When Hua Rong heard that someone was really dead, how could he dare to delay? rode a horse and went to the county town to report the crime.

Xu Zhijin and Hua Qiao sat in the carriage and waited for the people from the yamen to come. It's not too far from the county seat, and if they go back just now, they will all go into the city. Thinking that A-Niang was boiling water and killing chickens in the morning, she only heard the second voice of Hua Qiao's belly.

Xu Zhijin suddenly remembered, and took out an oiled paper bag from his arms, which contained snacks he bought in Xiaowangzhuang. He handed the paper bag to Hua Qiao, and said a little embarrassed: "Xiaowangzhuang's jade roasted wheat is the best, I originally wanted to go back to the county seat and give it to you, otherwise, now you are hungry first......"

Hua Qiao opened the paper bag and was stunned, Xu Zhijin hurriedly asked, "Did you see something in the ditch...... Can't eat? ”

"How do you know I want to eat 'ghost unkempt'? I slept late yesterday and thought about it when I was hungry. Hua Qiao said happily, picked one up and put it in his mouth: "Jade roasted wheat is a 'ghost unkempt', not a human head, what can't you eat?" ...... The siu mai in Xiaowangzhuang is salty and delicious...... Third Brother Xu, you can eat one too. ”

Xu Zhijin breathed a sigh of relief and was full of joy: I've known you for so long, don't I know what you like to eat? Sure enough, it's still the one I know, a unique, fresh and unpretentious buckwheat.

Before the two of them finished eating a pack of jade roasted wheat, they saw Hu Yuhou from the county government slowly walking over with Hua Qizuo, Liao Shushu and two small officials, driving an ox cart. Hua Qiao stuffed the oiled paper into Xu Zhijin's arms, jumped out of the carriage, and greeted them.

"Daddy! Uncle Hu, Uncle Liao, the bodies are in the ditch below the slope. Hua Qiao pointed to the bottom of the slope and said.

Several people were thinking about going down, but Xu Zhijin hurriedly said to the little officials behind: "I want to bring a hemp rope down to pull, the slope is too slippery, and I can't carry it up." The two officials nodded gratefully, they had experience, and in addition to the hemp rope, they also brought a board down.

Hua Qiao led them down the slope half-slippery and half-walking. Hua Youcai broke his foot last night, Yun Niang rubbed him with medicinal oil, and now it is much better, it is no problem to walk on a flat road, but it is still enough to choke down this steep slope.

Xu Zhijin hurriedly followed, took the box in his hand, and grabbed Hua Chengzuo's arm to support him, and said with a smile: "Uncle Hua, your box is old, and it is full of treasures, so you can't drop it." ”

Box: This guy is good!

When he arrived next to the corpse, Hu Yuhou uncovered the black cloth, revealing the male corpse, and he stepped forward to identify it, but he didn't recognize it. Liao Shuyi is also a mature uncle now, he is also in charge of the county's population registration in the county office, and the county's permanent population, he basically has some impressions, but he also shook his head and didn't know him.

Both of them quietly breathed a sigh of relief: the deceased was not a local, so it would be much easier.

Hua Youcai opened the toolbox, took out a pair of cloth gloves and put them on, but he was not in a hurry to examine the corpse, he bent down and carefully examined the perimeter of the corpse. Unfortunately, it rained heavily yesterday, and there were not many useful traces left around the body.

Hua Youcai began to crouch down to examine the body. The corpse was well wrapped in cloth, but the cloth was full of rainwater, and the corpse was a little white as if it had been soaked in water.

"Judging from the dirt underneath him, the body was dumped here before the heavy rain yesterday. He was about 23 years old and died no more than three days ago. There are no hemorrhage spots all over the body, the limbs of the body are intact, and there are no foreign bodies in the head...... Hey? Wait a minute! Hua Youcai suddenly stopped.

He turned back to the toolbox and took out a slender tweezers, carefully dug it out of the deceased's ear, and the tweezers took out a little viscous liquid from the depths of the ear canal, silver bright and tasteless, Hua Youcai was shocked: how is it mercury again!

When Hua Qiao saw Daddy go to get tweezers, people had already come over. Hu Yuhou and Liao Shuzhi have long been surprised and will not stop it.

This magical daughter made by Hua Yan, since she was seven years old, she followed her wherever her father went to perform an autopsy. Not only did she always come to her father, but the little girl was not afraid of corpses at all. Those officials always teased her and asked her why she wasn't afraid?

Xiaohua buckwheat rolled her eyelids and said, "How is it different from an object when a person dies and is motionless?" They don't hurt people, and they don't ask questions, compared to the living, it's more terrible! ”

Later, no one dared to ask her, and if she asked, it was not as good as a dead person.

