"Isn't this Mrs. Tao? How could her daughter be killed? ”

"I heard that Miss Tao looks like a fairy, but I don't know who was so vicious that she killed Miss Tao!"

"Look, the adults are gone, let's go and join in the fun."

……

When the onlookers heard that there was a murder, they immediately became interested, and they followed them one after another, walking towards Shilipo.

Shilipo is located in the south of Zhengyang City, it is said that the slope is actually a low-lying land, because there is a river meandering from it nearby, Shilipo grows a lot of shrubs.

When Kang Xu and Xiao Wu arrived, Chang Feng was leading a group of officials to carefully search the surrounding bushes.

On the grass near the river, there was a soaking female corpse, and next to the female corpse sat an old man with a withered appearance.

The old man was dressed in silk brocade, and his face was haggard and painful.

Seeing Kang Xu coming, he hurriedly greeted him and arched his hand: "Little old man Tao leisurely, I have seen the county commander." ”

"Tao Gong doesn't have to be polite." Kang Xu nodded and said.

The Tao family is a big family in Zhengyang City, and unlike Zuo Hongji, Zuo Hongji's family has a lot of money, but he has no power to rely on, so he was used by Wang Buquan.

The Tao family is different, the Tao family is a big local family, not to mention that Tao Youran also has a son, who is an official in Beijing, and the official is a bachelor of Hanlin.

Therefore, even Wang Buquan did not dare to offend the Tao family easily, and the rich gentry of the entire Zhengyang City respected him, and he had to call Tao Youran 'Tao Gong'.

Fortunately, the Tao family is not like Wang Buquan and Zuo Hongji, and Li Canghai doesn't care about the Tao family. It's just when the rich gentry are feasted and the reforms are announced. I've seen Tao leisurely.

"My lord, why are you veiled?" After Tao leisurely saluted. Finding that Kang Xu was veiled, he couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

Kang Xu took out a handkerchief and put it in front of his mouth, coughed lightly a few times, and said in an urn voice: "This official has occasionally felt cold recently, and he is unwell, and he is afraid of infecting other people, so he is wearing a veil, and I hope that Tao Gong will forgive me for my rudeness." ”

Where does Tao Youran have the heart to care about his affairs. He said with tears in his eyes: "My lord, Zhaoxue is ...... What a wrongful death she had! The old man heard that the adults were good at solving the case, so he asked the insider to report the case, and let the adults come to solve the case. ”

"People can't be resurrected after death, and Tao Gongjie mourns and changes. This official will find out the truth, find out the murderer, and bring him to justice. Kang Xu comforted him a few words. Then he took Xiao Wu and walked towards the corpse.

Chang Feng was the first to come and had already set up a grass hut where the body was found.

Kang Xu squatted in front of the corpse and observed carefully, Tao Zhaoxue was wearing a light green dress with a brocade silk draped over her shoulders. Very similar to the color of the grass.

gave Xiao Wu a look, Xiao Wu understood, and then ordered someone to use a cloth curtain to surround the grass shed.

Let Chang Feng accompany Tao Youran. Kang Xu and Xiao Wu went into the grass shed together and began the autopsy.

At first glance. The deceased's eyes were wide open and his expression was extremely painful. It seems that he was subjected to inhuman torture before he died.

The corpse's hair was disheveled, with multiple tears between his clothes, most notably a ring of visible pinching marks around the corpse's neck.

In addition, the deceased's wrists and ankles were clearly tied.

These marks were about the thickness of a thumb, and seemed to be the marks of hemp rope or something like a bundle, and because the binding was too deep, the dirty blood collected under the skin, showing a purple-black color, which contrasted with the snow-white skin of the corpse.

Xiao Wu took the gloves used for the autopsy, first touched the corpse for a while, and said: "The deceased is stiff, and the time of death should not be less than six hours, but because the corpse has been soaked in water, the skin on the surface of the corpse has softened, and the specific time of death cannot be determined." ”

Since Xiao Wu had just been appointed as a servant, Li Canghai had not yet equipped him with an assistant, so Kang Xu had to step up and fill out the autopsy form for him in person.

Holding a pen in one hand and a form in the other, Kang Xu moved the pen like flying, recording step by step on the form.

"Little Wu, let's check the cause of death first." Kang Xu stopped writing and said.

Xiao Wu nodded, and then untied the deceased's clothes.

But when he untied the deceased's clothes, he suddenly gasped in shock at what he saw.

"Your Excellency...... You see. Xiao Wu's voice trembled a little.

Kang Xu was recording the surface features of the corpse, and when he heard Xiao Wu's startled voice, he hurriedly stretched out his head to look.

This look made him feel frightened too.

The deceased was covered with shocking scars all over his body, stretching from his chest to his legs, and not only that, but also on his back.

Some of these scars were cut by sharp blades, some were whips, and some were burns!

The two hissed, and at the same time took a breath of cold air, they glanced at each other, and their faces instantly became extremely solemn.

Xiao Wu calmed down his panicked mind and carefully examined the corpse.

In addition to these shocking scars, Xiao Wu found that the index fingernails of the deceased's hands actually had a black line.

Touching the fingers of the deceased, Xiao Wu felt that there seemed to be something hidden in the nails.

He hurriedly ordered someone to boil the boiling water in a clay pot, put the cotton cloth in the boiling water to heat it, and then took the cotton cloth to cover the dead man's stiff nails.

