Concubine

Chapter 307 Bahe Floating Corpse Case

In Bazhou, Sichuan, a Ba River is like a jade belt, winding among the mountains.

The old fisherman Yu Laohan sat at the stern, watching his son Yu Tiezhu at the bow pick up the fishing net and throw it vigorously. The fishing net drew a beautiful arc and landed in the quiet water in a circle, slowly sinking.

The weather is very good, the sun is clear and the sun is thin. It is already August, and the river breeze is blowing slowly, which makes people feel very comfortable.

Yu Tiezhu slowly retracted the net, looking at the river with hopeful eyes.The blue waves were rippling, and the fishing net was slowly rolled up with the alternating movements of his hands.Gradually, I felt more and more heavy.

what happened?Yu Tiezhu felt a little surprised. He and his father have been fishing for many years, and they still have a good feeling about whether there are fish in the fishing net and how big the fish are. Besides, this is just a small river, and it is impossible for there to be a fish that he can't even pull. Big fish, could it be that his net caught a school of fish!
He stared straight at the water with joy, wishing he could see the silvery white fish jumping in the net.

No fish, not a single one.

But the fishing net in his hand is getting heavier and heavier.Old man Yu also felt a little surprised. He got under the cover of the fish boat shed and came to the bow. Seeing that Yu Tiezhu was struggling to pull, Old Man Yu was even more surprised. Years of fishing experience told him that it was definitely not a fish, and he probably caught something in the net. Be careful with dead branches and the like, otherwise the fishing net will be torn.

Old man Yu helped his son to pull the fishing net slowly, bit by bit, the thing caught in the net finally came out of the water, and a long black strip floated up and down in the water, and he didn't know what it was.

Yu Tiezhu lifted up the fishing net vigorously, and when he looked closely, he seemed to be a bent over person!He was startled immediately, and he and his father looked at each other. Then he boldly swung the fishing net and turned the man over. Now he could see clearly that it was really a person, a dead person, and a swollen body. corpse!His eyes were wide open, looking straight at him.Yu Tiezhu was so scared that he yelled his mother, dropped the fishing net, sat down on the bow of the boat, and almost fell into the river.

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In the magistrate's yamen of Bazhou, at noon, Xia Chan screamed desperately on the tree, it was really annoying.

It has been almost a month since Yang Qiuchi came to Bazhou Dangzhizhou.Before that, he took Song Yun'er, Song Qing, the little maid Hongling, the Miao sisters Shuang'er, Xue'er, Ke'er and other Liyuan seven sisters, the master, the follower Chang Fu, and the concierge Zhang Ma and other maids and servants. Under the protection of Nan Gongxiong and Xia Ping's guards, the big gang made a detour to Chengdu to visit Liu Ruobing.

Yang Qiuchi was very fortunate that he had the foresight to settle Liu Ruobing in Chengdu. Bazhou is not too far away from Chengdu. If you ride a horse, you can get there in three or four days.

Master Long is very good at handling things. He knows that Yang Qiuchi loves Liu Ruobing and he doesn't hesitate to spend money. There is no need to save money for Yang Qiuchi, so the family property he bought for Liu Ruobing in Chengdu is not comparable to Yang Qiuchi's mansion in Wuchang. It can be regarded as an elegant residence with an elegant environment, small and exquisite, and has a unique flavor of Jiangnan gardens.

Yang Qiuchi praised this garden greatly, and praised Master Long for his ability to handle affairs.Liu Ruobing was also very satisfied, and Yang Qiuchi took Liu Ruobing to buy a few considerate maids and servants in Chengdu. It has been many days since all arrangements were settled.

There is a time limit for this appointment, it can't be delayed for too long, plus Liu Ruobing is pregnant, and she can't be too affectionate, and Song Yuner is also there, so there are scruples about this intimacy, under the urging of Master Jin and others, plus Liu Ruobing Forced him to take up the post with hard and soft tactics, Yang Qiuchi said goodbye to Liu Ruobing in tears, and led a long-distance journey to Bazhou with a large team.

Bazhou in Sichuan was also considered a remote mountainous area in the Ming Dynasty. Although it was better than Zhenyuan Prefecture, it was not much better.

Whenever he misses Liu Ruobing, Yang Qiuchi writes a letter to his family, expressing the pain of lovesickness.The post stations in the Ming Dynasty were very developed, but compared with modern times, they were still very different.

Yang Qiuchi wrote letters to Liu Ruobing every now and then, just like writing letters home when he was in college.Every time four or five letters were sent, Liu Ruobing only replied one, only a few numbers, but Yang Qiuchi was already like a treasure, and he read it over and over again, until he could recite it fluently, he still refused to let it go.

With Hongyan Biography, although the two are far apart, they can still have a heart-to-heart bond.

At noon this day, on a very hot day, Yang Qiuchi was shaking a big cattail fan, talking with the Song sisters and the pretty girl Hongling in the living room.There was a burst of noise in the hall, and someone called for grievances and complaints, and it was an emergency. Could there be a murder case?

The concierge, Zhang Ma, came to report that an old fisherman beat the drum to report that a dead body had been found in the Ba River and asked the master to investigate.

