You! Tang Jingting glared at Qin Lin angrily, his heart was almost crazy, he didn't understand why this guy had repeatedly opposed him, and the case that could have been closed and conclusive had to pull out many branches, so that it was entangled.

Hai Rui waved his hand, stopped the protégé who was about to go crazy, and asked nonchalantly: "Qin Xiaoyou said that the handwriting engraved on the stone is difficult to identify, and the old man is slightly the same as what you see, but Qin Xiaoyou suspects that Qi Dalang did not commit suicide, I'm afraid there is also a lack of sufficient evidence!" ”

"It's not just lack, it's nothing but speculation!" Tang Jingting muttered indignantly, only because the teacher was here, he didn't angrily reprimand Qin Lin, he could see that the so-called Tao is different and does not conspire with each other, and Qin Lin will definitely not be able to join the teacher Hai Rui.

The body itself had no suspicious scars, and in terms of the environment of the scene, because many villagers gathered to watch, the footprints on the ground were messy, and nothing could be verified.

"Hey, is it okay?" Bai Shuanghua lowered his voice, worried that Qin Lin would show his cowardice in front of Hai Rui, an old guy who was stupid and loyal to the puppet dynasty.

Qin Lin rubbed his nose: "Well, the time of death ......"

Time of death? White Frost Hua frowned, not figuring out what he meant.

"Don't be impatient, I will soon be able to prove the inference just now," Qin Lin told Hai Rui and Tang Jingting with a smile, and then instructed Lu Yuanzhi to use the method he taught to check the time of Qi Dalang's death.

Generally speaking, for a corpse whose time of death is within three hours, the corpse temperature is a very convenient and quick test indicator, and an experienced forensic doctor can roughly estimate the time of death just by touching it, but Qi Dalang was only fished out of the water not long ago, and the corpse temperature is not accurate.

So the first thing Lu Yuanzhi checked was the corpse spots, just now the government had already stripped off the clothes from the corpse, he asked Niu to vigorously light the lantern, and turned the corpse over by himself, but saw that the back of the corpse was white, and there were no corpse spots.

Hey? Lu Yuanzhi was strange, and examined the corpse from head to toe again, but there were indeed no corpse spots.

Corpse spot is one of the earlier corpse phenomenon, formed by the deposition of blood in the lower part of the corpse, as early as the era of Song Ci and Song to be sentenced, it usually appears one to two hours after death, after six or seven hours of development to the highest height, one to a day and a half fixed down and no longer transfer, until the corpse [***], so when solving the case, the time of death can be judged by the state of the corpse spot.

"Could it be that he just died, so the corpse spots haven't appeared yet?" Fat Lu scratched his scalp.

Tang Jingting also felt confused, and asked in a low voice about the work of the government office, but he couldn't say why.

Qin Lin pointed at Lu Yuanzhi with a smile: "Fatty, you don't care about the corpse spots first, and then check the corpse to see how it is?" ”

Lu Yuanzhi moved the corpse before, and felt that it was [***], but now he checked carefully, first touched the muscles around the corpse's eyelids, which were as hard as stones, and then tried to break the corpse's chin, the masseter muscle bit tightly, no matter how hard he tried, the dead man's bloodless mouth just refused to open, holding the deceased's head with both hands and trying to make it nod or shake its head, which was also unable to achieve due to stiff neck muscles......

I tried from top to bottom, but I couldn't move my shoulders, elbows, and thighs, and finally I was able to move my calf joints to a lesser extent.

"Looking at the corpse, it's been about three hours since I was dead," Lu Yuanzhi blinked his small eyes in confusion.

Generally speaking, zombie mortis begins to appear about an hour after death, and it does not occur at the same time throughout the body, but the expansion of various muscle groups, which in most cases follows the "descending order", that is, the craniofacial muscle groups such as the eyelids and bite muscles are stiffened first, and then gradually develop from top to bottom according to the neck, upper limbs, and lower limbs.

Most of the muscles of Qi Dalang's body had a relatively serious stiffness, only the calves below the knee joint, and the degree of stiffness was relatively light, which indicated that the time of his death was within two to three hours.

But why didn't the corpse spots appear? As death comes, the blood stops flowing, and in an hour or two, corpse spots will appear in the lower part of the corpse!

The corpse spots and corpse zombies reflect different times of death, and Lu Yuanzhi is a little embarrassed.

Qin Lin reminded him with a smile: "Don't be busy judging first, there are still eyeballs that haven't been checked." ”

Lu Yuanzhi patted his head, immediately opened the deceased's eyelids, and observed the condition of his eyeballs, only to see Qi Dalang's eyes that had lost their luster of life, and their pupils had turned a faint gray-white.

The pupils of normal people are colorless and transparent - if the pupils are colored, wouldn't they see everything as flowers? Only after death, the protein of the pupil changes, and gradually turns gray-white about two hours after death, and as time increases, the color becomes darker and darker, and the transparency of the pupil becomes lower and lower, and the pupil can no longer be seen after two days, becoming gray-white "dead fish eyes".

The pupils of the corpse had turned gray, but the color was still very pale from this, and Lu Yuanzhi concluded that the time of death was two to three hours—which was completely consistent with the judgment based on the corpse's stiffness.

Hey, hey, Lu Fatzi rubbed his hands and looked at Qin Lin directly.

