Chapter 238: Drowning.

This is the end of the lively and peaceful spring step.

When they see a corpse, who will be in the mood to go to spring?

And the deceased was a child.

When they saw the child's swollen face, some of the girls who were still flying kites and laughing happily just now were so frightened that they hid back, and they didn't even dare to look at them again.

The corpse was isolated by the officials, and Hua Lang ordered Renjiang to pull out the clothes on the corpse, and then carefully examined it, and said while inspecting: "The face is slightly red, there is muddy water in the mouth and nose, the abdomen is slightly swollen, there is water, there is mud and sand in the nails, and there is a break, and one shoe is missing." ”

As soon as he finished saying this, Gongsun Ce immediately had doubts and asked, "Is there any damage on your body?" ”

Hanalang shook his head: "No! ”

The crowd was silent for a while, and if there was no loss on the deceased's body, and his face was slightly red, and there was muddy water in his mouth and nose, water in his abdomen, and mud and sand in his fingernails, then it means that the deceased had drowned and had not been murdered.

When spring came, everything recovered, and the children became more and more naughty, so they came to the stream to play in the water, but accidentally fell into the water, and they drowned as they struggled.

Things, I'm afraid, can only be explained in this way.

Some of the people who watched the excitement sighed and dispersed, if there was no murder, just a child drowned, there was really nothing to see for them.

It's just that when everyone thought it was drowning, Hua Lang frowned and kept shaking his head, Wen Meng saw this and asked, "What, do you have a different opinion?" ”

Hanalang shrugged: "No, judging from these characteristics, the deceased was indeed drowned, and there is no sign that he was beaten or drowned by his head before throwing him into the water, but he drowned, and where did the other shoe go?" ”

Seeing that Hua Lang was just worried about this problem, Wen Meng was a little disdainful, and said: "Isn't this easy to explain, he fell into the water, he must struggle, and when he struggles, it is very possible for his shoes to fall off." ”

This explanation does make sense, but Hanalang said, "But where did he fall into the water?" ”

No one knew about this, but Wen Meng didn't bother to answer Hua Lang's seemingly inconsequential questions.

At this time, Hua Lang came to Bao Zheng and said, "Brother Bao, it seems that we have to trouble the officials to salvage the deceased's shoes here, and we must also walk along the stream to see if we can find the place where the deceased fell." ”

Although it has been determined that the deceased drowned by himself, Bao Zheng is also a cautious person, and naturally he does not dare to be sloppy about human homicides, and more importantly, he believes in Hua Lang, if Hua Lang feels the need to continue the investigation, then they must continue to investigate.

To this end, Bao Zheng divided the officials into two groups, one group went to the city to find the family members of the deceased, and the other group stayed here to salvage the shoes of the deceased.

At this time, although it is the season of spring flowers, the water in the small stream is still a little cold, and those officials are barefoot in it to fish, and after a while, they can't stand it and want to come out to warm their feet.

The officials salvaged like this, and Hua Lang and Bao Zheng and his party slowly searched along the small stream, but after looking for a long time on the entire bank, there was no trace to be found.

When they came back, the feet of those officials had begun to turn red, but the shoes of the deceased were not found, and after Hua Lang saw the feet of these officials, his brows furrowed, and he suddenly patted his head, and said: "Why am I so stupid, the deceased did not drown today, I am afraid that he has been dead for two or three days." ”

After listening to Hua Lang's words, Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce and others all disagreed, and Gongsun Ce even stood up and said: "Brother Hua, there is a problem with what you say, the deceased drowned, and after drowning, there is water in his stomach, and it will soon surface, how can you say that the deceased has been dead for several days, could it be that he was killed and thrown here?" ”

Hua Lang smiled faintly, shook his head and said: "Brother Gongsun listened to my explanation, the deceased did drown himself, no one killed him and then moved the body here, but the water is still cold at this season, people drown in this season, and the corpse will not float until a few days later, and summer and autumn are very different." ”

When everyone heard Hua Lang say this, they had no choice but to agree with him, but if the deceased had been dead for several days, then why didn't his family members go to the county government to report the case?

This doesn't make sense, and Hanaro can't explain it.

However, the deceased has been dead for several days, but it is very helpful to find the place where the deceased fell into the water, the stream has been flowing, and the corpse has flowed here after a few days, so according to the speed of the stream's flow along the bank to the upper reaches of the river, it should be possible to roughly know the location of the body falling into the water.

For this reason, Hua Lang and the others walked along the small bank of the stream to Lu Shangshi, and after walking for about half a pillar of incense, they stopped, and then Bao Zheng ordered the officials to continue salvaging the shoes of the deceased, while they continued to look for clues.

After walking about a dozen steps, Hua Lang and they found that there were obvious slip marks on the shore, and there were some messy footprints on the shore, Hua Lang carefully identified and found that in addition to the footprints of the deceased, there were several other footprints, judging from the size, they should also be teenagers.

Could it be that there were other people on the shore when the deceased fell overboard, but they did not save the deceased?

There were no other clues nearby, and the officials searched for a long time in the water, and found that there was no at all, so it is easy to say that when the deceased fell into the water, he only wore one shoe.

Of course, this is impossible, but they can't recover the shoes of the dead in the water.

The sky gradually darkened, the sunset was over, the officials were shivering by the water ice, and when they first came ashore, they all said that after returning home, they must take a basin of hot water to soak in it.

Seeing that everyone was working so hard, Hua Lang also felt a little embarrassed, so he said, "It's getting late, how about we go to drink today?" ”

Those officials are naturally willing, as long as Hua Lang is willing to pay for it, they can drink as much wine as they want.

For this meal, Bao Zheng also agreed by default, after all, he should be treated well for letting his subordinates suffer so much.

But despite this, Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce did not go to eat and drink, they need to hurry back to the county government to see if the other officials have found the family of the deceased, if they do, they must ask the family, why the child has not been seen for a few days, but did not come to the county government to report the case?

If Bao Zheng hadn't asked before, through Hua Lang's calculations, they had really arrived at the place where the deceased had fallen into the water, which would indirectly prove that the deceased had drowned for several days.