Han Daring saw the human head in the glass jar, his lips rolled and his tongue protruded, his hair was loose and fat, his eyes were cloudy and gray, and he stared straight ahead, looking very terrifying. The rickety figure holding the canister and lantern, in the dark corridor, walked towards Han Da'er step by step, with each step, the water in the jar was stirring, and the head of the person swayed up and down from side to side, and the situation was even more terrifying. In other words, Han Daring is naturally bold and not afraid of ghosts and gods, if he lets ordinary people go, he can be scared to death at that time.

The face of the rickety figure was not in the shadow of the lamp, and the voice asked in a low voice:

"Is it Han Da'er?"

With this figure, Han Daring recognized at a glance that this was the old man of the police station, Lao Su, and replied:

"It's me! Lao Su, I brought you some snacks! Why are you holding your head in the middle of the night? ”

That old Su said:

"Hey! Be a companion! ”

Lao Su's name is Su Meisheng, in his early fifties, and his family is a family of traditional Chinese medicine, and he is said to be of the same family as Su Langzhong, a famous doctor in Tianjin. In addition to family medicine, he later studied Western medicine, and worked as a doctor in the Affiliated Hospital of Beiyang Military Medical Hall in Jinjiayao when he was young.

Originally, Lao Su studied Chinese and Western medicine and had a good future, who knew that when he saw a patient that year, the Western medicine method could not cure it, so he could only use the methods of traditional Chinese medicine, but there were some diseases, no matter how good your medical skills were, there was a lack of surgery, and the patient could not be cured for a long time, and finally died.

Originally, birth, old age, sickness and death were common, and bad luck was bad luck, and the prescription he prescribed contained trace amounts of arsenic. Arsenic is a highly toxic substance, but if it is used in small amounts to treat stubborn diseases, it can be miraculous when combined with other drugs. However, as soon as the patient died, the family took the prescription to the yamen and sued Lao Su, saying that he was quackly curing the disease, using drugs indiscriminately, and poisoning the patient. This family is still a master who can't be provoked, and it is a relative of the Zhili superintendent at that time, so Lao Su was imprisoned.

Later, Lao Su's family spent a lot of money to dredge, which barely bought a life, but sentenced him to three years in prison and was not allowed to practice medicine for life. Lao Su's rickety figure was caused by the damp and cold atmosphere in prison when he was in prison. After coming out, he couldn't practice medicine, relying on his superb Chinese and Western medicine skills, a friend recommended him to the yamen as a servant, and later the Republic of China, the yamen returned to the police station. Xiguan is sparsely populated, and those who are coroners in the General Bureau, no one wants to stay in this place, so they send Lao Su to the epidemic prevention hospital for an autopsy, and by the way, look at the morgue.

Lao Su is rickety, has no wife, and has no children, so he usually lives alone in the epidemic prevention hospital. He always said that the living are bad, and it is better to deal with the dead, quiet and innocent.

Not long after Han Dada'er became a policeman, because of several homicides, he came to the morgue of the epidemic prevention hospital several times, and he became acquainted with Lao Su after coming and going. Lao Su saw that this young man was upright, straightforward, and not bad-hearted, so he had a good conversation with him, and taught him a lot of post-mortem knowledge.

Han Da'er knew that Lao Su loved to eat dim sum, especially the rose cakes of Xiangdezhai, so he bought him a big bag. When Lao Su saw Han Dada'er, he was originally lifeless, so he smiled a little. He knew that Han Da'er was a sincere person, so he was not polite, handed the lamp into the hand holding the jar, and reached out to take the snack.

The human head with the jar is the evidence of a head case a few years ago, and the head has not been claimed by his family, and the case has not been solved, so the head has been soaked in the jar with potions. Lao Su is used to seeing life and death, and he is neither afraid nor taboo, so he often takes out his head to be a companion for himself.

Han Daring said:

"I also bought Liu Ji's sauce beef, as well as Yi Juyong's cooking pot, and I will drink two cups with you in a while!"

Lao Su carried the snacks, let him into the room where he lived, and said:

"Still drinking, you can smell a smell of wine from afar with your mouth, it seems that you haven't drunk it less at noon!"

"It's okay, I'll spend the night with you if you drink too much!"

Lao Su Dao:

"It's a Halloween in this wilderness, and it's a Halloween festival for you, so dare to run here!"

Han Daring was afraid of the hot weather, so he covered the sauce beef, quickly spread out the lotus leaf bag, and took two small bowls on Lao Su's table, filled two bowls of wine and said:

"Sit down, let's have a drink!"

