Chapter 66 Four and incense 06(1/2)
The female corpse was injured on the back last time, but it was not found. At first, it was peeled off. Later, Bo Ruoyou found out that the body was discovered, and Wu Xiang did not use it as the most important clue. But at this moment, another female corpse that was killed was also peeled off, so the case was very different.
Wu Xiang immediately squatted down, "But the same person did it?"
Bo Ruoyou shook his head, "It is not possible to determine at the moment, but it is very likely that the female corpse I tested last night was wearing a red dress, and the victim in front of him also wore a red dress. Last time, he was strangled to death, but this time he was strangled to death. The murderer did not use a sharp weapon, which is also a common point."
After Bo Ruoyou said that, he leaned over to look at the corpse. The lower half of the body was soaked in water. In addition to the mud on his skirt, there were also a few dark aquatic plants wrapped around his legs. Bo Ruoyou reached out to fish the aquatic plants up and turned to look upstream of the Yuxi River.
Wu Xiang came forward, "How?"
Bo Ruoyou said: "There are no footprints on the shore, and it is impossible to entangle such water plants. The body should have been washed down from the upstream. As for why she was lying down, maybe it was because she was thrown into the water, some heavy object was wrapped around her body."
After a pause, Bo Ruoyou said again: "I lost one of her shoes and searched up and down the river, maybe I can find it."
The Yuxi River is not wide. Behind them is a wine shop, and opposite is a row of houses. Wu Xiang immediately waved to the person as he heard Bo Ruoyou’s words, "Hou Yang, take someone upstream of the river to see which river has such a water plant, and the dead throw a shoe with an embroidered shoe, and look for it along the river. The water flows smoothly in the Yuxi River, maybe it will float wherever it is."
Hou Yang was a tall yamen servant who was called a monkey by Wu Xiang in Yizhuang the day before yesterday. Hearing this, he responded, called him and turned around and left. Wu Xiang looked at Bo Ruoyou again, "Can you find out something else?"
Bo Ruoyou shook his head, "It's inconvenient here, so I'd better take the body back to the charity village for testing."
There were many people around him and there were also many discussions. Wu Xiang nodded and called a few yamen to take the body away.
After this scene, all the people who didn't know what Bo Ruoyou was, understood that Bo Ruoyou was actually a coroner. Such a young girl with snow-skinned and beautiful appearance was actually a coroner from Jingzhao Mansion!
Everyone was even more talking. When the body was carried away, Bo Ruoyou looked at the place where the body was lying down for a while. Because the wound of the body was at the heart, there were also faint bloodstains on the ground. She squatted by the water and looked at her, and suddenly turned around and looked at the people around her. Some of them were standing behind the restaurant and approaching the fence, but now they were stopped by the yamen, some of them were standing on the white jade bridge several meters away, and some were standing under the willow tree with tender buds on the other side of the river.
Bo Ruoyou glanced at these people one by one, and occasionally intersected with people's eyes. Most people looked up when they saw her and showed curiosity at her. Some people were already staring at her, and subconsciously avoided their gazes. There were only a few people who were very calm when they looked at her. Everyone looked different, but Bo Ruoyou felt a slight chill on his back.
Seeing her like this, Wu Xiang asked again: "What are you looking at?"
Bo Ruoyou withdrew his gaze, shook his head and said, "For some reason, I felt that the murderer was looking at us at that moment."
When Wu Xiang heard this, he felt a chill of his back. He quickly looked back, but there were almost a hundred people from all directions. Where could he tell who was the murderer?
Wu Xiang looked suspicious, Bo Ruoyou whispered: "The murderer killed someone, but he didn't seem to be rich and lustful. He liked to dissection women's flesh and blood, and his mind was quite weird. Now there are so many people. If he knew that the government came here, he would probably come to see him."
As he said that, Bo Ruoyou stood up, "But this is just a speculation. I'd better go to the charity house to have an autopsy as soon as possible to see if there may be other clues."
Wu Xiang nodded, "You go first, I also have to visit around to see if I can find the place where she was killed."
Bo Ruoyou nodded, and Wu Xiang ordered He Chang, "You should follow Xiao Bo to the charity village."
He Chang did not dare to be careless, and responded repeatedly. Bo Ruoyou washed his hands with the water from the Yuxi River, and then came up to the shore together. The closer he got, the more he looked at Bo Ruoyou. When he was about to pass through the crowd, the crowd that was originally crowded suddenly made way. Everyone was a little afraid, as if something dirty was stained with her.
