Brocade clothing

Chapter 22 Suspicious clues
Chu Qing pondered for a while, and said: "I see, take me to the morgue to see the four female corpses first."

When Qin Butou heard this, he immediately stood up and said, "Please." Sure enough, he was right, and he was able to accept this matter at this time, which has to be admired.

Chu shook her head lightly, she also knew the way to the morgue, but before that, she went back and brought the Wuzuo box, and carried it to the morgue.

As soon as Chu Qing stepped into the morgue, she smelled a strong smell of blood and putrefaction.

The smell of blood is so strong that it makes people want to vomit.She guessed that it probably came from the body of the woman who just died today. Judging from the amount of bleeding, the other party was probably ruthless.

Chu Qing walked to the nearest corpse, opened the chest, swallowed ginger slices, cleaned her hands and burned the herb saponins. After finishing all this, she lifted the white cloth, began to observe the appearance of the corpse, and looked at Qin Qin. head, motioning for him to record the autopsy sheet.

She saw Qin catcher nodding, and then began to observe the lying corpse, Junxiu's face showed no expression at all.The voice was cold and clear: "A female corpse, five feet one inch in length, about 14 to 16 years old, three months pregnant, time of death, from Mao to Chen today. Clothes intact, abdominal Trauma, about three inches in length, muscle valgus, a large amount of blood flow out, is a fatal injury. The hair is thick and intact, the head has no trauma, the teeth are complete, no abnormalities are found between the nose and mouth, and no signs of poisoning are found. There is a little paste between the nails Red powder with a little floc, broken index finger nail, probably caused by scratching before death."

Chu Qing put down the female corpse's hand, took out a small tool, and on a piece of handkerchief, got out the sauce-red powder from between her nails, wrapped the handkerchief well, and put it aside.

Qin Butou looked at the powder and couldn't help asking: "What is this?"

"I don't know yet, I need to check again." These are all things left by the corpses that are superficial first, and they may not all be useful.

She re-examined the other three corpses, and the situation was similar to the first one. It was also fatal with a three-inch stab wound to the abdomen, and a lot of blood flowed out.

Just after she checked the four corpses, she began to compare the autopsy sheets to see what the four corpses had in common.

She found common ground, so far, there are three in total.

Chu Qing put the four autopsy sheets together, compared them carefully, and highlighted three common points.Those three have in common: the four female corpses were all pregnant at different times before they died, but they were all unmarried; the second is that the fatal wounds were all in the abdomen, and the wounds were three inches long, caused by sharp force piercing the abdomen; The third one is the sauce red powder in the crevices of the nails.

"Did you find anything?" Qin Butou asked.

Chu Qing told Qin Butou about these three things in common, and looked at the sauce-red powder with frowns tightly.

What exactly are these?
Chu Qing couldn't figure out what these powders were for the time being, so she put them aside and said to Qin, "I want to dissect these dead people, but I don't know if it's possible?"

Qin Butou was stunned: "Anatomy?"

Chu Qing shook his head and said: "What I saw just now is just the appearance of the corpse. If I want to really know the specific process of the deceased, I am afraid that I still need to dissect it to be more clear, and it is not easy to let go of some imperceptible details. "What's more, the situation is urgent now, and she only has one day. If she can't find the murderer, just as Qin Butou said, the entire county government of Longmen Town will be shocked.

But before that, she had to get the affirmation of Qin Butou.

After all, at this time in ancient times, the parents of the body, hair and skin, wanted to dissect the corpses, and they had to obtain the consent of the parents of these corpses.

Qin Butou also realized this, pondered for a while, and said: "I will send someone to ask your lord immediately, Mr. Chu, please look at these corpses first to see if you can find any other clues."

Qin Butou waited for Chu Qing to nod his head, then hurried out of the morgue.

Chu Qing put the four corpses together, took the four autopsy sheets, and carefully checked the appearance of the corpses, but still couldn't find a breakthrough point.

So since this is the case, we can only wait for Qin to catch the head first. If the corpse can be dissected, then relatively speaking, we will find more clues to solve the case.

What made Chu Qing regretful was that when Qin Tutou came back, he looked embarrassed and said, "Young Master Chu, the relatives of the deceased did not agree to an autopsy. They said that the other party had not yet left the court, and they wanted them to be buried intact." Qin Qin With a dignified face, he went to each family in person and explained everything involved, but none of them agreed.

Chu Qing had expected this scene a long time ago, she shook her head and said, "I can understand."

"But what should we do now? Can Mr. Chu find any clues from other places?" Qin Tutou asked.

Chu lightly shook his head and said, "Not yet."

Qin Butou was worried about the case, and was not in the mood to sleep, so he stayed in the autopsy room with Chu Qing, and re-examined the possible evidence left by the corpse bit by bit.

