Ran Yan remembered that Ran Pingyu and Ran Yun were still in the front hall, and she didn't care about waiting for Wanlu to come back to report, so she hurriedly rushed over with Ge Lan.

It was only a few hundred steps from the backyard of the inn to the front hall, and just out of the verandah, the noisy sound of the lobby could be heard, mixed with the screams and cries of women.

Before entering the house, Ge Lan grabbed Ran Yan, took out a piece of tulle from his sleeve and covered Ran Yan's face, and used a hairpin to hold it behind.

The bamboo curtain was opened, Ran Yan's eyes searched the crowd, and when he saw Ran Yun trembling in Ran Pingyu's arms, he couldn't help but let go of his heart.

When Ran Pingyu saw Ran Yan coming, he hurriedly said, "Ah Yan, go back and rest, don't worry about this matter." ”

Ran Yan paused and looked around the lobby, it turned out that the roar was because the wooden staircase leading to the second floor broke and collapsed, and many onlookers standing by the fence on the second floor were obviously trapped upstairs.

There were many pieces of broken wood on the ground where the stairs had collapsed, and between the piles of broken wood, bright red blood slowly opened up in all directions. The guests were standing far away and did not dare to approach.

The riot in the hall gradually subsided, and a man in a young brocade robe rushed in from the back hall, and when he saw the scene of the scene, he immediately pointed at Xiao Er and shouted, "You are all still stunned to do something, don't hurry up and save people"

At this time, everyone reacted, maybe the person is not dead

The four little two hurriedly stepped forward, and moved the wood on it with their hands and feet neatly, and after a while, a half-dressed young man was exposed, the man's body was curled and lying on the ground, his face was slightly outward, his face was slightly dark, his facial features were distorted, and he had a terrifying expression, while his body below the neck was relatively much fairer, and the back of his head was dripping with blood.

The most chilling thing is the carved blue on the semi-naked back, a Buddha head with a slight smile

The blue and white color reflected the man's terrifying expression, and this Buddha felt that the smile was strange no matter how he looked at it.

Carving is tattoos and tattoos, which were particularly popular in the Tang and Song dynasties and have become a lifestyle fashion.

A slightly more daring junior hurriedly probed the man's snort with his fingers, and after a moment, he withdrew his hand and said in a trembling voice, "Dead, dead."

The other junior seemed to remember something, and immediately turned around and pointed at Ran Yun and said, "It was this little lady who went upstairs in a hurry when the ladder collapsed."

Can a little lady collapse a ladder? If you say it, people will only say that the stairs in their store are in disrepair, and the shopkeeper stomped his feet angrily, "Go to the official immediately"

After the roar, the shopkeeper eased his anger and bowed his hand to the people who were looking around, "Today's small shop unfortunately has this disaster, and all of you will be free of wine money, please stay for a while, and wait for the government to come and help explain the cause and effect of this matter, thank you here first."

As he spoke, the shopkeeper made a long bow in each direction.

Everyone saw that he was sincere, and they were afraid that if they left at this time, the government would suspect that they had anything to do with the case, so they should all accept it. Now Ran Yan can't leave even if she wants to.

However, in the face of a dead body, it was difficult for everyone to sit still, and they all stood against the wall with some anxiety.

Ran Yanwei didn't seem too abrupt, and he also stood on the side with Ran Pingyu. At the first glance of this corpse, Ran Yan could be sure that this corpse was dead before the staircase, and it was dead for more than a moment.

But when Ran Yan Xinglu encountered this kind of thing, she had no intention of meddling. As for Ran Yun, she just passed up the stairs, and anyone could think that a petite lady would never be able to break the stairs.

This town is not far from the county, and after about a cup of tea, the people from the yamen arrived.

There was a head catcher, and more than a dozen catchers, and the head catcher was carried into the house with one foot, and a loud voice came, "Where is the shopkeeper?" ”

As soon as the light at the door dimmed, a big man in a bright official uniform walked in, with a square face, thick black eyebrows, and a pair of bright eyes.

The shopkeeper hurriedly greeted him, "Qin Zhutou, you want to be the master of the shop."

Qin Zhu was rough and rough, and he looked at the staircase, "You killed someone in the store, and the family of the deceased hasn't let you call the shots, but you howl first."

"The small one is really wronged, this shop has only been repaired in the first year, not to mention anything else, this staircase is a new wood, it is impossible to fall into disrepair" The shopkeeper said as he walked to the corpse with Qin Zhutou.

Qin Zhutou was not afraid of dead corpses, so he glanced at it a few times and flipped through the corpses casually.

Ran Yan frowned slightly, she was very repulsed by Qin Zhutou's approach in her heart, at this time, moving a little thing at will might affect the judgment of the coroner, but she never stopped it, because anyone who had some experience could see the cause of death of this corpse.

"I went to another county for an autopsy, and I came back in the evening to carry the body away first. The rest of the witnesses and suspects are all here and are not allowed to leave," Qin Zhutou said loudly.

His voice fell, and immediately aroused everyone's dissatisfaction, this store is close to the dock, and most of the people staying in the store are travelers from the south to the north, who has time to delay here? If they can't solve the case in half a month, won't they be able to leave in half a month?

