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The Prefect’s Mansion is on fire.

Take me there.

Once Li Zhang was into trouble,

then the people who dressed like soldiers of the Military Commissioner

set the Prefect’s Mansion on fire.

Jing Yi got poisoned and went crazy the night he entered the military camp.

I assume Duke Chang is related to it.

Your Highness, it’s datura flower.

Is there something hiding about General Leng’s illness?

Chu Chu, do you still remember

the two people who tried to kill Xu Rugui?

Yes.

I remember you said after the autopsy

that they were both soldiers.

Your Highness, why do you mention this?

These people are also soldiers.

Jinli found out

that before we went into the mountain with Li Zhang,

more than 20 soldiers left the camp to buy supplies

under Wu Chen’s order.

This is exactly the number of soldiers who showed up in the Prefect’s Mansion.

But Wu Chen doesn’t have the power to dispatch troops.

Therefore, it must be someone

very powerful behind this.

What’s more,

from the traces of the scene in the wood house that day,

except for the Shence Army who came to kill Xu Rugui,

there was another group of people who wanted to capture Xu Rugui alive.

Your Highness, why do you think

it’s General Leng who sent people to arrest Xu Rugui?

It’s just my speculation.

At this point,

if they want Xu Rugui,

it must be for his value as a bargaining chip

instead of his identity,

I shouldn’t say these things to bore you.

It’s late. Go to bed.

I want to stay with you.

The Imperial Coroner

Episode 29

Jinyu, I’ve found out

that it was Hou Bin who sent those people out

to buy herbs.

They used to be bandits and they were incorporated into the army.

Take me to him.

This one.

My child... my child...!

Hou Bin!

Hou Bin!

Hou Bin! Hou Bin!

Get a doctor now!

Yes!

-Hou Bin. Hou Bin! -My child...

Hang in there.

My child...

Hou Bin! Hou Bin!

Hou Bin!

What happened?

I’m late.

He stabbed himself.

If I had come earlier,

I could have stopped him.

Chu Chu.

Can you find out what he just ate?

There is no food residue in his mouth.

I can’t tell now.

Have you two been guarding here?

Yes, Your Highness.

Has anyone been here after General Hou came back?

No.

After General Hou came back from the infirmary,

he has been staying

in the barracks by himself.

The two of us are keeping watch outside.

We never left.

What’s going on here?

General Hou got poisoned.

Poisoned?

Chu Chu.

Examine his body carefully

and find the source of his toxins as soon as possible.

Your Highness.

General Hou’s belly

has been cut open by himself.

The evidence

may disappear in a while.

Can I perform an autopsy on him now?

Autopsy?

How can you cut him

while his remains are scarcely cold yet?

What are you yelling about?

What are you yelling about?

Don’t you know the military rules?

How dare you obstruct Commandery Prince An’s investigation?

Get out and take fifty floggings!

Yes.

Hold on.

General Leng, they are not obstructing the investigation.

No relatives or friends of the deceased

are willing to let anyone perform an autopsy on the deceased.

But General Hou was murdered.

I promise I will restore his body

after the autopsy.

We’ve known our mistakes. We are willing to be punished.

Take General Hou to the mortuary first,

then take your punishment.

Yes.

Miss Chu, please.

Hou, how is your injury now?

When did you get injured again?

Just a flesh wound.

It doesn’t matter.

How does it not matter?

Isn’t it your flesh?

It doesn’t matter?

I heard from Wu Chen that your injury hasn’t healed yet.

You are even having malignant sores.

You don’t even apply the ointment Doctor Qi gave you on time.

Are you trying to show how tough you are or are you just stupid?

All right.

You two big men are even

more nagging than my wife.

It doesn’t look like an arrow made by the Tang armies.

No, this is used by the bandits.

I was young and aggressive

when I just joined the army.

I followed Hou Bin to suppress the bandits once.

I was eager to make achievements and I fell for their trick.

Hou Bin got shot by many arrows on saving me.

This arrow was so close to his heart

that he missed death by an inch.

I wanted to keep this arrow

to remind myself.

But he insisted on keeping it.

He said if I get impulsive again,

he will remind me with it.

Now I get impulsive again,

but he is gone.

General Leng valued him a lot

during the past year.

Last year, the Vice Military Commissioner stepped down due to illness.

