C42 Floating corpse in well

Gu Qingli could not help but silently curse, thinking that this man was indeed evil, but wasn't he clearly showing his intentions to the Assistant Minister Lin?

In the end she heard Xiao Yixiu say: "Miss Li Yue has nothing better to do than to knock on a chess piece and throw away the flower light.

Gu Qingli was startled, but he still agreed.

Sui Feng was bored, he retreated and stood guard outside the door.

She was not good at chess, and was quickly beaten into a sorry state by Xiao Yixiu. She looked at the game carefully. It was a tacit understanding of the art of war. When Blackie had surrounded Bai Zi, there was almost no hope for her.

"I've lost. Your highness has also wasted that Assistant Minister Lin for so long. It's time for you to go out and take a look, right?"

Xiao Yixiu looked up at her, unwittingly revealing a slight smile. She could actually tell that he was purposefully making things difficult for Assistant Minister Lin, intentionally making him wait on his knees.

"His Royal Highness will not allow him to kneel until daybreak."

"Go with this king and have a look. Just what exactly happened this time to make this noble and noble Assistant Minister Lin humble himself and beg this king." He emphasized the word 'tall' with a hint of sarcasm.

At first, Gu Qingli did not understand why he brought her along. However, after thinking about it, it must have been for that corpse that caused her to fall silent.

In the guest hall, Assistant Minister Lin was kneeling down. He looked very young and elegant, but his face was pale and cold sweat covered his forehead.

"Your Highness, please save lower official!"

However, Xiao Yixiu just looked at him without batting an eyelid.

Sui Feng winked at him, causing Assistant Minister Lin's face to become even paler. Finally, he gritted his teeth: As long as Your Highness can help lower official this time, if there's anything I can do for you in the future, lower official will be in for it!

At this time, Gu Qingli started to become curious, he did not know what methods Xiao Yixiu had used to cause the official who was a third ranked official to be forced into a corner, and had no choice but to submit to him.

However, she knew that the Department of Revenue was the financial authority of the country, and Xiao Yixiu did not care how he tried to recruit him, because he definitely had some kind of ulterior motive. If her conjecture was correct, it was definitely related to the battle for the rights.

"It's good that Assistant Minister Lin remembers what we said today." Assistant Minister Lin knelt for a long time, barely able to stand up and almost fell down, but fortunately, Sui Feng was able to hold on.

After rushing over to the Lin Clan Residence late at night, Gu Qingli found out that this was only the Assistant Minister Lin's courtyard.

However, she still did not know, that the reason the Assistant Minister Lin did not dare bring this outer room back to the Palace was because her identity was extremely special.

They first went to the well and looked at the corpse. The whole yard was brightly lit, but the corpse did not move. When it was salvaged, it lay quietly by the well, puffy and stinking, soaked pale and swollen and terrible.

The first thing Gu Qingli paid attention to was the cause of death. Looking carefully, the entire body was pale white and still reeked of alcohol, it looked like a drunk who had lost his footing, it wasn't anything strange, but it was just on the surface.

Xiao Yixiu was surprised, he stared at the corpse with a strange expression.

"Your Highness, you can also tell?" Assistant Minister Lin laughed bitterly.

"This is the uniform of the emissary."

"lower official knows."

"Why didn't you say that earlier?"

"My lord, do you see that this emissary of the Southern Moon is the same person as the one we've met?"

"Height is not the same. Not to mention anything else, it's swollen like a pig's bladder. How could I tell? "

"That's right. If lower official dared to say that he is the envoy of the Southern Moon, he would naturally have told the prince. But now, he is only a person wearing the envoy's clothes, or should we say ?"

It was a matter of friendship, no wonder the Assistant Minister Lin was in a difficult situation, such a dead person would not be dealt with so easily.

"Where is the messenger?"

"He should still be at the inn."

After Xiao Yixiu asked a few questions, he suddenly realized that Gu Qingli had already squatted down. He wrapped a cloth around his hands and started to rummage through the corpses.

