Concubine

Chapter 177 Any crime leaves traces
Yang Qiuchi knelt down and touched the child's carotid artery. There was no pulse, and he asked, "When did you find the child's body?"

"Just a while." The old man said with tears.

"Who discovered it first?"

An old farmer next to him kowtowed his head: "Returning to the master, I was the first to discover it. I came back from the field with a hoe on my shoulders. When I passed by here, I found a child lying there curled up in the grass. I was still in my heart. I thought, whose child is this, who sleeps in the grass in winter. I walked over to call him, only to find that it was Old Man Li’s son, bleeding from the nose and mouth, and he was dead. I was terrified, and ran to the village Old man Li and the others are calling."

"Where did you find the child's body?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

"It's right here," the old farmer pointed to a barren grassland next to him.

Yang Qiuchi walked to the barren grass, bent down to check it out.This clump of thatch grew on the ridge of the field, half a person's height, already withered and yellow.There are cultivated fields all around, and no one can be seen in this cold weather.

Yang Qiuchi carefully opened the dry grass and found a pool of blood in the grass, but there were no other suspicious items or traces.

Yang Qiuchi returned to the side of the child's corpse, stretched out his hand to grab the child's chin and twisted it, then carefully observed the child's clothes and pants, and then carefully took off all the children's clothes and pants.

There was a big gash on the child's forehead, half of his face was stained red with blood; his right chest was sunken, and the surrounding area was blue;

Yang Qiuchi carefully looked at the wound on the child's forehead, and suddenly he let out a surprise, leaned over to observe carefully, then reached out and grabbed a hair, and slowly lifted it up.

Part of that hair was stained with blood from the wound, and it could be seen from the part that was not stained with blood that it was golden yellow.

Yang Qiuchi ordered Yuechan to bring a blank piece of paper.

Before setting off, Yang Qiuchi had already prepared some commonly used items for extracting evidence according to his own needs, such as white paper, large and small paper bags, cotton swabs, small pieces of cotton cloth, etc., and even specially made a few pairs of autopsy gloves. The interlayer was isolated with oil paper.These things are kept by the little maid, Yuechan.

Yuechan quickly brought the white paper, and Yang Qiuchi wrapped the blood-stained yellow hair in the white paper and put it in his arms.

After Yang Qiuchi touched the head, neck, chest, abdomen and legs of the corpse with his hands, he stood up and walked onto the road, bending over and walking slowly.Song Yun'er, Nan Gongxiong and others didn't know what Yang Qiuchi was doing, so they hurriedly followed.

Their convoy had already passed a certain distance before Yang Qiuchi called to stop, so a long section of the road was empty.

After walking not far, Yang Qiuchi stopped, looked at a short piece of wood lying on the side of the road, studied it carefully for a while, then came back and squatted down to look at the road.Song Yuner followed up and asked, "Brother, what did you find?"

Yang Qiuchi pointed to the road, which was a series of messy horseshoe prints and a few shallow ruts.

Song Yun'er looked at these horseshoe prints, and asked a little puzzled: "What's wrong? These horseshoe prints are everywhere on official roads."

"Investigating a case is to discover the unusual from the seemingly ordinary traces, so as to discover the clues left by the criminal." Yang Qiuchi said.

"Brother, you must have found the clues of the criminal!" Song Yun'er said excitedly, "Who killed this child?"

"Killed by a carriage!"

ah?Song Yun'er exclaimed, turned her head to look at the position of the child's corpse, and shook her head: "That's not right, the child's body is so far away from the official road, no matter how fast the carriage runs, there is no way to hit the child so far where to go."

"If you can't hit it, can't you hug it?"

ah?Song Yuner exclaimed again, and then realized: "Brother, you mean, the person in the carriage ran over the child to death, and hid the body in order to cover up the crime?"

"Smart!" Yang Qiuchi praised, "That's right." After that, he pointed to the horseshoe prints on the ground, "Look carefully, these horseshoe prints range from sparse to dense, and then there is a large mess of prints. This is a carriage. After the child was hit by the Mercedes, the horse was stopped by the handlebars, leaving such an imprint. There should be more than one horse."

Yang Qiuchi saw that Song Yuner's eyes were wide open looking at the horseshoe prints on the ground, but her eyes were still confused, so she said, "Of course, these horseshoe prints alone can't tell whether the child was killed by a carriage. It must be based on the injury. Let's go, go again." Examine the dead body of the child."

Yang Qiuchi asked Nan Gongxiong to pick up the short piece of wood by the side of the road, and then everyone went back to the child's body.

Yang Qiuchi pointed to the dent on the child's chest: "This is left by the horse's hoof. Have you noticed that the scar on the chest is an oval and semicircular blunt wound, which is very consistent with the horse's hoof."

