Chapter 307: River Mud in the Fingernails

Song Yun'er asked strangely, "What are you asking them to fetch water back for?" ”

"Didn't I just say it, let's test it further."

"Huh? How to check, I'll see if it's okay? ”

Yang Qiuchi shook his head: "No." I thought to myself, let alone let him see his beakers, test tubes, centrifuges, and various reagents, as long as she showed her the world in the microscope and the microscope, she might be stupid. That's going to be a mess in the world.

"Humph! I'm not unusual! Song Yun'er said with a pretty face.

Yang Qiuchi smiled, returned to the corpse, squatted down, and carefully examined the thin iron chain tied around the deceased's neck, thoughtfully, and then took off the iron chain and put it away.

After the investigation was completed, Yang Qiuchi instructed Master Jin to supervise the corpse and fill in the corpse grid, and then asked the servants to transport the corpse back to the yamen mortuary for storage, and he took Song Yuner back to the yamen first.

Back in the Yamen, Yang Qiuchi locked himself in the study, just like when he was in Qingxi County, in this Yamen of the Prefecture of Bazhou, Yang Qiuchi also built a study into his own forensic studio, which was locked and no one was allowed to enter.

Although it has been almost a year since Yang Qiuchi crossed over to the Ming Dynasty, his consumables such as forensic reagents have not been significantly reduced, because the truckload of materials that came with him, except for the DNA physical evidence testing equipment and poison analysis equipment that were smashed under the boulder, the rest are still intact and still stored in the large aluminum alloy cabinet.

Before Yang Qiuchi crossed the Ming Dynasty, he was responsible for assisting the Tibet aid task to assist the public security department in Ali District, Tibetan Province to establish a regular forensic physical evidence testing center, so the truck carried a large number of easily consumable forensic inquest supplies and brought them to the Ming Dynasty, which was not only enough for him to solve the case for decades, but also had a perfect package, and theoretically it would not be broken (YY's needs).

In addition, in addition to a lot of hairs and pictures, there are also several commonly used forensic inquest software. He also has a high-power solar battery, which is specially designed to provide electricity for rural surveys in the Ali region of Tibetan province, and is now more than enough to charge his computer and miniature digital camera. Of course, for the sake of YY's needs, these are not bad.

Yang Qiuchi examined the deceased's teeth and was very fortunate to find diatoms from the deceased's teeth, and determined the type and number of diatoms.

When the trappers returned, they reported that they had found no traces of value, only water samples from various places in the upper reaches of the Ba River.

After testing and comparison, Yang Qiuchi was very frustrated, and none of the water-like diatoms were the same as those in the deceased's teeth.

Strange, could it be that the dead floated down from ten miles away? No, Yang Qiuchi observed the flow of water in this section of the Ba River, and the deceased had a stone tied around his neck, and the distance left behind in two days would definitely not exceed ten miles, so why did the water samples within ten miles not find the same or even very similar?

Yang Qiuchi groaned slightly, and immediately knew the reason, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly: This Ba River is flowing, and the water is still relatively turbulent, so the diatoms in the water area are constantly changing due to the flow of water.

Such sampling comparison is generally used in reservoirs, lakes and other waters where the water flow is relatively stationary, so as to determine the location of the water. A fast-flowing river is not suitable, and in a hurry, such a simple thing is ignored.

figured out this reason, but Yang Qiuchi was not happy at all, since the water sample could not be tested for diatoms to determine the location of the fall, how to find the place of the fall?

River mud! Yang Qiuchi's head only turned half a circle before he thought of a solution. The mud in the fingernails of the deceased's fingers was used for testing, and then the mud within 10 miles upstream was extracted for composition comparison testing, and the approximate location of the water could also be found.

I thought of a solution, but another problem came out again, I don't have soil testing equipment in my hand, how to detect it?

Yang Qiuchi's brows furrowed, and after thinking about it, he decided to first conduct a microscopic observation of the river mud in the fingernails of the deceased to see if anything was found.

He went to the mortuary and extracted the inlays from the nails of the deceased's ten fingers and brought them back for microscopic observation.

After observation, Yang Qiuchi found some small white spots, and when you look closely, they don't look like small white stones.

What is it? White, Yang Qiuchi remembered the famous ancient poem: "Don't be afraid of broken bones, you must leave your innocence in the world." "Is it lime? Yang Qiuchi hurriedly came out and ordered the catchers to extract some lime, and after soaking it in water for a while, he extracted a small point for microscopic observation. Sure enough, it was very similar to the small white dot particles in the nails of the deceased!

It's lime!

Lime? Could it be that there are lime kilns in the upper reaches of the Ba River? The deceased fell into the water near the lime kiln?

Yang Qiuchi hurriedly called the yamen adjutant to ask, and sure enough, there was a lime kiln in a place called Liuli Village not far from the upper reaches.

