Li Yi and Chu Ping successfully brought Gan Ci to the yamen. After receiving permission from the county magistrate, Gan Ci was finally able to perform an autopsy.
Chu Ping was kept by the county lieutenant, as if he wanted to inquire about Li Yi's intention to be the captain.
Li Yi sat alone in the chair and began to review the case.
"Before the middle of the night, a man from another country died in mud. No one knew his identity, and there was no record of his stay in the nearby inn and tiles.
The deceased was hit on the head and died, with injuries on the back of the head, and the probability was that he was killed by a sneak attack from behind.
The deceased still has property on his body, which means it is not a simple murder. But if this happens, what is the motive for the murderer to kill?"
Li Yi took out the jade bracelet that Ma Er had taken out of the deceased and observed it carefully.
"The jade seems to be relatively ordinary, and the deceased should not be rich. The bracelet is small in diameter and should be worn by a woman. Why does a man, a woman, be pregnant with women's accessories? Huh? There seems to be words here?"
Li Yi was stunned. He placed the jade bracelet in the sun. Sure enough, under the light, he saw four small characters engraved on the inside of the jade bracelet: #zi##.
These four characters are not Chinese characters. Except for the second character, Li Yi, who barely saw that it was the word "zi", the other three characters were completely incomprehensible.
"These four words may reveal the identity of the deceased." Li Yi stroked his chin, thinking.
After drawing these conclusions, Li Yi understood the next idea of ​​judging the case: 1. Find out the identity of the deceased; 2. Find out the murderer's motive for murder.
If these two points can be clarified, the entire case will be clear in an instant.
After thinking for a while, the local girl Gan Ci walked over with a white handkerchief. There was a gas of tobacco ash on her body, which was the smell of being stained when she crossed the brazier after the coroner's autopsy.
After the coroner test, he would cross the brazier with his feet to avoid shocking the dead.
"How is it? Have you noticed anything?" Li Yi stood up, handed over a cup of tea and asked.
Gan Ci took the tea and rinsed her mouth. Li Yi quickly poured the tea for her again. Gan Ci pecked her two mouthfuls and said softly: "This corpse is very strange..."
Li Yi couldn't help but say curiously: "Strange? How can I tell?"
This was the first time he heard someone give the word "strange" on the deceased.
Gan Ci lowered his head and said softly: "This man is about 30 years old. His feet have thick calluses. It should be caused by walking through labor all year round. However, his hands are as thin as women, and there are many fine wounds on them. These wounds are not new, but have existed for a long time, like those left by meticulous handicrafts."
Li Yi nodded. Gan Ci’s words made sense, and it was indeed strange to think about it.
Because generally people with thick calluses on their feet are laborers who work hard, such people often have much rougher hands and will not be so slender.
Gan Ci paused and said, "I have seen his hands with fine wounds several times. Most of them are masters of polishing jade or carpenters, but those feet do not have thick calluses like this."
Li Yi remembered this suspicious point and asked Gan Ci again: "The time and cause of death of the deceased, has the girl proved it?"
Gan Ci said: "The deceased should have died between the hour of Hai and the hour of Zi. The cause of death was two heavy blows on the head. In addition, there were no new injuries on his body except for some old injuries."
The murder happened before Zishi, and Ma Er is likely to be no longer suspicious.
"Oh? Two heavy blows?" Li Yi looked up in confusion, "Why is the girl sure she's two blows?"
Gan Ci Qiansheng said: "I peeled off the deceased's hair and you can clearly see the blood clots on his head, one left and one right. These two blood clots are extremely distinct. If there is a third blow, then there will definitely be other blood stasis on his head."
Li Yi was even more confused: "What the girl said is, two blood clots on the left and right?"
Gan Ci said "Hmm": "This is the second strange thing I think. His two heavy blows were actually on both sides of the back of his head."
Li Yi frowned deeply when he heard this, because usually, after the prisoner who attacked and killed someone would accumulate strength and hit the victim's head, he would often attack other parts of the victim's body, or aggravate the first blow.
In that case, the victim's injuries should be in the same place, not on both sides of his head.
