Lecture martial arts.

"Grandpa Guo, I got the news that Liu Ren was poisoned in the prison of Yingtianfu." Shortly after Emperor Xuande issued the six edicts, Chen Muyi hurriedly walked into Li Yuntian's public house where he was dealing with daily affairs, and said in a deep voice to Li Yuntian, who was reading the official documents.

Since stepping down from the post of the right deputy of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Li Yuntian's office in the capital is only the lecture hall, and Zuo Chunfang University Scholar is an honorary official title, so there is no office space.

"Dead?" Li Yuntian's brows suddenly furrowed when he heard this, and he immediately had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"As far as the lowly knows, the servant found arsenic in Liu Ren's meal." Chen Muyi replied with a stern expression, he was able to serve as the captain of Li Yuntian's guards not only because he was Chen Ningning's cousin, but also because he was agile and nimble, so he naturally knew that Liu Ren's death was very unfavorable to Li Yuntian.

Since the cases that occurred on the border of the capital were under the jurisdiction of Ying Tianfu, Liu Ren was escorted to Ying Tianfu's prison after beating the drum.

Ying Tianfu Mansion Yin naturally did not dare to slack off on this kind of criminal who sued the emperor, not only gave Liu Ren a good single room alone, but also sent someone to strictly guard it, so as not to have any accidents.

It's a pity that Liu Ren fell to the ground just halfway through lunch today, struggling with foaming at the mouth, and after convulsions for a while, his legs were kicked and he lost his breath, and he was so frightened that the cell boss was scattered, and hurriedly reported to his boss.

Shuntianfu Fu Yin soon learned of this, and immediately became anxious, personally rushed to the prison to check, and invited the best servant of the Criminal Department to go to the autopsy for the sake of safety.

The man was very experienced, and the first thing he knew when he saw Liu Ren's corpse was that he was suffering from arsenic, and then used a silver needle to examine the food that Liu Ren was eating, and it turned out that a plate of green vegetables turned the silver needle black, which meant that it contained arsenic poison.

Shuncheonfu Yin was furious about this, and had already ordered the arrest of the gang's husband and the jailer guarding Liu Ren, and was severely interrogating him.

And as soon as Liu Ren died like this, the spearhead was undoubtedly pointed at Li Yuntian, after all, the reason why Liu Ren went to Beijing to sue the emperor was because of Li Yuntian, so Li Yuntian was suspected of instructing someone to kill Liu Ren.

"Arsenic!" After learning the cause of Liu Ren's death, Li Yuntian stood up and paced back and forth in the house with his hands behind his back, frowning slightly, arsenic is a commonly used poison among the people and can be bought lightly, so it may not be easy to figure out the source of arsenic, which makes Liu Ren's death complicated.

"Grandpa Guo, do you want me to send someone to inquire about the progress." Seeing that Li Yuntian was in deep thought, Chen Muyi couldn't help but whisper for instructions.

"No, you don't." Li Yuntian shook his head when he heard this, stopped and said to Chen Muyi with a stern expression, "Don't take this matter to heart, just treat it as if it didn't happen." ”

"Humble duty understands." Chen Muyi was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Li Yuntian to ignore Liu Ren's death, and then bowed to Li Yuntian and left quickly, he believed that Li Yuntian had another deep meaning in doing this, and he would not be untargeted.

"Liu Ren, did you kill him or commit suicide?" After Chen Muyi left, Li Yuntian muttered to himself, his face looked a little solemn, he suspected that Liu Ren was not poisoned by others, but committed suicide by taking poison.

Liu Ren is a prisoner of the imperial court and has been specially cared for by Shuntianfu Yin, and the jailers of Yingtianfu Prison will definitely take care of it, and no one will risk killing his head to poison Liu Ren, which is a big crime that affects the whole family.

Moreover, Li Yuntian was sure that Liu Ren was instructed to falsely accuse him, and the people behind the scenes would definitely take advantage of Emperor Xuande's serious illness in order to put him to death, instead of waiting for the Nanjing Sanfa Division to go to Jiaozhi to investigate, so it would take at least half a year, and Emperor Xuande would obviously not be able to support that time.

And once Emperor Xuande dies, then the successor prince will be unable to govern due to his young age, and he will definitely hand over this matter to Emperor Xuande's designated ministers, and the case will inevitably be revealed to the world, which is definitely a scene that the behind-the-scenes inspirer does not want to see.

Therefore, the mastermind behind the scenes will definitely exacerbate the situation and speed up the progress of the situation, and letting Liu Ren die in prison is undoubtedly the best way.

Although Li Yuntian suspected that Liu Ren committed suicide, he could not rule out the possibility of his murder under the current circumstances, after all, the behind-the-scenes instigator tried his best to frame him, and he must have made careful preparations, which made any possibility possible.

The reason why he didn't let Chen Muyi send someone to Shuntianfu to investigate the progress of the case was because there was no need to know the result of the torture, if he didn't guess wrong, the other party would definitely leave vague evidence to point at him insinuatingly, so as to give people room for reverie and make the outside world suspect that he had done it.

Since the main messenger behind the scenes was in the shadows, Li Yuntian simply waited for the other party to play his cards, and he wanted to see what tricks the other party had to perform.

