After a while, the child's father followed the old man into the courtyard together. From time to time, the old man who walked in front asked a servant next to him if the case was clearly recorded, and the official on the side also hurriedly held the paper manuscript in one hand and hurriedly reported to the master that everything had been recorded clearly.

Standing next to the morgue, the old man waved his hand at a nearby officer. The official on the side hurriedly stepped forward and lifted the white cloth wrapped in the corpse. As soon as the white cloth was lifted, a rancid smell came to his face, and the young man who was far away also quickly sniffed, and the new little servant next to him quickly ran to the side and vomited because he saw this scene for the first time.

The old man standing closest to the corpse saw this scene, and couldn't help but say to the little servant who vomited on the side: "This scene, you are the first time to see it, and when you experience it more in the future, even if you sleep with the dead at night, you won't feel anything!" The old man ran his hand over his beard and said jokingly to the people next to him.

The old servant on the side couldn't help laughing when he heard the master's words.

The soybean who was tied to the side looked at everything in front of him, licked his mouth as if he understood what the old man said, stretched his waist again, circled around the kennel, and went back to sleep in the kennel.

While everyone was talking around the corpse, a servant carried a wooden box into the yamen, and after saluting the master, he came directly to the female corpse, opened the salute he carried with him, put on a pair of hand-sewn gloves, and fiddled with the corpse.

After some tossing, he stopped the work in his hand and walked to the master, clasped his fists with both hands and said: "Back to the master, I just opened the throat of the female corpse with a knife, and I didn't find any traces of choking water in it." The woman's arms and neck have obvious royal marks, and it is obvious that she had fought with others before her death, so it can be judged that this is a homicide. ”

Hearing that the cause of death of this highly decomposed corpse in the hot summer was so clear, the old man who stroked his beard nodded slightly.

"Okay, I think everyone knows the means of identifying the corpse with my old subordinates who have been with me for more than 20 years, since I have said so, I think that this case of the woman who fell into the water can be changed to a homicide case, come on, bring in the eyewitnesses who found the body at that time, I want to open a court for interrogation!" After speaking, he flicked his wide sleeves and walked straight towards the trial hall.

Hearing the master's order, the two officials hurriedly went out to find the informant at that time, while the others followed the master into the lobby.

After a while, an emaciated man covered in books was taken to the lobby by two servants and knelt down.

When the officials on both sides saw that the people had been brought, they hurriedly held thick sticks in their hands, knocked on the ground, and shouted: "Wei... Take...

The emaciated man had never seen this kind of formation, and he couldn't help but kneel on the ground and face forward wearing an official uniform, and the majestic old man kept kowtowing.

The old man sitting at the trial table saw the thin scholar in front of him kowtowing constantly, knocked on the case board, and said, "Okay, okay, don't knock anymore, I heard that you are the first person to see the female corpse, when, what was the scene at that time, quickly raise your head and tell the truth." ”

Hearing that the adult was inquiring about the case, the man who quickly raised his head trembled and told the master what he had seen at that time.