Chapter 396: Spasms
The carriage drove directly to the outside of the East Palace, and as soon as Ran Yan and Liu Qingsong got off the car, a temple man took the box containing the autopsy tools and led them into the palace.
The corridor is tortuous, the 'flowers' are like brocade, but the quiet atmosphere of the huge East Palace is very depressing, as if even the cicadas and birds are calling here carefully.
The footsteps of the temple people were very light, and Ran Yan and Liu Qingsong could only follow lightly.
At the entrance of the 'door' of the side hall, Ran Yan glanced and saw Li Shimin sitting in the pavilion. The temple people stopped, and Ran Yan and Liu Qingsong walked to the pavilion to salute.
"Concubines see the saint."
"The ministers see the saints."
"It's all excused." Li Shimin seemed very calm, it was a kind of disappointment, and if he was desperate, he would no longer be angry because of his mistakes. He only hoped now that this matter had nothing to do with other princes.
"He Si is strongly recommending two to examine the corpse, I know that it is really unseemly to do something, but at this time the stakes are very important, please also ask the two of you to test this time for my Tang Sheji and for the peace of the world!" Li Shimin's words, if they are placed on the native Tang Dynasty, are almost inciting, and they may be 'excited' by his words. But helplessly, neither of them is the real people of the Tang Dynasty.
But the will of God cannot be denied.
The two of them said in unison, "I must go all out." ”
Li Shimin had never heard of Ran Yan's autopsy before, but Ran Yan's process of treating Sang Chen was said by He Sizheng's miraculous skills, and she said that her 'masked' autopsy was extremely 'fine' to clear up her grievances, Li Shimin immediately summoned the officials of Yushitai who witnessed Ran Yan's autopsy that day, and after confirming He Sizheng's statement, he immediately summoned Ran Yan.
Li Chengqian is Li Shimin's eldest son, and when the army was in short supply and the horses were in chaos, Li Chengqian, who was only four or five years old, listened to the fight alone in the palace. He is a child who survived the shadow of the sword, and his childhood was full of fighting, blood and loneliness. This 'shadow' has always accompanied him to grow, fear, and linger.
So even though he was smart. There is also a talent for politics, in the face of imperial power. He was still timid. Sitting in that position, he has the power of life and death, but it means that he must be calculating and ruthless, which is something that Li Chengqian wants to get but does not dare to get, and he has always been contradictory.
Li Shimin also tossed and turned and couldn't sleep at night because of this son's abnormality, and he thought about it a lot. recalled Li Chengqian's childhood, recalled the words that Empress Changsun said, at this moment, in addition to being disappointed in Li Chengqian, he also had regret and pity.
Because of this trace of guilt and pity, and because of the political talent that Li Chengqian once demonstrated, Li Shimin did not decisively depose him. And now, such feelings are almost exhausted by Li Chengqian's repeated immorality.
If this time it was really the prince's doing, this is not something that can be summed up by the four words "virtue is lost"! Li Shimin wanted to see how far Li Chengqian could fall. So he came personally.
Li Shimin and Ran Yan and Liu Qingsong entered the side hall together. As soon as I walked into the hall, I felt a sultry heat mixed with a hint of coolness and a smell of blood and stench, which was disgusting. But smelling this smell, Ran Yan could almost guess how long the person had been dead.
Because of the matter, the prince. There were very few people in the entire side hall, only four Dali Temple officials, including He Sizheng.
It seems that the ice cubes in the hall have just been placed, and the room is not all cool, and the feeling of hot and cold sticking makes people a little upset.
Liu Qingsong knew that He Sizheng must have exaggerated Ran Yan's ability, and Li Shimin must have believed it when he recruited Ran Yan, and wanted her to test it, so he consciously took out things like a gown from the box and helped Ran Yan put it on.
Ran Yan tightened the cuffs of the gown, and Liu Qingsong helped her tie up the wide sleeves of Zhai Yi, and then put them into the gown. Ran Yan took a piece of ginger in his mouth, put on a mask, and looked at the surrounding situation.
The deceased was lying on his stomach, his head was unnaturally twisted, almost the entire back of his head was attached to several sides, his face was pale and pale, blood was spilling from the corners of his eyes and mouth, his mouth was slightly open, and the whole face showed an expression similar to surprise.
The papers on several were scattered and scattered all over the ground, and a bronze carved 'flower' candlestick fell and pressed against the arm of the deceased. The back of the corpse had a faint 'color' of blood.
"Is it possible to move the body?" Ran Yan looked at He Sizheng.
He Sizheng immediately nodded and said, "Naturally." ”
"Come two people, help me move him from to the open." Ran Yan said. Although He Sizheng must have already investigated, Ran Yan is accustomed to 'sex' keeping the scene.
Li Shimin sat down in a slightly farther position and watched the two guards lift the body away, however, when it was put in an open place, the corpse was still in its original position, and the pad below was empty, and the corpse was in a weird hanging posture.
"Sideways." Ran Yan said.
Only then did the two guards dare to gently lean the body on its side on the ground.
