Jia Hanlin turned around and saw that it was a young talent, so he asked, "Who are you?" ”

Yang Qiuchi bowed and saluted: "Yang Qiuchi, Guangde County, Ningguo Mansion, was born late." ”

Yang Qiuchi even solved strange cases, and he was famous in Guangde County and even Ningguo Mansion, but in Yingtianfu in the capital, few people knew about him.

Jia Hanlin asked, "What did you just say?" You say that this Lu Xueru didn't freeze to death? ”

Yang Qiuchi nodded: "Yes, the real cause of his death should be investigated." ”

An inspection official beside Jia Hanlin reprimanded: "Bold! You are a little showman, talking nonsense here and disturbing people's hearts......" Jia Hanlin waved his hand to stop his reprimand, and asked with a pleasant face: "Yang Qiuchi, why do you think he didn't freeze to death?" ”

This Jia Hanlin didn't have the frame of a court official, and Yang Qiuchi suddenly had a good impression of him.

He didn't know that Jia Hanlin was worried about freezing to death in the examination room, for fear that people would use this matter to rectify him, saying that he was poorly organized and froze to death candidates, even if he was not held accountable, it was not good to hear it.

As soon as he heard Yang Qiuchi say that this old Xiucai might not have been frozen to death, he suddenly saw a glimmer of hope. If this person was poisoned to death by someone else, and it was not an outsider who infiltrated the examination room to commit murder, then he would not be responsible.

He is a master examiner, and he is not responsible for the detection of local criminal cases, even if this case cannot be solved, it has nothing to do with him, it is a matter of Yingtianfu Yamen.

Of course, if this old show died of illness by himself, then he would be even less responsible.

Therefore, this Jia Hanlin was very interested in Yang Qiuchi's statement that this old Xiucai did not freeze to death.

Yang Qiuchi bowed down and said, "The reason why the late student thinks that this old talent Lu Xueru is not frozen to death is because ...... Because people who freeze to death will take off their clothes themselves. ”

As soon as Yang Qiuchi's words came out, it immediately attracted a lot of discussion among the onlookers.

An inspection official behind Jia Hanlin couldn't help but shout: "What nonsense! People who freeze to death are afraid of the cold, so they will only wrap their clothes tightly around their bodies, but they are afraid that there are too few clothes, so how can they take off their clothes? If you talk nonsense here again, you will immediately take down the punishment ......"

Jia Hanlin glared back at the inspection, and snorted heavily in his nostrils. The inspector quickly shut up and lowered his head.

Seeing that the main examiner was angry, all the candidates didn't dare to talk anymore and quietly listened to Jia Hanlin's questioning.

Jia Hanlin asked Yang Qiuchi: "Is there any basis for what you say?" Have you ever seen someone who froze to death? ”

Although Ming Chengzu was brutal, during his reign, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and there was no major famine and turmoil, although it was not as peaceful and prosperous as Tang Taizong, but it was also very good. Therefore, it is still difficult for ordinary people to see the situation of freezing to death during this period.

The abnormal undressing phenomenon of people who freeze to death as mentioned by Yang Qiuchi exists, because before the death of a person who freezes to death, after encountering cold stimulation, the body's adrenal gland secretion is enhanced, and the increase in adrenaline and adrenocorticosteroid will make people have the illusion of heat and take off their clothes.

In addition, in a low-temperature environment, human blood vessels and thermoregulatory centers are inhibited, causing muscle blood vessels to dilate due to paralysis, and dilating blood vessels to fill the skin surface with higher temperature blood, so that people are numb to cold stimuli on the one hand, and on the other hand, people will feel heat, so this abnormal undressing phenomenon will also occur.

When some people who freeze to death are found, their whole body **, especially the female surname, will make people mistakenly think that they have been robbed or violated by others, in fact, these clothes are taken off by the frozen people themselves before they die.

When Yang Qiuchi answered this question just now, he originally wanted to explain it like this, but he immediately found that if he said this, not only would others not understand, but he would think that there was something wrong with his head and he was talking nonsense, and no one would listen to his words later, but it would be counterproductive.

