Xue Jun entered the coroner's room, and his subordinates had already burned atractylodes and soaphorns one step in advance, and he also smeared his nose with sesame oil, and then took a piece of ginger, so he also smelled a strong smell of corpses.

More than a dozen of the officials and coroners all looked serious, and they went back and forth to inspect, and one of them led Xue Jun over and said, "Why did the adult come in person?"

"This case is very important, and this official can't be cautious," Xue Jun said: "How are you doing the land inspection?

The coroner hesitated for a while before he said, "The four corpses were covered with multiple fatal wounds, and it can be determined that they were killed by torture." ”

Xue Jun looked at him and said angrily, "Do you have anything else to hide?"

"Your Excellency," said the coroner, frowning, "Your Excellency, please listen to me." ”

He pointed to a corpse and said: "After four or five days of aging, the juice of the four corpses flowed out of their mouths and noses, and they were fat and swollen all over, their lips turned up, and their blisters rose. It's autumn and February, and the corpse is rotten, and the skin on the face, belly, sides, and chest changes in color. My lord, please see, the flesh and skin of these tortured wounds have turned red, and these places are blue-black, which are very badly beaten, and have been attached to the bones, and even maggots cannot eat them. ”

The corpse was washed away with water to remove the maggots, and then poured vinegar on it, and when Xue Jun leaned down, he was choked and almost spit out the ginger in his mouth.

The servant next to him advised: "Adults must not open and close their mouths suddenly, there will be filth rushing in." ”

"The flesh of the corpse was curled and convex, there were two bodies, and even the intestines were exposed. The coroner continued: "If you look at the wounds, you can see what kind of torture instrument was used. For example, in this place, the marks are small at both ends, and they are punished by an iron whip. On the top of the head, like the place where the blade is used, it is not the blade, but the iron chisel and the hammer, which are too violently chiseled and more than two inches deep. ”

The coroner pointed to the corpse's leg and said, "This ankle bone is broken, because he is wearing wooden boots." ”

Wooden boots, also known as clamps, foot sticks, etc., are a kind of torture instruments composed of wooden sticks and ropes to clamp and press the ankles. The use of such torture instruments often causes serious injuries to the legs of the victims, and even crushes the ankle bones, resulting in disability. Whether it is an iron whip, a hammer, or a foot stick, it is all the torture tools of Dali Temple.

"Twelve pairs of ribs were broken except for the ankle bone. The coroner said.

Xue Juntie blushed and said, "Is it a rib draw?"

Rib pumping is also one of the legal punishments of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, which is to cut off the ribs one by one and use them to torture the prisoners - but the few servants and coroners in front of them showed hesitant looks, and looked at each other obviously with something to say.

"What's the doubt?" Xue Jun cheered up.

"Almost all four of them had ribs drawn, except for one rib of a corpse, which did not seem to have been broken by ribs. The coroner came to an astonishing conclusion: "The method of breaking this rib is not like the torture method of the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple, but like—"

"Like what?" Xue Jun asked.

"It's like the pipa punishment of the Jinyi Guard. The coroner said.

Jinyiwei has a set of unique torture methods, which are a hundred times more vicious than the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, and compared with the prison of the Criminal Department and Jinyiwei's edict, it is simply heaven. The criminal law in the imperial prison is full of poisons and cruelty, and the "pipa punishment" mentioned by the coroner is specifically a criminal law for ribs, and it is said that if Jinyiwei uses this method to break his ribs, the prisoner will "sweat like water, and come back from the dead, two or three times".

Ordinary broken ribs are already very painful, but Jinyiwei's broken ribs can bring people back to life several times, which shows the viciousness.

Xue Jun felt dizzy for a while, and only after a long time did he say, "Can you be sure? Are you sure it's a pipa punishment?"

The coroner and the cooner shook their heads, some nodded, and the coroner led by the coroner said: "Jinyiwei's pipa punishment, the broken ribs are very similar to ordinary broken ribs, but the bones will be cracked. Although there is a crack on that bone, it is not certain whether this gap is a previous injury or an injury caused by torture. We just put all the doubts up and leave them to the adults to judge. ”

"No! What this official wants is not an ambiguous conclusion, but the most definite conclusion," Xue Jun said: "This official wants a yes or no!"