Zhao Jie should have been promoted by seniority.

But Hou Bin got promoted in the end.

And I found out

it was him who sent those people out

to buy herbs.

Also it was him who took the bandits in.

So I started to suspect him.

Before General Hou died...

My child... my child...!

He seemed to be saying something about his child.

Do you know what that is about?

He should be talking about his wife and son.

About three or four years ago,

his wife died in childbirth.

He lost his wife and his son.

He and his wife loved each other very much.

It hit him quite hard.

Does it have anything to do with his death?

Maybe it does.

Jinli.

Does General Hou also play dung beetles?

It’s a folk prescription in the southwest.

Dung beetles in honey

with some vinegar.

It’s for treating malignant sores.

We use it a lot in the army.

Is there anything wrong with it?

General Zhao.

There is blood on your hand.

It’s fine.

I guess I got it from General Zhao

when we were standing together.

Prepare some water. I’ll take a bath.

Yes.

Your Highness.

The new wound on General Hou’s abdomen was the one

Autopsy Report that he cut from left to right

with his right hand holding a knife.

But that wound

is different from a normal one.

What’s the difference?

Whether it’s cut by others or by oneself,

that person will feel pain

when his flesh is cut.

And he will dodge

when he feels pain.

The wound will vary in depth.

Especially when you cut yourself.

No matter how tough you are,

you will use less strength because of the pain.

The wound is deep when you insert the sword but shallow when you draw it out.

Bur General Hou’s wound is different.

There is almost no change in the depth of his wound.

As if he couldn’t feel pain.

Yes.

Did he do something else

after he cut open his abdomen,

as if he was looking for

something in his abdomen

and trying to take it out?

Your Highness, how do you know that?

I couldn’t believe it at first.

But I checked it many times.

His viscera are in a mess.

He reached in and pulled them around.

Chu Chu, does General Hou

have malignant sores?

Yes.

There are many marks of old wounds on his body.

Especially the one that runs through his chest.

It hasn’t fully healed.

Looks like he relapsed many times.

There are two malignant sores at his back

around the perforating wound.

It was treated sloppily.

There was a sour smell on the surface

with some fine powder.

I guess he used a folk prescription

in Qianzhou.

The prescription of dung beetles in honey?

You even know the folk prescription in the southwest?

You are so good.

It’s just my speculation.

Chu Chu, did the three dead soldiers

also have malignant sores on them?

I can’t tell from the man

who burned himself.

But there are malignant sores on the men

who were drowned and strangled to death.

Did they also use this prescription?

The drowned soldier was submerged.

I can’t tell if he used it.

But the strangled soldier’s wound

is broken.

Obviously he used it.

Your Highness, what’s wrong?

Is there any problem?

No, that’s right.

I know how they were poisoned.

You’d better stay quiet.

Something happened tonight.

No one has time to take care of you.

You are not like

Xiao Jinyu’s people at all.

I did it for your own good.

After everything is over,

I will release you.

You are a rebel!

You know nothing about it.

Did you see that?

My life is coming to an end.

What I went through these troubles for?

I did it all for you,

for the Leng clan!

Bah!

The Leng clan has been guarding the Southwest for Tang

for generations and we are brave and loyal.

If it wasn’t for your greed for power,

how would the Emperor grant a marriage to me and Xiao Jinli?

All these years I’ve been

trying to escape from such a fate.

Now you are saying you did it for me

and for the Leng clan.

I will never believe you.

The Leng clan will never believe you!

You can kill me now,

or after I untie the ropes,

I will kill you by myself

even to be blamed as the black sheep of our family!

Fine.

I’ll give you what you want!

General Leng!

What are you doing?

Your Highness.

Chu Chu.

Get up.

This is my family affair.

It’s none of your concern.

There is no family affair between us.

Commandery Prince An, do you need anything?

I didn’t see Leng Yue

and I was a little worried.

I was going to see Wu Chen, the secretary

in charge of military supplies, and ask him a few questions.

I passed by

and vaguely heard Leng Yue’s voice.

So I came here to have a look.

Your Highness.

I asked him why he concealed his illness from the court.

He knocked me out with his hand

and tied me up.

He said he will release me

after everything is over.

Your Highness.

General Leng, it’s your family affair

and it’s about your military business,

I shouldn’t ask too much.

