Chapter 9

At that time, Mingshu was sitting in the wing room, writing a copybook in front of the lamp. Yan Ziqin had to check it when she came back. She hadn't made much progress recently, and "Teacher Yan" had a lot of opinions, and she might use handwriting.When he wrote the line "Like Lan Sixin, like the pine tree", he suddenly raised his head and faced a bronze mirror, and Mingshu's face was reflected in the mirror.

"It's so beautiful..." Her narcissism broke out again. Fortunately, Chunxiu went out to return the bowls and chopsticks, otherwise, she would be sprayed on the ceiling with a mouthful of old blood from her little lady.

Throw away the brush, change to a thin eyebrow pencil, dip it in Luozidai to paint lightly, put on a layer of soft white makeup powder like a light cloud, and apply some moisturizing lip balm, use light ocher sandalwood powder The corners of her eyebrows and eyes were smudged, and an elegant and graceful sandalwood smudge makeup was about to be completed. When she was intoxicated with herself, the sudden sound of the drum made her wrist tremble.

Fuck, too much sandalwood powder...

Chunxiu pushed the door open and came in, muttering softly: "In the middle of the night, there are still people complaining about their grievances." While the door was closed, she turned her head and saw the little lady's face.

"My lady! Why are your eyelids swollen? Who beat you?"

"It's okay." Mingshu covered her face with her forehead.

"It's quite dark, how can it be all right!" Chunxiu ran over to check, "Maidservant give you an ice pack."

As he said that, without waiting for Mingshu's explanation, he hurriedly walked out of the room, and when he opened the door, there stood a 30-year-old woman with rough hair and simple clothes in front of the door, who was Du Xing's first wife. Want to knock on the door.

Seeing that the door was open, Mrs. Du was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "I was about to knock on the door, but the door opened. Nothing else, just to advise Mrs. Yan to rest early. It is the men's business to settle the case, so we don't have to suspend it." Heart." She said as she walked in, and finally saw Mingshu's black eyelids, she was so frightened that she stopped her mouth.

Unexpectedly, Yan Zhuangyuan was young and looked gentle, but he was a master who beat women!

Mingshu quickly wetted the veil and wiped it on her face, the black and blue instantly melted away, turning into a big painted face, but the misunderstanding was solved in this way.

"It's because I accidentally applied heavy makeup. It's okay, it's okay." She smiled awkwardly, and carefully removed her makeup in front of the mirror. Mrs. Du came, so they left in a hurry, and the two chatted.

Seeing that she was still a naive child, Mrs. Du immediately let go of her guard, and poured out the bitterness of many parents, why Du Xing's salary is too little and he has to raise brothers and cousins ​​and cousins ​​who are thousands of miles away, what? Her own child could hardly afford to study, and officials in any country could not resist so much profiteering despite their generous salaries, and finally told her repeatedly: "Mrs. When you are young, you are bound, and the rules are established, and there will be more troubles in the future, don't be soft-hearted for a while, and let yourself be angry!"

Mingshu broke into a cold sweat when she heard it, thinking that this is the legendary Zhaidou channel, uh, small-scale Zhaidou.

When Mrs. Du was miserable and talking endlessly, Du Xing yelled loudly from the courtyard. Mrs. Du thought that her husband knew that he was spreading "family scandal" again, so she trembled and instinctively clung to Mingshu's side to seek shelter. , but Du Xing shouted again: "You wicked boy! Come here!"

Ming Shu helped Madam Du to lean against the door and looked into the courtyard, and saw Du Xing holding a young man in a fancy dress. Convinced, the bare-sleeved military uniform and the falcon's armband on his wrist show that he has just returned from a hunting trip.

The boy was Du Xing's younger brother, who was accused of being the murderer of Yin Dacheng's younger brother, Du He.

"Ignorant of etiquette, justice and shame! Tell me, why did you trample the members of the Yin family to death? Just because your brother is the county magistrate, you dare to be lawless in Tongling!"

Du He got impatient with being pulled by him, but he didn't fight back. If this strong young man really wanted to make a move to his brother, even if he just shook his arm, the thin and thin Du Xing would fall to the ground without any chance of fighting back.

Du He said loudly: "I told you, I was chasing rabbits and trampled on his seedlings, but I've never trampled on people!"

"Now that there are all the witnesses and material evidence, you are still quibbling, and you don't learn well, and you finally caused such a disaster!" Du Xing pulled him and walked to the court, "Go, confront me in court!"

