Because the deceased had a serious cardiovascular disease, Qin Lin could not make a positive conclusion based on his body surface observation alone.

Zhang Gongyu was greatly disappointed, in his mind, the so-called judgment of the case like a god should be "a god's eyes like lightning", and when he asked a few casual questions, he was shocked, shouting, "You are guilty of the crime, the prisoner wife", and then the criminal trembled and kowtowed and confessed his guilt -- and in his mind, Qin Lin had this kind of ability.

Qin Lin didn't take it seriously, it was useless for you to talk to him about a foolish person like Master Zhang, so he arched his hand with a smile: "If you want to find out the exact cause of death and be foolproof, you still have to rely on autopsy." ”

Zhang Gongyu sighed: "I have to dissect the corpse every time, Brother Qin...... Let's take a look at it first. ”

Seeing that Master Zhang did not agree to the autopsy, Qin Lin was not very embarrassed, after all, the Da Ming Law does not allow the destruction of corpses at will, and if the autopsy is not found to be a problem, he has to sit back on the crime of mutilating the corpse, so unless the magistrate is forced to do so, he is generally unwilling to carry out autopsy, bone steaming, open coffin autopsy and other sabotage examinations.

Jiao Cheng was really slippery, and smiled apologetically at Qin Lin before the autopsy, and then used a tape measure and other tools to examine the corpse, and kept reporting the test results, and the Hu Si official of the torture room filled in the corpse grid.

"The deceased Wei Asi, male, Chinese New Year's Eve years old, from Ruichang, Jiangxi, is five feet long, and wins thin...... The corpse's lips were bruised, his fingernails and toenails were blue, and his face was swollen. ”

The deceased's face was swollen, and the first thing he suspected was that he had been hanged, Jiao Yanzuo untied the neckline of the corpse, and after reading it carefully, he reported: "There are no hangings on the neck, the skin is intact, not hanging, strangulation." ”

Then he took out the silver needle and put it into the mouth of the deceased, and took it out after a while.

This was terrible, and everyone exclaimed: I saw that the lower half of the silver needle had become black, and the deceased had a highly poisonous mouth in it!

Zhang Gongyu shook his head, looked at the prisoner's sister-in-law Xuehua with great disdain, and shook his head and dragged the text: "The head of the undertaker, Zhou Donkey, went to the state government to take the lead, and the official also said that in the past two years, he has ruled this place with benevolence, and the people have all bathed in the spring breeze and turned into rain and dew, how can there be such a vicious person who dares to murder his husband with severe poison?" Now I know that the country is easy to change and the surname is difficult to change, and the so-called Yan Yuan and thief are nothing less than the abyss. ”

The undertaker's head Zhou Donkey'er looked proud, he was the first to denounce it, and the government will have a bounty after the case is decided, hehe smiled dryly, looking at Xuehua's sister-in-law's expression like a vulture who found an animal carcass.

The people who crowded in the yard to watch the excitement talked about it, and they all said that they didn't expect Sister-in-law Xuehua to do such a thing, usually she is filial to her mother-in-law and serves her husband, but she is very virtuous?

It was the height of summer, the weather was extremely hot, the poor dressed up short, the rich wore cocooned silk clothes that could be separated by several layers of clothes and could see the black moles on the body, only the boss next door was a gray cloth gown, the fan in his hand was shaking, and there were beads of sweat hanging on the tip of his nose: "What do you know?" This is called knowing the face of the person but not knowing the heart! This mother-in-law usually pretends to be like, while the man is lying in bed, I don't know how many men she has stolen! ”

Sister-in-law Xuehua seemed to be stunned, and only then did she try her best to jump up at once, and shouted hoarsely: "Lord Qingtian is above, the women are wronged!" Why did my husband have poison in his mouth, and the women didn't know which god killed my husband! ”

Zhang Gongyu sneered, as a dignified magistrate from the top three, he disdained to have a verbal dispute with a criminal woman who murdered her husband.

