She had been poisoned for half a year, and the poison must have come from somewhere. After investigating, they found that among the specialties that Tian Yuanji often sent to Chen Jiao, there was a kind of cheese cake that she had loved since childhood. This time, Tian Yuanji brought it to Chen Jiao again when he visited her in Kyoto.
The Jingzhao Yin found out that the cake was poisonous. Following the clues from the cake, he found out that Tian Yuanji's wife Sheng Caier had noticed something was wrong with her husband more than a year ago. She secretly opened Tian Yuanji's letter, read it, and then sealed it again. She even followed Tian Yuanji to Shazhou County and found that her husband was madly trying to please Chen Jiao. This made Sheng Caier unbalanced and furious, and she started poisoning the cheese cake half a year ago.
Meng Chen was imprisoned for a month for beating someone, and because Tian Yuanji was beaten so badly, Meng Chen was fined to pay 150 taels of silver for medical expenses.
Tian Yuanji lost his official position and became a commoner, while his wife Sheng Caier was imprisoned and awaiting sentencing.
The fifth prince lost the emperor's favor and was kneeling at the palace gate. The fifth prince's wife, Ren Jiayu, was actually approved by the emperor, but he did it in the name of her father, Ren Jiayong.
The matter should have ended here, but it just so happened that it happened.
Ding Yang, an orthopedic expert from the Imperial Hospital, went to the Jingzhao Yin's coroner's office to assist in another case where only bones were found. The Jingzhao Yin police station asked him to help see what the injuries and healing conditions of the bones could indicate.
Ding Yang accidentally slipped and fell backwards. To prevent himself from falling, he subconsciously supported himself with his hands and leaned on Chen Jiao's body on the platform behind him, pressing on his chest. The force immediately broke several of Chen Jiao's ribs.
Ding Yang felt that this was not right. He had never practiced martial arts such as Iron Sand Palm. Even if there was some impact force, it would not be enough to break several bones of the person with just one press of his palm.
The coroner next to him said that this was a symptom of chronic poisoning. After a person dies, the blood no longer circulates. As the body becomes more and more stiff, the bones of the poisoned person become brittle.
But after the coroner finished speaking, he felt something was wrong and quickly flipped through the case files. The chronic poison that Sheng Caier confessed to was not this kind.
She explained clearly where she bought the poison and how she mixed it into the cheesecake. She looked ready to die, so there was no need for her to lie about the type of poison.
The poison that Chen Jiao was poisoned with, which makes bones brittle after death, is also a chronic poison that needs to be taken regularly within half a year. By following the source, purchase and consumption of the poison, they quickly caught a suspicious maid.
When the maid heard that she was being accused of poisoning and murdering her master, she was so scared that she confessed that her master Chen Jiao had been suffering from lung disease two and a half years ago and had been getting thinner and thinner. The doctor said that it had been about three years.
Over the past six months, I had a severe cough due to lung disease. Every time I had an attack, I would cough and wheeze for a long time and could not stop at all. It was really unbearable. Although this poison slowly kills people, each time I take it, it can suppress the cough for a few days and make my breathing much smoother.
Anyway, according to the doctor's prediction of life expectancy, whether or not to take this chronic poison is about the same, so Chen Jiao has been taking it for the past six months.
She bought the medicine according to her master's instructions. Her son-in-law Meng Chen also knew that Chen Jiao had lung disease and bought poison as medicine.
So Meng Chen was interrogated again. According to Meng Chen, after his wife Chen Jiao was diagnosed with an incurable disease two and a half years ago, she was sad for a while at first, but later she lived the last days of her life peacefully and arranged her funeral.
However, half a year later, she suddenly received a letter from Tian Yuanji, saying that Tian Yuanji was going to visit Shazhou County just to meet Chen Jiao.
In Meng Chen's view, the letter was all about pestering his wife, recalling the beautiful days when they first fell in love and were in love with each other. He had completely forgotten that he and Chen Jiao each had a wife and husband.
Meng Chen was furious. If this man dared to come to his house, he would definitely beat him up. Chen Jiao said, "I wanted to beat him up many years ago, but I didn't expect that now that my life is almost over, I can still fulfill my long-cherished wish."
Tian Yuanji was delighted when he received the letter from Chen Jiao expressing her willingness to meet him. He then wrote another letter to tell her how he was deceived by the Fifth Prince and Ren Jiayu.
After reading this letter, Chen Jiao, who originally wanted to trick Tian Yuanji into giving him a beating, changed her mind.
After discussing with Meng Chen, Chen Jiao continued to write letters, asking about what happened in the past while chatting about other things.
In the five subsequent letters, Tian Yuanji not only poured out his heart, but also described the whole process of the incident in detail, including what happened ten years ago, what the fifth prince said, what Ren Jiayu said, how he knew the truth ten years later, and how he accessed the files from that year.
Meng Chen wanted to find a government office to hand in these letters, but Chen Jiao felt that would not be effective.
So she tried to put Tian Yuanji off while trying to find a solution, but unexpectedly Tian Yuanji seemed to be possessed by a demon. He became more and more sincere in his words to Chen Jiao and gave her more and more gifts. Meng Chen saw that time was dragging on and there was no conclusion. Although she showed him every letter they exchanged, he became more and more angry, and the couple even had a quarrel.
This time, when Chen Jiao brought her child back to her parents' home in Kyoto, she said to Meng Chen, "This time back in Beijing, we have a chance to end it. It's best if it happens in Kyoto."
Chen Jiao finally blocked the punch for Tian Yuanji because she was afraid that her husband Meng Chen would kill Tian Yuanji and have to pay with his life. Later, Meng Chen hugged her, and before she died, she said: "If I kill him, I will have to pay with my life. It's not worth it."
The maid said that Chen Jiao had no feelings for Tian Yuanji, and she asked them to throw away all the things Tian Yuanji sent her.
The Jingzhao Yin was worried that someone might pick it up and get poisoned, so he sent a letter to the Shazhou County Police Station to investigate.
The Shazhou County Police Station reported that each time these "good things" were picked up by a different maid, who shared them among themselves, and some took them home and gave them to others. Within half a year, more than twenty people had eaten the cheese cakes, and four of them had eaten them twice. They all seem to be in good health now.
After Tian Yuanji knew the truth, he became depressed again. He originally thought that Chen Jiao had always loved him and was truly devoted to him, but it turned out that she just wanted to beat him up and then remove him from his official position.
He thought that Chen Jiao blocked the punch for him because she was willing to sacrifice her own life to protect his love. In fact, she just saw that the fight was almost over and was afraid that her husband would be involved in a murder lawsuit, so she blocked the punch for Meng Chen.
Although they had asked a doctor for a confession, since this was a homicide case, in order to verify the authenticity of the three people's confessions and after consulting with Miss Chen's husband's and parents' families, the coroner still performed a chest opening autopsy. Miss Chen's lungs were full of fluid, and it seemed that what the three people said was true.
Because the poison Sheng Caier administered did not cause anyone's death, the homicide case that was originally expected to be severely punished was now commuted to a one-year prison sentence.
Ten years ago, they were happily married, but ten years later, they parted ways, and misfortunes never come singly.
After Sheng Caier was arrested, she did not give away Ren Jiayu. In fact, the idea of ​​poisoning was proposed by Ren Jiayu, but Sheng Caier did not mention her at all.
The case was considered settled, but Sun Yanan was still wondering whether he should take advantage of the fact that his superiors were displeased with Ren Jiayu to add fuel to the fire.
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