A wooden ladder was placed on the tree trunk, and several servants were about to put the corpse down.
Bo Ruoyou stepped forward, "Don't move—"
Zhao Yue looked at Bao Ruoyou and raised his eyebrows, then went to look at Huo Weilou and Wu Xiang, but saw that they both had normal expressions, so he pursed his lips and said nothing. I only know that this person is an attendant who tends flowers and birds in the garden, but I don't know his exact identity, can the county king send someone to inform him in detail?"
Zhao Yue stood outside the shade of the tree, with deep impatience between his brows, looking at the corpse, he felt a bit of taboo disgust, took a deep breath, and then clicked on someone: "Go and talk—"
He looked at Huo Weilou again, grinned and said, "Master Hou is here to supervise the case? I don't think you need Master Hou to intervene in this case."
Huo Weilou's eyes fell on Bo Ruoyou, but he didn't move away. Zhao Yue is such a smart person, he became suspicious. At this moment, Huo Weilou said: "I didn't come here to supervise the case, I just don't worry, come and take a look."
Seeing where he was paying attention, he knew who he was worried about. Zhao Yue rolled his eyes and thought about it, "If that's the case, why don't you invite Lord Hou to sit in the hall? Give this place to Wu Butou and This girl?"
Huo Weilou glanced around, "There's no need to go to the side hall, the shade of this tree is very good."
Zhao Yue's face twitched, he was extremely unwilling to stay here, but Huo Weilou had spoken, so what could he do, he asked people to bring tables and chairs, set hot tea, and sat down two feet away from the hanging corpse, Watching Bao Ruoyou busy under the tree in leisure time.
Zhao Yue had a chill in his heart, and was afraid that the lawsuit of human life would fall on him, so he had nothing to say: "I didn't plan to come to the garden today, but I didn't want to have such a thing happen. It's really bad luck."
He suddenly remembered something and said, "Oh, by the way, Qinghong came to the garden two days ago."
Only then did Huo Weilou look away, "Has he been here?"
Zhao Yue nodded, "Earlier, my son was sick. Feng Ye trained a golden blue bird from the garden for my son to play with. A while ago, the bird was a little sleepy. I didn't need water, so my son sent the bird here. Make the craftsman healthy again."
Huo Weilou showed a clear face, he didn't care too much, and his eyes faded away again.
Zhao Yue was more and more amazed as he watched Bo Ruoyou from a distance. If Huo Weilou was interested in such a beautiful woman, it would not be a big deal. After all, he is also a man in his twenties. As long as he has no hidden diseases, it is impossible. It's really heartless, but what's weird is that this girl is actually a gangster——
The corpse was still not taken down, not only that, but Bo Ruoyou ordered someone to bring a chair, and was standing up to look at the knot on the neck of the corpse, seeing her standing on the chair, Huo Weilou's eyes darkened, he got up and walked towards her.
Zhao Yue didn't want to approach, stood up and stopped after taking two steps. There was no corpse smell at the scene, but he took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose, wishing to leave this ghost place immediately.
Huo Weilou had already stood on the edge of the chair, with one hand on the back of the chair to protect Bo Ruoyou, Zhao Yueyuan watched, and the sense of mystery in his heart faded away, and he felt that such an evil person like Huo Weilou, if only for an ordinary beautiful person It's strange that the girl is thinking.
"Is this knot different?" Huo Weilou asked.
In front of so many people who came to protect her without any hesitation, and really answered the word "Swagger" on the carriage, Bo Ruoyou always looked up to him, and now it was the first time to look down at him, only seeing Huo Weilou's eyebrows Cold, with handsome features, but when he raised his eyes to look at her, the broken light from the tip of his eyes fell into the clear and clear, clearly reflecting her shadow.
Bo Ruoyou raised her eyes to look at the knot again, "The rope was placed on the left front of the deceased's neck, and the knot was on the right side of the neck, which made the deceased's head tilted to the left. The knot was compressed and the blood flow was blocked, causing his face to bruise and swell, and the knot tied to the tree trunk at the top of the rope was a slip knot."
"This type of looper knot is often used when lifting heavy objects. It is strong and simple, and easy to tie. You only need to loop around the end of the rope on one side to tighten the knot." Bo Ruoyou looked at the roughness worn out on the rope. Scratch marks on the hair scales and the trunk, "The dead man was put on a dead button, and then the rope went around the trunk, and he was directly pulled up and hung in the air."
The tree trunk was not too high, Huo Weilou's stature could be touched with one's hand, and the toes of the hoisted dead man were only two or three inches above the ground, and his stature was thin, and his height was more than an inch shorter than Bo Ruoyou's.
"The rope buckle on the neck is a dead knot, which is very rare in suicides, and there is no footstep at the scene. It can be basically concluded that the deceased was murdered. The rope is oily hemp rope, which is also a common thing."
Bo Ruoyou ordered the servants to write down these, then got off the chair and stood still, and went to look at the feather coat on the deceased.
This is a rather gorgeous feather coat, the feathers on it are mostly bright red, and some ends are mixed with purple red light dark yellow variegated colors, not only does not reduce the gorgeousness, but makes the feather coat even more brilliant.
