Chapter 263

In front of the door of the morgue.

The group tied scarves, tied the wide cuffs with strips of cloth, and wore a smock.

Chen Zeyun looked at Cui Ning and hesitated, "Your Excellency wants to personally observe the autopsy?"

Cui Ning was dressed properly, and the hand that was tidying up her clothes paused slightly, "This is natural, what's the problem?"

"None. Chen Zeyun saw that her face was calm, so he swallowed back the words of persuasion.

The servant served a plate of ginger, "Please take the ginger slices and put them in your mouth." ”

Cui Ning hesitated for a moment, but still picked a piece of chopsticks and put it in her mouth, a spicy rush to her throat, and suddenly the entire esophagus became hot, choking her eyes red instantly.

The door opened, and a brazier was placed at the door of the officer, and the smoke was billowing, and the strong smell of herbs could be smelled through the face towel.

He bowed down and stepped over the brazier, reminding, "That little guy has been soaking in the water for a long time, and his appearance is unsightly, so pay attention." ”

Cui Ning snorted, and then entered the house. Even through the thick face towel and the smoking of various herbs, you can still smell a palpitating dead breath.

That little guy died last night, now the weather is cold, there is still an ice basin in the house to delay further decay, the degree of decay of the corpse should be very light, there is no stench in the house as Cui Ning imagined, but the smell of the dead that seems to be everywhere, mixed with a trace of coolness is constantly drilling into people's noses, which makes people shudder for no reason.

In the middle of the room rested a low bed covered with a white cloth, under which the body was located.

Cui Ning saw that he didn't get started directly, so he said, "Let's start." ”

"Yes. He knelt on the ground and slowly lifted the white cloth.

The corpse was white and swollen from the bubble, the face was pale and black, and the abdomen was bulging high.

Chen Zeyun saw that she only took a step back at the moment when the white cloth was lifted, and then his expression was the same, and he was slightly surprised in his heart, and deliberately said, "This is still only four or five hours, and only those ten days and a half months are called terrifying." ”

"Hmm. Cui Ning responded lightly, and then looked at the corpse intently.

Many Taoist texts involve the exploration of life and death, she has been exposed to these since she was a child, and she is not as persistent in life and death as ordinary people, she will be afraid of someone dying in front of her, afraid of the picture of slaughter, but she will not be afraid of a corpse that has been soaked and deformed. For her, the human soul is not alive, and the body is no different from flowers and plants.

He had experienced it once before, but this time, he could dissect the corpse.

Normally, the corpse that is claimed by someone will not be allowed to be destroyed, but this time a court official died, in order to find out the murderer, Mo said that he was just a small guy with no relatives and no reason, even if the corpse claimed by relatives had to be dissected!

His knife was freshly sharpened, very sharp, the blade slashed through the corpse's abdomen, neatly cutting through the skin, and dark red blood slowly gushed out. The blood of a dead person no longer flows, it does not produce a large amount of blood splashing like a living person, and the longer it is dead, the more the blood will coagulate, as long as it is done properly, try to avoid large blood vessels, even if the skin is cut, only a small amount of bleeding will be formed.

Wipe it with a cotton cloth while cutting it, and the whole process is much better than the bloody picture imagined by Cui Ning.

The stomach was taken out and cut, and in an instant, the strong smell of wine accompanied by the sour smell of digestion dispersed, and even Chen Zeyun couldn't help retching. He didn't want to take a second look, so he turned to look at Cui Ning, but saw her frowning, staring intently at the dirt in the barrel.

"Two adults, please take a look. He took a little bit out of it and put it in the new tray brought by the officer, "This is the algae in the moat. The little guy was indeed drowned alive, and it was algae growing in the moat. Previously, he could only be judged to have drowned, but after cutting his stomach, he may be able to see some of his experiences before his death. The smell of wine and the scraps of food prove that he had eaten a good meal shortly before he died. ”

In the past, when it was not possible to dissect a corpse, he could only see some appearances based on the skills of the predecessors and the accumulated experience of the predecessors, and most of the time he could only see some appearances, and as for the deep speculation, it was usually not so accurate, but now it was different! He could not only infer the time of death more accurately, but even be able to see where the deceased had gone and what he had done in the first half hour of death!

