Chapter 918: The Walking Dead

【Done, Eat】

No wonder it was said that it was 100,000 urgent, and sure enough, something big happened again!

Shortly after the afternoon, Dali Temple suddenly received a report, saying that Lin Qisheng, the imperial historian of the left capital who had just been sent to Shi, had been poisoned to death in his study.

Although in principle, Dali Temple does not accept direct reports, but is responsible for handling difficult and miscellaneous cases submitted by local governments, or special projects assigned by the imperial court.

But after all, this dead person is a dignified second-class person, and he is the leader of the Taoist officials!

No matter how unruly it is, how dare the people of Dali Temple shirk it?

Therefore, after receiving the report, Sicheng Yang Zhiming hurriedly took all the people and rushed to the Lin Mansion to investigate the case.

As the informant said, Lin Qisheng really died of poison and died on the soft collapse in the study-but the strange thing is that Lin Qisheng's body has begun to decompose!

At first, Yang Zhiming thought it was because of the poisonous attack, but after repeated investigations, the two servants believed that Lin Qisheng had been dead for at least three days.

So Yang Zhiming decided that it was the people of the Lin Mansion who deliberately deceived him, so he sent someone to the government to report the case long after Lin Qisheng's death.

And this person who advocates deception is most likely the murderer!

However, his inference was quickly overturned.

Because of the Lin Mansion, there are at least double-digit people who can testify, Lin Qisheng has been fine in the past few days, and it was not until noon today that he was found dead in the study.

The case became confusing.

Yang Zhiming was also a little confused, and reasoned about several possibilities, but not only failed to clear the fog, but because it was too absurd and bizarre, it annoyed Lin Qisheng's family and almost clashed.

In desperation, he had to come to Sun's Mansion to ask for help.

In fact, the Lin family went directly to Dali Temple to report the case, and they originally went to Sun Shaozong.

So when Sun Shaozong led the people of Dali Temple to come to the door for the second time, the Lin family not only did not reject it because of the previous conflict, but doubled the grand reception.

This made Yang Zhiming a little disappointed.

But who cares about the wailing of the incompetent?

After being welcomed to the study by the Lin family, Sun Shaozong mercilessly ordered the Lin family to stop all the people outside the door, and then took Yang Zhiming and others into the scene of the crime.

As soon as he entered the door, Sun Shaozong smelled the smell of corpses coming from inside, judging from this rich and exciting smell alone, it could never be anything new.

But just on the road, Sun Shaozong also repeatedly confirmed that Lin Qisheng had appeared alive in front of people until this morning.

"Lord Shaoqing."

Seeing Sun Shaozong's nose fluttering, and then revealing a suspicious look, Yang Zhiming, who was covering his nose on the side, couldn't help but make a high statement: "I have heard that in ancient times, there were monks who used the wrong pill prescription, and died of poison immediately after taking the medicine, but the person was not dead, and still walked freely like a living person, until a few days later, this is called: living corpse." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the corpse on the bed: "Lord Lin is probably the same." ”

Sun Shaozong glanced at him, took care of himself in front of the soft collapse in the inner room, and began to examine Lin Qisheng's body.

Lin Qisheng is 69 years old, and he was very well maintained during his lifetime, although he is not a crane hair and a childish face, but he is also a decent old man.

But now his face is dark, bleeding from seven holes, and he is spraying rancid stench from the inside out, no matter how upright his appearance is, it can only be described as miserable at this time.

Sun Shaozong first checked the stiffness of the corpse's muscles, and then opened Lin Qisheng's eyelids and examined his pupils.

Puff~

Although he tried his best to restrain his strength, when the eyelid of his left eye was lifted, a thick and cloudy white liquid still overflowed the eye socket like a spring.

Vomit!

Yang Zhiming was trying his best to endure it, and when he saw that the turbid white mucus, mixed with the original purple and black poisonous blood, was spreading on the corpse's face, he contributed lunch on the spot.

Sun Shaozong glanced back at him, and said indifferently: "Lord Yang, take care of your body." ”

As he spoke, he gently patted Yang Zhiming's back, and smeared all the rancid pupils stained with his fingertips on his official robe.

Vomit~

Yang Zhiming suddenly vomited even more.

The cat bent up, raised his hand, swayed a few times, and stumbled out of the study.

Shh~

This kind of goods is even embarrassed to work in Dali Temple!

Sun Shaozong didn't bother to care about him anymore, and broke open the corpse's mouth like no one else, and checked the corruption and damage in the corpse's mouth.

After all the facial features were examined, he also roughly came to a conclusion: Lin Qisheng had indeed been dead for three to six days.

The reason why the time span is so large is that it has not yet been fully investigated; Second, because the corpse had been stored in other places for a long time, and then the corpse was moved to the study, it was naturally impossible to accurately determine the time of death before confirming the environment and temperature of the place where the corpse was hidden.

As for Sun Shaozong's judgment that 'the murderer had moved the body', it is based on the abnormal indentation on the side and back of the corpse's head, as well as the corpse spot on the wrist of the left arm.

Corpse spots can only appear in the 'low' part of the corpse, and it is basically impossible to appear in the upward area.

Not to mention the indentation on the side and back of the head, this soft collapse is very flat and soft, and there are no hard objects around it, so the indentation that presents an irregular cone-shaped indentation will not appear out of thin air, right?

After the head examination, it was the victim's turn to have their limbs examined.

Stiff, hard, corrupt......

In addition to this, there are muscle groups that are not commensurate with their age.

At the age of nearly 70, it is not easy to maintain such a strong body.

But......

Since he is very healthy and his career is in full swing, how could he suddenly say goodbye to his hometown and return to his hometown?

And is there some connection between this and his death?

Speculating in his heart, Sun Shaozong put his hand into the sleeve of the corpse again, and first touched some hard and heavy small objects, probably metal objects such as private seals and letters.

Then I poked my finger through the gap, but there were more fluffy silks underneath.

After a while, he took out those things, and as expected, they were two copper seals of great weight, and a soft and wide juanpa.

"Chen Jingde."

Sun Shaozong suddenly turned his head and asked, "When you did the autopsy, did you ever touch the things in the sleeve of the corpse?" ”

"This ......"

Chen Jingde subconsciously looked at Huang Bin on the side - obviously this guy did not personally observe the autopsy process at that time.

"Returning to your lordship."

Huang Bin had no choice but to stand up and report: "At that time, the two servants were only ordered to check the degree of corruption of the corpse, and did not rummage for other clues. ”

In this way, the contents of the sleeve are likely to have been put in by the murderer.

Because according to the pattern of those things in the sleeve, as long as the victim's arm once drooped, the two seals that were not lightweight would sink deeper into the silk, instead of maintaining a delicate touch and balance as it is now.

It can be inferred that the victim is most likely to have been put in those items after death, so these items will remain in the same state as they were when they were put in.

As for these things, they were originally in their sleeves, and after being taken out by the murderer, they were looked at and borrowed, and then stuffed back in.

It is not known for a while whether the murderer deliberately found it from elsewhere for some purpose and put it in the sleeve of the corpse.

However, one thing is clear, that is, there are at least two murderers involved in this case - otherwise it will be difficult to keep the body in a level state during the process of moving the body!