Song Yi

Chapter 363 Hoe
Mei'er and the rest of the criminals were very grateful for this result. They committed the heinous felony of treason and injustice, such as attempting to murder the criminal judge, but they were also pardoned by the criminal judge. It is unheard of thing to lose one's own life, and the whole family of these people is very grateful to Du Wenhao.

Du Wenhao asked Lin Qingdai: "I will handle this matter this time, what do you think?"

"Very good, you feel more and more like an official. But I think you should report the handling of this case to the imperial court, and let the people above know that you are doing things, not just traveling around. Including You should report to the imperial court in time about training doctors from various places along the way and consulting difficult medical cases.”

"Well, it's right to ask for more instructions and report more, so that there will be excuses for evading problems in the future. But who will write this memorial? I don't know how to write these ancient prose."

"I won't either,—you should hire a master, you have now achieved the position of a criminal officer, and you can be regarded as a high-ranking official in the court. Memorials should not be underestimated, and you will be considered a big deal." If you don’t write this memorial well, if you don’t show your merits, the court and the emperor won’t know about it, and from the perspective of being an official, it’s useless to do it.”

"What you said is very reasonable. Not only is it about the memorial, but I also have a headache when it comes to punishment and prison. I'm okay with solving cases, but I'm a little confused about the judgment. I'm not familiar with "Song Xingtong" .”

"So, you have to find a teacher as soon as possible." Lin Qingdai thought for a while, and suddenly her eyes lit up: "Why don't you ask Eunuch Ning who is beside the emperor to help you find one? He is by the emperor's side all day, so he must know who The written memorial is well written. I often meet the ministers with the emperor, and I should know the people around the ministers very well."

"That's a good idea!" Du Wenhao praised, "I'll write a letter right away and send it to Eunuch Ning urgently. Ask him to help find one!"

Du Wenhao immediately wrote a letter and sent it to Eunuch Ning urgently with military information.

In the past few days, Yamen policemen and Min Zhuang searched everywhere for possible places to hide gravel.After Huang Zhizhou survived the disaster, he personally supervised the search regardless of day or night.

It has been raining these days, rainy and rainy, and it turns cold soon after autumn.Du Wenhao didn't want to go out to play, so he consulted with other doctors in Hengzhou to treat difficult and miscellaneous diseases, and occasionally went to the Yamen to raise some punishments.

Finally, on this day, Huang Zhizhou brought Sun County Captain excitedly to the Hengzhou Inn and reported to Du Wenhao that he had made a major discovery.In a hidden mountain depression more than ten miles away from Hengzhou City, a buried corpse was found!

Du Wenhao was overjoyed, he took Li Pu, Lin Qingdai and others hurriedly followed Huang Zhizhou and the others, and drove out of the city in the rain to this mountain depression.

Headhunter Hong and other police officers have already set up the surrounding area, and the buried body was found in a low-lying place on the hillside.Wrapped in several tarpaulins.Only one of them was opened, and it was a white arm.

Du Wenhao asked Hong Butou, "How did you find out about this scene?"

Catcher Hong grinned and clasped his hands triumphantly: "Reporting to Mr. Ti Xing, we have searched this area several times, but found nothing. It is very hidden here, and it is relatively close to the city. I thought, if I It’s the murderer. This place is relatively a good place to bury corpses, so it’s been raining for the past two days. I didn’t give up, and I took people to search in the rain. I found that this low-lying land has almost no water in this place, and other places There are some of them. I was very surprised. After careful observation, I found that the grass in this area was not the same as other places. It seemed a bit messy, and some grasses were still dead. I ordered to dig it up and dug down about three or four feet, and found These corpses are broken."

Du Wenhao praised: "Very smart! The newly excavated land is relatively soft and easy to absorb water, and the backfilled turf must be different from the natural growth. You have observed carefully, and you are a good catcher."

"Thank you, Mr. Ti Xing, for your compliment. If it weren't for Mr. Ti Xing's advice, we don't know how to solve this case."

At this time, the rain had stopped. Du Wenhao first carefully observed the arm in the package of untied tarpaulin, especially the fractured part, and found that the fractured bone was very rough. What tool caused it?"

