Chapter 13: The Art of Death

It was a small, dilapidated room, and the tiles on the eaves had been sharpened by the wind to the point of shape. The room was pitch black, and only a candle was lit, and the candle shadows shone on the concrete wall, like a drifting ghost. Shang Jin's heart was filled with a chill: On this July day, the sun was still shining outside the house, why was the damp, cold and cool atmosphere inside the house so creepy?

"Who are you? What are you here for? The woman who had been crying before sat on the ground, her hair in a bun, and when she saw someone coming, a trace of vigilance flashed in her eyes that had not dried her tears, and she asked.

"Auntie, I'm Zuo Sheng."

"You're the Left Judge?" The middle-aged woman looked Zuo Sheng up and down, shook her head, and frowned:

"No way. Judge Zuo is tall and mighty, with great powers, you are so short and short, don't you ......" Her eyes suddenly became fierce,

"Isn't it with those people who want to take my daughter away?? I tell you, even if I live on this earth for a day, I won't let you come close! Zuo Sheng did not look displeased, and slowly took out a token symbolizing his identity from his waist and signaled to the eldest mother. The latter was stunned and a little dazed.

"Those people, who are they?" Shang Jin asked.

"It's the one who killed my daughter!" She said hatefully, "Just because Yun'er is a fireworks woman, those neighbors don't believe that she was killed, and think that she is self-inflicted." Our family is poor, and it's my fault that she's fallen to this point, but why? Why should the Qinglou woman be spurned by tens of millions of people, and this path was not chosen by her voluntarily, it was all forced by the situation! She is so sensible, she shouldn't have been reincarnated here, and finally ended up in a miserable end...... "After saying that, she sobbed and cried again.

Ye Shi frowned, and said softly: "Auntie, the world is very picky, even those high-ranking officials have lost power, no matter how many good things they have done before, there will always be people who will go up and step on it." This is the indifference of the human heart. Your daughter is not at fault, they are at fault. The eldest lady raised her head, a look of excitement flashed on her wrinkled face, and she clenched Ye Shi's sleeves and said:

"Thank you, girl, for speaking for my daughter."

"Auntie, if your daughter's death is really the work of a wicked person, Judge Zuo will definitely help you find out, you don't have to worry." Mu Ningjiu comforted.

"Judge Zuo, come with me." Shang Jin helped her get up and came to a small dark room. The air was filled with the putrid smell of corpses, mixed with the cold and clammy moisture, which was particularly pungent.

Ye Shi took a candle from the outside and slightly illuminated the woman lying on the ground on her back.

Zuo Sheng squatted and looked at it for a while, and said lightly:

"Light a few more oil lamps." Seeing that no one answered, he glanced at Ye Shi by the door, and there was a compulsion in his voice:

"It's you, go!" Ye Shi pinched the bones of his hand so loudly: he didn't even bring a name, who knew that she was called? Relying on what you are good at, just pretend to be cool and call her? When this matter is over, if she doesn't clean up this bastard, she won't be surnamed Ye! Hum!!!

The three oil lamps lit up, and Mu Ningjiu finally saw the woman clearly. To tell the truth, if it weren't for the hot weather, the traces of blue and black ulceration would be more serious, and judging from the blurred facial outline, this must be a beautiful face.

The pupils are dilated and the face and gums are congested...... Zuo Sheng then examined her neck, and there was a circle of cyanosis on it, which was produced by Bai Aya. It seems highly likely that the woman hanged herself, but why was her mother so sure she was killed?

"Auntie, tell me all about the situation on the day of death."

"She hadn't been named by the guests the day before, so she came back to see me early. Then she told me that the pianist who had been helping her dance with him liked him and wanted to ransom her with money, and tomorrow was the last day to go to the Qinglou. After listening to it, I wondered if she would be used by someone with a heart, and tried to persuade her, but she didn't listen, and said that she was pregnant and must go with him. I couldn't resist her, so I let her go. Who knows, when I come back from the field in the evening, we mother and daughter will ...... It's already been separated by yin and yang......" She burst into tears, and when she said this, she suddenly choked up.

"She's pregnant?" Mu Ningjiu frowned: Anyway, the pregnant woman's maternal thoughts and will to survive are particularly significant, and the possibility of suicide is a bit small?

"Yes, it's already two months old, how could this happen......" She cried and cried, and instantly became a tearful person, Zuo Sheng frowned and asked:

"Auntie, it is impossible to tell whether it is a murder or not just by looking at the surface. If you really want to know, I might need to do a thorough examination of your daughter's body, would you like to? ”

The eldest lady was stunned: "What do you mean?" ”

"That is, I will use a knife on your daughter." Mu Ningjiu explained.

"Knives?!" She exclaimed, "This is a great disrespect to the dead, and I can't help it!" You can't, I'll find a way to do it, someone will always know......"

"Auntie, Zuo Sheng is one of the best judges in Yu Country, if he can't see it, then no one can." Shang Jin said.

