The jailer didn't speak to him. He just scooped a bowl of rotten rice porridge from the bucket to him.
Then the jailer only gave the other party two more steamed buns.
The bandit leader still just stared at the other person. It wasn't until the other person handed everything to him in an ordinary manner that a look of despair appeared in the man's eyes.
He grabbed the door rod as if to demonstrate to the jailer.
At the same time, the shackles in his hands began to jingle.
However, the jailer ignored him. However, the jailer outside couldn't help but yelled inside, "What are you making a fuss about? Please be quiet! Are you looking for a slap?"
The man ignored the jailers, but looking at the other party's appearance, the man finally showed a look of despair in his eyes.
And the jailer did not stop here. He just continued to move forward and continued his act of giving porridge. This scene looked so strange and so harmonious.
The bandit leader kept looking at the jailer until he completely disappeared from his sight, then he looked back at the bowl of rice porridge and the two steamed buns in his hands.
Then he seemed to have made a lot of determination. In the evening, after the other prisoners had finished their dinner for the day, he began to slowly eat porridge and steamed buns again.
The steamed bun given to him was actually in good quality, but there was only despair on his face. When eating the steamed bun, he felt as if he was taking chronic poison.
After he finished the porridge with one mouthful of steamed buns, almost all the prisoners in the prison next to him fell asleep.
The man looked at the people next to him, then slowly dragged his broken leg back into the darkness.
In that darkness, no one could see everything about him.
Therefore, when the expression on his face began to distort in pain, no one noticed that something was wrong with him.
Even when he began to convulse, no one noticed that his reaction was abnormal.
He struggled silently in the darkness for a long time, and finally everything became silent and calm again.
When Zhao Yanzhen and the others remembered to torture him, they did not get the news they wanted. Instead, the other party seemed to have slept in the prison for a long time.
Zhao Yanzhen motioned to the people around him to check the other person's breath, but that person's breath was clearly cold.
Yan Ziqing, who was beside him, could not help but approach Zhao Yanzhen and whispered, "Your Highness, this man is hopeless. It looks like he has been dead for a while."
Zhao Yanzhen asked in surprise, "How could this happen?"
Yan Ziqing did not answer Zhao Yanzhen's question. He just continued to detect the other party's situation. After some observation, he came to the most basic answer.
"Your Highness, if I am not mistaken, he should have died of hoarfrost poisoning." Yan Ziqing whispered.
Hearing this, Zhao Yanzhen's eyebrows suddenly turned sharp. He slowly approached the man, and then suddenly said to Yan Ziqing, "That is to say, someone was afraid that he would say something that he shouldn't say, so he killed him." Silence?"
Hearing Zhao Yanzhen's words, Yan Ziqing nodded cooperatively, "I think that should be the case."
"In that case, go and invite the master over quickly." Zhao Yanzhen ordered.
Yan Ziqing only said yes after receiving the order, and then he left immediately.
And this movement only woke up the nearby prisoners.
After they discovered that the other party had fainted, they all lay on the railing and observed each other.
When Zhao Yanzhen saw that they were observing each other, he couldn't help but move closer to them.
"Did anything unusual happen to this man in prison just now?"
Facing Zhao Yanzhen's questions, although this group of people did not know the origin of the other party, they were still afraid, so they just shook their heads honestly.
"Then do you know when he didn't move?" Zhao Yanzhen continued to ask without giving up.
But this time Zhao Yanzhen no longer
It was a stiff question, and he just took out a stick of meat from his purse.
Seeing the meat strips, the group of people's eyes immediately lit up. You must know that it is not easy to have a normal meal in this prison. This meat strip may be more circulated than gold and silver.
So these people immediately became active, racking their brains just to recall some scattered things,
"Sir, we have no idea when this person got into trouble."
"Yes, this kid hasn't spoken to us since he was imprisoned here. But before his men went to execution, he always told them that someone would come to save him."
"Sir, this kid hides in this corner most of the time. We really don't know what he is doing. And it's strange that something happened to him. No one here has done anything to him."
"But didn't he drink steamed buns and eat porridge today?"
"We also ate, why is everything okay?" Another person immediately retorted.
However, after hearing this, Zhao Yanzhen felt that he had caught something key, so he only gave the meat strips to the person who just provided the information that he had eaten steamed buns and porridge today.