Regarding the matter of Hua Yanzuo taking his daughter to work, Xu Xianling understood and said: "The craftsmanship of the girl is passed down from generation to generation. As long as it doesn't affect the handling of the case, and doesn't ask me for money, let her go. "This is officially approved.

The reason why Xu County's order is so accessible is because Hua Qizuo is a celebrity in Baoying County. The level of his autopsy is unmatched in the entire Yangzhou Mansion.

In August of one year, in Zhangjiagou, Xinghua County, a highly decomposed female corpse was found. But the clothes worn by the female corpse were very luxurious, and the Xinghua County Commander did not dare to slack off, and a catcher recommended to him the flowers of Baoying County. Baoying County Decree said: "You can go if you go, but Xinghua is responsible for the entanglement on the road, and Baoying does not have this expenditure." ”

Entangled is a trivial matter, Hua Qizuo drove the carriage to Xinghua overnight, and there was a coquettish buckwheat on the carriage.

When he arrived in Zhangjiagou, Hua Cheng took a look and saw that a large number of fly pupal shells had appeared around the corpse. The deceased's head and face had become ossified, the tissues of the chest and abdominal wall had dried out, and had been bitten by beetles, and most of the lower limbs had dried up, and some were even waxed.

In Daming, there is really no way to identify anything from the corpse.

Hua Qizuo no longer looked at the corpse, but squatted next to the corpse to carefully identify and collect the pupal shells, and finally he divided them into eight or nine piles, and he told Hua Qiao: "If you look closely, these are eight different kinds of corpse eating flies." They have different amounts of time to reproduce offspring. Therefore, we only need to find out the overlapping time of their reproduction, and we can basically determine the time period of death. ”

"Daddy, do you have to remember so many kinds of flies?" Daddy taught her to recognize the pupal shell for the first time, and the buckwheat was a little confused.

"Go back and Daddy will show you the live fly, and you will be easy to remember."

In the end, Hua Yanzuo singled out three kinds of giant tail Ali fly, purple green fly and brown tail hemp fly. They survive on carcasses in April and May. Hua Cheng made a final inference that the time of death of the deceased was between April 15 and May 10 of that year.

According to this time, the head catcher went to investigate the abnormal personnel in Xinghua County, and finally locked up a gangster in the county. Wang Sangou is a good gambler, and he will lose three times. In April of that year, I suddenly had a lot of money, and I ate and lived in the casino every day, and many people remembered this incident.

After the interrogation, Wang Sangou confessed that this woman was indeed met by chance in Zhangjiagou and was killed by him to rob money.

At that time, Yingtianfu was still Kyoto, Xinghua went to Kyoto to check the lost population at the end of April, and sure enough, he found the wife of the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and returned to Huai'an Mansion from Yingtianfu to visit relatives, the path was Zhangjiagou, and the lady wanted to get off the car conveniently, but since then there has been no trace, and the search has been fruitless for a long time.

This five-grade Hanlin asked the emperor for the merit of the Xinghua County Order. Hua Yanzuo became famous in Yangzhou Mansion in one fell swoop.

A small chrysalis shell can also help solve the case, and Hua Qiao admires Daddy so much. Therefore, every time she conducts an autopsy, she pays attention to Daddy's every move.

Therefore, when the tweezers made by Hua Qian took out mercury from the ear of the corpse, and Hua Qiao also saw it, the father and daughter exchanged glances: the time of death of this man was almost the same as the time of Guo Qingchen's death, and the organs of his body were also filled with mercury, which was too much like the same murderer committing the crime.

But one of them was thrown into the water, and the other was thrown into the barren mountain.

Suddenly, Hua Qiao quietly pointed to the belt tied around the corpse's waist and whispered, "Daddy, look! Hua Youcai looked at the belt, which was decorated by young men in the capital, and there were some worthless trinkets hanging on it, among which there was a drop-shaped Duo pin pendant that was very chic.

Hua Qiao flipped the pendant up with her fingers, and this time, Hua Youcai also saw that this was not a man's Duo pin pendant, but a woman's earrings.

Hua Youcai routinely inspected what he saw, and asked Liao Shushu to record the corpse case, and since the preliminary verdict was that he was killed, Hu Yuhou also drew a charge on the corpse case. After I go back, I have to convene a few Yu Hou and head catchers to make a bill.

The little official carried the corpse onto a wooden plank, tied it with hemp rope and dragged it up, loaded it on an ox cart, and sent it to Yizhuang outside the city.