"You also hope to give an explanation to your daughter under Jiuquan, don't you? This is just an empty shell, can't it withstand your daughter's grievances? Ye Shi persuaded.

“…… Lord Zuo, are you going to ...... it yourself? The eldest lady asked in surprise, and the meaning was self-evident: why did he take the work of such a high official on himself?

"The cases I took were all personal inspections of the bodies." He said lightly, "In this way, we can ensure the synchronization of vision and conjecture." ”

"That'...... Please, I must help my daughter clear her name! I can't see this, I'm just waiting outside for your news. Hearing this, Zuo Sheng's tightened eyebrows stretched, and unknown emotions flashed in his eyes.

Shang Jin hurriedly got up and hugged the eldest mother: "I'll accompany you outside to wait." He walked a few steps, turned back to Mu Ningjiu and Ye Shi and said:

"You'd better not look at the two of you, let's come out and leave him alone." He had the privilege of watching Zuo Sheng's so-called "in-depth analysis" once, and after that time, seven or eight days later, he felt sick in his stomach when he saw something red...... How did this kid do all this without changing his face and heartbeat? Mu Ningjiu knew that Shang Jin was extremely persistent in beautiful things, on the contrary, when he saw something disgusting, he should not only resist visually, but also be unwilling in his heart. But she wasn't so repulsive. So he said:

"Ah Jin, you accompany the eldest lady outside the door, I want to stay here." She turned her head to look at Ye Shi, and saw that the latter was looking at Zuo Sheng's movements fixedly, and said:

"We'll just stay here."

The woman's clothes had been completely unwrapped, and there was barely a single part of her body, covered in corpse spots and bruises.

With a "slash", it fell from the woman's chest, dark red coagulated blood flowed from the blade, and a strong smell of rot came, although Mu Ningjiu had killed so many people, he had never felt so sick to his stomach once. She stroked her chest, calming the sour water that had welled up in her throat and letting out a long sigh of relief. Ye Shi's face on the side was not very good, but he still stared at it with nausea.

The lungs were dark black from massive blood loss, and the chest cavity was hollowed out like a deflated ball. Zuo Sheng cut the woman's wrist with a knife, and it was also dark red blood clotting, but it was slightly redder than the blood in the chest. Glancing at the woman's neck again, Zuo Sheng carefully stared at the strangulation mark for a long time, and suddenly with a "click", the sharp silver knife in his hand quickly cut the throat, and a few drops of congealed blood inevitably splashed on his robe and skin, but he didn't see any reaction, just looked at every part of the corpse with great concentration.

Suddenly, he let out a strange "huh". Mu Ning raised her eyebrows: What kind of turnaround is this? Could it be that this woman was really killed?

Soon, he wiped the blood on his hands with a cloth, stood up, and said lightly:

"Call the lady in."

"How's it going, Lord Zuo?" There was a hint of hope in the lady's trembling voice.

"It can be determined that your daughter was killed by him. But......" he paused and said, "This murderer is extremely cunning, and it is very difficult to really catch him. Shang Jin raised his eyebrows unexpectedly: Very? This extreme word is completely inconsistent with the style of the leftover boy? It is not for nothing that he has encountered a difficult case, but he has never heard him give such a negative evaluation. Besides, even if he kills, tracking down the murderer shouldn't be difficult for him, right?

"The only 'fatal wound' that can be seen on the body surface of the deceased is the strangulation marks under the neck, and no traces of struggle and fighting have been found around the body. Strangulation marks are deep, bluish-purple, with a small amount of epidermal peeling and subcutaneous hemorrhage. The hanger of this position should be one of two types: lateral and posterior. The fingers and lips are blackened, which is completely consistent with the state of hanging and hanging. But......" he chuckled suddenly, and said:

"The corpse cannot lie, and no matter how good the disguise is, there is no guarantee that all the states of the deceased's body will fully meet expectations. The murderer thought about it a lot, but it was still a little worse. The subcutaneous bleeding from the throat wound was much lighter than I had ever seen, so I checked the deceased's lungs and compared them with the bruises in the larynx, and found that the bruising in the lungs was much more than in the larynx. This means that the deceased was killed before he was hanged. And the way to kill is to cover the mouth and nose with forced suffocation. ”

After listening to Zuo Sheng's serial analysis, Ye Shi raised her eyebrows in surprise: she followed and watched for a long time, except that she saw that there was a long time before the time of death, and she didn't find any other clues. It seems that this bastard is not so wasteful, at least he is still commendable in terms of autopsy and evidence. Watching him perform an autopsy, his thin lips pursed slightly, and his brows frowned slightly, which was a completely different feeling from usual. There is a kind of silence that "no one should approach" all over his body, and his ears don't hear what is going on outside the window.

"Judge Zuo, thank you so much, thank you for clearing Yun'er's name! Please help catch the murderer, please! The eldest lady said excitedly with tears in her eyes.