The body of the giant was placed on the deck, and the boatmen and servants were furious, and they persuaded their masters to throw it back quickly.

Jiang Mao glanced at it just now, he was so disgusted that he was faintly nauseated, and his throat was already full of sour water, so he forcibly held back his vomit for the sake of his face, and when he heard what the boatmen said, he was ready to order them to push the body back into the river.

Because it was a man's naked corpse, Jiang Zi turned his face away from looking at it, but his heart was moved with compassion: "Third brother, this person is dead and still has no strands of body and is buried in the belly of a fish, it's really pitiful, since we have fished him up, let's just buy a coffin and bury him." ”

Jiang Mao hesitated.

An old sailor bowed to Jiang Zi and persuaded: "Miss, that's not what you said, there are floating corpses in the Yangtze River, those who drowned, those who couldn't think of committing suicide by throwing themselves into the river, and those who were murdered by thieves...... Add up to not one thousand but eight hundred all year round, and no matter how much the sky or the earth does, all of them are given to the dragon lord to feed the shrimp soldiers and crab generals, so others don't dare to pretend to bury it. ”

Jiang Mao was a little moved, but Jiang Zi had a solemn face: "Don't take evil as small, don't take good as small, has the third brother forgotten?" ”

Jiang Mao was speechless by his sister's words, and his face was slightly red.

Jiang Jing was kind-hearted, and said with a haha: "Third brother, since you scoop it up is a good fate, just do what the little brother says, and it will also be counted as your accumulated yin virtue." ”

Jiang Mao was indispensable, so he instructed the sailors to move the body and put it in the back room, and wait until they arrived in Jiujiang Mansion to buy a coffin for burial.

The sailors and servants were reluctant and unable to do so, so they prepared to remove the corpses.

"Wait!" Qin Lin stopped them, and then said categorically: "This is weird!" ”

The three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family were taken aback, the two brothers were still suspicious, Jiang Zi asked first: "Brother Qin has been in Jinyiwei for a long time, and he must have found that the body died unexpectedly?" However, just now you said that judging from the degree of decomposition of the corpse, it sank in the river for at least half a month, so the place where the water fell is at least thousands of miles away, and we seem to be out of reach here, so we can only write to the yamen of the upstream states and counties, so that they can investigate the case in detail. ”

Qin Lin wanted to turn back and praise Jiang Zi's meticulous thinking, but thinking that the other party was a "rabbit master", the guy who was scared by Zhu Youfan's pseudo-mother squatted next to the corpse without looking back, and replied: "That's true, even if the river flows ten miles every hour, and one hundred and twenty miles a day, if it can float freely, this corpse will float from the bottom of the river to completely expose the water, at least after eight days, then the place where it fell into the water is thousands of miles away." ”

When Jiang Zi first came into contact with the investigation of the case, he was recognized by Qin Lin, a veteran of Jinyiwei, and he felt a little happy in his heart; But Qin Lintou didn't look at her before, and this time he still squatted there without looking back, almost treating her as a yaksha ghost, although Jiang Zi didn't care about the man's appreciation, he also secretly wondered.

Unexpectedly, Qin Lin's words changed: "Is this corpse really falling into the water from thousands of miles away, and it floated here after it rotted and flatulated?" Hey hey ......"

At this time, Lu Yuanzhi and Niu Dali lost a little bit of food, and walked to the Daguan boat with their stomachs in their hands to see what Qin Lin was doing.

Inadvertently, I saw Jiang Zi stretching out her slender jade hand and squeezing the hair that was blown by the river wind, her skin was like mutton fat, her beauty was better than that of the concubine, and her abundance was so beautiful that it made people dizzy, but the fat man was stunned for a moment, and even Niu Dali, who was puzzled by the amorous feelings, puffed out his eyes, and found that it was rude to stare at the girl's family like this, so he took his eyes away with difficulty.

"Fatty, come and check this corpse!" Qin Lin greeted Lu Yuanzhi, and when he saw him in a daze, he leaned into his ear and whispered: "It's just a pseudo-mother, look at a fart, haven't you seen enough Zhu Youfan?" ”

Lu Yuanzhi rubbed his fat face, and didn't understand what the pseudo-mother meant for a while, but he knew that Qin Lin was not happy to be looked at that Jiang Zi girl-"Mom, you hooked up so soon?" There is annihilation! Lu Yuanzhi couldn't help but feel angry for Qing Dai, and secretly admired Brother Qin for being sharp enough.

Walking to the side of the corpse, seeing this swollen and swollen corpse with the view of giants, Rao is fat man's nerves were also bluffed, and he was slightly stunned before he asked the sailors to take a coarse cloth to wrap their hands and examine the corpse.

After a while, he reported: "The deceased's male surname, about thirty-five to forty years old, the body was five feet and one inch long, the blisters were swollen severely, the facial features were unrecognizable, and the only thing I saw was a beard under the chin. There are no obvious wounds around the body, only there are marks on the waist, I think it was strangled by the waistband of the trousers after the blisters were swollen, and there was a small piece of straw rope between the toes, which may have been accidentally wrapped in straw floating on the water. ”

Qin Lin nodded, the fat man already had basic forensic abilities after training, but his inference was obviously wrong.

He used a chopstick to pull out the straw rope between the toes of the corpse and flipped it up for everyone to see: "What do you think this looks like?" Many of my friends have them on their feet. ”

Everyone looked down at their feet.

