Chapter 32 Truth and Method

"You said that Bai Xiuxiu's corpse was tampered with?" Chen Yutian looked at Gongsun with wide eyes, incredulous.

"That's right. It's true!" Gongsun nodded and said solemnly.

The place where they were at the moment was a teahouse not far from the state office.

This is a plan that has been made for a long time, and when Gongsun has completed the re-examination of all the corpses, they will first leave the palace and then find another place to exchange gains and reasoning.

It's just that what Chen Yutian never imagined was that as soon as Gongsun entered the teahouse, he told such an amazing fact!

The corpse has been tampered with!

This kind of thing can be big or small, but Han Leng, as a puppet, didn't find out about it, which made Chen Yutian feel that his suspicion seemed to be even heavier.

"Is there any evidence?" Chen Yutian pondered for a long time and spoke softly.

"Your Excellency, please see. Gongsun took out an item from his bosom and showed it to Chen Yutian.

After Chen Yutian saw it, he immediately frowned.

I saw that what Gongsun gave him was a piece of rag stained with soil.

The fabric of this rag feels very good to the touch, and it is made of a relatively expensive silk.

Chen Yutian took the piece of cloth and looked at it carefully, but he still didn't find anything wrong with the rag, so he asked, "What's wrong with this piece of cloth?"

The prosecutor pointed to the location where the dirt was stained on it, and said, "My lord, look here, don't you notice that there is something wrong here?"

Chen Yutian looked at the cloth again and again, and shook his head.

Gongsun said: "My lord, in fact, the soil on this cloth is not dry, but wet. ”

"Huh?" Chen Yutian blinked, a little strange at what he said.

What does dirt not dry but wet? What does it mean exactly?

Gongsun explained: "My lord, what the student means is that when the dirt on this cloth gets on the clothes, it is not dry soil, but wet mud mixed with water. ”

"What's the difference?" asked Chen Yutian, touching his chin.

"It's a big difference. Adult, maybe you don't know from a young age, in fact, if the soil is stained on the clothes when it is dry, because the soil is relatively loose, under normal circumstances, it will only be lightly stained on the surface, and it is usually gone with a light pat. ”

"However, if the soil gets on the clothes when it is wet or completely wet, then because of its relationship with the water, the adhesion will be slightly stronger, so it will not be just a layer on the surface, and the wet mud on the clothes, even after drying, it is impossible to shoot off as easily as dry soil. If you don't believe it, you can give it a try, because the dirt on it is difficult to remove unless you pull it off from time to time. ”

Chen Yutian tried it suspiciously, and sure enough, as Gongsun said, the soil on the cloth was indeed not easy to remove.

"Then, when this was first stained on it, it could indeed be wet mud, but what does this have to do with Bai Xiuxiu's corpse being manipulated?" Chen Yutian narrowed his eyes slightly.

"My lord, you don't know, in fact, this rag was cut by the student from the clothes that Bai Xiuxiu was wearing when she died. Gongsun smiled and said.

"I see!" Chen Yutian nodded slightly, staring at the rag, and suddenly, his expression suddenly moved!!

At this moment, he remembered the pair of embroidered shoes that Bai Xiuxiu had seen before he died.

At that time, he felt that there was something strange on those shoes, but at that time, Tianying suddenly sent the news of Xuan Xi's poisoning, so he didn't think carefully about what was strange.

In retrospect, he thought that if the dirt on it was proof that the deceased had been to the scene of the crime, then why couldn't he find any women's footprints at the scene?

At the time, he couldn't figure this out.

But now, when he saw the dirt on the rag, he finally figured it out!

Because according to Gongsun, the dirt on those shoes was also wet when it first touched them!

Originally, it didn't matter whether it was wet mud or dry soil, but the problem was that from the fifth day of February when Bai Xiuxiu was killed, it has never rained in Youzhou.

Since it hasn't rained, where does the wet mud on your clothes and shoes come from?

There can only be one answer.

That is, someone deliberately smeared wet mud on the clothes of the deceased.

But why do you do that? What is the purpose of the person who is doing this?

