It's a bit abstract to say this, Xiong Zhutou smiled innocently and said, "Lord Lu, you know a lot, I thought you were good at medical treatment." By the way, you are so skilled in medicine, why don't you go to the doctor and teach in the hospital, but you prefer to take care of the medicinal materials warehouse? It's incomprehensible. ”

Lu Jinping said: "We don't have time to talk about that now. The shorter the time to solve the case, the less time is left for the criminal to cover up and destroy the evidence. At the same time, it can also reduce many natural causes of detection obstacles and problems. Such as corpses** and so on. We don't have time to talk about why I'm going to be a storekeeper right now. ”

Xiong Zhutou even claimed: "Then let's start, what do we do first?" ”

Lu Jinping glared at him: "Haven't you thought of any other way than to arrest people and torture them?" ”

"Uh, is there any other way?" Xiong asked wryly.

Lu Jinping was made to laugh and cry by his answer, shook his head and said, "Okay, I'll tell you how to do it!" -- Let's first ask Zhou Yuanwai to find out how his son-in-law died, let's conduct an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death, and then let's go to the first scene of death, that is, the widow's winery, to conduct an on-site investigation. ――Why did you dismantle the corpse before you went? Because the autopsy is objective evidence, and then questioning, you can find out whether what the relevant personnel said is different from the autopsy, whether it is possible to conceal or distort the facts, and can lock down important suspects according to these. ”

"Great, then we can arrest them and torture them, and find out who did it."

Lu Jinping sighed and shook his head, he had a feeling of surrender in the face of this Xiong Catcher who could only torture to extract confessions. There was only one simple request: "If you really want me to help you, don't mention torture." I'll tell you what to do. ”

Xiong Zhutou nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay, everything depends on the lord." ”

"Then hurry up and invite Zhou Yuanwai, let's ask him what happened here. I've already asked about it, on the one hand, to let you know what happened, and at the same time I have some details that I need to verify with him. ”

Xiong Zhutou immediately sent the catcher to call Zhou Yuanwai in. The bear catcher asked him to tell him what had happened.

Zhou Yuanwai said: "That day, my son-in-law went out after dinner in the evening, saying that he was going to drink. He likes to go out and drink, so I don't bother to pay attention to him. I didn't expect him to come back overnight, and I didn't know about this until the next day. Otherwise, I'll send someone to look for him the night before. My daughter slept alone because she was about to give birth, and I didn't know that he didn't come back at night. He went out without an entourage. So, the next morning the widow ran to say that he was dead, and we learned that he had not returned all night, and that he had died in the bedroom of the widow's winery! ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yuanwai took a breath before he continued: "When I arrived there, my son-in-law was lying on the floor of the widow's bedroom, lying on his stomach, and there were several puddles of messy vomit on the ground. Widow Chang said that the first person to find the body was Liu Laoer, who was also drinking at her wine shop that night. According to both of them, my son-in-law drank with the two of them all night and played dice until about four watches, and my son-in-law was so drunk that he couldn't get up and refused to go home. The two of them had no choice but to carry him to bed in the back room. Then, the widow went to sleep in another room, and Liu Lao Er was too drunk to fall asleep on the couch in the hall of the wine shop. When he woke up, it was almost dawn, and he went to see my son-in-law, and found my son-in-law lying motionless on the ground under the bed, and was already dead. That's the way it is. ”

Lu Jinping asked Zhou Yuanwai: "When you went, did you see anything like a rope ribbon around your son-in-law's neck or on the ground?" ”

Zhou Yuanwai thought for a while and said, "I just went to check on my son-in-law's condition, but there must be nothing on his neck, otherwise I would have doubted it." I didn't pay attention to whether there was any on the ground, because there was a mess on the ground, so I didn't pay attention to whether there were ropes and ribbons on the ground. ”

Lu Jinping asked: "Where was the body at that time?" ”

Zhou Yuanwai said while gesturing: "It's at the head of the bed, next to the head of the bed, it is estimated that he fell down after he got up." However, the lord said that he was strangled to death, so I don't know. ”

"Was your son-in-law wearing clothes at the time?"

