feng Yuan was here for poisoning, his eyelids jumped when he heard him say that the palace already knew about it.

He hurriedly took out the confession he had just brought out:

"Lord Feng is really just right to come, I just think this matter is tricky, the person caught it, and the people in the yamen have already tried it, but I always feel that something is wrong."