"Horse hooves trampled hard enough to fracture sternum, cause lung contusion, flail chest, hemothorax, pneumothorax, and possibly blunt heart injury (which would require an autopsy to prove). This should have contributed to the child's death main reason."

Yang Qiuchi pointed to the wound on the forehead of the child's corpse: "There are interstitial bridges in the wound cavity, the walls are not neat, and the wound is irregular. It is a tear wound. It should be caused by the direct impact of the horse's leg. The skull has already formed a depression. You can touch it with your hands, indicating that the carriage was traveling very fast and the impact was very powerful. This craniocerebral injury can lead to traumatic shock in the child and hasten the death of the child.”

Yang Qiuchi has a lot of technical terms, Song Yuner and Jin Shiye are confused, but this is not the first time they have heard Yang Qiuchi's weird words, they gradually got used to them, and even Guess Dai Meng also understood the general idea.

Then, Yang Qiuchi spread the child's clothes and trousers flat on the ground, and pointed to a mark on it: "This is left by the wheels of the carriage."

Holding up the child's broken right leg with both hands: "Look at the injury on this calf, it can best explain the problem."

"Judging from the direction of the traces, the child should have been knocked down by the horse and trampled by the horse's hooves, and then the wheel ran over the child's leg, forming a peeling injury on the leg-this injury was caused by the turning force of the wheel. The traction causes the skin and subcutaneous tissue to peel off in a circular manner, forming a kind of scar presented by extensive subcutaneous hematoma."

Yang Qiuchi pointed to a tiny tear wound in the child's groin: "This kind of injury is called a stretch injury. It is caused by the excessive pull of the wheel's turning force, the epidermis is torn and the dermis is exposed, forming this kind of group distribution. Strip-shaped small cracks, which are in line with skin wrinkles."

Yang Qiuchi said: "These two kinds of injuries are typical wheel crush injuries. It is difficult for other objects to form these two kinds of injuries."

"Could it be that someone pushed the cart and overwhelmed the child?"

"Good question," Yang Qiuchi praised, "but judging from the injury, it doesn't fit." Yang Qiuchi pointed to the wound on the thigh of the child's corpse, "This kind of scar is very wide. If the wheel of a unicycle is so wide If it is not necessary, firstly, it is not necessary, and secondly, it will be very difficult to push forward.”

"There is another point that can prove that it was hit by a carriage." Yang Qiuchi turned over the child's clothes and pants, and the back was covered with dust with fine sand and stones. "Look, the place where the child's body was found is surrounded by dry grass and dirt. It's not this kind of dust with sand and gravel, it should be left behind by the horseshoes and wheels dragging the road surface after the child was hit."

Yang Qiuchi turned the child's body over and pointed to the scratches on the body's back, buttocks and elbows: "These scratches should be caused by the carriage dragging the child's body, which can confirm my inference just now."

Song Yuner looked at Yang Qiuchi with admiration: "Brother, you are really good!" Turning her head to look at the empty official road, she said, "I don't know which damned horse-drawn carriage killed the child, how can we find this criminal?" Woolen cloth?"

"Any crime will leave traces!" Yang Qiuchi said confidently, "As long as you are careful, you can find it."

Song Yuner asked pleasantly: "Brother, you have already found the criminal, right?" She gritted her teeth, "If you bump into a child and leave the body behind, it is really inhumane. Catch this damned criminal. He must be dealt with severely! Brother, tell me quickly, what kind of criminal is this?"

"I don't know the criminal, but I know his carriage."

"Young Master Yang, you were not at the scene, how did you know about the condition of the criminal's carriage?" A girl's voice came from behind Yang Qiuchi, and when he turned his head, it was Bai Sumei in plain clothes.Standing beside her was Mrs. Bai.

It turned out that Bai Sumei, mother and daughter waited for a while, but did not see Yang Qiuchi and the others coming back. Hearing that there was a murder case just now, although Bai Sumei was afraid, she still cared about Yang Qiuchi in her heart, so she and her mother came down to watch Yang Qiuchi solve the case.

Yang Qiuchi looked at Bai Sumei and smiled slightly: "As I said just now: any crime will leave traces!" He took out the white paper from his arms, unfolded it, and twirled the yellow hair: "The child's hair is black. Therefore, the hair cannot belong to the child, but must have been left when the horse's leg struck the child's head."

"Yellow? The horse in the carriage is a yellow puma?" Song Yuner immediately realized.

Yang Qiuchi nodded: "To be precise, the first horse is a yellow puma."

"Is there a second horse?" Bai Sumei also asked curiously.

"Yes!" Yang Qiuchi said, "Actually, you can tell by paying attention to the running of the horses. The speed of the carriage is very fast, so when the front legs of the first horse hit the child's forehead, the child should be standing facing him at that time." At this time, it is difficult for the first horse's hind legs to step on the child's chest directly, and after the child is knocked to the ground, it is possible for the second horse to step on the child's chest."

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