Without further ado, Chen Anning stood up and followed him outside.
Wu Zuo, surnamed Xu, and Wu Zuo, surnamed Wei, also quickly followed.
Xie Xun stopped and looked back at the two of them.
The two immediately bowed their heads and stood behind Chen Anning.
Xie Xun was amused by their actions, "What are you following?"
After Xu Wuzuo and Wei Wuzuo moved behind Chen Anning again, Xu Wuzuo clasped his hands and said to Chen Anning: "The deaths of Cao Dian and Cen Yuanzhi have always been an unsolved mystery in the hearts of the little people. Please, please Miss Chen Er can agree to let me follow you to study."
This bypasses him and goes directly to ask her for permission? Xie Xun looked at Chen Anning with a half-smile.
Chen Anning said: "It's also a good thing to learn more."
"What else are you talking about?" Xie Xun smiled, "Let's go together."
Xu Wuzuo and Wei Wuzuo breathed a sigh of relief immediately.
Since the Hepingfang Underground Colosseum was exposed, patrols inside and outside the imperial city have become increasingly strict.
It's already past curfew.
After coming out of Dali Temple, except for the patrolling imperial guards, there was not a single idle person on the street.
The graves of Cao Dian and Cen Yuanzhi are both in Fengqiyuan.
Feng Qiyuan was outside the capital.
It takes almost an hour and a half to drive there quickly.
Xie Xun was not in a hurry.
Hence the choice of carriage.
He and Chen Anning shared a carriage, and the two men shared a carriage.
On the road.
Xie Xun put away the car curtain and hung it with jade hooks, letting the moonlight pour into the car, and then asked: "When we went to Dali Temple, you once said that corpse convulsions are the most important evidence to judge suicide or homicide."
"I will still say this now." Chen Anning said, "According to common sense, corpse convulsions cannot be man-made, but there are exceptions to everything."
"I have said before that cadaveric spasms are more common when the brain is injured before death or when the nerves are extremely nervous or exhausted. It is also seen or rarely when the medulla oblongata is severely mechanically damaged, such as medulla oblongata firearm injuries, medullary hemorrhage, etc."
"Since the possibility of Cao Dian and Cen Yuanzhi's suicide has been ruled out, their deaths can only be caused by rare severe mechanical damage to the medulla oblongata."
"You know what a firearm is without me telling you, so naturally it has to be ruled out."
"Then there's only one bulbar hemorrhage left."
"The main function of the medulla oblongata is to regulate the activities of internal organs and the basic centers necessary to maintain life, such as respiration, circulation, digestion, etc. Once these parts are damaged, death can quickly occur."
"And the location of the medulla oblongata..."
Chen Anning pointed to the lower end of his brainstem, and then pointed to the soft part of the ear root, "A hard hit here can shake the medulla oblongata. As long as the force is properly controlled, the moment the medulla oblongata is shaken, the deceased can hold the murder weapon and stab his heart. , you can fake the effect of corpse convulsions.”
Xie Xun sketched the movements she was talking about in his mind, "It's not easy."
Chen Anning said calmly: "That's why I said that the murderer is a master."
It must not only shock the medulla oblongata, but also allow the murderer to hold the murder weapon without any sense of resistance and seize that moment to complete the action of piercing the heart.
The conditions are too harsh.
She had only read relevant cases but had not personally witnessed it, so Xie Xun was not sure whether her judgment was correct or not. He only said: "Let's open the coffin and conduct an autopsy first."
The carriage galloped and soon arrived at Fengqiyuan.
The moon and stars are sparse.
It's midnight again.
It was a good time to exhume the grave and conduct an autopsy.
A group of accompanying officials dug out Cao Dian's coffin within a short time of tea at Xie Xun's order.
After prying open the lid of the coffin, under the light of the torch, Chen Anning held Xie Xun's hand and jumped into the coffin lightly.
It has been more than two years since Cao Dian and Cen Yuanzhi were killed, and their bodies had long been turned into bones.
Under the admiring gazes of the Yamen servant and the two widowers, Chen Anning used light skills to sweep away all kinds of insect eggs and corpses on the bones, then took the torch handed over by Xie Xun and carefully approached Cao Dian's skull.
