It has been several days since the Bai family left Guangde County, and the town has returned to its former calm.

On this day, Yang Qiuchi was sitting in the class room bored, and suddenly faintly heard the crying from the felon's cell, and the voice seemed to be Long Zixu, and he hurriedly asked Da Banya what was going on. Da Banya told Yang Qiuchi that the above mansion had approved Long Zixu's capital crime and would report it to Ying Tianfu. Long Zixu took another step closer to the execution ground, and when Long Zixu learned the news, he was crying in the prison.

Yang Qiuchi frowned, after the last time he felt that his murder case was a bit strange, he didn't ask about Bai Qian's proposal to marry him, anyway, he was idle now, and decided to take a look. Yang Qiuchi came to Long Zixu's cell with big teeth, and saw that he was lying on the ground in the cell crying bitterly, and when he saw Yang Qiuchi coming in, he got up and knelt on the ground, and kowtowed again and again: "Master Yang, please, save me." I really didn't kill my wife, I was wronged. ”

Yang Qiuchi didn't know how many times he had heard him say this, and now he said it again, a little upset: "Okay, okay, you said that you were wronged, and you can't give evidence that you didn't kill your wife." How can you tell me to help you? ”

When Long Zixu heard this, he was even more desperate, kowtowed, and cried out to cry out for wrongdoing.

Yang Qiuchi thought that there was nothing to do, and when he heard him talk about how to pervert the law, he said: "Don't cry, let's do it, you tell me about your mother's disappearance, I'll listen, what are you wronged." ”

Long Zixu wiped a handful of tears, nodded, and said with a sob: "At about this time last year, one day when I came back from outside, my mother was gone, and I searched everywhere but couldn't find it. At the beginning of this year, they dug up a white skeleton from my neighbor's vegetable field, and they arrested me, and found a washing stick from my house, and found blood on it, saying that I had beaten my wife to death with this wooden stick. - I was beaten into a trick, I really didn't kill my wife. ”

Yang Qiuchi always felt that there was something wrong with what he said, frowned and thought for a moment, but he still couldn't find anything wrong, and decided to sort out the plot again: "Your lady disappeared in early winter last year, right?" ”

Long Zixu nodded.

"And when did they find the white skeleton?"

"It's spring this year."

"Oh~! Understood......, what? Spring this year? You say what they found was a white skeleton? Yang Qiuchi asked.

"Yes, the one who caught me to see it was a white skeleton." Long Zixu didn't know why Yang Qiuchi asked like this.

"A skeleton of bones with no meat at all?"

Long Zixu nodded again. I still don't understand why Yang Qiuchi asked like this.

The big plate on the side also said: "It is indeed a white bone, many people went to see it at that time, and I also went to see the excitement, it was a white bone, no meat, no clothes, it may have been stripped and buried." ”

Yang Qiuchi's face became grim, and after thinking about it, he asked, "Is your lady really missing in early winter last year?" You're not mistaken, right? ”

"I remember correctly, it was already very cold at that time, in order to make winter clothes, we also quarreled, the family had so much money, not enough to buy rice, she had to make a new padded jacket, I didn't agree, so I quarreled, she also scratched my face, and the neighbor came to persuade the fight to pull it away. A few days later, she disappeared. ”

Yang Qiuchi stood up, walked around the cell, suddenly stopped, turned around and asked, "Where is that corpse?" ”

Da Banya said: "I heard that it seems that the family of the talented lady took it back and buried it." ”

"Buried? Where is it buried? ”

"I don't know." Big Panya said.

Long Zixu also shook his head.

"What else is left of this case besides the bones? Such as relics, murder weapons, and so on. ”

Da Panya said: "Yang Ye, I really don't know, I just went to see the excitement at that time, and I heard that there was only a skeleton dug up, and there were not even any remaining clothes." This murder weapon, by the way, Xiucai, what did you use to kill your mother? ”

Long Zixu cried and shouted: "Master, I really didn't kill my wife!" ”

"Okay, okay, you didn't kill it, I killed it, okay? Then what did they say I killed your lady with? Looks like you just said what kind of laundry stick, right? ”

Long Zixu wept and said: "They put a stick on me, I can't stand it before I admit it." But I really don't have it~! ”

"Didn't you just say that they found blood on the laundry stick, you didn't hit your lady, so how can there be blood on the laundry stick?"