Hong Baotou pinched his nose and squatted down to observe carefully: "Well, it's a bit like sawing with a saw. Generally, cutting with a knife is not so rough."

"That's right. And the parts cut off by the saw are very selective, which shows that this person has a certain understanding of human body structure." Du Wenhao carefully unwrapped another bag, which contained a thigh, and there was nothing else What.Then the rest of the package was untied, and other torsos and limbs were found, and even the head was found.

Since the dismembered corpse was buried deep underground, the rate of decay was much slower than when it was exposed to the air, so it could be recognized from the appearance that it was a middle-aged male corpse.However, since a month or so has passed, the head has entered a stage of high corruption, and it looks like a corrupt giant, so it cannot be distinguished.

Du Wenhao first asked Catcher Hong to send someone to talk to Mrs. Han and the others to identify the corpse.Then he looked around and said, "No clothes were found on the body of the deceased. Usually, when the murderer conceals the body, he will dispose of the clothes together, such as burning them or concealing them, so these traces may be found nearby. Please search carefully!"

All the policemen and Minzhuang queued up for a dragnet search.

It's not far from the city, and soon, Mrs. Han and the others rushed over nervously.

The corpse had been decomposed, and it was impossible to identify it from the appearance, but after all, it was the person next to the pillow. After carefully identifying it, Mrs. Han burst into tears.While crying, she said that this was her husband, Shopkeeper Han.Du Wenhao asked her what basis she had. She said that from the appearance of the corpse, a small old scar on the thigh of the corpse and a mole behind the head and ear, she could conclude that the deceased was her husband.

While they were weeping unceasingly, Catcher Hong hurried over and reported that there was a small trace of fire not far from here.Under several large rocks, most of the clothes that had been burned were found.

Du Wenhao and the others rushed there, and more than half of the clothes extracted from the corpse had been burned, but the incomplete parts were still recognizable, which was exactly the same as what Mrs. Han said about the clothes shopkeeper Han wore before he disappeared.

From this, it can be concluded that the deceased is the shopkeeper Han of Xianyun Inn in Hengshan.

Du Wenhao carefully studied the appearance of the corpse, trying to find out the cause of death. However, apart from the broken wounds on the dead body, no obvious signs of trauma were found on the body surface. Although there were broken wounds on the neck and neck, the corresponding parts were also damaged. No strangulation marks common in mechanical asphyxiation were found.However, this cannot rule out that the death was not caused by mechanical suffocation, because some mechanical deaths do not have such traces, and must be strangled with a soft towel, or covered with a quilt, etc.

He checked the face of the deceased again, and found no bruising and mucous membrane bleeding spots that are common in suffocation.Of course, this cannot be absolutely sure that it is not death by suffocation. He decided to conduct further autopsy to see if there are any corresponding signs of suffocation from the changes in internal organs.Find the ultimate cause of death.

Du Wenhao called Huang Zhizhou, Sun Xianwei and Hong Butou aside to study the case.None of these three people had much experience in detection, let alone systematic detection knowledge. Du Wenhao found it extremely difficult to get them to come up with reasonable detection opinions.Can only rely on their own ideas.

So the case analysis meeting became Du Wenhao's single-person detection deployment meeting.

The characterization of the case is very simple. The dismemberment case is almost certainly a homicide. This is a criminal case that must be filed and investigated.

Du Wenhao had already basically thought about the direction of detection. He ordered Hong Butou to lead the police to conduct a thorough investigation of the surrounding villages to see if there were any suspicious persons.Ask Sun Xianwei to lead people to investigate and inquire about all the shops that sell saws in the city to see if there are any suspicious people who bought saws during the disappearance of the deceased, and to find the source of the oilcloth paper.

After the deployment, Du Wenhao asked Wu Zuo to wrap up the corpse and transport it back to the mortuary of the Yamen. He himself had to conduct a detailed autopsy.

After returning to the city, Du Wenhao asked Zaoli to find a few large tables and put them in the open space in front of the mortuary. The light was good and the ventilation was good. He asked Wu Zuo to put the body parts on the tables and start examining them one by one.

Examination of the limbs was carried out quickly, and the main focus was on the head and torso. After the scalp was uncovered, no hematoma or skull fracture was found under the scalp, and it was preliminarily determined that the head was not injured.

