The Legacy of the First Auxiliary House of the Tang Dynasty

After hearing Fang Yiai's words, Chen Muzhi didn't think much, just paused for a moment, and then agreed.

Fang Yiai didn't expect him to agree so happily.

He followed Chen Muzhi through the long corridor and the winding alley, even though the alley was just a narrow path between two tall mansions.

The road was not muddy, but it was definitely not smooth and smooth, and there were no tall trees on either side. They just walked quietly, and both of them were very silent.

Fang Yiai's expression was calm, and she appeared to be at ease, but Xiao Qi who was following behind him was dismissed by Chen Muzhi at the intersection earlier, Fang Yiai signaled Xiao Qi to be obedient and refused to follow, Xiao Qi had to be a little worried Looking at the back of my own Erlang slowly disappearing...

Fang Yiai thought that the place with such a strange location was not Dali Temple, nor was it anywhere in the palace. He also thought that Chen Muzhi would blindfold him, as if he had gone to a mysterious and terrifying place.

Facts have proved that everything is his overthinking.

Fang Yi'ai's thoughts jumped out of his mind, but his face still maintained a cold expression, his back was still straight, and he followed Chen Muzhi into the dungeon.

In fact, no matter how the dungeon turns, it is still behind the Tai Chi Palace and the East Palace, but it is separated by a street, three sets of high courtyard walls, and then passes by a mansion courtyard, entering the dungeon from a bedroom.

It seems that in nine cases out of ten, this is where the servants and maids who "offended" in the palace are dealt with.

Sure enough, as soon as Fang Yiai came in, she smelled a decaying smell, tinged with blood.

It was eerie, although the conditions in the cells at Dali Temple were also poor, but it was not so scary.

There are eunuchs inside, and they are all strong and strong, with bulging temples, and some eunuchs even have slightly green stubble. Obviously, not all eunuchs have been castrated since childhood.

Fang Yiai knew this. After many adult men were eunuchs, they were actually not very different from the outside men in terms of body shape and appearance.

Not all eunuchs have high-pitched voices and twitchy manners, most of them are quite normal, but because they serve the nobles, their waists are slightly bent on weekdays, and their attitudes are more "gentle" and "kind", and they are particularly arrogant. , in today's Taiji Palace and East Palace, it will not last long.

The first thing Fang Yiai wanted to see when she came here was the nurse's body, accompanied by two servants, and on the other side stood Chen Muzhi and Fang Yiai.

The two foremen followed Chen Taishi about their autopsy results from the beginning to the end. As a result, Fang Yiai circled around the body of Princess Gaoyang's nanny several times, put on sheepskin gloves, and touched the body for a long time.

Not to mention that Chen Muzhi lowered his eyes after watching it, making it difficult for people to see his expression clearly, let's say that the two gangsters knew that this person might still be their colleague when they saw Fang Yiai's actions. If you don't like it, it will bring some color.

Chen Muzhi's eyes seemed to fall on them, and the two assistants trembled all over, not daring to provoke the King of Hades, they hurriedly followed Fang Yiai's ass, answering every question, not answering any questions, not daring to think about it superfluous thing.

Fang Yiai was engrossed, so naturally he didn't bother to pay attention to these two little people. This is already a very powerful work of Datang, and he actually admires it very much. In terms of the advancement of the profession, Datang's work should be leading the world at this time.

In the process of looking at and touching the corpse, he really talked to the coworkers, but in the end, the two coworkers were reluctant to part. Identity is definitely not enough.

At this moment, Fang Yiai has confirmed with Chen Muzhi that Princess Gaoyang's nanny did "suicide", a very traditional way of suicide - biting her tongue and dying!

This nanny is very violent, how much strength is needed to kill herself by biting her tongue... Ha ha.

Not to mention the crime of the watchman, but only this biting of the tongue——

"Chen Taishi, suicide by biting your tongue, do you think you can really succeed?" Fang Yiai asked.

Chen Muzhi was silent, and after a while, he said, "I've seen it before, but it's rare."