Walking out of the autopsy room, Xue Jun only felt that the sky above his head was pressing heavily on his body, making it difficult for him to breathe with every breath.

Jin Yiwei is involved—is it possible? Why? One Chen Ying is not enough, but also a Ji Gang? What kind of shady scene do Jin Yiwei and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have?

Xue Jun dragged his tired body out of the mansion and sat in the sedan chair - in his hand, he held a copy of the investigation results of why the official letter paper spontaneously combusted, saying that after inspection, white phosphorus was found in the embers of the paper, and there was a special herb, the composition of which has not yet been detected, but it should be something that helps white phosphorus burn, and this letter paper is a raw edge, and it will be fine if it is caught in the book and does not move, as long as the book is opened and extracted from the book, the raw edge of the paper will rub the pages, and then the herbs will help the white phosphorus burn and burn the important evidence.

He closed his eyes and pondered, this method is very similar to the Jianghu technique, and many things used by the rivers and lakes are probably like this. And as we all know, Ji Gang's Jinyi Guard, there are many rivers and lakes outlaws, these people were appeased by Ji Dadu, and they became the captain and errand officer of Jinyiwei, making Jinyiwei up and down is a miasma of black smoke and shrimp and crabs.

In fact, today's case involved Jin Yiwei, although he was surprised, but he also felt relieved, because this seemed to make sense of a question that he had puzzled before-

Why did Chen Ying take such a big risk and kill four insignificant people?

It is said that it is insignificant, because the case was almost interrogated as early as when Tang Zong interrogated, Li Zhen was bribed by Soap Li Ye Zhuan, and was impeached and imprisoned by Yushi Qin Heng and Yuan Gang, who had personal grudges with him, and all the prisoners confessed, and the suspicions were all revealed, and the case could already be closed, which has nothing to do with Chen Ying at all, why did Chen Ying suddenly send someone to kill Li Zhen at the last moment?

Xue Jun felt that if Chen Ying wanted to kill, he should also kill Qin Heng and Yuan Gang in prison, because these two were his subordinates and knew many things about him, if he was afraid that Tang Zong would torture him, and he would try out something unfavorable to him from the mouths of these two people, it was logical for Chen Ying to kill these two people, but to kill Li Zhen, Xue Jun couldn't figure out what was going on.

Could it be that he had always thought before, of course, when he couldn't explain this question, he made an inference - because Chen Ying was really too bold, he wanted to wrestle with the prince, fight with the ministers, and tell everyone that the emperor was his backer, and he was not afraid of anyone except the emperor, so he was bold, arrogant, and unscrupulous to send people to kill people, just to give everyone a tremor and a threat.

As long as this person is what I want to kill, even if the prince wants to protect it, he can't keep it!

At that time, he felt that Chen Ying was so arrogant, but now that he knew that Jinyiwei was involved, he found that he might have taken a wrong path, or drilled a bull's horn, and the deepest shady scene behind this case was actually here in Jinyiwei.

He unconsciously pinched the paper in his hand, which was as thin as a cicada's wing, but the sedan chair paused so abruptly that he almost hit his head. He was just about to speak, but the curtain of the car was suddenly lifted, revealing a face that Xue Jun saw most unexpectedly at this time: "Lord Xue, your sedan chair man, is a little untrained!"

"Master Ji," Xue Jun stared at him: "Do you have any advice?"

Ji Gang showed a sarcastic smile: "Where do I have any advice, what's the matter, see you are going to the palace?" He glanced at the paper in Xue Jun's hand as if he didn't seem to have any, and said: "It seems that there has been some progress in this Li Zhen's case, alas, it wasn't me who said you, a case the size of a nail hat can drag on for so long, and there is no result yet-Blame the Emperor for coldly Yingtianfu and Dali Temple, if your case was handed over to me, it would have been solved a long time ago!"

Xue Jun ignored this provocation: "If the adults are fine, this official will take the first step." ”

His palanquin slowly rose, the curtain was lowered, and no one saw his eyes that were spewing with anger.