Even the most precious clues, as the corpse enters the soil and turns into white bones, they all return to dust and dust, and it is difficult to find them again.

When Li Mi came to Lian Yu's white bones, it was hard to imagine that such a frightening and uncomfortable skeleton was also a young girl in the flower season ten years ago, she was beautiful, innocent and intelligent, and she was a wonderful woman who was once praised as the Oiran of Bai Yujing by the prince Song Chenyi.

Time is like a knife, no matter the prince or general, in the end it is just a handful of dust.

Li Mi squatted down and carefully examined Lian Yu's bones, he saw his feet from his head and feet, and he didn't find anything strange, and when he was about to give up this clue, Mai Liang on the side suddenly said loudly: "Lord Li, look at the neck, there seems to be something?" ”

Li Mi followed the prestige, Lian Yu's neck bone, faintly blackened, he held the bones up, several embroidered guards came to help carry it, he carefully approached to see, only to finally notice an important clue.

Lian Yu has fingerprints on his neck bone.

This clue can be said to have shocked everyone present, because even the carefully examined work did not notice this inconspicuous position.

They may have observed this location, but the ancients did not have a very strong concept of fingerprints, and when they saw these blackened and shallow marks, they would only take it for granted that they were dirt and filth.

Li Mi also noticed the abnormality in the neck bone under Mai Liang's prompting, and those blackened marks were the pinching marks left by the fingers.

In his previous life, as a criminal policeman, he had a strong sense of fingerprints, and he knew how much a fingerprint on a corpse could help solve a crime.

After Shen Luo learned that this was the fingerprint left by the murderer, he was very excited, which meant that there would be another item of ironclad evidence against Song Chenyi, and the next thing he needed to do was to rub the fingerprints of Lian Yu's neck bone.

But this matter stumped all the people of the six doors, in the Great Zhao Dynasty, although there was a superficial concept of fingerprints, it was limited to fingerprint comparison, and there should be ready-made fingerprints and suspicious fingerprints to compare, that is, to judge whether they belong to the same person by distinguishing the subtle differences between the two fingerprints with the naked eye.

Although this method is clumsy, for the ancient times when the concept of criminal investigation was backward, the Great Zhao Dynasty was already relatively advanced.

In order to facilitate the comparison of fingerprints at any time, the Great Zhao Dynasty also specially added a yamen in the Criminal Department to collect fingerprints, and recorded the fingerprints in a book called "Ji Dou Book".

When difficult and miscellaneous cases occur all over the country, if there are fingerprints, they will be wiped with a brush dipped in toner to make the fingerprints appear, and then a special painter will copy the fingerprints on the drawing paper and send them to the criminal department for identification.

And Lian Yu's corpse has been dead for more than ten years, and the fingerprints on the neck bone have been brittle into shallow black traces, which are almost indistinguishable.

Fortunately, Li Mi quickly solved this problem, he once learned a fingerprint rubbing course at the police academy, which talked about how the forensic Song Ci used fingerprint rubbing to solve the case in the Song Dynasty, where the technical means were not advanced enough.

Li Mi asked people to prepare a stack of rice paper, and pointed out that the Chengxintang paper made in Shezhou, this kind of rice paper paper is as white as jade, uniform and smooth, uniform thickness, and is the most suitable paper for rubbing fingerprints.

In addition, a jar of clay was prepared, which was pounded in a clay vase and placed next to the bones.

After tidying up, Li Mi smeared the toner prepared in advance on the black marks on his neck bone, and then covered a piece of Shezhou rice paper on it with lightning speed, and carefully applied it to the rice paper with clay, and after sticking the rice paper to the fingerprints covered with toner, he let go and waited patiently.

After about a quarter of an hour, Li Mi picked off the clay little by little, and then removed the rice paper, on which several fingerprints were printed in the center of a black and slimy ink blob.

The fingerprint does not have the oily luster of an ordinary fingerprint, and the middle lines are spread out, blurred, and the sweat pores cannot be distinguished, showing a dry paste, but the shape of the fingerprint can still be distinguished.

This is an obvious stale fingerprint, which is now rubbed on rice paper, showing the killer's deadly feet.

Mai Liang was amazed and admired beside him, "The fingerprints on Lian Yu's neck can be left for ten years, and they look like traces of some claw martial arts on the rivers and lakes." ”

Shen Luo looked at the scratched fingerprints on the rice paper, and was stunned: "Do you know that there was once an evil skill called Destroying the Claw of the Gods on the rivers and lakes, when used, 'five fingers are strong, unbreakable, destroying the enemy's head, such as wearing rotten soil', and can leave scratches on the opponent's body when hurting the enemy." The finger marks on Lianyu's neck bone, are they very similar? ”

As soon as she reminded her, Mai Liang immediately remembered something, slapped his right fist and left palm and said: "I remember, a few decades ago, there was a demon giant named Wen Qingcang who cultivated the Destruction of the Divine Claw and killed countless people, and was later jointly condemned by the righteous path of the rivers and lakes, and it is said that he was later abolished for martial arts, and the people of the Shu Wangfu took him away and locked him in the Wangfu Ice Lake, so it is very likely that Song Chenyi learned the Destruction of the Divine Claw from Wen Qingcang!" ”

"Wen Qingcang?" Shen Luo groaned, and then remembered, "This person does have some impressions, he was taken away by the Shu Wangfu back then, and there has been no news since then." If there is anyone in the rivers and lakes who can still leave such finger marks on human bones, it is Wen Qingcang's Destroying Divine Claw. It's just that after all these years, Wen Qingcang is afraid that he will die a long time ago. And ten years ago, he was imprisoned in the ice lake of the Shu Palace, and it was impossible for him to come to the capital, unless someone learned his unique mastery, this person could only be the noble son Song Chenyi. ”

Thinking of this, Shen Luo immediately asked Mai Liang to return to the Six Gates, and ordered him to go through the Shu file to verify the master-apprentice relationship between Wen Qingcang and Song Chenyi.

