"Oh!!" Zhao Yu was shocked and hurriedly defended, "Sir, please don't talk nonsense! I wouldn't dare to do this even if I had a hundred courages. That guy... that guy really committed suicide out of fear of crime!"
"Yeah?"
Xu Zun stared into Zhao Yu's eyes, which made Zhao Yu's heart tremble.
"Sir," Zhao Yu quickly explained, "just now, my brothers and I were eating noodles outside. You all can testify for me!"
"Then tell me, what happened just now?" Xu Zun asked.
"Just now..." Zhao Yu replied, "I sent you to the county government and then came to the South Prison. The meal time has passed, and the brothers were hungry, so I asked someone to prepare a few bowls of Yangchun noodles, and planned to interrogate You after eating.
Dalang! I didn’t expect..."
"When you came to the prison, was You Dalang still alive?" Xu Zun asked.
"Alive, of course he is alive!" Zhao Yu replied, "Because we had to prepare for the interrogation, we locked him in an inner cell and were watched by two jailers. I even went over to take a look at him and found that he was alive and well."
The so-called inner prison refers to the cell where felons are held.
"Later, those two rice pails were in need of urination and left for a while!" Zhao Yu continued, "When they returned, they found that the man was dead, and it was only the time for a cup of tea!"
The time for a cup of tea is roughly equal to 10 minutes.
Xu Zun thought for a moment and asked in a low voice: "While the two of them were leaving, who else had been to the inner prison?"
"No!" Zhao Yu was very sure, "There is only one way to the inner prison. We had been eating noodles outside at that time. If someone went in, there is no way we wouldn't know about it."
"Then..." Xu Zun asked again, "Is there something wrong with these two jailers?"
"Ah!?" Zhao Yu heard what Xu Zun meant and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Sir, it's absolutely impossible! You know their rules. The key to the cell is carried on the cell leader, and they can't open the door at all.
ah!"
oh?
Xu Zun retrieved the memory, and as Zhao Yu said, because he was worried that the prisoners would snatch the keys through the fence, the keys to the prison cells for felons were generally not given to the guards, and were all under the unified control of the cell leader.
"Then..." Xu Zun asked hurriedly, "Where is the cell leader?"
"The cell boss was still eating out! He ordered our Yangchun noodles," Zhao Yu explained. "After we found out that You Dalang had committed suicide, we saw that the door couldn't be opened, so we simply broke the lock!"
Xu Zun took a look and found that the big lock of the cell had indeed been broken open.
Seeing this situation, he fell into deep thought again.
At the beginning, the reason why he bluffed Zhao Yu was because if You Dalang was a homicide, the murderer must be a powerful person with martial arts skills.
Among all the detectives, only Zhao Yu fits the bill the most.
However, according to Zhao Yu's confession, he did not have the conditions to commit the crime.
Now, the lock has not moved and the cell cannot be entered. Could it be that... You Dalang really just committed suicide!?
"Sir!" Zhao Yu said, "Are you worrying too much? Isn't it just right that You Dalang is dead? This way, he won't talk nonsense!
"You don't know, this guy has a bad mouth. When he was first escorted in, he kept saying bad things about you and Chun Niang.
"Because of this, I put him in the inner cell. Anyway, there is no one here. Let him shout as much as he wants!"
"Oh, is it so?"
Xu Zun's heart sank, and he suddenly thought of a question. If You Dalang still wanted to slander him, why was he willing to commit suicide in prison?
And more importantly, if he had already decided to commit suicide, why didn't he commit suicide in front of the jailer instead of hitting the wall when no one was around?
strangeness!
It’s so strange!
From the tryst with Chun Niang, to Chun Niang's death, to being framed, and to You Dalang's inexplicable suicide in prison, this series of events is very abnormal.
However, he didn't catch anything.
Are you overthinking it, or is there really something hidden behind this?
"Sir," Zhao Yu asked, "why did you send people to blockade the silk and satin shop? Is it... hmm? Hehehehe..."
Zhao Yu did not say the rest of the words, but from the flattering look in his eyes, one could guess that he probably thought Xu Zun was thinking about You Dalang's family property!
You Dalang has no relatives or friends in Xinye County. Now that both of his family are dead, his family property will naturally be confiscated.
As for how much money will be given to the public at that time, it is naturally up to Xu Zun, the county captain, to have the final say.
Zhao Yu asked this, presumably because he wanted to get a piece of the action.
However, how could Xu Zun think so much?
Until the facts of the case are investigated, he will never feel at ease.
"Captain Zhao," Xu Zun thought for a moment and asked, "Is it true that if you want to reach the inner cell, you have to come from the row of cells in front?"
"This..." Zhao Yu didn't know what was going on and nodded in reply, "Yes, there is only one way here!"
"Then go and ask the prisoners in that row of cells now," Xu Zun ordered, "see if they saw anyone else entering the inner cells just now?"
"This... okay!" Zhao Yu frowned and agreed reluctantly.
"Also," Xu Zun said again, "go and call those two losers just now. I have something to ask them!"
"Okay, okay..." Zhao Yu turned around and left angrily.
Xu Zun returned to the cell again and carefully observed the crime scene again.
There were messy footprints everywhere inside and outside the cell, and the scene had been damaged.
He then emphatically inspected the back of You Dalang's head and collar, wanting to see if there were any traces of external force?
It turned out that the bun on the back of the head was still intact, the collar was relatively intact, and nothing could be seen.
Later, he searched You Dalang again, but still found nothing.
Comparing the collision height, there is also no problem...
Tsk tsk...
Xu Zun smacked his lips and thought, this You Dalang died so neatly, if it was suicide, then it means that his determination to die was decisive enough!
But if it was a homicide, then the murderer's methods were so professional that there were no flaws at all.
So...could there really be such a murderer?
Soon, two jailers came to Xu Zun tremblingly and told Xu Zun what happened.
They frankly admitted their dereliction of duty and begged Xu Zun to be lenient and not to punish them.
For this reason, the two even took out five taels of silver in an attempt to bribe Xu Zun.
Xu Zun immediately scolded them righteously, warned them not to do the same again, and confiscated their bribes.
Next, Xu Zun asked them an important question:
Did You Dalang show any abnormalities before he died?
The two of them tried to recall, saying that after being imprisoned, Nayou Dalang had been cursing Xu Zun and angrily scolding him and Chun Niang for all kinds of sloppiness, but there was nothing unusual or any other signs.
"Sir," one of them added, "Actually... the reason why we went out to use the toilet was because we were annoyed by the scolding by that guy, so that's why we lingered outside for so long!"
"Yes!" another echoed, "We originally wanted to give him a beating, but the key is at the end of the cell and we can't get in!"
oh……
Xu Zun realized that there was a bug here. Even if the jailer saw You Dalang commit suicide by hitting the wall with his own eyes, even if he couldn't get into the cell, he still couldn't stop him!
However, this once again confirmed Xu Zun's previous question: why didn't You Dalang commit suicide in front of the jailer?
It seems... that his death was a bit too fitting, right?
