Detective in the Red Chamber

Sun Shaozong dismounted from his horse and reported his surname by name, "I am the criminal judge of Shuntian Prefecture. There is a case that I want to have an interview with Mr. Wang Xianzun of Guixian County. Can someone please report it for me?"

When the two yamen servants heard that it was the "Shen Juan Sun Tongpan" of the government yamen, they didn't dare to neglect, and immediately separated one of them to rush in to report.

Not long after, I saw that the middle gate was divided to the left and right, and seven or eight officials came out in a file. The leader was about fifty years old, and his face was full of wrinkles.

When Sun Shaozong saw this person's appearance, he felt a little bit displeased at first——Although he had never met Wang Qian, the magistrate of Daxing County, he knew that the other party was a young and promising romantic talent. What does the old farmer look like?

Although the magistrate of Daxing County is also of the sixth grade, but Sun Shaozong is considered a superior official of the government office, and now he is here to ask for a crime, so it is unreasonable for Wang Qian not to come to greet him in person!

At this moment, I saw the 'Old Farmer' official stepping down the steps quickly, bowed to the end in front of Sun Shaozong, and said in awe and fear, "Xiaguan Shen Dan, the county magistrate of Daxing County, has met the judge."

Wang Qian sent Shen Dan to come forward, could it be that he wanted the old man to be a scapegoat?

If this is the case, this guy is too shameless!

As a parent official, he abused torture first, and then turned into a coward when things came to an end—I don't know why the Zhen family chose him as a son-in-law?

Thinking this way, Sun Shaozong felt a little more sympathy for the old magistrate in front of him, he went up to help him up personally, and asked kindly, "Master Shen, you don't need to be polite, but I don't know where your magistrate is?"

"This one……"

That Shen Tan faltered for a while before saying embarrassingly, "Master Wang took leave of absence and left Beijing eight days ago because his mother was seriously ill."

You asked for leave and left Beijing eight days ago?

It's the fifth day of February, so didn't Wang Qian leave on the 28th of the first month?

So to say……

Sun Shaozong's face sank immediately, and he said sharply, "So, you presided over the dismemberment case?"

Shen Tan's waist, which had just straightened up, suddenly folded in half again, his neck shrunk and his shoulders were clamped, and he was shaking like chaff, "Zheng... Zhengzheng is the next official who is presiding over the interrogation. I really don't know what happened in this case. If there is any mistake, please make it clear, my lord."

tsk~

Seeing that he became a seventh-rank county magistrate in his fifties, he knew that he had no background. Compared with him, Sun Shaozong became the second-generation official.

Originally, he wanted to be angry with the rich and powerful, but in the end he became a powerful and bully rich and powerful. Sun Shaozong didn't know whether he should be lucky or depressed for a while - if he had known this kind of result earlier, why did he quarrel with Jia Yucun just now? ah?

But since Wang Qian is not here, this matter is also simple.

Sun Shaozong flicked his bright yellow sleeves, put on the face of a Shangguan and scolded, "What went wrong, and you still don't know it? It's ridiculous! Let's go, take me to see all the witnesses and evidences in this case." , I’ll tell you what went wrong again!”

This Shen Xiancheng received the famous post in the morning, and he was already panicked, but now seeing Sun Shaozong in a 'bullfight suit', even his bones are already limp, so how dare you disobey his intention?

He hurriedly ordered the left and right to pass on the witnesses, and then personally led the way and brought Sun Shaozong to the inner hall of the county yamen.

This inner hall is usually used for pre-trial, so that the court officials can get acquainted with the case in advance, so as to avoid any jokes in the courtroom-according to the rules, Sun Shaozong is still not allowed to interrogate the case here, so in name, he still has to use Shen Tan as the leader. host.

So after Sun Shaozong entered the door, he sat directly on the scribe seat on the left.

But when Shen Tan saw that he was sitting at the bottom, how could he dare to occupy the position of the presiding judge behind the case?