"Qin Baotou, what are the identities of these four dead?" Chu Qing planned to go to the homes of these four women at dawn tomorrow to find out more about the situation.

Qin Butou remembered these materials very clearly, and immediately said: "The first female corpse was discovered 20 days ago. She was the daughter of a butcher; the second female corpse was discovered ten days ago. It's a brothel woman; the third female body was discovered two days ago, it was a peasant girl; the fourth body was discovered today, it was also a brothel woman."

Chu Qing nodded, and while writing something on the rice paper, crossed out one by one, saying: "The two are innocent, and the two are prostitutes, excluding women from brothels, just committing crimes randomly. Without exception, they are all unmarried and pregnant first. Then..." She quickly wrote something on the rice paper, and finally said: "Then tomorrow morning, we will go to the homes of the first corpse and the third corpse to learn more about the situation." Who are the children in the womb of these four women, and then follow the clues to see if they can find any suspicious clues.

It is easy to explain that the two women in the brothel were pregnant. They were greeted and sent, probably from benefactors, and time was tight, so there was no time to investigate. Let's choose the two deceased who are easy to find first.

One is the butcher's daughter, and the other is an ordinary peasant girl, perhaps some clues can be found from them.

Early the next morning, Chu Qing followed Qin Tutou to the first Butcher Yang's house.

Butcher Yang is a butcher who sells pigs and sells meat. He set up a small shop not far from his house. There is an allegro board in front of the shop, and the daily business is not bad.It is said that he lost his wife in his early years and never remarried. He only had a sixteen-year-old daughter, Yang Liu'er.

Qin Butou inquired about the news that this Yang Liu'er didn't leave the house all day long, except that she picked up some female celebrity buddies to supplement the family with the neighbor's aunt, and she didn't see anyone on weekdays.

But what Chu Qing found out, this Yang Liu'er was indeed three months pregnant and had been dead for more than 20 days.

Butcher Yang hadn't opened a shop when they passed by.Qin Butou led two yamen servants, and when the four of them knocked on the door of Butcher Yang's house, someone happened to be going out from a house on the right. Looking at Butcher Yang's house again, he turned his head and left with a very ugly expression on his face.

Chu Qing squinted her eyes, glanced at the woman, and then looked away again.

They knocked on the door for a while, only to hear footsteps coming from the yard, muttering, some drunken voices came: "Who is it?" Jumping, with a slightly flinching expression: "Yes, it's Qin Tutou, this...why is it coming again? I don't know who it is? My Liu'er died so badly, why don't you catch the murderer? Instead, hold on to some small things?"

"This is not a trivial matter." Chu Qing remained expressionless.

"Who is this little brother?" Butcher Yang regained consciousness, wiped his face, and looked at Chu Qing with a strange face.

"You don't need to worry about that, butcher Yang, let me ask you, who does the child in Yang Liu'er's stomach belong to?" Qin Tutou is tall and majestic, and he is quite majestic. He stared like this, quite solemn .

Butcher Yang was taken aback and said, "Officer, this little guy really doesn't know."

Chu Qing looked at his expression, but saw that when he was speaking, his eyes reflexively glanced at one place, which was not obvious, but was still caught by Chu Qing.

Qin Butou wanted to say something else, but was held down by Chu Qing.

"Then we want to go and see Yang Liu'er's room, can we?"

"This one……"

"Butcher Yang, can you afford to delay the Yamen's handling of the case?" the Yamen servant threatened.

"Then, let's go and have a look..." Butcher Yang was taken aback and stepped aside quickly.Chu Qing stepped in and walked in. Butcher Yang led the way in front, looked back at her from time to time, then quickly turned away, walked to a separate room on the right, and opened it: "This, this is the little girl's room. A few Please come in, sir."

Chu Qing walked in with Qin Butou. The room was neat, clean and simple.

There is a low table on the kang, and a basket on it, which contains scissors, needles and threads, and a pair of unfinished embroidery.

Butcher Yang probably hasn't come in since Yang Liu'er died, and the low table was covered with a layer of dust. She picked up the embroidery and found that it was embroidered with mandarin ducks, and there was only half of it.Mandarin ducks playing in the water are really interesting.

When Butcher Yang saw it, he snatched it away immediately, and hurriedly explained: "This, this is a female celebrity made by my little girl for help. Before I had time to hand it in, this kind of thing happened."

Chu Qing's gaze shifted from the embroidery tightly held in his hands, and then raised her eyes to stare at Butcher Yang's eyes.

Butcher Yang was stared at one place by her, his eyes couldn't help moving, and he said indiscriminately: "Should the officials want to look at other things?"

Chu Qing stared at him for a few more times, and then walked around the room expressionlessly. There were not many things in the room, except for some clothes, a delicate oil-paper umbrella, and some embroidery. Nothing else.

(End of this chapter)