Concubine

Chapter 139 Not Frozen to Death
Jia Hanlin turned around, saw a young scholar, and asked, "Who are you?"

Yang Qiuchi bowed and saluted: "Yang Qiuchi was born late in Guangde County, Ningguo Prefecture."

Yang Qiuchi is famous in Guangde County and even in Ningguo Mansion for solving strange cases, but in Yingtian Mansion in the capital, few people know about him.

Jia Hanlin asked: "What did you just say? Didn't Lu Xueru freeze to death?"

Yang Qiuchi nodded: "Yes, we should find out the real cause of his death."

An inspection officer next to Jia Hanlin reprimanded him: "Bold! You are a little scholar, talking nonsense here and disturbing people's hearts..." Jia Hanlin stopped his reprimand with a wave of his hand, and asked softly: "Yang Qiuchi, why do you think he didn't freeze to death?"

This Jia Hanlin didn't have the pretensions of a court official, and Yang Qiuchi immediately took a liking to him.

What he didn't know was that Jia Hanlin was worrying about people freezing to death in the examination room. He was afraid that people would use this incident to punish him, saying that he was not well organized and that he froze the candidates to death.

Now when he heard Yang Qiuchi say that this old scholar might not have been frozen to death, he immediately saw a glimmer of hope.If this person was poisoned to death by others, and it was not an outsider who sneaked into the examination room to commit murder, then he would have no responsibility.

He is the chief examiner, and he is not responsible for the detection of local criminal cases. Even if the case cannot be solved, it has nothing to do with him. It is the matter of the Yingtian government office.

Of course, if the old scholar died of illness himself, he would have no responsibility at all.

Therefore, Jia Hanlin was very interested in Yang Qiuchi's statement that the old scholar didn't freeze to death.

Yang Qiuchi bowed and said: "The reason why Wansheng thinks that the old scholar Lu Xueru didn't freeze to death is because... because people who freeze to death will take off their clothes by themselves."

As soon as Yang Qiuchi uttered these words, there was a lot of discussion among the onlookers.

An inspection officer behind Jia Hanlin couldn't help shouting: "It's nonsense! People who freeze to death are afraid of the cold, so they only wrap their clothes tightly around their bodies. They are afraid that there are too few clothes, so how can they take off their clothes instead? Are you here again?" Nonsense, get punished immediately..."

Jia Hanlin turned his head and stared at the inspector, and snorted heavily in his nostrils.The inspector hurriedly shut up and lowered his head.

Seeing the chief examiner getting angry, all the candidates dared not discuss any more, and quietly listened to Jia Hanlin's question.

Jia Hanlin asked Yang Qiuchi: "Is there any basis for your statement? Have you ever seen a person freeze to death?"

Although Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty was brutal, during his reign, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and there was no major famine and turmoil. Although it was not as good as Tang Taizong's peaceful and prosperous age, it was still very good.Therefore, it is still difficult for ordinary people to see people freezing to death during this period.

Yang Qiuchi said that the abnormal undressing phenomenon of people who freeze to death exists. This is because before death, after encountering cold stimulation, the secretion of adrenal glands in the body is enhanced, and the enhancement of adrenaline and adrenal cortex hormones will make people Hallucinations of heat and undressing.

In addition, in a low-temperature environment, human blood vessels and thermoregulation centers are inhibited, causing muscle blood vessels to expand due to paralysis, and the dilated blood vessels fill the skin with blood at a higher temperature, thus making people numb to cold stimulation on the one hand and numb on the other. Aspects can make people feel hot, so this abnormal undressing phenomenon will also appear.

Some people who died of freezing were found naked, especially women, which would make people mistakenly think that they were robbed or sexually assaulted by others. In fact, these clothes were taken off by the people who died of freezing before they died.

When Yang Qiuchi answered this question just now, he originally wanted to explain it this way, but he immediately realized that if he said this, not only would others not understand, but they would think that there was something wrong with his head, and he was talking nonsense. People listen to it, but it backfires.

When he was thinking about how to explain this kind of modern medical problem clearly in popular words, Jia Hanlin's words reminded him, and he quickly followed Jia Hanlin's words and said: "Exactly, when Wansheng was born in a poor family, he used to be a disobedient doctor for a while. I am a junior apprentice, but I have not been naturalized. I have inspected the corpses of people who died of freezing with my master, so I know. As for why this happened, Wansheng is not very clear. I just saw people who died of freezing often have this kind of situation. That's why I said it rashly, please forgive Wansheng for being abrupt."

