Chapter III: Speaking for the Dead The Right of the Living

The group walked to the county office, Gao Han first went to report to the county lord Yang, and Xue Dabao led Ji Xia to the palace in the backyard of the county government.

Ji Xia looked around the room and looked at the tools on the board, tweezers, gauze, scissors, and gloves were all available.

Xue Dabao ordered the pawn to put the body of Miss Wang on the autopsy table, and when the pawn retreated, Ji Xia rolled up his sleeves, put on gloves made of sheep intestines, and prepared to start the examination.

"Why haven't you left yet?" Ji Xia noticed that Xue Dabao hadn't left yet, and asked.

"I'll see if there's anything I can do to help?" Xue Dabao scratched his head embarrassedly and said.

"Then you hold a pen and paper, stand next to you, and don't speak without my permission."

"Okay." As if he had received some favor, Xue Dabao picked up the pen and paper and stood quietly on one side.

said that he was helping, but in fact he wanted to see what this girl was capable of, and he said in his heart that this girl said that she slept in a room with the corpse last night, and she must be bragging.

It's a gloomy Yizhuang, but it's a rotting corpse! How could a weak woman have such guts?

Uncle Zhang has not married a wife in his fifties, and he treats Xue Dabao and others as sons and nephews on weekdays, and takes great care of them.

This girl gave Uncle Zhang's face on the spot, although she couldn't help in public, if she could watch some of this girl's jokes and tell them to Uncle Zhang, she would also be able to comfort him.

Just thinking about it, Xue Dabao saw that Ji Xia was taking off the dress of the deceased Miss Wang, and couldn't help but let go of the pen and paper and covered his eyes with his hands.

When Ji Xia heard the sound of the brush falling, he couldn't help but be a little angry, and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Xue Dabao said embarrassedly: "Don't look at indecent things." ”

Ji Xia suddenly understood, Zhengse said, "We are speaking for the dead, for the rights of the living, if we don't take off our clothes, how can we find out if Miss Wang is injured, and how can we find out the cause of death and find out the murderer!" If Miss Wang had known, she would not have been blamed. ”

"A good sentence for the dead, for the rights of the living!" After Gao Han returned to Lord Yang, he was walking to the workshop, and when he heard Ji Xia's words, he couldn't help but be full of praise, and muttered in his heart, "This girl is not very old, but she has such an opinion, which should not be underestimated."

Ji Xia heard Gao Han's praise for himself, smiled slightly, and thought to himself, this is all the teachings of the ancestor (Song Ci).

After listening to Ji Xia's explanation, Xue Dabao no longer covered his face, and together with Gao Han, he was a little shy to assist Ji Xia in the autopsy.

After stripping off the deceased's clothes, Gao Xue and the others gasped, and when the corpse was soaked in water for a long time, the whole body was swollen and white, accompanied by the smell of decay, and they couldn't help but immediately pinch their noses with their hands.

Ji Xia's face did not change, pointed to a few slices of ginger on the table, and ordered the two of them to put them in their mouths.

"The deceased, female, about 5 feet 1 inch long, about 15 or 6 years old, the zombie of the lower limbs began to ease, and the preliminary judgment was that the time of death was probably the night before yesterday."

After initial exploration, Ji Xia carefully examined the wounds on the corpse. "In addition to a long abrasion mark on the back, there are a total of 15 abrasion marks on the whole body, and the muscles at the wound have not contracted, which can be determined to be caused by friction and impact in the process of being thrown into the body after death."

"In the case of spotted bleeding in the eye, a fractured hyoid bone, and a scar on the neck that was strangled with both hands, it can be determined that the deceased died of mechanical suffocation due to the strangulation of the neck with his hands."

Speaking of this, Ji Xia paused, frowned, and carefully inspected the neck of the female corpse, there was a concave mark at the position of the finger mark on the thumb of his right hand, and the lines were faintly visible, "You see, what is the difference between this finger mark?" ”

"Why are these finger marks still patterned?" Xue Dabao glanced at it and sighed.

"I understand, when the murderer committed the murder, he was wearing a wrench on his right thumb!" Gao Han thought for a moment and came to a conclusion.

Ji Xia nodded approvingly, and carefully examined the other parts of the female corpse, "The fingernails are red, presumably coated with impatiens juice, and the fingernail of the index finger of the right hand is broken."

Seeing that there were some tiny dander hidden between the fingernails, he hurriedly said: "Gao Catcher, please bring a small plate."

Gao Han nodded and hurriedly took a small plate, Ji Xia picked up tweezers and carefully cleaned the dander between the index and middle fingers of the female corpse's hands, and put it on the small plate, "Guess it was the deceased who was choked by the throat and scratched the suspect while struggling." ”

Watching Ji Xia's test from the side, Xue Dabao had already admired Ji Xia so much that he completely dispelled the idea of wanting to see jokes.

"I've always had a question, how did Miss Ji tell that the deceased was murdered and not drowned by suicide when she was by the river just now, just from a distance?" Gao Han asked.

"First, the deceased was gorgeously dressed, obviously from a wealthy family, but I noticed that the heels of her shoes were badly worn, and I would like to ask a young lady from a wealthy family, how could she wear a pair of broken shoes, apparently caused by being dragged on the ground."

"Second, if she entered the water before her death, even if she committed suicide, at a critical moment, the instinct of life will drive her to grasp something, then there must be aquatic plants or sediment between the fingers of the deceased, and I can see from a distance that there is no sediment in the fingernails of the deceased, then it can be preliminarily determined that the deceased was thrown into the river after death."

Gao Han was shocked: this woman could notice so many details just by looking at it from a distance, it was definitely not an ordinary woman. I couldn't help but appreciate Ji Xia a little more in my heart.

Suddenly, I heard Ji Xia speak, "She...... Pregnant! ”