Chapter IX Post-mortem
The first person Li Zhang noticed was not the angry Han County Lieutenant, but a child behind him, to be exact, a teenager, who looked about the same age as him, both twelve or thirteen years old, but the other party was wearing a silk suit, with fair skin, and his facial features were quite handsome.
And look at Li Zhang himself, even if he is injured on his feet, he is also wearing a gray torn linen clothes, and there are patches everywhere on the linen clothes, needless to say, the skin is dark and rough, especially the frostbite of his hands in winter is not completely healed, black and red, compared with the other party's white and pure youth, he is simply a beggar, of course, Li Zhang really worked as a beggar when he had no food before.
Li Zhang was looking at the other party at the same time, the other party was also looking at him, after all, there were five big and three thick officials all around, only the two of them were the same age, but his eyes made Li Zhang very uncomfortable, it was the kind of condescending, rich son looked at the beggar's eyes, although this also conformed to the image of the two, but it still made Li Zhang feel very unhappy, and glared at the other party fiercely, but he didn't expect this kid to care at all, but he also showed a reserved and somewhat arrogant smile, seems to disdain to be angry with people like Li Zhang.
"Lu Wu, didn't the official ask you to come as soon as possible, why are you so delayed?" I saw that as soon as the Han County Lieutenant came to Lu Wu's face, he immediately looked at him with an angry face.
"County Lieutenant Han, my subordinates have just come back from the field, and they haven't eaten or slept well for a few days, so you have to let me eat when I come back!" Lu Wu also replied a little coldly at this time, he didn't want to offend this Han County Lieutenant, but the other party made it clear that he wanted to target himself, so he didn't need to rush to the other party.
"You ......" Lieutenant Han didn't expect that Lu Wu, who was very deferential to him in the past, seemed to be a different person, which made him a little uncomfortable for a while, but he originally wanted to use Lu Wu to establish his authority today, so he quickly asked with a blank face, "Lu Wu, didn't the official ask you to bring him here, why didn't you see him?" ”
"Yang Chengzuo was injured, Li Chengzuo went out and didn't return, there were only two people in the yamen, so I really couldn't find anyone, fortunately, Li Chengzuo's son had learned some, so his subordinates could only bring him!" When Lu Wu said the end, he stretched out his hand and pointed to Li Zhang, who was being carried by someone next to him.
Lieutenant Han only saw Li Zhang at this time, and when he found out that the other party was just a child, he was furious again: "Lu Wu, what do you mean, if you can't find a child, you can use a child to fool the official?" ”
"The county lieutenant is angry, although he is young, he has also learned some methods of autopsy, just now I also heard the two elder brothers on the road say, it is nothing more than to verify whether the deceased committed suicide or he killed him, this thing is still not difficult for me!" didn't wait for Lu Wu to speak, but saw Li Zhang say with a smile on his face at this time.
Neither County Lieutenant Han nor Lu Wu expected that Li Zhang would take the initiative to speak, and when facing the official master of County Lieutenant Han, they did not panic at all, but spoke calmly and eloquently, not at all like the performance of a twelve-year-old child.
"You...... Ever read a book? After being surprised, Han County Lieutenant didn't get angry, but looked at Li Zhang with some curiosity and asked, because Li Zhang spoke politely and politely, and looked directly at himself without the slightest evasion, which was not like a performance of being a son.
"Qiyu County Lieutenant, I did go to private school for a period of time before I went down, but later I had no choice but to drop out of school because of my poor family!" Li Zhang replied again at the moment, he felt that this Han County Lieutenant's attitude seemed to have changed a little when he heard that he had read the book, and his tone softened, so he also added some respect when answering, after all, the other party is an official, and he is a citizen, if it is not necessary, it is better not to have a conflict.
"At such a young age, he really deserves to be a person who has read books, but it's a pity that he ......" Han County Lieutenant really admired Li Zhang, and couldn't help but praise at the moment, but when it came to the end, he shook his head with regret, as if he was regretting that Li Zhang had given up the bright road of reading.
Li Zhang didn't know what this county lieutenant Han was sorry for, but he came here for an autopsy, so he saluted again at this time: "County lieutenant, my father came to perform an autopsy, I don't know where the body is?" ”
"Do you really want an autopsy?" When County Lieutenant Han heard Li Zhang's request for an autopsy again, he couldn't help frowning at the moment, he was a scholar, and he had a good impression of Li Zhang, a child who had read books and behaved differently from ordinary people, but a good impression was a good feeling, and he would not believe that Li Zhang knew how to conduct an autopsy because of this good feeling.
"Yes, please also ask the county lieutenant to complete it!" Li Zhang replied very concisely at this time, and Lu Wu next to him also stood beside Li Zhang at this time, showing his support for him.
