At night, the jailer Zhu Youan led his followers Wang San and Li Xiaoliu over, and personally brought some late-night snacks to Chu Nanzhi. He gave some general instructions. Except that he did not admit that the current placement of county jail personnel was chaotic, the rest of the content was consistent with what Lin Jinxiao had said.
To put it bluntly, this also gave Chu Nanzhi some new associations.
She can't just wait for others to murder her.
Looking at the young prison chief, Chu Nanzhi smiled at him with both gratitude and confusion: "Sir, do you know why my elder brother gave you this hard job?"
"Today, my sister-in-law petitioned for the people, offended several eldest princesses, and even caused the death of the third eldest princess. Brother Jinxiao is afraid that the two eldest princesses are waiting for an opportunity to take revenge."
Zhu Youan replied pretending to be calm.
In fact, I felt quite miserable inside. I was only promoted to the position within a few months, and several important criminals died in prison one after another. It was really sad.
Chu Nanzhi also pretended to be carefree and waved her hand: "My lord, you are worrying too much. Several eldest princesses are in the audience. How can anyone with such extraordinary ability come to harm me in this prison? Besides, you are Dalang's son."
Old friend, the entire prison is under your supervision, no one dares to do anything wrong to me."
After a pause, she stared deeply at the warden and advised seriously: "Sir, there is no need to destroy the whole prison because of me. Just leave everything as usual for these three days."
"How can this be done?"
Zhu Youan's face suddenly showed panic, but then he quickly calmed down and said with an embarrassed smile: "My sister-in-law is not only highly valued by the county magistrate, but she is also the wife of Brother Jinxiao. If anything happens, how can I afford it?"
"What could happen?"
Chu Nanzhi noticed the panic in his eyes, and joked in a joking tone: "Is it possible that you don't trust the supervision system under your rule?"
"How can that be possible?"
Zhu Youan replied with a wry smile, but quickly sent the two attendants beside him out, motioning them to guard the door, and then replied thoughtfully:
"Sister-in-law, you should be more cautious. After all, it was the third princess who died. Brother Jinxiao's worries are not unreasonable. Although I have been vigorously rectifying the prison supervision system, it may not be effective in a short time. You also know that this kind of
The place is a mixed bag with all kinds of people, so I'm really worried that something will happen to you."
"Don't worry, Lin Dalang just worries too much."
Chu Nanzhi pretended to laugh heartlessly.
Since he personally admitted that there was a problem with the prison supervision system, he should really be more careful next time.
But she was not worried about the eldest princesses.
The reason why I went to jail this time was to give an explanation to the eldest princesses, but today it seems that the original intention of the two eldest princesses was not to put her in jail, but to retaliate against her by pointing to the meal.
It can be seen that if someone really wanted to murder her in the past few days, it was probably not arranged by the two eldest princesses.
After all, it is not possible for a new face to arrange this kind of thing in prison, so there is only one possibility, and that is that there is already some kind of force hidden in the prison.
Inferring from this, the deaths of Taoist Ximen and Lieutenant Liu were most likely caused by this force.
As for whether this force is related to Nanhua Temple, she still doesn't know, but what is certain is that if someone really wants to harm her these days, it can only be someone related to the tax bank case.
She looked at Zhu Youan again and said with a warm smile: "Relax, it will be fine."
"Sister-in-law, why can't I explain it to you? Even Brother Jinxiao can see things clearly, but how come a smart person like my sister-in-law can't understand it."
Zhu Youan was a little anxious. He came up to her and lowered his voice and explained:
"They are not outsiders, so I won't hide it from my sister-in-law. The deaths of Taoist Ximen and Lieutenant Liu are quite strange. It's just that the county magistrate has many things to do and is afraid of making things worse, so he suppresses the matter and only tells the outside world.
The two of them committed suicide out of fear of crime. But when I talked about this matter with Brother Jinxiao, we both agreed that there was someone else behind it. If you solved the case, you must have touched the interests of others. Now that you are in prison in person, how can these people be willing to do so?
Let you leave alive."
"In this case, we should try to find out the person behind the scenes."
Chu Nanzhi replied solemnly, but Zhu Youan frowned after hearing her words:
"If I could find any clues, why should I be in such a difficult situation? Those two people were under extremely tight supervision at that time, and there were people delivering meals every day. However, someone still did something right under my nose. I later sent the food to them.
The jailer beat him to pieces and couldn't find any clues, so I guess he really didn't know anything about it."
After thinking for a while, he looked at Chu Nanzhi and said bluntly: "Although the county magistrate did not express this matter to my sister-in-law, he may have asked the registrar to personally deliver meals to you, which shows how much he values you."
"I see."
Chu Nan was enlightened. No wonder Hu Maoxi did not hesitate to offend several eldest princesses today rather than come to prison to be punished. It turned out that he had something hidden in his heart. He was really an old fox who had become a spirit.
After speaking these words from his heart, Zhu Youan's expression became a little anxious and uneasy: "Sister-in-law, you can understand my difficulties now, please, sister-in-law, please don't publicize this matter."
"of course not."
Chu Nanzhi looked at him intently, and couldn't help but bring up an evil smile: "You'an, you are Dalang's friend, and you put yourself in my shoes, I have a way to help you find out the person behind this.
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"Sister-in-law, please speak."
Zhu Youan's face immediately showed joy, and he couldn't wait to come over.
"You know how the best hunters hunt?"
Zhu Youan shook his head blankly.
"A good hunter always hunts like his prey."
"Could it be that you want it, sister-in-law?"
The two looked at each other and understood immediately.
Chu Nanzhi whispered to him, and asked him to get a silver needle for him, and asked the jailer to deliver meals to the prison every day as usual. He also asked him to send people to spread rumors about his gluttony in the prison, creating a public image.
The illusion of the Big Eater also tells Wang San and Li Xiaoliu to be deliberately lazy when patrolling the prison.
Following the instructions, I spent the first night peacefully.
On the second day after arriving, Zhu Youan asked his arranged confidants to take turns delivering food boxes to Chu Nanzhi. Each food box only contained one snack. After the government officials dispersed, Chu Nanzhi used a silver needle to deliver each box one by one.
Test the poison, and finally pour the prison food and snacks into the cesspool in the cell. When the night is quiet, Wang San, who is on duty at night, will personally dispose of the food in the cesspool.
On the third day, many government servants who had heard about the news came here in admiration. They carried food boxes and wanted to make friends with the celebrity in front of the county magistrate.
But Chu Nanzhi only ate the food sent by the chief clerk. He tested the poison of the food sent by others with silver needles and hid them all in the dung bucket. He did not dare to be really greedy.
After all, the poison that can be detected by a silver needle is limited. If you only eat the food sent by the chief clerk, the murderer will be obvious even if something goes wrong.
In this way, in the evening of that day, things finally changed subtly. Wang Sancai began to suffer from diarrhea not long after his night watch. Chu Nanzhi had already sensed that something was wrong.