Knowing what he was going to ask, of course, this might be what everyone present wanted to ask, Qin Lin didn't sell Guan Zi anymore, and said loudly: "The color of the pupils and the time of death reflected in the zombie situation are correct, and the corpse spots did not appear, and the reason is precisely because of the cause of death of the corpse, he was drowned, the cold water stirred up the hot blood, there was no blood on the body surface, the waterhole of Wuligou was living water, the corpse was pushed over and over by the current, and the blood could not be deposited, of course there were no corpse spots!" ”

Corpse spots are bruises-like spots formed by blood deposited in a low position and seeping out from the capillaries, so its formation, the first must have blood, the second must have sedimentation, and the person who can drown can be immersed in cold water, the capillaries shrink violently, and the blood is returned to the large blood vessels in the body, leaving very little on the surface of the body, and at the same time, the corpse is pushed by the water flow and gently tumbling, and a small amount of blood cannot be deposited in a fixed position, so it is naturally impossible to form corpse spots.

I see! Qiongzhou Mansion's eyes lit up, and he muttered to himself: "No wonder, it turns out that this is the case, no wonder Hai Qingtian and Tang Mansion Zun treat this Qin Ye like a guest, what I said just now really made me feel uncomfortable!" ”

Come on, Tang Jingting was so depressed that he wanted to ask the old man if there was any inaccuracy in Qin Lin's words, but now it seems that it is completely unnecessary.

Hai Rui stroked his beard, he had been an official for many years and had rich experience in handling cases, and he suddenly came to his senses: "It seems that drowning is no problem, but ...... Time of death, yes, there is a problem with the time of death! ”

"What's the problem?" Tang Jingting was inexplicable, and pinched his fingers to calculate the time.

It is now the end of the unitary time, and Qi Dalang died two to three hours ago, that is, the time (one to three o'clock in the afternoon).

The Yougong Bridge incident occurred in the early afternoon, although there were fewer pedestrians on that road in the afternoon, but it was impossible for too long no one to walk, and the arresters found the person who crossed the bridge before the reporter Li Shuiwa, and it was also two pillars of incense earlier, and they did not find anything unusual on the bridge, that is to say, Gu Kedu was killed after this person crossed the bridge and before Li Shuiwa crossed the bridge, and the time was about one o'clock in the afternoon (one o'clock in the afternoon).

The geographical location of Yougong Bridge is ten miles west of the city, and Wuligou is located in the east of the city five miles, fifteen miles away, if the foot is a little faster, a little more than half an hour can almost arrive, then Qi Dalang did not kill people in Yougong Bridge at the beginning of the time, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water in Wuligou at the end of the time, and the time is right.

Tang Jingting expressed his doubts, and also extrapolated the time quite carefully, and felt that everything was right, and there was no omission.

Respect, Respect! Hai Rui hated that iron could not be made of steel, and looked at Qin Lin with regret, and said in his heart If Tang Jingting has half of Qin Lin's surname, why does the old man do everything possible to include Qin Lin in the door wall? He stroked his beard with a wry smile, now it seems that this idea should be dispelled as soon as possible, the so-called master who has no precedent is a teacher, and if it goes on like this, I am afraid that it is not the old man who accepts Qin Lin as a protégé, but wants to worship him!

Qin Lin looked at Tang Jingting and laughed, and said unhurriedly: "At the beginning of the time, he killed people at Yougong Bridge, and at the end of the time, he committed suicide by throwing water into Wuligou, although he can barely match the time, but from Yougong Bridge to Wuligou, there are dozens of wells, ponds, river ditches, and seaports along the way, where you can't throw water, where you can't commit suicide, why did Qi Dalang kill people, he had to walk fifteen miles under the noon day, and ran from the west of the city to the east of the city to throw water?" ”

Yes? Tang Jingting took a step back in shock, opened his mouth, couldn't even say half a sentence, and his eyes were stunned.

Because he also understands that this situation is simply unreasonable and cannot stand up to scrutiny at all!

Qin Lin asked Qi Qin again: "Don't worry, don't panic, please think about it carefully, what special reason does Qi Dalang have to kill himself here?" For example, his parents' tombs are buried nearby, and he often came here to play in the water when he was a teenager. ”

Yes, yes, yes, there is such a possibility! Tang Jingting seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, and looked at Qi Qin's directly, as if a flower was about to bloom on her face.

Qi Qin pondered for a long time, and finally shook his head: "There are no such reasons, my in-laws are buried in the south of the city, far away from here, in addition, the clumsy husband hates the countryside very much, and he has only played in the city, docks, and markets since he was a child, and he has never been to Wuligou at all." ”

Alas~~ Tang Jingting was like a deflated ball, his disappointment was overflowing, and he was forced to support the prefect's faction without falling, but he was so annoyed in his heart that he couldn't help but be annoyed: Originally, Qi Dalang committed suicide and the case was closed, but who knew that there were branches, and now it seems that Qi Dalang is not a suicide......

Hai Rui was much more sincere, and arched his hand towards Qin Lin: "Qin Xiaoyou, now after all, it's just an inference, is there any more solid evidence?" The old man is willing to listen. ”

"Of course there is," Qin Lin pointed at the corpse: "It's in his stomach!" ”

(To be continued)