Fang Yiai nodded, and said: "I think that after biting the tongue, the cause of death is usually blood collapse and choking. It is very rare for people to die because of tongue biting."

As soon as he said this theory, the two assistants shook their heads, but nodded in a sudden realization.

In the actual handling of cases, there are many people who bite their tongues to commit suicide, but most of them died of sequelae after suffering a lot of torture. Because they could not eat, their tongues were infected and festered, and they were tortured to death.

There are really not many people who succeed all at once, except for professional dead men and coincidences.

If it is said that a dead man wants to commit suicide, he usually hides poison in the tooth socket. If the assassination fails, he is afraid of being tortured to reveal his secret, so he bites the poison in the tooth socket and dies.

But there are many such accidents. Sometimes the poison is too much to see blood and seal the throat. It is not uncommon for him to kill himself before the assassination operation begins.

Unless there is a big conspiracy to cultivate such dead men who can't kill themselves with one blow, most people in the world still want to live.

"Do you think there is something strange about her death?" Chen Muzhi asked suddenly, staring at Fang Yiai.

Fang Yiai twitched her eyebrows slightly, and replied, "Obviously."

Hearing that Chen Muzhi was still very quiet, as if he had guessed this long ago, but the two assistants were not busy denying Fang Yiai's speculation, but thought about it, and looked suspicious.

Chen Muzhi and Fang Yiai looked at the two of them, and one of them said suspiciously: "Chen Taishi, son-in-law, it seems that the prisoner died of suffocation."

After finishing this, another operation has already started. After looking at the nanny's throat, I found that she was indeed a symptom of suffocation and suffocation.

"No, if that's the case, she still committed suicide." Fang Yiai stared at the corpse for a long time, then turned her head and said to Chen Muzhi: "You should consult the imperial physician, I suspect that she has taken medicine or food to promote blood circulation."

This is the only way to commit suicide by biting your tongue, blood splatters, and a lot of bleeding... Fang Yiai frowned. What he didn't say was that the other party might use other things——Princess Gaoyang's nanny is strong and plump, and her nutritional status is too good. There is a high probability that she will die There are three high diseases in later generations, and I am afraid that under the effect of some drugs, it may not be said that hypertensive intracranial hemorrhage is the real cause of her death.

...It's hard to say these things, the detection method is too crude, so it can only be presumed.

Also, if the nanny wanted to commit suicide, she would look for life and death the moment she was caught. How could she choose to die and be freed after being tortured for a day.

Fang Yiai looked at the instruments of torture in the dungeon, because she was the nanny of the princess after all, and Datang now pays attention to "benevolence and morality". , it is not as brutal as the top ten tortures of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in later generations. In order to keep a living mouth and a confession, torture is not to be beaten into a trick or randomly sentenced to bite, and the torture is also limited.

Chen Muzhi didn't talk about these things, Fang Yiai understood clearly the last time at Dali Temple.

If not, he wouldn't have said a few tortures, and those uninformed people who were frightened were shivering and shitting.

Seeing Fang Yiai's gaze, Chen Muzhi also looked over, seeing that Fang Yiai was actually looking at those instruments of torture, somehow he also thought of the "torture" that Fang Yiai once said, his face became strange, and then there was another scene Gloomy, making the air in the dungeon even colder.

Fang Yiai was pondering in her mind, followed Chen Muzhi to another interrogation room, and interrogated the people the nanny had contacted before she died.

The meal was delivered by an eunuch from the palace, in his thirties and forties, he looked forty or fifty years old, with gray hair, stooped body, cloudy eyes, and the appearance of a depressed and honest man.

There are many people like this in the palace, they are all old and cannot be used in front of the master, and they are sent out of the palace. If they are lucky, they can still work in a place like this, looking for a bite to eat.

"Young Chen Fan has met Taishi."

His surname is Chen, and he is still from Chen Muzhi's family, so Fang Yiai gave Chen Mu a glance.