The corpse was put on a rope and pulled up, but the feather coat was spotless.
Bo Ruoyou frowned, looked at Zhao Yue who was on the side, "Dare to ask the county king, where does this feather coat come from?"
Huo Weilou followed her gaze, how dare Zhao Yue be contemptuous, stepped forward two steps with a face full of fear, and raised his voice: "This is a good thing I got last year. I will use a thousand live blood sparrows to make the Dozens of the best feathers from the Blood Sparrow's back were plucked, and then woven into this feather coat, which was originally kept as a treasure, but I didn't expect—”
He gritted his teeth, and looked at the feather coat on the dead man with distress and hatred, the things worn by the dead, no matter how precious they were, they became unlucky and fierce, his treasure was destroyed!
Hearing this, Wu Xiang came forward, he had just finished asking the attendant appointed by Zhao Yue, and at this moment he said: "There are birds and birds raised in the garden of the king of the county, but just then the entourage of the king of the county said that this person was bought by the king of the county from the boat. , have been in the garden for three years?"
Zhao Yue raised his chin slightly, "He's a little opera actor. I like birds and birds. I wanted to rehearse a fairy show in the garden, so I bought some opera actors and brought them back. He is one of them."
Wu Xiang frowned, as if he still had something to say, Bo Ruoyou said: "There is no dust on the feather coat, I suspect that after the murderer hung the deceased, he deliberately put the feather coat on him, arrested the head, first Take off the feather clothes as physical evidence."
Wu Xiang ordered the Yacha to undress, and removed the feather coat, and saw that the deceased was wearing a moon white underwear embroidered with crane patterns, as if he was about to take a rest, Bo Ruoyou narrowed his eyes, and found some mud on the shirt. stains.
"Put the body down."
The Yacha found a straw mat, and the corpse was placed on the straw mat. At this time, Zhou Liang, who had gone home to get the autopsy box, arrived, and Bo Ruoyou started the autopsy. She took out the gauntlet Huo Weilou gave her and put it on. After a little closer inspection, Xiumei frowned.
The rope marks on the neck of the deceased were obvious, but there were two marks, one deep and one shallow.
"There were two scars on the neck of the deceased. The deepest part of the first strangle mark was on the front neck, above the larynx. It injured the mouthpiece muscles and caused suffocation, but it did not cause death. , running obliquely along the mandible, around to the back of the neck atresia."
At this point, her voice sank, "This strangle mark is thin, the edges are lightly worn, and there are a few bleeding spots, but the subcutaneous bleeding is severe." After a slight pause, she continued: "This is a strangle mark, not a constriction mark, and The deceased had struggled violently when he was strangled, which resulted in severe bleeding under the skin, but did not injure the hyoid and neck bones."
Bo Ruoyou emphasized so much, Huo Weilou said with deep eyes: "He was strangled first, and he didn't die?"
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "Not only that, this stretch mark is not caused by the oily hemp rope, but a soft and slippery rope like a ribbon. The second strangle mark is what we saw, and the force is on the left side of the neck." The knot passes through the angle of the mandible, the ear, goes obliquely around the neck, and then forms a knot on the right side to lift the air."
"There were bleeding points on the deceased's face and eyelids, and a small amount of blood in the nasal cavity, which was caused by the rupture of the blood vessels in the nasal cavity due to congestion on the face. There was no neck bone and spinal injury, which is consistent with death by side constriction, so the deceased was hanged. Afterwards, the rope directly compressed the larynx and trachea, causing suffocation."
Wu Xiang stared, "So the murderer strangled him first, and then took him here to hang him?"
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "Or, the murderer thought he had already strangled him to death." She glanced at the feather coat beside her, "It seems that the murderer didn't just want to kill, otherwise he wouldn't have sent him here to hang himself on purpose. Then put a feather coat on him to see what the dead man was wearing, he was probably attacked in his own bedroom, the head arrester can send someone to search for one or two to see if there are signs of struggle or struggle."
Wu Xiang has already sent people to search everywhere in the garden, and now he specially ordered two people to go to this person's residence to check carefully.
Although most of the attendants in the garden had been cleaned up, but now that Zhao Yue was watching and surrounded by his attendants, Bo Ruoyou stopped talking, and only untied the dead man's clothes and inspected them carefully.
Everyone saw her as a woman, but went to undress a man who was still a dead man, with strange expressions on his face. Zhao Yue glanced at Huo Weilou, but saw that he was calmly watching Bo Ruoyou's autopsy, and there was something hidden deep in his eyes. There are some dim lights, as if watching something pleasing to the eye.
Zhao Yue couldn't help but his heart twitched.
After Bo Ruoyou inspected it from head to toe, she already knew it in her mind, she pondered for a moment and said, "Captain, does he have any family members? Maybe send the body to Yizhuang for autopsy?"
Wu Xiang shook her head, "I have no family anymore." After speaking, he went to see Zhao Yue again.
Without parents and family members, it is the master who decides. Zhao Yue hurriedly said: "Just investigate, find out the murderer earlier, so that my garden can live in peace as soon as possible."