This is conceivable. If you take a brick and knock on someone moving forward with your back to you, and you are a right-handed, then you rush up and accumulate force and strike, and you must strike from the right side of his head, and the injured part must be on the right side of his head.
Next, you will most likely not hit the left side of his head again, because you are a right-handed. Attacking the left side of his head will reduce your strength a lot, and it is not as convenient as attacking the same part.
"Can the deceased not die after being beaten, but turned around to fight the prisoner?" Li Yi guessed, "In this way, the deceased will face the prisoner, and the right-handed prisoner may attack the deceased's left head."
"The possibility is not high." Gan Ci replied after thinking for a moment, "If that is the case, the deceased will most likely have other injuries to fight the prisoner, and not just these two."
Li Yi pondered for a moment and raised a possibility: "Is it possible that the murderer was two people, one with a sharp left hand and the other with a sharp right hand, which left two injuries on the head of the deceased?"
Gan Ci said: "It shouldn't be true. The same thing on both sides of the head of the deceased should be. Well, it should be a porcelain bottle. I found these fine pieces of porcelain. The porcelain bottle should have been broken after the second blow."
Gan Ci presented Li Yi with the fine pieces found, which were the kind of pieces that Li Yi had found before during the gap between the dead.
Li Yi thought about it and said slowly: "It seems that it is necessary to go to the crime scene to take a look."
Because no one mentioned the remains of the broken porcelain fragments at the crime scene, this means that the muddy land was not even the first crime scene. The deceased may have been killed and the body was thrown away!
Gan Ci finally added: "There is another point that the two injuries of the deceased were slightly higher than the top of the head, which shows that the murderer should not be shorter than the deceased, or even higher than the deceased."
Li Yi was stunned, then Zhan Yan smiled. He didn't expect the details. The deceased was between 1.7 meters and 1.75 meters, so the murderer should be between this height range.
Seeing that Gan Ci was still standing there, Li Yi quickly invited Gan Ci to take his seat. This hero who provided him with many clues, should not be neglected.
In fact, Li Yi originally had no expectations for Gan Ci. After all, in ancient times, the methods of coronering and autopsy were far less detailed and exquisite than those of later generations.
Gan Ci is a young woman with insufficient experience in autopsy. She is far beyond Li Yi's expectations when she can do this.
Gan Ci was a little embarrassed. She pinched the hem of her clothes and asked hesitantly: "That... Master Li, can I have an autopsy?"
"Secretory of the body?" Li Yi was a little confused. The deceased was not poisoned and there were no other wounds on his body. What should he do if he cut off the body?
Seeing his expression, Gan Ci waved his hand in a hurry: "If I had the body cut off, I should be able to see other useful information. If the yamen is in a dilemma, forget it."
In ancient times, corpse dissection was generally not allowed. The dead were the greatest, and destroying the dead body was a great insult to them and their families.
Li Yi asked: "Can you really find other clues?"
Gan Ci nodded firmly: "Yes."
Li Yi smiled and said, "Then wait until Chu Ping comes out later, let him ask the county magistrate for instructions."
Li Yi didn't know if there would be any big taboos for corpse dissection, so it would be better to ask for instructions. If you are not allowed, it might be a problem.
Gan Ci drank another sip of tea. She looked at Li Yi quietly. Seeing that his mouth changed, she should be silently reciting something, so she did not dare to disturb her.
"He looks pretty pretty." Gan Ci took a sneak peek at Li Yi again, and then buried her head in the teacup with guilt.
"Miss Gan, are you the only one in your family now?" Li Yi sorted out the case again and asked Gan Ci.
Gan Ci's shoulders trembled and she whispered: "Well, after my father passed away, I will be the only one."
"Is life very hard?" Li Yi sighed. Gan Ci looked only seventeen or eighteen years old, thin and without a fixed job, so her life would be very difficult.
Gan Ci shook her head: "Although my father is a coroner, he is also very knowledgeable in medical skills. I learned some from him, and although I cannot master it, I can get some rewards for treating headaches and fever among my neighbors."
