Comprehensive Wu Jianghu: I am Dali Temple Minister

"Who discovered the dead first?"

Following Yang Qingyuan's questioning, a maid stood up, but she was only fifteen or sixteen years old. If she was placed in modern times, she should still be a student.

"My lord, it was the servant girl who discovered it first."

"What's your name?"

"Slave Lianxiang!"

Maybe it was because she had never met such a big official before, but the maid kept her head down, her posture was humble, and her body was even trembling slightly.

Yang Qingyuan could even clearly see the scars on his arms exposed between his sleeves.

"You raise your head and say, don't panic, talk about the process of your discovery carefully, don't miss any details!"

Yang Qingyuan's voice has always been gentle, and the thinking of modern people allows Yang Qingyuan to maintain basic respect for people. Whether she is a commoner or a slave, she is first of all a person.

Seemingly infected by Yang Qingyuan's voice, Lianxiang calmed down obviously.

"Early this morning, the servants brought water to wash the master as usual, but the door of the master's room has not been opened for a long time."

While listening, Yang Qingyuan observed the maid's expression and movements.

"When did you come?"

"It should be the moment of the hour, the master usually wakes up at this time." The maid seemed a little nervous.

"You keep talking."

"Because the master usually sleeps, the door is locked, so the servant waited outside the door for a while, but it was too late to see the master open the door. The servant waited for about half an hour, and felt that something was wrong, so he went up to call the door, but There was no one answering in the house, so the servant immediately went to inform Steward Li."

"Have you ever tried to push the door before notifying the housekeeper!"

"This..., the servant just knocked on the door, never pushed the door!"

"Then the window was opened at that time?!"

Lianxiang panicked, she couldn't remember Yang Qingyuan's questions.

"Slave... I really don't remember!" Lianxiang was so nervous that she couldn't answer two consecutive questions, she was about to cry.

"Don't worry, it doesn't matter." Yang Qingyuan comforted Lianxiang, "If you think of any details, you can come to Dali Temple and tell me anytime!"

Then Yang Qingyuan turned his attention to a man with a goatee and the appearance of a housekeeper beside him, "Are you the housekeeper?"

"The young one is Li Zhong, the housekeeper of the Li residence!"

"Are you the second batch of people who came here?"

When dealing with a middle-aged man with a beard, Yang Qingyuan didn't need to be so gentle, and returned to his original coldness.

"Master, that's right!"

"Tell me about the situation at that time."

Li Zhong is different from the little maid Lianxiang just now, he is a person who has seen the world, and his speech is very organized.

"Responding to what your lord said, I heard what Lianxiang said at the time, and I felt that something was wrong. I personally brought a few people to the bedroom. The younger one came to the door and called several times, but there was no response from the door. Just in case, I broke down the door of the master's room with a few servants. As soon as we knocked open the door, we... saw the master, he was already lying on the couch and breathless..."

When it came to the end, Li Zhong even choked up and couldn't speak. Anyone who saw him couldn't help but praise him, a loyal servant should be like this.

Yang Qingyuan frowned slightly, "You said you broke open the door, how many of you did it, how many times."

Li Zhong seemed to be stopped by this question, and thought about it carefully.

"At that time, the little one was watching from the side. The ones who knocked on the door should be Ah Fu, Wangcai, and Gensheng from the mansion. It seemed that they knocked on the door six or seven times before they broke open. To be specific, but the little one was worried. , I can’t remember clearly, but it should be roughly like this.”

At some point, Di Zhiyuan had already checked the room and stood aside, listening to Li Zhong describe the situation at that time.

Yang Qingyuan thought for a while and said, "Did the three people who hit the door bring them?"

Hearing this, Li Zhong immediately wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeves, and pointed out: "My lord, the three of them are the three who hit the door at that time."

When the three of them were pointed out, they were a little nervous.

"You don't need to panic. I'm just asking about the situation at that time. You can answer truthfully. But if someone deceives each other with lies, the punishment in Dali Temple is not for show." Yang Qingyuan glanced at Li Zhong at the side, and then said calmly , without a hint of anger.

"Yes! Little one understands!"

"The villain must answer truthfully."

Startled by Yang Qingyuan's words, the three of them replied one after another.

"At that time, how many times did you hit the door?"

"The little ones bumped eight times!"

One of the servants named Wangcai rushed forward and replied, "The first time, the young one hit it alone, but the door of the master's room is really strong, so the young one asked Gensheng and Ah Fu to hit the door together, the three of us It took a total of seven times to knock the door open."

"Correct!"

"That's it! My lord!"

The remaining two also echoed.

"After you knocked open the door, did you notice anything strange in this room!"

After listening to Yang Qingyuan's words, the three of them looked at each other and thought hard for a while.

"My lord, the three of us were originally servants in the outer courtyard, and we have never entered the master's bedroom. We really can't think of anything unusual."

After asking a few more details, Yang Qingyuan stopped asking when he saw that he couldn't get any useful clues.

The tool man at the side - Tie Chengxuan, truthfully recorded the process of the inquiry.

"lady!"

"The concubine is here!"

"How is your master's health recently? Has he suffered from any hidden diseases!?"

When Li Qinshi was questioned by Yang Qingyuan, she was thinking about it.

Li Zhong, the housekeeper at the side, said: "My lord, although my master is nearly [-] years old, he is a martial arts practitioner. His body is strong. He was still in good spirits yesterday. There is absolutely no possibility that he died of illness."

Yang Qingyuan glanced at Mrs. Li and Butler Li, and always felt that there was something awkward, but he couldn't tell where it was?

"Zhiyuan, do you have anything else to ask?" Yang Qingyuan asked Di Zhiyuan in secret using the Taoism's method of sound transmission through the sky.

Di Zhiyuan's martial arts attainments were far from this, so he could only shake his head, indicating that he didn't have any for the time being.

Yang Qingyuan thought for a while, and wanted to bring Li Bailiang's body back to the yamen, and hand it over for an inquest to find out the cause of death.

"Forgive me, ma'am, the cause of Master Li's death has not yet been ascertained, I need to bring this body back to the yamen to find out the truth, and to do justice to my husband, I should return the body."

Li Qinshi, when she heard this request, her face showed embarrassment, and she didn't know whether she should agree or not.

"Ma'am, the master's body is still cold, how can the murderer be allowed to go unpunished? This is what Mr. Yang and the others need to solve the case. Madam must not refuse!"

Seeing his wife hesitated, Li Zhong immediately stepped forward to persuade her.

Hearing what his housekeeper said, Li Qinshi, who was hesitant at first, seemed to have made up his mind.

"My lord, please take good care of my husband's remains. If you can find the murderer for him, the little lady will set up a plaque to pray for your lord for the rest of her life."

After Yang Qingyuan nodded in agreement, he ordered to go back to the Yamen.

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