The three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family wore red shoes, the servants of the Jiang family wore foundation soap boots, and the boatmen all wore straw sandals.

Everyone suddenly realized: "It turned out to be straw sandals!" The shoes were blistered and washed away, leaving only a straw rope sandwiched between the big toe and the second toe! ”

But what does this mean? It seems that it can only prove that the body has indeed fallen into the water for a long time, and even the straw sandals have been soaked apart.

Jiang Zican's eyes were like morning stars, and they became confused because of incomprehension.

"The corpse is very clean, too clean...... Qin Lin said meaningfully.

Everyone didn't know why, they all thought that he was saying that the corpse had no clothes on it, and several old sailors said: "Sir, like the floating corpses in the river, nine out of ten have no clothes, because the corpses are swollen by the water, and the clothes are all stretched, so they are washed away by the water!" ”

Just now, these people regarded him as a veteran of sailing, but they couldn't help but be disappointed that he had suddenly become a "sheep".

Qin Lin still smiled incomprehensibly: "After being soaked for so long, is it really so slippery?" ...... of the mouth, nose, fecal door, etc."

All the boatmen were stunned, and only one of them, the oldest, with a white beard, tugged at his beard and pondered.

"Oh, yes!" The old boatman suddenly slapped his thigh and exclaimed: "There is no green moss, yes, there must be green moss in all places such as the mouth and nose of the corpse, but this corpse does not have - oh my God, how can an old connoisseur who is not a decades old connoisseur know this?" ”

The boatmen in the river are unlucky and generally refuse to salvage the corpses, so unless they are decades of veteran veterans, they will never know that the seven tricks of the water drifting corpses will give birth to green moss.

The boatmen looked at Qin Lin in awe, and only felt that what kind of Baolong picture was staged on the stage, I am afraid that it was not as powerful as this brocade cloth, you must know that even many old connoisseurs who have been on the river for ten or twenty years do not know this!

"Actually, it's not that there is no green moss, but that the green moss is very little light," Qin Lin explained first, and then asked: "The corpse has decomposed to such an extent that it proves that it has been thrown into the river for a long time; But in autumn, it only takes two or three days to grow a lot of green moss, but it only has a very small layer, why is that? ”

While everyone was thinking hard, Qin Lin used chopsticks to pull the small piece of grass rope that was taken out from between the toes of the corpse.

Jiang Zi's thinking is the most agile, as a woman to be married, she was embarrassed to look at the corpse, so she looked at the river and was distracted, and inadvertently saw a piece of duckweed floating by the river, a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and she suddenly realized, and said to Qin Lin: "Green moss, is it only born on the river?" ”

Qin Lin secretly admired that this pseudo-girl was extremely smart, but he still didn't look back, just nodded and said, "Not bad." ”

Just like girls in later generations like to watch horror movies, women are naturally interested in these thrillers, although Qin Lin doesn't care much about Jiang Zi, Jiang Zi is extremely excited, and analyzes by himself:

"Then, after this man fell into the river, he soaked for a long time, but he always sank to the bottom of the river, and did not float until two days ago, or even nearer, so that there was no green moss in the mouth, nose, etc.; But Brother Qin said just now, this water drifting corpse has decomposed to such an extent that it should have surfaced at least seven or eight days ago-I know! The strangulation marks on its waist were not drawn from the waistband of its trousers, but it was tied to some heavy object to make it sink at the bottom of the river, until the body became more and more swollen, the pulling force increased, and the river erosion caused the rope to break, and it floated to the surface of the water and was found by us! ”

"yes, why didn't I think of that?" Lu Yuanzhi rubbed his fat face in distress, and subconsciously looked at Jiang Zi, only to see that her starry eyes were shining, her ruddy lips opened slightly to form an extremely seductive arc, and the sun shone obliquely on her snow-jade face, showing a dignified and beautiful but extremely attractive silhouette...... You can't watch it, you can't watch it, you'll be beaten by Brother Qin! Lu Yuanzhi muttered to himself, and quickly looked away, and suddenly he missed the female soldier who could talk and laugh casually, although her attitude was always fierce...... Qin Lin completely agreed with Jiang Zi's analysis, it was true that the corpse had been in the water for more than half a month before it was soaked so swollen, but because the waist was tied to a heavy object and sank to the bottom of the river at a depth of more than ten or twenty meters, it was cold and could not shine on the sun, and the algae could not photosynthesize, so there was not much green moss.

It was only in the last few days that the buoyancy of the swollen corpse became more and more buoyant, and the rope that tied the weight was eroded by the river, and finally the corpse got rid of the weight and floated to the surface of the river, exposing its grievances in broad daylight.

Jiang Zi thought for a while, and then analyzed: "Since the rope is tied, then it must be a murder, not an accidental fall into the water or suicide." In the past two days, the water drifting corpse broke free from the rope, and the place where it fell into the water was within two hundred and forty miles upstream, that is, the section of the river from Wuchang to here! ”

Even if Jiang Zi's heart is like a mirror, he can't go on talking about this, there are many states and counties on both sides of the 240-mile river section, where to check?

Qin Lin smiled and picked up the straw rope to show everyone: "What kind of straw shoes are these, I haven't seen them in Qizhou, do you recognize them?" ”

All the sailors came to see it, but none of them knew it, and finally a steward shouted: "Ah, this is made of water iris born on the shore of the rich water, only fifty miles upstream, and it is sold in my hometown Xingguo Prefecture!" ”

(To be continued)