CH.34 The Truth Hidden in the Corpse
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Xiao Jue turned around, wiped his hands on the rag, and groped his way to find me, his hand was on the newly installed wheels of the chair, and he was still a little uncomfortable, but said with a smile. "That's a good idea, so I don't have to rely on other people's help to get anywhere on my own."
I leaned to the side and was happy to see that he liked the simple wheelchair I made. "However, while it is convenient, be careful. Although the chair is equipped with wooden wheels, it is not stable enough to go up and down the mountain, and I am worried that the center of gravity of the wheelchair is unstable. So, wherever you want to go, it's best to have other people around you. After saying that, I turned to look at the corpse placed in the ancestral hall, "Get down to business." At that time, when I was by the river to inspect Changjing's body, I was already a little puzzled, Changjing's body was found in the river, and if you judge by the superficial phenomenon, he really drowned. Then there should be a lot of water in his chest, because if he is alive after he falls into the water, there is no reason to give up breathing and struggling, and breathing and struggling will cause him to inhale a lot of river water. I pressed his ribcage and could not see the water coming out of his mouth, so I thought he was dead before he fell into the water. ā
"You even know how to perform an autopsy?" Xiao Jue asked casually.
"I just know some scratches about the scene." I didn't want to tell him because I had seen a forensic doctor on the spot to do a preliminary examination.
Xiao Jue put away his smile and said seriously, "You judged correctly, Changjing was indeed thrown into the river after being killed." Moreover, he was thrown into the river after a certain period of death, you see. ā
Xiao Jue motioned for me to come forward and observe, and he groped for what he had just discovered, and it turned out that there was a wound on Changjing's forearm, about five centimeters long, which was deep. The skin tissue around the wound had been turned over by the blistering of the river.
I examined it carefully, "You mean this wound was left by him when he died?" ā
Xiao Jue nodded in response, "Yes, I have examined the shape of the scar on the back of his head, and I think that the scar on the back of his head is the same murder weapon as the scar on his arm." ā
"Then it is possible that he was fighting with the murderer, and the murder weapon was first cut on the arm by the murderer, and then he was killed by the murder weapon in the back of the head," if so, it can explain why the murder weapon caused two wounds on his body.
"You're only half right." Xiao Jue somehow seemed extremely mysterious.
"Half?" I was a little surprised, how could it be half, since it was confirmed that Changjing was thrown into the river after his death, then when he was hit hard in the head before and after he died...... I stopped suddenly, stopping all my judgments, "Unless, a blow to the back of the head isn't the real cause of his death." ā
Xiao Jue sighed lightly, I didn't understand who he was sighing for. "The real cause of Changjing's death was poisoning."
I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, stunned.
This means that Changjing was poisoned, violently, and thrown into the water in three ways that could cause his death?!
"Is there a way to tell the order?" I know it's difficult, and it's a bit of a hassle to find a way to prove the order of poisoning and violence at a time when the conditions are really not sufficient.
"You're going to check the scar on the back of his head." Xiao Jue stepped back with the wheelchair and gave way to the position next to Changjing.
I walked over and leaned over to brush the hair from Changjing's head, "How do you need me to cooperate?" ā
"Use this." Xiao Jue handed over a packet of withered grass ash. "Sprinkle the ashes of the withered grass on the wound on the back of his head, and see if there is anything unusual about them. Then slit his fingers and toes, and also stained the withered grass ash, noting how the withered grass ash reacted to the wound. ā
I took the packet of hay ash he handed me, carefully unfolded the wrapped fabric, and as he said, cut a wound on Changjing's finger and toe, and sprinkled the hay ash separately. After a while, I couldn't help but ask, "Is it pus?" There was something like pus, yellowish, very sticky. I leaned over a little more and sniffed, "There was a sour, bitter smell." ā
"All three?" Xiao Jue listened attentively to every word I said.
I confirmed, "Yes, all three." What is the reason for this? ā
"It's the reason why the toxin has completely spread in his body." Xiao Jue took a breath quietly, "Since his hands and feet show that the toxin has spread, presumably the toxicity of this poison is not the strongest, so it will not kill him in a short time." So it was only after the toxicity spread in him that it played a role. If my judgment is correct, it should be the broken intestine grass, the toxicity is slow, and I have to wait until his intestines are rotten to feel the abnormality, and then there is no help. As for the wound on the back of his head, the poison of the broken intestine grass has a characteristic, that is, if it is injured after poisoning, it will form a weak protection in the body, and the toxicity will accumulate in the outer layer of the wound with the flow of blood. But if he was poisoned after he was injured, then his own wound had already formed a protection, and the toxicity of the Broken Intestine Grass would not appear on the wound. ā
"So the current situation is that because there is a toxic substance in the wound in the back of Changjing's head, it proves that he was attacked in the back of the head after being poisoned? And then I met Yushan and was pushed into the water by Yushan? "I'm a little stunned, how hateful is this person, how can he experience three murders in one night?
