Chapter 56: Self-Harm
Free autopsy, free help to solve the case, and have to give gifts, is this reasonable?
Ran Yan was not very happy in his heart, but there was no way, fortunately, Liu Pinrang was a four-grade assassin, the number one in Suzhou City, it was rare for him to look up to a little lady like her, if he changed others, I was afraid that as soon as he proposed an autopsy, he would be thrown out of the gate of the government as a mental illness, but Liu Pinrang had always been her.
After seeing the two patients, Ran Yan went to the ready-to-wear store to buy a men's round-necked narrow-sleeved beard suit to change into to facilitate the autopsy.
"Lady, where are we going?" Shao Ming looked at Ran Yan's dress and asked puzzled.
"Do you want to learn medicine, don't skip words. Ran Yan didn't answer the rhetorical question. Whether he is a servant or a doctor, Ran Yan needs one or two assistants, even if they only help a little, they can reduce a lot of burden.
Shao Ming's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly replied, "Yes." ”
"Then don't wait a while, watch carefully." Ran Yan also wanted to test Shao Ming's courage and potential, if he was the same as Sang Chen's rabbit, no matter how loyal and potential he was, it would be in vain.
The autopsy matter, in the final analysis, there is nothing unseemly, and Ran Yan is not afraid of anyone.
The two got into the carriage and arrived at the government morgue before the time.
The weather was not very good, it was gloomy and gloomy, as if it could rain at any time, the willow branches by the embankment at the entrance were gently swaying in the breeze, there were almost no pedestrians in front of the morgue, even if one or two people passed by, they were all bowed and hurried.
Two carriages were parked in the alley on the left, and Ran Yan guessed that Liu Tingshi might have arrived, so he walked to the gate of the morgue, and before he could open his mouth to ask, the official asked, "But what is the work of the autopsy?" ”
"Exactly." Ran Yan said.
Shao Ming, who was following behind, was suspicious, he thought that he would go to a family next to see someone's illness, but he didn't expect to come to the morgue of the mansion, and the lady turned out to be a servant Before he had time to think about it, Ran Yan had already entered through the side door, and Shao Ming was also busy carrying the box and followed.
The unique smell of rotting corpses in the morgue was faintly floating, and the clouds in the sky were extremely low, hot and humid, making people feel uneasy, Shao Ming felt a little scared at this time, and kept following behind Ran Yan while looking around vigilantly.
The official led the two to the door of a morgue, "This is it." ”
After that, he walked back without looking back. Shao Ming looked at his appearance as if he was being chased by a ghost, and his heart trembled even more.
Ran Yan glanced at him through the soap veil, "If you're afraid, you can go to the gate and wait." ”
Shao Ming swallowed his saliva, he wanted to go to the gate and wait, but Xinye, Ran Yan wanted to test him, so he had to bite the bill and say, "I'm not afraid." ”
Ran Yan snorted lightly and pushed open the door. A cold breath came to his face, Shao Ming shuddered, and his head shrank even more.
To Ran Yan's surprise, there were more than one or two people in the room, in addition to Liu Tingshi in a scarlet official uniform, there was another young man in a scarlet official uniform, four in light green official uniforms, a strong man standing on one side with his arms crossed, and the other shrunken old man, who was Feng Santen, whom Ran Yan had seen before.
Ran Yan's eyes widened slightly, staring at the young man in the scarlet robe and official uniform, and his heart suddenly retreated. At the same time, there are some doubts, how did he end up here? Purple for a while, red for a while, how many officials are they?
Xiao Song's current description is quite different from last night's lazy appearance, wearing a dark crimson round-necked official uniform, wearing a black head, a small group of flowers and a silk luo, and a grass and gold hook belt, with a majestic and majestic atmosphere, and the whole room is full of a sense of oppression. Ran Yan thought to herself, it was not good to bring such a person to ward off evil during the autopsy.
Thinking like this, Ran Yan felt a little more relaxed, and he owed a debt to the first person, and motioned for Shao Ming to put down the box.
"Seventeen Niang, it's all ready for you." Liu Pinrang greeted her with a smile and personally put the box in front of her.
When he said "Seventeen Niang", Ran Yan obviously felt a gaze like substance swept away, seeing that her scalp was numb, she didn't do it, but she felt a little weak.
"Thank you, Liu Tingshi." So far, I have to grit my teeth and continue.
Opening the box, Ran Yan first took out the mask and put it on, and then took off the fence and put on gloves. Although it didn't make much sense to do this, she couldn't hide it from the man at all, but she had subconsciously done everything. Ran Yan sorted out her gloves, wondering in her heart, why was she afraid of him?
If you can't figure it out, you don't think about it anymore. Ran Yan didn't say a word superfluously, and went straight to the corpse at his feet.
This time the corpse was placed on a wooden platform, which happened to be the height that could be reached by standing and bending down slightly, there were few tables with such a high height in the Tang Dynasty, and it was specially customized at a glance, Ran Yan secretly scolded Liu Tingshi: Damn old fox
Uncovering the sub-cloth, a female corpse with a terrifying face appeared in front of everyone. This corpse is still fresh, as Liu Tingshi said, the skin and flesh of the face are scratched and the flesh is blurred, as far as the visual inspection is concerned, there are at least eleven or two knives, the wounds are mainly distributed on the cheeks and jaw, and the forehead is only stained with blood, but there are no injuries.
The face was bruised and swollen, Ran Yan reached out and opened the corpse's eyelids, and the expected subconjunctival hemorrhage.
The forensic doctor's way of thinking and analyzing death is that first murder and then suicide, first external causes and then internal causes, first injury and then disease, seeing a cruel and disfigured corpse like Cuimei, Ran Yan will definitely examine it from the perspective of homicide first, and the external cause of injury is obvious.