Yang Qiuchi immediately ordered the Yamen police to go to protect the scene first, put on official robes, took the forensic evidence investigation box, and Song Yuner with a small tail, hurried out of the inner Yamen, under the protection of Nan Gongxiong's personal guards, called Master Jin and the yamen disobeyed, and came to the Bazhou River in an official sedan chair.

The body had been pulled to the shore and covered with a straw mat.

Yang Qiuchi first asked Old Man Yu and Yu Tiezhu and his son how they found the corpse, then put on gloves and examined the corpse carefully.

The male corpse was wearing a short blue cloth shirt. He looked like a farmer, with a thin iron chain tied around his neck and a stone tied at one end.The stone is not too heavy.

Yang Qiuchi first searched the pockets of the corpse and found a sweat towel with the word "Li" embroidered on the corner.Nothing else was found.

After unpacking the clothes for inspection, it was found that the corpse had begun to rot slightly.

Song Yuner also watched Yang Qiuchi examine the corpse carefully, and suddenly let out a cry of surprise.

Yang Qiuchi asked: "What's wrong?"

"Brother, you said before that after a person dies, blood will deposit in the lower part of the body to form plaques. Why doesn't this corpse have plaques?" Song Yuner followed Yang Qiuchi to investigate many corpses, and heard Yang Qiuchi say a lot , also learned some special nouns.

Yang Qiuchi praised: "Yun'er is really smart, you can still remember what I told you before, it's not easy."

Song Yuner tilted her head triumphantly: "I can remember everything you said, but I just can't use it. For example, this corpse, how come there are no corpse spots?"

"This corpse is not without corpse spots, but the color of the corpse spots is very light, so it is not easy to find. Moreover, for corpses drowned in rivers, the corpse spots are generally not deposited in the lower parts of the human body."

"why?"

"Because the corpse is tied with a stone with an iron chain around its neck, but the stone is not too heavy and the chain is relatively long, so the corpse cannot be kept in one posture, and the river is flowing, and the corpse rolls up and down without a fixed position. , so it is impossible to form corpse plaques at a certain fixed low position."

This truth is actually very simple, but Song Yuner didn't think of it for a while, Yang Qiuchi's point was broken, and she understood it immediately. She nodded, looked carefully again, and said pleasantly: "I found out that there are corpse spots scattered all over the body. Everywhere, but... the corpse spots on the corpses we inspected in the past seemed to be purple-red, why are the corpse spots on this one pink?"

It is difficult to explain this question to Song Yuner clearly, because the corpse of the drowned person is in the water, and the temperature is relatively low, so after the plaque is formed, the oxyhemoglobin in the blood is not easy to decompose, and the oxygen in the water will enter the blood vessels to form a high concentration of blood. Bright red oxyhemoglobin, so the corpse spots of the drowned are not the usual purple, but pink.

The issues involved are too modern, and Yang Qiuchi can only simply say: "This is caused by water cooling."

Song Yun'er didn't understand why the water cooling would make the spots on the corpse pink, and was about to get to the bottom of it, when she suddenly stared at the mouth and nose of the corpse, and exclaimed in surprise: "I see, this person was thrown into the river after being poisoned. of!"

Yang Qiuchi looked at her in surprise: "How do you know?"

Song Yun'er pointed to the white foam that slowly emerged from the mouth and nose of the dead body: "Look! If he hadn't been poisoned to death, how could there be so much foam from the mouth and nose?"

Yang Qiuchi shook his head: "Really...bubbles in the mouth and nose, must it be poisoned?"

"It wasn't poisoned to death, could it be... Could it be that he spit bubbles on purpose? - Is he still alive?" Song Yuner's eyes widened.

Hearing her words, Yang Qiuchi's head grew even bigger: "This corpse is swollen and started to rot, how can it still be alive! And you saw it just now, there are pink corpse spots on the body, how can there be corpse spots on a living person!"

"Then, why does his mouth spit bubbles!"

"What are spit bubbles? That's called fungiform foam. As cold water enters the respiratory tract, it irritates the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract and secretes a large amount of mucus. The rapid breathing of the deceased after falling into the water will combine these mucus with the inhaled water and the air in the respiratory tract and lungs. When mixed and stirred, this kind of foam will be formed, because it is very similar to the foam spit out by crabs, so it is also called crab-like foam."

Song Yun'er didn't understand much about the respiratory tract, but she was used to listening to Yang Qiuchi's strange babbling.

Yang Qiuchi took a sweat towel, gently wiped off the foam from the mouth and nose of the deceased, and said, "Even if you wipe off this kind of foam, it will still come out, especially when the corpse is turned over, it will come out more."

Sure enough, a pool of thin white foam slowly emerged from the mouth and nose of the corpse.

Yang Qiuchi went on to add: "This kind of foam can remind the deceased that the breathing function still exists when entering the water. Therefore, as long as the drowned corpse is found to spit out this kind of foam, it can be explained to some extent that the deceased entered the water before he was alive, that is, the deceased was drowned. .But not necessarily, taking certain poisons, or dying of epilepsy, may also produce this foam."

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