Xu Chu didn't have too many concerns, he just briefly examined the throat and trachea of the deceased, but now to conduct an accurate inquest, it is natural to completely take out the entire respiratory tract of the deceased.

Normally, she would "pick out her tongue" directly. The so-called tongue extraction is not to pull the tongue of the deceased directly from the mouth, but to cut the skin of the deceased's chest and abdomen, remove the sternum, cut the muscles along the lower edge of the deceased's lower jaw, and finally take out the tongue in the deceased's mouth from under the jaw, and use a post-mortem knife to cut the connected fascia while pulling it down forcefully.

Although this is a little troublesome, it can remove the tongue, epiglottis, larynx, esophagus, and trachea. If desired, you can even continue to separate until the entire set of organs is removed.

"The heart is intact and there is no damage to the organs. There are traces of congestion and soot charcoal in the respiratory tract, and the throat is edema and blockage. In addition, the residual blood in the blood vessels after dissection is liquid dark red, the internal organs are congested, the spleen is generally smaller, the right heart is dilated and congested, and the left heart is empty, which can be determined to be suffocation. ”

"There were no fatal injuries on the body, and the food left in the stomach consisted of meat, rice, crushed peanuts, and there was a clear smell of alcohol in it. Looking at the digestion of the food, it should have just been eaten, so there has been no erosion. ”

In other words, the deceased was most likely drunk. Otherwise, it would not be possible to have the slightest trace of struggle and escape.

"In addition, I have checked the limbs and hands of the deceased, and there are no injuries, so it can be assumed that he did not escape."

When Xu Chu's words fell, Xiao Qinglang looked at Sikong Han on the side and asked, "Have you checked the situation in the room?" ”

"I've checked it, and although the tables, chairs and benches have all been burned, they shouldn't have been moved according to the burnt marks and locations. In addition, the doors and windows in the room were not seriously burned, and there were obviously no signs of damage. ”

In other words, it is equivalent to a secret room.

"The ignition point may be determined?"

"The fire must have started from a table next to the bed."

In the room, the yamen usually thinks that the place where the fire is most serious is the place where the fire first started. And here it is obvious that the head of the bed and the table of the deceased's bed were burned the most, so that the candlesticks were somewhat deformed.

"Can the identity of the deceased be determined? Adults can send someone to ask the neighbors around them, do they have any witnesses? ”

After the autopsy was over, Xu Chu asked in a deep voice while stitching up the body.

Sikong Han nodded, sighed and said, "Several families around can testify that an hour and a half ago, Zhu San drank too much and stumbled back, and a neighbor named Peng Xing kindly sent him into the house. ”

Xu Chu nodded when he heard this, and squatted on the ground to check the candlestick and the burnt black bed. But he saw that the outside of the bed was obviously burned badly, and the quilt and clothes on the deceased were also burned very badly, so that Xu Chu tore it for a long time before tearing it off with scorched skin.

Where the candlestick was upside down, there was still some wax oil, and there was some similar solids on the charred right arm of the deceased.

After having a guess in his heart, Xu Chu looked up and looked around again, and saw that this room was not the main room, so his vision was very dim. Or maybe it's a low adobe house with only one window, so even if you open the doors and windows at this time, you can't see clearly.

"Can the neighbours determine the deceased's usual habits, such as where he used to go to eat and drink, why he stayed in a side house instead of the main house, and whether he would have lit the lamp at the hour of the fire when he returned to his room?"

"The official has already asked, and the neighbor said that because he is a dim sum chef in Zhouji, he is relatively wealthy, and he has not yet married, and there is no woman in the family to take care of the food, so he often eats and drinks in the nearby tavern. In addition, according to Peng Xing, after he sent Zhu San into the house, Zhu San began to play drunk and crazy, and he didn't light the lamp. However, there were no candles in the side room, so Zhu San planned to go to the main house to find it, but because Zhu San fell asleep later, he just did it. Thinking that they were all neighbors, after watching Zhu San rest, he went home and asked his mother-in-law to help cook some sobering soup. ”

"Is there anything unusual about Zhu San recently, or has some stranger come to look for him?"

Sikong Han shook his head, "Most of the people who live nearby are permanent residents of the capital, and they all know each other, so if there is a fresh face, it will definitely be more eye-catching." However, the official sent people to inquire around, and they all said that they had never seen a stranger coming, such as ordinary people's servants and maids, let alone nobles who were dressed or rode horses and chariots. ”

In this way, the idea of looking for witnesses who have seen or bought Zhu San will not work.

So, who is the person who bought Zhu San or Zhu Neng with official money. How do they get in touch?