As soon as I walked over, I heard someone talking about how inauspicious it was for a woman to be a coroner.
He Chang frowned and went to see Bo Ruoyou, but saw that she looked as usual and seemed to be distracted. He Chang coughed lightly and said, "These people don't understand. They always like to talk nonsense. Girls should not take it to heart."
Bo Ruoyou smiled bitterly for a moment, "I'm used to it, it's okay."
After saying that, they got on the carriage, the three of them headed to the chariot.
The yamen who sent the body arrived at the Yizhuang Village first. When Bo Ruoyou arrived, Uncle Kun was raising the incense in the front hall. When he saw Bo Ruoyou arrive, he came forward with a smile, "Miss Bo is here--"
Bo Ruoyou nodded and entered the back hall, and saw that the body was placed on the mortal board. She glanced at He Chang, "Can you record the test?"
He Chang nodded quickly, Bo Ruoyou nodded, "Okay, I'll test it, you can remember it."
He Chang hurriedly went to find Uncle Kun to find a pen and ink. When he came in, Bo Ruoyou had carefully removed the corpse's clothes and checked the marks on the corpse first. Seeing that He Chang entered, he signaled to him to finish the pen.
"The deceased is a woman, with a body of five feet and two inches long, aged between fifteen and sixteen. When she was found, the dress was complete, and there were no obvious external injuries on the face, hands and feet. The dark purple corpse spots mainly exist on the back, buttocks and the back of the thighs. In addition, there were light purple corpse spots on the chest and abdomen, and the finger pressure faded. The corpse zombie has been formed, and there are fine white spots on the eye mask, which can be considered mild turbid. Combined with the calculation that the corpse fell into the water, its death time should be around midnight last night."
"The dead were killed and injured on the neck. There were blue-purple marks under the neck and throat. The grooves were deep and thin. From below the throat, it stretched into an arc to the back neck. The knots at the back neck were shallow. The edges of the marks were bleeding and blisters were blisters, and the epidermis was falling off, which was because the deceased struggled hard."
"The deceased's face was a little bloody, with subcutaneous bleeding on his eye mask and face. Because the rope was knot under the throat, the deceased's tongue was protruding and had teeth marks that were bitten. In addition, the deceased's nails were clean, the left ring finger nails were broken, and there were signs of bleeding. There were wear and abrasions on the tiger's mouth. It should be caused by struggling hard when he was killed."
"The deceased has no sign of being violated. There is a round bruise on the deceased's vest. The reason is unknown. The most strange thing is the external trauma in the heart of the deceased. A large piece of flesh in the heart of the deceased was peeled off, and the wound was half an inch into the flesh. The wound was relatively smooth. It should be for the thinning tool to peel off, and the boundary is arc-shaped, and the shape is like a round fan. The murderer may be good at using the knife."
After Bo Ruoyou said this, he checked out some abrasions on his heels and other places, which He Chang recorded them all.
At this moment, the corpse clothes were removed. Because of the short death time, it was almost a lively woman's body. The skin on the corpse surface was fair and smooth, and it could be seen that it was a delicate body. Only the round wound on the chest made people shudder. The skin was peeled off, leaving only a piece of fishy red flesh. The wound turned white because it was soaked in the river. What was strange was that the wound was round and round. The murderer was not only good at using a knife, but also used a knife to draw a regular round shape on the soft skin, and the incision was quite neat.
Bo Ruoyou stared at the wound and fell into deep thought.
After thinking for a while, Bo Ruoyou turned his gaze to the dress. There was a lot of mud and water in the hem of the dress. Bo Ruoyou carefully checked for a moment and then asked He Chang to pour water. After washing the mud stains on it, he saw that there were stains of different colors on the originally bright red skirt, which looked quite like some kind of color ink or dye.
It took half an hour to conduct the autopsy. Not long after, Wu Xiang also came back from outside. As soon as he entered the back hall, Bo Ruoyou asked He Chang to hand over the test to Wu Xiang. Wu Xiang looked and said, "I searched up half a mile, but the embroidered shoes have not been found yet, and the place where the murdered is not clear. There are water plants throughout the Yuxi River, and there are any places where the water flows more smoothly and deeper-"
Bo Ruoyou thought for a while, "The corpse spots on the body vary in depth. I guess it was the murderer who strangled the dead first, and then asked him to lie flat and peel off his flesh and blood, and then threw the body away. During this period, at least two to three hours passed."