"I just examined Changjing's body, and the wound on the back of his head showed blood clotting, and the blood vessels around the wound were dilated and locally congested, which was a phenomenon of injury before death. You should know, right? He said, confirming with me.
"Well, if it is an injury after death, the blood will gradually stop flowing depending on the person's death, so the wound will not have a congesting reaction. Since his wound had coagulation, that is, he was alive at the time of the injury, the wound healed and clotted on its own. "I know that.
"That's right." Xiao Jue's tone was a little low, but it was not difficult to hear the approval, maybe it was my answer that made him a little impressed by me. "I asked Qingshan and confirmed that Yushan was the Changjing that he went to find the day before. And I deduce that the time of Changjing's death should be Yinshi. ā
It was between nine and eleven o'clock the night before. At the end of the day, it was between 3 and 5 a.m. the next day. "Impossible, why are there two hours in between?"
Now that we have confirmed, Changjing was thrown into the river after death. Then if Yushan did it, Yushan would have to wait for him to die of a toxic attack before discarding him in the river. But what's the difference of at least four hours?!
"Wait a minute!" I felt a chill and suddenly stopped Xiao Jue. "If, if Changjing falls into the water twice, then this mystery will be solved."
That's right, if Changjing fell into the water twice, it would explain why there was a four-hour gap between them.
"The poison of the Broken Intestine Grass can be latent in a person's body for sixteen to forty hours." Xiao Jue did not forget to remind.
Sixteen hours?!
If we count the shortest sixteen hours, by the time Changjing died of poison, he was at least poisoned sixteen hours ago. A day ago...... "It should be like this...... Sixteen hours ago, Changjing mistakenly took the poison of the murderer's intestine-breaking grass. At that time, because the poison of the Broken Intestine Grass had not spread, Changjing did not feel anything. He didn't know he had been poisoned. After that, it was the day before the crime, Yushan went to Changjing Theory because of the moon cicada, Changjing should have felt unwell at that time, and he started to do it after an argument with Yushan, but because he was unwell, he was pushed into the water by Yushan. Changjing was slow to move due to poisoning, and after falling into the water, Yushan mistakenly thought that he had killed him. So Yushan left in a hurry. Qingshan said that he found Yushan on the way back after sending the cicada home, so at least it is certain that Qingshan will not send the cicada back too late, so according to him, when he meets Yushan, it should not be too late. ā
After Tamamayama mistakenly thinks that he has killed Changjing, he leaves the scene in a hurry, and then encounters Aoyama, who then flees to the mountains to hide. After Yushan left, Changjing was not dead at that time, he was temporarily unconscious because of the effect of the Broken Intestine Grass, and then he crawled out of the water. Only then did he encounter another mysterious man attacking him, and the mysterious man fought with him, slashing Changjing's arm with his weapon before hitting him hard in the back of the head. Judging from the injury in the back of Changjing's head, he was not lightly injured at that time, and it was definitely a skull fracture. Therefore, he should have fallen into a second coma, and died of poisoning in this coma. With the current technology, there is no way to judge the extent of the skull fracture, but according to his injuries at the time, plus two fights with Yushan and the mysterious man, Changjing's physical strength at that time has been exhausted, and he has no way to call for help.
So after his death, he was thrown into the river a second time. It was this time that the people in the village later salvaged Changjing's body in the river.
I burst out laughing.
Xiao Jue was surprised, he didn't know what I was laughing at, so he listened to it.
"Yushan hasn't been found, and now there are a few more murderers." I couldn't help but smile bitterly, thinking that as long as it was confirmed that someone had seriously injured Changjing before Yushan and Changjing fought viciously, Changjing was thrown into the river after being defeated by Yushan. Unexpectedly, a few people who also wanted to be put to death appeared now, "First, who is the person who really poisoned Changjing?" Second, who was the person who hit Changjing in the back of the head and caused him serious injuries? Third, if the wound on the back of his head had already healed by blood clotting when Changjing died, then when he died, it should have been some time since he was injured, and the person who attacked him and threw him into the river was the same person. ā
"What do you mean?" Xiao Jue asked.
"If you were Yushan, where would you go to find the Changjing Theory?"