Bao Zheng's words made Zheng Wang Chai Rongshan very angry, so after he snorted coldly, he took people up to the second floor.

After Zheng Wang Chai Rongshan left, Bao Zheng looked at Yu Haidao and said: "Yu County Order, as an official of the imperial court, cannot bend the law to anyone for personal gain in terms of murder, now you start to investigate, you can ask about our people." ”

After Bao Zheng finished speaking, Yu Hai naturally nodded again and again, but although he nodded, he didn't dare to really doubt Bao Zheng and them, so after a few symbolic questions about Bao Zheng and Hua Lang, he focused on the people in the inn.

When Yu Hai came, he brought a servant to come, and after an inquest, he got up and said: "The deceased was bleeding from his seven orifices, the blood was black, there were small thorns on his tongue, his lips were cracked, his ears were swollen, his abdomen was swollen, his swelling was broken, and his fingers were blue and black, he should have died of poisoning, and it may be arsenic poison." ”

After listening to the words, Hua Lang hurriedly asked, "Are there no other scars on his body?" ”

He nodded: "There are no other external injuries, it should be poisoned." ”

Hua Lang bowed his head and continued to ask, "How many hours does it take for the arsenic poison to attack after being hit?" ”

He shook his head and said, "The poison of arsenic is very powerful, as long as you ingest a little bit, you will attack immediately, but it will not die immediately, you may have to vomit for a few hours before you die, it's just ......" Qi Zuo said this, and suddenly stopped, and everyone naturally understood what was going on.

Last night, before everyone went to bed, they saw the innkeeper, and he didn't look anything unusual at that time, so the innkeeper couldn't have been poisoned by arsenic, but the reaction of the innkeeper was indeed a sign of arsenic poisoning, so it's no wonder that he stopped talking.

Seeing that he was silent, Hua Lang only smiled faintly, then looked at the guy in the inn and the woman who was crying abnormally and asked, "What is the name of the deceased?" ”

At this time, the weeping woman stood up and said, "My husband's name is Xue Ju. ”

Hua Lang bowed his head and asked again, "May I ask Mrs. Xue, who found the body first?" ”

Mrs. Xue looked at a guy, and the guy hurriedly stood up and said: "Back to the adult, it's small, I got up early this morning and was going to prepare breakfast for you, but as soon as I walked here, I saw the body of the master, I was very frightened and screamed, and then Mrs. and the other guys ran out." ”

After listening to the guy's words, Hua Lang looked at Mrs. Xue and asked, "Wasn't Xue Ju at the inn yesterday?" ”

Mrs. Xue nodded and said, "Because yesterday several adults gave a lot of silver, my husband was very happy, so I went to find a group of my friends to drink, and never came back, and I also heard the shouting before I found out that my husband was dead." ”

After Mrs. Xue finished speaking, she nodded again and again, and said, "Mrs. Xue should be right, there is a smell of alcohol in the mouth of the deceased, and there is a lot of residual vomit on the clothes, which should be caused by drinking." ”

Hanarang glanced at the corpse through the crowd and realized that it was indeed as he had said.

Seeing that this was indeed the case, Hua Lang continued to ask, "Do you know who Lu Dao Xue Ju often drinks with?" ”

Mrs. Xue thought for a while and said, "I don't know who it is, but it's always his group of friends, and it should be easy to inquire." ”

When Yu Hai heard this, he hurriedly flattered Bao Zheng and said, "Xiaguan is going to investigate who Xue Ju was drinking with last night." After speaking, Yu Hai hurriedly ordered.

At this time, Hua Lang asked, "Does your husband have any enemies or have a holiday with anyone?" ”

Mrs. Xue thought for a while, nodded and said: "This is naturally there, we have a lot of inns here in Phoenix Set, but compared with our Juxian Inn, there is only the Longteng Inn in the east, and because of this, Kong Long, the owner of the Longteng Inn, often works with us, but last night my husband drank with friends, so Kong Long should not be there!" ”

This Mrs. Xue said Kong Long's name, but she defended him again, which made Bao Zheng suspicious of her, but Bao Zheng didn't say it, only secretly wrote it down, and waited until Kong Long was investigated.

At this time, Hua Lang looked at him and asked, "Can you determine the time of death?" ”

He nodded and said, "It should be around the hour." ”

It was already late at that time, and Hua Lang and the others had already fallen asleep, so Hua Lang looked at Mrs. Xue and asked, "What are you doing at Hai Shi?" ”

When Mrs. Xue saw Hua Lang asking herself this question, she suddenly became even more sad and said, "I was already asleep at that time. ”

"Did you hear a knock on the door?"

Mrs. Xue shook her head and said, "No, our residence is in the backyard of the inn, and there are a few guys living in a partial house on the first floor of the inn, and I can't hear the sound of the door opening here."

Later, Hua Lang asked the guys again, but the guys said that they were sleeping very well at that time and did not hear a knock on the door.

"Does Xue Ju have the key to the inn?"

Mrs. Xue nodded: "This is naturally there, the door of the inn can be locked on the outside and inside, ...... last night" Speaking of this, Mrs. Xue looked at the guy who first found the body just now and asked: "Ah Hu, you sent the master out last night, did you lock the door from the inside?" ”

Ah Hu nodded again and again, and said: "Yes, madam, I sent the master out, but it was already dark at that time, and I originally wanted to lock it from the inside, but the master said that he might not come back when, so he locked it from the outside." ”

While listening to Ah Hu, Hua Lang came to the door of the inn to take a look, and found that the outside of the door was the kind of big lock with a key, and the inside was a wooden latch.

And if this is the case, the murderer is unlikely to be a person in the inn, because no one heard the quarrel at that time, so the poison on Xue Ju's body should be outside the inn, and he opened the door and just walked into the inn, he suddenly died of poison.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, Xue Ju has been poisoned and died outside, and it was the murderer who quietly carried him to the inn, carried the body into the inn, and then quietly left.

Thinking of this, Hua Lang suddenly asked Ah Hu: "When you found the body, did you bolt the door of the inn from the inside?" ”

Ah Hu touched his head and thought about it, and said, "It seems to be bolted, what's wrong?" ”

Hua Lang didn't answer Ah Hu's question, but he ruled out the second possibility, if the door was bolted from the inside, then it could not have been someone who sent Xue Ju's body back, but Xue Ju had just walked into the inn and suddenly died of poison.