Chapter 24: Di Renjie's autopsy

The two officials moved a corpse and carried it into the courtyard, and they were packing up their things and preparing to go home, when they saw the two returning with the corpses, and asked, "What's the matter?" How did you bring one back? ”

"It's not one, those two will have to be brought back in a while!" The official answered, put the body on the coroner's bench in the room, and then went out to continue the transport!

He was puzzled, and just about to hold the two of them, he saw Zhang Sanlang walking towards him with two people, and he hurriedly greeted him!

"I said Zhang Bantou, what is this going to do?" Puzzled asked!

"That's right, I found some new suspicions at the scene, and I need to examine the body again!" Zhang Sanlang Shili said!

"Oh, that's right, who are these two?" He looked at the two people beside Zhang Sanlang and asked!

"This is the master I invited to help investigate the case! Mr. Huai from the state, that is his apprentice, Mr. Huai, this is what a big man from our county government! Zhang Sanlang introduced!

He looked at the two people in front of him, an old man and a young man, the old one wore a long Luo head, a simple robe, his eyes were bright, if he was a flat lake, supplemented by five strands of mustache, all of them were full of strength and wisdom, the waist of the young was straight, he was wearing a black tight body, he was covered with a soap robe, his sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and he was Xuanang!

"If you can be called a master by Zhang Bantou, you must naturally have something extraordinary, so please do it!" Said in the direction of the room!

"He Yanzuo, I'm bothering you!" Di Renjie bowed to him and said!

Originally, Zhang Sanlang brought outsiders to the autopsy in this room, and he was a little unhappy, but seeing that the old man in front of him was very polite to him, the unhappiness in his heart instantly dissipated, after all, he had almost never received such respect!

Soon, the three corpses were all carried back, all covered with white cloths, and lay straight on the table!

Di Renjie walked over, and was just about to lift the white cloth covering the corpse, but there was a loud shout outside the door!

"Stop!"

Everyone followed the prestige, and a man in the uniform of a county magistrate came over, accompanied by two officials, and the shouting just now was from this county magistrate who rushed over!

"Zhang Sanlang has seen the master!" Zhang Sanlang hurriedly saluted!

"Caomin Huaiying has seen the county magistrate!" Di Renjie was also busy saluting and said!

"San Lang, you are too presumptuous, how can you bring irrelevant people to this room? I heard you're going to have a new autopsy? The county magistrate asked angrily!

"The master was angry, and he only found some suspicious points with the help of Mr. Huai, so he brought Mr. Huai to inspect the corpse and corroborate it!" Zhang Sanlang said respectfully!

"Oh? Mr. Huai? The county magistrate looked Di Renjie up and down, and continued to ask, "What do you do?" ”

"Master Hui, in the next is a Fang Langzhong!" Di Renjie humbly replied!

"You can't practice medicine and prescribe medicine well, what are you doing in the Yamen public case?" The county magistrate asked like water!

"Although it is Langzhong, he has always been interested in judging cases, and he is even more interested in some strange cases, and I hope that the master will forgive me if he is reckless!" Di Renjie said!

"Good! Since Zhang Bantou said that you have found doubts, then tell me, what are the doubts in the official's ruling? The county magistrate said with a little disdain!

"Master Haihan, we are not at the scene, and the suspicions at the scene cannot be intuitively expressed, since we are in this room, why don't we start with this corpse first?" Di Renjie said calmly!

"Good! I want to see what you can say. The prefectural magistrate pointed to the three corpses and said!

Di Renjie didn't answer, he walked straight to the corpse and lifted the white cloth covering the corpse one by one!

Di Renjie first came to Zhang Li's corpse, although it was late autumn, but after all, the corpse had been dead for a few days, and now it was still slightly swollen, exuding a slight fishy smell!

Di Renjie carefully inspected Zhang Li's body, and saw that this Zhang Li's mouth and eyes were closed, his lips were blue and black, and there was a purple-black strangulation mark on his neck.

