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080: Memory blank

"Not anomaly at all?"

Liu Sizheng really didn't believe it at first.

Among the 100 officials of the Great Wei Dynasty, ninety-nine could not stand the investigation, and Cheng Zhiyuan was actually the exception!

After searching, I was always honest and had been an official for more than ten years, and had neither land nor houses.

Even Liu Sizheng felt that this kind of person was still alive.

Either he is a moral saint or he is extremely hypocritical. These are all false appearances!

"Si Zheng, Cheng Zhiyuan's family's small route back to their hometowns have been investigated. The imperial envoy Zhang personally sent the family out of Jiangning County. Under Lord Zhang's eyes, they would not be able to take away any disaster money."

"There was no chance on the road. They hired escorts to escort them, walked the official road all the way, resting and looking for a station. No one left the team alone."

"Cheng Zhiyuan's only son Cheng Qing was so ill that he was left with only one breath, and that woman was not independent."

"What I did when I returned to Nanyi is obvious to all. The only land of the Cheng family is a 100-acre small village. The fifth house of Cheng family bought it and recorded it in Cheng Qing's name... In addition, there are 5,000 taels of silver in the money house. The entire Nanyi knows that it was the dowry left by Cheng Zhiyuan's original wife. The money has been kept by the Qi family in Yongyang County. A few days ago, the two families returned the marriage, and then the magistrate of Nanyi, Lord Li, was sentenced to return it to the Cheng family."

Three years of Qing Dynasty prefect, there were 100,000 silver silver.

It is said that the Beijing officials are poor and the local officials are rich. Liu Si is taking stock of Cheng Zhiyuan's inheritance, but he is not as good as the poor Beijing official.

The current Cheng family’s current family’s assets can be fully expressed in detail.

For example, the 100-acre small village must be the Cheng family in Nanyi who saw Cheng Zhiyuan's wife and children living in a down-and-out manner, so they gave them a small farm to make a living.

Five thousand taels of silver were obtained by breaking the engagement. The Cheng family did not touch the money, and it was all stored in the money house.

More importantly, Liu Sizheng brought an experienced coroner on this trip. Cheng Zhiyuan did not hang himself, but was poisoned and then pretended to commit suicide!

The files Zhang Qinzhang took back to the capital did not mention this.

Liu Si was surprised and doubtful. Lao Zhuo, as the envoy Zhang, defended a few words:

"Mr. Cheng must not be able to find out when he died. He must have been poisoned first, lost his resistance, and was hung on the beam of the county government office. He was not dead when he was hanging. The coroner's examination of the traces of the body was completely consistent with the characteristics of suicide."

This poison is quite rare. It does not cause blood to bleed after taking poisonous substances like arsenic. There is no trace after poisoning people to death. It has to wait a few months before it will be revealed on the bones. Cheng Zhiyuan died for a year and his body had already rotted, which is convenient for coroner inspection.

The deceased bones were filled with faint blue light, which was the most prominent feature of this poison. The traces were very faint at the beginning. After a long time of death, the blue attachments on the bones became more and more obvious.

Because the characteristics of poisoning are hidden, coroners of autopsy are easily overlooked.

Coroners in Jiangning County have never even heard of this kind of poison, so it is not surprising that Cheng Zhiyuan's cause of death cannot be detected.

Even the old coroner brought by Liu Sizheng was hard to say whether Cheng Zhiyuan was poisoned first or suffocated first, or whether it was caused by two reasons... How much did the murderer hate Cheng Zhiyuan? Not only did he pretend to commit suicide, but he was afraid that Cheng Zhiyuan would not die, but he also poisoned him first.

Liu Si's head is as big as a fight.

He was not here to clear his suspicion for King Ye, it was clearly confirming the suspicion of King Ye!

The old coroner said that this kind of poison is not common in the Great Wei Dynasty, only the Northern Barbarian royal family existed, and the King of Ye has been dealing with the Northern Barbarians... Resisting the invasion of the Northern Barbarians, the two sides fought back and forth for many years. It is not surprising that the King of Ye’s Mansion has mastered some secret medicines for the Northern Barbarian royal family.

As for such a secret poison, how could an old coroner know about it? Liu Sizheng said that he didn't want to listen.

He stopped the old coroner and said:

"You just need to record the autopsy results, and I will hand it over to Shangguan after I return to Beijing!"

As for the others, the Northern Barbarian royal family and the Ye Prince Mansion, Liu Si knew that only by pretending to be deaf and dumb could he save his life!

He was a small temple master. He knew the secret that he shouldn't have known. Do you think he was not dead fast enough?

The old coroner also shut up.

After the investigation, we can actually get a job. Cheng Zhiyuan's chance of committing suicide fearing guilt is very low, and the greater possibility is that he is a scapegoat.

Liu Sizheng finally decided to interrogate Cheng Qing and his family.

It was already the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Little New Year was over. Cheng Qing thought that the special envoy of Dali Temple would be interrogated again after the New Year, and Liu Si was suddenly coming to Yangliu Lane.

Other tenants who rented Wangbushang Villa had long been cleared away. The huge villa only had Cheng Qing's family of five, but there were so many empty houses, but they were restricted to the courtyard and could not move freely.

As soon as Liu Sizheng arrived, Cheng Qing was taken to another empty courtyard alone.

Liu Sizheng introduced himself. He is a very kind-looking person with fair skin and looks like a steamed bun from a distance.

Yes, he has no official power, but he looks like a kind landlord.

As soon as they met, they asked Cheng Qing about those books. Cheng Qing answered them one by one, and Liu Si was giving her some advice.

He asked Cheng Qing about his habit of living in Nanyike again, and he talked about it for half an hour and drank two cups of tea. After an ordinary boy, he should have been confused by Liu Sizheng.

He felt that Cheng Qing should be dizzy too.

Thinking that the fire was almost enough, Liu Si was suddenly attacking:

"Cheng Qing, do you know that your father was poisoned to death? As a son of man, don't you want to find out the real murderer who killed your father!"

The show is here!

After talking nonsense for a long time, I finally reached the point.

Cheng Qing was confused first, then surprised, then angry, and complex emotions were intertwined... She practiced many times in front of the bronze mirror. She must not be enough to see in front of professional actors, but she must be the top acting skills among ordinary people.

At the same time, many scenes of "Cheng Qing" and Cheng Zhiyuan getting along with each other flashed through her mind. When the emotions were brewing, she burst into tears. She trembled, shivered, and couldn't speak clearly:

"Poison, my father was poisoned-"

Liu Sizheng felt that he had completely destroyed Cheng Qing's psychological defense.

"Cheng Qing, if you want to clear your father's charges and avenge your revenge, you need to calm down. Now I want you to recall carefully what happened before your father's death, have you seen a suspicious person, and have he revealed anything to you... The more you think of, the more helpful it will be to investigate the case!"

Cheng Qing is the most inquiry person in the Cheng family.

After all, he is Cheng Zhiyuan's only son and a half-aged boy. Cheng Zhiyuan would not say something to Xu Xian's wife and daughter, and he might have said a few words in front of his son.

Anyway, according to Liu Sizheng's understanding, Cheng Zhiyuan was used to handling official duties in the study during his lifetime. Apart from Cheng Zhiyuan, only Cheng Qing could enter and exit that place at will!

Liu Si was placing his hope on Cheng Qing, but Cheng Qing could not remember anything.

She received the memories of "Cheng Qing". She and "Cheng Qing" could no longer tell each other. They inherited their emotions and memories. Can they say that she is not "Cheng Qing" herself?

But only Cheng Zhiyuan's death will cause headaches and palpitations once she wants to recall the details.
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