Facing the white and disgusting corpse, the servants all covered their noses and stayed away from it. Gu Qingli actually didn't hide anything, looking through the corpse as he said, "Height seven feet, weight one hundred and twenty kilograms, time of death should be around four to six days ? This person wasn't drowned. The time he was truly thrown into the well was only around six to four hours ? That's not right, why would the corpse float up so quickly? "

The servants guarding the corpse all retreated a few steps, their faces were filled with shock, as they were all curious as to where this woman had come from.

"Li Yue... Don't you find it unpleasant? " Xiao Yixiu could not help but say.

"Mm, of course ?" Gu Qingli frowned, deep in thought. He suddenly straightened his body and walked in front of him: "I understand, this person has not been dead that long. After he is dead, someone had soaked him in hot water and entered the Giant Monastery ahead of time.

Xiao Yixiu's face turned green, she subconsciously wanted to vomit. The hand she used to turn the corpse over was filled with a rotten and stinky smell, even if it was just a few times in front of him, it would be unbearable.

"Oh, oh." Only then did Gu Qingli remember to remove the dirty cloth on his hands, and washed his hands with clean water that the servant brought over.

When she looked up, she saw a snow-white kernel was handed over to her, and was stunned for a moment.

Seeing that she did not accept it, Xiao Yixiu immediately pulled her hand to wipe the water on it.

Gu Qingli's entire body became stiff, seeing him wiping his hands, he thought that the next action he was taking was to throw away the kernel, but who knew that he would just look, fold it and put it into his sleeve.

When he arrived at the hall of Assistant Minister Lin's house, Gu Qingli lifted his sleeves to smell the aroma. He felt that his body was still stained with the rotten smell of a corpse.

"Stop smelling, just go back and change your clothes and let the incense smell." Xiao Yixiu's face had an unnoticeable gentleness on it as he looked at her with a faint smile.

When she had examined the corpse, she had been extremely focused. He had almost suspected that she was a coroner, so why hadn't she felt the corpse smell then?

The Assistant Minister Lin called for them to sit and asked them to serve tea. Only then did he look at Gu Qingli in shock. Initially, he thought it was strange that the prince would bring a lady here for some reason. However, at this moment, he realized that the lady before him wasn't simple at all.

"Tell me what you think of the body."

"The body died from poisoning. Someone soaked it in hot water to change the state of the body, causing people to misjudge the time of death. Following that, the body was thrown into the well, causing people to think that it was drowning due to alcohol."

"He died from poison?" Even Xiao Yixiu could not see that, since he was not a coroner, his judgement on corpses was not that direct.

Assistant Minister Lin was dumbstruck. He was filled with doubts towards this conclusion.

"The corpse was wearing a wide robe and big sleeves. There were a lot of bruises on its body before it died. There were even signs of its skin being damaged and its hair falling off. This proves that this person had consumed a poisonous substance called 'powder taken cold' for many years."

"What is a powder taken cold?"

Gu Qingli thought, even though in history there had been some warriors who had the habit of eating powder taken cold, competing and trying to emulate it, but the Empire of Dongyuan had never heard of such a thing.

"There are several kinds of prescriptions for powder taken cold, such as purple quartz, white quartz, carnauba, vitriol, vitriol, sulfur and so on. There are also some kinds of prescriptions, such as cinnabar, yellow, alum, cyan, benevolent stone, etc., which are currently unknown, but they are all scorching medicine, causing one's entire body to become hot after consuming them, giving rise to an extreme sense of excitement, and one's physical strength will increase. But actually taking this stuff for a long time can cause signs of chronic poisoning. "

"So according to you, this person is willing to consume this thing for a long time?"

"There is a record in history that there are indeed people who are fighting to consume it." After consuming it, one would need to eat cold food, but one could not drink cold wine. Otherwise, it was very likely that one would die. From what I see, this person died because he did not understand this point. After consuming a large amount of powder taken cold s and drinking cold wine, he died from poison. "

The Assistant Minister Lin was confused, "Since there is poison, why does anyone like to use it?"

Gu Qingli rolled his eyes: "Not everyone is clear about its poison, and moreover, it's not a blood seal throat poison, it's just a slow erosion of the body. Compared to the pleasure it gives people, many people are more willing to take it as an illusion and ignore this little bit of poison."