However, what Li Zhang didn't expect was that the young man behind the county lieutenant Han actually came over at this time, and then muttered a few words in the ear of the county lieutenant Han, but the county lieutenant Han, who was still a little hesitant, nodded and said: "Okay, since you insist on the autopsy, the official won't stop you, but if the autopsy can't be completed, don't blame the official for turning his face and being ruthless!" ”
"Thank you, County Lieutenant!" Li Zhang took a deep breath at this time and said, no matter how bad Yizhuang is, but after all, it is a place where he can stay, although he earns some money now, it is not enough to find another place to live, so he must keep his identity as the gambler's father, otherwise if this Han County Lieutenant really wants to drive their family away, then tomorrow he and Tanuki will sleep on the streets.
At that moment, Li Zhang took a deep breath, and then walked to the scene of the crime, but when he saw the corpse, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, because the corpse had been put down, only a rope sleeve hanging from the tree remained, and the ground was full of footprints, so it can be said that the entire crime scene had been completely destroyed.
But none of this has anything to do with Li Zhang, as a servant, he only needs to perform an autopsy to see if this person committed suicide or he killed him, so he also asked the official to put himself down, and then limped to the corpse with a stick.
Li Zhang is no stranger to corpses, he stayed in Africa for a few years in his previous life, and he has experienced several turmoil there, even in a relatively peaceful period, there are often murders, robberies and other vicious incidents around him, Li Zhang has also been held to the head several times, and he has also encountered the bloody headshot of people around him, plus he often goes in and out of the hospital, so the corpse has long been strange to him.
On the road just now, Li Zhang had already heard the introduction of the officer, the deceased's name was Liu Da, and now he looked about forty or fifty years old, there was a deep strangulation mark on his neck, and the whole face was black and purple, Li Zhang reached out and rolled his eyelids, and found that there were bleeding spots inside, and then he focused on checking the scars on his neck, and untied the other party's clothes to see if there were any other scars?
"Uncle Wu, can you lift me a little higher and let me see the trunk of the tree where he hanged himself?" After examining the corpse, Li Zhang suddenly turned his head to Lu Wu and said, he had found something from the other party's corpse, but it still needed further verification.
Lu Wu didn't know what Li Zhang was going to do, but he still agreed, picked up Lu Wu and walked under the hanging tree trunk, and then lifted him above his head, just enough for Li Zhang to see the situation on the trunk, and Li Zhang reached out to check the rope and the trunk, and then let Lu Wu put himself down.
"He did die of suffocation!" Li Zhang was very confident at this time to Han County Lieutenant and Lu Wudao, the characteristics of people who died of suffocation were very obvious, such as bleeding spots on the eyelids, which were the most obvious characteristics of people who died of suffocation, not to mention that the strangulation marks on the other party's neck were very conspicuous.
"So, he did commit suicide?" Seeing that Li Zhang, who was young, was not afraid of the corpse at all, and did not hesitate at all when examining the corpse, he seemed to be confident, which made him believe a little bit in Li Zhang.
"There are many kinds of death by suffocation, hanging himself is just one of them, and it is also possible to be strangled or strangled to death, and I can now conclude that this Liu Da was strangled with a rope behind his back!" At this time, Li Zhang returned to Liu Da's corpse with a stick and said again, the murderer who killed Liu Da is obviously not a veteran, and there are too many flaws left, not to mention that he is a senior detective fan, even those who have watched a few episodes of Conan can see it.
"Dalang, are you so sure?" Lu Wu couldn't help but show a surprised expression when he heard Li Zhang's answer, in the past, the autopsy not only took a long time, but also the results of the autopsy were also very vague, at most they gave a few of the most likely results, so as to reduce the difficulty of their solving the case, few people can give the cause of death so definitely as Li Zhang.
"Uncle Wu, please see, the strangulation marks on the neck of the general hanged person are from the lower jaw to the back of the ear, but if they are strangled to death, they will cross the back of the neck, and there are two strangulation marks on the neck of the deceased, one of which is crossed at the back of the neck, and it is purple-red, and the other is the strangulation mark of hanging, the color is very light, the reason why this is so is that the blood does not circulate after death, so that the scar is not visible!" Li Zhang pointed to the neck of the deceased at this time and said, there is also a clear difference between the injury before and after death, which Li Zhang can also see at a glance.
"Sure enough!" Lu Wu leaned over to take a look at it at this time, and indeed found that the wounds on the deceased's neck were different from those of ordinary hanged people.
"With just two scars, you can determine that the deceased was killed by him?" At this moment, he suddenly saw the young man behind Lieutenant Han suddenly spoke, this was also the first time he spoke, and his gaze at Li Zhang was a little more curious, and he was not as high as before.