"Two to three hours? When you die at midnight, the body will be thrown away in the middle of the night."
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "After a person dies, corpse spots will appear very quickly, but the corpse spots within three hours will change because of the corpse's lying posture. Now the dark corpse spots on the back are mostly on the back, which is enough to prove that the deceased was lying for a period of time after being killed. If the murderer quickly throws the corpse and the corpse is lying down when we find it, the corpse spots will change, rather than the current form. The change rate of corpse spots in the water will slow down, and the corpse spots will not change easily after three hours, so the murderer must have thrown the corpse within two to three hours. Because he has been lying down, some light corpse spots appear on the front chest and abdomen."
After saying this, seeing Wu Xiang nodding, Bo Ruoyou said again: "In addition, there are some stains of different colors on the deceased's dress--"
Bo Ruoyou took the dress over and spread the hem of the skirt. "These traces are mostly on the hem of the skirt, which are very messy. They should have been accidentally touched when they were killed, either colored ink or dyes-"
"Dye?" Wu Xiang's eyes suddenly lit up, "Not far upstream from the place where the corpse was found, there was an abandoned dyeing workshop. The dyeing workshop had long been emptied, but there were some dyeing tanks piled up in the wall on the side of the Yuxi River. Some of the abandoned dyes in the dyeing tank were broken, and the dye even flowed into the river outside."
Bo Ruoyou also looked excited, "You can go and find out if there is any blood. The murderer wants to peel it, but it has been delayed for so long. Most of them are in a place where no one is discovering it. If this dyeing workshop is not inhabited, it will be the place where the crime is committed."
But Wu Xiang frowned, "If you commit a crime in the dyeing workshop, why don't you abandon the body directly in the dyeing workshop? Instead, you should throw the body into the river?"
Bo Ruoyou frowned. Before she could see what the dyeing workshop looked like, she could not tell for the time being. However, she pointed to the scars on the heart of the deceased and said, "Look at the wound first. The wound is very flat. The murderer should be a very good knife."
Wu Xiang immediately held the long sword beside him. Bo Ruoyou knew why his first reaction was like this. He shook his head and said, "It's not that he is good at using small swords. You see, the arc is very regular. This is not about painting, but about cutting on human flesh. I'm afraid that Brother Wu, you can't cut such a regular shape yourself."
Wu Xiang looked carefully and found that the knife was indeed very round, and there was no extra bite. It seemed that this person was very good at cutting human flesh. He frowned, "What kind of person is good at doing this?"
Bo Ruoyou pondered for a moment, "Cook, or butcher."
Wu Xiang understood it naturally and felt it was reasonable. He pondered for a moment and said, "I will take someone to the dyeing workshop to search. The identity of the deceased has not been found yet. He has been sent out to investigate. I hope to get news earlier."
There are four corpses in the back hall now. The corpse was still far away last night. Bo Ruoyou looked at it, "Can I test the corpse that I tested yesterday?"
Wu Xiang nodded naturally, "Of course, it's really good that you are willing to do your best."
Wu Xiang did not delay much. As soon as he took the people away, Bo Ruoyou continued to leave the autopsy. She first applied some white wine on the new corpse, which showed deeper bruises, and then went to examine another corpse. But before she could lift the felt blanket on the corpse, a noise suddenly sounded outside the chariot. Soon, Sun Zhao's voice came from outside.
"Old lady, don't worry--"
"How can I not be anxious, my granddaughter..."
"Old lady, it's not necessarily the second lady..."
Bo Ruoyou's face changed slightly. The next moment, a group of people had already poured into the back hall. The people who came in were all dressed in gorgeous costumes and extraordinary charm, but they seemed to know what the Yizhuang looked like. Seeing the four corpses, their steps were stagnant. The old lady walking in front of her was covered with white hair and wrinkles, and her eyes were as clear as a mirror. She glanced over Bo Ruoyou and He Chang, and then saw the dead who was not close to her. She recognized the person at first sight, and collapsed as soon as she called "Ling'er".
Seeing this, Sun Zhao's expression changed. When Bo Ruoyou saw that there was a man following behind, he quickly covered the felt blanket on the deceased, but it was too late. The old lady had seen this scene. She was supported by Sun Zhao and the nanny beside her. She was sad and angry, and turned around and pointed at Sun Zhao, "It's fine if you...you...Ling'er died tragically, how dare you humiliate her like this?"
"Ling'er, my Ling'er..."