Lao Su put down his snack and said:

"Not busy! More on that later! I know you're here so late for a few floating corpses that you sent during the day! Come with me! So saying, he pushed the door with the lamp and went out of the house.

Han Daring was not vain, so he followed Lao Su out of the door, and the two of them entered through the small door at the end of the corridor, and inside was the staircase leading to the basement. At that time, there were no electric freezers for the bodies, and most of the morgues were arranged in the basement or in a dark place where no sunlight was visible.

Coming to the small corridor in the basement, a few steps forward is a double open door, there is a small sign hanging on the door, writing the word mortuary, which means that people will no longer be troubled by trivial matters after death, and enjoy peace forever, in fact, it is a morgue.

Pushing open the door, a cold air came to the face, feeling that the basement was very cold, and there was no refrigeration equipment at that time, but it was obviously a July day, but it made people feel like it was a winter race, and the cold went straight to the cracks of the bones, accompanied by a smell of corpses. Lao Su took out a piece of ginger from his pocket and handed it to Han Da'er.

Han Daring knew that ginger could dispel the smell of corpses, so he took it and put it in his mouth, and asked casually:

"Why don't you come for a piece?"

"No, I'm used to it! Back then, the smell of the prison was much more rushed than this! ”

There were more than a dozen stretcher beds in the mortuary, several of which had corpses rested, covered with white cloth sheets, and the rest were empty. Lao Su walked up to one of the corpses and lifted the white sheet, revealing the corpse underneath. I saw that the corpse had a vertical knife mark from the throat to the abdomen, and the knife mark had been stitched to death. At that time, the autopsy technology was relatively backward, and many of them still used the methods handed down from the previous Qing Dynasty, unlike now, when the autopsy was cut with a Y-shaped knife edge, and at that time it was still a straight knife.

The corpse was one of three floating corpses found in the morning. Looking at the stitches on the knife edge, it was obvious that Lao Su had already tested it.

Lao Su picked up the autopsy report from next to the corpse and handed it to Han Da'er, he took it and looked at it, and the word "drowning" was written at the bottom of the autopsy report. After reading it, I was annoyed, and said in my heart:

"This old Su has been autopsied for decades, and even I can see that this is not drowned, how can he write a drowning!"

He was about to have a seizure, but he saw Lao Su make a gesture to shut him up, and then from a small cabinet drawer next to him, he took out another autopsy certificate and said:

"You! Raising a child does not wait for hair to dry, it is a quick temper. Before you came, in the afternoon, your director sent a message that if you don't look for trouble, you will be drowned! ”

Han Daring took another test, but the conclusion below was "he killed". Lao Su said again:

"That drowning is for the above, and this is my conclusion."

Then Lao Su said:

"These three corpses have different shades of corpse spots, but the time of death is very close, and the first to die and the last to die are separated by a maximum of one day. There was no water or sediment in the trachea of the esophagus of the corpse, and it was not drowned, but the lips were dull, the nails were black, and there were signs of poisoning! ”

Han Da'er was surprised:

"Did they die of poisoning?"

Lao Su shook his head and said:

"It's not! They have symptoms of poisoning, but not enough to be immediately fatal! Instead, his tongue was broken and his throat was broken, apparently he was suffocated by someone's neck! ”

Han Da'er asked tentatively:

"Yes...... One-handed? ”

Lao Su didn't answer, just nodded. Han Da'er had seen the huge handprints on the neck of the corpse before, and he already had some suspicions. The finger marks on the neck of the corpse were not very clear, but fortunately, Lao Su learned from both China and the West, and after he smoked it with the herbs he had prepared, the bruises on the corpse gradually became clear. I saw that the finger marks were long to the back of the neck, one side was a fingerprint, and the other side was four finger prints, and the palm prints were flipped, obviously caused by the one-handed choke and squeeze the neck when the person was hung upside down.

The three were all adult male corpses, one of them was unusually thin, and the other two were weak and withered, but after all, they were all tall, and who could strangle these adult males with one hand. Han Daring stretched out his hand again and compared the finger marks with his own hand, only to feel that the finger marks were very large, the fingers were thick and long, and the whole handprint was two circles larger than his own.

Han Daring was suspicious in his heart, he was tall, and he was already much bigger than ordinary people when he spread out his palms, but the handprints on the neck of this corpse were much larger than his. He thought to himself, judging from this palm print, this person is unusually tall, Han Da'er In the early years, although he had also seen two tall Tianjin Weiqi people, at most he was only a head and a half taller than himself. It can be inferred from the size of this palm print that the figure of the perpetrator is at least three or four heads taller than himself, is there such a tall person? Is it a giant?