Concubine

Chapter 365 Strange Symbols
Peng Hexi had already gone upstairs, following behind Yang Qiuchi, and shouted loudly: "Old Seven! Why are you howling! She is not the only woman in this world, so get out of here quickly! You will delay Lord Yang's investigation. , can you bear it!"

Peng Laoqi was still very afraid of Peng Hexi, after hearing this, he slowly put Chunhong's body on the floor, stood up, and walked out crying.

Yang Qiuchi said lightly: "Qi Ye, I have reminded you not to destroy the scene just now, but you rushed in in such a hurry, there were bloody footprints everywhere, destroying all the traces that the murderer might have left on the scene, no matter how sad you are, you can't It can't be like that."

In fact, Yang Qiuchi knew very well that Peng Laoqi's ability to give Chunhong to him meant that a brothel girl like Chunhong didn't hold much weight in his mind, but he didn't know why he did it.

Does that mean he's serious?I still want to use this method to let myself know that he can give himself all the women he cares about so much, which shows how good he is to him, Peng Laoqi.Or, he simply did it for other ulterior motives.

Seeing Yang Qiuchi staring at him, Peng Laoqi quickly wiped the dry corners of his eyes, blinked vigorously, but still couldn't squeeze out a single tear, howled a few times, and said, "My lord, I'm sorry... "

"Still howling!" Peng Hexi said: "Go down first and wait in the lobby. Don't come up unless told!"

Peng Laoqi nodded, and went downstairs whistling on the whistle.

Peng Hexi said apologetically to Yang Qiuchi: "My lord, my younger brother has lost his sense of control due to the pain, please forgive me, my lord."

Yang Qiuchi nodded, not in a hurry to enter the door, turned around to look at the bustard downstairs, the girl, Mr. Gui and the staff and servants in the garden, and asked, "Who was the first to discover the murder?"

"It's me!" A tortoise man ran up with his waist bent, knelt and kowtowed in the corridor, "It was the villain who discovered it first."

"What's your name? Tell me what you found out."

"Yes, the villain's name is Wu Biaosan. This morning, many girls got up to wash up, but Miss Chunhong hasn't woken up yet. The villain finds it a bit strange. Usually, Miss Chunhong gets up very early. I always feel that today is a bit strange. Especially. I thought she might have drunk too much with you guys last night. The villain came to the door and called her. She called her a few times, but she didn’t hear anything. The villain was a little strange, so he knocked I knocked on the door, only to find that the door was not bolted. When I opened the door, I found Miss Chunhong lying on the floor covered in blood. I hurried in and found that she was dead, so I called my mother. They come up."

"The door wasn't bolted when you knocked?" Yang Qiuchi asked in surprise, "Aren't the girls in your garden's boudoir doors not bolted?"

"How could it be? Although they all live in the same garden, the door is locked when they sleep, not to mention that I heard that Peng Qiye stayed in Miss Chunhong's room last night."

oh?Yang Qiuchi's heart skipped a beat, and he turned his head to look at Peng Hexi.

Peng Hexi saw suspicion in Yang Qiuchi's eyes, and quickly explained: "It's like this, after the Sir went back last night, Lao Qi and I were worried, so we also went back and came to 'Chi Jingzhai', We were relieved when we heard from the guards that you had fallen asleep. Lao Qi was worried about Miss Chunhong and said he wanted to go back and have a look, so he came back."

"What happened later? Do you know what happened later?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

"I don't know, just call Lao Qi up and ask." After finishing speaking, Peng Hexi turned around and shouted to Peng Lao Qi downstairs: "Hey! Lao Qi, come up quickly, my lord wants to ask you something!"

Peng Laoqi agreed, and went upstairs sobbing.

Peng Hexi yelled with a straight face: "Cry ass! You old man is like a woman, don't you feel ashamed?"

Only then did Peng Laoqi blink his dry eyes, and stopped howling.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Did you live with Miss Chunhong last night?"

"Yes... no, I didn't stay overnight." Peng Laoqi replied, "I saw that Chunhong drank so much wine and got very drunk. I was very worried about her, so I rushed back. Me and her... and her After that once, put her to sleep, and then returned to Pengjiazhuang."

That once?Yang Qiuchi was a little funny, and Peng Laoqi was a little embarrassed, so he asked: "Why don't you sleep with her so late, what are you doing when you run back?"

Peng Laoqi glanced at Peng Hexi, and said in a low voice: "My brother has never allowed me to stay in the brothel. This is a family rule."

Yang Qiuchi turned his head to look at Peng Hexi, and remembered what Song Yuner said about Peng Hexi's deep love for his ex-wife, and that his ex-wife died more than ten or 20 years before he married Shui Wanqi. The precautions were very strict. At the beginning, Peng Laoqi wanted to marry Chunhong, a brothel girl, as his concubine. I am afraid it took a lot of talking to persuade this stubborn Mr. Peng.

Yang Qiuchi asked Peng Laoqi: "When you went in just now, where was Chunhong lying? What was her body posture like?"

"It's lying on its back by the bed." Peng Laoqi turned his head to look at Chunhong's body with a sad expression, and pointed with his finger, "It's there. I just picked her up after I entered, checked, and found that she had died."