Li Yi suddenly realized that he glanced at Gan Ci several times and found that the ginger juice on her face was rubbed off due to sweat, revealing her originally fair skin color.
Li Yi nodded secretly. The girl's appearance is not ugly. If she dressed up deliberately, she would not be worse than some stars in later generations.
Li Yi thought for a while and reminded: "Miss Gan, if it is nothing more than necessary, try not to apply ginger juice on her face. Over time, her skin will turn black and yellow."
Gan Ci said softly again, "Yeah". She understands medical skills, and the prepared ginger juice has been as damaging as possible. However, Li Yi's concern still made her extremely useful.
"Mr. Li worked in the yamen at a young age. He is so young and promising." Feeling Li Yi's kindness, Gan Ci plucked up the courage to praise him.
Li Yi smiled, "I'm not working in the yamen, I'm just working for a shop."
"Ah? Mr. Li is not a person from the yamen?" Can he handle cases for the yamen if he is not a person from the yamen?
Li Yi smiled. He stretched his body and stopped talking. After this, he wanted to run a stinky tofu shop, then cure my mother's illness, then get married and have children in this strange world, and live a leisurely life.
I died young and never lived until retirement in my previous life, and I didn’t even have time to marry my wife. I ran around for public security all day and almost didn’t even have a stable day off. I must enjoy it in this life.
Gan Ci was not good at talking. Seeing that Li Yi stopped talking, she thought she had talked to death. She was both nervous and panicked. She lowered her eyes to the table and saw a jade bracelet on it. She was nervous and reached out to hold it and play with it.
Her hands were as white as jade, and against the backdrop of the emerald green jade bracelet, her skin looked as white as snow.
After Li Yikong thought about it, he was attracted by her hands as soon as he looked up. He smiled slightly and said, "Miss Gan, there are a few words engraved on this jade bracelet. Do you know it?"
Gan Ci was startled by his sudden sound. She patted her chest and asked softly: "Where are you? Where are you talking?"
Li Yi reached out and pointed at her the inside of the jade bracelet.
Gan Ci raised the jade bracelet and shone it in front of the light, and sure enough, he saw the four words.
"What kind of thing..." Gan Ci put the jade bracelet back embarrassedly, lowered her eyebrows and said apologetically, "Sorry, I only know the second word..."
Li Yi waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, I only know that word, it's a hero who sees the same thing, haha."
Gan Ci was a little embarrassed when he smiled like this. She whispered "um" and plucked up the courage to say, "Well, I think this word seems to be a text from Shu."
"oh?"
Gan Ci took a deep breath and said, "That... Dad once collected some ancient medical books, some of which came from Shu. Although I don't recognize the text of Shu, I think it should come from there."
This Shu area refers to the land of the destroyed Shu Kingdom. The Shu Kingdom here was not Ji Han founded by Liu Bei, but the Shu Kingdom established by Wang Jian after the demise of the Tang Dynasty and established its capital in Sichuan.
This Shu Kingdom experienced the Former Shu and the Later Shu Kingdom. It was destroyed by the Song Kingdom four years ago and the Shu Lord Meng Chang surrendered.
The demise of Shu Kingdom is extremely sad, because at that time, there were only 60,000 Song troops who defeated Shu, while in the latter Shu, there were 140,000 people. With several times the enemy's troops, Shu Kingdom had no reason to destroy the country even if it faced a strong enemy.
However, the king and minister of Shu, who had always been interested in enjoyment, had no fighting spirit. When they heard the Song army, they were shocked and frightened, and even staged an outstanding ugly drama of surrendering to the few.
When the beautiful Mrs. Huarui of Shu heard the surrender of the monarch, she angrily wrote a famous saying of "140,000 people were disarmed, and no one was a man." This was really sad and lamentable.
When Li Yi heard Gan Ci's words, his eyebrows almost frowned: "Shu? Could it be that the deceased actually came from Shu? This is difficult to investigate."
Just kidding, Zhaozhou is in Hebei. If this person comes from Sichuan, wouldn’t it be a big trouble?
Chapter completed!