Dayong Nu sentenced to death

Chapter 6 Two Victims, Clues?

After a short silence, the team leader replied in a deep voice, "It's the cloth strips torn from the bed curtain."

"Yes."

Su Rao nodded, and brought the oil lamp close to Mrs. Li's neck so that others could see clearly, "The marks made by the cloth strips are wide and shallow, but if you look carefully, there is a finger-wide finger-width in the middle of the red marks." The traces are very deep, and they will be easily covered up if you don't investigate carefully."

"indeed so."

The squad leader stared at the trace for a while, and wondered: "So she was strangled by someone before hanging the beam? What would be the weapon that could cause such a trace? Why didn't my brothers and I find it at the scene?"

"Of course you can't find it."

Su Rao's tone was cold, "The hanging corpse is to cover up the real cause of her death, so why would she leave evidence to ask for trouble?"

"You mean... Mrs. Li didn't hang herself from the beam, but was strangled to death, and then hung herself on the beam?"

The crowd was shocked.

The county magistrate sitting in the hall heard the words, leaned forward slightly, and poked his head to look at it, looking thoughtful.

The squad leader couldn't help but asked again, "What is the murder weapon?"

"belt!"

Su Rao's vermilion lips parted slightly, and she spit out two words, her gaze shifted to Mrs. Li's waist, everyone followed her gaze, and saw that there was indeed something missing from the torn dress.

Looking at the width, the belt is obviously more in line with the characteristics of the scar.

But the team leader is still skeptical of her statement, "Even if there are two kinds of marks on the neck, it can't explain that she was strangled to death and then hung her body."

"So that's my second point!"

Su Rao didn't move, she raised her hand and moved Mrs. Li's jaw to the left and right, "There is a clear difference between hanging and strangling."

"The mark on Mrs. Li's neck is located between the hyoid bone and the thyroid cartilage, detours to both sides, crosses the mandibular line behind the ear, and hangs obliquely upward. This is the most common type of anterior constriction when committing suicide."

Following her voice, her pale fingertips moved slowly over the corpse, and she suddenly looked sideways and said, "Even if you haven't seen it, you should have heard of it. Most of the people who hanged like this are as white as paper, right?"

"exactly!"

Immediately someone outside the hall shouted loudly, "Two years ago, a family in our neighboring village hanged in their own house. When I went to help collect the body, I glanced at it. His face was pale like a ghost, and it was very scary." !"

The common people echoed after hearing the words.

"now it's right!"

Su Rao pointed at Mrs. Li's face, and said lightly: "If she committed suicide, her complexion should be pale, but what happened? Her face was bruised and swollen, and there were bleeding spots on her face. Isn't that strange? "

After the words fell, everyone nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, she continued: "Besides, no matter how determined a person's desire to die is, they will instinctively struggle violently after their feet are suspended in the air. The friction between the skin and the rope will cause the epidermis to bleed or peel off. But you see, Does she have it?"

Who would fail to understand such a simple truth.

The people were blocked outside the hall, and it was too far away to check, but the yamen servants could see clearly enough.

"no!"

The team leader was silent for a long time before uttering two words that were enough to make the crowd boil.

This shows what?
It shows that Mrs. Li did not commit suicide, but homicide!

In this way, the crime mentioned earlier has become a ridiculous joke.

Everyone looked at the county magistrate at the same time. Feeling the oppression of these gazes, the county magistrate became more and more irritable and said angrily, "So what if he killed him? Maybe it was your father who killed him..."

"Your Majesty!"

Su Rao unconsciously accentuated her tone, pointed to the corpse beside her and said, "Do you want to say that my father stabbed himself to death with a hairpin after killing the corpse, or that Mrs. Li used a hairpin to pierce his neck?" After the artery, hang up the corpse and lie back down by yourself?"

She looked calm, but anyone could hear the sarcasm in her words, and someone couldn't help laughing at that moment.

The county magistrate's face was hot, blue and red, and his breath was choked in his throat and he couldn't cough it out or swallow it, and his heart panicked.

quite a while.

He retorted unwillingly: "No matter what, it is always a fact that your father insulted Mrs. Li, right? Maybe there are some people who saw injustice and drew their swords to help!"

"According to the law of our court, those who are brave enough to see righteousness will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Is there anyone in the yamen to come to receive the reward and report the case?"

The magistrate was at a loss for words again.

Su Rao didn't intend to chat with him carelessly, so she raised Mrs. Li's hand and said, "If someone forces you, you must resist. Her fingernails are full of blood, which is enough to prove that the perpetrator should have scratches."

This time, before the county magistrate gave an order, the team leader strode forward and carefully inspected Su Fengyan's body, not even letting go of his chest.

pity……

"He has just bruises from punches and kicks."

"To be precise, someone kicked his chest and abdomen violently continuously, and finally covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and choked him to death."

Su Rao's voice was clear and cold, and she said slowly: "Compared to hanging, strangling, or choking, this kind of death process due to lack of oxygen and suffocation is extremely long and painful."

How did her father survive the last days of his life in this repeated torment?

She didn't dare to think about it.

Every word of the words was heartbreaking, and even the other people couldn't bear it when they heard it, but Su Rao explained with no expression, "It's because the bridge of his nose is slightly crooked due to the force, and his lips and The gums are bleeding from a contusion, which is due to the struggle."

"If the golden hairpin was inserted into the neck artery before death, the blood would squirt out under the pressure. There should be spurts of blood at the scene of the murder, but in fact there was not. Therefore, the hairpin was inserted into the neck after the person died, in order to create a false impression. Misleading."

This conclusion completely overturned the previous judgment.

That's the only way to explain everything.

The two dead are both victims!
The people watching outside the hall couldn't help being silent. Thinking of the sentence she left behind when she walked away, "Being bewitched by others is at best stupid, and fueling the flames is vicious", and my heart felt cold.

"I, we were also deceived by others, it's all the murderer's fault!"

Someone muttered in a low voice.

Immediately, countless voices echoed, "That's right, he must be arrested and brought to justice, and the murderer must be severely punished!"

"My lord, punish the murderer severely!"

The people were furious and shouted like thunder.

The gavel patted several times but failed to suppress the voice, the magistrate simply slumped on the back of the chair, waited for their voices to fade away, then rubbed the center of his brows wearily, and said: "Since you can find out this , do you have any clues about the murderer?"

It was Su Rao who asked this question.

And she didn't intend to hand over the murder case to the county magistrate who only knew how to walk birds and fight cocks, so she simply said three words, "Of course!"

　My lovely mushroom lovers, please feed me, ying ying ～～
　　
　
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