Chapter 1142: Breaking Ground on Tai Sui

"Last night I seemed to have seen Minister Sun!"

"What do you mean 'seemed'? Seeing is seeing, not seeing is not seeing. This kind of thing cannot be ambiguous; this is a matter of life and death."

Chen Guanlou was furious.

Chen Quan looked dejected; his memory had a gap, and it was very blurry. He also wanted to recall it, but it was always blurry.

At this time, the prison guard checking the Heavenly Prison reported, "Reporting to the Minister, the prisoners are all there; no one has escaped. Everything is normal."

Everything was actually normal!

Chen Guanlou was shocked.

He dismissed the guard and stared at Chen Quan, "How much more can you remember?"

"Last night, everything was very normal, no different from usual. Those playing cards were playing cards, those sleeping were sleeping; I even arranged for people to patrol. Then, in a daze, I seemed to see someone come down, and then I didn't know anything. When I became conscious, it was now."

Chen Guanlou asked the other prison guards on duty, and their accounts were about the same. They were gambling in the heat of the moment, and then they slept until dawn. As for what happened in the middle, they couldn't remember anything at all.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything useful, Chen Guanlou could only shift the direction of the investigation.

Medical Official Mu was ordered to check everywhere.

He asked the other party, "Did you find anything? How was it done, with so many people instantly falling into a coma? Was it smoke, poison, food and drink, or incense, lamp oil, and candles?"

Medical Official Mu shook his head slowly, "It's very clean, clean to the point of being unreasonable. Are you sure someone entered the cell last night? At the gate, the two gates of the Grade-A cell—there wasn't a single sound? Didn't a single person see it?"

"If there had been a sound, would I be this annoyed? I would have already killed my way over with a knife."

They had been calculated against!

Chen Guanlou felt very unhappy in his heart! The key was that he didn't even know who the other party was.

He also couldn't just run to the Ministry of Justice and question Sun Daoning based solely on Chen Quan's mention of Minister Sun. He needed some clues, some traces.

He let Medical Official Mu continue the check.

He went to chat with Gu Yiyang.

Gu Yiyang said he went to sleep early last night and slept soundly, sleeping until dawn. He didn't find any situation.

"Brother Chen, could it be that someone escaped prison?"

"Did you go to sleep earlier than usual last night?"

"Not really. It was about the same time. What happened?"

"Nothing much. A prisoner in the cell got a serious illness, and the condition was a bit tricky, so I was asking if you heard any sounds last night?" Chen Guanlou casually found an excuse to brush it off.

"Unfortunately, I really didn't hear anything; I slept too soundly."

Chen Guanlou nodded.

Next, he planned to chat with Xiao Changsheng.

Xiao Changsheng was reading a book, and seeing him come, he closed the book.

"Is Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen not busy today?"

"Minister Xiao seems to be implying something. Should I be very busy today?"

Xiao Changsheng laughed, "Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen, don't be suspicious and hold prejudices against me. I was just saying it casually."

"Last night, there was a bit of movement in the cell; did you hear it?" Chen Guanlou went straight to the point, wanting to catch him off guard to see the other party's true reaction.

Hearing this, Xiao Changsheng recalled carefully, "What kind of movement? I don't remember hearing any abnormal movement. Did something happen?"

"Someone broke into the cell last night."

"Someone escaped prison?" Xiao Changsheng looked surprised, as well as curious and excited, "Did someone really escape prison?"

"No one escaped prison." Chen Guanlou stared at the other party, "When did you go to sleep last night?"

"I don't remember the specific time. It was about the same time as usual. What is Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen suspecting? What exactly happened? If you don't mind, you can tell me, and I'll analyze it for you."

"Someone broke into the big prison, didn't rob the prison, didn't kill anyone, didn't poison anyone. Minister Xiao, help me analyze it—what exactly did this group of people want to do?"

"Is there really such a person?" Xiao Changsheng was very gossipy, "Going to such great lengths just to take a look—it's not worth it. Could it be that there's another purpose?"

"Oh, may I ask what purpose?"

"For example, coming in to see someone and say a few words."

"Minister Xiao is so clear about it; could it be that you saw it with your own eyes?" Chen Guanlou narrowed his eyes slightly.

Xiao Changsheng waved his hands repeatedly, smiling, "Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen, you really know how to joke; how could I have seen it with my own eyes? I was just guessing boldly. Of course, there's another situation: the people below, in order to shirk responsibility, fabricated some things, just to muddle through. Jiang Jiang Yucheng Chen might as well check the people under your command to see if they did anything shady recently. Perhaps there will be a harvest."

"Last night, did you really not hear any movement?"

"Yes, I didn't hear anything." Xiao Changsheng emphasized again.

Chen Guanlou, however, laughed.

"Fine, I know. Minister Xiao being well is better than anything."

Leaving the Grade-A cell, he sat gloomily on the soft couch.

Medical Official Mu asked him, "Are you not reporting this to the Ministry of Justice?"

"Until now, nothing useful has been found. Except for the prison guards on duty last night, all of them are unconscious. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have suspected that this whole thing was fabricated by someone, just talking nonsense."

"Does the Minister mean to temporarily not alert those above?"

Chen Guanlou tapped the table lightly with his fingers, "Currently, among the prisoners in the Grade-A cell, in terms of identity, background, and importance, the most important prisoners are the two 'brothers-in-law'.

Someone really entered the big prison last night; they must have been aiming at one of these two. It's highly likely they were aiming at Xiao Changsheng. But why? Why go to such great lengths to enter the cell in the middle of the night? What do they want to do? They couldn't have blown up the cell.

Even if they killed everyone inside the cell, what would be the use? Right now, the most important thing in the court, and the thing that long-term affects the world situation and the officialdom situation, is the struggle for the throne.

However, the struggle for the throne doesn't require killing all the prisoners in the Heavenly Prison. You checked Gu Yiyang; he wasn't poisoned, right?"

"Everything is as usual; there are no signs of poisoning." Medical Official Mu said so.

"I thought so too; it's not worth poisoning the one surnamed Gu. No matter how important Gu Yiyang is, he can't affect the overall situation."

Chen Guanlou stood up and walked back and forth in the office.

"The problem is stuck here—why? What is the purpose of doing this?"

He had a headache!

Medical Official Mu was very direct; the one who tied the bell must untie it, "Why doesn't the Minister go to the Ministry of Justice and ask the Minister personally? Since Chen Quan said he saw the Minister, perhaps he didn't see it wrong."

"I know, I will go to the Ministry of Justice sooner or later. But before I go, I have to sort out my thoughts. Otherwise, when the time comes, he won't admit it and will just talk nonsense; what will I have to refute him?"

Chen Guanlou was worried!

This matter, when spoken of, was too weird!

Mysterious and secretive; he always felt someone was playing tricks.

Xiao Changsheng wasn't sitting in prison properly and was playing mysterious tricks with him; if he didn't give him a lesson, he wouldn't know how many eyes the King of Hell had.

"Old Mu, give Xiao Changsheng some medicine. Let him suffer a bit! As for Gu Yiyang, you should also look after him. These two, there must be one lying. Maybe both are lying!" ===== CHAPTER 1143 =====