Chapter 110 The person on trial
As soon as you enter the prison of Tingwei Temple, there is a musty smell etched on the tip of your nose.
It's like telling everyone who enters here that their ultimate destination is to rot in despair in the quagmire.
Zhou Zhao rubbed Li Youdao's imperial history token with his hand and walked into the room where she was interrogated by Chang Zuoping.
I don't know when a bloody wooden frame was erected in this room. Charcoals were burning in the copper basin with edges, and the triangular soldering iron was as red as the burning flames.
When the young man in the room saw someone coming in, he immediately stood up.
He was wearing a fine brocade, with a jade crown on his head, and a jade pendant with Chinese characters hanging on his waist. When he saw Zhou Zhaotong, Min Zangzhi and Su Changying following her, the young man opened his mouth angrily and said, " My brothers all drowned because of Zhaixinglou. What do you mean by Tingwei Temple instead of arresting the murderer? "
"Is there any king's law in this world? Mr. Xiao Zhou, you and General Su saved us. Ordinarily I shouldn't say this, but you must give me an explanation!"
He has been waiting here for a long time. Although he can't see the sky outside, it should be dark by the time.
Zhou Zhao glanced at him indifferently and threw the token in his hand on the table.
The moment the metal fell, it made a crisp sound.
"Your surname is Cheng, from Zhangjun, the ancient state of Wu?"
The man was startled and looked at Zhou Zhao with a surprised look on his face, "How do you know, sir!"
As he spoke, he remembered that Min Zangzhi had made a register of everyone present, and felt that it was natural for him to get up. He nodded with some displeasure, "My name is Cheng Ying, and I am indeed from Zhang's hometown. I recently came to Chang'an to get married... …The family is considered a wealthy one in Guzhang, and the elders in the family have a long history with Du Dong’s family.”
"So my brothers Cheng Ren and Cheng Yuan and I specially booked a private room in advance and sent congratulations. It was also a courtesy to the Du Dong family."
As the young man spoke, his eyes turned red. He took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his eyes.
"But who could have imagined that the Star-Zhaing Tower suddenly collapsed, and both my brother and my younger brother drowned in the water... There were three of us when we came, but I was the only one left on the way back. How can I explain to my tribe!"
Chengyuan?
Zhou Zhao felt quite sad when he heard this name.
She finally remembered why she felt familiar when she saw the corpse fished out by the body fishermen. When she was in Tianying City, she saw Li Zhan fanning Cheng Yuyuan. He had red lips and white teeth, and he had a good appearance.
And the handsome young man who died was Li Zhan.
It seems that after Cheng Yuyuan took Li Zhan and Xie Ling to Tianying City, Li Yuan, who was already an orphan, was adopted by the Cheng family and renamed Cheng Yuan.
Zhou Zhao thought and looked towards the door. At the other end, Liu Huang had already ordered the jailers to carry the two corpses of Cheng Erlang over.
Her eyes fell on the corpse that she found to be problematic. There was a sapphire hanging on the waist of the corpse. There was a protruding circle on the jade. Instead of the character "成", it was engraved with the character "ren".
Zhou Zhao suddenly slapped the table. The token on the table bounced up and landed on the table again with a crisp sound.
Cheng Ying was so frightened that even the tears seemed to be frozen on her face.
"Therefore, Zhang Cheng's family has a sapphire hanging on the waist of the direct branch. There is a circle in the jade, and the name is engraved in the circle instead of the surname. The same as the side branch, the single character "成" is engraved. How can Cheng Ren be your brother?"
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Cheng Ying's face turned pale, obviously she didn't expect that Zhou Zhao, an official from Kyoto, would actually know the affairs of an ordinary family in Wu State.
He waved his hand hurriedly, "Cheng Ren is indeed the direct branch, and Cheng Yuan and I are the descendants of the collateral branch. However, because we are from the same clan, we are used to referring to each other as brothers, so the distinction is not so clear..."
Zhou Zhao's expression was indifferent, but Cheng Ying's scalp felt numb when he saw it.
He clenched his fists and looked at Zhou Zhao stiffly, "Master Xiao Zhou, I don't know what mistake I made. Why should I sit here and be interrogated like a prisoner? Tingwei Temple should not interrogate Chu now." You? No matter how you look at the collapse of the Star Tower, she cannot be exempted. "It's not that you are being interrogated like a prisoner, but you are the prisoner."