Cao Dian's skull was basically complete, with only scattered cracks scattered around the base of his right ear, and a few tiny bone fragments falling underneath the skull.
This was almost identical to the cases she had seen before.
Knowing what was going on, Chen Anning jumped out of Cao Dian's coffin with her arms and then entered the newly dug coffin of Cen Yuanzhi.
The condition of Cen Yuanzhi's skull is the same as that of Cao Dian. While it remains basically intact, the stone ear roots are covered with scattered cracks.
It was determined that both men had been murdered.
"How is it?" After Chen Anning came out of Cen Yuanzhi's coffin, Wuzuo Xu and Wuzuo Wei couldn't wait to surround him.
Chen Anning shook the dust off her body, went to the side to wash her hands, and said to Xie Xun who handed her a handkerchief: "Murder!"
Looking at the two coworkers who were full of curiosity, Chen Anning said again: "We can verify it."
As soon as he finished speaking, and neither of the two men could realize what had happened, Chen Anning slipped out the dagger from his sleeve and stuffed it into the hand of the man surnamed Xu, then raised his right hand and struck his ear with an elbow, and at the same time Holding his dagger hand with his left hand, he gestured to stab him in the heart.
The whole movement is smooth and smooth, done in one go.
Under the dumbfounded gazes of the two gangsters, she withdrew the dagger and concluded: "It can be done."
Xie Xun looked at the two gangsters with pity and said, "Song Shizhong is not as good at martial arts as you."
"So," Chen Anning said calmly, "you have to interrogate Song Fu again to see how Song Shizhong made them lose their ability to resist."
"Is this how Cao Dian and Cen Yuanzhi were killed?" After the officials reburied their bodies and everyone was preparing to return to the city, the two widowers asked as if they had just woken up from a dream.
Xie Xun said: "Don't disclose this matter to others yet."
The two co-workers nodded repeatedly and said that they would not mention anything to anyone else.
It's already getting slightly brighter.
On the way back to the capital.
Xie Xun leaned on the soft pillow, looking at the looming orange sun among the mountains, and said slowly: "This case is too special. Although I know that the two people were murdered, it has been too long, and I want to testify that Song Shizhong was the murderer." There is not enough evidence against the murderer.”
Chen Anning said nothing.
Her duty is only to conduct autopsies, not to arrest people.
Xie Xun looked back at her, "If you want to put him in jail, you have to let him take action again!"
Chen Anning said: "What do you want to do?"
Xie Xun explained his plan.
Chen Anning considered it for a moment, nodded and said, "You can give it a try."
Return to the capital.
After sending her back to Chen's house, when Xie Xun was about to leave, Chen Anning stopped him, "Have you found Second Miss Zhao?"
Xie Xun raised his eyebrows, "You don't know?"
Chen Anning said calmly: "I don't know."
"Miss Zhao Er is in one of the rooms in the main courtyard." Xie Xun said, "After rescuing those children, I will have her sent back to He Yibo Mansion."
After Chen Anning nodded to show that she knew, she waved to him and entered the Chen family gate.
Xie Xun then diverted to Hepingfang.
Because of Song Fu's confession, the case is no longer limited to the underground Colosseum.
Xie Xun was unable to do anything, so the follow-up work of the Underground Colosseum fell entirely on Wen Qinsang.
Wen Qinsang didn't have any complaints. It was just that the coursework of Guozixue and the work in the underground Colosseum made him so busy every day that he had almost no free time.
Seeing Xie Xun appear, he handed him the list of new persons involved in the case that had been cleared from the account books, and said: "The account books will be cleared in about two or three days, and all the cleared silver coins have been sent to Datong. Welfare home.”
Xie Xun said while looking at the list: "After clearing this place, we will go to Yanchun Tower."
Wen Qinsang, who was sorting out the account books, paused and said, "You are good at instigating others."
Xie Xun said matter-of-factly: "Free labor, don't use it in vain. Besides, you learned from Guozi, even if you can enter the official career immediately, you have to start from scratch. If you do it here, you will not only save this money in the future It’s just one step and a great addition to your resume.”
"Logically speaking, I should ask you to collect some reward."
