Chapter 4 (3)
Chen Huai's face turned slightly red, and Li Yuanfang said, "Now let's go and see that gardener." "Please, General Li."
The two of them came to the morgue in the backyard of the Governor's Mansion together.
Fan Gui's body was lying straight on the burial bed. Li Yuanfang stepped forward and lifted the white cloth covered with the body. She saw that Fan Gui's face was pitch black and bleeding from all seven orifices was indeed poisoned to death. Li Yuanfang asked: "When did you find out that he died?"
Chen Huai said: "Fan Gui came to the yamen to report the case five days ago. After the third trial of the law, he asked him to sign the paper and take it in the prison room of the governor's office. He has been staying here safely and no one has ever come to see him. Who would have thought that when the prison guards delivered the meal this morning, he found that he was already angrily dead. According to coroners' tests, the poison in it was common arsenic."
Li Yuanfang nodded and asked, "How was he doing last night? What did he eat for dinner last night? Have the food been checked?"
"According to the jailer, his condition was nothing unusual last night. He ate a unified prison rice. The food and all related utensils have been checked, and there is no problem."
"So it's certain that this poison was not thrown into supper."
"This will be certain."
"Have he checked the water he drank?"
"There is no water in the kettle, and no traces are found."
"So what other channels will he encounter poisons from last night to this morning?"
"After all this, I have also calculated that one possibility is that he brought it in by himself. Because Fan Gui was a lawsuit filed by the lawsuit, not a criminal, and putting him in prison was only a provision of the law of this dynasty, so there was no strict search and entrainment procedure before entering prison."
"Well, there is this possibility." Li Yuanfang pondered: "If he took the poison he had taken, it would be suicide. But the problem is that he did not commit suicide early but did not commit suicide late, but chose to commit suicide at this moment. There must be a reason. According to what you said, since he reported the case, he has been waiting for the trial of the case very safely. The case has not made any major progress so far, and no outsiders have come to him. What reason does he have to commit suicide suddenly?"
"If it's not suicide, then he will still kill him. But this is the prison room of the Governor's Office. Those who enter and exit are all sentons from the Governor's Office. If he kills him, then..."
Li Yuanfang glanced at Chen Huai and said, "Will anyone break in and commit the crime while preventing slack at night?"
"General Li, General Li believes that this is unlikely. The defense around the Grand Governor's Office is very strict. If someone breaks in at night, it is impossible not to encounter anyone. However, the entire Grand Governor's Office was safe and without any abnormal movement last night."
Li Yuanfang sighed lightly and said, "General Chen, after this reasoning, it seems that he can only draw one conclusion."
Chen Huai looked at his eyes and suddenly gasped: "It's inside?"
Li Yuanfang nodded and said, "I just said that even if Fan Gui committed suicide, it would require a reason to trigger it. If there were no outsiders looking for him, it would be possible that someone in the Governor's Office found him last night and made him think of suicide by taking advantage of the situation. And if he killed him, it would be even simpler. Just throw the poison directly into his kettle last night and then pour the water in the kettle dry after someone dies, and then eliminate all traces."
He stopped and said, "It's just that all this takes enough time, and you deny the possibility of outsiders entering, so it's only possible that it's an internal crime."
Chapter completed!