Yang Qiuchi ordered to set off to the lime kiln immediately. Song Yun'er was surprised and asked, "Did you find the trace of the criminal so quickly?" ”

"No trace of the culprit was found, only the place where the deceased could have fallen into the water. Let's take a look now and see if we find anything. ”

Yang Qiuchi instructed Chen Zuo to bring the deceased's clothes and the sweat towel in his pocket, and took the two sisters, Shuang'er and Xue'er, Song Yun'er, and their personal guards and catchers, and went up the Ba River upstream.

After walking for five or six miles, I saw a lime kiln by the river. Yang Qiuchi looked around the river carefully, but did not find anything unusual.

Looking upstream, I saw a village not far away, lined with green trees, and there were lush bamboo forests on the hill above the village, all over the hillside, becoming a green bamboo sea, which was very attractive.

Yang Qiuchi and the others went straight to this Liuli Village. When I entered the entrance of the village, I heard the cry of a woman in the village, and my heart moved, and I told the catcher to call the village Lizheng quickly.

The name of the village is Su Renfu, and when he knew that it was Lord Zhizhou who came, he was very frightened, trotted over, and bowed down.

Yang Qiuchi asked, "What is that woman in the village crying about?" ”

Su Li said: "His man went to Bazhou City to sell cattle the day before yesterday, and he never came back, she took the child to the city cattle market to look for it, but she didn't find it." ”

Yang Qiuchi said to Su Lizheng: "You go and call that woman." ”

"Yes!" Su Li Zheng agreed, turned and trotted into the village, and after a while, a peasant woman followed Su Li and walked briskly. It was followed by some villagers watching the excitement.

The woman came to Yang Qiuchi and knelt down and kowtowed.

"What's your name?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

"The Folk Woman Wu Clan." The peasant woman sobbed.

"Your husband has been out for two days and hasn't returned, right?"

"Yes, the woman asked the people in the cattle and horse market in the city, and they all said that they saw him finish selling his cattle the evening before yesterday, took his money bag, ate and drank some wine, and left, but he has not returned until now, and I am afraid that he will ...... Even...... Woowoo"

Yang Qiuchi took the deceased's sweat towel from the hand of the deceased and said to the Wu family: "Look at it, do you know this sweat towel?" ”

Wu raised his head, looked at the sweat towel in Yang Qiuchi's hand, suddenly shook his whole body, pounced, carefully took the sweat towel, turned it over and looked at it, and finally, stared at the small word "Li" on the corner, and said in a trembling voice: "Yes...... It's my husband's ......, and this character was embroidered for him by his wife. My husband, my husband, ...... Did something happen to him? ”

Yang Qiuchi turned his head and gestured towards Yan Zuo. Na Yanzuo handed the deceased's clothes to Wu, and after Wu saw it, he was even more shocked: "It's my husband's clothes, he ...... What the hell happened to him? ”

Yang Qiuchi sighed, what he didn't like the most was to tell the family of the deceased the bad news, he was afraid to see the desperate eyes of the family of the deceased.

Master Jin replied for Yang Qiuchi: "Your husband has drowned, and the body is parked in the mortuary of the yamen. ”

The whole Wu family was stupid, shook, rolled his eyes up, fell to the ground softly, and passed out.

Song Yun'er hurriedly stepped forward, unbuttoned her collar, and pinched her. It took a long time for the Wu family to wake up slowly, lying on the ground and crying.

At this time, two children ran out of the lively crowd, shouting for their mothers, and pounced on Wu's body. The three of them hugged and cried together.

Su Lizheng had already asked the people in the village to bring a Taishi chair, put it under a huge osmanthus tree at the entrance of the village not far away, and set up herbal tea, and then nodded and asked Yang Qiuchi to sit over and ask about the case.

The head above her head was hot, and the two little girls Shuang'er and Xue'er were sweating behind Yang Qiuchi and fanning hard. Since the last time he sang to Shange in Miao Village, Yang Qiuchi likes to take care of the twin sisters when he goes out, and of course he brought the investigation this time.

Yang Qiuchi thought that the two sisters were not cool enough, so he took out a folding fan and fanned it, but his head was still smoked by the poisonous head. Now after listening to Su Lizheng's words, he glanced at the osmanthus tree, nodded happily, gestured to Song Yun'er, and then walked to the Taishi chair under the osmanthus tree and sat down.

This osmanthus tree is really comfortable in the shade, and Shuang'er and Xue'er also breathed a sigh of relief, wiped a handful of sweat, and gently fanned Yang Qiuchi.

Yang Qiuchi saw that Shuang'er's face was hot and red, and the sweat wet the hair on his forehead, so he stretched out his fan and fanned her, Shuang'er's face turned even redder, and Xue'er glanced at each other, and said with a smile: "Master, don't do this, our little girl can't afford it." ”

Yang Qiuchi was about to say a few words, when he saw Song Yun'er supporting the crying peasant woman to come this way, he put away his smiling face, turned around, and motioned for Su Li to take a stool for the peasant woman to sit down.

(To be continued)