The steward was stunned for a moment when he heard this, although he didn't know Shen Mu's specific identity at the moment, but seeing that this person was following the little grandfather of Nanjing City, the Duke of Wei's mansion, dressed and looked extraordinary, and dared to interject when the little grandfather asked, he felt that Shen Mu must not be an ordinary person.

Immediately, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately beckoned a few people who looked like men around him to come over and order: "A few of you are specially responsible for entertaining guests, why don't you come back and forth between the little grandfather and this son." ”

When a few guys heard this, they walked over tremblingly, and they didn't dare to look up at Xu Pengju and the three of them, so they knelt down first.

For a moment, no one spoke.

Seeing this, Xu Pengju was even more impatient in his heart, he was worried about the safety of His Royal Highness the Prince, and he was not much interested in the death of a five-grade petty official.

Fortunately, at this time, a guy felt that he couldn't hide, and finally said hard: "Back to the little grandfather and this son, this dead adult should have come to my house at the same time yesterday afternoon, and the little one was in charge of receiving him at that time, and he never saw anyone else walking with this adult." ”

Yesterday's unitary time?

Shen Mu raised his eyes and looked at the sky outside, it was almost time today.

This shows that it has been almost a day since the dead Tobe Langzhong came to this water pavilion yesterday and then to the current case.

This day is not long, but it is definitely not short, enough for a person to die countless times. A lot can happen.

I don't know if it's out of my own intuition or what, Shen Mu always feels that this time point is a little strange.

So, he frowned and asked again, "Are you sure?"

"Back to this son's words. Small OK. Because it was dinner time every day, the little one had just come out of the kitchen. ”

"So, you've been in charge of entertaining this dead adult for almost a day?"

"Yes, yes, Childe. The little one is really wronged, after this adult entered this box, the little one sent some tea and snacks in. And he commanded that no one should be disturbed without his summons.

The little one didn't dare to anger the adult, and seeing that he didn't summon the little one, he didn't dare to break in at will, but he was killed in the box.

The little one is really wronged! Please let the little grandfather and the son be the little master! ”

"Tea and snacks?" Shen Mu looked at the table in this box when he heard this.

Sure enough, on the table, I saw half a cup of tea drunk and gave the untouched snacks on the table.

Like this high-end water pavilion, the dim sum is placed with patterns, and now judging from the placement patterns of this dim sum, this plate of dim sum should not have been passive.

In this way, this murder case is even more strange.

According to the logic of normal people, it is impossible for normal people not to eat a mouthful of food in this nearly a day.

This Tobe Langchu is too.

Why, in this box, the snacks on the table have not moved.

Unless, this Tobe Langzhong knows that he is going to die, and it doesn't matter if he eats it or not.

That's kind of fun!

Of course, to further confirm his inference, he walked over to the table and touched the surface of the snack with his fingers.

It was found that this snack had been left for nearly a day, and there were some traces of drying on the surface, and there were slight cracks in the epidermis, which proved that this snack was either replaced after the murderer killed someone, or the one that was sent into the box by the guy.

He glanced at the entire box again, and once again focused his gaze on the water stain at the foot of the corpse, and a bolder inference was made in his mind.

Originally, he didn't want to rob the work, but at this moment, in order to give Zhu Houzhao, the bear child, a deep impression, he didn't plan to wait for the people from Ying Tianfu to come, and planned to conduct an autopsy himself to prove his inference.

It was only two quarters of an hour before the report was reported, and with the speed of the Ming Dynasty's police, it is estimated that it will take a while for the people from Tianfu to come.

He should have plenty of post-mortem time now.

So, he handed over to Xu Pengju and Zhu Houzhao and said, "Little grandfather, cousin, can you allow your subordinates to check the corpse before the arrival of the envoy from Ying Tianfu?" ”

"What are you kid talking about, this is your Jinyi Guard's duty, you can see it if you want to!" When Xu Pengju heard this, he pretended to wave his hand impatiently.

The people who were originally watching the excitement outside the box heard that Shen Mu's identity turned out to be Jinyiwei, and immediately took a few steps back.

Although the Jinyiwei during the Hongzhi period was quite low-key, this prestige was still very popular.

Especially since they are now witnesses to homicides.

If this is implicated, if you don't die, you will have to take off a few skins.

However, the steward of the Water Pavilion that Shen Mu had been paying attention to, was quite calm when he heard the words, but his palm couldn't help but clench it.

With Xu Peng in front of him, Shen Mu was not afraid of arguing with Ying Tianfu, and immediately squatted next to the corpse and began to perform an autopsy.

The first is to determine the time of death by going to postmortem phenomena such as mortis and corpse spots.

We all know that after death, the function of the body's tissues and organs gradually stops.

Under the action of internal and external factors, the corpse will form certain postmortem changes and phenomena, and this is the time for forensic doctors and servants to show their skills.

Shen Mu first stretched out his hand to probe the temperature of the corpse, after the death of the person, the heat production stopped, the heat dissipation continued, generally speaking, when a normal person is thinly dressed, after three to five hours, the temperature of the corpse will become the same as the temperature of the outside environment.

It was late autumn, the temperature outside was not high, and the corpse was cold now, indicating that the time of death of this Tobe Langzhong was at least five hours or more.

After checking the temperature of the corpse, Shen Mu mainly checked the indentations formed on the surface of the corpse and the surface of the oppression, and could use the bias to infer whether the position of the corpse had moved.

This is also generally used to determine whether this place is the first scene of the crime.

In addition, Shen Mu also focused on examining the corpse, and the corpse suddenly spasmed at the moment of death.

"Sure enough!" He pondered.

According to the state of the corpse muscles shown, he finished

It can all be judged that the deceased must have been holding something tightly in his right hand at the time of death.

As expected, he should have the murder weapon in his hand.

At this time, the corpse's morture had already spread to the whole body, and it had developed to its peak, and it had not been relieved, which once again indicated that the time of death should have exceeded twelve hours.

The deceased's eyes were open, but there was no obvious look of horror on his face, indicating that it was unlikely that he was frightened before death.

However, the corners of the eyes have begun to become cloudy. However, the pupil can still be seen through, which also indicates that the time of death may have been more than fifteen hours.

Shen Mu checked the corpse spots on the deceased's body again, and it had entered the diffusion period.

It generally takes about eight hours from death to the diffusion period, and the corpse spots can no longer disappear completely when pressed, but only fade slightly, and the corpse spots return to their original color slowly after stopping compression.

The results of the examination of the corpse showed that after this Tobe Langzhong entered the water pavilion, it was very likely that he would die in one to half an hour!