But considering what happened tonight,

to avoid misunderstanding,

I want to ask you one question.

Did you really not

report your illness to the court?

What do you mean?

You may not know

that the Minister of War, Feng Jie, was murdered

when he arrived in Chang’an.

There was a special volume

of inspection notes missing.

What?

After I learned about your condition,

I asked Jinli about it

and he remembered

that you once talked to Minister Feng alone

for half a day during his inspection.

That’s right.

I did tell my condition

to Feng Jie on that day.

It concerns

the military power in the Southwest

and the future of the Leng family after my death.

It also concerns the safety

of the Southwest border in Tang.

I know how important it is.

I’ve discussed with Feng Jie

that I would keep my condition a secret

so as to stabilize the military spirit

and prevent the bandits from creating a disturbance in the Southwest.

Feng Jie would write down my condition

and present it to His Majesty in person

to come up with a good solution.

I didn’t know Feng Jie died so suddenly

as he arrived in Chang’an.

I didn’t receive any imperial edict.

I thought His Majesty

would appoint a new Minister of War

and that’s why Xue Rucheng

came to Qianzhou.

But he didn’t set foot in my camp.

He just returned to Chang’an like that.

So there were several mysterious deaths in the camp

when I asked Leng Yue to send you a letter and greet you.

It was such a coincidence.

No wonder you got suspicious.

Then you sent me a letter and invite me to investigate the case

to find out if I’m up to other things

and to make sure Leng Yue is safe, right?

You want me to find out the fact,

but you don’t trust me that much.

So you are not going to tell me the truth.

But Leng Yue acted impulsively

and had a fight with you.

You had no choice

but to keep her in your barracks

to keep her safe after everything becomes clear.

Am I right?

You are smart indeed.

General Leng, is the moxa stick yours?

Yes.

I had rheumatism once.

Nothing worked.

The doctor asked me to burn moxa stick

and keep using it.

Although the rheumatism can’t be totally cured,

at least it can alleviate the pain.

Your Highness, there is something wrong with the moxie.

What’s wrong?

This moxa is a little darker than the normal moxa.

And there is a strange smell.

Let me take a look.

There is cinnabar in it.

Cinnabar?

This moxa is mixed with cinnabar.

The burning cinnabar is poisonous.

It’s hard to be noticed

while being mixed in the moxa.

Grandpa, there is a reason that you became ill.

It’s because of the moxa.

Where did you get the moxa?

Wu Chen.

It’s still warm. He just left.

Soldiers.

Yes.

Pass down my order.

Guard all the entrances and the exits.

Search every corner of the camp.

You must find Wu Chen out.

Yes.

General Leng.

Are you sure that Wu Chen

gave the moxa to you?

Yes.

Are you looking for the evidence

that he tried to kill me?

I’m here to find the evidence that he poisoned the soldiers.

He poisoned the soldiers?

Did he kill Hou Bin?

I’m afraid he is responsible for

the recent events in the army.

What a bold bastard!

If I get him,

I will skin him alive.

Jinyu.

I’ve found it out.

Feng Li who strangled himself

has someone in his family who also hanged himself.

Wang Chi, who drowned himself,

has some relatives drowned

in a flood in his hometown.

And General Xu who rushed into the fire,

his old house caught fire

and his mother died in flames.

The three of them are just like General Hou.

They were away from home when something happened to their loved ones.

They had been feeling guilty.

Your Highness, this was found in the ashes of the incense burner.

Show it to me.

Your Highness, this is the powder made from the seeds of datura flower.

General Leng.

This is what makes the soldiers in the camp

go crazy for no reason.

Wu Chen used it as a drug enhancer

which can make the victims see illusions.

These illusions are associated with

the long suppressed painful experiences of the victims.

As long as the murderer knows enough about these people’s experiences,

he can guess what kind of illusions

they will see when the poison starts to work.

Then he can design the way they kill themselves.

How did he do it?

I thought about it at first

that maybe someone used poison.

We used a lot of methods

to ensure the safety of food and drinking water in the army.

Where else could he put the poison in?

He mixed the datura flower powder

in the medicine for treating malignant sores.

Sterculia lychnophora

Those who have malignant sores

will be poisoned when they apply it.

Commandery Prince An and I have checked it.