A few official media wives are not welcome, they are all specialized in managing female prisoners, one by one is five big and three coarse and ugly, and she has long seen that Xuehua's sister-in-law is not pleasing to the eye, and now she is a prisoner, and she dares to contradict the master of Zhizhou, the official media women immediately became threatening, crackled a few slaps, and Xuehua's sister-in-law Bai Shengsheng's face was marked with several red marks.

The two ignorant children didn't know why their mother was beaten, the older one broke free from his grandmother and rushed up to protect his mother, while the younger one rubbed his eyes and cried, looking really pitiful.

The child hit his head on the most fierce official media woman, the old guy was desperately pinching Xuehua's sister-in-law, not beware of this collision, he was hit with a butt pier, got up and was angry, grabbed the child and slapped him, and scolded in his mouth: "Little rabbit cub, I don't know if it is the little silver woman and which wild man raised the wild seed, and dare to hit the old body." ”

Qin Lin was suspicious of the case, and was thinking hard about it and entering a state of contemplation, and was forced to cut off his thinking by the official media wife's play, and his heart was extremely unhappy.

With a bang, the official media woman fell on her back, and the corners of her mouth were mixed with blood and a few teeth spurting out, but she didn't dare to contradict Qin Lin, crawling on the ground like a dead dog.

Zhang Gongyu had a little compassion for the child, and glared at the official matchmaker: "The old and the old, the young and the young, don't you know? Liang Hui Wang Shang" must have never read it, anyway, you are not allowed to beat children. The guilty woman is guilty, and her son is innocent, and the official has to give money to help his mother-in-law and grandson live well. ”

The official media woman just knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhang Gongyu and Qin Lin, not even daring to have half a bit of resentment.

The old woman came over and hugged her grandson in her arms, crying and said to Zhang Gongyu: "Please ask the eldest lord to know the truth, although my daughter-in-law is not as good as the woman in the legend of the martyr, but she is usually extremely filial and virtuous, and she has served my son for two years without a single complaint, how could she suddenly poison him to death?" Now that his son is dead, if his daughter-in-law is arrested again, the old man will be alone with his two grandchildren, how can he live! ”

Zhang Gongyu was helpless: "In addition to her, there are only three of your mother-in-law and grandson in this family, the poison was not given by her, is it possible that your old woman killed her own son with medicine?" Or the poisoning of two ignorant children? As for the matter of caring for the elderly and raising children, there are almshouses and nursery societies in this state, and I will help your mother-in-law and grandson with an extra sum of money. ”

The Ming Dynasty had a fairly complete social welfare system, including Huimin Pharmacies, which were in charge of relief and treatment of plagues and medicine, as well as solitary homes in every prefecture and county in the Ming Dynasty that were in charge of supporting the lonely and widowed elderly, and nursery societies that were responsible for raising orphans.

"Da Ming Law. The "Household Law" clearly stipulates: "Anyone who is widowed, lonely, and sick, who is poor and has no relatives to rely on, and who cannot survive on his own, and who should be adopted by the official or private department but does not adopt, shall be given 60 rods; If food and clothing should be given, and the officials debit from it, they will be regarded as self-theft. ”

In the early years of Wanli, it was a peaceful and prosperous era, and the orphans and widows adopted by the nursing home, the government gave Taicang three buckets of rice per month, and gave a horse to the word Kubu every year, which was equivalent to the subsistence allowance of later generations (cat note: and there was also the phenomenon of rich people cheating and collaring, ancient and modern as one, hehe).

Wei Asi died, Xuehua's sister-in-law was arrested for the crime, and only the lonely old woman and two orphans were left, who met the conditions for adoption in the nursing home.

When the old woman heard Zhang Gongyu say this, cloudy old tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, and she nagged and said: "How can the nursing home compare to your own home?" Where is my daughter-in-law careful? Pity the two grandchildren, just without a father, and my mother is going to be arrested......"

When Qin Lin heard this, his heart suddenly moved, and the suspicion he already had became deeper and deeper: it is said that daughters-in-law often deal with mothers-in-law, but the old mother of the Wei family always speaks for her daughter-in-law, so there is something strange about the case, right?