Just when he was thinking about how to explain this kind of modern medical problem in layman's words, Jia Hanlin's words reminded him, and he hurriedly followed Jia Hanlin's words and said: "Exactly, when he was a child, his family was poor, and he used to be a junior apprentice for a period of time, but he was not naturalized, and he once investigated the corpse of a person who froze to death with his master, so he knows, as for why this is so, he doesn't know much about it, but he saw that people who froze to death often have this situation, so he said it rashly, Please forgive me for the sin of being born late and abrupt. ”

Jia Hanlin said to the invigilator behind him: "Check Yang Gongzi's resume to see if it is true." ”

The invigilator hurriedly took a thick registration book from his entourage, flipped through it and searched it, and quickly found Yang Qiuchi's registration, looked at it, and said, "The record is indeed so. This inspection took a few more looks, was slightly surprised, and said: "This Yang Xiucai is the regular supervisor of the donated national superintendent." ”

As soon as these words came out, the talented people who were watching the excitement suddenly became a voice of discussion, and some even looked at Yang Qiuchi with disdain, as if in modern society, the top students in key middle schools looked at a poor student who entered a key middle school through the back door.

During the Ming Dynasty, the students of Guozijian who became "donating prisons" by donating money and property, although they could participate in the township examination, were considered "miscellaneous", and even if they could be admitted to the Jinshi, their status was low. Therefore, those talents who have passed the children's examination one by one, for people like Yang Qiuchi who use money to obtain examination qualifications, they not only envy others for having money, but also despise others for not being educated.

Jia Hanlin sighed, looked Yang Qiuchi up and down, and originally wanted to ask him if he was so poor that he should be an apprentice, how could he be so rich all of a sudden, and even the regular supervisor could afford to donate, but the ancients were more taboo to ask about people's financial resources, especially the literati who were learned and self-assured.

Since Yang Qiuchi used to be an apprentice and did have experience in this area, Jia Hanlin had already believed what Yang Qiuchi had just said, and asked, "Since it didn't freeze to death, how did it die?" That's what he's most concerned about.

Yang Qiuchi bowed down and said, "If the adults allow it, the late life is willing to examine the corpse." ”

Jia Hanlin nodded in agreement.

Yang Qiuchi came to the door of this room, did not rush to enter first, and stood at the door to carefully observe the situation inside. This room was exactly the same as his own, with a brick and wood structure, and a small window on the wall in the back, on which the oiled paper was intact.

Yang Qiuchi asked while observing, "After discovering that this old Xiucai died, who came in?" ”

didn't hear an answer, Yang Qiuchi looked back, and the inspectors were looking at him with disdain, and didn't answer, as if to say that you have the qualifications to ask us questions as a small Guozi prison student, not to mention that it is still a regular prison who donated money to get the qualifications.

Yang Qiuchi's heart was on fire, thinking that this old show died in the examination room about my shit, what do I do with this idle thing if I eat too much, why bother with a hot face and stick to your cold ass, shit! Leave! Yang Qiuchi walked out with a cold face.

That Jia Hanlin sighed: "Young Master Yang, why are you leaving?" ”

Yang Qiuchi said coldly: "These inspection masters don't like me, why should I make people trouble here, and I don't care about my business." "Step by step.

"Childe, please stay!" Jia Hanlin said, turned to those inspectors and said: "It's a matter of human life, this Yang Gongzi was invited by the official to conduct an autopsy, and whoever doesn't answer Yang Gongzi's question seriously will not give the official face!" ”

The inspectors looked at each other, lowered their heads and chattered.

Yang Qiuchi turned around and walked back, and asked again: "Who found the body first?" ”

An invigilator replied, "I found out first." Although he answered, the words were still full of officialdom.

"Tell me about it." Yang Qiuchi was also not polite, thinking that Lao Tzu was the special envoy of the Jinyi Guard, this was personally appointed by the emperor by promulgating the holy decree, how old are you, a small sesame official? Besides, the examiner just said in public that he asked me to help investigate the case, and the people involved in the case inspection, whether you are a senior official or an ordinary person, have to answer the questions honestly for me. Since you're welcome, why should I be polite to you?

The inspection was a little surprised, he was sent by the imperial court to assist the chief examiner in organizing this exam, and he was also a tasteful court official, this Yang Qiuchi was just a common man, and he dared to call him "you", and his tone was quite unpolite, and he was about to get angry.

