Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 143

If it was placed in the previous life, those forensic doctors could use high-tech instruments to examine the bones, and they could easily find out the cause of death of the deceased.

However, in this ancient society, the only ones that can be used are those who have experience and do not know the ancient methods of autopsy.

In his previous life, when he was studying criminal investigation, he had studied various methods of solving crimes in ancient times, but there were very few examinations on the bones, and he didn't have a good method for a while.

At this time, Chang Feng's mood had gradually calmed down.

Li Canghai walked over, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "My condolences, how did you confirm that she is Lingmei?"

Chang Feng took a deep breath, let out a grief-stricken lament, and said, "Your Excellency, you don't know that Sister Sister's toes are different from others. Her little toe on the right foot has one more toe than ordinary people."

Li Canghai and Xiao Wu exchanged glances, then hurriedly looked at the skeleton, and sure enough, they found a small forked toe bone at the little toe of the right foot of the corpse.

"So that's the case. No wonder he can recognize the identity of the bones at a glance. If no one knows about such a hidden place, it will be difficult to find out the identity of the bones." Li Canghai sighed in his heart. Not missing anything, I'm afraid the murderer would never have thought of it, even if they become dry bones, the two brothers and sisters can still recognize each other clearly.

"Chang Feng, I need you to tell me the whole story about Lingmei."

Chang Feng wiped away his tears and sighed: "My lord doesn't know. My brother and sister have both died since childhood, and we have been dependent on each other since we were young. My younger sister is hardworking and kind. In order to make me stand out, she sold herself to a rich family as a maid." , but I didn’t live up to it, not only failed to get ahead, but I often caused trouble.”

"Later, I met Wang Buquan, and the two of us entered the Yamen at the same time. At that time, Wang Buquan and I were like brothers, so I brought him to meet his younger sister. Who would have thought that this would lead to a big mistake." Chang Feng closed his eyes. Eyes, let out a breath, and said bitterly: "Wang Buquan was greedy for my sister's beauty, and wanted to rape her that night. My sister resisted to death and refused, so she cried and complained to me. I was so drunk that I mistrusted Wang Buquan's words." Nonsense, saying that she stole Wang Buquan's wallet, Wang Buquan wanted to search it. Although I knew my words were wrong afterwards, my sister ran away from home in a fit of anger."

"After a whole month, I didn't find any trace of her. Until later, I was ordered to go to suppress the thieves, and when I returned to Zhengyang City, I accidentally discovered that my sister had appeared in Wang Buquan's mansion. At that time, Wang Buquan and I Insufficient had broken up, I was furious, I rushed into Wang's house to find someone to ask for, but he beat me out with a stick, and said that my sister had married him and became his concubine, and said that my sister was very disappointed in me , don't want to see me again."

Speaking of this, Chang Feng's eyes were red, and he slapped himself sharply, gnashing his teeth and said: "It's a shame that I naively thought that my sister had a grudge against me because of my drunken words and refused to forgive me. So, from then on, I searched for money everywhere, hoping to use the money to prove that I have the ability to support her, in exchange for my sister's forgiveness. Unexpectedly, this wait was actually two years."

Chang Feng's tiger eyes were filled with tears of blood. He pursed his lips and said angrily, "I haven't even been able to see her for the last time in two years... I, I'm sorry for my sister, I'm sorry for my sister!"

As he said that, Chang Feng lashed out at himself fiercely.

Seeing this, Xiao Wu hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and comforted him: "Brother Chang, the so-called prodigal son will not be exchanged for money. Now that you have turned your back on the good and followed the adults, you can be regarded as a leader. You will be pleased if you know it. You have to cheer up and turn away your grief and anger." For the sake of strength, strive to find her murderer as soon as possible, so as to comfort her spirit in heaven."

What Xiao Wu said was sincere, Chang Feng was stunned for a moment, he looked at the two people in front of him, wiped away his tears suddenly, nodded solemnly and said: "You are right, I can't just admit defeat like this, I want to find the murderer , to avenge my sister!"

Li Canghai nodded. Although Chang Feng was a bit reckless, his nature was not bad. Now that he was short of manpower, Chang Feng was just the man he could use.

"So, you haven't seen her in the past two years? You haven't even heard of her?" Li Canghai felt a little strange.

"During this period, I sent people to inquire, and I personally sneaked into Wang Buquan's house to search for it, but the Wang's house was heavily guarded, and finally found nothing." Looking at the bones, Chang Feng lamented.

Li Canghai frowned, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that only Wang Buquan knows about this matter. Forget it, let's examine the cause of death of the bones first, and then make plans."

"My lord, how do you want to test it?" Xiao Wu asked curiously.

Li Canghai narrowed his eyes, and spit out two words: steam, bone.

The steamed bone autopsy was first seen in Song Ci's "Xie Yuan Ji Lu", but the method has already existed.

When Li Canghai was studying criminal investigation, he didn't trust this ancient method of autopsy. First, what he knew in his previous life was all theory, and second, he didn't have similar bones for him to examine.

He didn't want to use this method to conduct an autopsy, but he couldn't find a better method, so he could only give it a try.

The so-called "steamed bone autopsy" is to string together the bones, wash the bones with clean water, and then dig out a five-foot-long, three-foot-wide, and two-foot-deep crypt, burn the crypt red with charcoal, and then use it well. Wine and sour vinegar were poured into the crypt.While the heat is transpiring, put the bones into it, steam the bones for an hour, wait for the ground to cool, take out the bones and place them in a sunny place, open a red umbrella to welcome the sun, and then the bones can be examined.

If there is a beaten part on the bone, there will be a red path, slightly; if the bone is broken, the two continuous ends will have blood halos;If there is no blood on the bone, it is damaged and broken, which is the scar after death.

This is the autopsy method recorded in "Xie Yuan Ji Lu". This method is to use the red oil umbrella to absorb sunlight, so that the autopsy person can observe more details.

The three of them were busy for an hour, and at noon, they finally followed the steps to steam the bones and carried them under the sun.

Xiao Wu opened the red oil umbrella, Li Canghai took out the transparent gemstone, squatted beside the corpse, and observed it carefully.

At this time, the corpse exuded bursts of steam, and he suddenly noticed that the ribs in front of the corpse's chest were tinged with reddish blood.

By zooming in on the gemstone, Li Canghai leaned in front of his ribs and looked at it, which surprised him.

At the rib where the blood halo appeared, the bone was slightly broken, and there seemed to be some subtle nicks, as if scratched by a sharp weapon.

The scratch was on the heart of the right chest. From the perspective of the depth of the scratch, it seemed to be a scratch caused by a sharp weapon such as a dagger when it was inserted forcibly.

(End of this chapter)