Liu Ling didn't bother to bother with him, and asked, "Xu Zhutou, do you remember what I told you last night, there is a smell here that I can't recognize?" ”

"Remember, so what? I didn't hear anything anyway. ”

"It's not that you can't smell it, but if your mind is not quiet, it will be chaotic, hurry up, just like me, close your eyes, don't think about anything, don't care about anything."

Xu Yun was curious about what Liu Ling smelled, so she followed Liu Ling's meaning, and sure enough, a different smell that appeared from time to time penetrated into her nostrils: "What kind of smell is this, why does it smell too much, but there is a disgusting feeling?" ”

"If I'm correct, it's a corpse!"

"What? Corpse stench! Xu Yun's whole body trembled, and she immediately opened her frightened eyes, and when she looked at Liu Ling, Liu Ling had already walked to Lu Yuan's bedside.

Liu Ling waved his hand at Xu Yun: "Come here, standing here, do you feel that the smell is stronger?" ”

"Are you trying to say that Lu Yuan is dead, and the dead body is under the bed?" Xu Yun suddenly realized, and hurriedly beckoned the catchers outside to come in.

At this time, several subordinates of the Lu Mansion surrounded them, gossiping, Lu Yuan's younger brother Lu Fang, who was just over ten years old, heard the discussion of the subordinates, and immediately cried, and had to rush to the room to find his sister.

The subordinates immediately panicked and tried their best to coax, all their efforts seemed to be in vain, except for being able to stop Lu Fang from being able to move a step, but the growing cries could not be stopped.

Lu Fang's roar was like a spiritualist spell, and the surrounding neighbors and pedestrians on the road were attracted by curiosity.

In the entire courtyard of the Lu family, it was immediately crowded, the water was impassable, and the noisy noise was boiling and chaotic.

……

Xu Yun took the lead and moved away from the bed board with the other catchers, revealing a dry pile of mud under the bed, and there were many cracks of uneven length and thickness on the mud.

Liu Ling approached the crack, and the strange smell, to be precise, should be the smell of corpses getting stronger and stronger.

When Xu Yun and the catchers lifted the dry mud, the body of a woman in a pink gauze skirt exploded.

The corpse was not very badly decomposed, and it was still possible to make out its approximate appearance.

After repeated confirmation by the people of the Lu Mansion, the woman's body was indeed Lu Yuan.

Liu Ling marveled that the murderer was too cunning to cover the corpse with mud, so as to delay the smell of the corpse and slow down the progress of the corpse's decomposition.

It is no wonder that when Liu Ling first smelled the rotten smell of the corpse, the smell coming from the cracks in the mud alone was too faint, mixed with the other smells in the room, and if he didn't distinguish it carefully, he couldn't immediately know that it was the smell of corpses.

According to the time of Lu Yuan's disappearance, it was half a month, and now the weather is getting hot in late spring, if it weren't for the protection of these muds, Lu Yuan's body would have been decomposed and unrecognizable.

Liu Ling didn't dare to let people move Lu Yuan's body, for fear that it would be destroyed due to decay and would not be able to perform a normal autopsy, so he had to ask Yu Kuai to light up some more candles to illuminate the darkness of the backlight under the bed, so as to see the various parts of the corpse clearly.

At this time, the officials who came in a hurry and did not bring the record of the martyrdom could only be temporarily replaced by Xu Yun, who could write.

Liu Ling carefully cut Lu Yuan's clothes with scissors, "According to the corpse, the time of the deceased's death should not be less than half a month.

The deceased's face was black and purple, his eyes were open, his eyeballs were protruding, and blood flowed out of his mouth and nostrils......

In the mouth of the deceased, a part of purple-brown blood was deposited on his teeth, and in my guess, this should be the blood of the murderer......

There were uneven bruises all over the body, which were caused by the deceased's beatings by the killer before his death...... On the lower body of the corpse, as well as on both sides of the thighs, there was a dry man Yuan Yang......"

Liu Ling inadvertently saw that Xu Yun's body had twisted away, and he didn't take the last note, obviously Xu Yun's shame was aggravated, and he couldn't face Lu Yuan's most private part.

Liu Ling didn't like Xu Yun being so twisted and pinched, looking fake and serious, and asked, "Xu Zhutou, did you write down what I just told you?" ”

"I don't want to remember! Back to the county office, you can just make up for this by yourself. Xu Yun's answer was reasonable.

Liu Ling was stunned, if he could remember what he wanted him to do, he would be really depressed: "As a head catcher, for the progress of the case, you should be informal, which is what you should have."

But you must always remember that the person lying in front of you is not a woman or a man, but a poor person who urgently needs your justice to her.

Xu Zhutou, one last time I ask you, should you write down everything I said in the martyrdom? ”

Xu Yun knew that she was wrong, so she snorted, her response was very light, and when she was writing, she still lowered her head, not daring to look at Lu Yuan's corpse.

Liu Ling continued: "Judging from the examination of the corpse, Lu Yuan was raped by the murderer before his death, and when Lu Yuan did not comply, he was beaten by the murderer, and in the end, he directly covered his mouth and nose until he suffocated to death.

The murderer, in order not to be exposed, buried it on the spot, and fearing that the rotten stench of the corpse would soon be discovered, smeared the corpse with wet mud and stuffed it under the bed.

What the murderer didn't expect was that the wet mud he smeared was too shallow to solidify well, and it was these cracks that raised the alarm and ruined the murderer's tricks......"

Liu Ling suddenly saw that the innermost part of the gap between the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger of Lu Yuan's two hands was full of blood-stained flesh of different sizes.

Liu Ling had searched Lu Yuan's entire corpse and had not seen such a wound.

Obviously, this should be when Lu Yuan was violated; Or when the murderer covers his mouth and nose and is about to suffocate, he tries to struggle and resist, leaving skin and flesh when scratching the murderer's body.

It is precisely these inconspicuous flesh and skin that give Liu Ling the best evidence to find the murderer.

……

Lu Yuan's body was carefully packed into the ice coffin, and Liu Ling hired another carriage to transport the ice coffin to the county government and asked the groom to wait outside.

Xu Yun was puzzled and asked, "Do you know that the county magistrate has always been very bold, and he never likes to let corpses enter the county office?" Why do you have to let people pull the ice coffin here? ”

Liu Ling laughed: "I know, special circumstances and special treatment, if I don't pull Lu Yuan's body over, how can I let the murderer be punished." ”

Xu Yun was a little surprised: "Oh? Do you already know who the killer is? ”

"Xu Zhutou still remembers that the Shen family is like a dream, and it has also made her linger and suspicious all the time?"

Xu Yun thought for a while and said, "Remember, what's wrong?" You mean that's the crux of the case? ”

Liu Ling shrugged: "It should be, but it's not all." Let's go to the lobby first, and I'll explain everything you don't understand later. ”