Generally speaking, the sooner a body is examined after death, the more accurate the prediction will be.
Modern forensic medicine uses various observations and tests to help make inferences.
The inspection methods generally include: cold corpse, rigor mortis, corpse spots, degree of decay, stomach contents, corneal turbidity, eyeball vitreous potassium concentration, insect activity, on-site markings, etc.
But in ancient times, it was obviously impossible to dissect the corpse and there was no assistance from precision instruments.
We can only make assumptions based on external symptoms.
With such limited means, even experienced operators will occasionally make errors in judgment.
"So, people died accidentally."
Leng Xinnan habitually crossed her arms across her chest, lightly tapped her upper arms with her long, snowy fingertips, and said calmly. "Three days ago I drank too much at Chunxiang House. When I got home, I didn't dispose of the carbon basin in time. As a result, I died under the soot."
Guo Gang nodded: "It seems that it is indeed the case."
In the Dazhen Dynasty, deaths from soot poisoning were not uncommon, and the government even asked watchmen to remind families late at night.
"It's a pity that the clue has been broken again."
Tieniu sighed.
Just when Leng Xinnan was about to leave, two coughs suddenly sounded in the room.
The voice was neither loud nor quiet, but it also seemed deliberate.
The three of them turned to look and saw Li Nanke standing next to the corpse.
Li Nanke coughed twice again.
Tieniu put away his folding fan and frowned: "Little brother, if you get cold, please stay away from the corpse so as not to infect that corpse brother. Thank you."
Li Nanke almost slapped him with his big dick.
What the hell.
Didn’t I see my brother? Do I have any objections?
Fortunately, it was the honest and honest Guo Gang who took the initiative to ask: "Have you discovered anything?"
Li Nanke was about to cough again, but after thinking about it, he gave up and came to Leng Xinnan and handed over his hands: "Sir, when I inspected the corpse, I did find hundreds of millions of minor problems."
Seeing that the other party just stared at him coldly without asking, Li Nanke had no choice but to stretch out his finger: "I found this on the deceased's hair."
"What is this?" Tieniu was puzzled.
Guo Gang stepped forward and touched it, and said in surprise: "This is lime powder!"
"so?"
The woman finally spoke, her voice carrying an indescribable coldness.
Li Nanke expressed his doubts:
"I looked at the clothes, shoes and hats of the deceased, including other parts of the body, but no lime powder was found, so I felt a little strange. And judging from the distribution of the body spots, there were traces of the deceased's body being moved, and the body seemed to have been wiped. .”
As Li Nanke finished his statement, Guo Gang rushed to the body to re-examine it.
From hair to toes...nothing is missing.
After checking it carefully, Guo Gang said with a solemn expression: "There are indeed traces of being moved, and the time was not very long. But the deceased did die on this bed, including the posture when he died. This is not wrong."
Li Nanke nodded: "Yes, the deceased did die of oxygen...well, soot poisoning."
Realizing that these guys couldn't understand 'carbon monoxide', the man changed his words.
"did you mean--"
As soon as Leng Xinnan finished speaking, she suddenly frowned and subconsciously pressed her chest to her chest.
The pain started there again.
She turned sideways and quietly pressed a few times with the heel of her hand. After the pain subsided a little, she pretended to be indifferent and said, "You mean, someone moved the body of the deceased after death, wiped it, and then put it back?"
Li Nanke nodded: "It's very likely."
He raised his fingers stained with lime powder: "Your Excellency, you should have guessed something now."
Leng Xinnan was too lazy to think because of the pain in her chest. She was irritated and said impatiently: "Stop beating around the bush, just say it!"
Li Nanke was a little dissatisfied with the attitude of women.
Although she is beautiful, she has a bad temper, and she doesn't seem very smart.
Whoever marries suffers.
He simply said with a straight face: "The purpose of wiping the body is to wipe off the lime powder on the body. In other words, this body was once in an environment containing lime powder."
"I see!"
Guo Gang's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands excitedly.
Tieniu said angrily: "You understand the hammer, I should understand it first."
"What do you say."
Guo Gang made a gesture of asking him to speak.
Tieniu flicked open the folding fan, cleared his throat, and then said to Li Nanke kindly, "Little brother, continue talking."
Li Nanke's face twitched, and then he continued to explain: "Lime powder can slow down the decay rate of the corpse. If this corpse has really been placed in lime powder, it means that the deceased has been dead for longer, more than three days!"
"More than three days?" Leng Xinnan stared.
Li Nanke said: "Yes, this body has obviously been tampered with."
Lime powder placed on or around the corpse can ensure a dry environment and prevent the proliferation of bacteria.
However, the intestinal organs inside the corpse will not be affected by this, and there will still be a large number of bacteria multiplying, which will produce a large amount of putrefactive gas.
But Guo Gang couldn't analyze it, so he made a mistake in judgment at the beginning.
Leng Xinnan glanced at Guo Gang with her beautiful eyes, a little dissatisfied, as if to say: Did you see this? This is called professionalism.
"Can you determine the time of death?"
the woman asked again.
Li Nanke thought for a moment and gave his own post-mortem judgment: "At least five days."
Five days!
Leng Xinnan's expression changed.
The other two people suddenly understood something, and their faces turned pale.
If He Qingyu died five days ago, then who went to Baiyun Restaurant to drink three days ago?
The three looked at each other and said in unison: "Grave Man!"
Leng Xinnan rushed out of the house, grabbed Mrs. Zhang who was lying on the ground and was still crying bitterly... He Qingyu's sister-in-law, and whispered softly: "Have you been dreaming these days?"
Mrs. Zhang was a little confused, so stunned that she forgot to cry.
"Say it!"
Leng Xinnan's beautiful eyes were as sharp as a knife blade. "Have you ever dreamed about your brother-in-law these days?"
Mrs. Zhang went from being confused at first to being embarrassed and angry, her cheeks turning red.
What does it mean to have a dream about your brother-in-law?
Is there anyone who asks this question?
Even if there is, I can't admit it.
Seeing that the other party remained silent, Leng Xinnan stretched out his finger and pointed at the center of the other party's eyebrows. After detecting no abnormality, he let go of the other party.
But there is no response, which does not mean that the other party has not taken Red Rain or entered the Red Rain dream.
Unlike nightmares.
Once the Tomb Man is resurrected, the person who had the red rain dream will wake up normally and treat it as a sparse and ordinary dream.
The red rain component in the body will also disappear quickly.
Leng Xinnan looked extremely ugly and ordered the two of them: "Tieniu, take Ms. Zhang to the Yamen to continue the interrogation. Guo Gang, you stay here to deal with the body, and don't let any unrelated people get close!"
Immediately, she walked quickly to the county magistrate Shen Chunhe.
The county magistrate, who was thinking about what to eat for lunch, was startled when he saw Leng Xinnan with a gloomy face. He quickly stood up and said, "Master Leng, have you noticed anything?"
"Find all the people who know He Qingyu and bring them to the Yamen!"
"ah?"
"Also, everyone who has been in contact with He Qingyu in the past six days has also been investigated and taken to the Yamen for isolation. At the same time, all detectives are dispatched to conduct a strict search inside and outside the county. Any suspicious persons must be temporarily detained! "
No wonder Leng Xinnan was nervous.
If no one can find the grave within ten days and kill it, everyone who came into contact with it will die.
This is an extremely serious situation.
