10. Wax Corpses
Han Daring arrived at the door of the laboratory. This time it was really good, Mei Ruohong only punished him for waiting for half an hour, and then walked downstairs with the test report. Mei Ruohong still looked cold, took the cheese and West Point with no expression on his face, and handed the two test reports and those physical evidence to Han Da'er.
Without waiting for Han Daring to open the report and take a closer look, Mei Ruohong directly said the test results. The blood types of the three floating corpses are completely different and have no connection. The components in the gastric juice contain a small amount of dansha, aluminite, gold powder, trace amounts of lead, and so on, and other components cannot be detected.
Mei Ruohong also said that the reason why the gastric juice was blue-green was because it contained a dye, and it was not a chemical dye, but a dye mixed with animal bile from plants and minerals, and it was not clear why it was mixed in the gastric juice. There is also the teardrop-shaped object, which was actually made of walrus ivory, and was once inlaid, and it is not known what kind of jewelry fell from it.
Han Daring thought about it for a long time, and when he remembered to thank Mei Ruohong, he had already gone back to the laboratory upstairs, but he didn't know that there was a malaria epidemic in Tianjin recently, and the Pasteur Laboratory was conducting a bacteriological test to find the cause and source of the disease, so as to prescribe the right medicine. The physical evidence he brought was actually Mei Ruohong's sleepless and squeezed out time to help him test it, which can be said to have a deep affection for him in his heart.
Early in the morning, Han Daring finished eating breakfast and patrolled the streets on the road with You Fei. Han Dada'er was absent-minded, and was still deducing the facts of the floating corpse case in his mind. When the two passed by the "free hotel", they found a naked corpse inside.
There is a second-floor opera garden at the intersection of Guangxing Street and Rongji Street in Nanshi, called "Jade Pot Spring" to perform ten kinds of juggling, and the "Jade Ming Spring" of the bird market is called the North and South Spring. There is a toilet in the body of the jade pot after spring, the wall is high and there is no window, and there are often called Hanako to sleep in it at night, and over time it is called a free hotel, at that time there are always some beggars who are addicted to drugs, and they die in it, so they often carry out the corpse from it.
Today's corpse is a woman, who used to be a singer, but later became addicted to drugs, died of illness in the toilet, and was stripped of her clothes, and even her gold teeth were broken. You Fei was eating half a set of pancakes and fruits, and he really didn't want to go into the toilet to fiddle with the corpse, so Han Daring asked a child on the side of the road, went back to the office and called two people, pushed a cart, and pulled the corpse to Yizhuang.
Han Daring learned from the two patrol policemen who were transporting the corpses that there was news just now that a wax corpse had been found in a big puddle behind Nankai Middle School.
The area of Nankai Middle School is not under the jurisdiction of the Haihe Third Institute where Han Daringer is located, but Han Daring is a person who is good at catching murderers and thieves, and he is particularly addicted to strange murders.
Although Han Daring had heard of the wax corpse, he hadn't seen anything before, so he asked You Fei to take a look. At this time, the two of them were patrolling the streets in the Nanshi area, and they were going to the puddle behind Nankai Middle School, which was really not close. You Feitui said that he was going to have breakfast, but Han Da'er could only go to the big puddle alone.
Nankai, as the name suggests, is a piece of land in the old city to the south. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, outside the south gate of Tianjin City, the river network on both sides of the official road was vertical and horizontal, full of potholes, quite the style of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, it was once called "the shadow of the South Plains", it was one of the eight views of Tianjin. Later, there was a "Red Dragon River" in the waterhole river, and Tianjin Wei also had a myth and legend about the Red Dragon River.
Legend has it that there was a red dragon in this river, and he often took advantage of the heavy rain to rise and rush into the moat and the South Canal, causing waves to overthrow the boats. Later, an old Taoist came from here, and when he saw that the red dragon was vicious, he pinched the trick and recited a mantra, and led a green dragon from the sky to fight with the red dragon. The two dragons fought for seven days and seven nights, and finally the green dragon surrendered and suppressed the red dragon, which returned the peace to the place.
