Early the next morning.

Xu Jianping got up early and washed up, and then came to the side hall of the yamen with his wooden box on his back. At this time, there were three or five people standing sparsely in the hall, and when he saw that Xu Jianping was young and young, he leaned over and asked, "Look at Miansheng, where did you come from?" ”

Xu Jianping didn't answer, walked straight over, pulled over a long case, turned around and walked into the cellar, picked a female corpse from the corpses piled up by the officials yesterday, and placed it on the long case.

Turned over his hand, opened the wooden box, took out the gauntlet from the inside, put on the face towel respectively, and then took out the six-inch double-edged short knife, and without nonsense, he lifted the corpse's clothes, exposed the belly, and looked directly above

"Poof."

With a knife, the flatulence in the corpse's abdomen found a breakthrough, and in an instant, a fishy smell filled the entire side hall.

"Jiangling is a good worker, Xu Jianping."

A few people had to cover their mouths and noses and leave the side hall with a scolding. "If you are really a lowly person, you should be so rude."

Xu Jianping did not argue with it, and continued to dissect the corpse.

"That's not right."

Immediately afterwards, Xu Jianping took out another male corpse from the cellar, placed it on the long case, and dissected it.

Each knife is like an elf, dancing in its hands, and after a while, Xu Jianping came to the hall with a stomach pouch in both hands to look for money to catch the head.

"Guan Guan Juzhou, in the state of the river, my fair lady, good gentleman." I saw Chen Yibing with his head up, humming an out-of-tune tune in his mouth, shaking his head and shaking his head.

"Brother Xu, you didn't go with me last night, it's a pity, the new reds in Yanyulou, the snow-white chest, the round ass, the ......" After Chen Yibing entered the door and saw Xu Jianping, he stretched out his hand and put it on his shoulder, eating breakfast, and sharing the fun of last night's cleansing with him. If you ask what it means to purify your body, you should also wash your whole body with lead.

"Well, what you eat, how can you eat it alone?"

After that, he let go of the hand on Xu Jianping's shoulder, grabbed the stomach pouch in his hand with both hands, played with it, and sniffed it with his nose. "Why does it smell fishy?"

Xu Jianping explained very seriously, "This thing is a stomach pouch, so it can't avoid its taste." ”。

Seeing that he still didn't understand the inside, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the side hall, and then pointed to his stomach.

Chen Yibing looked at the two corpses placed on the long case in the side hall, and looked at the things in his hand, then he reacted, hurriedly threw them with Xu Jianping, and hurriedly ran into the backyard and scolded: "It's early in the morning, what kind of corpses are you playing." ”

After a while, Qian Zhutou stepped through the door, and the person who accompanied him was a man in his thirties, dressed in a fast trapping suit, with a long sword hanging from his waist. His figure is ordinary, his appearance is ordinary, but his warm smile on his face is not as fast as other catches, which makes people feel good about it unfreely.

"What do you want?" When Qian Zhutou entered the door, he bumped into Xu Jianping standing in the hall with a stomach pouch.

"Qian catches the head, this is a stomach pouch, this morning I dissected the two corpses of last night and found some clues."

Xu Jianping saw Qian Zhutou, and he was not talking nonsense, turned around and walked into the side hall, and Qian Zhutou and the two followed closely behind.

"Qian Zhutou, please look, these two corpses were cut by a sharp blade and died of excessive blood loss, but look at this stomach pouch." Xu Jianping took out the double-edged short knife and cut it from the esophagus, all the way to the duodenum, and didn't care, he pulled it open with his bare hands, and the blood flowed in an instant, but fortunately, the stomach pouch was empty at the moment, and there was no sour smell coming out of it.

Xiao is like this, Qian Zhutou and the two of them are also terrified, doing this work is really not something that can be done by just one person.

"This is the gastric mucosa, which is now rotten, and if a person does not eat for a long time, gastric acid will irritate the gastric mucosa, causing decay and perforation. Moreover, there was no food residue in this stomach pouch, and at first he thought that this person had been dieting recently, or that he had digested it too quickly, and then he dissected another corpse and examined it, and the result was still the same. Xu Jianping paused, stretched out his finger and pointed to the other stomach pouch on the long table.

You continued: "Qian Zhutou obviously did not understand the inside story.

Xu Jianping had no choice but to continue: "This means that the deceased did not eat for several days before his death, and perhaps this case can be investigated from this aspect." ”

"I haven't eaten for a few days before I died, you mean, someone imprisoned them for a few days, and then killed them last night for some reason" At this time, the person who was traveling with Qian Zhutou obviously understood Xu Jianping's meaning.

"He is Wang Lin, and in the future, we will be in a group of four to be responsible for this homicide case," Qian Zhutou introduced to Xu Jianping.

Xu Jianping nodded to Wang Lin, said hello, and then said: "Yes, this can show that last night's murder was not accidental, but a conspiracy to murder someone, and its intention must not be as simple as killing people, there must be other secrets hidden behind the scenes." ”

"Then how should this case be investigated" Qian Zhutou nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with Xu Jianping's words.

Xu Jianping lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said, "First find out the identity of the deceased, and then search all the houses on Vermilion Bird Avenue to see if you can find a place of imprisonment." ”

"Well, this method is feasible, Wang Linru went to find out what the identity of these eight people is, whether they have a grudge with others, what about Chen Yibing? Why hasn't it arrived yet? "Qian Zhutou is obviously an anxious person, maybe the last weird spontaneous combustion case has not yet been resolved, and now there is another tragic case, and it is natural to get things done.

"Boss Qian, I'm here, here, here" I saw Chen Yibing running over from the backyard, his hands were wet, and he had obviously been scrubbing in the back for a while.

Qian Zhutou scolded and said to Chen Yibing: "Early in the morning, do nothing, go, go with me to Suzaku Street last night to investigate the situation." ”

After speaking, the three of them walked out of the gate of the yamen.

After the three of them left, Xu Jianping came to the backyard, found a wooden bucket, carried a bucket of water back to the side hall, took out a rag from the wooden box, put it in the wooden bucket to soak it, and then carefully wiped the two corpses clean.

Sewing corpses is a kind of handicraft, in the Han Dynasty, corpse sewing craftsmen are probably still part-time workers, as the saying goes: "Rather be a roadside dog, not a second leather worker." "No one has learned this craft except for the same humble work.

Xu Jianping studied with his master for two years, and in addition to doing his own dissection and autopsy, he also inherited the unique skill of sewing up corpses.

Sewing corpses is meticulous, it is not like sewing clothes, mistakes can be corrected, for the second tanner, every stitch must be foolproof.

Xu Jianfang washed the corpse, and then took out a leather package from the wooden box, which contained large and small needles and threads. The thick thread sews large pieces of meat, like the two sides of the belly that have just been broken. Thin threads are sewn into small and fast meat, such as the right way to open the stomach pouch of the two petals.

After about three o'clock, Xu Jianping finally restored the two corpses as before, and at first glance, they were no different from ordinary people. Xu Jianping carried the two corpses back to the cellar, brought two buckets of water, washed the long case, and then packed up the objects and put them back in the wooden box.

At noon, Wang Lin returned to the yamen and rushed over: "Brother Xu, the identity of the eight corpses last night has been ascertained, and they are the family members of Yan Derun of Yuelai Inn. ”

"Yuelai Inn, Yan Derun, it's not good."