"Which is the little lady who stepped on the stairs?" Qin Zhutou turned his head and asked the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper stretched out his hand to signal Ran Yun's direction, "This is it." ”

Qin Zhutou nodded, his gaze faintly skimmed over Ran Yun's face, and said casually, "Bring it back to the yamen for interrogation."

Ran Yan's brows furrowed even deeper, this Qin Zhutou knew that Ran Yun would not be the culprit, but she was so rash She took half a step forward, but when she saw Liu Qingsong standing at the door with a box, she immediately raised her voice and said, "Liu Yanzuo, are you going to stand by and watch without skipping words."

Everyone was in a hurry to get rid of the suspicion and leave, as soon as Ran Yan's words came out, Liu Qingsong immediately became the focus of the whole house, but he still pretended not to know, and watched the excitement with relish.

Until Qin Zhutou walked up to him and said, "Are you a fool?" ”

Liu Qingsong looked left and right, and Qin Zhutou shouted impatiently, "Look at what you're talking about."

Liu Qingsong's shocked head buzzed, and he didn't reflect it for a long time, Qin Zhutou grabbed him by the collar and dragged him to the corpse, and said angrily, "Autopsy"

"What are you yelling at, it's because the doctor is in a good mood that he reluctantly helps the criminal department to examine the body, and it's the official household registration below, you can be polite to me" Liu Qingsong patted off Qin Zhutou's hand.

Qin Zhutou was a little stunned, he heard that Liu Qingsong was called a servant, so he thought that he was mostly cheap, so he didn't have the slightest sense of respect at all, but he didn't expect that he was an official.

"I don't know Tarzan with my eyes, but I ...... right now This corpse ......" Qin Zhutou's face turned a little red.

Think about how embarrassing it is for a dignified head catcher to lose face in front of many people, especially his subordinates

In many stories of later generations, the Tang Dynasty did not catch fast, only the capture, and no matter which one it is, unlike what everyone imagined, they all belonged to the cheap industry in ancient times, and the capture or government service not only could not participate in the imperial examination, but even the children and grandchildren had to leave the industry for three generations before they could participate in the imperial examination.

Therefore, Qin Zhutou's identity is a few levels worse than Liu Qingsong, and no matter how important his face is, he has to bow his head.

Liu Qingsong straightened his clothes proudly, put down the box, and kicked the corpse with his foot, "The corpses are hard like this, at least they have been dead for more than two hours, and you look at this staircase, the fracture is so neat, it is obvious that someone is deliberately truncating, this can not be done without a certain amount of time, you check the people who have been in this store for more than two hours."

Liu Qingsong's arrogant appearance made everyone want to punch him in the face, but he was an official member, and if he was really beaten, he might not be able to eat and walk around.

"Other ......" Qin Zhutou has also been a hunter for many years, and he has not had an autopsy, but he has seen many autopsies, so he also understands that people only begin to stiffen after half an hour after death.

Liu Qingsong just removed himself and a very small number of people, this store is an inn, only a few guests have just arrived, and the rest are guests.

"This man was frozen to death." Ran Yan said in a cold voice.

Liu Qingsong looked at Ran Yan's cold expression, and couldn't help but shudder, it seems that he deliberately only removed himself, which angered this ancestor, thinking that Ruo Ran Yan really became Xiao Song's wife...... Liu Qingsong's heart suddenly became cold, and his future life was in dire straits

"Freeze to death?" Qin Zhutou saw that Ran Yan was well-dressed, but he didn't dare to laugh, but he really didn't think so. This person shed so much blood, how could he be frozen to death and it was only eight days ago, and he could freeze to death?

Ran Yan stepped forward, pulled Liu Qingsong's sleeve, and dragged him closer to the corpse.

Just before everyone could react, Ran Yan suddenly pulled his wide sleeve to wipe the back of the corpse's head, "See, this blood is simply poured up." ”

"The frozen corpse was curly, the skin was pale, the skin bundles of the exposed limbs were contracted, 'goosebumps' appeared, and the body was ** reduced. When people encounter cold, the body will automatically adjust the temperature, and people who have experienced cold know that there is a body that will be frozen to numbness and unconscious. Ran Yan looked around, saw that some people kept nodding, and some people agreed, and continued, "Once the body temperature cannot be adjusted, it has been in a state of heat loss, but it will produce the hallucination of body heat, and sometimes take off its clothes by itself." ”

This phenomenon is known in forensic science as the phenomenon of "anti-stripping".

Ran Yan leaned over and wrapped his hands around Liu Qingsong's sleeve and examined the corpse slightly, "Fang Cai's face is yellowish, and if there is little heat, his cheeks are red, and there is saliva foaming out of his mouth, and his saliva is not sticky, this is freezing to death." Corpse Temperature...... Low, the temperature of the general corpse drops to about a day and night equal to the surrounding temperature, Qin Zhutou might as well come over and explore, the temperature of this corpse is obviously lower than the current temperature, if it is dead for more than a day and night, the corpse ** is much more serious than now. And if the corpse is frozen, it will stop decomposing, affecting the judgment of the time of death. But if you want to freeze a person to death, plus the corpse is slightly thawed, and then make such a detailed plan, it will take at least one night, Dr. Liu, you say? ”

Yes By].