Master Chang immediately replied: "Because the weather is too hot, and the case is still unsolved, the headless corpse has been parked in the ice cellar of Bifu. I wonder if Miss Xie San is planning to perform an autopsy right now?"

Xie Yixiang was slightly surprised, seeing the ice cubes placed in the four corners of the front hall, as well as the ice cubes floating in the bowl of iced sour plum soup in front of him, it turned out that in the past three months, he had been stored with the headless corpse, and when he thought about it, it was disgusting. Fortunately, I didn't drink this bowl of sour plum soup just now because of the psychological effect, otherwise I would have lost my appetite. At that moment, she nodded to Master Chang and said, "Then there is Master Lao, ask someone to move the body to this front hall." ”

Without waiting for Bi Changxiao's order, Steward Fu sent someone to accompany the soldiers under General Song Shen to the ice cellar to collect the corpse, and asked everyone in the front hall to wait. Xie Yixiang looked over, and saw that Ouyang Cha, Zhao Ruocheng and Tu Lingxiao on the opposite side had already closed their eyes, and they were napping on the chairs, only the "Heavenly Needle Lock" Bingtai stared at him viciously, and he didn't know where he offended this closed female disciple of the "Taishan Divine Needle". And the son of Deyizi on his side is also sleeping in the cloak, and the monk Hai Niansong is continuing to meditate and chant the scriptures.

Seeing everyone's expressions like this, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but sigh secretly. In fact, for her, although she had a rough look at the door, this autopsy could only simply infer the time of the deceased's death and the murderer's method of committing the murder. Now that this headless corpse has been stored for three months, officials and servants at all levels have naturally experienced it many times, although the identity of King Heng cannot be determined, but if there is any abnormality in it, it must have been checked out long ago. As for the emperor's eleventh prince, King Heng, Xie Yixiang had only seen it once or twice from afar when he was in Jinling, and it was also impossible to judge the authenticity of King Heng based on a headless corpse.

Therefore, the autopsy she is proposing at the moment is just a routine matter, and it is almost impossible to gain anything. Because since it has been decided to investigate this case from the identity of King Heng, it is still necessary to take a look at the headless corpse in Bifu. Just waiting for the corpse to be delivered, Master Chang had already explained: "After the murder, we have invited eight servants to conduct autopsies on the headless corpse left at the scene, and the results are all similar, saying that the deceased is a middle-aged man of thirty-six or seventeen years old, but he is the same age as King Heng. The cause of death was the decapitation of the head by the murderer with a sharp blow, and the time of death was on the night of the crime. ”

Speaking of this, Master Chang couldn't help but sigh and added: "King Heng is a prince, except for his personal servants and concubines, he rarely gets close to people on weekdays, and I have never heard of any physical characteristics on his body. As early as more than two months after the murder, we invited three concubines and two servants of King Heng from Jinling City to come and identify the corpses. However, because King Heng was stationed in the army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang all the year round, these five people had not seen King Heng for several days, and only three of them claimed that most of the headless corpses were King Heng, but the other two said that they were not sure, so in the end they could not confirm the identity of the deceased. ”

General Song Shen next to him couldn't help but interject and said: "You can't say that, at that time, King Heng's two wives and concubines and a servant all recognized the deceased on the spot as indeed King Heng, and the other two didn't dare to confirm it because they were afraid of being involved." No matter how much Chang Daren maintains the Bi family, he can't reverse black and white like this. Your so-called inability to determine the identity of the deceased is, in the final analysis, just because you did not find the head of the corpse, so you dare not close the case. ”

Master Chang's face turned slightly red, and he hurriedly defended: "You can't say that, there are two major doubts about the identity of King Heng at the moment. First, it is still unclear whether the guests who came to Bifu that night were the kings of Heng, and second, whether the deceased was the guests who claimed to be kings of Heng in the Bifu that night, which is also to be ascertained. In addition, the head of the deceased has not been found so far, so Mo said that it was the three concubines and two subordinates of King Heng, even if the emperor came to identify the body in person, Chrysostom said that the deceased was his own prince, so it could not violate the laws of this dynasty, so as to judge the case. ”

Just when the two were arguing, the soldiers under General Song moved quickly, and in a blink of an eye, they lifted up a corpse covered with a white cloth, presumably because it had been stored in the ice cellar, and there was no smell of corpses. However, seeing the corpse being carried in, many people in the front hall immediately frowned, obviously a little evasive, and even Master Chang moved his body, unwilling to come forward to check. Xie Yixiang was used to staying in the torture room, and it could be said that there was no taboo path, so he immediately stepped forward and stretched out his hand to pull off the white cloth covering the corpse.