The torso was a whole piece. He cut open the throat with a knife, and after examination, he found that the larynx was intact and no fractures were found.

The torso, chest and abdomen of the corpse were cut open with a knife, and the internal organs remained basically intact, and the degree of corruption and liquefaction was not serious. After careful inspection, it was found that the internal organs were not damaged by external forces, and there were no serious lesions.

He further searched for evidence of signs in the internal organs of mechanical asphyxiation death, such as subserosal hemorrhage points, emphysema and pulmonary edema, right heart and visceral congestion, etc., but disappointingly, these signs were all If it doesn't appear, the possibility of mechanical death is completely ruled out.

This is strange, excluding trauma and death, how did Shopkeeper Han die?
Could it be poisoning?
In ancient times, poisoning was almost always caused through the esophagus, and the key monitoring is of course the contents of the gastrointestinal tract.As for the testing method, under the ancient conditions, he couldn't think of a more suitable method than biological experiments.Fortunately, the evidence requirements in ancient times were not as strict as in the modern judicial system.

He asked Zaoli to buy a pig back, extracted the stomach and intestine contents of the deceased, stirred them in the pig feed, and fed them to the pigs.

Huang Zhizhou and others were watching with them. Du Wenhao had explained the purpose of the experiment to them, and everyone was patiently waiting for the results.

The pig whimpered and shook its head, and soon lost its balance and fell to the ground. Its hands and feet twitched a few times and then remained motionless.

Huang Zhizhou exclaimed: "Sure enough, someone poisoned Shopkeeper Han to death!"

Du Wenhao looked at the pig on the ground, shook his head and said, "Don't draw conclusions so early, the pig is not dead yet!"

"Ah?" Huang Zhizhou took a closer look, and sure enough, even though the fat pig was lying motionless on the ground, its stomach was still rising and falling, and its nose was still blowing and inhaling.

Huang Zhizhou was very surprised: "What's wrong with this pig food? It's lying on the ground motionless, but it's not dead."

Du Wenhao didn't speak, he stroked his chin with a very gloomy expression.

After waiting for almost half an hour, the pig still looked like this.

Du Wenhao said in a deep voice, "Bring a bowl of salt water!"

The salt water was delivered quickly. After Du Wenhao poured it into the pig, after a cup of tea, the pig started to move again, and after a while, it turned over and lay on the ground with its feet on the ground. After a few efforts, he got up, turned around a few times, and he was fine again.

Everyone present was dumbfounded.For some reason, they looked at Du Wenhao together.

Du Wenhao's face was ugly, and he said in a deep voice: "The shopkeeper Han was not poisoned to death, but was given anesthesia, and then his neck was broken and his body was divided to death!"

Everyone was stunned, Huang Zhizhou stammered: "My lord, this..., is this anesthetic, the kind your lord uses for surgery?"

"Yes!" Du Wenhao smiled wryly, and slapped his forehead: "The murderer got my anesthetic through some means. ——Alas, the thing I was most worried about happened, and I didn't expect it to happen so quickly! Narcotics, after taking them, will fall into a deep sleep and cannot wake up at all, and if they fall into the hands of thieves, they can be used to do evil. It is really a double-edged sword."

"My lord's anesthetics can only be bought by doctors. Could it be that the murderer is a doctor?"

"It is entirely possible, and the parts of the corpse are also very particular, which shows that the murderer has a certain knowledge of anatomy, which also confirms this speculation. It is a pity that I, a doctor in the Song Dynasty, does not need to register in the Yamen. If the patient believes in the disease, he can practice medicine. The murderer can also call himself a doctor and buy anesthetics from me, or from the agent dealer we identified! We have no way to identify them, and we didn't think more about it at the time Serious consequences!" Du Wenhao sighed: "Alas! It seems that the strict medical practice system is imminent!"

Huang Zhizhou said: "That's right, there are too many quack doctors to kill people. It is true that they should be strictly inspected before practicing medicine."

Du Wenhao nodded: "This matter must be put on the agenda, but it can't be done overnight, it has to be done step by step. Let's talk about it later. It is important to solve the case first."

Huang Zhizhou asked with a smile, "Has your lord already figured it out?"

