He asked the scribe in charge of filling out the autopsy of the coffin to record the discovery, draw a pattern, and extract the straw. Then he checked the inside of the coffin again, and found nothing else, so he asked Dai Zhutou: "Where did you find this part of the deceased's buttocks?" ”

"In a bush outside the village."

Xiao Jiading instructed the coffin to be re-nailed and buried, restored to its original state, and then said to Dai Zhutou: "Take me to see the place where the buttocks of the corpse were found!" ”

Following Dai Zhutou and they came to the field outside the village, Dai Zhutou pointed to a place overgrown with weeds and said, "Oh, that's it." ”

Xiao Jiading took a closer look, the grass was faint, and there was no trace of straw. Looking around, there is a slope, except for shrubs and weeds, there are no rice fields, and this is far from the path, it is a barren slope, even if someone walks through the path with straw, the straw is unlikely to fall here.

Could it be that the wind is blowing? No, the straw stretched out of the pelvis, which is even more strange, to say that a straw came with the wind, but like an arrow shaft inserted into the severed pelvis, then this is really unbelievable!

Most likely, this bone was probably once placed in a straw pile! And where it is, it is likely to be the scene of the dismemberment!

At the same time, the murderer also burned the corpse parts, if it is in the wild, it is difficult to ensure that it is not seen, it is best to be indoors. The two are added together, and Xiao Jiading begins to feel that he has a direction.

Xiao Jiading immediately said to Luo Cun: "Take me to Zhao's house!" ”

Zhao's home was close to the deceased's mother's home because the two families were relatives. On the way, Xiao Jiading inquired about Muramasa and learned that Zhao's husband followed a businessman to run business in other places all the year round and rarely came back. And they don't have children yet, so the Zhao family is the only one in the family. However, although this Zhao family looks quite good-looking, she is very guarded with women, and she rests at sunrise and sunset, and has never heard of any scandals about her.

When he got closer, Xiao Jiading asked: "Where is the place where Tong said he saw Zhao fornicating with others?" ”

Dai Zhutou pointed to a depression about 100 steps away from the two houses: "That's where she said." ”

Xiao Jiading looked at it, and sure enough, there were a few trees, and they were relatively remote, and there were no people around. Xiao Jiading asked: "Since this Zhao family is alone at home and wants to fornicate, why don't you bring it to the house?" Instead, in the wild? Got caught in someone's errand. ”

Dai Zhutou said: "We also asked about this, then the Zhao family denied this matter, and the Tong family said that it may be because the two families are very close, and the children of the Tong family often go to her house to play, she is afraid of being broken." ”

"Well......" Xiao Jiading nodded, this statement is also reasonable, but compared to the outside, it is still much safer at home, if you are afraid of being disturbed, you can lock the door from the outside, and then enter through the window. There are a lot of ways to do that.

Xiao Jiading came to the front of the house, looked at it, the door was locked, and a seal was pasted, so he asked Luo Cunzheng: "Doesn't the Zhao family have a husband?" He hasn't come back yet? ”

Luo Cun Zhengdao: "I didn't come back, and I don't know where he is, so there is no way to bring a letter to him." He shouldn't have known about Zhao's murder. ”

Xiao Jiading asked, "What does the village think of this case?" ”

Luo Cun Zhengdao: "Everyone thinks that it is unlikely that Zhao will kill people. ”

"For what?"

"She is very conservative and kind-hearted. To say that she killed someone and then dismembered the body, this, everyone felt a little unbelievable. ”

"The people in the village seem to have a good impression of her?" Xiao Jiading's eyes appeared in front of the beautiful young woman who was kneeling in the lobby with heavy shackles.

"Yes, I think she's very good, and I don't believe that she will have an affair with someone. Moreover, the atmosphere in this village is very positive, and there has never been such a thing as fornication. ”

Xiao Jiading was not discussing this issue, he ordered Luo Cunzheng and the others to wait in the distance, and there were only three people in front of the house, Dai Zhutou and Dai Zhutou. He asked Dai to open the sealed door and did not enter immediately. He had seen the scene survey and drawing of the case, but it was not as intuitive as the real thing in front of him, it was a floor plan, so it could not match what he saw in front of him for a while.

Dai Zhutou is very good at observing words and feelings, and immediately stepped forward to introduce the situation of the scene investigation at that time: "There is nothing peculiar about the house, the kitchen floor is very clean, according to Zhao, the scene of the murder is in the kitchen, where she pushed down her nephew and fell to his death, and then she dismembered the body in the kitchen." But when we came to investigate, we didn't find anything in the kitchen, only a kitchen knife, which was found in a small pond outside the kitchen, and was found according to Zhao's explanation. There were blood stains on it. ”

Xiao Jiading's heart moved, if the kitchen knife was really found according to the place confessed by the Zhao family, and this kitchen knife proved to be the murder weapon that dismembered the corpse, then it belonged to "confession before proof", that is, the corpse, murder weapon and other physical evidence were found according to the confession, then the probative power is very strong and it is conclusive evidence. But, the trouble is, the kitchen knife now has an inexplicable contradiction with the autopsy. After cutting so many bones, the blade of the kitchen knife did not have the slightest curl or gap. If this major suspicion cannot be cleared, there is no way to prove that this kitchen knife is the murder weapon that dismembered the corpse.

