Chapter 62: I Should Sew the Corpse First
79_79301 The white shirt was put on the corpse, covering up the tragic image of disembowelment, and the hundred officials dared to take a closer look.
I saw that the blood spot on the heart of the shirt was much smaller than the red bean grains, and I couldn't see it clearly if I was a little dazzled, so I really didn't know how this blood spot was noticed.
"Bring me a white cloth." Twilight said to the official outside the hall, who didn't know what she wanted the white cloth for, but she still obeyed her orders. After a while, the official came back with a piece of cloth, and Twilight picked up the white shirt and covered the corpse with the white cloth that had just arrived.
The white shirt was an important piece of physical evidence, and she didn't want the disemboweling corpse to stain the physical evidence, so she had to ask for a new cloth to cover the corpse. She was going to talk about the case next, but she didn't want the officials to avoid the corpse, so she had to ask for a cloth to cover the disembowelment.
"The evidence is often in the subtleties!" After Twilight covered the body, she unfolded the white shirt, looked at the blood spots, and said, "The autopsy is not only an autopsy, but also the clothes and belongings of the deceased may have evidence to solve the case." A few days ago, I went to Yizhuang for an autopsy, and when I was dressing the deceased, I saw this blood spot. At that time, the man had been dead for six or seven hours, and his chest was densely covered with corpse spots, purple and red, which happened to cover the scars on his chest as thin as pinholes, so it was difficult to detect, but there was still evidence of guilt on his clothes, which was not difficult to find if he was careful. ”
Careful, that's easy to say.
This young man is bold, big enough to dissect the corpse and take the heart, but he is also careful, so small that the blood spots like needles on his shirt can be found.
How many people in the world can be so bold and careful?
Yuan Xiu finally knew why Twilight had to dissect the corpse today, the person was killed by a flying needle, the needle was in the heart, and it was difficult to see the truth without dissecting the corpse and taking the heart. If she pointed out the blood spots on this shirt to the hundred officials at the beginning, and told them that the county magistrate had a needle in her heart, presumably they would not take this blood spot seriously, and then everyone would question it, and you and I don't know how long to quarrel. She didn't mention the evidence, she took the murder weapon first, and when the hundred officials saw the needle, they would be speechless when they looked back at the evidence on the shirt.
One thing, done first and done later, the shape will be very different.
She had taken great pains to solve the case, and every step of the way had her own intentions, so he believed that she had her own intentions in the rest of the matter.
"You found out about it then, why didn't you say it then?" Yuan Xiu asked.
This question, the hundred officials also feel strange, these days there are rumors outside the Fengxian magistrate is a sudden death, in the criminal Cao served in the Tang family, this old man has examined the corpse of most of his life, he said that people are suddenly dead, and there is no other word after Duqing went to Yizhuang, so the people who originally thought that the magistrate of Fengxian County was exterminated also believed in the theory of sudden death.
Since she found out that the person died suddenly that day, why did she hide it?
"At that time, it was useless to say it, and the people were not here, how to start the show?" Twilight didn't understand what she said, but she stood up, turned to look at the old man, and asked, "Did you say that?" ”
This was asked suddenly, and all the officials were stunned, and the old man also stood on the spot, still holding a pen in his hand, and it was difficult to understand what Twilight meant for a while.
Twilight asked bluntly, "Tell me, who has learned from you and asked you about the method of killing without leaving a trace?" ”
"Huh?" The old man was startled, and the pen in his hand fell to the ground with a snap!
Yuan Xiu's eyes suddenly turned cold like a sword, and he was terrifying.
The old man was looked at by this gaze, and suddenly felt that someone had pierced his heart with a sword, and his heart was so cold that he couldn't help but kneel, and trembled and said, "No, no ......."
"No?" Twilight looked down at the old man and said coldly, "You dare to say that!" I just performed an autopsy, and others can't see the doorway, what about you? ”
The old man shuddered and looked up at Twilight, not knowing what she was referring to.
