Chapter 191: The Dead Courtyard
Lu Jinping walked to the door first, carefully checked that there were no suspicious traces on the door, and then he checked the bed where the deceased was. Judging from the fact that the deceased was almost naked and the quilt was messy, the deceased seemed to be alarmed by something at that time, and when he got up, he was attacked and died tragically beside the bed.
Although the quilt on the bed was messy, the bed frame was intact. There was no sign of the hanging curtain being broken. In particular, the deceased's arm is intact, and there are no injuries on the severely distorted face, so it seems that there was no fight here.
Lu Jinping's eyes fell on the round table in the room again. The teacups and cups on the round table were neatly placed there, and a small half of one of the cups of tea remained, which should have been left before the deceased went to bed.
The fact that the tea cup placed in the field is so well also confirms that there was no fight here.
There is also a small room in the back of this room, which is a washing room, with a large wooden barrel and a red-lacquered toilet. There was a pale yellow layer of urine on the toilet.
Then, Lu Jinping took out an ultraviolet physical evidence scanner and fluorescence-enhancing glasses from the forensic investigation box to conduct ultraviolet observation of suspicious objects at the scene.
He found multiple fingerprints on door frames, floors, and windows. Corresponding fingerprints were also extracted from the coffee table, teacups, and tea cups of the round table.
Lu Jinping used a digital camera to take pictures and fix them.
He then took the fingerprints and palm prints of the deceased's ten fingers, and since the deceased's arm was intact, there was no difficulty in extracting the fingerprints. Because the face of the deceased was still basically intact, a swab of the mucosa in the deceased's mouth was extracted with a cotton swab for DNA identification.
After extracting physical evidence from the periphery, he began to examine the body.
Because most of the corpse's chest and abdomen have been severely carbonized, and the internal organs have been completely charred. It became a black powder, and there was no way to dissect it, and what she needed to test was to determine the time of death of the deceased.
Originally, the main basis for judging the time of death was the temperature of the corpse, especially the liver temperature. But the liver has been completely burned out, so naturally there is no way to detect it. It mainly detects mortis. Because after most of the corpses were burned, because there was not enough blood involved, the corpse spots could not be examined, but the zombie still existed.
Judging by the fact that time has appeared, the time of death of the deceased should have been more than two hours from now. In other words, the deceased should have been killed before dawn. It would be better to obtain other evidence to further corroborate it, because there is no way to pinpoint the exact time of death at a certain moment by zombie alone.
What he needed to further examine was the condition around the deceased's burned body. Through examination, he found that there was a life response in the marginal area. In other words, the deceased should be burned alive, not burned after death.
After Lu Jinping finished the examination, he came out and asked the yamen to fill in the corpse grid and dispose of the corpse.
The rich man and the cow ** stood in the yard, their faces pale, and whispered something. I saw Lu Jinping coming. Hurry up and want to put on a smiling face. But I couldn't laugh anymore. Because there have been two tragedies in Chunhualou where large people were burned alive, I am afraid that business will definitely plummet. And this Chunhualou is a cash cow built by the rich man of Ma, and now the money has not yet been shaken, and the tree is about to be burned out, no wonder he is so sad, like a mourner.
Lu Jinping asked: "Is there a maid or an old mother around this Zhu Yunniang?" ”
The rich man said, "There are two." One is an old woman, who works as a porter at the door, and the other is her personal maid. However, Zhu Yunniang didn't like this maid very much, so she didn't ask her to wait by her side. And let her live in the outside wing, and call her again if she has something, saying that she will be a personal maid by her side when she meets her heart in the future. She had a favorite before, but unfortunately she was old, and she couldn't bear to delay others, so she gave her a promise, and her side was empty, and she never met a suitable one. ”
Lu Jinping said: "What about the two of them? ”
The rich man turned around and pointed to an old woman and a little maid who were trembling not far away, and called them over. The two of them were panicked, and their faces turned pale and gave Lu Jinping a salute. Obviously, it is estimated that they also saw Zhu Yunniang's terrifying tragic situation just now, so they were scared like this.
Lu Jinping first took the little maid to the opposite wing room for interrogation alone, and asked the old mother to wait outside the courtyard.
After the little maid entered, she knelt on the ground, her thin body trembling constantly.
Lu Jinping said: "You don't have to be afraid, I won't wronged anyone who is a bad person, unless he is really a bad person." I have some questions for you now, and you have to answer them truthfully, do you hear? ”
"If you hear it, the slave will answer truthfully."
"Very well, tell me what you saw last night? What do you hear? What's the matter with your wife? ”
As soon as she talked about last night's events, the maid was so frightened that her body began to tremble again. He said, "Last night, after you left, sir, I accompanied my wife back to the courtyard, and after serving her to wash up, she went to bed peacefully, and then the slave and maid took the door and went back to the room to sleep......
"So your lady's door isn't closed, is it?"
