manynovel Chapter 871 Li Dongsheng is back
Chapter 871 Li Dongsheng is back
"What's going on? Where's Doctor Qi? Bring Doctor Qi here to check and see what kind of poison he has been exposed to."
Zheng Ji squatted down and observed carefully, and found that they were indeed killed by poisoning, and he couldn't help but become alert.
Now he is in charge of the entire mine. Someone poisoned the mine right under his nose, but he knew nothing about it. He feels scared every time he thinks about it.
Fortunately, only the miners were in trouble today. What if those people poisoned his food? Wouldn't he be defenseless?
After a while, a doctor came hurriedly.
"This is poisoning from taking a large amount of iron. Someone must have put iron powder in their food or water."
Iron? Jiang Youzhen looked at the mine and it seemed to be an iron mine, which confirmed her guess.
"You said they took a lot of iron powder? But are they fools? Don't they realize something is wrong?"
Zheng Ji felt that things were not that simple. The doctor just said that a small amount of iron powder would not cause these people to be poisoned and die.
"It may also be a long-term, low-volume dose, but there will definitely be symptoms before that. For example, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, these are all symptoms."
Jiang Youzhen listened to the noise below and couldn't help but start to wonder who would attack these miners?
"Are they in the same cell?" Zheng Ji asked immediately.
"Sir, they are indeed in the same cell. There are two other people in the same cell with them, Cao Jin and Jin Lie."
"Bring them both here for interrogation. These people are dead, and the two people who were in the same cell with them are the most suspicious."
This Zheng Ji is indeed no fool. Jiang Youzhen also feels that even if these two people are not the murderers, they must know something.
If iron powder is taken for a long time, there will definitely be symptoms, and the time of poisoning can be inferred from the symptoms.
Soon the two were brought over. Jiang Youzhen observed them carefully and found that they looked confused, but after their eyes came into contact with the five miners who died of poisoning, they were very afraid and their faces were full of panic.
"Come here, search every cell, especially theirs." After Zheng Ji gave the order, he had someone search the two men.
However, nothing was found on these two people, and the guards there quickly returned and said that there was nothing unusual in the cell.
"Then arrest the cook and the supervisor who guards them. I don't believe it. Could it be that these people could commit suicide by taking iron powder every day?" Zheng Ji was very angry. He had to catch the murderer today, otherwise he would not be able to sleep or eat.
Jiang Youzhen did figure it out. It was impossible for them to commit suicide. They didn't have iron powder on them, so they could only have scraped it off the ore.
There are supervisors working here. If you want to scrape the ore off, you can only hide the ore and do it when it is convenient. But there are also people in the cell, patrolling and supervising. This behavior is easy to be discovered and the risk is very high, so the possibility of suicide is very small.
"Tell me! Did you kill that person?" Zheng Ji pointed at Cao Jin and Jin Lie and shouted angrily.
"Sir! It's unfair! We didn't kill them, so how could we poison them? Killing them won't do us any good." The two men kept shaking their hands, looking very frightened.
"Who are these two people?" Zheng Ji asked.
An overseer immediately brought a booklet and began to flip through it. "My Lord, these two were purchased miners from human traffickers. They were originally from Jiangnan."
If no evidence is found, then we can only start with people.
"You two are in the same room with five of them. Have they had any physical abnormalities in the past few days?" Zheng Ji looked at the two of them.
Seeing that the two were about to answer, Zheng Ji said in a cold voice: "Think it over before you answer! They are dead, and you two are the most suspicious. If you can't explain it, no matter who the murderer is, I will not let you two go."
Cao Jin and the other two were immediately frightened by him, so they hurriedly recalled carefully.
After thinking for a while, Cao Jingjin said hesitantly, "Sir, I remember something. They had diarrhea a few days ago. At first, we thought they had eaten something bad or caught a cold, so we didn't take it seriously. Since Jin Lie and I were fine, we didn't think too much about it.
But now that I think about it carefully, it seems that they often have diarrhea and some abdominal pain. They are almost exhausted from diarrhea. We asked the supervisor to let them rest, but unfortunately the supervisor did not agree. "
Zheng Ji turned to look at the supervisor who had just brought the booklet over. The supervisor waved his hand and said, "Isn't it because the adults have been urging us to hurry up these days that I let them continue to work? But I arranged for them to do light work these two days and didn't dare to let them move stones."
"So this situation has been going on for two days? Then why didn't you report it?"
There are so many miners that it is easy for an epidemic to occur, especially symptoms like diarrhea, which must be paid attention to.
"Your Excellency, I thought that there were seven people in one cell, and only five of them had diarrhea, while the other two were fine, so I didn't report it! Aren't you thinking that they might have eaten something secretly?"
Jiang Youzhen, who was hiding above, felt something strange. There were seven people living in one cell, five of them were poisoned, and the remaining two were not. Except for these two being the murderers, it meant that the identities of these five people were suspicious.
Maybe the poison was put in the dishes and chopsticks. The dishes and chopsticks in this place should be kept by themselves, so this matter has nothing to do with the cook.
If the sudden death of these five people was caused by two people in the same cell, it would be too obvious.
Zheng Ji questioned the cook he brought with him, but found nothing unusual. This matter could only be put on hold for the time being, and the dead body was carried to a room and placed there for further investigation later.
Jiang Youzhen saw that Zheng Ji was deep in thought and thought that this man must know something, so he followed Zheng Ji to the room where he was resting.
"Sir, do you want to report this matter? I always feel something is fishy!" The supervisor just followed in, his expression a little frightened.
"What are you reporting? We haven't found anything. If we report it like this, the master will blame us. Pay more attention these days. I'm afraid they have other intentions. Especially the two people in the same cell, secretly observe their every move."
"Yes!"
Zheng Ji always had a bad feeling, he always felt that the purpose of the person behind the scenes was not that simple. These people looked like ordinary miners, and they came from Jiangnan. Although their identities and origins could not be checked, they were definitely from poor backgrounds.
Jiang Youzhen waited for a while until Zheng Ji decided to take a short rest, and then left.
She quickly returned to the inn and unexpectedly saw Li Dongsheng and others as soon as she entered the door.
"You guys finally found us. Shouldn't you have arrived earlier than us? Why are you here only now?"
Li Dongsheng was filled with fear. "I was almost arrested. I just entered the city five days ago and was assassinated by a group of men in black!"