Chapter 3 Antique Shop (3)

Bai Shui heard the two of them talking, but did not stop them because the voice was not loud. But when these words came to my ears, I couldn't help but ask, "Yes, what else is the cause of death?" ”

Mingyue said, "I was also at Baibaozhen just now, that Liu Peizhen's eyes were protruding, there was clear blood flowing out of her mouth and nose, and there was blood on her face, and she may have been suffocated, why did Uncle Li only talk about blunt objects." ”

Su Yunkai lowered his head and asked, "Really?" ”

Bai Shui thought for a moment, "Well, that's true, it's the same as what I just saw." ”

"But I'm not sure yet, I can't be sure until after the autopsy, but what Uncle Li said is too arbitrary, and it's really not like his usual style." Mingyue saw that Su Yunkai was still frowning, so she said, "I have followed my grandfather everywhere to the murder scene since I was four years old, and the autopsy room in Yamen is my second home, so there will be no mistake." ”

Hearing a girl say this, Su Yunkai always felt a little chilly. But...... followed her grandfather to those places at such a young age, could it be that she was dependent on her grandfather, and there was no one else in the family?

Mingyue suddenly understood, and spoke briskly, "Is it because Lord Qin is going to go elsewhere soon, so he is too lazy to take care of things, otherwise he would be in a hurry to try the case now." ”

Hearing that she was guilty of the following crimes, for fear that she would offend the county lord without holding back her mouth, she drank white water and drank low, "Ah Yue is not allowed to talk nonsense." ”

Mingyuetian is not afraid of the ground, he is afraid that he will kill himself, and he will no longer criticize when he responds to an "oh".

Su Yunkai looked at the two of them, and said that it was a childhood sweetheart, but it was not like it, and it was strange that ordinary friends could hold small hands.

Above the lobby, the atmosphere is still solemn. There are four big-character plaques hanging on the top of the mirror behind Lord Qin's head, lining him to be inviolable, solemn and upright. No one in the room spoke, and even the onlookers waited with bated breath.

Lord Qin saw that Wu Chip still didn't recruit, and he was angry, "You bastard scholar, you still haven't recruited, come here, and then be punished." ”

"Slow down, adult." Bai Shui stepped forward to stop the servant and said, "Wu Chou is a weak scholar, if the punishment is excessive, I am afraid that it will be said that it is a trick to be beaten, and the adults will think twice." ”

After thinking about it, Lord Qin felt reasonable, and waved his hand to let the official retreat, "But this stubborn scholar refuses to admit his guilt." ”

"Your Excellency." Bai Shui said, "Judging from Liu's death, I'm afraid that he will not only die from a blunt blow, but also may die of suffocation." If the cause of death was death due to the mouth and nose being covered, that could also explain why Wu Chip did not hear the sound of fighting. And it was raining heavily last night, and the sound of the rain masked some movement, which is also possible. ”

Qi Zuo couldn't help but say, "Why did Bai Zhutou say that there were two causes of her death?" ”

Bai Shui leaned over slightly, leaving a vacant seat, "She said it, not me." ”

He turned his head angrily, but when he saw the pretty girl, he was angry. Lord Qin also saw the person who was listening to the case, and immediately said with a straight face, "It's you again, what are you doing with the good girl's family running to the yamen." ”

Mingyue was not surprised, and said with a smile, "Look at the adult's trial." Uncle Li, I took a look at Baibaozhen and saw that there were two causes of Liu's death, and you are also a 20-year old man, why can't you see this? ”

He looked embarrassed and shouted, "Don't talk nonsense, what's wrong." ”

"Do you want my grandfather to come and see it?"

He didn't say anything when he was on the board, and his face turned red. Lord Qin didn't want to make any trouble before leaving, so he said, "Little Ah Yue, you go and invite your grandfather." ”

Mingyue sighed, "But my grandfather doesn't know where to go to the mountains and rivers, and he can't find him." If adults believe me, then let me come. ”

With that, she rolled up her sleeves and prepared to uncover the corpse covered with a white cloth, but before she could get to the side, there was another loud bang. Lord Qin scolded, "How can you be a female exile above the court!" If your grandfather is not here, then there will be nothing else to do in the entire Nanle County? You step down from the official and don't despise the court, where is the rule that a woman is on an errand in the yamen. ”

"That's not right, my lord."

The voice was loud, like a breeze blowing away the stagnant breath in the hall. Mingyue turned around, and saw Su Yunkai slowly stepping forward and walking to the court.