"The method is obvious. Although I have sold a lot of narcotics in other counties and counties before coming to Hengzhou, the murderer usually does not buy drugs from another state to come to Hengshan to kill people. Therefore, the murderer probably bought them in Hengshan. narcotics. What we need to do is to screen all those who buy narcotics!"

"Does your lord register the purchasers?"

"Yes! Fortunately, I had this kind of worry in advance, so anyone who buys anesthetics, including those who buy from an agent dealer, must provide a medical guarantee letter issued by the village or street where they live to prove their true identity .”

Huang Zhizhou applauded and said: "Your Majesty's punishment is far-sighted, the murderer is like a turtle in a urn, and his arrest is just around the corner!"

Du Wenhao smiled wryly and shook his head: "It's not that simple. There are hundreds of people registered in Hengzhou to buy narcotic drugs, and those sold by agents and distributors, scattered in all directions. After doctors buy anesthetics, there is no guarantee that they will not sell them to others."

Huang Zhizhou nodded and said: "Yes, if this is the case, it will be difficult."

Du Wenhao is not anxious, he still has a killer trick, which is fingerprint comparison!

Judging from the broken bones found in the patio in the backyard of Aunt Tan's house, Aunt Tan's house should be the place where shopkeeper Han was killed and his body was dismembered. In other words, the person who killed shopkeeper Han was probably the one who killed Aunt Tan!Therefore, the fingerprints extracted from the silk scarf in Aunt Tan's throat should be left by the murderer who killed Shopkeeper Han.Since the person who bought the narcotics was identified as a criminal suspect, it is only necessary to extract the fingerprints of all the buyers for comparison, and it is possible to find the suspect!
Du Wenhao waved his hand, and said in a deep voice: "If it's difficult, you have to do it! You first find an excuse and extract the fingerprints of all the people who bought anesthetics to me."

"Yes!" Huang Zhizhou agreed, thought for a while, and asked cautiously: "What does Mr. Ti Xing want these people's fingerprints for?"

Du Wenhao gave him a sideways glance. He didn't want to tell the fingerprint comparison technique, because no one would believe it. On the other hand, it might alert criminals in the future and take countermeasures to affect future criminals. solve the case.

Huang Zhizhou was so frightened by Du Wenhao's stare, he hurriedly laughed and said, "I am taking the liberty, please forgive me. I will arrange for fingerprints and investigation."

"When investigating, you don't need to conduct all the investigations. Let's first investigate the purchasers. Judging from the progress of the corpse's corruption, the time of Han's death is roughly within a few days after his disappearance. Therefore, the scope of the investigation will first focus on Han The purchasers within five days after the shopkeeper disappeared. The purchasers before and after this will not be investigated for the time being."

"Okay, humble job will arrange it."

"Wait! Remember, the investigation must be conducted in secret, and you can't call for inquiries directly. It's best to send someone pretending to be a bell doctor, and talk to these people about buying anesthetics. Because when selling anesthetics, I especially emphasized that anesthetics are only It can be used by the doctor himself, and it is strictly forbidden to resell it to others, so anyone who sells it without authorization is suspected of committing a crime! Then investigate the whereabouts of these people in the past few days to find clues.”

Huang Zhizhou praised sincerely: "Master Tixing is a real expert in solving cases, no wonder the emperor appointed you to be sentenced to various prisons."

Du Wenhao ignored his flattery, and said: "Murdering and dismembering the body is a serious case, we must solve it as soon as possible!"

"Yes! I will personally supervise and solve the case, and the murderer must be brought to justice as soon as possible!"

In the morning of the next day, Catcher Hong rushed to report that when he was visiting and investigating a small village near the place where the corpse was buried, an old peasant woman reported that during the few days when shopkeeper Han disappeared, several people had entered their She was stealing things in the yard of her house. She heard the dog barking in the house, and when she chased it out to look, those people had already run away.She checked things and found that the two hoes in the yard were missing.

Du Wenhao hurriedly asked the old woman if she could see the faces of those people clearly, but Headhunter Hong said he didn't, but the back of one of them looked a bit like a carpenter surnamed Zhao in Tongluo Village.They rushed to Tongluo Village to arrest Carpenter Zhao, and learned that Carpenter Zhao had left the village more than half a month ago, and his family didn't know where he had gone.

(End of this chapter)