In fact, the reason why this place is called Chilong River is because there is a vegetable bridge on the river, at that time, the boats transporting vegetables in the south often unload the vegetables transported in the vegetable bridge, and some rotten vegetables are dumped in the river at will, and the river water is red and stinky over time, so it is named the Chilong River. At that time, you can take a boat from the vicinity of Haiguang Temple and go directly to Black Dragon Pond along the Chilong River, which is now Tianjin Water Park.
With the change of the times, the surrounding puddles and rivers were constantly filled in and built into houses, which also formed the later Nanmenwai Street, and only a few puddles and the Chilong River were completely treated after liberation.
Let's talk about this is the time of the Republic of China, when the Nankai area was still full of potholes. In summer, people often swim in the pit and drown. So it's not uncommon for one or two floating corpses to appear. It's just that this time it's not a floating corpse, but a wax corpse, which is unusual.
Although Han Dada'er's feet were fast, when he arrived at the scene, the onlookers had already surrounded the three layers inside and outside. Han Daring squeezed into the crowd and saw that the Wuhe Water Police had just finished salvaging the body from the pit, and the pit was silt except for the stinky water, and several water policemen who had fished out the corpse were washing the mud on their bodies with clean water. Lying on the edge of the pit lay a corpse, black and swarthy, shriveled and yellow like leather in some places.
Han Daring'er is famous, and there are a few people in the Nankai Detention Center who know him, one of them is Wu Wei, a young patrolman named He is a child at the old gate, and this child grew up together.
Han Daring approached, and just as he was about to ask Wu Wei a few words, an old policeman came over and said:
"Which one of you is here?"
Han Daring replied:
"Haihe Sansuo, my name is Han ......"
"Han Daring! It's famous! ”
Han Daring saw that the old policeman had heard of him, so he hurriedly stepped forward and wanted to inquire about the news of the wax corpse, but who knew that the old policeman said:
"This is not under your control, and I am not Gao Baosheng, why are you going!"
Han Da'er looked back at the head of a big neck, and said loudly at that time:
"Why do I like to do it, can you manage it, the south gate is in charge of Balitai - you can manage it wide enough!"
"Hey! You Nima treat me like a bald man, you raw melon egg! ”
Seeing that these two people were about to pinch up, Wu Wei hurriedly played a round. He knew that it was okay for Han Daring to move his mouth, but if he did, it would be terrible, so he pushed and dragged Han Daring out of the crowd. Wu Wei pulled him aside, and only then did he know that he dared to love that this old policeman was Li Bald's cousin, or he would have argued with him if he didn't come up!
Han Da'er's main purpose was to see the wax corpse, and he didn't want to do more verbal battles. He was just about to ask Wu Wei a few more words about the situation at the scene, but Wu Wei was called back by the old policeman just now. Han Da'er was also too lazy to make trouble, thinking to himself, this corpse had to be pulled to the morgue of the epidemic prevention hospital in the end, so it was better to go to the morgue to find Lao Su first, and wait for them to send the wax corpse over, so he took two trams and went to the epidemic prevention hospital outside Xiguan.
Halfway through the tram passing outside the North Gate, he remembered that there was a dropdrop-shaped object in the physical evidence of the floating corpse case, which might be a part of some piece of jewelry that had fallen from it, so he got off the bus and went to the antique shop on Yiyi Street.
Estimated clothes street was formerly known as Matou East Street, is an old street outside the north gate, the Qing Dynasty mainly sold old clothes, old clothes are estimated clothes, over time, it was renamed as the estimated clothes street. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, most of the shops selling silk cloth and ready-to-wear were on the streets, among which the three silk villages of Ruifuxiang, Qian Xiangyi and Dunqinglong were the most famous. In addition to the silk village, there are several antique shops, among which there is an antique shop shopkeeper surnamed Lan, nicknamed Blue Half a Foot. Because he is the best at identifying calligraphy and painting, he can know the authenticity of the age when he unfolds the scroll only half a foot, so he got his name.
Lan Banchi and Han Daring's father knew each other, so Han Daring went directly to his shop and asked him to palm his eyes to see what this walrus ivory droplet was. Lan Banqi only glanced at it and told him that this thing was actually called "Qiu Jue" (pronounced Qiu Jue).