Jia Hanlin said to the invigilator behind him: "Check Mr. Yang's resume and see if it is true."

The invigilator hurriedly brought a thick registration book from his entourage, opened it to search, and quickly found Yang Qiuchi's registration status, looked at it, and said: "This is indeed the record." The inspection tour took a few more glances , slightly surprised, said: "This Yang Xiucai is a regular prisoner who donated to the Imperial Academy."

As soon as these words came out, the scholars who gathered around to watch the excitement were suddenly full of discussions, and some even looked at Yang Qiuchi with disdainful eyes, just like in modern society, the top students in key middle schools see a person who enters the key through the back door Like a poor student who was transferred from middle school.

In the Ming Dynasty, Guozijian students who became "donors" by donating money and property were considered "miscellaneous" although they could take part in the provincial examination.Therefore, those right-track scholars who have passed the children's examination level by level, for Yang Qiuchi who used money to obtain the examination qualifications, both envy him for having money and despise him for being uneducated.

Jia Hanlin snorted, looked Yang Qiuchi up and down, originally wanted to ask him if he was poor enough to be an apprentice, how did he become so rich all of a sudden, he could even afford to donate to the prison, but the ancients were more taboo to ask about other people's finances Sources, especially those who are knowledgeable and self-confident.

Since Yang Qiuchi used to be an apprentice and indeed had experience in this field, Jia Hanlin believed [-]% to [-]% of what Yang Qiuchi said just now, and asked, "Since it didn't freeze to death, how did it die?" ?” This question is what he cares most about.

Yang Qiuchi bowed and said, "If your lord allows, Wansheng is willing to examine the corpse."

Jia Hanlin nodded in agreement.

Yang Qiuchi came to the door of this number room, and did not enter in a hurry, and stood at the door to carefully observe the situation inside.This room is exactly the same as my own, with a brick and wood structure, and a small window on the inner wall, and the oil paper pasted on it is intact.

Yang Qiuchi asked while observing: "Who came in after the old scholar was found dead?"

He didn't hear the answer, Yang Qiuchi looked back, and the inspectors were looking at him with contempt, and didn't answer, as if they were saying that you, a small Guozijian student, have no right to ask us questions, let alone a A regular prisoner who only got the qualifications by donating money.

Yang Qiuchi's heart was burning with anger, and he thought that it was none of my business for this old scholar to die in the examination room. If I eat too much, I don't care about this nosy business. Why bother to put a hot face on your cold ass, shit!leave!Yang Qiuchi walked out with a cold face.

Jia Hanlin snorted, "Young Master Yang, why are you leaving?"

Yang Qiuchi said coldly: "These inspectors don't like me, why should I annoy people here, and don't care about my business." He started to leave again.

"Young Master, please stay!" Jia Hanlin said, turning to those inspectors and said: "It's a matter of human life. This Mr. Yang was invited by the official to conduct an autopsy. Whoever doesn't answer Mr. Yang's question seriously will not give it to the official. face!"

The inspectors looked at each other in blank dismay, lowered their heads and murmured repeatedly.

Only then did Yang Qiuchi turn around and walk back, and asked again: "Who found the corpse first?"

One of the invigilators replied: "I discovered it first." Although he answered, his words were still full of official airs.

"Tell me what happened." Yang Qiuchi was not polite, thinking that Lao Tzu is the special envoy of Jin Yiwei Commander, and this was personally appointed by the emperor's imperial decree.Besides, the chief examiner asked me to help investigate the case in public just now, and the people involved in the case investigation, no matter whether you are a high-ranking official or a commoner, have to answer the questions honestly for me.Since you are not polite, why should I be polite to you?
The inspection tour was a bit surprised. He was sent by the imperial court to assist the chief examiner in organizing the exam. He was also a court official with taste. This Yang Qiuchi was just a commoner, yet he dared to call him "you" in a rather rude tone. Immediately he was about to get angry.

