"Ruyi is right, murderers have a wonderful avoidance mentality, even if they are murderous thieves, when they pass by the place where they committed crimes, they will subconsciously take a detour."

A familiar voice came from behind, Xing Ruyi turned around, and saw Chang Tai who was holding Yin Yuan, his expression was slightly tired, looking at the situation, these days of separation from them, this Chang Da has worked even harder.

"Ruyi mother!" When Yin Yuan saw Xing Ruyi, he screamed and broke free from Chang Tai.

The atmosphere in the courtyard suddenly became delicate, especially Su Jingliang, who first looked at Xing Ruyi, then at Chang Tai, and finally fell on the little boy in her arms.

The boy is very beautiful, even the kind of beauty that is a little excessive, and people can't help but like it when they see it.

"Let me introduce, this is my son Yin Yuan, this is Chang Tai, the first catcher of the Jingshi Yamen. By the way, Brother Chang, why are you here? Xing Ruyi saw that there were several officials behind Chang Tai, looking at the clothes, it looked like they were from the local county government.

"That's right, after receiving Li Mao's letter, I took Yin Yuan all the way to catch up, and I thought I would miss the place to stay. In desperation, I had to go to the county government to spend the night. The county magistrate here and I have had several encounters, and it doesn't hurt to disturb you late at night. When the Su family sent someone over to report the case, I happened to be talking to the county master, so I was invited over. I didn't expect to meet you here, but I don't have to hurry. ”

"It's best that Brother Chang can come!" Xing Ruyi said, stepped aside, and only bowed his head to talk to Yin Yuan.

This life lawsuit is naturally going to be handed over to the people in the yamen to deal with, and the main owner is here, so she consciously retreats to the side.

After Chang Tai and Su Jingliang met, they went to investigate the scene, and at the same time asked the accompanying servants to collect evidence on the spot. At this time, the work done is actually very basic, such as roughly judging the age, gender, and cause of death of the deceased.

Xing Ruyi was talking to Yin Yuan, but he was always paying attention to the situation of the corpse. She thought that the corpse was nailed to the wall at random by the murderer, but when she saw the measured data, she realized that the murderer was still a little particular. The murderer deliberately laid stone bricks directly under the feet of the corpse, and artificially raised the "ground" inside the wall, so that if you only measure the distance from the soles of your feet to the stone bricks, it is exactly six inches, and the size of the legend that the soul can be nailed to the top forever and cannot go down to the ground.

Obviously, however, his opportunistic approach had no real effect, for the ghost of the nurse not only descended to the ground, but was also able to move in the room where the corpse was hidden.

"The deceased was a woman, about 4,050 years old, and from what she was wearing, she didn't look like a pauper, nor did she look like a handyman doing rough work in the house. Look, my lord, the materials of the inner and outer clothes are still a little exquisite. In addition, on the head of the deceased, a bent silver hairpin was found, which belonged to the middle grade in terms of style and material, and ordinary miscellaneous servants would not bring such valuable jewelry. ”

"What about the cause of death?" Xing Ruyi asked casually.

Qi Zuo first looked at Chang Tai, and then looked at Xing Ruyi, and then replied: "Because the corpse itself already has some signs of **, and it has been sealed in the wall for a long time, so on the surface, it is impossible to make an accurate judgment." ”

"Or Ruyi, can you take a look? You also know that the work in the yamen is usually done with some basic work, and this ability to explore corpses is not as good as yours. Chang Tai didn't pay any attention to the mood of the pretend, and immediately praised the punishment Ruyi.

"Brother Chang really deserves to be his own person, and he is boastful of changing the law. In fact, Ruyi understands a little bit, probably because the authorities are fascinated, and Ruyi, as an outsider, is more likely to find some things that others can't see. Xing Ruyi said, walking to the body of the nurse, "The wife of the former housekeeper of Su Mansion, and the nurse of Su Qianqian, the fourth lady of Su Mansion, has disappeared for no reason, and there has been no news so far. Judging from the age, clothing and accessories, the deceased is very likely to be Su Qianqian's nurse, but it is still necessary to ask the nurse's family to come and identify it. As for the cause of death, I think it should be here. ”

Xing Ruyi pointed to the throat of the nurse: "The murderer should have strangled her with this strip of cloth tied to the nurse's body." The so-called strangulation is the death of suffocation caused by the force of the hand or other mechanical action to tighten the rope around the neck, so strangulation is also called hanging. The characteristics are very obvious, that is, the neck groove is generally horizontal ring locking, except for the pressure of the knot, the depth of other parts of the groove is more uniform, and the face will also have some swelling.

Although the deceased has been dead for a long time, and there is also a phenomenon of ** on the surface of the corpse, the murderer is in a hurry to hide the corpse, and even chooses to hide the corpse in the wall, which can be regarded as leaving us some clues. Look at the neck of the deceased, although it is fleshy, you can still see some signs of strangulation, especially behind the neck where the hair is covered. ”

Xing Ruyi said, broke a branch, and gently picked the deceased's hair, so that Chang Tai and Qi Zuo could look at the features of her neck.