Du He was also anxious, and said: "I said I didn't kill people, but I didn't kill people. If you don't believe me, you can ask the people with me. I did see a farmer on the ridge of the field, but he just stood far away and didn't stop him. It's not like my younger brother being trampled under the horse, who knows if he is greedy for money and framed me."

As he said that, he broke free from Du Xing's hand, straightened his collar, and walked back swaggeringly, regardless of Du Xing's yelling behind him, "You evil, and you still want to collude with your gang of cronies to excuse yourself!" Suddenly, the officials on both sides were ordered to arrest him, In an instant, the former Second Young Master Du was surrounded and fought for a while. Finally, he was overwhelmed with two fists and four legs, and was framed and brought into the court.

Mingshu looked suspiciously at Yan Ziqin who was standing aside, Yan Ziqin pressed his hands to signal her to go back, but Mingshu thought for a while, stood up, and said to Du Xing: "Where is the dead, let me see."

With just one sentence, she seems to have returned to modern times, and she is the forensic doctor who walks through the front line of the murder case and talks to the deceased. She will uncover the silent testimony swallowed by the deceased, and reveal the most direct hidden evidence to the public. .

The people present, including Yan Ziqin, were stunned. Before they could react, Ming Shu had already followed Du He into the courtroom. Yin Dacheng was still standing in the center. The body of his younger brother Yin Xiaolu was moved to an altar. Wu Zuo, an official in a soap coat, was standing by the table, holding a rolled silver knife in his hand, as if he was about to perform an autopsy.

"Did you fill in the corpse?" Mingshu asked the author.

Wu Zuo didn't know who she was, seeing that she came out of the back house, he didn't dare to neglect, and handed over the corpse respectfully, Ming Shu glanced at it, it recorded Yin Xiaolu's physical signs and appearance from head to toe, such as how much hair grew , chest and abdomen scars, shoulder and neck marks, ear and nose characteristics, a total of dozens of items, it can be said that they are not detailed, but there is no effective information.

From ancient times to the present, autopsy is the most effective help for murder cases to find fatal injuries. Song Ci’s masterpiece of forensic medicine in the Southern Song Dynasty, "Winning Injustice Collection" once said: "Where there are many wounds, only one wound is designated as Critically fatal wounds... If there are two wounds on the dead person, both of them can be fatal, and if the two wounds were struck by one person, then it is not a problem; One person is not worth his life. Therefore, among the two wounds, the heaviest one must be considered as the fatal wound."

"Have you found the fatal wound?" Ming Shu asked.

Wu Zuo said: "Not yet, but according to the villain's past experience, the stampede to death is mostly due to the chest being squeezed or the head being hit hard, so I want to take off my clothes and check." The implication is that you, a woman, can leave Alright, we're going to undress.

Unexpectedly, Mingshu put on the gloves placed aside and carefully uncovered the material. Yin Xiaolu's chest did have a lot of horseshoe-shaped bruises, but the marks were too shallow, and the bruises were scattered intermittently. If he was really trampled by a horse, the marks should be more serious Obviously, unless... this is not a pre-life injury.

That Wu Zuo didn't know what kind of injury he had suffered during his lifetime, and pointed to a horseshoe-shaped wound on his heart, "This place is fatal."

Ming Shu shook her head and said, "These marks are obviously caused after death. Everyone is dead, how can it be fatal?"

As the name suggests, antenatal injury refers to the violent injury suffered by the deceased during his lifetime, and certain tissue reactions may appear in the injured part.The opposite is post-mortem injury, because the vital signs of the deceased have disappeared at the time of injury, and the wound has no life reflection, for example, less bleeding, no blood infiltration, no wound healing, and no signs of coagulation.However, if injured within a short period of time after death, certain life responses can still be produced, but to a lesser extent.

Observing Yin Xiaolu's scars again, the bleeding under the skin was dark purple, and the amount of bleeding was small. When the skin was cut and observed, there was only a small amount of blood oozing from the superficial blood vessels. Obviously, these horseshoe marks could be attributed to about an hour after death.

In other words, when Second Young Master Du's horse trampled on Yin Xiaolu, he had been dead for an hour, so it can only be inferred that Yin Dacheng, who came to report the crime, lied.

Mingshu glanced at Yin Dacheng suspiciously, and found that he was also guilty of looking at the woman who suddenly appeared in the courtroom.Du Xing, who rushed over, saw that Mingshu was avoiding Yin Dacheng intentionally, so he sent the servants to send him down. Then Mingshu told everyone about the results of his autopsy.