Yang Qiuchi said: "Okay, you all go down and wait below. I want to investigate the scene." Peng Hexi, Peng Laoqi and Wu Biaosan hurriedly nodded in agreement and went downstairs.

Yang Qiuchi said to Song Yun'er again: "Yun'er, go and help me investigate the bustard, Mr. Gui, and the servants, and ask them if any outsiders have come in or out. Is there any suspicious person who may have committed the murder."

Song Yuner happily agreed, and went downstairs to investigate.

Yang Qiuchi took out his gloves and put them on, carried the forensic evidence investigation box, carefully avoided places where traces might be left, and walked into the room.

There was no one else upstairs, so Yang Qiuchi took out a miniature digital camera and first took detailed photos of the scene.

Chunhong's body was lying beside the bed. The bedding on the bed was very messy and covered with blood, especially the pair of mandarin duck pillows, which were almost soaked with blood. One of them fell under the bed. The neck of her corpse lying on the floor There is a large pool of blood around, and the appearance of this pool of blood indicates that this should be the first scene of the murder.

Chunhong was all over her body, so the fatal injury was obvious. There was only one place, on the left side of the neck. When probed with a probe, it was found that the carotid artery had been severed.This wound was a pair of blunt wounds, the wounds were open and in the shape of a diamond, and the wounds were closed in a cross shape, indicating that the murder weapon should be a stab without a blade.Yang Qiuchi is very familiar with all kinds of stab wounds, judging from the shape, it is likely to be scissors.

After searching, Yang Qiuchi found a pair of small blood-stained scissors beside the bed.After size measurement and comparison, it was determined that it was the murder weapon.

The curved handle of this little scissors is wrapped with pink silk thread, very beautiful, this unique shape is very familiar to Yang Qiuchi, after a moment of pondering, he remembered, this is the scissors in Chunhong's room, the two of them talked last night At that time, Chunhong was used to cut the wick.

Judging from the opening of the wound and local inflammation of the wound, it was a wound during his lifetime. In addition, a large pool of blood on the ground also proved this point, because if it was a post-mortem wound, since the heart has stopped beating, there will not be a large amount of blood gushing out. , only a small amount of blood flows out of the wound under the action of gravity.

Judging from the position of the wound on the neck, the angle and depth of the wound cavity, he could not form it himself, and it was a homicide.

There were many wiping marks on the floor, which should have been left during the struggle before death, as well as some messy bloody footprints.Distributed around the corpse, and back and forth from the door to the corpse.

The skin of the pool of blood had dried and congealed, showing a dark red color, but these footprints were bright red, indicating that Peng Laoqi, Wu Biaosan and other people from the brothel stepped on the pool of blood when they came in to check on the dead.Yang Qiuchi took pictures of these footprints one by one.

Carefully inspecting the bloodstains next to the corpse, Yang Qiuchi suddenly let out a snort, squatted down beside Chunhong, and stared at a pattern on the floor to identify it.

This pattern is next to Chunhong's right index finger, it is drawn with blood, it is neither round nor square, it looks crooked like a trapezoid.Chunhong's right index finger rests on the closed part of the trapezoidal pattern.Judging from the blood on Chunhong's hands, it is estimated that Chunhong covered the wound on her neck with her hands before she died, and her hands were stained with blood. Before she died, she drew this figure with the blood adhering to her hands.

What is she trying to tell?

Yang Qiuchi carefully observed the figure for a while, but couldn't see anything interesting, so he took a picture with a digital camera and kept it to study it slowly.

The autopsy then began.After moving the joints of the corpse, it was found that the mandible, neck, and arms had rigor rigor, but the lower body had not yet rigor rigor, and there were cadaver spots on the lower part of the body, and the finger pressure faded. Open the eyelids to check the cornea, it is clear and transparent , After measuring the liver temperature with a probe, based on a comprehensive judgment, Chunhong should have died around five o'clock in the morning (five o'clock).

The mouth and nose of the corpse had surface abrasions caused by pressing, the lips were opened, the lining of the mouth was scratched, and the gums had a small amount of bleeding.However, there was no bruising and swelling characteristic of suffocation on the face, no spotting bleeding on the conjunctiva, no traces of choking or the like on the neck, and the larynx was normal, so death by mechanical asphyxiation could be ruled out.

There are obvious grip indentations on the wrists of both hands, which are light black purple.From the appearance, it is preliminarily judged that it was formed by holding and pressing, and there are friction marks on the hands, back, and buttocks, which are obvious resistance injuries.No trauma was found elsewhere on the body.

Yang Qiuchi recalled that Chunhong was seventy percent drunk last night. After losing the bet, she drank up the bottle of wine in one gulp. In addition to being in a bad mood, she drank the hangover soup with medicine. Qi had another round with her, her body was extremely exhausted, and she must have slept deeply. In that case, it would be pretty good if she could instinctively raise her hand to block it when she encountered an attack.

Judging from the distribution of bloodstains, Miss Chunhong should have been killed while she was sleeping soundly on the bed. The murderer stabbed her neck with scissors. Because Chunhong was extremely drunk and exhausted, she was unable to resist at all, and she was also unable to call or the call was very loud. Weak, she rolled out of bed as she struggled, and soon died of shock due to acute blood loss from the carotid artery.

(End of this chapter)