He worked in front of the corpse for a long time before he continued, "This little man must have died last night, and he had feasted and drunk before he died, and half of what he had eaten had been digested. ”

Most people who have experienced hardships and hardships will not form a habit of chewing and swallowing slowly, and if they suddenly get a delicious meal, it is easier to gobble it up, so that the residues in the stomach of this little guy are still intact and seem to have not had time to digest it.

In other words, the little guy drowned not long after eating.

The moat was outside the city walls, it was night, there was a curfew in the city, and there were patrol guards, how could he drown outside the city after eating a big meal? Cui Ning speculated that someone might have taken him outside the city and drowned him, this person must have some power in Suzhou City, he could avoid the guards, and maybe even control the guards, or maybe the little guy was simply eating somewhere outside the city.

There aren't many places outside the city that can serve a hearty meal in the middle of the night.

Cui Ning turned his head sideways and ordered, "Send someone to find out who entered and left the city between the end of last night and the beginning of the child's time." Let people check again, what Zhuangzi are in the suburbs of Suzhou. As for the range, the farthest is half an hour's hike to the moat. ”

Chen Zeyun understood what she meant, "Xiaguan immediately sent someone to investigate." ”

"Hmm...... By the way, check the carriages and horses in the surrounding Zhuangzi. Cui Ning added.

"Do you suspect that someone took advantage of the drunkenness of the little guy and transported him outside the city to drown him in a cart?" asked Chen Zeyun.

Cui Ning nodded, "You go in person." ”

These days have been rainy and rainy, and it is inevitable that there will be some traces on the carriage and horses, and the soil quality is different in each place, and the plants that grow are not the same, which are all evidence. Verification of this kind of thing needs to be careful, and it cannot be left to the discretion of the quick officials.

"Yes. Chen Zeyun saw that he no longer needed to accompany him here, "Xiaguan will go." ”

Peng You sent all the people under his command to show that he trusted these people very much, and Cui Ning felt that he could use them with confidence. People are more familiar with Suzhou City, and it is much better to verify these things with half the effort than for her, a person with black eyes, to run in person.

As he spoke, he had almost taken out all the internal organs of the corpse and placed them in the tray one by one. He bowed and said, "My lord, now the basic situation has been checked. ”

Say. Cui Ning said.

"The little guy died last night in the middle of the night, and there was water in his stomach, and there was mud and algae in his throat, esophagus, and nostrils, which proved that he was indeed drowned alive, but there were no signs of binding on the body, and there were no scars left by violence, but there was mud in his fingernails. There were small wounds on his fingers from the struggle, and the smell of alcohol in his stomach, so it was humbled to think that he had fallen into the water without being conscious, and that he might have been awake later, or he might have struggled instinctively because of the feeling of suffocation, but he must have had little strength at that time. It is estimated that he is very drunk, or he has been drugged. ”

As Cui Ning guessed, he may have fallen into it himself, or it may be that someone else deliberately threw him in the moat while he was unconscious.

Obviously, the inference of the preoccupation is the same as hers, but more absolute, "I thought that he had been thrown into the water." There was a foot deep in the moat, but it was only six or seven feet shallow, and there were even places where an adult stood in it and barely reached his waist, if he could have the strength to walk in by himself, he would never have only this injury on his hand when he struggled. If he was really too drunk to climb up, he probably wouldn't have the strength to walk from a long way to the moat, and someone would have brought him there. ”

There is also living water in the moat, but the current is not fast. Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has been no large-scale war in the south of the Yangtze River, so the moat will not be dredged every year, and the silt will accumulate, forming a lot of shallow water.

Cui Ning was more inclined to the latter, so she sent Chen Zeyun to check the carriages and horses in the surrounding Zhuangzi, but she did not completely rule out other possibilities, "Drunk people behave unpredictably, not to mention the moat, it is possible to drown in their own bath barrels." ”

She remembered that when she was a child, her second brother once said one thing: there was a squire who loved to drink, and every time he got drunk, he would get drunk, like a madman, and one day he wanted to bathe after being drunk, and his subordinates did not follow the care, and as a result, he drowned in the bathtub.

If this is true, it is not impossible for the little girl to drown in the moat.