When Yougong Shuwu of Jinshui Township learned the news and rushed to Liushuli with the head of the township pavilion and several others, he found that he was a step late. The house at the murder scene was a simple thatched house, located more than a hundred meters outside the inner wall.
Walking to a fork in the road, this is the residence of Orion.
A maroon horse was tied to a willow tree stump at the intersection, and a group of people were watching from a distance, pointing at the house.
The head of the village pavilion raised a two-foot-high wooden slip, separated the noisy crowd, and shouted loudly: "You are coming, everyone, get out of the way, get out of the way!"
The crowd quickly separated, and Shu Wu walked in with his head held high, surrounded by the pavilion soldiers, but found a hemp rope in front of him...
This is the reason why the crowd only watches from a distance at the intersection instead of pushing in.
Shuwu frowned. Several hemp ropes were tied together and stretched from the pillars of the house to the tree stumps at the intersection. The height was just above his waist, so it was difficult for him to jump over or bend down to get through.
The time is a bit awkward.
Seeing this, the head of the village pavilion pulled out his dagger and wanted to cut the rope to let Youyou pass.
At this time, the onlookers quickly waved their hands to him and said: "You can't cut it! The director of the pavilion inside asked him to tie it up, and he said he was not allowed to take a step!"
"Pavilion chief? This place is under the jurisdiction of Guixiang Pavilion. Apart from me, is there any other pavilion chief?"
The head of the rural pavilion suddenly became unhappy, cut the rope with a wave of his knife, and walked to the door of the house with You Gong Shuwu.
Before they entered the door, they smelled a faint smell of blood. When they took a closer look, they saw the body of a woman lying five steps inside the door. Her hair was messy, her lower body was naked, and there was something inserted in her back.
Holding a knife, blood all over his body...
A few steps further in, there was a naked body of a man lying on his back on the bed. There was a stab wound on his neck, a major artery was punctured, and the blood flowing to the deerskin mat had solidified...
In addition to the two corpses, there was indeed a pavilion director wearing a red headband busy inside. At this moment, he was holding the white wall and drawing circles around the two corpses...
"Heifu Pavilion Chief."
Seeing this person, Shu Wu's face suddenly turned dark and he asked, "Why are you here?"
Heifu raised his head and saw Shu Wu and the head of the township pavilion. He stood up and bowed and said, "I have seen Youyou. I just went to Yuanxuan to run horses. When I passed by this place, I heard someone shouting for murder, so I came over to take a look.
Seeing that the local pavilion chief hadn't arrived yet, he took matters into his own hands and restrained the onlookers to prevent them from damaging the scene of the crime."
"Destroying the crime scene?"
Shu Wu looked at the hemp rope at the intersection and found that there was also one tied at the open window, and any place with blood stains indoors was circled with white wall paper...
He was not a professional jailer, and of course he did not understand the benefits of doing so. He just said with a straight face: "Since you are the first to come here, why don't you chase the murderer instead of wasting your time here? Doing these useless things
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"Useless thing?"
Heifu was a little funny. He had taken a criminal investigation class in his previous life, and one of them talked about how to protect the scene of a crime. So he followed suit, asked Li Zheng to help, and tied ropes around the entrances and exits to seal off the scene.
Onlookers are restricted to twenty steps away from the crime scene. They are prohibited from getting closer to prevent damage to criminal traces and evidence outside the scene. It is best not to step on the roads leading in and out, and doorways and windows are not allowed to move!
But Xia Chong couldn't speak to Bing. Since Shu Wu didn't understand, he stopped caring about it and pointed at the corpse and said: "Please look at You You, the blood stains on these two people are almost solidified. I gave it a try."
The body temperature has cooled down in most places, and there are faint body spots on some parts. It can be seen that the two deceased have been dead for at least two or three hours, and the murderer has long gone to a far away place."
This also involves forensic methods for inferring the time of death of the deceased. Heifu only knows the simplest three methods, but speaking of them at this moment is enough to make the two of them stunned.
At this time, Heifu walked to the door again, pointed at a village woman in her thirties, Jingchai in a sarong, and asked her to come over and talk.
"She was the one who first discovered the murderer. Huan, please tell You You and the head of the township pavilion what happened."
Requiring the victim and witnesses to stay where they are and wait for criminal investigators to arrive is also one of the ways to protect the scene.