Busy also went to the left side of the clerk's seat, and stood there pitifully bowing down.

Not long after, I saw three people hurried in outside, on the left and right were Mrs. Hu and an old man with big arms, the leader was Zhou Da, the procurator.

After Zhou Da entered the door, he immediately went forward and reported, "My lord, Zhou Liang was seriously injured, and he is still undergoing diagnosis and treatment, so he really cannot act rashly."

Upon hearing this, Hu couldn't help sobbing again.

But Sun Shaozong didn't speak, he just raised his chin, signaling Zhou Da to stand behind him, and then quietly waited for the physical evidence to be presented.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, a scribe carefully brought the dossier and two pieces of oiled paper with blood stains on it, and there was nothing more to say.

Sun Shaozong's face suddenly darkened a bit, he turned his head to stare at Shen Tan and asked, "Is this the only piece of evidence? Also, where is the dead body? Where is the dead body?!"

Shen Tan was so frightened that his whole body trembled, and he hurriedly bowed his waist like a turtle with a shrunken neck, and said in a trembling voice, "Return...to my lord, it is really an eyesore to put that corpse in the county government, so... So the next official sent someone to Yizhuang for temporary storage."

Seeing that Sun Shaozong was about to lose his temper, he hurriedly pointed to the file and said, "My lord, there is an official document for the autopsy in the file, and the records on it are quite detailed. In fact, even if you don't look at the corpse..."

Before he finished speaking, Sun Shaozong sneered and said, "If everything is based on the official autopsy document made by you, what's the use of you as the presiding judge—well, I don't care about the corpse, but the other evidence is still there." where?"

Shen Tan touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and said embarrassingly, "Report to my lord, this case... only this oiled paper bag is the evidence in this case, and no other evidence was found."

"Ha...hahaha... What a grease-paper bag as evidence! The best one didn't find any other evidence!" Sun Shaozong laughed straight at him, gritted his teeth and said, "Let me ask you, except for the head, the rest of the body Where was the part found?"

"Yes...it was dug out from the wasteland outside the back wall of Hu Tuhu's house."

"Then let me ask you again, how can Butcher Hu dig a pit big enough to bury his corpse in the freezing weather right now? Could it be that he has a pair of pangolin claws?!"

"This……"

Shen Tan said inexplicably, "My lord, if he wants to bury the corpse, he will naturally use a hoe and a shovel..."

Pa~!

Sun Shaozong slapped the table violently, and said angrily, "Why are there no hoes, shovels and other tools in the lobby? Especially in the first month, these utensils are not in use. You just need to have someone check them. Whether there are traces of recent use on it is enough to prove whether the body was buried by a butcher!"

"This... this this this..."

Shen Tan said "this, this" for a long time, but he was speechless. In the end, he had to kneel down and grab the ground with his head, crying, "My lord, forgive me, my lord, forgive me! There are seventy old mothers on the villain, and the next one have……"

"It's worth it~ stop talking about these useless things!"

Sun Shaozong waved his hand impatiently, and said, "If you want to atone for your sins, go and get the corpses back to me—remember to bring them all back. If there is even a little bit missing, I will use the flesh and blood on your body to pay for it!"

Chapter 61 Daxing County Corpse Dismemberment Case [Part [-]]

After sending Shen Dan to Yizhuang outside the city to carry the corpse, Sun Shaozong himself did not stay idle, but immediately led people to escort Hu Tuhu back home.

After arriving at Hu Tuhu's house, he first checked the ironware in his house, and then went to the place where the body was buried in the back, and searched it carefully.

The result can only be described as lackluster.

After all, five or six days had passed, and the yamen guards hadn't done a good job of protecting the site, and the burial site had welcomed many visitors, so it would be a ghost to find clues!

As for the hoes and shovels, although there are no traces of use, Sun Shaozong is not sure whether these low-quality iron materials will produce new rust within a week.