Di Renjie put on the gloves he had made, because the corpse was already stiff, Di Renjie struggled to open Li's mouth, and said to Li Yuanfang: "Come to the palm lamp!" ”

Li Yuanfang understood, and leaned over with the lantern! With the faint light of the lantern, Di Renjie checked Zhang Li's mouth, and then checked Zhang Li's hands, indeed as Zhang Sanlang said, there are still some ink stains on Zhang Li's hands!

"The master decided that this Li family hanged himself?" Di Renjie asked!

"What if it weren't?" The prefectural order asked rhetorically!

"Master, please forgive me for speaking bluntly, this Li family is silent, how did the master make the judgment of self-hanging?" Di Renjie Shili asked!

"Humph! It seems that you are also posturing! According to the "Book of Cases" written by my court elder Di, the person who hangs himself may close his mouth tightly, and his tongue will not come out! The county commander said disdainfully!

"Oh? So since the grandfather is familiar with the "Book of Cases", has the grandfather ever remembered that all those who hang themselves with their mouths closed and their tongues cannot come out, because the rope is strangled on the throat, so the teeth are clenched, and the tongue cannot be put out of the teeth? Di Renjie asked rhetorically!

"This ......" the county magistrate showed a hint of embarrassment, not knowing how to answer!

"Let's look at this Zhang Li, although his mouth is tightly closed, but his tongue is not against his teeth, and this strangulation mark is also obviously located under the throat, how can there be a situation of clenching his teeth and closing his mouth? Also, I have checked the place where this Li hangs himself, where the white silk is tied, there is only one scratch, although the hanged person is bent on death, but when his feet are suspended in the air, he will still struggle involuntarily, so all the ropes of the self-hanging will also leave multiple traces in the suspension, and only one trace plus the characteristics of the corpse is enough to prove that this Li has already died of exhaustion when he hangs on the beam of the house! Di Renjie pointed to Zhang Li's corpse and said!

"Even so, could it be that this passerby killed Zhang Li and then hung him on the beams of the house after he did something wrong?" The prefectural order argued!

"Hahaha! Did the grandfather forget the Li family's suicide note? Di Renjie asked, "If this passerby killed, why did he imitate Zhang Li's pen style to write a suicide note?" Doesn't that expose yourself? ”

"This, this, this?" The county order was asked so much that he didn't know how to answer!

Di Renjie ignored it and continued to examine the next corpse, this corpse had many scars on its body, it seemed that the situation was indeed caused by being beaten before his death, but the fatal wound was a wound on the neck, the blood had already coagulated, the skin and flesh were turned out, and the flesh was red in blood, it seemed that he was indeed injured before his death, and this corpse was naturally Zhang Fu!

Di Renjie carefully examined the wound on Zhang Fu's neck, and then checked Zhang Fu's hands, unconsciously revealing a suspicious look!

"San Lang, when you saw Zhang Fu's body, did the kitchen knife he cut his neck in his hand?" Di Renjie asked!

"Yes, the kitchen knife is in his right hand!" Zhang Saburo replied!

"Well, judging from the calluses on Zhang Fu's hands, his dominant hand is indeed his right hand, but this also shows that this Zhang Fu is definitely not self-inflicted!" Di Renjie said firmly!

"What? Not self-inflicted? When the county magistrate heard Di Renjie's words, he actually got up and leaned over to the corpse and asked in surprise!

"That's right! He was killed by someone cutting his throat, and this murderer has a lot of strength, and he can cut his throat bone with a single knife! Master, please see, judging from the depth of this Zhang Fu's wound, from right to left, if he kills himself with a knife in his right hand, there will never be such a long wound! And it's rare to cut the throat bone by killing yourself, let alone a person who dares to kill chickens? Di Renjie pointed to Zhang Fu's wound and said!

The county magistrate personally saw that it was indeed no different from what Di Renjie said, and he couldn't help but look at the old man in front of him again!

Di Renjie came to the body of the passer-by again, only to see the passer-by lying naked on the platform, and Zhou's body was full of scars, but he couldn't see which scar was fatal for a while, and the body was already stiff and inconvenient to examine!

Di Renjie tried to press the scars on the deceased's body, and suddenly looked suspicious, and went to Zhang Fu's corpse and pressed the scars on Zhang Fu's body, and the doubts on Di Renjie's face deepened!