in2ebook Chapter 406 Murder Case
Chapter 406 Murder Case
"Sir, it's not good, it's not good."
A cry of surprise came from far away, interrupting the thoughts of a middle-aged man who was sitting in the room checking files.
The middle-aged man frowned as he looked at the man who ran in, and said unhappily, "I am indeed dying, but you don't need to remind me."
The middle-aged man was called Ding Yuan, the county magistrate of Qingyuan County. The man who ran into the room was the head of the Qingyuan County police, Li Hu.
In the past month, two murders have occurred in Qingyuan County, and the victims in both murders died of poisoning.
This incident caused quite a stir in this remote small county town, and it was such a big uproar that it gave Ding Yuan a headache.
What made him even more stressed was that he was under pressure from his superiors to solve the case as quickly as possible.
Li Hu wiped the sweat off his face and said with an apologetic smile, "My lord, I said the wrong thing. What I meant was, has something happened again? Someone just came to report that another person died. My lord, please go and take a look."
Ding Yuan jumped up in shock and immediately walked out of his seat, asking as he walked quickly outside: "Who is the deceased? How did he die? When did he die? Where was the body found?"
Li Hu: "Well, I don't know who died. The man hurried over to report the case, but I don't know how he died. He died in the inn, and I don't know when he died.
The person who reported the case said that the waiter knocked on the door this morning to wake up the customer, but after knocking for a long time no one came to open the door. He was afraid that something had happened to the customer, so he opened the door, and found that the customer was already dead.
Ding Yuan asked again: "Have you sent anyone to seal off the scene? Where is the coroner?"
Li Hu: "We have sent them. The coroner has already gone to the crime scene."
When Ding Yuan and his men arrived at the crime scene, they saw a handsome man in green holding a wooden shackle and winding an iron wire around it very carefully.
Ding Yuan was shocked and immediately asked, "What's going on?"
"Your Excellency," the yamen runner squatting beside the man in blue watching him wind the wire said hurriedly, "This man is related to the murder case, and we were just about to take him back for questioning. Unexpectedly, the wooden yoke we brought was broken, and he was helping us repair it."
Li Hu was furious and kicked the yamen runner, "Idiot! Can't you fix it yourself?"
The bailiff rolled on the ground and said, "Captain Li, I cannot repair it."
Ding Yuan strode over to the man and saw that the wooden yoke had broken into two pieces. He carefully used wire to tie the two ends of the broken piece together. When he saw him coming over, he apologized, "It will be fixed soon."
Ding Yuan was surprised and said, "You are also a strange person. Most people are very scared of the yamen runners. Not only are you not afraid, you even help to repair the wooden yoke."
The man in green raised his head and said, "It just happened that we caught up with him. It's just a matter of convenience."
Ding Yuan looked at him calmly, without any guilt. With his dignified demeanor, he really didn't look like a murderer. "Where are you from? What's your name?"
The man in green answered while fiddling with something in his hand: "My surname is Li, my name is Lianhua, I am from Lianhua Village, Lianhua Town, I am a traveling doctor, I came here with my wife yesterday. I have fixed it."
Having said this, he returned the repaired wooden yoke to the bailiff.
At this time, the coroner who had just finished the autopsy came over and said, "Sir, preliminary judgment is that the deceased died at midnight last night. He died of poisoning like the previous two people, and he died of the same poison."
Ding Yuan couldn't help but frown when he heard this. This man died from the same poison as in the previous two cases. It was too much of a coincidence.
He looked at the yamen runner and asked, "Have you found out who the deceased is?"
The yamen runner said, "My Lord, this man is called Sun Yan, a cloth merchant. He stayed here yesterday. The shopkeeper said that Sun Yan often went to the nearby temples, and he got to know him after staying here so many times."
Ding Yuan nodded, pointed at Li Lianhua, and asked, "What is the relationship between Sun Yan and this Doctor Li? Why do you say he is related to this case?"
The bailiff coughed and said, "According to the shopkeeper, when Doctor Li and his wife came to the store to eat yesterday, Sun Yan got drunk and flirted with his wife, and was punished by Doctor Li.
As a result, Sun Yan died today, so I said he was related to the case."
Li Lianhua said aggrievedly, "Your Excellency, please understand. My wife and I don't know him at all. How could we kill him?"
Ding Yuan glanced at him and said, "I will make my own decision on this matter."
He looked around and asked in confusion: "Why are you the only one here? Where is your wife?"
Li Lianhua touched her nose sheepishly and explained, "She should still be sleeping now. I heard that the breakfast in this store is good, so I came here to buy breakfast for her."
Ding Yuan: "Ah? Sleeping? There was a murder in this inn, and so many people come and go, how can she still sleep?"
He thought, even a pig would be awakened by now, right? Could this man be the reincarnation of the god of sleep?
Li Lianhua: "We don't live in the inn, we have another place to stay. That place is a bit far from here, so..."
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The story about Huahua helping to repair the wooden yoke is in the original novel, in the chapter about the wedding dress case. I thought it was very interesting, so I wrote it in.