Not long after, another news came from the six doors, that someone had left a sack at the entrance of the yamen and fled.

Although the embroidered guards who stayed behind boasted of their extraordinary skills, they still failed to catch up with the man and slipped out of his nose.

When they opened the mouth of the sack, a strong smell of blood came to their faces, and then they found that there was a person inside.

On duty was Li Moxiong, who pushed away a group of hurried catchers, picked open the sack with a knife, and the people who fell out of it were soaked as if they had been soaked in blood.

Surprisingly, the man seemed to be still breathing and was not dead.

Six doors urgently called for doctors to come for treatment, and immediately notified Shen Luo.

When Li Mi and Shen Luo rushed back to the yamen from Huagran Mountain, the doctor had already completed the basic treatment, bandaged the wound, and sighed: "The patient was extremely seriously injured and seemed to have been tortured, but the other party didn't hurt him for some reason, and he always kept his breath, so that he could hold out until I arrived." ”

Li Mi only felt that the dying figure lying on the bed was somewhat familiar, and when Li Moxiong arrived with this person's file, the doubts were finally solved.

"This person is Chen Tuo, the director of Dali Temple, who has been absent from Dali Temple for many days, but I didn't expect to be thrown at the door of our six doors." Li Moxiong flipped through the file and was quite confused.

"Is it Chen Sizhi?" Li Mi came to his senses, he walked a few steps to the bed, and looked at the face that was almost deformed by the gangsters, it was indeed similar.

Shen Luo had doubts in his eyes.

Li Mi hurriedly explained: "Chen Tuo is my fellow villager who visited Dali Temple a few times ago, but I didn't expect him to suffer such an accident, who did such a poisonous act?" ”

Chen Tuo had comminuted fractures in many places, a pair of eyes swollen like quail eggs, more than a dozen teeth fell out, and his face was beaten so that his parents couldn't recognize him.

In addition, in the tattered clothes like strips of rags, everywhere you look, there are hideous wounds and pus, emitting bursts of foul smell.

Just when everyone was full of questions, Chen Tuo finally woke up from his coma.

The first thing he said was shocking, "I want to testify that ten years ago, Song Chenyi, the son of the King of Shu, raped the people's daughter Lian Yu and caused her death, he is the culprit, he is a murderer!" ”

Li Mi and Shen Luo listened to his words, and were stunned for a long time, not knowing what medicine Chen Sizhi had taken wrongly, and said these words as soon as he opened his mouth.

Chen Tuo cried bitterly and told the truth like a bamboo tube pouring beans, "Ten years ago, I was on an errand in the Six Doors Edict Prison, and I was a full-time prisoner. After Lian Yu's case, a restaurant boy was arrested as a suspect and put in prison, and I was taken into custody for interrogation. At the beginning of interrogating him, the kid always shook his head, refused to admit anything, and insisted that he was wronged.

After the whole night of interrogation, the restaurant guy never let go, and even I felt that he might have been wronged. As a result, in the early morning of the next day, Song Chenyi, the prince of Shu, did not know what means, and sent Hu from the edict that had infiltrated the six doors of the prison and handed me a bag of gold, asking me to make the little servant confess no matter what method I used. ”

"So you violated the edict and prison order, lynched without authorization, and forced the restaurant guy to confess?" Li Mi said coldly.

Chen Tuo nodded, "It's me who is guilty, I shouldn't be greedy for that money, that day I tortured the restaurant guy, and the eighteen tortures were just three times, and the kid couldn't stand it and begged for mercy." I asked him to sign a confession, and he signed it honestly. After that, Jingzhao Mansion sentenced him to death, and he was immediately taken away from the edict prison and beheaded. ”

Shen Luo snorted coldly, "You admit it happily, seeing that you were tortured into this ghost, I'm afraid someone forced you to say this, right?" ”

Chen Tuo's pupils shrank, and he was very afraid: "That guy is simply not human, he is a murderous demon, he is more terrifying than any prisoner I have ever seen in the Imperial Prison, he is a natural executioner, if I don't obey his instructions, I will be killed immediately!" ”

"When you get to the place of six doors, are you still afraid that he won't make it? There are so many masters in the yamen, can they still slaughter you right under their noses? Shen Luo said.

"No, you don't understand how terrible he is." Chen Tuo's voice trembled, "His martial arts are very good, and he can come and go freely from the heavily guarded Shangshu Mansion. He killed Shang Shu, Tian Xiaosui, and Wang Donkey in front of me, and he can easily escape from the pursuers with me, and it will be difficult for you to defeat him. ”

Li Mi asked: "According to what you say, the other party killed three times, and you were all present, why did he kill people in front of you, but chose to leave you to testify against Song Chenyi?" ”