"You said Bai Xiuxiu's body was tampered with?" Chen Yutian looked at Gongsun with wide eyes and said in disbelief.
"That's right. It's absolutely true!" Gongsun nodded and said solemnly.
The place where they were at the moment was a teahouse not far from the state government office.
This was a plan that had been made long ago. After Gongsun re-examined all the corpses, they would say goodbye and leave the palace, and then find another place to exchange gains and reasoning.
However, what Chen Yutian never expected was that Gongsun told such an astonishing fact as soon as he entered the teahouse!
The body had been tampered with!
This kind of thing can be big or small, but Han Leng, as a widower, did not find out about it. This made Chen Yutian feel that his suspicion seemed to be more serious.
"Is there any evidence?" Chen Yutian pondered for a long time and then spoke softly.
"Sir, please take a look." Gongsun took out something from his arms and showed it to Chen Yutian.
After Chen Yutian saw it, he suddenly frowned.
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 precious silk.
Chen Yutian took the piece of cloth and turned it over and looked carefully, but still couldn't find anything wrong with the piece of cloth, so he asked: "What's wrong with this piece of cloth?"
The public prosecutor pointed to the area covered with mud and said, "Sir, look here. Don't you notice there's something wrong here?"
Chen Yutian looked over the piece of cloth again and shook his head.
Gongsun said: "Sir, actually, the soil on this piece of cloth is not dry, but wet."
"Huh?" Chen Yutian blinked, a little surprised by what he said.
What soil is not dry but wet? What exactly does that mean?
Gongsun explained: "Sir, what the student means is that when the soil on this piece of cloth touches the clothes, it is not dry soil, but wet mud mixed with water."
"Is there any difference?" Chen Yutian touched his chin and asked.
"The difference is huge. Sir, maybe you didn't know it since you were a child, but in fact, if the soil touches your clothes when it is dry, because the soil is relatively loose, under normal circumstances, it will only be lightly stained on the surface. The layer usually disappears with just a tap.”
"However, if the mud is stained on the clothes when it is wet or completely wet, the adhesion will be slightly stronger due to the relationship between it and the water, so it will not be just a surface layer, and When wet mud gets on your clothes, even after it dries, it can't be brushed off as easily as dry soil. If adults don't believe it, you can give it a try. The mud on it is difficult to remove unless it's pulled off hard. of."
Chen Yutian tried it doubtfully, and it turned out that as Gongsun said, the soil on the cloth was indeed not easy to remove.
"So, it may indeed have been wet mud when it first touched it, but what does this have to do with Bai Xiuxiu's body being tampered with?" Chen Yutian narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Sir, you don't know something. In fact, this piece of rag was cut by a student from the clothes Bai Xiuxiu was wearing when she died." Gongsun smiled and said.
"That's it!" Chen Yutian nodded slightly, staring at the piece of rag, and suddenly, his expression suddenly changed! !
At this moment, he remembered the pair of embroidered shoes that Bai Xiuxiu had worn before his death.
At that time, he felt that there was something strange about the shoes, but then Tianying suddenly sent the news that Xuan Xi was poisoned, so he did not 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 crime scene, then why couldn't there be any traces of the woman'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 mud on those shoes was also wet mud 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 to now, it has never rained in Youzhou.
Since it hasn’t rained, where did the wet mud on my 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 this? What is the purpose of the person who did these things?
Chen Yutian stared at the thing in his hand and pondered.
Gongsun continued: "Besides, there are also hands and feet on the corpse. I think it would be better for you, sir, to see this with your own eyes."
"Oh?" Chen Yutian's eyes slowly moved away from the rag in his hand and stayed on Gongsun's face, "Is there anything special about those hands and feet?"
Gongsun shook his head: "The hands and feet themselves are nothing, but the person who can do those hands and feet is not simple."
"Oh? What's not simple about it?"
"Sir, I said, you'd better go and see this place for yourself."
"Okay, in that case, let's leave now." After saying that, Chen Yutian stood up, and after paying for the tea, the two returned to Youzhou Yamen again.
Ling Yuntian felt strange when he saw them returning and asking to see the body again.
However, what made him even more confused was that after arriving at the autopsy room, the two of them invited them all out, and also clearly prohibited anyone from entering the autopsy room without permission, including those who were already here. Work by Han Wu.
As a result, Han Leng, Ling Yuntian and Fang Jing stood outside the door confused.
In the autopsy room, Chen Yutian and Gongsun once again came to the ice cellar where the corpses were stored and saw Bai Xiuxiu's body.
"Sir, look here." Gongsun pointed to the pinch mark on Bai Xiuxiu's neck, "Sir, can you find anything wrong with the scar here?"
Chen Yutian only glanced at it, and his body was shaken!
"How...how could this happen?"
I saw the pinch mark on Bai Xiuxiu's neck that was originally purple, but for no reason, at this moment, it turned out to be completely white!
"This...could it be that..." His eyes flashed, and he had a guess in his mind.
Gongsun nodded, pointed at the white mark and said: "Sir, you have seen it, right? The pinch mark is white, obviously caused after death. Because the person is dead and the blood is not enough, even if he was pinched, there will be no trace of blood left behind." The traces underneath are not purple, but white."
Chen Yutian nodded slightly and said: "Mr. Gongsun, I finally understand why you insist on letting me see these tricks with my own eyes... These knowledge are not something ordinary people can know, so those who do these tricks , should be someone who is knowledgeable in medical science and knows how to perform autopsies, right?"
Gongsun nodded slightly.
Chen Yutian's eyes suddenly darkened and he narrowed slightly.
In this way, the real culprit who committed these tricks has surfaced safely.