Of course, in modern society, there is another solution, which is to extract the blood stains on the kitchen knife for DNA identification, and if it is proved to be the deceased, it can be used as evidence. It's a pity that it's the Tang Dynasty now.

He came to the kitchen, which was very large in the countryside, with several pots on the stove. The floor is paved with green bricks, and it is very clean, and this cleanliness is very like it has been washed with clean water. He crouched down and scrutinized the cracks in the bricks on the ground, hoping to find blood or minced flesh. But he was disappointed and found nothing.

Xiao Jiading hugged his shoulders and looked at the ground to think, if nothing was found at the scene, after the important witnesses turned over the case, I am afraid it would not be easy to conclude the case according to the existing evidence!

He did not give up, and his eyes continued to search the scene.

He crouched down to observe, and finally, he noticed a small hole in the back of the large water tank in the corner, which led to the outside. He hurried out the back door of the kitchen, and in the corresponding position, he did not find a gutter. He said to Dai Zhutou: "Dig up here!" ”

Dai Zhutou hurriedly found a hoe and dug up the soil in the place indicated by Xiao Jiading, and soon, he heard the sound of the hoe and hit something hard. Quickly digging away the soil, I saw a bluestone slab underneath. The bluestone slab was uncovered, and there was a drainage ditch underneath, which was very smelly.

Xiao Jiading asked Dai to follow the drainage ditch and uncover all the bluestone slabs, while he followed the drainage ditch to inspect.

There are many kinds of debris in the gutter, most of them are some green vegetables and leaves, and rice or something. He took it all out and laid it on a bluestone slab. Take your time.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he saw a small broken bone in a small pile of garbage!

He picked up the broken bone and looked at it, but he couldn't tell whether it was a human bone or the bones of a pig, sheep, or animal.

He set the bones aside and searched for them again, and then he found several more broken bones, all so small that he couldn't tell what they were.

Unfortunately, now, after forensic examination, it is possible to find out whether these bones are human bones or not, and whether they are the bones of the deceased. But this is the Tang Dynasty.

In addition to broken bones, he also found some hair. But in ancient times, when modern forensic methods were lacking, nothing could be said about.

At the end of the gutter connection is the small pond where the kitchen knives were found, in a low-lying place not far from Zhao's house. Near the water outlet, some hair and several broken bones were also found.

After the discovery and extraction of broken bones and hair, he had the servants make a survey record and draw a map of the site of the discovery.

After inspecting the scene, Xiao Jiading went around to the back of the kitchen to inspect, and when he got to the back, he immediately found a pile of straw!

There is straw here, but along the way into the village, I saw many farmers with straw in front of and behind their houses. Therefore, the straw of the Zhao family cannot be necessarily linked to the straw found on the corpse parts, and further important evidence needs to be found.

What do you do with the straw here? What can straw do?

Xiao Jiading beckoned to Luo Cunzheng, who was standing in the distance. Luo Cunzheng hurriedly ran over and looked at him with his waist bent.

Xiao Jiading pointed to the straw behind the pile of houses and said, "What are these for?" ”

Luo Cunzheng glanced at it, and said with a smile: "It is used to light and burn fires." ”

"Igniting a fire, lighting a fire?"

"Yes, we are all rice fields, and when we harvest rice every year, the rice stalks are useless, so we dry them and use them to make fires and fire on the stove."

When Xiao Jiading heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up - the stove?!

He nodded quietly and waved his hand, signaling that Luo Cun was ready to go.

After Luo Cunzheng left, Xiao Jiading also entered the kitchen, he came to the stove, squatted down, and checked several stove mouths one by one. Each one had some ashes in it, and some straw that didn't burn out! However, there was not a single straw on the ground in front of the stove! Probably someone cleaned it up.

Xiao Jiading instructed Dai Zhutou to lift up a few pots and put them aside. Then, check the inside of the cooktop one by one. Nothing out of the ordinary. He reached in and groped slowly, taking out all the foreign objects found inside and inspecting them.

As he fumbled in the ashes of one of the largest stoves, he felt something in the ashes, picked it up and looked at it, and immediately, his eyes lit up!

But he didn't say anything, and threw the thing back into the stove as if nothing had happened. Then he groped for the next stove.

When he had fumbled with all the stoves, he sighed and told Dai to put the pots back.