"Qiyu Wen Zhifu, Qiqi Ye Zhi County, Jiang'an County and Tuzhi County died in Hongding Restaurant."

The leading officer quickly came up to report with a solemn face.

"What, Tuhong is dead?"

Wen Yuming looked at Ye Chengwei and a group of subordinates in surprise.

Ye Chengwei was also shocked in his heart.

First, Liu Cheng committed suicide in fear of crime, and now Tuhong suddenly died without trial, which is really incredible.

He vaguely realized that this was not simple.

If it is just one incident can be understood as a coincidence, but the continuous occurrence of such strange things cannot but make people suspicious.

Tuhong has done a lot of evil, and it is reasonable to commit suicide in fear of sin, but Liu Cheng's death has always haunted him.

I'm afraid that Liu Cheng's tenure is not just involved in a few things that persuade people to be martyred.

Ye Chengwei became more and more confused at this time:

Why are they so afraid of interrogation?

Or is it someone who doesn't want them to be interrogated?

Thinking of this, his eyes were erratic and he slowly looked at Wen Yuming, who was asking the servants in detail.

"Tu Hong's guy avoided it today, because he must have noticed that the government would interrogate the evidence of his crimes, and committed suicide in fear of the crime before the trial."

Wen Yuming took the first step to make a conclusion, and then looked at Ye Chengwei unhurriedly: "Ye Zhixian, you go to Hongding Restaurant with your own mansion to find out the cause of Tuhong's death." ”

Ye Chengwei nodded thoughtfully, and immediately stepped on the Qingcong horse to lead the way in front of the leader, and rushed to Hongding Restaurant.

Wen Yuming told Tang Haoran to stay in the county government to take prisoners into custody, and also brought some people from the state capital to sit in a sedan chair and followed.

It's just that his bulky physique tossed the sedan chair drivers enough, walking on the road like a turtle crawling, Ye Chengwei finally ran out of patience, and the whipping horse figure disappeared at the end of the street first.

After noon, Hongding Building, which should have been cleaned, was extremely lively at this time, and the crowd of onlookers was endless.

After receiving the message from Huiya, the officers of Gangneung City learned that there had been a murder in the restaurant, and immediately rushed to surround the main roads of the restaurant very tightly.

When Ye Chengwei arrived, the leading messenger led him upstairs and said in detail:

"I asked the shopkeeper and Xiao Er of the restaurant, they all said that Tuzhi County has come here since the restaurant opened, and a person ordered a table of wine and food and drank a long day of stuffy wine, and no one dared to come up to disturb, and then Xiao Er saw that it was too quiet inside, and came up to interrogate if he wanted to add food and wine, and found that Tuzhi County died in the wing."

"He hasn't seen anyone?"

Ye Chengwei looked at the errand officer suspiciously.

I probably remember that the group of officials in Jiang'an County said that Tuhong had something important to do and was delayed.

The messenger hesitated and said, "Listening to the tone of the shopkeeper and Xiao Er, Tuzhi County really wants to meet someone here, but they haven't seen anyone come from beginning to end. ”

"That's weird."

Ye Chengwei sneered.

As soon as I entered the wing room on the top floor, I saw a stiff male corpse lying on the Taishi chair, and there were coagulated blood stains from the corners of his mouth that spread to his neck.

"Autopsy."

Ye Chengwei calmly gave instructions to the servants who followed, and then sat on a small stool not far away and waited for the results, his eyes looked around from time to time, but he did not find any traces of doors and windows being opened.

He took the autopsy tools and meticulously examined the body while making a detailed report: "The deceased has no injuries on his body, and there are no traces of a fight in the house, so the possibility of fighting and murder is ruled out." ”

The scribe took careful notes.

"The samples taken from the corpse and the wine and food on the table were all silver-white in color, and they were not poisoned and murdered."

