Your Highness, the princess is going to paint your portrait

Chapter 114 Dead Baby
Soon, Song Yiwen brought Master Tang to the restaurant, followed by Lu Yuzuo.

Song Yiwen saw that it was a baby, and sighed: "What a crime..."

Jing Chun also stepped aside consciously, giving space to Lu Yuzuo.

Taking advantage of Lu Yu's spare time during the autopsy, Song Yiwen also arranged for people to carefully interrogate everyone's details, for fear of letting the murderer escape, and the yamen servants also began to search for something in the back kitchen, trying to find any useful clues.

Jing Chun put the ladle aside and explained the situation just now, "About an hour ago, I was eating on the third floor and heard the cook's cry. When I came downstairs, I found a baby floating in the wooden basin. Inside, he was no longer breathing when he was picked up."

Lu Yuzuo glanced at the dead baby. The dead baby was wrinkled, curled up, and his body was cold. Not far away was the wooden tub where the baby was found.

Lu Yu scooped up the contents of the wooden basin with a spoon, and said, "Is there pork in this wooden basin?"

"Yes, yes," Ah Shan walked out from the crowd and pointed to two empty baskets, "I just bought two baskets of pork this morning."

Jing Chun also remembered that Ah Shan was the cook sitting slumped next to the tub, and asked, "So, you are the first person to find a dead baby?"

"It's me," Ah Shan nodded and said, "There were a lot of people coming to the restaurant at noon, so I thought about washing the leftover meat. I didn't notice when I opened the basket at first. It was cooked with a few pieces of pork. It was covered, and it wasn’t until I poured the meat into the water basin that I realized that the color of this ‘meat’ was a bit different from other pork, and when I opened it, it turned out to be a dead baby...”

Lu Wuzuo turned the dead baby over, saw the umbilical cord on the dead baby, and said: "The marks on the umbilical cord don't look like they were cut with scissors or a sharp blade, they look like they were cut by something blunt." Yes. This baby's body is iron-purple. He must have been blocked by phlegm when he was born and failed to open his air cavity in time and died."

But no experienced woman would be so inexperienced, and this mother was clearly a novice.

Lu Wuzuo continued to observe the length of the umbilical cord on the baby, "Based on the length of the umbilical cord left on the dead baby, the umbilical cord is not short, about two inches. From my experience, it is very likely that the mother alone Childbirth alone cuts the umbilical cord."

This is consistent with Jing Chun's point of view!
Lu Wuzuo pointed to the half of the umbilical cord, "What is this?"

"It was also fished out of a wooden basin. It looks like the umbilical cord of a dead baby."

Lu Yuzuo tried to splice the two ends of the umbilical cord together, and soon realized something was wrong, "This umbilical cord is wrong, it doesn't match the two-inch umbilical cord, and the degree of wear and tear is different."

Since this umbilical cord does not match the umbilical cord of a dead baby, and it is even less likely that it is a human umbilical cord that fell from a pork body, there is only one thing Jing Chunyi can think of.

"Could it be that the umbilical cord has been cut in many sections, and this is just one of them?"

Otherwise, where did this extra inch of umbilical cord come from?
"Not really," Song Yiwen came over at some unknown time, "The mother of this child had to give birth to a child under a tight schedule. She chose other blunt objects without the slightest preparation or even the tools at her disposal. Grinding the umbilical cord, if you say it is divided into multiple segments, will definitely take a long time, and it will also take a long time, so there is no reason not to find a sharp tool to cut the inch-long umbilical cord on the dead baby first."

What Song Yiwen said is not unreasonable. A mother who gives birth alone has no reason to choose to isolate the umbilical cord into many segments without the tools at hand.

Unless it's a sick mother!
sick?
Song Yi asked: "Is it possible that this mother has great hostility towards this dead baby?"

This is indeed an idea, otherwise wouldn't you choose to put it in the pork box?Can man compare with the fish on the knife?

How can you guess the hearts of others?
What Jing Chun thinks now is not whether the umbilical cord can be connected, but where are the other umbilical cords?
The baby's umbilical cord is about [-] centimeters to [-] centimeters, and the two sections add up to only ten centimeters. How to deal with the remaining umbilical cord has undoubtedly become a problem.

The sound of discussion in the back kitchen quickly attracted Liang Zijun's attention. Liang Zijun looked at Jing Chun, a woman and a man discussing in groups, and always felt that there was something shining on Jing Chun, and this shining thing But it is not common among other women.

At the right time, Master Tang also came over. Jing Chun looked at the front hall and saw that waves of people had already left.

"Master Tang, how are you?"

"Reporting to my lord, the restaurant has been checked up and down, and there is nothing almost suspicious. Among these diners, there are neither pregnant women who have just given birth, nor are there any men who have been in the back kitchen. These diners should have nothing to do with the dead baby."

But this dead baby couldn't have come out of thin air, could it?

"What did the people in the kitchen say?"

"I've already asked, this meat was taken from the Lin family's butcher's shop. Catcher Li also called the old Lin's head from the Lin's family's butcher's shop to ask questions. When it was brought in, the butcher's people checked it once, and taught it after confirming that it was correct. In the hands of the handyman who picked the meat, it was picked from the Lin family's butcher shop to the back kitchen of the restaurant."

Since there is nothing suspicious about the starting point and the ending point...

"That means it is very likely that there was a mistake in the handyman?"

"Probably so." Master Tang replied.

Song Yiwen shouted: "Call that handyman over here!"

Master Tang was also a little embarrassed, "The handyman who picks the meat drank half a catty of wine this noon, and is still asleep in the woodshed. He has poured water three times and still hasn't woken up."

"Take it back! Take it to Jingzhao Mansion! This mansion wants to see what kind of parents can do such a bad thing!"

Song Yiwen ordered the teacher to go back to the mansion.

Lu Yuzuo packed up his things, this is to take the dead baby back to see if there are other discoveries.

People from Jingzhao Mansion also left the restaurant one after another. Liang Zijun stood outside the door. As the owner of this restaurant, Liang Zijun couldn't be "free" all afternoon after such a big thing happened.

Jing Chun thought of Liang Lingshu who had been on the third floor. After asking the waiter, he found out that Liang Lingshu had been properly arranged to go back, so there was no need for Jing Chun to worry.

Seeing that Jing Chun was about to come out, Liang Zijun stepped forward with a smile on his face and said, "Miss Jing, go slowly."

Jing Chun was generous, "Master Liang won't give it away."

"Young lady, do you know that my surname is Liang?"

"Didn't you just call you Boss Liang?"

Hearing this, Liang Zijun smiled slightly. He thought it was Liang Lingshu who said something?

Afterwards, Liang Zijun saluted, "Thanks to Miss Jing for presiding over the overall situation, my restaurant is not out of order. I can invite Miss Jing to drink tea another day."

"No need, Mr. Liang, please tell Lingmei that I also missed my appointment in the middle of the day. If there is a chance, I will definitely come to apologize."

Lingmei?

"How does Miss Jing know that I am Shu'er's elder brother? I wonder if Shu'er mentioned anything to Miss Jing?"

Seeing Liang Zijun's thoughts of winning, Jing Chun thought to himself: Why not?
Jing Chun patted his freshly washed hands, intentionally told Liang Zijun not to get close, and replied: "I have already told Ms. Liang, you and Ms. Liang are blood siblings, some things Ms. Liang is better than me. Outsiders are more suitable."

Seeing Jing Chun leaving, Liang Zijun couldn't help but smile, thinking to himself: This girl is much more interesting than the girls introduced by matchmakers in the past.

(End of this chapter)