Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 141 Autopsy
"The corpse is buried three feet deep in the ground, so it is difficult to be found, but the sense of smell of dogs is far superior to that of humans. They can distinguish various smells. I think these dogs escaped from the kennel and followed the smell all the way. Come here." Li Canghai stroked his chin and explained to him.

Wang Buquan stared at the bones placed on the white cloth on the ground, his face became a little ugly, he resisted the urge to vomit, and asked, "Apart from that, what else did you find?"

The skeleton was half withered and yellow, the ribs on the chest had been crushed and broken by the mud, and there were obvious signs of corrosion in some places.

Li Canghai is not a professional forensic doctor, he can only make a rough judgment based on the knowledge he has learned.

"Judging from the current situation, this body should be a woman."

"Why?" Wang Buquan took out his brocade handkerchief, covered his mouth and nose, and asked in confusion.

"Women's pubic bone spacing is relatively large, while men's is narrow. Judging from the pubic bone spacing of this corpse, it must be a female." Li Canghai said with certainty.

Understand the structure of the human body, which is the basis of anatomy. Due to the difference in body structure between men and women, there are obvious differences in the distance between the pubic bones.

Knowing the gender of a corpse from the pubic bone was arguably the most common method in the previous life, but in the ancient feudal society, apart from the doctor of the sick, only the doctor who had dealt with the corpse all the year round knew the reason.

Wang Buquan didn't understand these things, he was confused, but fortunately, he had a good comprehension ability, and quickly understood the meaning of Li Canghai's words.

Li Canghai squatted on the ground, carefully observing the bones, and continued: "The joints of the bones and bones are closely connected, the teeth are complete, the crowns of the teeth are ground, but there are no dentin spots. It is preliminarily estimated that the deceased should be a young girl, about 13 years old." ~23 years old."

Wang Buquan froze on the spot for a moment, his face suddenly turned blue and pale, and after a while he said in surprise: "I didn't expect Brother Li to do an autopsy!"

Li Canghai shook his head, frowned and said, "I can only see these things. As for the others, I have to wait for Wu Zuo to come and check."

"Wu Zuo went back to the countryside two months ago, where will I find Wu Zuo at this hour and a half." Wang Buquan spread his hands, a little embarrassed.

"This matter happened at the county lieutenant's house. If we don't investigate clearly, the reputation of the county lieutenant will be seriously affected." Li Canghai looked up at the sky, counted the time and said, "If the county lieutenant believes me, why don't you let me know about this matter?" Let me handle it, how about it?"

A few abnormal lights flashed in Wang Buquan's eyes. After pondering for a while, he nodded and said angrily: "Then Brother Lao Li will be responsible for this matter. We must find out the murderer. I want to see who doesn't have long eyes." How dare you kill people and bury corpses in my mansion!"

At this time, the butler had already come back, and he said to the two of them: "Master, we have already found out, there are not many servant girls in our mansion!"

Li Canghai frowned suddenly, and he asked, "Have you checked it out, is there really a lot?"

"From the gate to the maidservant, I checked everything, and there are no missing people." The housekeeper nodded and bowed.

This butler was the best at observing words and demeanor, he originally wanted to ask Wang Buquan to back him up and teach Li Canghai a lesson.Unexpectedly, Wang Buquan was very polite to Li Canghai. He knew instantly that he had offended the wrong person, so he quickly changed his attitude and became respectful.

"It's good that there are not many people. This means that the deceased is not a member of our Wang family. It must be someone who killed someone and buried him in the garden, trying to blame me." Wang Buquan cracked his fists and said angrily.

Li Canghai narrowed his eyes slightly, he was noncommittal to Wang Buquan's words.

The bones were dug up in the back garden, the news spread like wildfire in the palace, and the whole palace was panicked.In addition, the bones could not hang here forever, so Li Canghai had no choice but to take the bones to Yizhuang.

Near noon, there was a sound of horseshoes outside Yizhuang.

Li Canghai was leaning against the threshold, holding a piece of dead grass in his mouth, thinking about something.

"My lord, we are back." Chang Feng said hurriedly when he saw him leaning on the threshold of the inner hall when he stepped into the Yizhuang.

Following Chang Feng, it was Xiao Wu, an apprentice from Luoyang Mansion.

When Xiao Wu saw Li Canghai, he hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "Xiao Wu kowtows to your lord."

Li Canghai woke up from his contemplation, hurriedly stepped forward to pull him up, and said, "You don't need to be too polite, you came just in time, I just found a corpse, you go and have a look first."

Xiao Wu nodded yes, and then stepped into the morgue.

"Chang Feng, you have worked hard along the way." Li Canghai said approvingly with his hands behind his back.

Chang Feng clasped his fists in both hands, bowed slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Serving the adults is a blessing for the villains, so why talk about hard work?" After a short pause, he asked suspiciously: "My lord, I heard that the Wang family appeared. A murder case?"

"How did you know?"

"Return to your lord, the whole Zhengyang city has spread, saying that the bones of Wang Buquan were dug up in his house... Could it be that the bones are here?" The corpse, said suddenly.

Li Canghai stroked his chin, smiled lightly and said, "It seems that the news has been released."

Chang Feng was a little stunned, he said in a puzzled way: "This is the news you released, my lord?"

"If Wang Buquan is involved in a murder case, he will have no time to pay attention to other matters. Only in this way can we take the opportunity to disintegrate him and Zuo Hongji." Li Canghai said coldly, narrowing his eyes.

Chang Feng nodded half understanding, but he trusted Li Canghai 100%.

The two walked into the room, and Xiao Wu was examining every bone carefully.

"How is it? Did you find anything?" Li Canghai walked around to the corpse and asked.

"This is a female skeleton. It should be around 20 years old and died about two to three months ago." Xiao Wu stared at the corpse and said in a deep voice.

Li Canghai nodded, what Xiao Wu said was almost the same as his guess, but the judgment of the time of death made him a little confused.

"How do you determine the time of death, two to three months ago?"

"Look, my lord, there is flesh on this bone. Judging from the flesh marks on the bone, it should not fall off naturally, but caused by external force. Also, most of the bones are mottled and pitted, not like natural decay, but It was corroded like this, I think this corpse should have been destroyed by someone, but some of the drugs used to destroy the corpse only separated the flesh and bones, but did not achieve the effect of rotting the bones, so this happened." Xiao Wu pondered.

Li Canghai's eyes lit up, he looked at Xiao Wu in surprise, feeling surprised in his heart.

It is really a genius to be able to guess the general situation from just one corpse.

Li Canghai suddenly thought, if he could keep him by his side, and then teach him a set of forensic knowledge learned in his previous life, wouldn't he have an extra right-hand man?
(End of this chapter)