Chapter 96
Su Guoer was about to step forward to plead for Changqi, but unexpectedly, Lord Yan waved his hand and said, "No, your fellow knows martial arts. If he escapes, none of us will be able to catch him. So, should we let him be tied up for a while before we find out the truth? I don't think Miss Su wants to be charged with murder, right?"
I saw the person on the ground twitching and almost losing his breath.
Two people beside him, wearing the same navy blue clothes, tried to strangle him, but it was no use.
Su Guoer was so frightened that her face turned pale. She could only nod her head and say, "It's up to you, sir."
She can't do anything.
She had no medical skills and no say, so she could only watch Changqi suffer.
As for whether Changqi was responsible for this man suddenly becoming like this, Su Guoer believed him and he had no reason to do this.
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Soon, people from the Dali Temple arrived, bringing with them a doctor and a coroner. They rushed to the second floor and saw the man lying on the ground, motionless. The doctor took his pulse and shook his head, saying, "He can't be saved."
Then the coroner took out the box he was carrying and began to perform an autopsy to find out the truth about the man's death together with the doctor.
The two young men in navy blue uniforms standing by were so frightened that they froze in shock: "How could he die? How could he die?" one of them with a round face murmured to himself.
The other thin-faced man named Shen Changfeng knelt down and said, "Master Yan, please find out the truth for my master!"
Lord Yan raised his hand and said, "Don't worry. Since this matter concerns me, I will not sit idly by." Then he looked at Lord Liu and Lord Wang beside him and asked, "What do you think?"
Lord Wang: "Master Wang is old. This doesn't look like poisoning, but more like a sudden illness."
Lord Liu: "But I've never heard that Master Wang had any hidden illness. How could he die just after having a meal?" After saying that, he looked at the dishes on the table that had not been touched much.
The dishes looked good and tasted sweet, especially the pea yellow dish, which really pleased him. Unfortunately, he only took a bite.
Chang Qi, seeing this situation, refused to stop even though he was tied up, and said, "This has nothing to do with our restaurant! Look, you guys ate and nothing happened, right? You can't blame us!"
Master Yan said impatiently, "I haven't relied on you yet? Why are you so anxious?"
Why panic? Chang Qi thought to himself: If we can't find the cause, we need to find a scapegoat. The people in their restaurant are just suitable to be this scapegoat. Let's find out the reason...
They couldn't find the reason.
After all, he was the culprit in this matter, and he knew it very well.
Lord Yan stared at Changqi for a long time. He felt that this boy was extremely smart since he entered the store. He thought that Changqi should not be a boy here, so he looked at him a few more times.
Listening to him speak again now, I realized I was right about him.
This guy is a tough one.
The person from Dali Temple was Lu Ping'an. Su Guo'er watched for a long time before she could tell from his back. He went straight to the corpse as soon as he entered the room, but she didn't see his face. Now that she saw it, she felt inexplicably relieved.
The doctor was using a silver needle to test each dish one by one to see if it was poisonous. He even dipped the chopsticks used by Mr. Wang into the silk water and found no change of color.
Yinzhen tried every dish and found no problems.
"Sir, there is nothing wrong with this dish."
Lu Ping'an: "Then let's see if there are any incense or anything like that around here." You know, spices can also kill people invisibly.
But Su Guoer only had some fruit on display in her shop to add some fruity aroma; any other kind of incense was useless. Lighting incense in a restaurant would ruin the aroma of the food, so she never used incense in her restaurant.
After checking, there is still no problem.
Lord Yan: "Then let's take a look at whether Master Wang has any other chronic illnesses?" The doctor stepped forward again and put his hand on Master Wang's wrist, but unfortunately there was no pulse and he could not see it.
Coroner: "If we want to find out the cause of death of Mr. Wang, we'll probably have to perform an autopsy."
"Look for any spasms in his airways. Seeing the purple nails and cyanotic lips, I suspect he has asthma or something like that. It's just that he only recently developed it, and it's possible he's never had an attack, so we haven't noticed it."
"But after eating or smelling something that can trigger asthma, they will have an asthma attack and accidentally inhale food when they fall to the ground, leading to suffocation and death."
"This requires cutting his throat open."
Shen Changfeng: "Dissect the body? How am I supposed to explain this to the old lady?"
Unless the death is caused by a serious cause, family members generally will not request an autopsy. The dead are the most important, and once they are dead, their bodies cannot be touched anymore.
"But I think this is the only cause of death. The rest depends on whether you investigate or not. If you do, just let me know. If not, keep the body in the morgue for a day or two, and you can take it away after the case is closed," said the coroner.
Lu Ping'an also said: "In that case, why not notify Madam Wang and her children to come and take a look. It's up to them to decide whether to dig or not."
Lord Yan: "Are you sure it was caused by the disease?"
Lord Wang: "It looks like it. Anyway, it has nothing to do with the food in this restaurant. Otherwise, we would all die if we ate it."
He continued, "Well, if that's the case, let's not interrupt the restaurant's business. Let's send the officials away, shall we?"
As early as when they arrived, there was a circle of soldiers surrounding the outside, and now there were people talking outside. If they didn't withdraw, the owner of this fresh food restaurant would probably not be able to explain what happened to her restaurant even if she had eight mouths.
I guess it will be spread that the food in the restaurant is so bad that it can kill people.
Lord Yan: "In that case, let's take Master Wang's body back to the Dali Temple first. Remember to ask his family to claim it later."
At this point, the mystery of Mr. Wang’s death has been resolved.
Lu Ping'an sent two people up from below to carry Master Wang's body down.
But just as the two yamen runners were lifting the corpse, the corpse's hands drooped down, and a golden object fell out from the corpse's sleeves.
Su Guoer, who was untying Changqi, watched with her eyes wide open.
There were also several people present, and their expressions changed drastically!
"What is this?" Lord Wang stepped forward and picked up the golden token. He turned it over and saw the pattern on it.
Then his hand trembled slightly and he almost threw the token away.
However, he still pretended to be calm and said, "Where did you get such a token? It's so beautiful, isn't it?"
Changqi saw Lord Yan squinting his eyes as he stared at the token, and Lord Liu's eyes also became deep as he stared at the token.
But no matter how calm they appeared, Changqi noticed the subtle changes on their faces, and he understood.
However, because he was standing side by side with Su Guoer, he did not see Su Guoer's shocked expression.
That token...
She is very familiar.
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