The people who were busy in the grass house didn't realize the passage of time, Zhong Ziyuan checked it very carefully, and even the bun was opened by her and looked at it carefully.

She described every scar and bruise on Lan'er's body in detail, especially the bite marks. Because she knew that the corpse would not last long in the hot summer, and in a few days the scars on her surface would disappear due to the decomposition. The only ones that can be left are the records written by Li Xiucai.

After a long time, Zhong Ziyuan finished inspecting Lan'er's body, she straightened her back and said to Cardamom, "Take out the scalpel." Cardamom immediately retrieved from the medicine box the two strangely shaped knives they had found when they had climbed over the wall and returned to the Zhong Mansion that day. Then he asked, "Childe, which one to use?" ”

Zhong Ziyuan did not hesitate to choose the longest one, the tip of this knife is thin and sharp, only two inches long, and the handle is very narrow, one inch longer than Zhong Ziyuan's palm. The other one is shorter and has a smaller head. The missing one is the shortest and has the smallest blade.

As she pressed the sharp tip of the knife against the corpse's throat and prepared to slice it hard, her slender wrist was gripped tightly. She raised her eyes in amazement, but saw Guo Chengsi standing beside her at some point.

Guo Chengsi grabbed her wrist tightly, frowned, and asked puzzledly, "What do you want to do?" ”

Zhong Ziyuan pointed to the hideous purple-red pinch marks on Lan'er's corpse and explained: "I felt that her throat bone had been shattered before, so I guessed that she was strangled to death with her bare hands. But just now when moving the corpse. Pink foam came out of her mouth and nose, again typical of drowning. So I wanted to cut open her pharynx to find the broken bones, and then cut open her lungs to see if there was any water. In this way, the real cause of her death can be found. Then she pointed to Lan'er's slightly bulging abdomen and said, "Also, I want to cut open her stomach and see what food remains inside." Because based on the process of the food being digested, it is possible to deduce the time of her real death. ”

As soon as her words fell, she heard a "vomit", and Li Xiucai's face turned pale. Covering his mouth with one hand, he pushed away the pen and paper in front of him with the other, and rushed out of the grass house. It didn't take long. Outside, he was vomiting violently. Then Uncle Yu muttered dissatisfiedly: "Dead Xiucai, if you want to spit it out, spit it out to me, don't splash it on your grandfather's wine jar." ”

Not to mention Li Xiucai, even Rong Xi, who has seen the world, is pale. The soles of the feet are cold. He looked at Zhong Ziyuan with a hint of awe in his eyes. I didn't expect this Dr. Jia, who looked younger than himself. If he can talk so eloquently about how to dissect a corpse, isn't he afraid of the blame of the gods?

The people of this era firmly believe that the body is skinned, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it, and filial piety is the beginning. In particular, I believe that if you destroy the corpse at will, you will definitely be punished from the heavens and the wrath of the gods.

So even those professional jobs come across corpses that need to be dissected. It's all about avoiding it. If you really can't avoid it, you have to ask the Taoist of Fahua Temple to pray to heaven. Please, do a ritual before you do it. No one will be like this Dr. Jia, like cutting pork, saying that the knife will be used.

Guo Chengsi's face did not change, he only raised his eyebrows, and said, "Although I don't understand what you are saying, it seems to make sense." ”

Makes sense and still doesn't let go? Zhong Ziyuan waited for his next words for a long time. Sure enough, Guo Chengsi paused and continued: "However, the law of this dynasty clearly stipulates that the body of the deceased cannot be dissected casually without the consent of the victim's family. ”

Zhong Ziyuan was stunned, she was obsessed with medical skills since she was a child, but she never cared about the law, and she really didn't know that there was such a provision in the law. But the most important thing now is to find out the real cause of Lan'er's death, so as to help Brother Zhuang get rid of his crimes. So she said slyly: "I remember that the adults said not long ago, what you say is the rule. This statement still echoes in my ears, but it turns out that it is just talking? ”

Guo Chengsi smiled slightly and said: "The law of agitation has no effect on me, and I can ignore the rules, but I can't break the law, otherwise what face and position do I have to judge those sinners?" I can follow you around, but that doesn't mean I'm going to condone you to break the law. After speaking, he shouted in a low voice: "Cover the coffin." ”

"Yes." As soon as the words fell, Duan Ling, who had been holding a saber and pretending to be a door god on the side, immediately strode forward. I saw that with a slight kick of his toes, the coffin lid that was placed on the side flew up in the air, and after two turns in the air, it "snapped" and was tightly covered on the coffin, and it was still not bad.

