"What did you say?" Li Shen suddenly stood up and said,
"Your Majesty, news just came out from the government prison. Li Dabian hanged himself in the jail out of fear of guilt. Governor Xi asked me to inform the prince to go check it out."
"Let's go and take a look." Li Shen said to Wang Xuance and took the lead to walk out.
Wang Xuance followed closely behind.
On the way, Li Shen suddenly thought of a question and asked:
"Xuance, why do I, Aye, have a letter from my eldest brother in my secret letter?"
Wang Xuance smiled slightly.
"Your Majesty, I went to Luoyang to see His Majesty on the orders of the Crown Prince. Your Majesty heard that His Highness the Crown Prince wrote a letter to you, and wanted to see how the Crown Prince dealt with it.
So I opened the letter from the prince.
Your Majesty is very satisfied with the prince's attitude. He is not indecisive or hesitant, but there is one thing.
His Majesty said that the prince did not consider everything comprehensively. Your prince has no official position. Even if a prince privately mobilizes the army, it is a taboo.
Even if the prince takes responsibility for the incident afterwards, it will leave people with excuses and become a basis for attack.
That's why His Majesty wrote the last imperial edict. "
After Wang Xuance finished speaking, Li Shen suddenly realized.
"Oh, that's it. I, Aye, peeked into my son's letters. It's so immoral."
Li Shen said disdainfully.
Wang Xuance instantly turned his face to the side and stopped looking at Li Shen, pretending not to hear.
This little prince of my own family really dares to say anything. If others find out about this, they won't be able to impeach him.
The two arrived at the Governor's Mansion soon. Xi Bian was waiting at the door. When he saw Li Shen coming, he hurried forward to salute.
"See, Your Majesty, this subordinate has neglected his duty and failed to take good care of the criminal, causing the sinner to get into trouble. Please punish me, Your Majesty."
"President Xi, let's go check out the situation first." Li Shen didn't say anything more, just looked cold and said,
Xi Bian took Li Shen to the government prison. At this time, Li Dabian had not been put down. It seemed that Xi Bian was preparing to let Li Shen take a look.
To prevent Li Shen from saying that he had done something wrong.
This was not the first time that Li Shen had come into contact with a dead person. Although he still felt a little nervous, he could still manage to look at it.
When Li Shen walked into the cell, he saw Li Dabian's body hanging on the beam. He used his own belt to hang himself.
At this time, Li Dabian was naked and incontinent.
Li Shen and Wang Xuance stepped forward to check, and then asked the police to release Li Dabian.
"President Xi, I wonder when Li Dabian hanged himself?" Li Shen turned around and asked again.
"Back to your lord, I just asked the jailers. They said that Li Dabian was fine when they checked last night. When they came here this morning, they found that Li Dabian had hanged himself.
The lower official immediately sent someone to inform the prince. "
Xi Bian quickly replied.
"What's the conclusion?" Li Shen asked again about the official's work.
Wu Zuo raised his head and said to Li Shen:
"Back to the prince, there are no wounds on his body and his clothes are neat. There are no signs of fighting. The villain concludes that he hanged himself."
"Can you tell the time of death?" Li Shen asked again.
"The villain thinks he died early this morning." Wu Zuo replied again.
Li Shen nodded, he didn't know much about these.
Moreover, the credibility of the government office's actions is not high.
Li Shen squatted down and carefully inspected Li Dabian's whole body with Wang Xuance.
"Rengui moves his joints."
Li Shen said to Xue Rengui beside him,
Xue Rengui stepped forward and moved the arms and legs of Li Dabian's corpse.
"How's it going? Is it laborious?"
"Back to my lord, it's not too strenuous, just a little stiff." Xue Rengui replied.
"Yeah," Li Shen nodded, then stood up.
"Don't destroy the body. I will come back to see you later." After saying this, Li Shen walked out of the prison first.
"Your Highness Prince Ji, did Prince Ji see something?" Xi Bian hurriedly chased after him.
"What? I didn't see anything?" Li Shen was stunned and looked at Xi Bian in surprise.
"Does Governor Xi think Li Dabian's death is suspicious?"
"No, no, it's just that the official just saw the prince's actions and wanted to leave the body again. The official thought that His Highness Prince Ji saw something wrong." Xi Bian quickly waved his hand.
"Oh, I have never seen a corpse so close before, so I am curious and look carefully.
As for keeping the corpses, I have a medical school and they are in great need of corpses for research, so I plan to have them transported back some time later.
Anyway, the weather hasn't warmed up yet, and there's no need to worry about the corpses rotting. Li Shen said seriously.
Hearing Li Shen's words, Xi Bian nodded, but in his heart he was quite impressed by Prince Ji's love.
He is truly the God of Wealth, taking advantage of everything, yet he has to transport a corpse all the way back to Chang'an.
"Since nothing happens, I will go back. Although Li Dabian is dead, his case still needs to be closed.
The confiscated family property must also be confiscated and returned to the court. These days, I have also included some illegal records of Li Dabian.
There is a huge amount of money in it. Governor Xi can give me a share of the confiscated property, and I will count it in pairs. "
After speaking, Li Shen took Wang Xuance and others away.
Xi Bian looked at Li Shen's retreating back and breathed a sigh of relief, with the corners of his mouth raised and a smile on his face.
"Bang~~~"
"It's really unreasonable. How dare you be so arrogant and kill people and silence them? It's so shameful that I didn't expect that he would do something like this.
This king is really confused. "
When Li Shen returned to his residence, he got angry and threw a teacup.
Cursing himself secretly for his lack of experience, he didn't expect that Li Dabian would die.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. This matter cannot be blamed on Your Majesty. No one would have thought that Li Dabian would hang himself."
Wang Xuance quickly stepped forward to persuade.
"Hanged himself?" Li Shen became even more angry when he heard that he had hanged himself.
"Does the prince think that Li Dabian did not hang himself?" Wang Xuance asked,
Although he was brave and resourceful, he didn't understand the matter of surveying.
"I think Li Dabian's death is suspicious," said Xue Rengui on the side.
"Tell me about it." Li Shen sat down, and Chunxiang quickly went to get another teacup to make tea for Li Shen.
"Li Dabian must not have died early in the morning. Although I don't know anything else, I still know something about the rigor mortis of the corpse.
Because I have delivered corpses to Divine Doctor Sun several times before.
Rigor mortis usually begins within an hour or so.
If it was early in the morning, it would have been more than three hours now, and it should be much stiffer than it is now. "
Li Shen nodded. It turned out that Xue Rengui knew the reason from Sun Simiao.
"Ren Gui is right. After death, people usually start to become stiff one to two hours later. This is also related to the weather. It's only the end of February now.
The body should have become stiff earlier. The degree of stiffness that Li Dabian saw just now would never exceed two hours.
So Li Dabian died not long ago. "