After a stick of incense, the deceased's stiff fingers began to soften, Xiao Wu carefully rubbed the deceased's fingers, and after a while, he found a slender steel needle between the deceased's fingernails!

Kang Xu's shock was no less than Xiao Wu's, he was stunned for a while before he clamped the steel needle with tweezers and put it in front of his eyes to look at it.

The steel needle is about two inches long and as thin as a cow's hair, which is no different from ordinary household steel needles.

At this time, Xiao Wu gradually found nine steel needles one after another from the ten fingers of the deceased.

"This ...... That's cruel, isn't it? What kind of person can torture a woman in such a vicious way? Xiao Wu looked at the steel needle pulled out of the deceased's fingernails and was surprised.

Ten fingers connected to the heart, wedged into the nails of steel needles, such pain is by no means ordinary people can bear.

Kang Xu's face became extremely serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Let's see if there are any other fatal injuries." ”

By all indications, this was an extraordinary homicide. The cruelty of his methods is simply appalling.

Xiao Wu nodded hurriedly. He examined the corpse carefully and said, "My lord." There were no other injuries other than those visible on the surface, and it looked like the deceased must have been tortured to death. ”

Kang Xu lowered his head and pondered, and after a moment, he frowned and said, "Although these injuries on the deceased's body are serious, they are not immediately fatal, there must be other fatal reasons that we have not discovered, and then examine them carefully." ”

Xiao Wu was stunned, and he asked in surprise, "My lord." How do you know that the deceased died an immediate fatal death and was not tortured to death? ”

Kang Xu's face was solemn, and he pointed at the deceased with the tip of his pen, and said: "The expression on the deceased's face was frozen before she died, judging from her painful expression, she should have received a more serious and fatal injury, and this injury was enough to make her die instantly." ”

Xiao Wu nodded heavily, and hurriedly checked again.

But this time, no other fatal injuries were detected.

Kang Xu put down the autopsy form. He took out his magnifying glass and approached the corpse.

This magnifying glass was made by Li Canghai in his spare time, according to the shape of the magnifying glass in his previous life, and let the skilled craftsmen polish it with Zuo Hongji's magnifying gem. It has been stored in the cloth bag that Li Canghai carried with him.

At this time, Kang Xu pretended to be Li Canghai and simply brought his cloth bag with him.

Take out your magnifying glass. Looking down the head of the corpse, Kang Xu suddenly found a few strands of cotton wool in the deceased's mouth.

Kang Xu hurriedly used tweezers to carefully clip out the cotton wool. He put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, then placed it in the box.

These were taught to them by Li Canghai. When encountering the facts of a case, all kinds of evidence are very important, but for all post-mortem investigations, it is necessary to carry the evidence bag and the evidence box containing the evidence.

"The way to solve a case, any subtleties, can affect the whole case. Don't think that small things are not evidence, small things provide far more information than large objects. ”

They remembered what Li Canghai often said, and cautiously stored all kinds of small things in the evidence box, preparing to carefully study them after finding out the cause of the fatality.

"My lord, we have checked it twice, and there are no other fatal injuries, could it be that the deceased was really tortured to death?" Xiao Wu asked.

Kang Xu didn't speak, but carefully used a magnifying glass to look for clues on the corpse.

What Xiao Wu said is not unreasonable, the murderer's methods are tragic, it is simply outrageous, this kind of torture may not be able to bear even a man, not to mention that the deceased is just a cardamom woman?

His instincts, however, did not trust this judgment.

Under his repeated inspections, he really found a clue.

It is said to be a clue, but in fact it is just a blood halo at the navel of the deceased.

The light color of this blood halo, coupled with the scars on the deceased's lower abdomen, is easy to ignore.

Xiao Wu leaned over, he looked at the blood halo with some puzzlement, and asked, "My lord, what can this blood halo mean?" ”

"Don't you think it's strange that the deceased is covered with scars, bruises in many places, stiff and white, and bloodless, and there is a circle of blood halo at the navel?" Kang Xu pressed the deceased's navel with his hand, frowned, and said, "There seems to be a foreign body in the deceased's lower abdomen. ”

Xiao Wu was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly pressed it with his hand, because the corpse was stiff, he didn't feel abnormal at first.

But then, half an inch below the navel of the corpse, he felt a hint of protrusion, like a fleshy mole, which was so small that it was difficult to detect.

The blood halo at the navel is formed by the protruding point.

Xiao Wu instantly understood what Kang Xu said, it was very likely that there was something hidden in the deceased's abdomen.

But what could be the foreign body in the abdomen of the deceased?

He had examined the surface of the deceased several times, but did not find any direct wounds, so how did the foreign body enter the deceased's abdomen?

A series of doubts surfaced in Xiao Wu's mind, he looked at Kang Xu with a solemn face, and asked, "My lord, I still can't figure it out, there are no punctured wounds around the deceased's lower abdomen, how did the foreign body enter the deceased's lower abdomen?" ”

"I'm guessing it's through the deceased's pussy." Kang Xu said in a deep voice.

Xiao Wu's face instantly turned red, he was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he hadn't even touched a woman's hand on weekdays, and it was the first time that he even examined a woman's corpse.

If it weren't for Kang Xu by his side, he would have been at a loss, let alone an autopsy. (To be continued.) )