manynovel Chapter 894 The Five Corpses
Chapter 894 The Five Corpses
"Then please take it out, Lord Jiang!" Liu Muyun was calm and confident.
Everyone was confused, but they all waited in silence. Today, the general's mansion had a happy event that turned into a funeral, and there were constant disputes, but this was not what they cared about. They only cared about whether the border would be in chaos.
"Someone come here! Please invite a few witnesses!" Jiang Youzhen shouted.
"Yes!" Li Dongsheng in the crowd responded and left.
Soon, everyone saw a group of people carrying corpses covered with white cloth stopping outside the hall.
"Lord Jiang, what do you mean? There is a dead body in here? Isn't it inappropriate to carry it here?" Liu Shen frowned as soon as he saw it. The person covered by the white cloth must be a dead person.
However, Liu Muyun was stunned at first, and then his pupils shrank slightly.
Everyone counted and found there were five bodies in total.
"Sir Jiang, is this the witness you were talking about? Your witness is a dead person? How can a dead person speak?" Liu Muyun laughed.
"Don't be anxious, Lord Liu!" Jiang Youzhen smiled.
Then she ordered Li Dongsheng to lift up all the white cloths, and suddenly a group of dark-skinned faces appeared in front of everyone.
Everyone was shocked and said it was bad luck.
Even Madam Liu frowned. She was eager to see her husband. What on earth was Lord Jiang doing?
Just as she was about to speak, her son grabbed her sleeve. Wang Xiao shook his head at his mother. The situation was unclear at the moment, so they should just wait and see.
"Everyone! These are the bodies carried out from the iron mine. They are the miners inside."
When everyone heard this, didn’t this verify what Lord Liu said?
"Sir Jiang, doesn't that mean that someone is indeed mining that abandoned mine?" The speaker was the prefect Qin Guangcan.
"Don't be anxious, Lord Qin. Everyone, just look at what characteristics these people have?" Jiang Youzhen pointed at the five people on the ground.
Everyone was confused and had no intention of taking a closer look, but they still took a rough look and shook their heads in confusion.
"Lord Jiang, please stop keeping us in suspense and tell us clearly!" Qin Zhizhou also shook his head and urged.
Jiang Youzhen immediately walked to one of the corpses and said to Wang Xiao, "General Wang, come and take a look. Who is this person?"
Wang Xiao walked over in confusion. When he saw the face of the man lying on the ground, he was shocked. "Jin Yue?"
"How could it be him?" Wang Xiao couldn't believe it.
"Commander Wang, who is the Jin Yue you are talking about?" Qin Zhizhou asked puzzledly.
"He is my father's personal attendant, skilled in martial arts, and has always been my father's right-hand man."
Jin Yue was a child born in the family. Originally, Jin Yue and his father disappeared together. They thought that Jin Yue was in grave danger. After all, even his father was missing, so how could Jin Yue be spared? However, when he saw Jin Yue's body here, he could not help but feel grief.
Since Jin Yue is dead, my father is probably really dead.
"Admiral Wang, look at the other four!"
Wang Xiao immediately looked at the other four dead bodies and saw that two of them were the family guards.
"These two are the guards of my Wang family, Zhang San and Li Si. I don't know the other two and have never seen them!" Wang Xiao glanced at Jin Yue, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.
"Did Admiral Wang discover that the causes of death of these five people were different?" Jiang Youzhen asked again.
Wang Xiao heard this and carefully observed the deaths of the five people and found that they were indeed different.
"Yes! Jin Yue, Zhang San and Li Si's faces were dark blue, with a metallic color, and the corners of their mouths were white and a little ulcerated. The other two had black faces and crooked mouths, but no ulcers."
"Because Jin Yue and the others are suffering from iron poisoning. Symptoms of iron poisoning include vomiting and diarrhea. They will vomit out the contents of their stomachs for several days in a row. The strong stomach acid toxicity will cause ulcers at the corners of their mouths. The other two took poison and will die in a short period of time. Naturally, the symptoms are different."
Jiang Youzhen squatted down and wrapped his hands with a handkerchief, then turned one of the men's head a little bit.
"Everyone, please look! The corners of this person's eyes are a little red, and the corners of his mouth are crooked. He was poisoned by a strange poison called Yi Ke. This poison is only found in the Beiming country, and it is ranked as the most poisonous along with another strange poison, Taohuazhong."
"How does Lord Jiang make this conclusion?" Qin Zhizhou asked curiously.
"Because my master was once poisoned by someone, the faces of the two people in front of me are roughly the same as my master's at that time. If you don't believe it, you can find a famous doctor to make a diagnosis."
"No need to look for a famous doctor, I have been fortunate enough to have seen one." At this time, a man suddenly walked out from the crowd and said.
"I am just a businessman, but I have some knowledge. This poison flowed into the interior of the country many years ago, and the symptoms are like this. It is not difficult to identify. The strange red at the corner of the eye is very easy to recognize!"
"I still don't understand what the deaths of these five people have to do with General Dingyuan?" Liu Muyun asked impatiently.
"Why is Lord Liu so anxious?" Jiang Youzhen shook his head and sighed.
"In fact, I have been in Anxi County for several days. I suspected that Prince Yuanming was colluding with foreign vassals and that the disappearance of General Dingyuan was related to him, so I followed him for two days."
Jiang Youzhen had the white cloth covered again and continued, "That day I followed his carriage to an iron mine and found that the mine was still being mined, so I started an investigation. Later I found out that the mine had indeed been reported abandoned, which means that someone was using this as an excuse to privately mine ore."
"Doesn't this further illustrate the problem with Prince Yuanming? He colluded with foreign vassals, mined privately, and perhaps even forged weapons privately, selling them to foreign vassals to make huge profits. What's more, he even had the intention of treason and formed an alliance with foreign vassals."
Liu Muyun snorted coldly, "The poison is from Beiming Country. He must be colluding with Beiming Country."
"Yes! If that's the case, then doesn't all the evidence point to Prince Yuanming?"
"I think it's him!"
Everyone was talking about it for a while.
Prince Yuan Ming was immediately very anxious, "I didn't, I have never been to that mine."
He just sold some tea, salt and the like, how could he possibly get involved in the mines?
Jiang Youzhen smiled and ignored Liu Muyun and the others, but continued: "But later I found out that I was tricked!"
"Someone sent me a note saying that Prince Yuanming was going to inspect the iron mine with a young master from Kang State, so I followed them. In fact, it was a trap from here on.
After that, they covered their faces the whole time they got off the carriage. The man was wearing the clothes of Prince Yuanming and spoke in the same voice as Prince Yuanming, so I thought it was Prince Yuanming."
Jiang Youzhen paced back and forth, thinking as he spoke, "But later I realized I was wrong! The people who went to the mine that day were not Prince Yuanming and Young Master Kang, but someone pretending to be them. They were trying to lure me in and pin the blame of illegal mining and collusion with foreign vassal states on Prince Yuanming."
"Why do you conclude that he is not the Prince Yuanming?" Liu Muyun asked.
"Sir, where were you before dawn three days ago?"
Prince Yuan Ming was stunned by the question. He answered without hesitation, "Of course he was sleeping!"
"Who can prove it? Don't say they are your concubines. They are naturally helping you." Liu Muyun said again.