Wu Xiang ordered the Yamen to carry the corpse, and Bo Ruoyou's eyes followed the corpse, and when he looked at Zhao Yue, he found that Zhao Yue was also looking at the corpse, with complicated eyes, not like his own. It's as simple as acting.
There is a piece of mud under the osmanthus tree, but it hasn't rained for many days, the mud is dry, and the footprints left are very light, and the servants in the garden come and go, and there is no trace of the murderer. Looking at the tree trunk above her head, she can't lift the corpse, but if Huo Weilou and Wu Xiang are tall and strong enough, they can.
At this time, she couldn't help but look at Zhao Yue. Zhao Yue was slightly fat, with a white face and a lack of energy. At first glance, he looked like a pampered person. In addition, his stature was not high, so there was no possibility of committing murder alone. However, there were many people in this garden with miscellaneous eyes. It would not be difficult to find a few people who could hang the deceased, but she didn't know more about the deceased, so she couldn't think of the reason why he was murdered.
Only the murderer specially put on the blood sparrow feather coat for him, which is very weird. Could it be that this case is related to the feather coat
"Head arrest, clues were found in the house of the deceased."
A yamen servant came from the depths of the garden, Wu Xiang was refreshed when he heard the words, and looked at Bo Ruoyou and Huo Weilou again, Bo Ruoyou followed him in, Huo Weilou followed behind, Zhao Yue waited He wanted to follow, but Wu Xiang asked him to wait outside.
Zhao Yue pursed his lips to look at Huo Weilou, Huo Weilou's brows were furrowed, he dared not argue.
Some distance away from Zhao Yue, Bo Ruoyou just said: "Catch the head, there are many corpse spots on the lower body of the deceased, especially on the calves and feet, and the finger pressure has faded, the rigor is obvious, and the cornea is cloudy and two. According to the abnormal changes in the marks, it can be speculated that the deceased was killed between Choushi and Yinshi last night."
Wu Xiangdao: "It is true that the people sweeping the courtyard discovered the dead first, because the King of Nan'an County was not there at that time, everyone came to watch, when the King of Nan'an County came, there was already an uproar. Report to the officer."
Bo Ruoyou nodded, "There was no trauma on the deceased's body. There were bruises on the shoulders, abdomen and calves, which must have been caused by struggling. In addition, the deceased was hung up by the murderer, and the knot was also a slipknot used for lifting heavy objects. The murderer must be For those who are tall and strong, you can check the servants who are skilled in martial arts in the garden, and the servants who are used to manual work."
Wu Xiang nodded, and everyone walked through the quiet path in the garden. As far as they could see, the scenery in the garden was indeed quite beautiful, and the further they walked into the garden, the more they could hear the sound of birdsong, but after a while, everyone's footsteps deviated from the path , to the northwest corner of the garden.
The servant who followed said: "Some of the servants in the garden live in the inner garden at the northwest corner."
Hearing what the yacha said, Wu Xiang said: "The dead man's real name was Yu Xun. He used to be an actor on the Weiyang Lake painting boat. He was called Mr. Crane in the garden. Because he had a good voice and could dance cranes, he was very popular in Nan'an. The king of the county loves it, he said just now that the fairy show is to make the birds become immortals, and to make people pretend to be immortals to play the script, this dead person is pretending to be a crane fairy—”
It’s interesting to make people pretend to be birds and sing operas, but Wu Xiang’s words were obscure, as if there was something left unexplained, Bo Ruoyou looked at him suspiciously, Wu Xiang glanced at her, “Except for him, Nan’an The king of the county also bought seven or eight people, and these people also accompanied the guests who came to the garden to eat, drink and have fun."
Bo Ruoyou's thinking is simple, the actor's status is low, Zhao Yue bought it back to have fun, and it's not weird to accompany the guests to eat wine and sing opera, Wu Xiang hesitated to speak, and it was very clear after a glance Huo Weilou didn't say any more.
"Yu Xun is favored. He lives alone in a courtyard, and there is a servant to take care of him. The servant said that he went back to the servant's room after serving Yu Xun last night. Wide open, but there is no one in the room, he thought Yu Xun got up by himself, but he didn't want someone to find out that something happened to Yu Xun soon."
After the yacha finished speaking, Wu Xiang hurriedly asked, "Where is the boy?"
They had arrived in front of Yu Xun's courtyard, and the Yamen sent a finger to the courtyard, "It's right here—"
Wu Xiang looked up, only to see a young boy in rough cloth and green clothes standing under the steps of the upper room, his face was full of distress, seeing so many people coming, he suddenly showed fear.
Seeing him in such a strange state, Wu Xiang frowned, and he went straight to the servant, and asked coldly, "You serve Yu Xun."
The boy's pupils were dilated and his face was pale, as if he had been terribly frightened. Seeing Wu Xiang looking at him carefully, he knelt down on the ground with a "plop", "Mr. He... Mr. He was killed by the blood sparrow's soul. Yes, the Blood Sparrow has come back to life..."
Wu Xiang frowned, "Birds still have souls? Are you scared to death?"
The boy shook his head frantically, "No, it's not a bird...it's a person pretending to be a blood sparrow..."
The author has something to say: The blood finch is a red-feathered bird.