"Then, where is the fatal injury?" After listening, Du Xing asked, and he also hoped that his younger brother was innocent.

"It still needs to be tested, but what Wu Zuo said is very reasonable-fatal injuries mostly appear in the chest, abdomen and head." Ming Shu said, turning the head of the deceased with her hands in white gloves, and there were indeed signs of post-mortem injuries , but could not find the fatal injury before birth.

"Don't worry, if you can't find any scars, you can shave off your hair to see if it is hidden on the top of your head." Although it was a thousand years away, the words of her mentor sounded in her ears again. On the hair in front of Yin Xiaolu's forehead, as expected, a patch of subcutaneous blood stasis appeared on the right forehead of the deceased. There were many bleeding spots and a wide range. The location is deadly enough.

"The injury is on the right forehead..." Du Xing gestured thoughtfully, "Then the murderer is probably left-handed, and left-handers will habitually attack the right front side of the opposite person."

A yamen servant bowed and said: "My lord, when I was young, I lived very close to Yin Dacheng's family. He is left-handed!"

It’s just that based on these alone, it’s still not possible to conclude that Yin Dacheng is the chief culprit who killed his younger brother and falsely accused Du He. Du Xing said: “Didn’t you send people to find the relatives of Yin Dacheng and Yin Xiaolu just now? Have you arrived yet?”

The yamen servant said: "I have arrived a long time ago, and I was summoned by Mr. Yan for questioning."

As soon as the words were finished, Yan Ziqin came forward with a dossier, on which were the confessions of the two wives of the Yin family brothers.Yin Dacheng's wife faltered and looked flustered, and couldn't explain why, but Yin Xiaolu's wife kept crying, saying that the two brothers had been having disputes over the division of land, and they were arguing endlessly when they returned home this evening. People started arguing again, and they went out to solve the problem because they were afraid of disturbing the child's sleep. Yin Dacheng came back around [-]:[-] You, and went out again soon, but Yin Xiaolu never heard from him. His wife had a premonition that something happened tonight.

Yan Ziqin compiled all the clues into a chart, and added the evidence from Qu Mingshu's autopsy:

(See what the author has to say in the picture)

The yamen servant sent to Yin's house to search retrieved a sickle from the well. The shape of the back of the knife matched the scar on Yin Xiaolu's head. From this, the case was clearly displayed in front of people's eyes.

Yin Dacheng and Yin Xiaolu, although they live under the same roof, they have been fighting over the fields. Tonight, after dinner (about 06 o'clock in the evening), the two quarreled again. On the way out to negotiate, they passed the fields At that time, Yin Dacheng was furious. With his left hand, he picked up a sickle, an agricultural tool that was often pinned behind his waist, and hit Yin Xiaolu on the right side of the head, causing him to die (about 30:[-] p.m., [-]:[-] p.m.). In a panic, Yin Dacheng He hid the body under the weeds in the ridges of the field, fled home, threw the murder weapon into the well, and after discussing with his wife, decided to return to the place where the murder was committed and bury it separately (at about [-]:[-] PM, [-]:[-] p.m.), just in time to meet Du He and Yin Dacheng squatted down to hide. After Du He left (about [-] o'clock in the evening at Xu time), Yin Dacheng discovered that Yin Xiaolu's body had been trampled by horseshoes, so he wanted to blame him, because Du He was well known in Tongling County. Yin Dacheng dared to take risks. If he gambled, there was still a chance of survival. If he didn't gamble, he would be executed sooner or later because the murder was revealed.

The yamen servant read the result in front of Yin Dacheng. He was a farmer, he was always quiet, he had no love for flowers, and the crime was just a murder of passion. Ming, the sound of cock crowing came from a distance, and a murder case was solved overnight.

"If the corpse could not speak, this 'second-generation murder case' would become a hot topic in the streets and alleys." Mingshu quietly returned to the room, washed her hands with vinegar and spirits, and moved her stiff neck. thought.

This can be regarded as a deep hiding and fame. I was too excited to see the corpse just now, and I have entered the working state of the previous life. It seems a bit too ostentatious...

As she thought about it, the door was pushed open, and Yan Ziqin walked in with his hands in his sleeves, pursed his lips, and said softly, "Lady, why are you still in the business?"

(End of this chapter)

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