Therefore, he could only hold Hu Tuhu and return in sorrow.

Back in the hall of the Daxing County Yamen, as soon as I entered the door, I saw a bed board in the middle. Although it was tightly covered with a white sheet, it still gave off a faint smell of decay.

Without saying a word, Sun Shaozong stepped forward and lifted the white sheet completely, revealing the messy body parts underneath, plus the internal organs that had begun to rot, spread out messily on top of the body parts, it was extremely terrifying to look at. !

As a result, in the inner hall, there was a sound of gasping first, and then he was retched again and again by the disgusting smell of the corpse.

"If you want to vomit, vomit."

Sun Shaozong ordered lightly, and his eyes first fell on the head of the person placed in the center, and saw that most of the bun on this person's head had been burned off, and only a short section remained on the scalp.

Could it be that the murderer had planned to burn the corpse to wipe out all traces?

But burning the corpse to wipe out the traces, how could only the hair be burned?

Filled with doubts, Sun Shaozong shifted his gaze to the only calm official at the scene, "Are you a coordinator?"

The little official hurriedly bowed to salute, "The villain, Daxing County's governor, Wang Gaosheng, has met Master Tongju."

"Stop talking nonsense, take out all your tools, and examine this corpse with me again!"

The previous inspections by Sun Shaozong were all fresh goods that had just died, so there was no need to prepare any protective measures, but this rotting corpse was different, and there were many moldy germs hidden on it-he didn't want to come to a dead body. Die first.

Hearing the words, the clerk naturally didn't dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly took out the complete set of autopsy equipment, dressed them up like "pig butchers", and finally offered two pills, saying that as long as they were placed in the interlayer of the mask, they would be able to recover. Exorcising evil and avoiding poison.

Although I don't know if there is any scientific basis for this thing, but judging by Wang Gaosheng's swearing, it should be more or less effective.

After the clothes were neatly dressed, a stool was used to set up the corpse, and more than [-] candlesticks were lit around it. Then Wang Gaosheng asked for instructions, "My lord, where should we start?"

"Check her fatal injuries first! I saw that your autopsy document only said that the victim was dismembered after death, but it didn't mention where her fatal injuries were!"

That's right ~

That's 'she'.

The dismembered deceased was a young woman, and judging from the facial features and some remaining physical characteristics, she should be a girl with an excellent appearance and figure!

Will it be murder for love, or robbery for sex?

But Wang Gaosheng listened to Sun Shaozong's instructions, and knew that he was lazy at the beginning, and this "Shen Duan Tong Judgment" had already seen through the clues, so naturally he didn't dare to neglect the slightest, and hurriedly followed Sun Shaozong's instructions, and searched for it wholeheartedly. fatally wounded.

However, Sun Shaozong's search was much more careful, and whenever there was the slightest suspicious point, he would carefully consider and compare it for a long time.

After about half an hour like this, Wang Gaosheng raised his head in confusion, and said hesitantly, "My lord, it seems... It seems that the victim did not have any fatal injuries!"

Sun Shaozong continued to rummage through the corpse, and asked without raising his head, "What else? What else did you see?"

"This... this..."

Wang Gaosheng racked his brains and recalled, "The deceased...the deceased had obvious abrasions on his back and chest. Judging from the outward appearance of the wound, it should be left over from his lifetime."

Speaking of this, he felt a little excited, "I know, the deceased must have been dragged on the ground before he was alive, probably to move her to a secluded place, and then raped and killed her!"

"A reasonable guess."

Sun Shaozong nodded slightly and gave a five-character comment.

When Wang Gaosheng heard that Mei's snot bubbles came out, he was about to say a few words of modesty, but he heard Sun Shaozong say again, "It's a pity that the observation is not careful enough, so the whole speculation has gone wrong."

Not observing carefully enough?