Zhou Yuanwai said: "What he wore was the same dress he wore that day, it was a round-necked robe with a pair of bloomers inside, but the pants were worn backwards." This kid must be so drunk that he doesn't even know that his pants are worn backwards. The place to tie the trouser belt went behind the buttocks. ”

In fact, the pants in ancient times can't talk about the front and back, because they are straight pants with a hanging crotch, the front and back are exactly the same, and the only difference is the position of the trouser belt. The place where the knot is tied is the front, and if the position of the knot is in the back, it can be said that it is reversed.

Lu Jinping thought for a while and said, "As far as you know, is there a relationship between your son-in-law and Widow Feng?" ”

Zhou Yuanwai shook his head affirmatively and said, "This, I believe there is not." Because my tutor is still very strict. Although this kid is good at drinking and greedy for glasses, he still has affection for my daughter, otherwise my daughter would not be sad to be like that, she can't eat or sleep for a few days and nights, so she has a difficult birth. So I'm sure he wouldn't have that kind of thing with the widow. As for rubbing oil or something, there may be. Men, when they are drunk, they are almost all virtuous. ”

Lu Jinping smiled, feeling that what Zhou Yuanwai said was not unreasonable. Judging from the way his daughter has not been sad and sad for tea and dinner in the past few days, it should be seen that the relationship between their husband and wife is still very deep, at least on the surface, or the feeling for his daughter is like this, he is a good husband.

After asking, Lu Jinping told Zhou Yuanwai that he could quit.

Afterwards, Lu Jinping said to Xiong Zhutou: "Since you don't know how to perform an autopsy, then I'll do it." ”

"Okay, I'll leave everything to Lord Lu."

"Previously I had only done a physical examination of his head, face and neck, but now I have to do a full physical examination and, if necessary, an autopsy to determine the true cause of his death. It is important to determine what causes the death, as some deaths are due to multiple causes. It is necessary to determine the proportion of the murderer's actions that resulted in the death, and ultimately how much responsibility he should bear. ”

This explanation made Xiong Zhutou confused, and he knew about the causality of these criminal laws and the allocation of criminal responsibility for multiple causes and effects. All he wants is the murderer, and the rest is the matter of the judge.

However, one of the responsibilities of modern forensic medicine is to determine the cause of death and the extent of the perpetrator's causal power in the case of multiple causes, which is the scope of forensic medicine. So Lu Jinping said a little deeper, of course Xiong Zhutou couldn't understand these modern forensic questions.

Lu Jinping saw that he was dazed, so he didn't explain anymore, and asked the few servants to come over, one of them was responsible for filling in the corpse grid, and the rest helped to take off the clothes on the corpse, put the corpse on its back on a soft couch, and then began to conduct a body surface examination from head to toe.

After re-examination of the head, face and neck, there were no new findings other than a faint strangulation mark on the right front side of the neck.

When he examined his ribs, he couldn't help but sigh. - There was a bruise on the right side of the chest of the corpse. Lu Jinping said to the recorded work: "There is an epidermal contusion on the right rib, which is estimated to be a blunt force injury from the appearance. There is a possibility of rib fracture and anatomical verification is required. ”

Xiong Zhutou was stunned for a moment, and stammered: "Anatomy? Who will dissect? Turning his head to look at the men, "Which of you will dissect a corpse?" ”

Several of them shook their heads together, their expressions very frightened.

Unlike the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Tang Dynasty strictly forbade autopsies, believing that it was a felony for destroying corpses and punishing heavy punishments. Before the Song Dynasty, autopsies could be performed. Most of the ancient Chinese understanding of the structure of the human body comes from the practice of autopsy in the Tang and Song dynasties. After the Ming and Qing dynasties were banned, the development of this knowledge was very slow, which is why Chinese forensic knowledge and surgical medicine basically stagnated during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Of course, autopsies were not carried out on a large scale during the Tang and Song dynasties, and were mainly concentrated on some experienced and innovative people in the Yamen. It's just that these few works in front of me are not among them.