He put away the silver needles and examined all over the body, and finally came to a conclusion: "The neck is stiff and there is a blockage in the esophagus, which should be a sudden heart attack." ”

"Sudden heart attack?"

Ye Chengwei got up in disbelief, slowly circled back and forth around the corpse, and then fell his gaze to the table where the dishes were being arranged.

On the table, he inspected the leftovers one by one, picked up the unfinished flask and shook it to the base of his nose and sniffed it.

The smell of alcohol is somewhat pungent.

I picked up the wine glass in front of Tuhong and smelled it carefully, and a faint fragrance came to my nose.

He sneered faintly: "Obviously, the wine drunk in Tuzhi County is not a taste in the pot. ”

After thinking about it, he took another empty cup on the table and took a deep breath, and a complex taste suddenly swept into his taste buds, with the pungent smell of shochu but seemed to be mixed with a hidden fragrance.

"I'm afraid that someone has already been in this house."

Ye Chengwei muttered to himself: Otherwise, how could a person pour two glasses of drinking.

He immediately called Xiao Er and asked, "How many pots of wine have you served for Tuzhi County today?" ”

"Two pots."

Xiao Er replied without thinking: "At noon, the magistrate finished drinking a pot of wine, so he asked the little one to remove the empty pot and replace it with a new wine, and then ordered the little one not to come up and disturb it again." ”

Ye Chengwei held the empty glass and asked, "Is there a difference between the two pots of wine?" ”

"There's no difference."

Xiao Er's face was determined: "Tuzhi County loves the soju in our store the most in spring, so I only need this wine." ”

Ye Chengwei suddenly understood it, and handed over the cup of residual wine in front of Tuhong, Xiao Er sniffed it, and immediately shook his head: "The taste of this wine is so peculiar, not in this store." ”

Ye Cheng bowed his head, and handed him the empty cup in his hand, Xiao Er nodded hurriedly when he heard it: "This is the taste of spring snow." ”

"Good."

Ye Chengwei twisted his eyebrows and smiled.

Now it is safe to assume that someone had come to the chamber and brought in additional wine.

However, the post-mortem examination did not find any toxins in the body, and judging from the hidden smell in the empty cup, the person who entered also drank the wine he brought.

It can be seen that the wine is not unusual.

So the reason for Tuhong's death was not alcohol.

Thinking of this, he continued to look around in front of the table, his eyebrows flashing lightly, and he didn't dare to let go of any corner.

After looking at it for a long time, he suddenly found a fine particle at the bottom of the table under the empty cup before, picked it up and smelled it, and immediately smelled a faint fishy smell.

Comparing the dishes on the table, I found that there was nothing on the table.

He then instructed the officers to search the ground and again found several fine grains that tasted the same as them.

Ye Chengwei gathered these black fragments into one place, put them in a handkerchief and spread them in front of Xiao Er, and asked sharply, "What is it?" ”

Xiao Er repeatedly inspected and sniffed with his nose, and finally shook his head blankly.

Ye Chengwei had no choice but to turn his gaze to the errand officer in the house.

It is extremely difficult for the servants to even visit this kind of luxurious restaurant on weekdays, how can they smell the smell, and they all shook their heads in confusion.

Ye Chengwei had no choice but to look back at the corpse, and instructed him in a deep tone: "Bring the corpse back to the county government of Jiang'an County, open the autopsy, and find out this foreign body." ”

Thinking back to the Hua family's Nizi making a big fuss with dead corpses these times, and there is an unfathomable old beggar beside her, maybe this Nizi can give her an answer.

wrapped the handkerchief and hid it in his sleeve, and was about to take people away, but he saw Wen Yuming's big belly belated.

"How is it, Brother Ye, can you get something?"

Wen Yuming put his hand tightly on Master Mu Xian, and asked with a pant.

"The jury is out."

Ye Chengwei smiled coldly.

Inadvertently, apricot eyes flickered and looked at a willow leaf window propped up at the end of the corridor outside the wing.