Cheng Ying opened her eyes in disbelief, "What?"
Zhou Zhao looked at Liu Huang in front of the door. Liu Huang's bamboo hat moved. "The deceased was Cheng Ren. There was black blood in his mouth, nose and ears. I used a silver needle to probe his stomach. The needle turned black. It was poisoning." Zhao, the poison should be arsenic.”
"Cut open the abdomens of Cheng Yuan and Cheng Ren, and compare the gastric incisions of the two. There are a large number of black beans in Cheng Ren's abdomen, but there are not any in Cheng Yuan's abdomen. Prick the beans with a silver needle, and the beans are highly poisonous."
"So, Cheng Ren did not drown because of the collapse of the Star Building, but he had been poisoned before that."
Cheng Ying's expression changed drastically, and his lips couldn't help but tremble, "It's impossible...how is it possible..."
Zhou Zhao looked at him quietly, "Corpses don't lie. Cheng Ren was dead before the Zhaixing Tower collapsed, so he couldn't inhale water into his lungs after entering the water. Aren't you very clear about all this? After all, he was dead. You made an appointment with Cheng Yuan to poison Cheng Ren at Zhaixing Tower at noon today.”
"I didn't! Mr. Xiao Zhou, am I crazy? I poisoned my clan brother in public. If Zhaixing Tower is fine today and the body is lying in the private room, wouldn't Chengyuan and I be seeking death?"
As he spoke, his eyes fell on Su Changying, then on Min Zangzhi, and finally on Liu Huang at the door.
It wasn't until she saw Chang Zuoping standing behind Liu Huang with his arms folded that Cheng Ying cheered up.
"My lord, you must make the decision for me! This Lord Zhou casually slandered me as a murderer without any evidence! I am not a murderer, I am just a relative seeking justice for my brother. I have been miserable enough today. Do you still want to suffer such slander? ”
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Chang Zuoping looked over coldly, "Zhou Zhao, there is evidence, so don't imitate Min Zangzhi's bells and whistles."
Min Zangzhi had a look of resentment on his face. How could he be so fancy?
He just played the flute at noon and was disliked; now when he makes a saw-shaped gourd, he is still called flashy?
Chu You is really innocent and simple, but Chang Zuoping is really blind!
Chang Zuoping did not feel Min Zangzhi's objection, but nodded towards Zhou Zhao.
Zhou Zhao cupped his hands and said, "Yes, Chang Zuoping."
As she spoke, she looked at Cheng Ying in front of her and shouted towards the door, "Bring me some swill. The beans are not easy to digest and are still in Cheng Xiaolangjun's belly. Now there are two ways to go. The first is to cut open Open your belly and take a look to see if you have used black beans like Cheng Ren.”
"The second I pour you a bucket of swill, you will naturally vomit out the contents in your belly. It can also be seen whether you are like Cheng Yuan, without even touching a bean."
"Dr. Jiu, who passed on the dishes, has confirmed it. One of the dishes you ordered today is sucrose black beans...Don't say that you and Cheng Yuan are filial sons and grandsons. You gave all this dish to Cheng Ren, and you can eat it yourself." Don’t stick.”
Zhou Zhao said and clapped his hands.
The jailer who had been prepared outside the door walked in with a bucket of swill and a grin on his face.
As soon as the sour smell soaring into the sky came closer, Cheng Ying couldn't bear it and covered her mouth and nose, ran to the corner and retched.
He vomited several times, looked at the jailer who was getting closer and closer in horror, and shouted, "No need to force-feed! I didn't eat!"
The jailer glanced at Zhou Zhao, saw Zhou Zhao nodded, and walked out with some regretful swill.
Cheng Ying took a deep breath, with a cry in her voice, "Does Mr. Xiao Zhou want to give in? Cheng Yuan and I don't like sweets, so we didn't use beans. What's wrong with that? This doesn't prove at all that it's us Conspired to poison and kill Cheng Ren. ”
"I still say the same thing, why do we kill people in public?"
Zhou Zhao clicked his tongue twice, Cheng Ying was really good at acting.
"Of course you two knew early on that the Star Building would definitely collapse today."