When the Queen Mother of the West Lafayette liked jadeite, the green jadeite was really not easy to find, so the Qing Palace Office used walrus ivory dyeing instead of jadeite, Lafayette saw it very much, so he asked the office to use horns to inlay jewelry. The teardrop-shaped horn in front of you is likely to be the material used to inlay the earrings. This thing is artificially dyed and color-fixed, so it may fade over time.
Han Da'er knew in his heart at this time that the inlay made of the horn was found in the stomach of the corpse, and under the soaking of gastric juice, the horn faded and turned white, so the gastric juice also turned blue-green. But there is still a section that I don't understand, why is the horn inlaid with earrings in the stomach of the corpse?
After Han Daring thanked Lan Banqi, he said goodbye and left Yiyi Street. On the way to the epidemic prevention hospital, he kept searching for clues about the floating corpse case in his mind. It was already noon when I arrived at the epidemic prevention center. After waiting for more than an hour, the police from Nankai Segment had just transported the wax corpse.
Han Da'er was inconvenient to show up, so he waited for Lao Su to collect the corpse before going to the morgue to examine the corpse. Although he had been here many times before, he had always taken an autopsy certificate, at most to look at the corpse, and it was the first time to watch Lao Su dissect the autopsy.
There was a gray bed in the morgue, and the bed was covered with white tiles, the kind of tiles that were pasted in the bathhouse pool. Lao Su and Han Daring put the corpse on the bed, handed Han Daring a piece of ginger, and then handed him the blank autopsy certificate.
Lao Su said to Han Daring:
"I usually fill it in by myself, but this time it's just that you're here, and I said you write!"
Han Da'er took the ginger slices in his mouth, nodded and picked up the pen.
At this time, Lao Su swept away his usual old and decadent appearance, his eyes instantly became sharp, he first measured the length of the corpse with a tape measure, and then said:
"The deceased was a male corpse, four feet eight inches long, and his body was about five feet long before his death."
Lao Su looked at the head of the corpse, pried open his mouth and looked at the teeth:
"Broken according to the degree of wear and tear of the occlusion of the teeth, and the age of the corpse is not more than thirty years old."
He gently pressed the surface of the corpse with his hand and said:
"The corpse has been soaked in the damp place for a long time, and the corpse has become a tanned corpse!"
Han Da'er asked:
"Tarned corpses? Isn't it a wax corpse? ”
Old Su Tou said:
"Those people don't understand, they think it's a wax corpse, but in fact, the wax corpse is just a little similar to a tanned corpse!"
Lao Su told Han Daring that the wax corpse is a state of corpse. The corpse will have several states under special conditions, one is that the environment in which the corpse is located is abnormally dry, and it loses moisture and is dry and does not decompose, that is, the dried corpse. The other is found in the swamp mud, the corpse has dark skin and the appearance is like tanned skin, and the other is the corpse that has been soaked in water or swamp for a long time, and the corpse is gradually saponified and waxed is a wax corpse.
The corpse in front of me is a tanned corpse, not a wax corpse, because it has been sunk in the mud at the bottom of the puddle for a long time, so it has formed the current peat tanned corpse, and the formation of this tanned corpse has been thrown for at least 1 year.
Lao Su then examined the body surface of the corpse and confirmed that there were no external injuries. Although the skin of the corpse was like leather, it was still visible that the throat had collapsed, as if it had been severely wounded.
Then Lao Su used a scalpel to autopsy, took out the five organs of the corpse, weighed and inspected them separately, looked at the size and appearance, and whether there were signs of poisoning, and then carefully examined the damage to the texture and bones of the corpse. At this time, he found that the throat of this corpse was in a broken state very similar to the three floating corpses, the neck muscles were torn and the hyoid bone was broken, and according to the fractures and muscle tears, they were all strangled to death by one hand, obviously the same murderer, because it is difficult to find a murderer in this world who can strangle a middle-aged male with one hand.
Han Da'er never expected that these two cases would be separated by at least a year, and they could be combined into one case!