"The house where the crime occurred is 100 steps outside the inner wall, 10 steps away from the road, sitting north and facing south, with two rooms on the front side, and the two rooms are connected; There is a door in the main room, and the female corpse lies down five steps inside the door; The side room is in the southeast of the main house, with a bed in the middle, and the male corpse lies on it; There is a window on the south side of the side room, three feet wide, open, and the murderer may jump into the house through the window......"

Just as Ling Shi Nu walked to the window to watch, Heifu also carefully probed the grass ground outside the window, and he soon made a discovery.

"Ling Shi, there is a footprint here!"

Anger immediately went out, but saw that there was an obvious footprint on the dirt floor outside the window!

He cautiously lay on the grass, stared at the footprint for a long time, and after measuring it with a "Qin ruler" in his hand, he immediately turned his head to the pen clerk on the side and said:

"Write it down, half a step outside the south wall of the side room, there are footprints, which seem to be Qin-style hemp shoes, one foot and two inches long. There are signs of wear and tear on the shoes, which do not look like new. The front part of the track is densely patterned, four inches long, the middle pattern is sparse, five inches long, and the heel pattern is dense, three inches long......"

This made Heifu stunned, and in the October arrest, Nu's identification of the thief's wounds had already surprised him. And now, the meticulous observation and recording of the footprints in front of him is comparable to the footprints of later generations.

But this is the beginning, and next, Nu really told Heifu, the jailer of the Qin State, who can also be called "Ling Shi", why this group of people is called "China's earliest forensic doctor"!

After recording the footprints under the window, Nu returned to the side room, where the murderer had first committed the crime. He carefully examined the corpse of the man lying on his back on the couch, but saw that his face was frightened, his eyes were wide open, and he did not close it until he died.

Nu didn't dwell too much on the corpse's facial expressions, allowing the scribe to continue recording the book.

"The deceased was a man in the prime of life, with yellow skin, 7 feet 1 inch long, and 2 feet of hair. Died on a couch in a side room, lying on his back with his head facing north and his feet facing south. There was a stab wound on the back of his hand, four inches long and one inch wide, which was cut when he was suspected of resisting. The fatal wound was in the throat, along the neck, three inches long and half an inch wide. Both wounds were transverse, and the wounds were smooth, like knife marks. The man's throat was bleeding profusely, contaminating the bed, deerskin, back and floor, and the rest of the body was unharmed. ”

"The male corpse is not wearing an inch on his body, and there are two old scars on his abdomen; The lower body is wearing a single cloth short dress, but the lower body has been exposed, and the short dress has been stained with blood. Under the bed, there are two pairs of Qin-style bast shoes, and the slightly larger pair of shoes is just right for the man's corpse to wear. There were also several pieces of clothing on the low table next to the couch, both men and women, and a wooden scabbard among them. The ground was hard and there was no sign of the murderer. ”

After a set, Heifu couldn't help but be amazed, the level of autopsy and the standardization of procedures formed by this anger are not inferior to modern judicial identification.

The so-called "sealed diagnosis" refers to different judicial acts and enforcement requirements in Qin Law. "Sealing" means sealing, "diagnosis" is investigation and inspection, and "style" is judicial norms; The autopsy is part of the "diagnosis", which is the work of Ling Shi.

In later generations, the method of protecting the traces and physical evidence at the scene was except that Heifu pulled the rope to prevent others from entering and destroying, and marked out the traces and physical evidence with a white ash circle. It is nothing more than the protection of the found corpses, bloodstains, handprints, footprints, traces, destroyed objects, tools of crime, etc., by means of recording.

This is exactly what Nu is doing, but it's a pity that Qin doesn't have a camera, not even a paper. The scribe could only hold the woodblock in one hand and scribble down every sentence of Nu with great difficulty, and because of the limitations of the carrier, it was necessary to be concise and extremely precise.

After recording the first corpse, he went to the female corpse in the main room in a hurry.

The lower half of the woman's body was naked, and combined with the fact that the man was also naked, and his lower body was exposed, it is not difficult to imagine what they were doing at the time of the crime. But yard by yard, because it was closer to the door, and the body could be seen from the outside, Hefu had her covered with a straw mat.

Angrily lifted the straw mat, and under the fluffy black hair, a pretty face was revealed, only a little painfully twisted.

Heifu secretly slandered: "If you compare it in the township, it is indeed beautiful, no wonder the prison gate will commit adultery with ......"

Anger lifted it down again, but saw a knife stuck in her back and pierced it deeply......

Just like Fang Cai's identification record of the male corpse, he angrily and accurately described the characteristics of the female corpse and the location and shape of the fatal wounds, and even checked the hair and perineum, whether there was blood stasis on the body, etc.! This is to find out if she was violated again before she died.

Looking at Nu's actions, which seemed to be a little obscene, but were actually very solemn, Heifu suddenly recalled some of the ancient case-solving movies and television he had watched. The official judged the case and found that the deceased had no abnormalities on the surface, which seemed to rule out the possibility of homicide. Suddenly, someone next to this official reminded him to check whether there were nails in the hair of the corpse, and after a check, there were indeed them, and then the murderer was successfully found......