Wang Gaosheng was very dissatisfied, but because of Sun Shaozong's identity and reputation, he didn't dare to speak out.

But what kind of eyesight does Sun Shaozong have?

Not to mention that he just covered his mouth and nose, even if he covered his whole face, Sun Shaozong could see his unconvinced mind.

Therefore, he simply turned over the dead man's back, pointed to the traces on it and said, "There are indeed scratches on the chest and back of the corpse, but if you observe carefully, you will find that these scratches are very messy." , and—almost no linear scratches!"

Few straight scratches? !

Wang Gaosheng hurriedly went up to take a closer look, and sure enough, he found that the traces on the back were messy, but the most common linear scratches were missing!

But the murderer is not the donkey pulling the mill. Why is he dragging the deceased around in circles when he is full? !

Just as he was puzzled, he heard Sun Shaozong say again, "Just now I looked carefully, the inside of the corpse's mouth was stained with a lot of linen threads, it can be seen that she had been covered with linen or something like that for a long time."

"In addition, most of the corpse spots are concentrated on the chest, and the formation is quite uniform, which shows that the victim has not been moved for several hours after his death."

"In addition, I found more than one eczema on her body. It can be basically concluded that she was tied up and imprisoned in a place where she could not see the sun-and imprisoned for a long time, otherwise her body There won't be so much eczema either!"

"Probably for some reason, the murderer didn't come to visit her for a long time. She was hungry and cold, maybe she was calling for help, or maybe she wanted the murderer to hear the movement, so she writhed and struggled desperately on the ground, so It left a lot of scrawny scratches."

"But her struggle was doomed to be in vain, because the murderer never appeared."

"So, she could only slowly swallow her last breath in the despair of hunger and cold."

"It wasn't until a long time after her death that the murderer arrived at the scene, dismembered her, and prepared to transport her out for burial."

Everyone was a little horrified by his bland and indifferent description.

Except for one person - Wang Gaosheng!

After Sun Shaozong finished his narration, Wang Gaosheng couldn't help questioning, "My lord, you seem to have overlooked the most important point in your speculation, that is, there are no strangle marks on the limbs of the corpse! Since she struggled desperately before she was alive, how could it be possible?" No trace left?!"

Faced with Wang Gaosheng's questioning, Sun Shaozong smiled slightly and said firmly, "This is the most brilliant part of the murderer—he wiped away all the strangle marks on his limbs!"

Chapter 62 Daxing County Corpse Dismemberment Case [Part [-]]

Erase the strangle marks on the limbs? !

Wang Gaosheng was baffled by what he heard. According to common sense, the self-healing function will disappear after death, so all the scars on the corpse will be frozen. If you want to erase them, you may have to wait until they rot completely.

Other than that, he really couldn't think of any other way.

Fortunately, Sun Shaozong didn't intend to let him keep guessing. He raised his chin slightly and motioned, "You try to put her arm back together."

Wang Gaosheng immediately pulled out the left arm that had been cut in two from the corpse, and then carefully pieced them together to form an arm with almost no gaps.

After finishing the fight, Wang Gaosheng couldn't help distinguishing, "My lord, this cut is tightly stitched, which shows the murderer's ruthless sword technique, and it is precisely because of this that the villain suspected that it was Hu Butcher."

"The murderer is not just ruthless."

Sun Shaozong shook his head and said, "What really shows his superb knife skills is actually the hands and feet made at the fracture."

Hands and feet made at the incision?

Wang Gaosheng separated the broken arm again in doubt, and looked at it carefully for a while, but he couldn't see anything strange at all.

"If you really can't see it, you might as well touch the bone of the upper half of the arm first!"

Wang Gaosheng gritted his teeth, took off his gloves, and carefully groped for the cross-section of the bone.

At the beginning, his eyes were full of confusion and doubt, but gradually, the confusion turned into shock, and finally he couldn't help but blurted out, "This... the fracture groove on this bone was carved out by someone! "