However, after a series of examinations, according to the arrangement of the scars and the direction of the knife edge, Ran Yan came to a very puzzling result - these scars on Cui Mei's face actually looked like they were caused by the deceased
There is only one strangulation mark on the neck, and the strangulation marks are divided into eight characters at the back of the head, and they do not intersect, which is a manifestation of self-hanging, not that someone strangled her to death first, pretending to hang herself.
In order to verify this result, Ran Yan quickly unwrapped the corpse's clothes, and there was nothing left.
Cui Mei has only been dead for one night, her body is well preserved, her skin is fair and delicate, her bulging chest is round and plump, her legs are straight and slender, if you don't look at her face, such a graceful body, it is difficult not to think about it, all of the people present are men, and it is the first time to gather with others to watch a body, and I can't help but feel a little embarrassed.
Liu Pinrang coughed dryly twice, glanced at Xiao Song, saw that his face remained unchanged, and he did not shy away from staring at Ran Yan's movements on the corpse, and couldn't help but sigh, no wonder he was able to occupy a high position at a young age, and this unmoving determination was difficult for him to match.
While carefully examining the entire corpse, Ran Yan said, "There are a total of thirteen wounds on the deceased's face, the edge of the incision is neatly turned outward, there is a slight inflammation, and the wounds are of different depths, and they are arranged in a relatively even way. It was determined that the wound was inflicted by the deceased before her death, and it was most likely that she had scratched it. ”
"Maybe? How could anyone draw his face like that" Feng Sansheng immediately questioned it, he judged it to be murder, if it was easily overturned, his reputation in Suzhou City would plummet.
Liu Pinrang also always thought that Cuimei died of murder, and he was a little puzzled, "Why is this?" ”
"First of all, apart from the stab wounds on the face and the strangulation marks on the neck, there were no obvious injuries on the deceased's body. If it was someone else's doing, the deceased would have motionless and let others cut a knife in her face? At least, the murderer will hold her down to the death, and the strength used must be not small, and there will be no trace at all? Ran Yan explained.
Feng Sansheng retorted coldly, "If the murderer wrapped her tightly with a quilt so that her limbs could not move, it was also very likely to cause such a phenomenon." ”
Ran Yan nodded, "It's indeed possible, but I suspect that there is another reason for her self-harm, because people will feel pain, and when committing suicide or self-harm, they will feel pain when they go under the knife, and the pain will become lighter, so it is generally heavy to lower the knife and light to lift the knife, so that the depth of the knife edge is different, if there are many knives, the number of knives of different shades will generally be arranged in a more uniform way." You look at the wound on Cui Mei's face, which is completely in line with this. ”
"Why do you hurt yourself?" Feng Sansheng frowned.
"Good end?" Ran Yan looked at him, and said in a voice without ups and downs, "People are often in a state of extreme pain related to feelings, and the psychological state of a suicidal person when committing suicide, self-harm, and self-abuse cannot be measured by the psychology of ordinary people. Presumably you have also found out that she has been pregnant for nearly three months, she is the music of Caixiu Pavilion, and she does not sell her body, why did she suddenly conceive a child? Also, she has three bayberry-shaped sores in her lower genitals, obviously suffering from willow disease, which should not have happened, because it would happen to her? Of course, at the moment, there are only a few features that prove that she was self-harming, and the exact circumstances will not be determined until after the autopsy. ”
Feng Sanshi was stunned, he had been working for decades, and there were only a few corpses dissected, one was that the family of the deceased did not allow it, and the other was that unless it was a major injury, such as liver rupture, he did not dare to guarantee that the cause of death would be possible after the autopsy. Datang's works are basically like this. Even if a little lady is dissected, can she definitely see it? Feng didn't believe it, so he stopped and waited to see what happened.
Since it was self-hanging, Ran Yan began to dissect from the hanging marks on the neck, when she cut open the skin of the deceased's neck with a knife, exposing the muscle tissue, immediately there was bleeding in the tissues and muscles under the neck skin, Ran Yan kept moving on his hands, but he had to explain to the laymen next to him, otherwise what was the use of just her, "Everyone, please see, there is bleeding in the skin and muscles, which is one of the manifestations of hanging." ”
As he spoke, Ran Yan used tweezers to point out the bleeding for everyone, and then cut open the part that had not been hanged and let them compare.
After doing all this, Ran Yan raised her head and suddenly met a pair of black eyes, she was slightly stunned, and saw Xiao Song nodding with interest. And Feng Sansheng was shocked when he saw Ran Yan's skillful knife skills, although he didn't want to show it on his face, but when Ran Yan began to explain, he had a kind of stealing joy in his heart, so he listened very seriously.
The rest of the people were pale and blue, pursing their mouths tightly to prevent vomiting and losing their temper, and even Xiao Song's guard looked uncomfortable.
Since someone understands, Ran Yan continued to dissect deeply, and when he cut near the hyoid bone, he said, "The blood vessels in the neck arteries are ruptured, the hyoid bone is broken, and there are blood spots and congestion under the mucosa of the posterior pharyngeal wall......"
Ran Yan said, while pointing out these parts one by one to show them, Ran Yan, even if the rest of the people dare not watch, at least Feng Santen and Xiao Song.
The scalpel continued downward, peeling away the attached muscles, revealing the white bones of the Mori Sen, "the cervical vertebrae were fractured, dislocated, and bleeding." ”
After inspecting these, Ran Yan did not stop, and then began to dissect the chest and abdomen, the knife in her hand was like a life, it was very well controlled, where it was cut, how deep it was cut, it was very accurate, and the skin and subcutaneous fat were cut open, and it would definitely not hurt the internal organs.
Xiao Song's gaze couldn't help but shift to Ran Yan's face.
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