Wei Asi is sick and bedridden all the year round, and she may not know about her daughter-in-law's affairs, but this old woman is not deaf or blind, and it is difficult for her daughter-in-law to hide anything from her, if she finds that her son has arsenic in his mouth, she still thinks that it will not be the daughter-in-law who killed her......

But thinking of this, Qin Lin shook his head again, after all, the evidence is conclusive!

In fact, the silver needle poison test does not react to most poisons, for example, the poison of the White Lotus Sect obtained by Qin Lin cannot be detected, but silver is very sensitive to the most common arsenic, and it will turn black when encountered.

Arsenic is arsenic trioxide, which itself does not react with silver, but the ancient technology of refining arsenic is not mature, and the finished product contains a lot of sulfide, which immediately reacts when it encounters silver to form black silver sulfide, causing the silver needle to turn black.

Just now, Jiao Qizuo put the silver needle into the mouth of the deceased, and when he pulled it out, it turned black, which everyone saw with their own eyes, and it couldn't be faked.

After thinking for a while, Qin Lin beckoned to the two children with a smile on his face: "Come here, uncle has something to ask you." ”

The younger child shrank straight into his grandmother's arms and looked at Qin Lin with an innocent expression, but the older child was grateful to him for kicking down the official media wife just now, and obediently walked to his feet.

"Tell the truth to your uncle, if you tell the truth, your uncle can help your mother."

"Let them stop hitting their mother, okay?"

Qin Lin nodded, and the kid suddenly smiled: "Uncle is really a good person." ”

Qin Lin felt that he was about to become a kindergarten teacher, and said step by step: "How does your mother usually treat your father, has she ever quarreled?" Did any other uncles come to the house? ”

"Mom is good to Daddy, I've never quarreled," the little boy tilted his head and thought for a while, "Uncle has been here." ”

Qin Lin's heart sank, and he asked which uncle it was.

"It's you, uncle!" The little boy looked at him very strangely, "You just came." ”

Zhang Gongyu burst out laughing next to him.

Qin Lin blackened his face, patted the little boy's head, and asked the old woman of the Wei family to lead him.

Such a young child can't lie, even if the old woman of the Wei family may have lied for her daughter-in-law because of other considerations, the little boy's words are absolutely true and credible.

So what went wrong?

Qin Lin asked Zhang Gongyu not to be busy escorting away the prisoner's wife, Xuehua's sister-in-law, and came to the coffin by himself to observe carefully again.

It is true that there is no scar on the neck, and the swelling of the head and face can also be explained by the blood stasis caused by poor circulation of the cardiovascular system, but no matter how you look at it, it is a little uncomfortable, and I always feel that there is something I didn't expect.

Suddenly thinking of a possibility, he was shocked, and quickly stretched out his finger to peel off the dead man's eyelids and observe them carefully.

I saw that there was already a layer of white puff on the eyeballs, which was blurry, and it was a little difficult to see clearly in this poorly lit hall, so Qin Lin asked Niu to vigorously light the fire and take a look.

"I didn't bring a fire fold," Niu Dali smiled: "But Engong wants good light, and it's easy." ”

As he spoke, he hugged the coffin with both hands, exhaled and opened his voice, and even took the coffin and brought it up, and brought it into the courtyard smoothly and steadily, and put it in the sun.

This cypress coffin plus the corpse, I'm afraid there are three or four hundred catties? The funeral was carried by four young men, and he actually stood up alone, his face was not red, and he was not panting, and this son was born with divine power, and the people and the servants applauded in unison.

The summer sun was extremely strong, Qin Lin once again opened the eyelids of the deceased, and finally the corners of his mouth showed some kind of meaningful smile - it was the smile of the hunter when he found his prey, the sniper aimed at the bull's-eye, and the fighter pilot locked onto the target with the crosshair ring.

In addition to the white pannus formed after death, under the conjunctiva of the deceased's eyes, there are scattered spots of bleeding!