The village woman named "Huan" walked over calmly, but did not dare to look at the body. She kept her face with a straight face. After saluting Shu Wu, she began to tremble and tell what happened again.
"This woman's name is Wei Hua. She is the wife of the hunter in the village. She and I know each other. We often pick mulberries and forage for wild vegetables together on weekdays. At noon today, I made some sunflower soup and wanted to share some with her. So I went out of the house.
, I came to her door, only to find that the door was ajar. I shouted a few times but no one answered, so I opened the door and saw her lying on the ground with a knife stabbed in her back..."
Huan's teeth chattered as she spoke, which showed that the scene left an indelible impression on her, and the splash of sunflower soup at the door also confirmed her words. After she shouted loudly, Hei Fu rode on
The horse came over and took over the scene.
"This woman is the wife of Orion, and the dead man inside is Orion?"
Shu Wu found that there were a lot of animal skins and bones piled up in the room, and there was a bow hanging on the wall, but the string was loosened.
Huan hesitated for a while, then whispered: "That person... is not her beloved..."
"no?"
Shuwu immediately asked: "Then who is he?"
Heifu answered: "According to the identification of the people who were watching, that man is the prison gate, and his title is Shangzao."
"A superior actually died, or was he a prisoner?"
The head of the township pavilion was a little surprised, and Shu Wu stroked his beard and said: "So, the prison gate has committed adultery with Orion's wife!"
In the Qin State, the punishment for adultery and cheating was very strict. If a man and a woman were caught committing adultery, they would be put on wooden weapons to show off to the public. If it was adultery between half-brothers and sisters, they would be punished by abandoning the city.
Heifu didn't know that after the Qin Dynasty was unified, this law would become even more stringent under the will of the First Emperor. Not only would cheating women be severely punished by society, but men who couldn't control their lower bodies and flirt with married women would also be punished.
Be severely punished.
This may be related to the early experience of the First Emperor. His mother, Zhao Ji, had a very unruly private life. Not only did she break up with Lu Buwei, she later even raised the fake eunuch Lao Ai in the palace. The two even gave birth to two children...
This incident brought a huge psychological shadow to Qin Shihuang, so after he unified the world, the punishment for adultery was further strengthened: "if the husband is sent to send pigs (jiā), he will not be punished if he is killed." The so-called "sending pigs" refers to
The boar that went to other people's houses to propagate their breeding means that if a man gets into other people's beds like that boar, then there is no need to admit responsibility for killing him, and everyone can have it and punish him.
Of course, it hasn't reached that level yet. It's still illegal to kill someone, let alone two people killed in a row, one of whom was a local official.
Shu Wu thought for a moment, then slapped his head and said: "I know, it must be the hunter who came home and found his wife committing adultery, so he killed them both and fled in anger! That must be the case!"
With that said, he asked someone to arrest the hunter.
Heifu said: "The Orion is indeed very suspicious, but according to the people in Li, he often goes to the mountains to hunt, and he goes there for several days. I have entrusted Li Zheng to search for it..."
Shu Wu found that everything he needed to do had been done by this black man, and he couldn't help but feel unhappy, but he couldn't get angry in front of everyone.
At this moment, the crowd outside made another noise. It turned out that the jailer stationed in the village from the county jail had arrived.
Jailers are equivalent to the bailiffs and forensic doctors in later generations. They have received special training. Whenever there is a murder case, they are required to appear. The jailer who came is not a stranger, but Xi's right-hand man. Heifu once dealt with "Angry".
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Frowning angrily, he came into the house and greeted everyone. He had already seen the ropes blocking the way outside. After entering, he saw the white circles drawn on the ground and couldn't help but ask: "Who did these measures?"
Shu Wu was secretly happy, feeling that this black man was not only overstepping his authority and gesticulating in the area under the jurisdiction of the village pavilion chief, but he also said something about "protecting the crime scene", tied ropes indiscriminately, and drew circles with no purpose on the ground.
He has handled so many cases, but he has never seen a prison official do these things before?
So Shuwu gloated and pointed at Heifu and said: "The jailer is all done by Heifu, the chief of the pavilion. I don't know why he did this."
He looked at Hei Fu angrily, but he looked happy and praised loudly: "Well done!"
