Forensic Imperial Concubine

After the assistant left, Hollis carefully initiated small talk with Pearce. Hollis tried to ask him indirectly about what happened. However, Pearce did not answer his inquisitions. He merely drank his tea in silence. Hollis felt quite embarrassed with how Pearce was treating him. However, he finally figured out that Pierce did not want to talk about it at that time. At last, he chose to stop asking Pierce and silently wait with him.

In any case, they had been waiting for more than an hour and still, the coroner was nowhere in sight. With a cold sweat on his forehead, Hollis strode to the door and asked the guard outside, "Where is my assistant?"

"He went out to look for the coroner in person," replied the guard.

"Didn't the coroner come to the government office today?" Hollis then asked.

"He's on leave today so he didn't come to work. The assistant went to his home to fetch him there. I think it wouldn't be long now. My Lord, may I ask what happened? Why did Marquis Pearce bring so many people here? It seems like..."

But he immediately stopped when he remembered that people could insult the mayor of River City or disrespect the assistant, but the only thing they couldn't do was say anything that was remotely unpleasant about Pearce and his family. Otherwise, any person who would dare do so would certainly encounter some unexpected troubles.

"Stop talking and go after the assistant! Marquis Pearce has been waiting for a long time," Hollis exclaimed in a stern tone. Then he turned around and set foot in the hall again. He then explained to Pearce why the coroner had not come yet after such a long time.

Upon hearing his explanation, Pearce did not become upset. He merely said, "It doesn't matter. I can just wait."

he secretly wiped the sweat from his forehead.

ran in a hurry.

rigidly scolded. Then he suddenly felt that he had inappropriately behaved in front of Pearce. He glanced at the latter in secret. When he saw that Pearce didn't show any response,

face, the assistant said, "My Lord, he killed

jumped because it was too surprising. "What did you just say? He killed himself?

neighbors, he had not left his house for a long time. So I thought maybe the weather was just cold so he was still sleeping. We knocked on his door harder, but still, no one

immediately understood the situation. He turned to Pearce and said, "My Lord, it seems like the person you're looking

corpse with you?" Pearce asked while he turned to look

asked the guards to put it outside

him. Hollis realized that it was another known coroner in the city. Not a lot of people

right eyelid twitch when he saw the dead body. He thought that he could stay safe and avoid trouble as long as he stayed inside the

body's neck. "My Lord, this man didn't commit suicide. As you can see, there are two types of marks on

been their reason? The coroner was only earning a few taels of silver a month. He was also of low status so he didn't have a lot of

plainly called