Ran Yan first took a cursory look at the corpse's clothes, hair, 'naked' and 'exposed' skin, etc., and then reached out to test the 'waves' and conditions of the corpse. In fact, looking at Fang Cai's condition, she could already guess that the corpse mortis had spread all over her body, and even at the peak of development, it could be so hard.
Someone had already prepared a record, Ran Yan glanced at it, and began to follow the autopsy, while saying, "Examine, the deceased, male, about forty years old, about five feet seven inches long. The corpse is all over the body, the urine and urine overflow, the cornea is slightly cloudy, the corpse spots are fused into large patches, and the complexion is dark. ”
The cause of the cramps of the corpse is still unknown, and many people who practice forensics believe that this situation mostly occurs when the central nervous system is injured and when there is tension, fighting, and 'agitation', and there is a lot of experience in autopsy, and Ran Yan believes that this statement has a certain credibility. But apart from the scattered paper, there were no obvious signs of struggle in the rest of the scene.
Ran Yan frowned slightly, and quickly unwrapped the corpse's clothes, "The corpse began to show a slight autolysis phenomenon, and the preliminary judgment of the time of death was about five or six hours from now, before last night's time." There are cases of local corpse spasms, and the facial expression is frozen similar to surprise. ”
She removed the corpse's shoes and socks, and her eyes were fixed on a tiny black mark on the inside of the sock, which she was sure was dirt, not dirt on the feet, which looked so clean that there was no dirt in the fingernails. What's more, because Ran Yan found that this soil is very similar to the soil used to grow 'flowers' in her home.
Ran Yan's gaze stayed for a moment. She moved quickly, but spoke slowly, for it had become a habit for her to recount the situation of the corpse at any time. When the forensic doctor performs the autopsy, because there are many items examined, it must be recorded at any time, and the general autopsy will be equipped with two assistants, a photographer, and record with photos and text at any time. If no one is around, Ran Yan will use a voice recorder to record, and usually, she can naturally say these results when she is alone in front of the corpse.
At this moment, because she remembered what Xiao Song said, she had to temporarily 'force' herself to change her habits and say what she was going to say through her brain.
A room of men watched Ran Yan calmly peel off the corpse's clothes, and they were shocked in their hearts, even He Sizheng was no exception. The last time I stripped off Sang Chen's clothes, it was because of the situation, and it was too impressive to be like this now. And in the current situation of the corpse, not everyone can quickly remove the clothes.
Surprise and suspicion had just risen, but soon, the scars on the corpse were 'exposed' and everyone forgot about Ran Yan.
The entire back of the corpse, the skin and flesh were almost turned up, the blood had dried up, and it looked like a blur, which was really frightening.
"The wound is not deep." Ran Yan looked at the injury on the entire back, and suddenly realized a problem, "The edge of the wound is not neat, it is slightly jagged, it is suspected of a whip injury, some of the wounds have scabs, and the two wounds are inflamed, indicating that the deceased lived for a long time after the injury, and the deceased's outer robe is basically neat, it can be considered that the deceased was tortured and killed elsewhere, and the body was removed here after cleaning up the clothes." ”
Ran Yan carefully examined the entire corpse, there were no fatal wounds, and most of the front of the corpse was covered with corpse spots, even if there were any traces, they were 'mixed' with the corpse spots, and it was not easy to distinguish.
Ran Yan thought a little in her heart, if she dissected, she would definitely be able to know more information, be able to grasp the initiative, and she was sure that she would be able to hide a lot of important information.
It's just that these people are different from Liu Pinrang, Liu Pinrang is to achieve his goal, he gritted his teeth and let others out, and they all did it secretly 'in private', and the healing of living people here is no different. Ran Yan saw that Li Shimin's face was still calm, and he didn't seem to be dissatisfied, so he continued, "Everyone is bound by their parents in terms of morality and body, and whether they will agree or not is secondary, I am afraid that they will treat her as a madman."
After weighing it again, Ran Yan thought that they all regarded it as a divine skill last time, and this time there should be hope for success in persuasion, "I can't see the cause of death on the surface, if I want to know, I need to dissect it." ”
Everyone was as Ran Yan had imagined, all of them with serious faces. He Si was looking at Li Shimin, "Holy ...... Look at this ......"
If it were Wei Zheng, Zhang Xuansu and the like, I am afraid that they would have blown their beards and glared at them a long time ago, and they would definitely have to quote scriptures to scold Ran Yan's body without their skin, but He Sizheng is different, he still maintains his consistent style of doing things, taking good things on himself, and pushing bad things on others.
"Holy Lord, in fact, in the process of dissecting the corpse and killing it, there must have been some things, and most of these things will be truthfully reflected on the corpse, which is what the unjustly killed person wants to tell the world. Besides, we just open it and close it again, and we don't cut off a piece of flesh. ”
Li Shimin's scrutinizing gaze stayed on Ran Yan, which made people feel quite oppressive, and Ran Yan just lowered his head expressionlessly.
There was silence in the hall, and after a long time, Li Shimin retracted his gaze and said, "I'll talk about this later." (To be continued)
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