Bai Jinqing and others were not taken to the execution room for questioning like other suspects involved in the case. Instead, they sat in the tea room with Shao Xi and Long Chitai, drinking tea and talking. It didn't look like an interrogation, but more like an interrogation. Several people sat together and chatted.
After hearing Shao Xi's question, Bai Jinqing frowned and carefully recalled what happened in Junxiao Tower the night before.
"It was normal at first. The four of us were drinking and chatting in the private room we went to last time. In the middle of the process, I heard someone making loud noises in the private room next door, so I called the waiter and asked him to remind the waiter. The guest at the table spoke softer, but I didn't want to hear the guest speak louder. Moreover, the words he spoke were all insults and taunts to the scholars of our court. I couldn't listen anymore, and I couldn't help but feel angry. He went to the Yajian next door to argue with him. At that time, he did not know that this person was an envoy from the Baiye Kingdom, but he only knew that he was a foreigner from the Western Regions. During the dispute, the other party pushed Yuan Xiu. Naturally, Shao Guang refused to suffer and pushed the man as well. He pushed the other person to the ground, but he didn’t want to use too much force, but the person was helped up by the people at the same table and didn’t notice anything unusual.”
After listening to Bai Jinqing's summary of what happened, Shao Xi asked casually, "When Shao Guang pushed the man down, could you see what the man hit? For example, tables, chairs, wall pillars..."
While Bai Jinqing was hesitating, Han Shaoguang answered categorically from the side: "I only hit one of the chairs and nothing else. Because I pushed the person, I can see it most clearly."
"How many people are there at their table? Do you think they are all from the Western Regions?"
Zheng Yuanxiu rushed to say: "Including the envoy, there are three people in total. One of the other two looks like he is his entourage, and the other looks like he is his friend. All three of them are from the Western Regions. That friend of his He looks like he's rich by the way he's dressed."
"What did he say at that time that made you so angry that you wanted to go and argue with him?"
Hearing Shao Xi's question, Hu Yushan said angrily: "He actually said that we Central Plains people read too many books, read too many books, have many bad thoughts, and have many petty thoughts, and scheming all day long. They plot against each other and like to fight within themselves. They are not as open-minded, united, and aboveboard as the people from the Western Regions. Sooner or later, our country in the Central Plains will fall apart due to internal strife, and sooner or later the people in the Central Plains will become slaves of the people from the Western Regions."
Shao Xi asked with a look of disbelief: "Just because of this, you went to fight with me?"
Hu Yushan said seriously: "We are all people who read the books of sages, how could we be as barbaric as him? We just argued with him in the past, but we didn't know that this barbarian actually tried to push Yuan Xiu. Even if we are just studying, How can a person be bullied like this? Shao Guang pushed him back, but he seemed to be strong, but he fell down without a push."
"Then what happened?"
Bai Jinqing took over and continued: "The shopkeeper and the waiter in the restaurant heard the quarrel and came to persuade us. When they saw us making moves, they pulled us apart. After what happened, we didn't have the intention to drink anymore. Then he paid and left the restaurant. Little did he know that Brother Long brought people to the academy today and said that the person we had a quarrel with yesterday died in the restaurant. We just quarreled with him for a few words and pushed him. If This person died at our hands, wouldn’t it be unjust?”
Shao Xi nodded, then turned to Long Chitai to ask for his opinion.
"Brother Long, what do you think of this matter?"
Long Qitai shook his head and said: "According to what some of the people here said, it is indeed difficult to determine the cause of this person's death. It is said that he was just pushed by someone, and even if he fell, it would not easily lead to death. As for whether there are other reasons, I think it would be better to ask for the test results, maybe they will find something new."
Shao Xi stood up and said, "Then let's go to the dormitory room and have a look!"
Although Bai Jinqing and others do not need to be sent to a cell for the time being, their freedom must be restricted. Long Qitai left a few people to guard here, and he and Shao Xi went to the work room together.
Arriving at the work room, as soon as I entered the door, I saw several workmen sitting at the table, drinking tea and chatting.
These gangsters have long been accustomed to this place that many people find scary and dirty, and the corpse on the stone platform seems to be just an ordinary object.
The leader of the gangster room was an old gangster with gray beard and hair. When he saw Long Chitai walking in, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.
Long Chitai was not polite to him and asked directly: "This body was delivered here last night. You should have checked it. Did you find anything unusual?"
The old man hurriedly took the two of them to a stone platform on the inside and lifted up the cloth on the corpse, revealing the corpse of the envoy of the White Night Kingdom.
"Because we didn't get permission, we could only conduct some rough inspections on the surface of the body. From the smell of the mouth and nose, we determined that the person had indeed drunk a lot of alcohol that night, and there were no obvious injuries on his body. Special inspection No injuries or bruises from the collision were found on the head. However, judging from the color of the lips, tongue and fingernails, there is a possibility of poisoning. As for the poison, we have no way of finding out."