"Let me ask you, what did I do before I dissected the body?" Twilight asked, she knew that the old man didn't see it, and if he did, how could he still have the heart to fill in the corpse sheet?
“…… Shaving, shaving. The old man thought for a while.
"And do you know where you've shown your feet?" Twilight asked again.
The old man didn't say anything, just looked at the twilight, and after a while, his face suddenly turned white!
It seemed that he had figured it out, but the hundred officials were still in a fog, and Dusk Qing turned back to Yuan Xiu and said, "I touched the top of the deceased's head during the autopsy in Yizhuang that day, do you remember this?" ”
Yuan Xiu thought for a while and nodded, as if there was such a thing.
"Do you remember what he said at the time?" Twilight Qing looked at the old man, and without waiting for Yuan Xiu to think about it, he said, "I just touched the top of the deceased's head, and he said, 'The old man has been examined, and there are no nails on the top of his head. ’”
"But how did I just examine whether there were nails on the top of this corpse's head?" Twilight looked at the corpse on the floor of the lobby, the corpse was covered with a white shirt, but its head was exposed, and the other one was bare, with all shaved hair, and was put aside.
Yuan Xiu then looked at it, and suddenly held his breath - understood!
Twilight knew that someone hadn't understood yet, so she explained, "I said when I shaved the nails that the blood was sealed in the high heat, and the blood did not flow out because the flesh was sealed in the heat, and because the wounds were in hidden parts, the scars were difficult to see, so it was not easy to detect!" So who will sue me, this corpse was carried to the torture hall before shaving its hair, how did this old man know that there was no nail on the top of the corpse's head when he was in Yizhuang that day? ”
This time it was clear, and all the officials looked at the old servant, who was kneeling, his face as white as paper.
Twilight asked, "You're coming to sue me?" ”
She has her own reasons for acting, she won't do useless things, today in public autopsy, she knew that the deceased had no nails on his head and had to shave his hair for nails, for this time!
"Also, you said that the deceased died suddenly, and I am curious that you dare to say this in front of me even though you know that I am a fool! I think you dare to say this, either you don't know much about sudden death, or you think I don't know much about sudden death. Twilight said coldly.
Dad once told her that although there are two factions in the north and south, the Tang family in the north is respected. This old man served in Xingcao, and once said that he inherited his family education, so he should be the Tang family. Although he is a lowly servant, but in this industry, the status of the Tang family is respected, in front of the nobles of the scholar family, this old servant does not dare to be arrogant, and he is probably still a little arrogant in front of his peers. In his eyes, there is nothing outside the Tang family, and no one knows more than the Tang family, so at that time in Yizhuang, even if he knew that she was a fake, he must not have put him in his eyes, so he dared to lie in front of her!
"There are many causes of sudden death, cardiac, stroke, pulmonary, and even choking, which can be called sudden death immediately after the onset of the disease or within half an hour, at most no more than three hours. Most of the people who die suddenly faint and have convulsions before death, and some die quietly in their sleep. I asked you during the autopsy in Yizhuang, and you said that when you arrived at the prison, people lay on their stomachs beside the stone beds, lying prone in the hay, so that it can be ruled out that people died quietly in their sleep. If you die quietly, if you die suddenly or you are killed, there will be pain before the deceased dies, and the pain will be reflected in the demeanor and actions of the deceased. So when you sue me that this person died suddenly, you ignore at least two things - the body's demeanor and movements are wrong, and the body position after death is wrong! ”
Baiguan: "......"
I still don't understand it!
The old man was even more unspeakable, only looking up at Twilight.