"In addition, sir, there is actually a dent on the back of the deceased's head, and there are many scratches and bruises all over the deceased's body. However, the fake scar on the neck is too eye-catching, so We ignored these the first two times. And based on these scars, it can be inferred..."
As he listened, Chen Yutian's eyes became more solemn.
He knew very well that according to the injuries Gongsun said, the deceased should have injured the back of his head after falling from somewhere, and was definitely not strangled to death. In this case, it is absolutely impossible for Liu Jingyan to be the murderer.
From this, the purpose of the man who did the trick can be roughly guessed.
But the only thing 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.
Faced with her father's behavior, Han Tong felt very happy. She had already hated her father's habit of gambling, but she had never been able to stop him. Now he was willing to stay at home, which naturally made her happy. Very happy!
So when making dinner, she made her father's favorite meal of tofu mixed with green onions for the first time.
But the strange thing is that this dish was clearly his father's favorite dish in the past, but he didn't take a bite. Even if he force-fed him a few bites in the end, he was not as happy as usual after eating this dish, but was deeply moved. Sighed.
Han Tong thought to himself that maybe it was because his father hadn't eaten this dish for a long time, so his taste had changed a bit.
However, even with such an episode, I still enjoyed this dinner very happily, especially Han Leng. He talked to Han Tong face to face for almost the first time in his life, although most of them were homely things. , but for my father, who had always only cared about covering his head to do autopsies and going to gambling houses to gamble, this was already a very big change.
Therefore, Han Tong was very happy tonight.
So that the whole night, she was smiling.
Looking at the smile on his daughter's face, Han Lieng sighed softly.
Then, he saw several figures standing outside the courtyard gate.
Those were Chen Yutian, Bai Fan, Gongsun, Huo Yuanji, Lin Dao and Lin Tao.
As soon as Lin Tao came, he got to play with Han Tong. They have met frequently recently and have become very good friends.
Chen Yutian and others were invited into the room by Han Leng.
"Tongtong, daddy has important matters to discuss with these uncles. You can play outside with your friends first." After inviting everyone into the house, Han Leng said to his daughter with a smile.
"I know, Daddy." Han Tong waved to his father from a distance, and then followed Lin Tao to play in the patio behind the house.
Seeing this ordinary scene, Chen Yutian was a little silent for a moment. Many words he had prepared long ago were difficult to say at this time.
In the end, Han Leng smiled slightly and said, "Master Imperial Envoy, please say whatever you have to say. Tongtong and the others cannot hear the noise here."
Seeing his indifferent smile, Chen Yutian closed his eyes and shook his head slightly.
"It seems you already know why we came to you?"
"Yes. From the second time you went to check the body today, I knew you must have discovered those things." Han Leng nodded silently.
"In that case, let's get straight to the point." Chen Yutian nodded slightly, then his eyes changed, and with a stern look in his eyes, he asked, "Did you forge the pinch mark on Bai Xiuxiu's body?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the surrounding air suddenly became quiet!
No one spoke, everyone stared at Han Leng silently, wanting to see his reaction.
"Exactly!" Han Leng said bluntly and nodded gently, "Sir, you really know. But, how do you know that the scar was forged? I remember that scar, and I still made it very realistic. .”
Chen Yutian smiled and said: "I must admit, you can think of using purple-red powder to fake the pinch marks caused after death, making the scars look like what would be left after a living person was strangled to death. Scars, and then use the low temperature of the ice cellar to freeze this layer of powder so that it looks real enough. This is really clever. However, you overlooked one thing. That is that the purple-red powder you used can be cleaned by water. . When the corpse is placed in the ice cellar, a layer of frost will naturally form on it. After this layer of frost melts at room temperature, it will form water, which will wash away all the powder you used to cover up the scars, thus revealing its true identity. face."
"But because the body was kept in the ice cellar for a long time, even if it was pulled out for inspection, it would only be within a short period of time, so the frost on it was difficult to melt. Therefore, your method has never been discovered. But. Today, Gongsun discovered something was wrong during his first autopsy, so he used his own internal power to accelerate the melting of the frost, finally exposing the flaws of your technique."
After hearing this, Han Leng smiled bitterly, "I see..."
"However, it is precisely because of this technique that I think of the person who did the manipulation, which should be you. After all, the only person who can think of the technique of whitewashing injuries after death is to know what the wounds were like during life and after death. Except, there should be no one else who can think of it. There are currently only two co-workers in Youzhou, one is Mr. Gongsun, and the other is you, so this elimination method is not difficult to do." Chen Yutian smiled slightly.
The bitter smile on Han Leng's face became even worse.
"Of course, in addition to that, the corpse you wrote is also a reason for me to confirm that it is you. After we re-investigated Bai Xiuxiu's body, we found that she was not strangled to death at all, but was waited for from the stairs. He was pushed down from a high place and died. However, the corpse you wrote did not mention this at all, not even mentioning the many bruises and scratches on the back of his head and body. Those wounds were very obvious. I didn’t find it because I never looked closely when inspecting the body before, I just took a general look around.”
"After all, each of us has a preconceived notion that everything on the corpse is correct. Even if we check again, it is impossible to detect anything other than the corpse. After all, every corpse The format should be something that the author will only record after he has examined the body in detail."
"But we have never thought about what would happen if the information on the corpse was incomplete at all? It was precisely because of this preconceived notion that I didn't find anything wrong with the corpse last time."
"But this time, when I discovered those scars, I discovered that the corpse I saw before was simply a fake, a completely unreal corpse! Since there is something wrong with the corpse, then you The person who wrote the corpse naturally has a problem. After all, I have said before that you did not mention any of the injuries that can be found with careful inspection. "