This kind of thing is impossible in the Qin State, and it has been clearly written in the regulations of the "Sealed Diagnosis" that the inside of the hair and the perineum are the top priority of the autopsy!

After finishing the work of inquest and recording of the corpse, Nu took a piece of cloth, wiped his hands, and suddenly asked Heifu: "From the perspective of Heifu Pavilion Chief, how did the murderer commit the murder?" ”

Heifu had been thinking for a long time, and immediately responded: "The murderer must have opened the window of the side room first, and found that the men and women in the room were making love, so he took advantage of his unpreparedness, climbed through the window, brandished a short knife, and stabbed the two. ”

"At that time, either the men were on top and the women were on the bottom. When the man heard the sound, he turned around and blocked the first knife with his right arm, and his blood dripped on the woman's body, and the woman panicked, and then the man leaned back and stepped back, trying to get the blade next to the couch......"

The reason why he judged this way was because there was a scabbard on the low table in front of the couch, but the sword inside was missing, it may be a man's weapon, and it may be more than this item that has been taken.

As a result, the man was stabbed by the murderer and slit his throat. Then, the murderer jumped down and chased after the woman who wanted to flee to the door of the main room, and caught up with her five paces away from the door, and stabbed her in her vest, and the woman fell to the ground and died......"

"Well said! It's exactly what I thought! ”

Nu looked at Heifu with some admiration and asked him, "Have you learned the art of Lingshi?" ”

Heifu shook his head: "I was born in the ranks of soldiers, my status is humble, I don't have the opportunity to enter the school, I don't know what the art of history is. It is only inferred from the characteristics of the corpse and the traces of the scene recorded in the history of Ling. ”

"It's self-taught? Amazing, what's even more remarkable is that you can actually use a rope to prevent outsiders from entering, and also use a white wire to encircle the corpse, I have done so many years of history, and countless corpses have been inspected, such a simple thing, why didn't you think of it? ”

sighed angrily for a long time, saying that he must tell Prison Peng what he saw today, this kind of good method must become a common practice in Anlu County Prison Cao, and can even be reported to Nanjun and Xianyang.

Next, Nu will collect all the physical evidence and murder weapons here and send them to the county seat. Because Li is looking for the husband of the dead woman, the current number one suspect, Orion, will not be able to return for a while, and the two bodies cannot stay where they are for a long time to create panic, and they will also be carried away with wooden planks and sent to the village.

Nu and Heifu had a good conversation about judging the case according to the traces, but they didn't expect You Shuwu to walk in, and when he saw that Heifu was still there, he frowned and said, "Heifu Pavilion Chief, why haven't you left yet?" ”

Nu immediately answered: "You, Pavilion Chief Heifu is just assisting me in investigating the case. ”

Shuwu was always unhappy, and he and the head of the township pavilion were outside to ask the insiders about the relationship between the male and female deceased, and the grievances and enmities, and he couldn't get away for a while. But this black man climbed down the pole and talked very happily with Ling Shi from the county, as if he was the official in charge of this matter, and he was the pavilion pawn who gave him a hand......

In the case of the blind mountain last time, Shu Wu felt that he had given Heifu a credit, and the limelight was all stolen by Huyang Pavilion, and now this case is not under Heifu's control, does he still want to intervene?

Shu Wu has already determined that this case must have been done by the hunter, the man went home and saw his wife committing adultery with another man, and in a fit of rage, he killed the adulterer**, and then fled with his life.

He believes that this case is clear and clear, and it is not difficult to catch the murderer by issuing a notice and searching around.

So Shu Wu said with a straight face: "Heifu Pavilion Chief, this willow tree is the jurisdiction of the Township Pavilion, but it is not under the control of your Huyang Pavilion!" Now that you have told Ling Shi everything you know, you don't have to stay for a long time, so let's go back to the pavilion quickly! You don't have any official business on you, and if you don't return for half a day, it's a dereliction of duty! ”

Ling Shi was only a hundred stone officials, and Yu Lu, who was wandering, was one hundred and fifty stones, and he was the largest official among the people present, so this case should be in charge of him, and the Qin State did explicitly prohibit the behavior of Yue Yu on behalf of the people.

So although he saw Shuwu's intention to drive people away, Heifu didn't argue anything, and arched his hand angrily and said, "If Ling Shi has anything to ask, you can summon me at any time." ”

With that, he took his leave and went out.

The sun was shining outside, and the haze of death inside the house had been swept away, and the crowd of onlookers had been dispersed one after another, leaving only some witnesses to be questioned.

Hefu went round to them, ready to lead his horse, but as he passed by the ditch by the door, he glanced at it, as if he saw something, and stopped at once.

There was a streak of blood on the blades of grass by the ditch, and Hefu bent down and, after searching the grass, picked up something......

"Ling Shi, come and see, what is this?"

Heifu shouted, and the anger immediately came out, and he also saw what Heifu was holding.

It was wooden, two fingers wide and about three inches long, with some deliberately cut toothed grooves......

It seems to have been thrown out unintentionally, and it seems to have been deliberately discarded......

"Thorn coupons."

The anger was immediately recognized, and his face became more and more solemn: "It's the Jing coupon used by the merchant trade!" ”