Jia Hanlin snorted coldly, and the patrolling examiner quickly suppressed the fire in his stomach, and said: "After the exam, I opened the number room next to me, and found this old scholar curled up on the ground motionless. I thought he was asleep. , went in and called him, only to find that he was dead, I ran out quickly, and the other two inspecting adults also went in to check and confirmed that he was dead. Except for the three of us, only the disobedient who came later been in."

"Was the old scholar Lu Xueru well when he entered?"

Another inspector recalled it and said: "It's fine, but when I searched to see if there was any entrainment, I remembered that he was shaking slightly all over, saying that he had a severe headache. Nothing else was found."

Headache, shaking?Yang Qiuchi frowned, walked to the door of the number room, and continued to observe.

The imperial examination candidate entered the numbered room, and the inspection officials were going to lock the numbered room from the outside, and there were still inspections to search around. Moreover, there was no sign of outsider intrusion in the numbered room.From this point of view, it is almost impossible for this old scholar to be infiltrated and killed by outsiders.

Only then did Yang Qiuchi step into the number room.The furnishings in this room are similar to those in my own, with a long desk, a low stool, and a brazier.

When Yang Qiuchi saw the brazier, he immediately thought, did he die from carbon monoxide poisoning?He walked over and squatted down to look at the brazier, then reached out to touch it, shook his head, no, this brazier was cold, and there was no fire at all.

There are a few sheets of manuscript paper on the table, just halfway through writing, the brush fell to the ground, and a thin layer of ice had formed on the edge of the ink in the inkstone.

Yang Qiuchi carefully avoided places where there might be footprints on the ground, came to the corpse, and found a puddle of vomit on the ground at the corner of the old scholar's mouth, his heart moved, could it be food-borne poisoning?
Apart from this vomit, there was nothing suspicious on the ground.

Yang Qiuchi squatted down to observe the face of the deceased, and saw that there was no wry smile characteristic of those who died of freezing, further explaining that he was not frozen to death.

He turned his eyelids and looked, but found no bleeding point of suffocation; opened his lips, and found oral ulcers at the corners of the deceased's mouth and inside the lips.In addition, the mouth and gums are also more red and swollen.It seems that this Luxue Confucian student has a relatively serious internal fire.

Yang Qiuchi grabbed the dead man's hand and looked at it. There was frostbite on the outer edge of the palm, but the degree was relatively mild, less than grade two, and the ears were also affected.Yang Qiuchi reached into the arms of the corpse, touched the armpit of the corpse, there was still a slight residual warmth, and nodded.

The corpse was stripped naked and inspected carefully from head to toe, no trauma was found, and the neck and other places were carefully inspected, and no subcutaneous bleeding or epidermal abrasions were found.

The plaques and rigor mortis in the lower part of the corpse have just begun to appear, and the time of death should be about two hours.

Yang Qiuchi got up and went out, and said to Jia Hanlin: "My lord, after Wansheng's preliminary inspection, this old scholar did not freeze to death."

Jia Hanlin was overjoyed and asked, "How do you see it?"

"Reporting to my lord: Although this numbered room is relatively simple, it is still well sealed, and the cold wind outside cannot penetrate. Although the numbered room is relatively cold, it has not yet reached the point where people will freeze to death in a short period of time."

Speaking of this, Yang Qiuchi looked around at the scholars who were watching, and said: "Many of the scholars I refer to today did not buy charcoal to make a fire, and some of them are old people. Some may have frostbite on their hands and feet, but they are half dead from the cold. , I'm afraid not?"

The onlookers nodded in agreement.

"Wansheng checked Lu Xueru's hands and feet and found frostbite, but no serious frostbite. If he was frozen to death, the degree of frostbite should be severe. Wansheng tested the temperature of the corpse's armpit with his hands , there is still a residual temperature, if it is frozen to death, this situation will not happen."

The normal body temperature of a person is 36 degrees. If it is frozen to death, the body temperature must drop to at least 25 degrees. At this time, the body temperature center fails, and the person will fall into a coma, the reflexes will disappear, and the heartbeat and breathing will be suppressed. In this case, it is very difficult. Only when the reversal is restored, freezing to death can happen.

Without a thermometer, it was impossible to measure, so Yang Qiuchi could only feel his body temperature with his hands. After testing, he found that the drop in body temperature of the old scholar was consistent with the general coldness of corpses, and there was no obvious drop in body temperature like freezing to death.

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