Chapter 606: Half-pushed and half-willing suicide

As expected of Mu Medical Official, a master at creating and neutralizing poisons.

The illness that the Imperial Hospital was at its wits' end, he solved the poison by hand. It took nearly three hours to completely detoxify the poison on the Second Prince.

The Second Prince, who had been unconscious for several days, finally woke up.

As soon as the Second Prince woke up, Eunuch Wei appeared, followed by the Second Prince's biological mother, a long string of people all came, crowded, all heads.

Chen Guanlou forced a mouthful of blood out of himself, making the appearance of serious internal injury, trying to deceive Eunuch Wei. Can't let the other party know that his internal injury has healed, and he eats and drinks well.

Eunuch Wei was worried about the Second Prince's body and didn't pay attention to him.

Chen Guanlou took the opportunity to hide himself, absolutely not being a conspicuous bag.

Picked up Medical Official Mu and hurried out of the palace.

The night was deep, both of them were tired, so they simply went to the brothel to relax.

"Old Mu, you are this!" Chen Guanlou gave a thumbs up, he was praising sincerely.

Medical Official Mu smiled bitterly, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to keep the job of Heavenly Prison medical official. He didn't want to leave the Heavenly Prison.

"As long as you don't want to, no one can force you to work in the Imperial Hospital. Eunuch Wei guaranteed me."

"When did Eunuch Wei guarantee you, why don't I know?" Medical Official Mu was very confused.

"I took his palm, do you think it was taken in vain?" Chen Guanlou hummed twice, drinking small wine, beautiful.

"How is your body? Come, let me take a pulse, free of charge. I have top-grade pills specifically for treating internal injuries, ensuring you recover quickly."

"No need, the problem is not big. Let me rest for a few days and recuperate. It's not that I look down on your medicine, but the technique I practice is a bit special, and it needs to be matched with special pills, supplemented by internal skill mental methods to practice. My injury is most taboo to eat medicine randomly."

Chen Guanlou talked nonsense seriously, a pass of nonsense, barely fooled Medical Official Mu.

Early the next morning, refreshed.

Used the excuse of being injured, took a vacation, and returned to the mansion in Ma Family Lane to sleep.

Slept until the afternoon, his whole body was transparent, the Heavenly Prison side came over, locked in the A-grade prison, the area under the jurisdiction of Prison Head Wang, that is, the Huang Master who didn't care about life and death and found Chen Guanlou to say there was news of selling military grain, died! Suicide!

Chen Guanlou rushed to the Heavenly Prison, went down to the prison, and came to Huang Master's cell door.

The person was already hard.

Medical Official Mu was checking, "Dead for at least two hours."

"Found out the person was dead after two hours, what are you doing?" Prison Head Wang shouted first.

The prison guards hung their heads one by one, not daring to make a sound.

Chen Guanlou waved his hand, letting Prison Head Wang calm down. If you want to teach people a lesson, there is time, don't act in front of him.

He asked: "How did you die?"

"Preliminary inspection, it should be swallowing gold to commit suicide."

That is, suffocation to death!

Chen Guanlou leaned up, Medical Official Mu pried open Huang Master's mouth, and sure enough, he saw a silver ingot blocked in the throat. This way of death, how painful it must be!

"Prison Head Wang, you take a look, where did this silver ingot come from? Who sent it in? Check it out carefully."

Regardless of whether it is suicide, the murder weapon must have been transported from outside.

This group of prison guards, bold, assisting

Wang Bantou was so angry his face turned livid; his eyes swept over every prison guard one by one, "Just you all wait for me!"

"My lord, I managed poorly, leading to the prisoner committing suicide by swallowing gold. Please punish me, my lord."

"Your responsibility will be discussed later. First, move the body to the morgue. The weather is so hot, be sure to pay attention and be careful to avoid causing an epidemic. Everyone present, every single one of you, must clean and disinfect."

"Don't worry, my lord, everyone knows the epidemic prevention manual by heart. We will take it to the back to clean and disinfect in a moment."

