Chapter 419 Poisoning [Please give me a monthly ticket! ]

The Criminal Justice Department does not have a large backlog of cases, and minor matters are basically handled by the three persons in charge.

When Zhao Faxian took office, he immediately dismissed a group of old officials and promoted a group of his own people. Because the previous Criminal Justice Department was too seriously infiltrated by the Qingdu family, it was impossible to work at ease.

These great families are very cunning. They know that they cannot influence the important official positions in Yunlu City, so they work hard on the lower-level clerks. In many cases, the group of "clerks" is more important than "officials".

Because officials are the ones who issue orders, while clerks are the ones who do the work. If bad officials are paired with good clerks, bad policies will not be too destructive; but if good officials are paired with bad clerks, even good policies will still cause harm to the people.

The aristocratic families bribed and placed a large number of officials in the Qing capital's government offices, so that if they did not nod their heads, the chief official's orders could not be carried out.

After a long period of struggle, Zhao Faxian finally turned the Criminal Justice Department into an ironclad organization that only obeyed his orders and selected several capable people to be in charge.

This is also a double-edged sword. On the one hand, these people can be trusted. Even Liu Dashan, who looks the worst, should not be a lackey of the aristocratic family. At most, he has just started to contact the Qi family. As long as he is not stupid, he knows who to help.

On the other hand, they are all firm followers of Zhao Faxian. Whether they will obey Liang Yue and whether they are willing to help him investigate Zhao Faxian are all questionable.

On Liang Yue's desk now are two hundred+ hidden bodies from the Yungong Mountain fire and Qi Boqing's death in prison.

After reading the files, he decided to deal with Qi Boqing's matter first.

Because the Yungong Mountain case was very complicated, the owner of the villa that burned down on the mountain was still unknown, and the origin of the bodies was unknown. After the autopsy, it was found that most of them were young women, and the time of death was probably within the last two or three years. However, there was no such large-scale missing population in Yunlu City, so it would take some time to investigate.

Liang Yue couldn't do these things by himself, he had to wait for the detectives to go and investigate.

Qi Boqing's case is right before our eyes. If the prince had not revealed his identity, they would have been the first suspect gang.

Soon, he arrived at the coroner's room of the Criminal Justice Department.

"He died from a deadly poison called 'Nether Snake Blood'. This poison was extracted from the Nether Water Snake, one of the Nine Poisons of the Mysterious Netherworld. It is extremely toxic, and just one drop is enough to kill a person immediately. It is difficult for a sixth-level warrior or a Grandmaster cultivator to resist it. If the cultivation is lower, the person will die instantly."

"Looking at the way the deceased died, he must have swallowed the poison. His cultivation was not high, so he suffocated to death in a few moments."

"It's poison." Liang Yue looked around the corpse carefully and scanned it with his spiritual sense, but he didn't see any wounds.

However, the type of poison sounds a bit unpopular, especially since Yunlu City is in the south. It is not easy for the coroner to detect this rare poison from the north.

The coroner from the Criminal Justice Department was named Zhang. He was not good-looking. He was short and thin, with messy hair, squinted eyes and looked lazy. It seemed that he didn't think much of Liang Yue and ignored him when he asked him questions.

So Liang Yue continued to talk to himself: "I have never heard of this kind of poison. Zhang the coroner can recognize it. He must be very knowledgeable."

"That's because you are not well-informed, sir." Zhang Wuzuo replied without giving any face, "My master is a branch of the Danding Sect. Xuanming Jiudu doesn't know me, so there is no way I can become his apprentice."

"Oh?" Liang Yue asked, "Is Zhang the coroner actually from a branch of the Danding Sect? Then it's really condescending for him to come here to be a coroner."

In this era, being a coroner is still a lowly profession. How could an ordinary Qigong practitioner be willing to do this? For someone who studied alchemy and pharmacology, being the worst pharmacist is better than being the best coroner.

The coroner replied angrily, "It was Zhao Faxian who asked me to come here again and again, saying how important the coroner position is and that it will definitely change things in the future. But when I came, he ran away."

"Haha." Liang Yue smiled, "People will definitely change their views on coroners in the future, that's right. Senior Xue Baizhi from Dan Ding Sect once said that there is no distinction between high and low professions, and as long as Dan Ding Sect disciples can contribute to the righteous path, that's enough." "Xue Baizhi?" Coroner Zhang's eyes suddenly widened, "Xue Baizhi from Dan Ding Sect? That's my great-grandmother, you've actually met him?"

"What's wrong?" Liang Yue saw his surprised look and asked, "Don't you know where I came from?"

"The second generation from the God's Capital." Coroner Zhang scratched his head, "I don't know the details."

Liang Yue smiled and said, "I was born in Xuanmen, and my master is from the lineage of controlling swords. When I was working in the Evil Slaying Division, I met Senior Xue several times. If you count carefully, we are from the same sect."

After hearing what he said, the coroner's eyes became serious.

It seems that this is a down-to-earth person. He doesn't care who his superior is when he suddenly gets a chance to work. Seeing how young Liang Yue is, he seems to be a second-generation official from the capital of the gods, relying on the protection of his father to get an official position...

Although it cannot be said to be completely wrong, it is at least biased.

Fortunately, Liang Yue's background is more profound than he thought. When you are away from home, it is sometimes useful to recommend people.

As for that sentence... I believe Xue Baizhi would also agree with it. It shouldn't be a big deal if Liang Yue said it for her in advance.

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After making sure there were no clues left on the body, Liang Yue came to the prison again. At the scene of Qi Boqing's death, all traces were well preserved, and the only damage was the large pit outside.

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The accompanying constable was confused and kept muttering, "The scene is well protected, except for this hole in the ground. I don't know which damn thief dug it here..."

"Ahem." The prison officer from one of the gang members coughed lightly and said, "Tell me about the situation."

"The things at the scene... basically shouldn't be in the prison." The constable glanced at the prison boss next to him, "There are too many things that cannot be explained clearly."

The jailer immediately said, "After all, the Qi family is powerful, and Qi Boqing gave him a lot of money, so the brothers arranged for him to be a little more comfortable, thinking that this would not affect the torture chamber, and he would die sooner or later. But I have carefully checked the furniture, wine and food we arranged, and there can't be any problems. If there is anything wrong, it must be in the things sent by their family members."

"Can their family members send things in?" Liang Yue frowned.

The jailer blushed, "The Qi family is powerful, and Qi Boqing gave a lot of money..."

Liang Yue glanced at him and said, "I will definitely hold you accountable later. It's best if you are not involved in this case. Tell us which items were sent in by the Qi family."

"These are some common things that were brought here when I visited yesterday. They are all placed here." The jailer pointed around and ticked them one by one. "Two books sent by the head of the Qi family, sweet-scented osmanthus cake sent by Qi Boqing's wife, but she only ate half of it... The dice sent by the second son of the Qi family, and the boots sent by the third son of the Qi family. These are the four things. They are all common items, so I put them in here."

Liang Yue looked at these things. If the jailer was paid to help the children of the noble family improve their prison life and send some daily necessities in, he would believe it. If the jailer was paid to poison Qi Boqing, he didn't believe they would dare to do such a thing.

The chances of poisoning are most likely in these items sent by family members.

Books, osmanthus cake, dice, and boots.

Which of these did Qi Boqing eat that caused him to be poisoned to death? This really requires careful consideration...

(End of this chapter)