Liu Renli was also stunned, seeing that it was really not easy for Zhou Heng to figure out the rank of the apprentice, he understood that Zhou Heng just didn't want the name of master, so he thought about it and said.

"Since Zhou Gongzi doesn't want to be a master, he still takes in apprentices instead of his grandfather, and don't care about seniority, just call him uncle, otherwise it's really messed up."

Zhou Heng nodded, "Then according to what the adults say, let's call Uncle Shi!" ”

Zhou Yi'an, a sturdy man, fell to his knees with a plop.

"Uncle Shi is above, and he is worshiped by his nephew!"

Zhou Heng smashed his mouth, it seemed a little sloppy, and he didn't have any apprenticeship, so he lost ......

"Okay, get up, let's go see the dead!"

Zhou Yi'an got up with a bone, bowed in front of him to lead the way, and from time to time he raised his sleeve to wipe the corners of his eyes, looking really excited.

Skirting the verandah of the hall, we came to a small room, where there were already a few servants, all wearing leather aprons and a sweat towel to cover their noses and mouths.

As soon as he entered the room, the smell of wine and the smell of corpses jumped into his nose, Zhou Yi'an handed Zhou Heng and Liu Renli two face towels, looking at the color, Zhou Heng resisted, but thinking about the smell of corpses, he quickly put them on.

Zhou Yi'an held his slightly protruding stomach and shouted hard.

"Get out of the way, let my uncle take a look!"

Wang Ba's anger all appeared on his face, Zhou Heng turned a blind eye, as his own nephew, pride is a must, those few people dodged away and saluted Lord Liu.

Only then did Zhou Heng see the wine jar, the wine jar that the two of them hugged together was very large, with a wooden lid on it.

One arm......

No, now it was a skeleton-only arm dangling from one side, black above, with flies flying up from time to time, and the lid buckled crookedly into the mouth of the cylinder.

Squatting down, you can see the edge of the vat and the lid, stuck on the humerus, the surface of the bone is not very smooth, and there are liquid dripping from time to time.

Underneath the vat, there is a 20-centimeter-thick wooden pallet.

There is a groove in the middle of the tray that holds the vat, and the edge is larger than the edge of the vat's mouth, and there are many maggot shells on it.

Liu Renli tilted his head and asked.

"The identity of the deceased has been verified?"

Zhou Yi'an saw that He Zhutou was not in the room, so he hurriedly reported:

"Lord Hui, He Zhutou has already investigated, and the deceased's name is Wei Jichen, who is the owner of this wine shop. This person is a native of Jinan Prefecture, very thrifty, and has been doing business in Qingping County for more than ten years, but his family is not in Qingping County. As for the liquor store, formerly known as Rice Shop, the original guy had already been dismissed three months ago, and the newcomer had been recruited for two days, but half a month ago, that is, on the third day of the eighth month, the store suddenly closed, and asked the blacksmith next door that he had not heard anything unusual. ”

Liu Renli kept nodding, "When does the blacksmith usually leave the shop?" ”

"Usually closes at sunset!"

Zhou Heng ignored the inquiries of the two, squatted down, stretched out his hand to Zhou Yi'an, and said:

"Is there a wooden clip?"

Zhou Yi'an handed over a bamboo clip, a bit like a clip for selling fritters, but it was slender, and he picked up a few maggot shells for comparison, and Zhou Heng returned the clip to Zhou Yi'an.

"The maggot shells of these flies are all maggot shells of a generation, and seeing that the deceased's arm has been gnawed clean, the deceased's death time is half a month."

Zhou Yi'an kept nodding, "This fly and insect master and nephew don't study much, I only know that there will be maggot shells around the deceased, please give advice to my uncle, how do you know the time of death for half a month?" ”

Zhou Heng glanced at him, saw that he had prepared a charcoal record, stood up and said:

"But whenever there is dead or carrion, the summer flies will find it in a quarter of an hour, and lay eggs in its body, and in twelve to twenty-two hours the eggs will turn into maggots, and in three to six days they will become pupae, and in about seven days they will become flies, and the pupae here will become dry maggot shells, and the flesh of the arms will be eaten clean, and it will be counted in half a month."

Zhou Yi'an and those people quickly recorded, this knowledge was not known to the ancestors, Liu Renli looked at Zhou Heng.

"How did Zhou Gongzi know so clearly?"

Zhou Heng glanced at him, "Observation, childhood observation, and grandfather's teachings!" ”

"Taught!"

Zhou Heng saw that several people had finished recording, and then waved his hand.

"Lift the lid!"

The four of them moved together and slowly lifted the wooden lid, and Zhou Yi'an held the wooden clip to hold down the dry bone.

Just as the lid was lifted, Zhou Heng's eyes stared at the lid for a moment.

"Stand the lid on one side!"

As he spoke, he hurriedly walked over, and two circles appeared on the edge of the lid, one deeper and the other with a faint wet mark.

There were a lot of scratches on the edge of the sleeves, and there were dark brown blood stains on the edges of the scratches.

"You've moved the lid?"