"As for why I said that the murder weapon was this strip of cloth, in fact, the reason is very simple, you see, there are still some bruises on the skin of the deceased's jaw, and these bruises are left by the murderer when he committed the murder, because of death, so these marks are more obvious after death. Of course, if we find it two years later, we won't find anything when all the flesh and skin on the corpse are rotten and only the bones remain.

In addition to this, some strands of the deceased's hair were stained on the strips of cloth. These strands of hair, you can certainly say, fall out after death, and fall right on top. But Brother Chang and this big brother, please see, there are still some dark brown dots under these hairs, and these dots just glue the hair to the strips of cloth. ”

"This is the blood stain left by the deceased before he died!" He opened his mouth.

"It doesn't have to be the dead. We assume that the deceased was strangled by the murderer, and then when the murderer committed the murder, the deceased must have struggled, at least trying to tear off the cloth and hit the murderer.

Nails do not disappear immediately after the death of the deceased, and even grow rapidly long after the death of the deceased. We can look at the nails of the deceased, although they have grown a lot, but the heads of the nails are damaged to varying degrees, which are left by the deceased when he struggled before he died.

As for the hair of the deceased, of course, it was also messed up at that time. The silver is relatively soft, and the murderer took advantage of the deceased's inattention to strangle the deceased's neck with this cloth strip from behind, so the silver hairpin also bent under the action of external force, but because the time of the murder was very short, the silver hairpin was only bent, but it was not broken.

Now, let's get back to these brown dots. Since the deceased struggled before dying, it is possible that the bloodstains were not the deceased's own, but the murderer's. However, there is no need for us to discuss these things at the moment, because even if we knew that the murderer was caught and injured, after so long, the wound would have healed. The only use of these bloodstains is to glue the hair of the deceased to it, thus revealing the identity of the murder weapon. ”

Chang Tai nodded and moved his gaze to Su Jingliang. Su Jingliang was originally standing very far outside, and when he heard Xing Ruyi's analysis, he couldn't help but be attracted over. At this moment, he was squatting next to Xing Ruyi, looking at the strip of cloth carefully.

"You are the second young master of the Su family, right?"

"That's right, Jing Liang is the second in the family, Master Chang doesn't have to be polite, call me Jing Liang."

"Brother Jingliang!" Chang Tai said yes: "I don't know if the missing nurse in the house still has a family?" ”

"Steward Su, I mean our former housekeeper in Sufu, that is, the husband of the nurse, is currently following my third brother to collect the accounts outside. The nurse's daughter has been married, and if she wants to call it back, she is afraid that she will have to wait two or three days. There is also a son in the family, but when the nurse disappeared, he was not yet an adult, and I don't know if he can help. ”

"How old was the baby when the nurse disappeared?"

"Thirteen years old!"

"A thirteen-year-old child has long been in a poor family. Second Brother Su might as well send someone to call him over, after all, it is his mother, so he can still identify it. ”

Xing Ruyi got up, took a step back, and said to Qi Zuo: "Please ask Brother Qi Zuo to tidy up this corpse a little, so that her child will not be sad and sad when she sees her mother's messy appearance." ”

He nodded, but he didn't excuse himself, and he did it.

"I heard from the people of Su Mansion that this body was found in the room where Siniang and Bell lived, are they okay? Were you scared? ”

Chang Tai often goes to Siniang's wine shop to drink, and is very familiar with Siniang and the bell. Once, Xing Ruyi was still thinking about matching Siniang and Chang Tai together, but unfortunately these two people didn't call, and later they were even seen by Siniang, and bluntly said that she was willing to live in a wine shop in this life, so she dispelled her thoughts.

As for Chang Tai, although he looks familiar with the two sisters-in-law, he actually has a sense of alienation, and the relationship is only better than that of strangers, but it is much lighter than that of friends. Considering Siniang's identity as a widow, Xing Ruyi can also understand Chang Tai's alienation, but he has a headache to help him find a new Mrs. Chang.

At this time, I heard Chang Tai's concerned inquiry, which made Xing Ruyi's dead matchmaker's heart begin to move. It's a pity that her thoughts were dispelled by Yin Yuan just now.

"Uncle Chang just cares about Siniang and the bell, Ruyi Niang, you must not think too much. You're just lucky to have met my fox daddy. Otherwise, I'm afraid your own marriage line won't be smooth, let alone helping others match, you don't have this talent at all. By the way, why didn't I see my fox daddy? It's rare that he is relieved to let you stay alone in the courtyard with other men? ”

"That eye of yours sees alone? It's not a yard of people. Xing Ruyi glared at Yin Yuan: "If you are bored, go find your fox father, I will let him take the bell to get the medicine." By the way, Siniang is also over there, if Brother Chang is not at ease, he can also stop by to have a look. ”

"With you, what can happen to Siniang?" Chang Tai said and smiled: "Actually, I wanted to ask you, but I was scared, but if you think about your strength in the past, the corpse in this wall is nothing." ”

"Brother Chang still understands me!" Xing Ruyi said and laughed. The smiles of the two people were a little out of proportion to the courtyard filled with the smell of rotting corpses.

(Education 123 Literature Network)