Cardamom's eyes widened instantly, and she clapped her hands and shouted loudly, "Okay, another one." She was happy to treat Duan Ling's six-grade guards as street performers. Duan Ling's face darkened instantly, he glared at Cardamom, and stood back at the door of the grass house as a door god. Cardamom then remembered the identity of this black-faced god, and she couldn't help but quietly stick out her tongue.

Seeing that Guo Chengsi was so determined, Zhong Ziyuan had no choice but to dismiss the idea of dissecting the corpse. Cardamom neatly packed up her things and brought another basin of water for her to clean her hands. Zhong Ziyuan sat down in Li Xiucai's seat and began to look through the records he had made.

Although Li Xiucai is timid, his handwriting is really good, and his speed is also very fast. What Zhong Ziyuan said, he actually remembered exactly what he said. Zhong Ziyuan nodded with satisfaction, and then the record was handed to Guo Chenghe, and said, "My lord, please take a look." ”

"Don't look at it." Guo Chengsi shook his fan and said, "You narrated very carefully, and even those old works can't be compared." I heard it very clearly just now, so let's talk about your thoughts now! ”

"Okay." Zhong Ziyuan carefully recalled the scars on Lan'er's body again, and carefully sorted them out in his mind before he spoke: "I think there are many suspicious points on Lan'er's body, and there are three specific points. The first point: At that time, in the lobby, when Lan'er's mother and brother claimed the body, her mother used to lie on the corpse and rub it for a while. At that time, a few drops of blood and tears flowed from Lan'er's eyes, and the conscription who was present at that time. The people, including her relatives, saw it with their own eyes.

At that time, I immediately pulled out the tears of the dead man, and the heavens warned me. If you want to scare them in this way, don't convict Brother Zhuang at will. In fact, I felt in my heart that Lan'er's body must have been hidden in some ice cellar before.

The so-called blood and tears are when the corpse is moved out of the ice cellar and when it encounters heat, the original ice turns into water. In addition, Lan'er was once choked by someone to crush the laryngeal bone, so it caused her to rupture the blood vessels in the fundus. The melted ice water, mixed with the residual blood under her eyes, flowed out of the corners of her eyes, and it became a bloody tear incident. ”

"You." Guo Chengsi heard this. couldn't help but gently knock the fan bone on her head, and blamed: "I dare to talk about it in the name of ghosts and gods, and I am not afraid of the heavens to condemn the crime." ”

Zhong Ziyuan said aggrievedly: "At that time, the situation was urgent, and I couldn't help it. This is the only way to do it! Besides. I have said that the dead shed tears, and the heavens warned. But they still regarded the sky as nothing, and actually took advantage of Brother Zhuang's coma to forcibly cover the confession with his hand. If the heavens really have eyes, they should also condemn those who disrespect ghosts and gods and disregard human life. It is not to condemn me, who is actually saving people in the name of heaven. ”

"Alright, alright. You have a point. Guo Chengsi said helplessly: "What is the second point? ”

"The second point: it's still her eyes." Zhong Ziyuan continued: "Her eyes are wide open, and there is no protection from her eyelids. Therefore, the cornea will cloud very quickly, but it will definitely not be so fast. It had only been an hour since the body was found in the lobby, but her corneas had become cloudy, and even her pupils were not clear. So I guess it took at least three hours before she was moved into the ice cellar, which is why she became like this. If you ask those who first touched the corpse now, they will surely find that the temperature of the corpse is particularly low. ”

"Ice cellar again?" Guo Chengsi gently tapped his palm with the fan bone, and fell into deep thought.

In Chang'an City, there are many large families with ice cellars at home. There were two huge ice cellars in his town's mansion, and every winter when the water dripped, they chiseled the ice pieces into pieces and transported them to the cellars dug in advance, and covered them with thick straw and quilts to keep them warm. Until the following summer, it can be taken out for cooling off. Whether it is made into a variety of ice bowls to eat, or simply put a whole piece in the room to cool down, it is very useful.

I heard that the queen mother in the palace is afraid of heat, so she has to put two huge icebergs carved with Fu Lushou patterns in her bedroom every day to ward off the heat. There are also emperors, queens, princes, and concubines who need ice cubes every day, all of which have a certain amount. It can be seen that the number is huge, and the palace alone cannot support it without hundreds of ice cellars.

If it was really what Zhong Ziyuan said, Lan'er's body was hidden in the ice cellar in advance. But there are hundreds of ice cellars in Chang'an City, so why don't you have to find the corpse hiding site one by one?