Although the matter of Liu Ren's poisoning should be strictly observed by the order of the Tianfu Mansion Yin and not to be disclosed to the outside world, the interpersonal relations in the capital are complicated, and there is no impermeable wall in any yamen, so the news that Liu Ren, who had sued Li Yuntian for the imperial court, died tragically in the Shuntianfu prison overnight spread all over the streets and alleys of the capital, not only the civil and military officials, but also the ordinary people.

This shocked the government and the opposition, no one would have thought that the dignified Zhenguo Guild would be involved in this kind of life lawsuit, obviously, Liu Ren, a foreigner who had traveled thousands of miles from Jiaozhi, could not have any enemies in the capital who had to kill him, if he wanted his life, then naturally it was Li Yuntian who was sued by him, could it be that Li Yuntian was angry and ordered someone to kill Liu Ren?

Therefore, in the face of Liu Ren's inexplicable death in Yingtianfu Prison, rumors spread in the capital, and the people privately discussed whether Li Yuntian instructed people to commit murder.

Emperor Xuande, who was resting on the warm couch in the East Nuan Pavilion, was furious when he learned the news, and while coughing, he ordered the Shuntian Mansion Yin to investigate the matter thoroughly, and if he couldn't find out the reason, he, the Shuntian Mansion Yin, would not do it.

Seeing that Emperor Xuande was angry, the sweaty Shuntian Mansion Yin Wei reluctantly withdrew from the Dongnuan Pavilion, he didn't want to be planted in Liu Ren's case, so he personally went to the prison to interrogate the relevant people involved in the case, and beat those people to cry and cry for their fathers and mothers, and their skin was open.

Not only that, but Shuncheonfu Fu Yin also sent a large number of people to investigate the families, friends and people who came into contact with those involved in the case, hoping to find clues from them.

The so-called hard work pays off, and that night Shuntianfu Fu Yin got a useful clue from a casino, and on the night of the two days before the incident, a cook in the Shuntianfu prison suddenly had money, and not only paid off the gambling debts he had owed before, but also lost two or three hundred taels of silver without changing his face.

Shuntianfu Fu Yin immediately interrogated the cook, who had been beaten and bruised, and asked him about the money, and the cook defended that he had picked up a total of more than 1,000 taels of silver tickets, and he used half of them to bury the remaining half under a big tree in the courtyard of his home.

Although the cook swore that he had picked up the silver tickets, how could Shuntianfu Yin believe such a ridiculous statement, and while letting people continue to torture the cook, he sent people to dig up the silver tickets and search the cook's house thoroughly.

The searchers quickly dug up hundreds of taels of silver from the courtyard of the cook's house, and then found a small porcelain bottle containing half a bottle of arsenic under a brick in front of the stove.

At this time, the cook naturally became a suspect in poisoning Liu Ren, and the Shuntian Mansion Yin saw that he was alive and dead and did not open his mouth to explain honestly, so he asked the cook's family to be arrested, and prepared to torture his family in front of the cook to extract a confession.

Seeing this, the cook couldn't bear it any longer, and finally opened his mouth to confess, saying that the money and arsenic were given to him by a stranger, and asked him to find an opportunity to poison Liu Ren in the prison.

Although he knew that this was a capital crime, because he owed a lot of money to the casino at that time, he had no choice but to take a risk, taking advantage of the fact that the people in the room were not prepared, and put arsenic in Liu Ren's meal.

As for the stranger, the cook said that he had never seen him before, and only knew that he spoke with a North Naoli accent, and that he didn't know anything else.

Shuntianfu Mansion Yin was relieved after the confession of the cook, anyway, he found the person who poisoned him, and the rest of the matter was to track down the whereabouts of the stranger.

Early the next morning, Shuntianfu Yin hurriedly entered the palace to report Liu Ren'an's progress to Emperor Xuande, and at the same time, a middle-aged woman with two children of about five or six years old sounded the drum of grievances in front of the Shuntianfu Mansion, the middle-aged woman claimed to be Liu Ren's wife, and wanted to seek justice for the dead Liu Ren, attracting many pedestrians to watch.

Seeing that there were more and more pedestrians gathering, the officials of the Shuntian Mansion hurriedly brought Liu Ren's wife, who was crying bitterly and accusing Li Yuntian of "crimes", into the courtyard, where a magistrate from the Shuntian Mansion opened a court trial.

Because Liu Ren's wife claimed that it was Li Yuntian who killed Liu Ren, the magistrate of Shuntian Mansion felt powerless about it, and he could not send Li Yuntian to the court for trial, according to the process, if you want to try an important minister of Li Yuntian's level, you must first get the permission of Emperor Xuande, and he can't enter the palace at all, so he can only report to the top and finally ask for instructions from Yin of Shuntianfu Mansion.

After Liu Ren's wife made such a fuss, it not only made Liu Ren's death more confusing, but also made the people of the capital more interested in this matter.

Although the spearhead of the Liu Ren incident was directed at Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian, as the person concerned, did not seem to be alarmed, and did not inquire about the matter at all, and still ran at both ends of the lecture hall and the palace as usual every day, and handled the official affairs at hand in an orderly manner, which surprised everyone, and no one expected that Li Yuntian would be able to calm down at this time.

Li Yuntian did this not because he was arrogant, but because Liu Ren's case involved him, his best choice now was to stay away from this case, so as not to let people catch him and say that he interfered in the handling of the case, and at the same time wait for the person hiding behind the scenes to continue to make moves.