"That'...... That's ......" Long Zixu wanted to speak and stopped, looked at Yang Qiuchi and Da Banya, hesitated for a while, and then lowered his head and whispered: "That's me, I really didn't have anything to eat, so I used the laundry stick to secretly kill a little pig in the neighbor's house, and took it home to eat, so there was blood." ”

Yang Qiuchi frowned and asked, "Did you say this in the lobby?" ”

Long Zixu shook his head, his face full of shame: "I am a scholar, this matter is insulting to Sven, I ...... I'm embarrassed to say. ”

Are you still embarrassed about losing your head? Yang Qiuchi couldn't cry or laugh, no wonder, no matter how knowledgeable a person is, when he is hungry, he may not be able to resist the temptation of food. Turning his head and asking Big Panya, "What about the laundry stick?" ”

Big Panya said: "Since it is a murder weapon, it should be in a small room next to the mortuary, where these murder weapons and other things are specially stacked." ”

Yang Qiuchi said to Long Zixu: "Don't cry first, I'll go check your case." Then he hurried out of his cell. Long Zixu kowtowed in the back to thank him.

Yang Qiuchi came to the small room next to the mortuary, when he was an apprentice in the past, he had the keys to several rooms in the mortuary in his hand, but Song Zhixian didn't let him hand it back. Yang Qiuchi opened the door, rummaged through a pile of murder weapons, and found a one-foot-long wooden stick from more than a dozen wooden sticks, with a piece of paper pasted on it, which read, "The murder weapon in the murder of Long Zixu's wife." ”

Yang Qiuchi took the wooden stick out of the room and looked at it carefully, and sure enough, there were obvious dark red marks on the wooden stick, which looked like blood stains.

Yang Qiuchi took the wooden stick home, entered his forensic office, and closed the door. A blood sample from the wooden stick was taken and then a species test of the blood stains was conducted. The results came out, and the blood stains on the sticks were not human blood!

Yang Qiuchi's brows were tightly locked. He walked back and forth in the room, thinking, and only then did Long Zixu say that his mother disappeared in early winter last year, and this white bone was found in the spring and summer of this year, with an interval of only half a year.

Herein lies the problem: according to the climate of Guangde, it is impossible for a corpse buried in the ground to turn into white bones in half a year!

The rate at which a corpse decays is closely related to its surroundings, generally speaking, corpses decompose fastest when exposed to air, followed by water and soil. The general ratio is 1:2:8. In other words, if a corpse is exposed to the ground and exposed to the air and it takes two months to decompose into a white bone, it will take a year and a half for a corpse buried in the soil to turn into a white bone under the same conditions.

The rate of decay of the corpse buried in the soil varies according to the quality of the soil, the depth of burial, whether the coffin is used, the quality of the coffin, and the seasonal factors of burial.

Of course, if the climate is sultry, the geothermal heat is dissipated slowly, and the soil temperature is high, the time for white ossification is shorter, and in some places in the south with a hot climate, the corpse buried in summer can be ossified in less than half a year.

The climate in Guangde County is moderate, and the winter is relatively cold, and according to the climate here, Yang Qiuchi judged that if the body is buried directly in the soil, it will take at least two years or more before it can be completely ossified. And Long Zixu's lady disappeared in early winter, if it was buried in the soil at that time, Guangde would have a cold climate in winter, and the corpse would be much slower to decay. And the burial site is a vegetable field, which is often watered, so even in summer, the temperature of the soil should be relatively low, so in this case, the time of white ossification will be longer, and after half a year of digging out, most of it should not have rotted, and it is absolutely impossible to turn into white bones.

Therefore, this white bone cannot be Long Zixu's lady! This white bone should have died and been buried in this vegetable field a year and a half before Long Zixu's mother disappeared!

Long Zixu said that the laundry stick was the blood he used to steal and kill the neighbor's piglets, and the bloodstain species test carried out by Yang Qiuchi was to test whether the blood stains were human blood or animal blood, and after inspection, Long Zixu's statement was confirmed.

The case of Long Zixu's murder of his wife turned out to be a wrong case!

Who is this white bone? To find out this problem, an open coffin autopsy must first be conducted.

However, the opening of the coffin and the autopsy is not so simple, especially in the Ming Dynasty, where feudal etiquette and religion were very prosperous, if it is not good, it must cause public outrage.

If in modern society, just the time of ossification is inconsistent with the time of the victim's death, you can open the coffin for an autopsy, but now use this thing to persuade Song Zhixian to overturn his own capital verdict half a year ago and open the coffin for an autopsy, he will not do it, and others will not believe it.

The most convincing thing is to find Long Zixu's wife! If you can't find his wife, everything will be in vain. Only when his wife is found, Song Zhixian and others will believe that this white bone is not Long Zixu's wife, and only in this way will Song Zhixian have to overturn his own verdict and re-examine the case, and will allow the coffin to be opened for autopsy.

But Long Zixu's wife has been missing for a year, where can I find it?

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