Sikong Han saw that Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu had fallen into deep thought, and then said, "As for the abnormality, there is one thing that is very strange. I heard from nearby residents that Zhu Neng had asked him to help sell the house, saying that after the house was sold, he would go back to the countryside to buy land and marry. ”

Xu Chu raised his eyebrows lightly when he heard this, and said in surprise: "Zhu San can't be a native of the capital?" ”

"He is from the capital, and this mansion is also inherited from the ancestors of the family. However, listening to Bao inquiring, it seems that he feels that it is difficult to get ahead in the capital, so he wants to find a place in the countryside and do some small business by relying on the craft of making dim sum. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu subconsciously glanced at each other.

It stands to reason that it is so rare to have an ancestral house on the boundary of the capital. In addition, he works in Zhouji and earns a lot of money, so it is not difficult to marry a relative. Why sell some ancestral homes and go to the countryside to make a living?

One is the world's sense of belonging to the ancestral house, and the other is that as the reputation and treatment of Zhou Ji in the entire capital, even if ordinary people have skills, it is difficult to squeeze their heads in, otherwise Xiao Qinglang will not often let Wei Guang go to Zhou Ji to buy food.

But these two points, when they come to Zhu San, they seem to have become something that they don't care about, and there must be something inside if they are so abnormal.

"How is Zhu Sansu doing in the day, after he became Zhou Ji's dim sum master, has he ever been proud to show off to others?"

He is usually quite arrogant, because he learned to make dim sum from his uncle since he was a child, and later came to Zhou Ji to help his uncle, so he often brags about himself outside. Until he became a dim sum master, he was even more proud, as if he was afraid that others would not be able to look up to him. Sikong Han frowned, recalled what he had asked from the mouth of the others, and said, "But because he always eats and shares some food from Zhou Ji to give face to the neighbors, the attitude of others towards him is also courteous." ”

Then the question arises, since he is proud of being in Zhouji, how could he suddenly decide to leave the capital on his errand?

You need to know that even if you open your own shop in the countryside, you may not be able to earn more money than you earn in Zhouji. Unless he has a reason to go.

According to others, he had the best relationship with Peng Xing, and even invited Peng Xing to drink from time to time. So Peng Xing helped him go home, and everyone was used to it. ”

Xu Chu nodded, not saying a word about Sikong Han's words, just pacing back and forth in the dark room to check the burned room again. Or felt inconvenient, in the process of checking, she also specially asked people to find a wooden stick to rummage through the ashes in the corner and other places, until the piles of ashes were turned over into a pile, she raised her eyebrows and looked at Xiao Qinglang and asked, "What does the prince think?" ”

Xiao Qinglang stood with his hands in his hands and looked at the wooden stick in her hand, the corners of his lips raised a slight arc, and then said, "This is not the room where Zhu San usually lives, so even though there are tables, chairs and benches in the room, there are no kang cabinets and wardrobes, and there are not even copper basins, teacups and other objects that will not be burned. ”

When Xu Chu heard this, his eyes suddenly moved, and his eyebrows gradually relaxed.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and then went to the north room in Zhu San's courtyard.

Because the side house that caught fire was an adobe house, even if it burned in a mess, it did not even burn down the north house.

When Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu arrived, they saw that except for some traces of the doors and windows of the north house, the inside of the house was not seriously burned.

However, what Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu paid the most attention to was that there was a candlestick with half a candle on the table in his room

Xu Chu walked into the room first, twisted the candlestick with his fingers, and found that it had no temperature at all and the wax was not soft, which showed that the candlestick had not been lit before.

"Come on, search this room, don't let go anywhere." Xiao Qinglang looked around, did not step forward to check, but directly commanded the officials.

The official responded to the call, rummaged up and down, and after a while, replied, "Lord, I didn't find anything." ”

Xiao Qinglang raised his eyebrows, his expression unchanged, as if this result was expected. He glanced at Xu Chu meaningfully, and said with his eyes, "It seems that the facts of this case are also beginning to become clear." ”

Xu Chu nodded and lowered his eyes to look at the situation in the room.

"The room was neat, there were marks on the sheets on the edge of the bed mixed with loess, as if someone had stepped on it, but there was no moss or mildew on the bricks on the walls in the dust. Therefore, I speculate that there should have been two uninvited guests in the Zhu family. ”

This loess should have appeared after Zhu San rested, otherwise he would inevitably find something wrong, or he would clean the loess. Only the person who came with the loess stepped on this footprint when he didn't know it, and that could be left until now.

Besides, the footprints on the moss should have been left recently, otherwise they wouldn't be so obvious.

Xu Chu said, then looked at Wei Guang and said, "Brother Wei is tired of going up according to the traces of the loess to check if there is anything unusual on the roof." ”

Wei Guang shook his head, jumped up, and after a while, he said to the ground, "There is nothing on the beam, but the dust is very messy, there are many handprints of different lengths, and there is a gap about two inches square in the middle, which seems to be used to hide things." ”