Chen Yutian stared at the object in his hand and groaned.

Gongsun continued: "In addition, there is another hand and foot on the corpse, and I think it is better for you to see it with your own eyes. ”

"Oh?" Chen Yutian's gaze slowly moved away from the rag in his hand and stayed on Gongsun's face, "Is there anything special about that hand and foot?"

Gongsun shook his head: "There is nothing in that hand and foot itself, but the person who can do that hand and foot is not simple. ”

"Oh, what's not easy?"

"My lord, I said, it's better for you to go and see this place for yourself. ”

"Well, in that case, let's go. With that, Chen Yutian stood up, and after paying for the tea, the two returned to Youzhou Prefecture again.

Ling Yuntian was a little strange when he saw them go and return, and asked to see the corpses again.

However, what made him feel even more confused was that after arriving at the coroner's room, the two invited them all out, and it was expressly forbidden that no one was allowed to step into the coroner's room without permission, including Han Yanzuo, who was originally working here.

So, Han Leng, Ling Yuntian and Fang Jing stood outside the door in confusion,

In the coroner's room, Chen Yutian and Gongsun came to the ice cellar where the corpse was stored again and saw Bai Xiuxiu's body.

"Look here, my lord. Gongsun pointed to the pinch mark on Bai Xiuxiu's neck, "Can you find anything wrong with the scar here?"

Chen Yutian only glanced at it, and his body was shocked!

"This ...... How so?"

I saw the original purple-red pinch mark on Bai Xiuxiu's neck, not why, at this moment, it seemed that it was actually white!

"This ...... Could it be ......" His eyes flashed, and he had a guess in his heart.

Gongsun nodded, pointed to the white mark and said: "My lord, you have also seen it, this pinch mark is white, obviously caused after death, because the person is dead, the blood is not good, so even if it is pinched, the traces left are not purple red, but white." ”

Chen Yutian nodded slightly, and said, "Mr. Gongsun, I finally understand why you have to let me see this place with my own eyes...... These kinds of knowledge are not something that ordinary people can know, so the person who does these tricks and feet should be a person who is well-versed in medical science and knows how to perform autopsies, right?"

Gongsun nodded slightly.

Chen Yutian's eyes suddenly darkened, narrowing slightly.

In this way, the real culprits who did these hands and feet surfaced with peace of mind.

"In addition, my lord, there was actually a dent in the back of the deceased's head, and there were many abrasions and bumps on the deceased's body, but because the forged scar on the neck was too eye-catching, we ignored these on the first two times. And from these scars, it can be inferred that ......"

Listening to this, Chen Yutian's gaze became more solemn.

He knew very well that according to the scars mentioned by Gongsun, the deceased should have rolled down from somewhere and injured the back of his head and died, and he was definitely not strangled to death. In this way, Liu Jingyan is absolutely impossible to be a murderer.

From this, the purpose of the person who did the tricks and feet can be roughly guessed.

But the only thing that people don't understand is, that person, why did he do this?

Perhaps, the answer to this question can be left to him himself......

......

Han Leng rarely went to the gambling house today, but stayed at home.

In the face of her father's behavior, Han Tong felt very happy, she had long hated her father's gambling addiction, but there was no way to stop him, and now he was willing to take the initiative to stay at home, which naturally made her very happy!

So much so that when she was cooking dinner, she made her father his favorite tofu with shallots for the first time.

But the strange thing is that this dish was obviously his father's favorite dish in the past, but he didn't take a bite, even if he finally forced him to feed him a few bites, he didn't want to be as happy as he usually ate this dish, but sighed deeply.

Han Tong thought to himself, maybe it was because his father hadn't eaten this dish for a long time, so the taste had changed a little.

However, even if there is such a small episode, this dinner is still very happy, especially Han Leng, he almost said a lot of words face-to-face with Han Tong for the first time in his life, although most of them are homely, but for his father, who has always only cared about covering his head for autopsy and going to the gambling house to gamble for money, this is already a very big change.

Therefore, Han Tong was very happy tonight.

So much so that throughout the night, she was smiling.