Chen Muzhi was completely unmoved, and the eunuch who was kneeling on the ground lowered his head and accepted the interrogation.

"Did you say anything to the prisoner after you went in that day?" Chen Muzhi asked, flipping through the file in his hand, and looked again at the people who went to and from the dungeon that day, including all the people who passed by the door and were on duty around. Even those who have never entered, even the whereabouts of cats and dogs and various sounds are recorded.

Fang Yiai took a look at the dossier and wrote it down, and returned it to Chen Muzhi not long after, causing Chen Muzhi to take a look at him.

He knew that Fang Yiai had the ability of photographic memory, so it seemed that what his master Li Chunfeng said was true.

Chen Muzhi thought of what his master had said, asking him to get closer to Fang Yiai, his eyes flickered, and soon there was no movement.

At this time, Chen Fan who was being interrogated answered Chen Muzhi's question without any flaws in his words. Chen Muzhi motioned for someone to take him away and interrogated several other people.

They were all selected by him, involving more than a dozen people, and half a day's work has passed.

Fang Yiai didn't find any clues, but he always felt that something was wrong.

After thinking about it, he asked Chen Muzhi where the people who were interrogated lived.

Including Chen Fan, there are three people who have family property outside the palace. The so-called family business means having "sons and daughters", whether they were born before entering the palace, adopted sons and daughters, or married to each other...

"Go to Chen Fan's place first." Fang Yiai asked Chen Muzhi after thinking about it for a while, and found information about Chen Fan's family members and other information from the information he had just written down in his mind.

This Chen Fan couldn't tell that he actually adopted a clansman's baby as his son, and the godchildren of other people were all adopted, or they knew his godson, and even one person simply adopted a young eunuch as his godson, in fact, it was just for the sake of retirement.

Chen Muzhi frowned, he just reminded Fang Yiai, and said, "I have been to the Chen family."

——There is nothing wrong with that.

This was what Chen Muzhi meant, but Chen Muzhi was not conceited, he wanted to see what Fang Yiai could discover.

The saint was furious because of Princess Jinyang's matter, but the nanny next to Princess Gaoyang died, but nothing was found in the interrogation.

Although Chen Muzhi didn't take it seriously, he always didn't like others to criticize him. What's more, he wanted to see the expressions of the saints when they knew the true colors of those femme fatales in his harem...

Fang Yiai met Chen Fan's son who was a few years old, and there was indeed no clue as Chen Muzhi said. It was just that Fang Yiai heard the grasshopper calling before leaving, which made him notice something.

——The little grasshopper cage on the son of Chen Fan.

"That's interesting." Pausing her steps, Fang Yiai raised the corners of her mouth, her eyes beckoning Chen Muzhi to look.

Chen Muzhi noticed it and reacted immediately.

The cage was actually made of gold and silver, and Chen Fan's family was not rich, so they could only be regarded as a middle-of-the-road family in Chang'an City.

"The prisoner also has a grandson—" Chen Muzhi said in a deep voice, confirming Fang Yiai's conjecture.

Fang Yiai let out an "ah" in her heart, and looked at Chen Muzhi differently, this person knew exactly what he was thinking, and was quite connected with him.

Apparently the few people behind them who followed Chen Muzhi on errands hadn't figured it out and couldn't understand the riddles they were playing.

Until they rushed to Princess Gaoyang's nanny's house and took out the grasshopper cage. On the way, Fang Yiai still randomly caught a grasshopper in the grass and stuffed it in, waiting for the nanny's grandson to hear the grasshopper inside and shouted. It was only when they wanted to ask for Grasshopper that they realized that this thing did not belong to Chen Fan's family.

Chen Fan decided to bring this thing with him into the dungeon...

******

There is no need for Fang Yiai to participate in the follow-up matters. The case opened up from Chen Fan, and with Chen Muzhi's ability, it was naturally completed in one go, and the investigation continued.

Soon, in a few days.

Chen Muzhi went to Ganlu Hall and met the sage Li Shimin.