After giving the meat strips, he was just going to check the other party's porridge bowl and steamed buns.
However, when he came closer, he could see that although the porridge bowl was placed flat in the same place, the bowl had been licked very clean. As for the steamed bun, he could not find it at all. Presumably, he was also eaten clean by that person.
There were scattered straws everywhere, and he couldn't find any food residues, so he only tested the small bowl with a silver needle.
However, after briefly testing the porridge bowl with the small bowl, the silver needle did not turn black, which meant that there might not be any poison in the porridge.
When Zhao Yanzhen finished testing the porridge bowl, Yan Ziqing finally came over with a widower and several government officials.
Now people formed a circle, and Wu Zuo immediately started to have people carry the body out. After that, they stopped in a small mud house. They only placed the body of the bandit leader on a table, and then they I couldn't wait to leave immediately. ap.
You must know that this scene of disembowelment is not something ordinary people can bear.
Everyone followed outside the house and stopped moving forward, and the man began to examine the body.
Soon after, even County Magistrate Guo and Luo Jingshan came over at the same time.
They only waited for a while before the murderer appeared outside the house with a faint smell of blood. He then only handed the autopsy report to Zhao Yanzhen.
The autopsy report only clearly stated that the body died an hour ago, and the cause of death was consistent with what Yan Ziqing said, which was due to hoarfrost poisoning. And the white frost seems to exist on the steamed buns.
With these speculations in mind, they immediately went to find the government servant who had delivered the meal today.
However, the government officials who were looking for the person only searched for a long time but could not find the government servant who delivered the meals. In their hurry, they only found the clothes of the government servant who delivered the meals.
After that, Zhao Yanzhen could only continue to arrange for others to search for the man elsewhere. After a large-scale search, they only found the man on a mountain not far away. The man was only wearing a middle coat when he was brought over, and his whole body was Everyone is in a state of confusion.
When he saw Guo Shizhang, he didn't even know what Guo Shizhang was looking for, so he was even more dumbfounded. He just recalled everything about him immediately, and then he just felt that Guo Shizhang must be He thought that he didn't go to work, so he held on to him, so he immediately explained, "Sir, I didn't neglect my duty. I went to deliver food today, but I was walking halfway. I was knocked unconscious suddenly, and when the villain wakes up, we will be like this."
The person who was looking for him also immediately confirmed that what he said was true, "Sir, we found him under the persimmon tree outside the kitchen. At that time, he fainted outside the persimmon tree. It looked like he had been beaten. He was thrown in that place after fainting."
After receiving confirmation from his colleagues, that person naturally stopped causing trouble for him.
Guo Shizhang followed
He immediately said to Zhao Yanzhen, "Your Highness, this person probably replaced the food delivery clerk and went in to deliver the food! What do you think we should do now?"
Zhao Yanzhen ignored Guo Shizhang's words. He walked directly to the yamen deliveryman and asked, "You said you were knocked unconscious, but did you see clearly what the person who knocked you unconscious looked like?"
Facing Zhao Yanzhen's inquiry, the man just shook his head innocently, "Sir, I didn't see him clearly at all. I was walking on the road when someone suddenly attacked me from behind. If I had seen him clearly, I wouldn't have It’s such a big loss.”
Zhao Yanzhen saw that he couldn't get anything out of him, so he just motioned for the man to go back.
Then he asked the jailers guarding inside and outside the prison, but none of them could explain the other person's appearance.
After all, most of them have not carefully looked at each other's appearance, and if they had carefully observed each other, they would not let the other party succeed so easily.
The only thing that could be said at the moment was that the other party's appearance was very similar to that of the jailer who delivered the meal.
However, the jailer who delivered the meal clearly proved that he did not deliver the meal today.
Therefore, the current clues were completely cut off, and all Zhao Yanzhen could only confirm at the moment was that the bandit leader died in the hands of the food jailer. The food jailer was replaced by someone, and the person who replaced him was the real murderer. As for who the murderer is, it is still a mystery here, but one thing is certain, the bandit leader knows their secrets, and the bandit leader may be in the same gang as them. They are afraid that the bandit leader will reveal something they shouldn't. He said so, so he killed the bandit leader.
Since they are afraid of the bandit leader speaking out, it means that they are not the upright and evil-doing members of the gang. They are probably just the invisible part of the group that provides information to the bandit leader.
And this kind of people are generally so-called white people.