"Yes, because there is no personal maid by Madame's side, and if the door is bolted from the inside, I will not be able to enter, and I will be troubled if something causes me. Moreover, our yard was originally in the backyard, and there was a gatehouse in the backyard. Our courtyard also has a gatehouse, and the walls are high, and the whole compound has a watchman and a night watchman, and outsiders cannot enter. Therefore, the lady was also relieved, and there was no latch door. ”
Lu Jinping nodded and said, "You go on." ”
Later, Miss Daiqiu came, saying that she was looking for Mrs. to talk about things. said that there was something important to discuss with his wife, but I was afraid that the time to say it was relatively late, so that we didn't have to wait on the sidelines, and we would go to play if we wanted to gamble. I'm very happy, because I guess Miss Dai Qiu probably wants to please our lady and wants to whisper to our lady, give some gifts or something, and it is inconvenient for others to see it. So I went with the porter and the two of us to find someone to gamble with money, and before leaving, we closed the courtyard door and gambled until almost dawn, and everyone drank and gambled. This time I was lucky and won a lot of money, so when I came back, I fell asleep in a hurry until the previous time. Someone from the front yard wanted to talk to Mrs. about something, so we opened the courtyard door. When they went in, they saw her dead in the house, and I was so frightened when I went in and saw it. ”
Lu Jinping frowned and said, "That is to say, neither you nor the porter were in the courtyard last night. Who do you go to gamble with? Who are they? I'm going to verify. ”
The maid hurriedly told everyone who gambled together the first night. The location also said, and kowtowed again: "Master, I really didn't know that such a thing would happen, and I never thought that Miss Daiqiu would actually murder our wife." ”
Lu Jinping didn't say much, stood up and walked outside, and ordered Xiong Zhutou: "You hurry up and bring Miss Daiqiu, including her servants." ”
Without waiting for Xiong Zhutou to speak, the rich man next to him hurriedly said: "Back to the master, I have already sent someone to call, but I haven't come yet." I'm going to ask someone to urge me again. ”
Hearing this, Lu Jinping couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, secretly screamed badly, and hurriedly said, "Where does Miss Daiqiu live?" ”
"It's a hundred and ten paces away, I'll find someone to urge."
"No need, I'll go myself."
After that, Lu Jinping took the bear catcher and a few catchers under the guidance of the rich man, and hurriedly ran to the courtyard of Dai Qiu, who had just been elected as the leader of the list, not far away.
When I got closer, I found that a few turtle males were still banging on the door. One of them had already brought a ladder to the wall, and was about to turn it over. Seeing Lu Jinping and the rich man Ma coming, he hurriedly bowed down and saluted.
Lu Jinping asked, "What's going on?" Can't open the door? ”
A few turtle men said: "Yes, we didn't open it for a long time, and we couldn't see anything in the crack of the door, so we went to find a ladder and prepared to go in and have a look." ”
Lu Jinping said: "Let me come." ”
"Sir, how could such a thing allow you to come? Let someone send it. The rich man said busily on the side.
Gui Gong rushed to climb the ladder, Lu Jinping waved his hand and said, "I won't go in, I'll go up first to see the situation, if my guess is right, there should be an accident inside." ”
In fact, with such a result, even if Lu Jinping didn't say it, the people present already felt this way. Because there have been two horrific murders in Chunhualou in a row, and now a major suspect who has a major relationship with this can't knock on the door, and no one has proved that they left, so they can only be explained by accidents.
Lu Jinping grabbed the ladder with both hands and steadily climbed up the wall to look inside, and couldn't help but gasp. I saw an old woman lying on the ground in the courtyard near the door, her eyes slightly open, her tongue sticking out a small half, motionless, judging from her posture, she could conclude that she was dead.
Lu Jinping looked at the main room opposite. The door was wide open, and the body of a young girl was also lying in the doorway, lying face down with her body curled.
Lu Jinping searched around the courtyard with a calm gaze, wanting to see if there were any other suspicious signs first. He immediately found that the flower pots on both sides of the courtyard had traces of overturning, and the eaves blocked most of the main door of the house, and in the small part that could be seen, stools and tea cups were poured and smashed on the ground.
Looking closely at the old woman lying near the courtyard gate, I saw that her hair was scattered, there were obvious scratching marks on her arms and face, her clothes were also torn, and she was obviously injured in struggle. It seems that after the murderer infiltrated, there was a fierce fight.
The maid lying face down on the threshold, with the same messy clothes and hair, also conforms to this inference.
Lu Jinping hurriedly went down the stairs and said to Xiong Zhutou and Ma Caizhuo: "It seems that the porter and maid inside have been murdered, but Miss Daiqiu didn't see it, so I don't know what the situation is now." ”
Upon hearing this, the rich man Ma and the others were dumbfounded. In just one night and one day, four people have died, what kind of night is this? (To be continued......)