"Pay attention to the details, don't be sloppy. Disinfect this cell thoroughly, and leave it open for ten days or half a month before locking anyone in again."

"Everything will be done according to your instructions, my lord."

The laborers hauled the body away and were also responsible for cleaning the cell.

Chen Guanlou took Mu Medical Official and called for Old Zhang Tou to go to the morgue to examine the body. At the same time, he sent someone to notify Mu Qingshan to work overtime.

Mu Qingshan:...

Tonight's plan to listen to music at the pleasure house was ruined again.

"It is indeed suicide by swallowing gold!" Old Zhang Tou said with certainty, "But looking at the traces, it doesn't look like it was entirely voluntary, yet it wasn't exactly forced either. If nothing goes wrong, there should have been someone assisting from the side when the suicide occurred."

"Assisting?"

That word is used well!

Chen Guanlou gave a thumbs up; it deserved praise.

"In that case, did Master Huang commit suicide half-willingly?" Mu Medical Official was very interested.

Beside them, Mu Qingshan had eyes that revealed clarity and foolishness.

In this day and age, can one commit suicide half-willingly?

He looked toward his Third Uncle, wondering if the phrasing needed to be so elegant and subtle.

Old Zhang Tou said again: "The deceased struggled, but it wasn't violent; by the time of death, he should have accepted his fate."

Chen Guanlou asked curiously, "With this method of death, is the time of death long? Is it painful?"

"Has the lord ever had the experience of choking or getting a fish bone stuck in your throat? This method of death is a hundred times more painful than a fish bone stuck in the throat, and the time of death can last at least a hundred breaths."

In other words, the time of death lasted for several minutes.

With such a painful method of death, Master Huang actually didn't struggle violently; it's terrifying.

Old Zhang Tou specifically revealed the deceased's neck, "My lord, please look, these few marks should be the struggles of the deceased before death. But the marks are very shallow and few; clearly, the strength of the struggle was limited, and his will was also limited. The deceased must have accepted his fate before death to have died so calmly."

Chen Guanlou bared his teeth.

He soon made a decision and instructed Mu Qingshan, "Write it according to the previous official documents; write the cause of death as suicide. Tomorrow morning, send it to the Ministry of Justice and urge them to process it as soon as possible. In such hot weather, the body cannot be kept for long."

Mu Qingshan looked incredulous, "Master Huang was clearly forced to commit suicide, why not write it truthfully?"

"You are so annoying! Write it truthfully, how truthfully? Let the Ministry of Justice come to investigate the Heavenly Prison, or come to dismiss me from my post? The person is already dead, and that's the end of it. Don't go looking for trouble and finding work for everyone. The Huang family isn't pursuing it themselves, so what are you trying to prove? If you want to investigate cases, get lost to the Six Shanmen. The Heavenly Prison is only responsible for guarding prisoners, not for reporting, and certainly not for investigating cases."

Chen Guanlou gave him a harsh scolding, leaving Mu Qingshan completely stunned.

He looked at his Third Uncle, Mu Medical Official, for help.

Mu Medical Official turned his head and said with a cold face, "Everything follows the lord's instructions. The Heavenly Prison has its own rules, and what the lord says is the rule. With your temperament, it's fortunate that the lord is willing to tolerate you and is willing to spend time training you. Otherwise, once you entered the officialdom, you'd be sold by others and still help them count the money, and you wouldn't even know how you died."

"He would definitely be stupid enough to die!" Chen Guanlou didn't forget to twist the knife.

Mu Qingshan's face turned red, then purple, then white.

He picked up his pen and honestly wrote the official document according to the requirements, cause of death: suicide!

Old Zhang Tou, meanwhile, smoked his dry pipe while watching the show, laughing happily: at his age, he still doesn't know how to be flexible. No wonder the younger Chen Guanlou is already a Prison Warden, while the thirty-something Mu Qingshan can only be a Private Secretary.