"There are many signs before sudden death, such as heart pain, dyspnea, palpitations, fatigue, fainting or convulsions during sudden death, and then breathing slows down and becomes shallow, heart sounds and heart pulses disappear, the skin is cyanotic, the pupils are dilated, and the light response is lost, which all indicate that sudden death also has a death process." If there is a process, there will be pain, and if there is pain, there will be painful expressions and painful movements. If the deceased had convulsions before sudden death, his hands might be claw-shaped, scratching the heart, and the heart would have bruises after death, and the deceased would have a painful look on his face, and there might be local corpse spasms after death, but I did not see these expressions and movements on this corpse. ”
"You could say that the person fainted before he died, so he was in the wrong position when he died. When a person dies, he lies on the side of the stone bed, instead of lying on the stone bed, which means that the person did not go to bed before he died, and he is awake. So you come to sue me, a sober person suddenly faints, how many ways will he fall to the ground? Twilight asked the old man, and the old man didn't know whether he was shocked or stupid, so he only opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer, and Twilight replied for him, "Before and after!" He's either falling forward, backwards, or left and right! ”
"Those who fall forward, face down, are affected by their weight, their mouths and noses will be broken and bleeding, and their arms and elbows will be bruised!"
"People who fall backwards, the back of the head hits the ground, and they are also affected by their weight, and the back of the head will be broken and bleeding, or there will be bruises and lumps on it!"
"In the same way as falling to the left and right, one side of the deceased is a stone bed, if he falls to both sides, he will either lie on the stone bed or fall sideways on the other side, and there will be bruises on the crotch and arm on that side!"
Twilight Qing has four sentences in a row, and each sentence is thought-provoking!
Yuan Xiu's mind turned quickly, and he had already heard the deep meaning, and he looked at the corpse on the ground!
Twilight also looked over and asked, "Did the deceased's mouth and nose break?" ”
Hundreds of officials brushed their brushes and looked at the face of the magistrate of Fengxian County - not to mention seeing blood on the mouth and nose, the swelling is not swollen, and even the skin is not broken!
"The mouth and nose are not broken, and there are no bruises on the arms and elbows, you come to sue me, how could this person be lying on his stomach when he died?" Twilight asked the old man.
The old man raised his head, the winter sun outside the hall was half rising, and the old man was bathed in the skylight, only to feel that the young man was standing in the shallow skylight, his appearance was mediocre, but he was like a god.
"You can't sue me, I can sue you, the deceased has bruises on the back of his head." Twilight turned around and strode over to the corpse, crouching down to turn it over and show everyone the bruise on the back of her head, which she had seen when she had just shaved her hair.
But as soon as the corpse was moved, Twilight remembered that she had dissected the corpse and had not yet stitched it up, and if it was turned over like this, most of the internal organs would be turned upside down.
So she stopped, brushed the ground and lifted the cloth covering the corpse, only then did the cloth cover, and the tragic scene of disembowelment could not be seen, and the hundred officials could barely hear Twilight adjudicate the case, but no one expected that when she heard the confusion, she forgot the fear of the corpse, and Twilight lifted the cloth without warning!
The scene of disemboweling, belly and intestines, chest and ribs wide open, and five internal organs is too tragic, the military generals are okay, the civil officials saw it, they covered their sleeves and turned around, and there was a sound of vomiting in the hall!
In the sound of vomiting one after another, I heard Twilight Qing say, "I'm sorry, I should have stitched the body together before talking about the case, bring a needle and thread!" ”
Yuan Xiu was helpless, shook his head and walked out of the lobby, and after a while, he came back with a needle and thread, and Du Qing squatted on the ground to thread the needle and thread, sewing the heart, resetting the abdomen, resetting the chest ribs, and sewing the belly. No one has ever seen the heart of the human heart dug out and can be sewn back, those who dare not look have less knowledge, and those who dare to see will see what they see today as a wonder of the world.
The young man's hand was very dexterous, and the blood vessels in her heart were so small that she could sew them well, and after sewing the belly, the stitches looked clean and neat, and the way was clear. It's just that no matter how clean the stitches are, the sewing is also a person, after the sewing is done, I saw a corpse naked on the ground, with three stitching marks on the chest and abdomen......
When some court officials saw it, they couldn't wait to throw away the handkerchief they were carrying, and even more thought in their hearts that after returning home, they would definitely take the embroidery embroidered on the house and burn it! I don't want to see honey-colored embroidery on a white background in the future!