And looking at the smile on his daughter's face, Han Leng sighed softly.

Immediately after, he saw several figures standing outside the courtyard gate.

It was Chen Yutian, Bai Fan, Gongsun, Huo Yuanji, Lin Dao and Lin Tao.

As soon as Lin Tao came, he and Han Tong played together, and they have often met recently and have become very good friends.

And Chen Yutian and a few people were invited to the house by Han Leng.

"Tongtong, Daddy and these uncles have important matters to discuss, you can play outside with your friends first. After inviting everyone to the house, Han Leng said with a smile to his daughter.

"Got it, Daddy. Han Tong waved his hand to his father from afar, and then followed Lin Tao to the patio at the back of the house to play.

Seeing this ordinary scene, Chen Yutian was a little silent for a while, and many words that had been prepared for a long time were difficult to say at this time.

In the end, it was Han Leng who smiled slightly, "Lord Qincha, you can say whatever you want." The movement here is impossible for them to hear. ”

Seeing him smile so indifferently, Chen Yutian closed his eyes and shook his head slightly.

"Looks like you already know why we're looking for you?"

"Yes. From the second time you went to examine the body today, I knew you should have found out about that. Han Leng nodded silently.

"In that case, let's get straight to the point. Chen Yutian nodded slightly, then his eyes changed, his eyes flashed, and he asked, "That pinch mark on Bai Xiuxiu's corpse, but you forged it?"

As soon as these words came out, the air around them suddenly quieted down!

No one spoke, everyone stared at Han Leng quietly, wanting to see how he reacted to this.

"Exactly!" Han Leng said bluntly and nodded lightly, "Your Excellency really knows." But how do adults know that the scar was faked? I remember the scar, and I still made it very realistic. ”

Chen Yutian smiled and said, "I must admit that you can think of using purple-colored powder to forge the pinch marks made after death, so that the scars look like the scars left by a living person after being strangled to death, and then use the low temperature of the ice cellar to freeze this layer of powder so that it looks real enough." That's really smart. You're missing a point, though. That's the kind of fuchsia powder you're using, which can be washed off with water. When the corpse is placed in an ice cellar, a layer of frost will naturally form on top of it, and when this frost melts at room temperature, it will form water, washing away all the powder you use to whitewash your scars, revealing its true face. ”

"But because the corpse has been in the ice cellar for a long time, even if it is pulled out for examination, it is only for a short time, so it is difficult for the frost on it to melt, and because of this, your method has never been recognized. But today, when Gongsun conducted the first autopsy, he discovered that there was something wrong, so he used his internal force to accelerate the melting of the frost, and finally made your technique exposed. ”

After hearing this, Han Leng smiled bitterly, "I see......"

"However, it is precisely because of this technique that I think of the person who does the tricks, it should be you. After all, no one else should be able to think of the technique of whitewashing wounds after death, except for what kind of wounds before and after death. And there are only two people in Youzhou at present, one is Mr. Gongsun, and the other is you, this elimination method is not difficult to do. Chen Yutian smiled slightly.

The wry smile on Han Leng's face was even worse.

"Of course, on top of that, the corpse you wrote is also a reason for me to confirm that it's you. After we re-investigated Bai Xiuxiu's body, we found that she was not strangled to death at all, but was pushed down the stairs and fell to her death. However, there is no mention of this at all in the corpse compartment you wrote, not even the back of his head and the multiple bruises and abrasions on his body. The wounds were very obvious, and we didn't notice them before, because we had never looked closely at the corpse before, but only made a general observation. ”

"After all, each of us has a preconceived notion that everything on the corpse is right, and even if we check it again, it is impossible to detect anything other than the corpse. After all, every corpse should be something that will be recorded after a detailed examination of the corpse. ”

"But we never thought about what would happen if the information on the corpse was incomplete at all, and it was because of this preconceived notion that I didn't find anything wrong with the corpse last time. ”

"But this time, when I found those scars, I realized that the corpse grid I had seen before was a fake at all, a completely untrue corpse! After all, as I've said before, you don't mention any of the scars that you can find on closer inspection. ”