Jia Hanlin snorted coldly, and the inspection quickly forcibly suppressed the fire in his stomach, and said: "After the exam, I opened the number room next to each other, and found that this old Xiucai was curled up on the ground motionless, I thought he was asleep, and walked in to call him, only to find that he was dead, I quickly ran out, and the other two adults of the inspection also went in to check, and confirmed that he was dead." Except for the three of us, only the one who came later has ever been there. ”

"Was this old talent Lu Xueru good when he went in?"

Another inspector recalled and said, "It's fine, but when I searched to see if there was any entrainment, I remember that his whole body trembled slightly, saying that he had a severe headache." Nothing else was found. ”

Headaches, shivering? Yang Qiuchi frowned, walked to the door of the room, and continued to observe.

When the candidates for the imperial examination entered the room, the inspection officials had to lock the room from the outside, and the inspection examination searched everywhere, and there was no sign of outsiders invading the room. From this point of view, there is almost no possibility that this old Xiucai was infiltrated and killed by outsiders.

Yang Qiuchi then stepped into the number room. The furnishings in this room are similar to those of his own, a long bookcase, a low stool, and a brazier.

When Yang Qiuchi saw the brazier, he immediately thought, could it be that he died of carbon monoxide poisoning? Walked over and squatted down to look at the brazier, then reached out and touched it, shook his head, no, this brazier is cold, there has never been a fire at all.

There were a few pieces of manuscript paper on the table, and they had just been half-written, when the brush fell to the ground, and a thin layer of ice had formed on the edge of the ink in the inkstone.

Yang Qiuchi carefully avoided the places where there might be footprints on the ground, came to the corpse, and found that there was a stall of vomit on the ground at the corner of this old Xiucai's mouth, and his heart moved, could it be that the surname of the food source was poisoned?

There was nothing suspicious on the ground other than the vomit.

Yang Qiuchi squatted down to observe the face of the deceased, and saw that there was no bitter smile characteristic of the frozen dead, which further showed that he was not frozen to death.

I rolled my eyelids and looked at it, but I didn't find any bleeding points of suffocation; When the lips were opened, it was found that the deceased had mouth sores at the corners of his mouth and on the inside of his lips. In addition, the oral gums are also more red and swollen. It seems that this Lu Xueru had a heavy internal fire during his lifetime.

Yang Qiuchi grabbed the deceased's hand and looked at it, there was frostbite on the outer palm edge of the palm, but the degree was relatively mild, less than the second grade, and the ears were also there. Yang Qiuchi put his hand into the corpse's arms, touched the corpse's armpit, there was still a slight residual temperature, and nodded.

The corpse's clothes and pants were stripped and examined from head to toe showed no external injuries, and a careful examination of the neck and other places found no subcutaneous bleeding or epidermal abrasions.

The corpse spots and zombies in the lower part of the corpse had just begun to appear, and the time of death should have been around two hours.

Yang Qiuchi got up and walked out of the door, and said to Jia Hanlin: "My lord, after a preliminary examination of the late students, this old Xiucai did not freeze to death. ”

Jia Hanlin was overjoyed and asked, "How can you see it?" ”

"Lord Huiyu: Although this room is relatively simple, the seal is still good, the cold wind outside is difficult to penetrate, and although it is relatively cold in the room, it has not yet reached the point of freezing to death in a short time."

Speaking of this, Yang Qiuchi looked at the talents watching around and said: "Many of the Xiucai referred to today have not bought charcoal to make a fire, and some of them are old people, maybe they have frostbite on their hands and feet, but they are half frozen to death, I'm afraid they don't, right?" ”

The onlookers nodded in agreement.

"Wansheng checked Lu Xueru's hands and feet, and found that there were also frostbite, but there was no serious frostbite, if he was frozen to death, the degree of frostbite on his hands and feet should be very serious. The late life tested the temperature under the armpit of the corpse with his hands, and there was still residual temperature, and if he froze to death, this would not have happened. ”

The normal body temperature of a person is 36 degrees, if it is frozen to death, the body temperature must be at least below 25 degrees, at this time the body temperature center fails, the person will fall into a coma, the reflex will disappear, the heartbeat, respiratory depression, in this case it is difficult to reverse the recovery, freezing death is possible.

There is no thermometer to measure, so Yang Qiuchi can only feel the body temperature with his hands, and after detection, it was found that the drop in body temperature of this old Xiucai is consistent with the general cold situation of corpses, and there is no obvious sharp drop in body temperature like freezing to death.

(To be continued)