"The 31st year of the Jing calendar, the ninth day of the fourth month, and the Choushi. When the prison guards in Tianzhu were inspecting the prison case, they found that King Gan was lying on the ground. The prison guard was shocked and immediately blew his whistle. When the warden brought the key to open the prison door to investigate, the person was exhausted."

The location is the Ministry of Justice Prison. To be precise, it is the Tianzhu, the special prison area.

The prisons of the Ministry of Justice are all imprisoned and repetitive criminals, while the Tianzhu is used to detain special prisoners among the repetitive criminals. The special prison area is even more unusual and is a place specially used to detain royal relatives.

It is actually very troublesome to deal with a crime committed by the royal family. Although the law is also applicable to other royal families other than the emperor, the actual situation is that even in the Ministry of Justice, people in the royal family enjoy many preferential treatments. Even if they are for death, they enjoy basic decency before death.

For example, the special prison area in the Tianzhuo is very clean and is definitely not as dirty as ordinary cells. On the contrary, it will be very tidy, and there will even be some characteristic beds and tables and benches. There will be curtains to cover when entering the toilet.

Even the diet is as satisfying as possible. You can even bring some books, paper and pens outside to pass the time.

The use of torture is rare in the royal family. Even if this is necessary, people from the royal family will take action by themselves, and will not let the people from the Ministry of Justice be affected.

However, although trouble is troublesome, the royal family has been quite abide by the rules in all generations. They may be high-profile or arrogant, but they rarely violate the law and keep the bottom line well. Therefore, the special prison area of ​​Tianzhuo is vacant all year round.

However, some time ago, King Jing and King Gan fought on Junhou Street. Not only did the monks and guards around him use all their strength, but they even took out the bows and crossbows, causing the houses on both sides of Junhou Street to be greatly affected, and many collapsed and several injured. Fortunately, no one was killed.

This incident caused anger to the emperor and ordered the Ministry of Justice to investigate and deal with it. So King Jing and King Gan were arrested and returned to be detained in the special prison area in the Heavenly Prison.

Everyone knows that this is an extraordinary period, especially when things between the prince and the prince are even more sensitive. Ma Xuanlin, the Minister of Justice, repeatedly reminded no one to be allowed to try this case, just flip-flops. After waiting for ten days and half a month, he submitted another memorial and said that the two princes knew they were wrong, and also compensated the injured for medical expenses and reconstruction of the house, and gave more compensation. I think the emperor should be able to expose the matter.

But who knew that before the memorial was put up, a major incident happened in the prison.

The Gan Wang who was locked in the T-shaped cell was dead.

The warden of the prison area was so scared that he peed his pants. Then King Jing, who was also in the special prison area, was closely protected by the royal guards who rushed in. However, without the emperor's order, King Jing still had to stay here and not leave, and even the door of the cell could not take a step.

At the same time, Ma Xuanlin, the Minister of Justice, who arrived in panic, was a little crazy. He felt like a person was in trouble at home and came from heaven. Who is so unscrupulous? Why are you so careless on his territory?

Looking at the already stiff body lying on the ground, Ma Xuanlin had the urge to resign and refused to do so. He understood that if he couldn't handle this matter well, he might have caught it in this life.

While reporting to the Left Prime Minister's Office, he sent messages to the palace. At the same time, Ma Xuanlin also found the most capable general under his command. It is necessary to check out some clues before the emperor's inquiry arrives. At least he can answer some words when asked if he is not aware of it. If he is not aware of it, he may have his head slashed in anger.

So Ma Xuanlin now hurried to go to the left prime minister Ye Lansheng to discuss countermeasures, and the matter of the death was left to the Ministry of Justice to handle.

The chief official Xue Gui rushed over when he received the news, his eyes seemed to be covered in frost. A look made people subconsciously avoid their sight. With the cold mask on his face, ordinary people didn't even dare to stand beside him.

"Who has been here at the scene?"

"The one who delivered the food at the beginning of Xu came here, and then when it was almost time for Xu to take away the dishes and chopsticks, and brought a pot of fruit wine as King Gan's previous instructions. But everyone was outside and never came in.

After the accident, the warden opened the prison door and came in. There were two doctors and three guards of the Gan Wang who rushed over after hearing the news."

Xue Gui has come, so his adjutant Li Qing will naturally not be absent. Now that Xue Gui has been walking around the cell, Li Qing has just finished the preliminary situation of the prison area and has come back, and hurriedly reported to Xue Gui.

The scene is very important, but now not to mention footprints, even the placement and arrangement of many objects in the cell have been moved. For example, when he found out that King Gan was lying on the ground, the warden who rushed to the bed in order to rescue him, made it a pill and a magic trick. As a result, the facts proved that the dead could not survive, and the scene was also seriously damaged.

"There is no sign of poisoning on the surface of the corpse, nor is there any obvious odor, scars, or struggle. I die... very peaceful?" Xue Gui stood beside the bed, just briefly checked the corpse of the king. As he expected, he could hardly find any direct clues.

"Where is the coroner? When will it arrive?"

"I've been waiting outside. But sir, do you really want a autopsy? This is the king. Should I report it first and then make plans?" Li Qing was a little worried. Because of the dead prince, the royal family is very particular about the human body after death. If the coroner was asked to take a knife to perform the autopsy, although it was to solve the case, it would be a big trouble if it was investigated.

But Xue Gui shook his head and said, "You can't wait. It's almost an hour since the time to find the corpse. If he kills such a strict place, there are only a few methods, and poison is one of them. Some poisons will dissipate by themselves after a long time in the corpse, so you have to be while it's hot. You should know all these, right?"

"The subordinates know, but..."

Xue Gui interrupted: "Okay, call the coroner in."

Seeing that his elders had made a decision, Li Qing stopped persuading each other, turned around and went out, and soon led two coroners in her fifties.

Xue Gui raised his hand to stop the coroner's courtesy, pointed to the corpse on the bed and said to them: "That is King Gan, the second son of Your Majesty. The cause of death is unknown at present, and you need to find out. You must not let go of any doubts on the corpse. Let's start."

The bodies of the two coroners shook a few times. Even the old craftsman who had cooked hundreds of corpses was still instinctively nervous when he heard that he was going to cook a prince's body. But they knew the rules of the Grand Case Department that you would do whatever you want, and you would be able to do whatever you want, and you would have to go through the trouble or resist. You could only bite your teeth.
Chapter completed!