His face is calm and calm, although he is a scholar, and his face is also handsome and extraordinary, but his temperament is not comparable to Wu Chip's little white face, and he speaks clearly, "I am a non-official and tasteless, just a capable person hired by the yamen with money." If a woman is capable of doing this, then she can also do it. ”

Master Qin said angrily, "This official is not hired, and the yamen is not hired." ”

"It's just a preliminary inspection?"

"Yes."

"Then there is a re-inspection, and if the re-inspection is the same as the initial inspection, it can be guaranteed. If there is an objection in the initial inspection, it should not be allowed to re-examine the same person. Moreover, the inspection is not detailed, and the report is not true, which is the responsibility of the report. But if the test is not true, the adult will judge, and the adult will be responsible. ”

Lord Qin was speechless, he would leave office in a month, and he didn't want to make anything happen at this critical juncture. He looked at this deed, and he didn't give any benefit on weekdays, so he couldn't commit the anger of the people for him. If any gossip comes out and reaches the ears of the officials, it will be difficult to do. He rolled his eyes, his face hesitated, Mingyue was quite famous in the local area, if she was allowed to re-examine, no matter what the result was, she would not be implicated.

The same as the initial inspection and re-examination, he was convicted of Xiucai. The two are different, and then check again.

Lord Qin weighed it carefully, and then said, "Mingyue, the matter of the re-inspection will be handed over to you, if there is a mistake, the official will ask you." ”

"Okay."

Mingyue replied easily, but her confident appearance made the stereotypical old Confucian Lord Qin displeased. A girl's family, showing up all day long, what kind of system has it become. The next time she dared to appear on the yamen, he asked the yamen to fork her out, out of sight, hum.

Wu Chip's suspicion was not cleared and he was taken to custody. Because the re-examination still required the presence of officials, as soon as she left the court, Lord Qin and several officials from Baishui went to the autopsy room with her to conduct an autopsy.

Su Yunkai knew that he couldn't go, so he didn't move. Who would have thought that the girl named Mingyue didn't take a few steps before she turned to look at him, "Hey, you shouldn't come with me soon." ”

Lord Qin suddenly frowned, "Idle people can't go along." ”

"He's my helper, where are some idlers, etc. Oh...... If someone else brings me a knife and delivers water, it can't be Lord Qin or Master. ”

Lord Qin hated that kind of dirty thing and immediately agreed. Su Yunkai looked down at her again when he was side by side with her, weird, weird.

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On the left and right sides of the yamen hall are the money treasury and the armament warehouse, as well as the six rooms for the punishment of household workers. Behind the yamen is the inner yamen, where the relatives of officials live. The coroner's room is near the prison quite far away from the yamen, so firstly, it is out of luck, and secondly, there are occasional corpses to be placed in the prison, so the coroner's room is behind the prison.

In order to avoid pedestrians, the prison was built in a remote place, and few people walked in normal times. Therefore, this already desolate place is even more desolate, and the spring breeze is filled with a moist smell.

Lord Qin still had to come over in a sedan chair, and the people who accompanied him followed slowly. When they arrived at the autopsy room, Liu Peizhen's body had been on the "bed" for a moment.

The so-called bed was nothing more than two benches placed in front and back, covered with a few flat planks - it was for the dead to sleep on, anyway, it didn't matter if it was comfortable or not.

Mingyue rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward, just about to uncover the white cloth, only to feel that there was some space next to her, and when she looked back, Lord Qin covered her mouth and nose and stood far behind her, and the master next to her was diligently burning the Atractylodes soaphorn on the ground, burning the smoke in the room.

She pursed the corners of her lips, "Lord Qin, this corpse hasn't rotted yet, so you don't need to burn it to avoid the smell." And you're so far away, where can you see how I tested. ”

Lord Qin refused to step forward, and said, "This official can see it here, and he can see it clearly." ”

Mingyue didn't believe his words, obviously because she was afraid that some dead person's bad luck would affect her official fortune. But it's better not to be on the sidelines, so as not to point fingers.

Lord Qin didn't come, and Master didn't come forward, so only Su Yunkai and Bai Shui were on both sides.

Bai Shui glanced at Su Yunkai again, he was handsome and white, and his hands were also white and tender, he was clearly a young master, but standing in front of this corpse, his face was the same, and his expression was calm, like a ...... Be accustomed to something?

Su Yunkai didn't measure the catch in his heart, but like Mingyue, his eyes had already fallen on Liu Peizhen's face who had uncovered the white cloth.

It was originally a very beautiful face, and Mingyue had seen her two or three times, each time she was full of charm, and her eyes were smiling. The goose egg face is always red with rouge, and now it is there, but the makeup is gone, the face is bloody, and the eyes are horrified and protruding, in the dark moron's room, it is very strange and terrifying.

