Madam let me die

Chapter 8 Autopsy
Generally speaking, the sooner the corpse is tested after death, the more accurate the speculation will be.

Modern forensic medicine uses various observations and tests to help make speculations.

The inspection methods generally include: cold corpse, rigor, corpse plaque, degree of decay, stomach contents, corneal turbidity, eyeball vitreous potassium concentration, insect activity, on-site marks, etc.

But in ancient times, it is obviously impossible to dissect the corpse for examination, and there is no precision instrument to assist it.

It can only be speculated on the basis of appearance symptoms.

With such limited means, even experienced veterans occasionally make mistakes in judgment.

"So people die by accident."

Leng Xinnan put her arms around her chest habitually, tapped her upper arms lightly with her slender snowy fingertips, and said lightly. "Three days ago, I drank too much wine in Chunxiang Building, and because I didn't dispose of the carbon basin in time when I got home, I died under the soot."

Guo Gang nodded: "This is indeed the case."

In the Dazhen Dynasty, it was not uncommon to die from soot poisoning, and the government even specially asked the watchman to remind each family in the middle of the night.

"Unfortunately, the clue is broken again."

Iron Bull sighed.

Just when Leng Xinnan was about to leave, two coughs suddenly sounded in the room.

The voice was neither loud nor small, but it also seemed deliberate.

The three turned their heads and saw that it was Li Nanke who was standing next to the corpse.

Li Nanke coughed twice again.

Tieniu put away his folding fan and frowned: "Little brother, if you catch a cold, please stay away from the corpse, so as not to infect that corpse brother, thank you."

Li Nanke was almost forced to slap him.

What the hell.

Didn't see my brother, do I have any objections?
Fortunately, the simple and honest Guo Gang took the initiative to ask: "Did you find anything?"

Li Nanke was about to cough again, but after thinking about it, he gave up and came to Leng Xinnan and handed it over: "My lord, when I checked the corpse, I did find a million small problems."

Seeing that the other party just stared at him without asking, Li Nanke had no choice but to stretch out his finger: "I found this in the dead man's hair."

"What is this?" Tieniu was puzzled.

Guo Gang touched it and said in surprise, "This is lime powder!"

"so?"

The woman finally spoke, her voice was indescribably cold.

Li Nanke expressed his doubts:
"I looked at the clothes, shoes and hats of the deceased, including other parts of the body, but found no lime powder, so I felt a little strange. And judging from the distribution of the corpse spots, there were traces of the deceased's body being moved, and the body seemed to have been wiped .”

After Li Nanke finished his statement, Guo Gang rushed to the corpse to re-examine.

From hair to toes... nothing is left out.

After examining it carefully, Guo Gang said with a solemn face: "There are indeed traces of moving, and it hasn't been very long. But the deceased did indeed die on this bed, including the posture at the time of death. This cannot be wrong."

Li Nanke nodded: "Yes, the deceased did indeed die from oxygen...er, soot poisoning."

Realizing that these guys couldn't understand 'carbon monoxide', the man changed the wording instead.

"did you mean--"

As soon as Leng Xinnan spoke half a sentence, Liu Yemei suddenly frowned, and subconsciously pressed her chest.

It started to hurt there again.

She turned sideways, pressed a few times quietly with the heel of her palm, and pretended to be indifferent after the pain eased a little: "You mean, someone moved the dead body after the death, wiped it, and then put it back?"

Li Nanke nodded: "It's very likely."

He raised his finger stained with lime powder: "My lord should have guessed what it is by now."

Leng Xinnan didn't bother to think because of the pain in her chest at the moment, and said in an impatient tone under irritability: "Stop beating around the bush, just say it!"

Li Nanke was somewhat dissatisfied with his attitude towards women.

Although she is pretty, she has a bad temper and doesn't seem very smart.

Whoever marries suffers.

He simply put on a face and said: "The reason for wiping the corpse is to wipe off the lime powder on the corpse. That is to say, this corpse was once in an environment with lime powder."

"I understand!"

Guo Gang's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands excitedly.

Tieniu said unhappily: "If you understand a hammer, I should understand it first."

"What do you say."

Guo Gang made a gesture of please.

Tie Niu shook off the folding fan with a "swish", cleared his throat, and then said kindly to Li Nanke, "Let's continue, little brother."

Li Nanke's face twitched, and he continued to explain: "Lime powder can slow down the decay rate of the corpse. If this corpse was really placed in the lime powder, it means that the death time of the deceased was longer, not just three days!"

"More than three days?" Leng Xinnan stared.

Li Nanke said: "That's right, this corpse has obviously been tampered with."

Lime powder is placed on or around the corpse to ensure a dry environment and prevent bacteria from multiplying.

However, the intestinal organs inside the corpse will not be affected by this, and there are still a large number of bacteria multiplying, which will produce a large amount of putrefaction gas.

But Guo Gang couldn't dissect it, so he made a mistake in his judgment at the beginning.

Leng Xinnan glanced at Guo Gang, with a bit of dissatisfaction, as if to say: Did you see that, this is called professionalism.

"Can you determine the time of death?"

the woman asked again.

Li Nanke thought for a while, and gave his own judgment after the autopsy: "At least five days."

Five days!

Leng Xinnan's expression changed.

The other two also suddenly understood something, and their faces turned pale.

If He Qingyu died five days ago, who was it that went to Baiyun Restaurant to drink three days ago?

The three looked at each other and said in unison: "The Grave Man!"

Leng Xinnan rushed out of the room, grabbed Mrs. Zhang who was lying on the ground and was still crying... that is, He Qingyu's sister-in-law, and said softly, "Have you been dreaming these few days!"

Mrs. Zhang was a little dazed, at a loss for what to do, and forgot to cry.

"Say it!"

Leng Xinnan's beautiful eyes were as sharp as a knife blade. "Did you have a dream these days, dreaming about your brother-in-law!"

Zhang's cheeks blushed from being dazed at the beginning to embarrassment and anger.

What do you mean if you dream about your uncle?

Is there such a question?
Even if there is, I can't admit it.

Seeing that the other party was silent, Leng Xinnan stretched out her fingers and pointed at the center of the other party's eyebrows, and only released the other party after detecting no abnormalities.

But if there is no response, it does not mean that the other party has not taken Red Rain or entered the Red Rain dream.

Different from Nightmare.

Once the tomb man is revived, the person who had the red rain dream would wake up normally, as if it were an ordinary dream.

And the red rain ingredients in the body will disappear soon.

Leng Xinnan's face was extremely ugly, and she ordered the two of them: "Tie Niu, take Mrs. Zhang to the yamen for further interrogation. Guo Gang, stay and dispose of the corpse, and don't let any irrelevant people approach!"

Immediately, she walked quickly to the county magistrate Shen Chunhe.

The county magistrate who was thinking about what to eat at noon was startled when he saw Leng Xinnan with a gloomy face, and hurriedly got up and said, "Master Leng, do you find anything?"

"Find out everyone who knows He Qingyu and bring them to the yamen!"

"what?"

"Also, everyone who had been in contact with He Qingyu in the past six days was also investigated and taken to the Yamen for isolation. At the same time, all the police were dispatched to conduct a thorough search inside and outside the county, and any suspicious persons must be temporarily detained! "

No wonder Leng Xinnan was nervous.

If the tomb man cannot be found and killed within ten days, everyone who has come into contact with it will die.

This is a very serious situation.

(End of this chapter)