Yuan Xiu looked at the corpse, he thought that the stitches were very beautiful, such a pair of dexterous hands, why didn't he find out that she was a woman in the first place?
In the side curtain, Bu Xihuan smiled, as if he had some itchy teeth. The daughters of the boudoir in the world have been practicing female red since childhood, and who doesn't want to embroider a handkerchief purse for their favorite man? Her good female red only thinks about sewing dead people! I don't see her sewing corpse today, and he doesn't know that her female popularity is quite good, which really surprised him, and he thought that she was different from the boudoir daughter's family in the world.
Bu Xihuan looked at Twilight Qing through the curtain for a while, and suddenly looked down at his sleeves, spread them casually, and smiled slowly.
Twilight hadn't seen anyone in the side hall laughing deeply, and she turned the corpse over after sewing it, only to see that there was really a bruise on the back of the corpse's head! She pressed the stasis and said, "When a person is not dead or has just died, the blood is still flowing, and if it is knocked, there will be stasis, and if it is broken, it will bleed!" It's just that it's the same as burning nails, it's hard to detect without shaving. ”
The old man was still kneeling on the ground, and Twilight got up and said to him, "Now it's clear, the deceased was killed by a flying needle, and after death, he should be lying on his back face up, why did he lie on his stomach?" The deceased was imprisoned in the prison, not to mention how the murderer could enter the prison to kill, but only the murderer's killing methods. Flying needles, flying knives and other blades are different from swords and daggers, and they need to be stabbed at close range, and the deceased is locked up in a prison, and the murderer can shoot people outside the cell through the prison door, so after killing people, why does the murderer not leave, but instead open the prison door, enter the prison, turn the deceased over, and lie face down? ”
This is a reasonable question, and the meaning of the murderer's move is indeed thought-provoking.
Twilight Qing revealed the mystery in one sentence: "There is only one possibility - the murderer wants to cover up the murder method!" When a person dies, the blood stops flowing and is deposited under the blood vessels, forming corpse spots. Therefore, when a corpse is lying on its back, corpse spots will appear on the back, waist, buttocks and the back of the limbs. In prone corpses, corpse spots are distributed on the face, chest, abdomen, and front of the limbs. The murderer killed with a flying needle, although the wound was small, but the experienced and careful work may not be invisible, he turned the body over because the deceased was lying on his stomach, and the corpse spots would form on the chest, and the purple-red color of the corpse spots could just cover the pinholes! ”
She has been in Shengjing for less than a month, but the name of the case has spread, and the murderer knows that she is investigating the two cases of pension and silver, and if the magistrate of Fengxian County is dead, she will definitely conduct an autopsy herself, so she is so painstakingly covering up the crime.
But the murderer still showed his feet.
"Killers have always only taken people's lives, and they leave after killing, and rarely set up scenes, so I don't think they will find the formation of corpse spots in the process of killing, and know how to use this matter to cover up the crime. It's more like someone has instructed the murderer, and I can't think of anyone else who can give this kind of guidance to the murderer except for the experienced post-mortem examiner. And Sheng Jing's experienced servants, apart from your Tang family, is there anyone else? Don't tell me that the murderer will be willing to seek the near and far, and the Tang family does not ask, in order to kill a Fengxian magistrate, he deliberately went to the capital to find a way to cover up the crime after the murder. Maybe the murderer acted so unreasonable, but you can't explain that you can detect the nail on your head without shaving your hair! So, although you are not the mastermind in this case, you are an accomplice! Twilight concluded.
The hall was silent, and no one was heard for a long time.
The old man looked at Twilight like a ghost, and Twilight looked at him with awe-inspiring eyes and asked, "Tell me, who is the mastermind?" ”――
Off topic -
I got stuck when I checked the information last night.,I didn't change it before midnight.,Stay up late and write a little more.,This chapter is yesterday.