Volume 5: The Case of the Five Kings Fighting for the Dragon Chapter 145: Longchang Palace
After King Longchang left, King Changping laughed and invited Duan Ming and the others into the mansion again, and then asked people to prepare the dinner as soon as possible.
"Your Majesty," Xing Qianqiu said to King Changping, "I wonder where General Gu is? I have some questions that I would like to know."
"Gu Hao." King Changping nodded and looked at the attendant on the side: "Go and call Gu Hao."
"Yes." The attendant nodded and left quickly.
Soon, a burly man came over and saluted King Changping with a look of shame on his face: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry."
"What are you sorry for?" King Changping smiled and said, "You have saved a lot of face for me."
"However." King Changping changed his voice: "Now you need to fully cooperate with Mr. Duan and Commander Xing. They want to ask you some questions. Don't hide it."
"Yes." Gu Hao said, cupping his fists.
"General Gu, I wonder what you were doing today? Why did you have a quarrel with Kang Shaocheng?" Xing Qianqiu asked.
"This..." Gu Hao slowly lowered his head: "I know that the prince really wants that dragon-patterned stone carving, so I thought of secretly going to the Treasure Pavilion again to buy the dragon-patterned stone carving."
"Unexpectedly, Kang Shaolong got the news from somewhere and brought people over."
"He said I was stealing, but I wasn't convinced, so we started fighting."
"You, you." After hearing this, King Changping glared at Gu Hao: "I have my own plans regarding the dragon-patterned stone carvings. What are you going to do?"
"I, I..." Gu Hao scratched his head.
"General Gu, did you really not use weapons when you fought with Kang Shaolong?" Duan Ming asked.
"Indeed, we are not afraid of getting into trouble. We bicker on weekdays, but we have to be more careful if we really get into trouble." Gu Hao said.
"Then when you two were fighting, was there anything unusual about Kang Shaolong?" Xing Qianqiu asked.
"Abnormal? Hmm..." Gu Hao recalled carefully, and then said: "One thing is that Kang Shaolong always misses. I thought it was me who avoided it at first, but later I found out that it was him who always missed."
"Speaking of it, I was quite unhappy at the time. What does missing mean? Keep your hand? I asked Kang Shaolong to beat me with one hand, but he still kept his hand with me?"
"So I gave him a few hard blows to make him take it seriously."
"He ended up dead."
"Missed?" Xing Qianqiu looked at Duan Ming: "This may not be a reservation, it is possible..."
"Poisoned." Duan Ming said solemnly: "It seems that we really need to check it out later."
Soon, the banquet was prepared, and Duan Ming and the other four enjoyed a sumptuous meal under the warm hospitality of King Changping.
Afterwards, Duan Ming and the others bid farewell to Prince Changping and went directly to Prince Longchang's Mansion.
"Wan'er, why don't you and Zhu Cui go back to the Mirror Division to rest first? It's getting late now," Xing Qianqiu said.
"What? Do you think we are in the way?" Li Waner said with a smile.
"How can this be possible?" Xing Qianqiu said hurriedly: "It's just that I can't figure out King Longchang. I don't know what the situation will be like this time."
"Well, Uncle Longchang Wang can be considered a reasonable person." Li Waner said, "There should be no problem."
"Moreover, I must be involved in this matter." Li Waner changed her voice and frowned: "Although my father is unable to come here to preside over the overall situation due to injury, this place is actually still under my father's jurisdiction."
"The generals under the five princes died one after another. How could I ignore them?"
"Okay." Xing Qianqiu sighed, knowing that since Li Waner said this, it meant that Li Waner had made up her mind.
Soon, the four of them arrived at the Longchang Palace. Although it was already late, the lights in the Longchang Palace were brightly lit, as if it were daytime.
"Mr. Duan, Commander Xing." A soldier stood at the door of the mansion and greeted him: "Your Majesty has been waiting in the mansion for a long time."
"Please." Duan Ming nodded and said to the soldier.
Soon, under the guidance of the soldiers, Duan Ming and the others entered the Longchang Palace and went directly to the palace hall.
"Here we come." King Longchang nodded when he saw Duan Ming and others: "Kang Shaolong's matter is troublesome."
"I wonder where General Kang's body is?" Duan Ming asked directly.
"In his room." King Longchang stood up slowly: "Come with me."
Then King Longchang took Duan Ming and the others directly to Kang Shaolong's room. When she saw the body in the room, Zhucui couldn't help but let out a loud scream.
Duan Ming and others didn't care about this, they just came directly to the body and inspected it carefully.
King Longchang did not urge him, and just stood aside quietly, watching Duan Ming inspect Kang Shaolong's body.
After inspection, Duan Ming found that there were no obvious stab wounds on Kang Shaolong's body, only some bruises, which should have been caused by fists. This was consistent with what Gu Hao said.
Kang Shaolong's body was curled up into a bow shape, and the facial features were "closed" together, looking very painful.
Duan Ming then carefully inspected Kang Shaolong's eyelids and mouth, and found that there were fine blood streaks under Kang Shaolong's eyelids, his lips were slightly blue, and there was congestion under his tongue.
"That's right." Duan Ming stood up and looked at Xing Qianqiu: "General Kang probably died of poisoning."
"Poisoned?" Xing Qianqiu looked at King Longchang: "My lord, what did you eat for lunch? Is what General Kang eats different from everyone else?"
"No." King Longchang shook his head: "Although Kang Shaolong is usually arrogant and domineering, he is very good to the soldiers. He eats and lives with the soldiers on weekdays, so there should be no problem."
Having said this, King Longchang looked at a soldier on the side: "Has General Kang eaten anything special before?"
"No." The soldier shook his head.
"Then, do any of you have any uncomfortable symptoms?" Duan Ming asked: "For example, dizziness, nausea, headache, etc."
Several soldiers around looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time: "No."
"Where are the tableware?" Duan Ming nodded, thought for a moment and said, "Does General Kang use the same tableware as you?"
"It doesn't make any difference." The soldier said, "We all take it casually."
"In this case, we can rule out poisoning through food and tableware..." Duan Ming nodded and looked up at the layout of the room: "Is this General Kang's room? Maybe the poison was