All the soldiers who have gone crazy

all had malignant sores

and they all used the same prescription

to treat the malignant sore.

But Jing...

But Dog doesn’t have any malignant sores.

How did he get poisoned?

He doesn’t have malignant sores.

But he touched

the most critical ingredient for treating malignant sores.

What?

The living dung beetles raised in the infirmary.

Dung beetles?

Chu Chu and I have checked the infirmary.

I think Wu Chen

mixed the datura powder

into the baked dung beetle powder

when he counted the crude drugs.

Because the jar of dung beetle powder

was next to the jar of living dung beetles,

some powder floated into the jar of the living dung beetles.

Dog accidentally got some powder on his hand

during the dung beetle race with the wounded soldiers

without knowing it.

I guess he got excited and then

he just took the water and drank it.

That’s how he got poisoned.

The seeds of datura flower are hard to get.

There are tight restrictions on entering and leaving the camp.

I asked Jinli to check the records.

The only person who touched the jar of dung beetle powder

and is able to

bring the datura flower powder back to the camp

is Wu Chen in charge of military supplies.

Your Highness, please check this out.

Your Highness, this is the kind of moxa used by my grandpa.

The moxa should be

brought here in a whole box.

The moxa sticks in General Leng’s barracks

can only cover three or four days.

Yes.

These moxa sticks

are not enough to replenish a whole box.

According to Jinli,

those who left to buy supplies

won’t be back in ten days,

which means

Wu Chen didn’t plan to keep poisoning you.

Did he stop because he knew

we were coming here?

No.

General Leng, I was taking a bath in my barracks.

Sorry I’m late.

Take your men to search for Wu Chen.

You must find him out

before dawn.

Search for Wu Chen? What’s wrong?

Hurry up!

Yes.

Hold on.

General Zhao, please remind the soldiers

that he might dress up as a soldier

and blend in the search team.

Got it.

All these soldiers

even can’t find a civil official.

Can he fly or go under the ground?

General Leng, one night has been passed.

I think they have searched all the places in the camp

where he can hide himself.

General Leng,

please order your men

to pay attention to the places

where only the dead can stay.

You mean

Wu Chen is dead?

If he hasn’t escaped from the army,

and he isn’t among the soldiers,

then there is only one possibility left.

General Leng, Commandery Prince An.

We have found Wu Chen.

General Leng, Commandery Prince An.

These two cooks found Wu Chen’s body in the well

when they went to draw water this morning.

Has anyone been here before?

I have asked them.

They were searching all night.

Countless people

passed here.

The footprints are messy.

The bottoms of their shoes are the same.

We can’t tell anything.

The deceased male is over 30.

His mouth and eyes are slightly open. There is a swelling on his abdomen.

There are bruises caused by struggling.

There is foam in his nose and mouth.

Nasal cavity Oral cavity He was drowned.

But his body has been soaked in water,

it’s hard to determine the exact time of his death.

I assume

he died between one to five a.m.

Between one and five?

That’s when Hou Bin died

and we were searching for him.

Could he jump into the well in desperation

when we were looking for him?

He might be holding this rope

and hiding in the well.

He didn’t expect that we would search for him all night.

He lost his strength gradually.

So he fell into the well and got drowned.

This place is not close to the three entrances and exits of the camp.

And it’s not on the way

from his barracks to the exit.

Even when he was fleeing from us,

he shouldn’t hide here.

Are you suspecting

that Wu Chen was murdered?

Chu Chu.

Perform a thorough autopsy on him.

Go ahead and do what you need to do.

I’ll sign the approval paper for you.

Okay.

But, Your Highness.

I need something first.

Miss Chu, just tell us what you need.

As long as we have it,

we will give it to you.

Thank you, General Leng.

I need green onion, pepper, salt,

white plum, lees, vinegar.

one garlic mortar and two mats.

Please find an open space in the camp for me.

I need to dig a two-meter pit

and burn some firewood in the pit.

Are you going to cook?

I want to braise him.

Chu Chu, are you going to eat him?

No, no.

I’m not going to eat him.

Braising him

with my method

can let us know

if he jumped into the well by himself.

General Leng, Chu Chu is from a family of coroners.

She often uses some unusual

but really useful methods.

I think you should let her try it.

Cooks.

Yes!

Bring the stuff Miss Chu needs.