Zhong Ziyuan continued: "There is a third point: I have checked Lan'er's lower body, and she is no longer a virgin. The streaks on her body, as well as the bite marks, were dense but not fatal. It doesn't even hurt her muscles and bones, it only makes her feel pain. And the scars, both new and old, were apparently not inflicted in a single day. I suspect that the person with whom she committed adultery had a penchant for sexual abuse.

The man likes to make women miserable in order to achieve the ultimate pleasure. So my guess is that Lan'er actually died in an over-manipulated sex-masochistic game. The man didn't even immediately find out that Lan'er had died on the spot because he couldn't bear it, maybe he and Lan'er's body had slept together for three hours. This also explains why Lan'er's body was moved to the ice cellar after three hours. ”

After listening to Zhong Ziyuan's analysis, Rong Xi couldn't help but shudder, and a chill rushed from the soles of his feet to his head. Guo Chengsi slapped the table and said with great interest: "In this way, as long as you find someone who has committed adultery with Lan'er, it is possible to find the murderer." You can have adultery with the personal maid of the lady in the house, it is nothing more than the master, young master, housekeeper, little maid and the like in the house, it should not be difficult to find. ”

"Yes." Zhong Ziyuan said categorically: "Whether it is from the time of the crime or the motive, Brother Zhuang cannot be the murderer who killed Lan'er. In fact, this set of planting techniques is very rough and full of flaws. It's just that because the person who committed the crime has a prominent background, he will have no scruples to catch a scapegoat on the street, and Brother Zhuang is a person who walks around the street and sells, so he is unfortunately selected. ”

"Illustrious background?" Guo Chengsi glanced at her and asked puzzledly, "Do you have a goal in mind?" ”

"Yes." Zhong Ziyuan gritted her teeth and said: "Because I have seen such identical wounds on many prostitutes, but because of that person's identity, they gave silver money, so they can only endure it." ”

"Oh, who is this man?" Guo Chengsi asked curiously.

Zhong Ziyuan shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it, I just heard them say that they are the sons of the Ministry of Officials' Zhang Shilang's Mansion, that is, the son of this Lan'er's mother." ”

"It turned out to be him!" Guo Chengsi frowned, he had nothing to do with Zhang Gongzi. The most intimate contact was a few months ago, when his fist collided violently with his cheek. However, in the eyes of prostitutes, the unattainable squire is like mud in the eyes of Guo Chenghe. He smiled lightly and said, "Actually, you've seen that Zhang Gongzi, but you don't know it." ”

When Zhong Ziyuan heard this, she raised her eyebrows in shock. Guo Chengsi continued: "In the Meixiang Pavilion, the one who was hit through the thigh by Xue Ji with a bamboo chopstick on the night he was trapped. ”

"It turned out to be him." Zhong Ziyuan immediately regretted it, and she said with annoyance: "If I knew that he was the jackal, I wouldn't have saved him at all." ”

"You! , that is, just talking, if you really want to encounter this thing, you will still be the first to rush over to save people. Guo Chengsi's face was full of disbelief, and now he knows Zhong Ziyuan's character well. He suddenly raised his voice and asked, "I said Li Xiucai, have you finished throwing up?" ”

After a while, Li Xiucai wiped the corners of his mouth, his face turned pale, and he walked in trembling. Guo Chengsi was a little impatient when he saw his quail appearance, so he waved his hand and said, "If you finish spitting, you will record the three doubts that Dr. Jia analyzed just now." ”

"Okay, okay." Li Xiucai sat down a little ashamed, picked up the brush and dipped it in ink, and said, "There is Dr. Laojia to say it again." ”

Zhong Ziyuan had to repeat what he had just said again, and Li Xiucai recorded it 1510. Guo Chengsi took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and then signed his name at the bottom.

After the ink dried, he handed the record into Rong Xi's hands, and then said: "This case, even if the official takes it." After dawn, I will ask Duan Ling to bring the prisoner to the prison of the Criminal Department, and I will handle it personally, this time you can be relieved! ”

Zhong Ziyuan was overjoyed, she hugged Guo Chengsi and said gratefully: "It's so good, on behalf of Brother Zhuang, Sister-in-law Zhuang thank you." ”

"Who's peeping here?" Duan Ling, who had been standing at the door and pretending to be the door god, suddenly let out a loud shout, and the whole person was like an eagle with wings spread, rushing out.

Zhong Ziyuan and Cardamom, Rong Xi, immediately rushed to the door to look out, and saw that in the dark forest, Duan Ling's figure was like an agile cheetah, and soon disappeared in the darkness.

Zhong Ziyuan couldn't help but complain: "On this big night, who has such a good Yaxing and actually came to Yizhuang to peep." (To be continued......)