The autopsy was a priori from the beginning, and in the Baihui acupoint, there was indeed a long oblique wound. The wound is purple-black, the blood has coagulated, and the wound is deep to the naked eye.

This wound can indeed be fatal.

It's just that Mingyue's gaze fell on Liu Peizhen's face and frowned, "What are these on her face?" ”

She scraped some off and put them on the paper, Su Yunkai also went to look at it, recognized it, and the white solids in dots could be seen quite clearly on the dark paper, but the body was difficult to distinguish, "Does it look like grease?" ”

"Sort of." She rubbed her fingers slightly, and her fingers were oily, "It's indeed fat." ”

It's not strange that the weather is still cold in January, and the oil will condense, but it's strange that it will appear on the face of a woman who pays attention to grooming.

The grease was only on Liu Peizhen's face, not on her eyes and forehead, and the makeup was not damaged on her entire face. Mingyue suddenly remembered, her hands gestured on her face, and she couldn't help sneering, "I just said that she might have been suffocated to death, but now it seems that there is really this possibility, but I am afraid that these things are left by the murderer." ”

"But whose hands are covered with oil?" He suddenly said, "Butcher? ”

Mingyue shook her head, "If you want to cover a person's mouth and nose, you have to suppress her body." But now there was no grease on her body, only her face. If it was really a butcher, Liu Peizhen's clothes shouldn't be so clean. And to cover a person to death, you have to use a lot of force, if you cover it with the palm of your hand, then there will be traces on her face, but now it seems that the murderer used something to cover her to death. ”

Su Yunkai said, "But the oil vessel is a hard object, and it must be impossible to use it to cover one person to death." There are only soft objects, but what soft objects will have oil on them? ”

None of the three of them figured it out, so they had to write it down first. Mingyue saw that there were water stains on her mouth and nose, and just when she lowered her head, she smelled a strange smell, "There is a smell of wine." ”

Bai Shui frowned, and carefully flipped through the grid of the initial inspection of the singing newspaper, but he didn't see this record, "The singing newspaper didn't mention this." ”

Mingyue paused, and took the song from the initial inspection to take a look.

For an autopsy, the newspaper must be sung. That is, during the autopsy, the characteristics of the deceased are read aloud from beginning to end, and the intact parts and damaged parts are sung one by one, so that others can record them, and then submit them to the court as circumstantial evidence. It was also to prevent the corpse from decomposing in the future, and the details of the time when he first died were missing.

She read it quickly, her brow furrowed deeper, and she continued to examine it carefully.

"There was alcohol in her mouth and nose, probably because there was not only oil but also alcohol on the thing that covered her, so that Liu inhaled some as she struggled to breathe."

Mingyue's eyes fell on her clothes again, Liu Peizhen's clothes were very exquisite, they were made of the above good cloud silk satin, and the cuffs were embroidered with gold edges, but now those gold threads were a little broken, Mingyue looked at the edge of the sleeves, the material was brand new, that is to say, the gold threads were not broken because they had been worn for a long time, but due to external factors.

She picked up her hand and saw that her fingers were slender, without any calluses, and she was usually pampered, but now her nails were broken three. In the other nails, there is still a little skin blood, which shows that the other party has also suffered some injuries.

"Brother Bai, go boil some licorice water."

Bai Shui rushed out without saying a word, the speed was extremely fast, and a gust of yin wind blew in front of Lord Qin, and he shook and almost screamed.

Su Yunkai asked, "What are you doing with boiling licorice water?" ”

Mingyue didn't raise her head, still looking at it carefully, "There is a thing called madder, also called blood sorrow, the root can be used as medicine, cool blood and stop bleeding, and it can also remove blood congestion and swelling." Soak it in vinegar and apply it to the wound and it will turn red, and the scar will not be visible. However, if you apply licorice juice to the place where the madder has been smeared, it will be dissolved, and the scar will reappear. ”

Su Yunkai lowered his eyebrows and thought for a while, and whispered, "You mean, the pretending of the initial inspection is covering up the wound?" ”

"Hmm. Uncle Li is a powerful man, it is impossible for him not to see the broken armor on Liu Peizhen's hand, but this is not mentioned in the singing newspaper. He didn't write down the smell of alcohol, the grease on his face, the damaged makeup, and all the details that were visible at a glance. In addition, his testimony just now clearly pointed to Wu Chip as the murderer, I always feel that something is wrong, and I don't feel at ease if I don't investigate it carefully. ”

Su Yunkai heard her mention it, so he went to look through his eyes, but he really didn't see it. Immediately furrowed his brows, "What is that pretending to be covering?" ”

To cover up their wounds must be to cover up their unknown purpose. What would that purpose be?