Chapter 341 Fish Ball Soup (6)

Wu Bucai glanced at the jailers who were working, sighed, and said: "They are all colleagues. If it is really found out that one of his own has been bribed..."

At this point, he stopped. Wu Bucai just shook his head and did not continue.

"I'll just wait for the bad guy." Liu Yuantong and Bai Zhu didn't care about this. They just frowned for a moment, as if they had remembered something again, and turned around and entered the cell to look for the jailer.

Not long after, the list of people who came to visit the prison was placed in front of the two people: the suspects in the case they were currently investigating were not only detained in Dali Temple. Those who have been sentenced by the Yamen; those who have been suspected of serious crimes for many years but have insufficient evidence for certain matters and have not confessed are still detained in the Dali Temple prison. Not all suspects are not allowed to visit. It has been getting colder every day these days. The Qintian Supervisor has detected that it will snow today two days ago, and it is afraid that it will get colder again. Therefore, there were four or five groups of people who came to visit the prison and bring thick winter coats to some prisoners.

The situations of these four or five groups of people are different.

"There are suspects in unfinished cases who still refuse to reveal the truth. Well, maybe they are also living witnesses," the jailer said, raising his finger to the name on the roster and said, "This person named Jiao is a few years ago." The important suspect in the official buying case years ago, although his official position was not small at that time, if he wanted to accomplish this matter, he might not be able to do it with his official position..."

Speaking of this case, although Bai Zhutong and Liu Yuan had not yet entered the Dali Temple at that time, after entering the Dali Temple, they were "familiar" with the prisoners who had been detained in the prison for many years. They had some impressions of this Jiao Zhongren: This He looked very gentle on his face. Although he was wearing a prison uniform, he was always neatly groomed and his handwriting was excellent. Of course, these... are not surprising at all when it comes to Jiao Zhongren.

"After all, Mr. Jiao's talent was well-known among the scholars back then. However, he was once involved in the case of selling an official position. His reputation was tarnished and he was imprisoned. It also caused quite a stir back then," Bai Zhu said At this point, after a brief pause, his face suddenly became strange, "Speaking of which, the sensation caused by Jiao Zhongren's imprisonment is probably only comparable to the sensation caused by Wen Xuance's imprisonment, but this Jiao Zhongren incident The one who was shaken out was Wen Xuance who stabbed him..."

Unexpectedly, Jiao Zhongren's case was not settled, and Wen Xuance himself went to prison first, and then only Master Wen and Wen Xiutang, who had been ransomed by someone unknown, were left in the house.

I don't know why, but when it comes to this matter, it's always a bit ridiculous, but... in the past, it was not surprising at all that it became an unsolved case.

Looking around and seeing no one, Liu Yuan whispered: "The late emperor... uh, those 'cultivation people' who pretended to be gods and ghosts did not do enough to sell their official positions back then? It was just through the late emperor's mouth." , it just became a clear path.”

"Keep your voice down," Bai Zhu glanced at him, then looked around, and said, "Be careful what you say!"

Liu Yuan nodded in understanding: He understands, just speak in a lower voice and be careful!

"That's why Jiao Zhongren is strange! Someone who is talented in poetry and is used to writing poems about gods and gods really wants to sell his official position. Isn't it just the stupid way of the late emperor? Why bother to do it himself?" Liu Yuan said , "Lin Shaoqing also said that this case is very strange. Jiao Zhongren's reputation has been ruined, and there must be someone behind it."

However, following the "sudden" deaths of several witnesses and the fire in the warehouse, this case has been lingering in Dali Temple for a long time. After that, Wen Xuance's incident became even bigger, and it overshadowed Jiao Zhongren's incident.

"I remember that Jiao Zhongren's wife was also quite talented. After this incident, she became angry and suffered from heart disease. She passed away not long after, and her unborn child, Jiao Zhongren, was also with her. Because of this, his clansmen also felt that he was unworthy of their family and cut ties with him. Yet someone still came to give him a mattress?" Liu Yuan said, looking at the names and fingerprints left by the visitors on the booklet, " Jiao Da?"

"Jiao Zhongren's old servant." Bai Zhu said, taking up his pen and circling his name, and said, "I will look into this matter later. Compared to Jiao Zhongren, I have only been in contact with this person for a short time."

The name left on the roster was clearly that of one of the murderers in the previous Beauty Lantern case - Jiang Chengzu. He used his ancestral lantern shop, Thousand Lamp Shop, as a cover, secretly prayed for some young women to be buried, and harmed people by "opening an altar" under the guise of a god.

"Didn't Mr. Zhao take over this case? I've seen the rich and powerful sons who committed the crime were beheaded and had their homes confiscated. Why..." When Bai Zhu said this, he couldn't help but look surprised, "He Still in jail? Wasn't he sent away the first day? When was he sent back?"

Liu Yuanzi could not answer these questions, but the jailer who was called to ask questions could.

"The man surnamed Jiang was indeed sent away that day, but he was sent back that night. Mr. Zhao personally led someone to bring him in, saying that his body might be related to other cases," the jailer said. The cell inside is locked, and the person who came over was an old servant sent out by his Jiang family earlier, who brought beds and bedding, and we have carefully checked them, and there is nothing in them."

These words sounded to Liu Yuantong and Bai Zhu's ears as if they had not been spoken.

"What if some colorless and odorless poison is applied on it?" Liu Yuan said, "Can you test it?"

When the jailer heard this, he looked embarrassed: "I don't know... I don't know! Liu Sicheng reminded me that in the future, things like this..."

"It has nothing to do with you. It's just that the old doctor from Tai Hospital is here. Why don't you sniff every inch of the mattress and test it with silver needles and potions?" Bai Zhu shook his head and asked the jailer, bringing up the key point. "When Mr. Zhao sent Jiang Chengzu back, did he tell him that this person was of great importance and that no one could visit him at will?"

When the jailer heard this, he immediately shook his head. Then he seemed to be afraid that the two of them would not believe it. He waved his hands and said, "No. Because Jiang Chengzu was one of the major criminals in the beauty lamp case, we were afraid that something might have happened, so we asked specifically. Master Zhao, do you want to prevent others from visiting the prison? Master Zhao said it was okay, he said that Jiang Chengzu was just an accomplice who obeyed orders, just let him be, and he hurried away!"

Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu's eyebrows tightened when they heard these words. When the jailer finished speaking and waved away the jailer, Liu Yuan couldn't wait to speak: "Bai Zhu, this is wrong, Zhao Sir, he..."

Before he could finish his words, Bai Zhu nodded and said, "Master Zhao's reaction is indeed wrong. Criminals like Jiang Chengzu were not allowed to visit the prison even in the Beauty Lantern case, let alone now."

Putting people here in such a grand manner... Liu Yuan rubbed his chin and said, "I don't know what kind of medicine Mr. Zhao is selling in his gourd."

"Master Zhao, if there is medicine in the gourd, that would be a good thing. It means that you have other ideas." Bai Zhu thought about it for a moment, but then shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not the medicine in the gourd, but someone behind it."

Liu Yuan was startled when he heard this and quickly pushed him and said: "Keep your voice down and be careful what you say!"

Bai Zhu said "hmm", lowered his voice, and whispered cautiously: "He brought people back inexplicably, and what Jiang Chengzu did was the first thing to do. This kind of emperor before... Well, after all, he has been in power for decades. , I’m afraid that His Majesty’s purge of the palace and Lin Shaoqing’s thunderous tactics have not been cleaned up yet!”