Yes.

Thank you. General Leng.

Zhao Jie. Jinli.

Yes.

Do whatever Miss Chu says.

Yes.

Leng Yue, stay here and help Chu Chu.

Okay.

Commandery Prince An.

Can we talk in your room?

General Leng, please.

Please.

Jiangshan Hall

You’ve read the memorial of Commandery Prince An.

The Prefect of Qianzhou, Li Zhang, has been brought to justice.

But Commandery Prince An thinks

Li Zhang is not the main culprit

behind the illegal minting of coins.

What do you think?

Memorial

I think what Commandery Prince An said is reasonable.

Minister Wang.

What Commandery Prince An wrote in the memorial,

except for the arrest of Li Zhang,

the evidence of the rest of the events

has all been destroyed.

It can just be his side of story.

How is it reasonable?

Your Majesty, I think

Commandery Prince An is putting himself off

and fooling you.

Now he went to the camp of the Military Commissioner of Qianzhou

in the name of investigating the case.

He is meddling in military affairs

and acting beyond his authority.

Minister Han.

When I went to the Southwest,

Commandery Prince An mentioned this case to me.

The case of illegal minting of coins is really complicated.

It’s understandable that Commandery Prince An

couldn’t make it clear for the moment.

Minister Xue, you two are really interesting.

You are his teacher

and the head of the Ministry of War.

You were ordered to go to the Southwest to inspect military affairs.

You found out nothing about the military affairs.

But now you are meddling in the affairs of the Three Judicial Offices.

Commandery Prince An is the head of the Three Judicial Offices.

There is no end of his investigation of the illegal minting of coins.

Now he is meddling in the military affairs of the Southwest.

The both of you acted beyond your authority.

Does Commandery Prince An

have a bad influence on his noble teacher

or do you mislead your clever student?

Commandery Prince An only mentioned

a few words about the illegal minting when we were chatting.

As for why he went to General Leng’s army,

I believe he will give us an explanation.

General Leng has always ruled his army rigorously.

He won’t let others lay a hand on the military affairs that easily.

You are so interested in the affairs of the Three Judicial Offices,

then you should bring back the survived rebels.

But you didn’t bring back

the person you should bring back,

you even lost the person you shouldn’t bring back.

Commandery Prince An was ordered to investigate the illegal minting case.

Now it turns out like this.

Shouldn’t he thank his teacher for that?

The illegal minting of coins has always been a major case.

Commandery Prince An has the right to act at his discretion,

but he went to the Southwest this time to look for his father.

He didn’t take much luggage and many attendants.

Maybe he just needs some help.

Ask the Military Commissioner for help?

What does he want to do?

The Commandery Prince entered the camp of the Military Commissioner in private.

Minister Xue, you’ve taught

a wonderful student.

Minister Xue is the teacher of Commandery Prince An.

It’s normal that they

mentioned a few words about official business

when they were chatting.

But what Minister Han said

is true.

There is no solid evidence in the memorial.

No matter what,

Li Zhang is still a prefect of a state.

Even he wants to arrest him,

he should have irrefutable proof.

Right now,

Commandery Prince An couldn’t find out the truth.

So he claimed that there is someone else behind Li Zhang.

He is smart indeed.

Minister Xue, am I right?

Your Majesty.

Commandery Prince An failed in his task, made decisions without authorization,

deceived his superior and subordinates, intervened in military affairs

and acted beyond his authority.

He should be taken back to Chang’an and be punished.

Minister Jing.

What do you think?

I think

there is another possibility that why

Commandery Prince An only mentioned his speculation

but not any solid evidence.

It’s not because there is no real evidence.

Commandery Prince An worries that some treacherous men

might take the letter away and it will cause unnecessary troubles.

Commandery Prince An has always been thoughtful and cautious.

Your Majesty, I think you can order him to come back first.

After Commandery Prince An returns to Chang’an,

if there is no real evidence

to prove his speculation in this memorial,

you can punish him at that time.

Yes, Senior Jing has a point.

Your Majesty, I think what Senior Jing said is reasonable.

If you are going to punish Commandery Prince An,

you should punish him after he returns to Chang’an.

Your Majesty, I also agree with what Senior Jing said.

All right, let me think about it.

You can leave now.

Yes, Your Majesty.

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