The two of them immediately became nervous when they heard the word "poisoned".
A foreign envoy was poisoned and died in a restaurant. No one would think that this was an accident. Since it was not an accident, it means that someone deliberately murdered this person. In this way, the case would become quite complicated and the investigation would be quite difficult. trouble.
But what is gratifying is that if he died of poisoning, it had nothing to do with Bai Jinqing and others.
Shao Xi thought that if he had known the matter was so simple, he would not have fought with Yang Mucheng to investigate the case. Originally, he just wanted to help Bai Jinqing and others prove their innocence. Now that they have achieved their goal so easily, they can't just leave. After all, I have taken over the case and have to continue the investigation.
Long Qitai glanced at the body of the envoy from Baiye Kingdom on the stone platform, then turned to the old man and asked, "Have you found out the cause of the poisoning?"
The old man nodded and said: "At first, the villain suspected that someone had poisoned the wine to kill him, but no poisonous residue was found after examining his throat with a silver needle. So I performed tests on all parts of his body. After some inspection, I found an extremely inconspicuous pinhole on the back of his neck. The side of the pinhole was purple and black and swollen. It looked like it was caused by poison invading the body. If the villain judged correctly, someone should have used poison from the back of his neck. The needle penetrates the body and poisons it to death.”
As he spoke, the old man gently turned the body of the White Night Kingdom envoy over and pointed at an extremely inconspicuous little red spot on the back of his neck. He saw that the area next to the red spot was now black and purple, slightly... The swelling was obviously caused by poison.
Long Qitai looked back at Shao Xi, and Shao Xi nodded towards him.
Long Chitai turned around and shouted loudly toward the door of the office: "Xiao Liuzi, come in."
As soon as he finished speaking, a young man dressed as a patrolman ran in from the door of the work room.
"Long Tou, what are your orders?"
"Immediately take a few people to the residence where the envoy from the White Night Kingdom lived before, and temporarily take custody of all the people related to him. The envoy's belongings and other belongings carried by his entourage are also temporarily detained pending investigation of the case. Return it to them tomorrow."
"Yes!" Xiao Liuzi responded, turned around and ran out.
Long Qitai turned to Shao Xi and asked, "Master Shao, is there anything else you need to ask?"
At this time, both of them were working, so it was not easy for Long Qitai to call Shao Xi his brother in front of everyone, but a discerning person could still tell from the tone of their conversation that the two had a good relationship.
Shao Xi nodded and asked the old man, "Can you find anything special on this person?"
The old man took the two of them to the evidence rack on the other side of the room, took several items from the rack and handed them to Shao Xi.
Shao Xi took over the items and inspected them one by one. There was a jade waist pendant, a brocade-covered purse, a gold-plated emerald-faced ring, a rhinoceros horn-buckled belt, and a black ghost-faced sign that looked like Made of black iron.
Shao Xi didn't think much of the other things, but the black ghost-faced sign interested him.
This brand didn't look like an accessory worn on the body on a daily basis, nor did it look like a token used to clear customs. Instead, it looked like some kind of token, just like the gold medal given to him by Zhang Huanzhi.
Shao Xi turned the sign over in his hand and looked at it for a while. It was just that the front and back had the same ghost face pattern, and there was nothing special about it. However, he still felt that the sign had some special meaning.
"You make a note and I will take this sign away for investigation purposes."
The old man responded, then went to the side to record Shao Xi's taking away the sign in the book, and asked Shao Xi to sign his name.
When he walked out of the work room, Long Qitai curiously asked Shao Xi, "Do you think this sign is related to this case?"
Shao Xi fiddled with the sign in his hand and said: "It's hard to say, but I always feel that this thing is not an ordinary thing. A foreign envoy carries a ghost-faced iron sign with the characteristics of the Central Plains. It should be to confirm the identity of someone. As for whether it is related to the case or not, we will not know until further investigation."
Long Qitai took the sign over, flipped it back and forth, looked at it, and muttered, "This thing doesn't seem to be an official thing. It seems to be something used by some sect gangs in the world."
"Oh? Brother Long is saying that this brand should belong to Jianghu?"
"Well, it looks quite similar! Especially the ghost face pattern is very similar to something held by some martial arts sects in the world that believe in ghosts and gods."
Shao Xi took the sign back and stuffed it into his arms and said, "If it's something from Jianghu, it's not difficult to find out. I'll just ask later. Now you and I will go to Junxiao Tower and ask the shopkeeper and the owner of the restaurant." The waiter will ask carefully about the details of the whole thing last night."
Long Qitai asked in confusion: "If you want to ask questions, just send them to Dali Temple. Why do you have to go there in person?"
"Some things have to be seen with your own eyes. What they see may not be what we are looking for."
"The place where the crime occurred has been checked early this morning. It should have been cleaned up by now. You may not be able to find anything if you go there."
"Not necessarily, it's better to see it with your own eyes."
After saying that, Shao Xi walked towards the door of Dali Temple.