I saw that it was indeed a headless male corpse, neatly dressed in a brocade pajamas, with dark flowers at the corners, which showed that it was very precious; on the top half of the pajamas, there was a large dark brown blood stain, which was thought to have been stained by the deceased when his head was cut off. Xie Yixiang touched the clothes on the deceased's body and asked, "The pajamas on the deceased's body, was it brought by the guest himself, or was it prepared for him by the house?" Master Chang added on the side: "Perhaps because of the pajamas worn by the corpse, the guard who claimed to be the general Sa under the command of King Heng insisted that this headless corpse was the corpse of King Heng. ”

Xie Yixiang nodded, looking at the deceased's neat pajamas, it can be seen that most of them did not fight with others before death, but were killed by the murderer. After all, she is not a professional worker, and she is a daughter, so it is inconvenient to untie the corpse's pajamas at the moment, so she can only look at the hands of the deceased again. I don't know if it's because it has been in the ice cellar all the time, the corpse's hands are clearly a little stiff, and even the muscles on the body are hard.

Looking at the wound on the neck of the corpse where the head was cut off, the skin and flesh were rolled and uneven, which can be described as extremely disgusting. It must be known that if you want to cut off a person's head, it is actually not an easy task, and if ordinary people do not have a sharp knife in their hands, it is impossible to cut off the opponent's head with a knife. It's like an executioner who kills his head on the execution ground, first, he has to use a specially cast ghost-headed broadsword, and secondly, he has to have a lot of experience. Executioners who have just entered the profession often fail to cut off the heads of death row prisoners with several knives, and they are frightened both on and off the stage, so the families of death row prisoners even stuff red envelopes into the executioners for this purpose, the purpose is to find a veteran who cuts off the head, so that the death row prisoners will not suffer during the execution.

Looking at the wound of this headless corpse now, its appearance is obviously a little unnatural, not like Chang Daren's so-called head was cut off with a knife, but like after the person died, the head was chopped off with some blunt object. She couldn't help but be curious, and said secretly: "Could it be that the work in this Chengdu Mansion area is so unbearable, and even the head of the deceased was chopped off after death? Eight autopsies have been conducted, and they all claim that the deceased was cut off with a sharp weapon, isn't this a lie with his eyes open?" She immediately asked: "Has the murder weapon that killed the deceased ever been found?"

Who knew that as soon as these words came out, no one answered for a while. That Master Chang was slightly stunned, immediately slapped his thigh, and said: "Yes, or Miss Xie San has thought it through, and it is really worthy of being the fast arrest of the Jinling Torture Arrest Room." In this case, not only have we not been able to find the head of the deceased, but we have not even found the murder weapon, and of course we cannot close the case. When the words fell, Bi Changxiao said: "When the crime happened that night, Teacher Zhao of the Emei Sword Sect had seen with his own eyes that it was Guan Gong who appeared and killed King Heng, and the blade of the murder was naturally the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in Guan Gong's hand. How could we possibly find this Blue Dragon Glaive Knife?"

Hearing this, Xie Yixiang couldn't help frowning, and no matter how uncertain the identity of the deceased was now, the headless male corpse in front of him alone was already full of suspicions, which was completely inconsistent with the autopsy results that Master Chang had just said. If it was really Guan Gong's manifestation to kill people, whether it was the real Guan Gong's heroic soul or a master's murder in the name of Guan Gong, how could it be possible to leave such a wound with such skin and flesh rolling and uneven when cutting off the deceased's head? Moreover, looking at this appearance, it is clear that the head was chopped off after the person died, which is completely different from the rumored Guan Gong's appearance to kill people.

At that moment, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but say: "It seems that I have some 'speed but can't reach'." Even if you want to give up the truth and close the case as soon as possible, so as to exonerate the Bifu people, you still have to listen to the details of the case. She immediately said to Bi Changxiao: "Please forgive Yixiang for being rude and interrupting her brother's speech." What happened that night, please tell my brother. ”