Zhou Yi'an nodded, "Yes, after seeing the wine vat in the wine shop, He Zhutou ordered his subordinates to open it for inspection, and found that the deceased was soaked in wine, so he hurriedly transported the wine vat to the Yamen." ”

Zhou Yi'an was quite calm, the four people were already wide-eyed, obviously thinking that Zhou Heng's judgment was incredible.

Zhou Heng stepped on the tray under the wine vat and looked into the wine vat, the deceased tilted his head and stared wide, his mouth open with a hideous expression on his face, not corrupted, nor swollen into a giant [1].

On the left side of the head, in the temporal region [2], there is a depression in the shape of a long strip that extends into the middle of the hair.

"Fish people out, what's wrong with the scene, are there any utensils or sticks?"

Zhou Yi'an handed Zhou Heng a piece of paper, on which was a painting, although it was scribbled but very carefully, and what was in each position was explained in detail.

Inside the counter was a stick on the floor, placed diagonally, with a bloodstained scratch on five fingers.

On the table were eight plates, two bowls, two wine cups and a wine jug, and from the scraps, it was found that there were chicken bones, fish bones, and snail shells, and the forms of various objects were described.

It doesn't matter if the rest is concerned, it is estimated that Zhou Yi'an has never seen this fish, so he drew the fish bone, Zhou Heng paused a little when he saw it, he didn't expect to see this kind of yellow catfish here.

"This is a yellow catfish, the flesh is delicious, the skin is yellow, because it is scarce and difficult to catch."

Liu Renli stretched his head to take a look, the triangular fish bones, and his face was in a trance.

"I ate this fish once in Jinan Prefecture, and it is not produced in Qingping County, but mostly in the clear water of the stream."

Zhou Heng raised his eyes and looked at Zhou Yi'an, this picture is mainly on the first floor, and it is not depicted in the back, they can only ask when they go to the scene.

"What's the purpose behind the liquor store?"

"There's a cubicle in the back, and there's a guy's house and storeroom in the backyard, and there's no cookstove and pot."

Zhou Heng nodded, it seemed that Zhou Yi'an knew the reason for this question.

"Upstairs viewable?"

"Upstairs is the residence, unharmed!"

Zhou Heng narrowed his eyes, looked at the four people who picked up the dead by the wine tank, and said:

"A stranger doing business here, alone without a partner, is extremely thrifty, and the scope of contact with people is much smaller, the restaurant that supplies will not have such treatment, and the neighbors will not go to the banquet alone, such a table of banquets, as well as the yellow catfish that is only available in Jinan Prefecture, most of them are brought by this visitor, and sent to the big restaurant in Qingping County to be sent."

Zhou Heng paused, looked around, stretched out a finger in the air for a long time, and several people around looked at Zhou Heng, and then continued:

"The blacksmith has never heard of any disturbances, which means that the banquet and the murder were all at night! Halfway through the meal, he hit Wei Jichen's temple with a wooden stick, knocked him unconscious and discarded him in the wine vat, Wei Jichen woke up due to suffocation, and scratched the cylinder head, but he was still drowned! ”

At this time, the corpse had been placed on the countertop, and the wine continued to flow down from the countertop, Zhou Heng walked straight over, looked at the wound on the deceased's temple, pressed it with a sweat towel, and the bone fricative [3] was obvious, and there were fractures and depressions of more than ten centimeters from the temples to the hairline.

Dropping the sweat towel, Zhou Heng looked at Liu Renli.

"Came from Jinan Mansion, visited Wei Jichen, a person with whom he had a very close relationship, and came alone, visited at sunset, his strength was very strong, he was steady and ruthless, he was a man, his height and weight were above Wei Jichen, it seems that the identity of the murderer is mostly his...... Dear dear! ”

These words shocked everyone, just looking at the deceased, he analyzed so much content, Liu Renli's brain was already a little dead, and his subconscious told him that it was impossible.

"How can it be a close ......?"

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[1] Giant Cadaver: (bloated cadaver/giant cadaver), a corpse phenomenon.

After death, due to the termination of the life process, the putrefactive bacteria that parasitize in the human body during the state of life lose the control of the human immune system and grow and multiply wildly.

These staggering amounts of spoilage bacteria can produce large amounts of putrefactive gases that are dirty green. These putrefactive gases fill the human body.

The giant view is formed by a highly decomposed corpse, because the soft tissues of the whole body are full of putrefaction gases, the face is swollen, the eyes are protruding, the lips are enlarged and turned out, the tip of the tongue is protruding, the chest and abdomen are bulging, the abdominal wall is tightly distended, the limbs are thickened, the skin is dirty green, the rotten venous network is common, and the subcutaneous tissues and muscles are emphysematous.

The skin of some hands and feet can fall off in the shape of gloves and socks, and the entire corpse is swollen and swelled into giants, making it difficult to recognize its former appearance. This phenomenon is known as the corrupt giant view.

[2] Temporal: The temporal region is the soft tissue of the skull above the face, on the left and right sides of the head, specifically referring to the temple area commonly known in our daily life.

[3] Bone fricator: that is, the sound of friction or collision between the fracture ends that occurs after fracture with the abnormal activity of the bone, which is one of the unique signs of complete fracture.