The old lady cried out and walked to the front of the board with someone to support her. When she moved, the others who were crowded at the door also walked in, all with beautiful clothes and figures of men and women.
When everyone saw the dead face, their expressions changed slightly, and their faces all burst into grief.
"Ling'er, it's really Ling'er, my child..."
The middle-aged woman followed her up. When she saw the dead, she cried and couldn't stand steadily.
Bo Ruoyou was standing close to her, and at this moment she couldn't help but take a step back. She had been doing coroner for several years and had long been used to seeing all kinds of separations and death. She just kept her eyes aside and waited for her family to recognize the body.
The middle-aged woman was even more sad than the old lady crying. Others came up to comfort her. It was the old lady who was the first to recover. She barely stood up against her servants and pointed at Bo Ruoyou and He Chang, "You... what are you doing? How can you let Ling'er be so naked here, you..."
She looked sad and angry, and Sun Zhao hurried forward, "Old lady calm down. This is the coroner of the government office. It is now a mortal examination. The lady in the palace died strangely. We should deal with the murder case, and we want to do an autopsy-"
The old lady looked resentful, "Assay on the autopsy? Who are you coroners?"
Sun Zhao hurriedly pointed at Bo Ruoyou, "This is our coroner--"
The old lady sneered, "Is the coroner in your house a woman? Then who is this person?"
"The old lady calms down. This is really a coroner. He is the servant of the government office and is also here to help-"
The old lady looked at He Chang, then Bo Ruoyou, and then at her granddaughter who was silent. She covered her heart with one hand and was shaking. Her granddaughter Jin Zun Yugui was young, but after her death, she was placed in this humble room like this and saw it by a man. She felt that the eyes were dark and tears fell again.
Sun Zhao shouted, "There is nothing to do with you here, why don't you retreat?"
Bo Ruoyou knew that she was helping her, so she turned around and walked out. He Chang hurriedly followed, fearing that he would be blamed for him. After leaving the back hall, a thin layer of sweat broke out on his face.
The two of them left, and the people in the back hall didn't care about blaming them. They cried and persuaded them, and Bo Ruoyou was also a little sad.
He Chang sighed, "I don't know which noble family it is. The adults are so kind and angry. I think the position is not low. If you meet such a family, this case will be difficult to deal with."
When Bo Ruoyou was in Qingzhou, he knew that it was quite difficult for the government to handle cases. For example, the case of the Anqing Hou Mansion. Before Huo Weilou left, He Cheng made no progress. He had to do nothing. He was indifferent to his actions. It was too much. Now, looking at this situation, it seems that the same is true.
There were so many sadness and crying inside, Bo Ruoyou knew that most of the time it would not be able to do it today.
Sure enough, Sun Zhao soon walked out sweating profusely and waved to them. She and He Chang followed Sun Zhao to a secluded place. Sun Zhao said: "It is the old lady of Zhongqin Bo Mansion. The deceased is Wei Ling, the second lady of Zhongqin Bo Mansion. Wei Ling did not return all night last night. Zhongqin Bo Mansion was already anxious. This morning, he heard that a woman was dead, so he sent someone to ask. After this question, he knew that the deceased was wearing a red dress and listening to the description, he was somewhat similar to Wei Ling. This alarmed the entire Bo Mansion. The old lady brought the people to the yamen first and then came over."
Bo Ruoyou sighed a little. Regardless of his status, the grief of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person is the same.
After saying this, Sun Zhao asked, "How did you test it just now? Are there any obvious clues?"
Bo Ruoyou shook his head, "There is obviously no clue, but... the deceased was also stripped of a piece of flesh. Like the Feng family girl discovered the last time, the female girl suspected that the two were killed by the same murderer."
Sun Zhao raised his eyebrows, "Same murderer? Serial murderer?"
Bo Ruoyou stared at him, "Yes, the young woman is so suspicious for the time being. Just as the two dead people had similarities, the adults came. If we want to conclude, the young woman needs to be tested again."
Sun Zhao sighed sadly, "I'm afraid I can't test it."
At this time, the person who came with him shouted at the exit of the corridor: "Mr. Sun, please speak with me-"
When Sun Zhao heard this, he sighed and walked forward, not knowing what he said to Sun Zhao. Sun Zhao pondered for a moment and nodded, and the two of them whispered a few more words. Then Sun Zhao walked out with a little sigh and walked to Bo Ruoyou and said, "The old lady insisted on not letting the lady's body be placed here, saying that she would take the body back for funeral, and keep it confidential."
To be continued...