The Delicate Lady Coroner

Chapter 209: Ten Flowers 23

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The cold wind was blowing, and the carriage galloped on the snow-covered official road. After half an hour, it approached the Biezhuang of Zhongyibo Mansion, but before they approached Zhuangzi, a jumping fire appeared in their field of vision first.

Soon, a fast horse came galloping, and when the hoofbeats approached, he saw that it was Lu Ke who came, and he raised his voice, "Master, we came by coincidence, and we met on the way, and the person in charge of moving the coffin is Lu Ke." The imperial army is now confronting each other."

Huo Weilou's eyes froze slightly, and after the carriage had traveled more than ten feet, he saw clearly that the place where the flames were lit was the embroidered clothes envoy and more than a dozen imperial troops who were at loggerheads.

The first one riding the horse was Captain Xiao of the Forbidden Army. Seeing the carriage approaching, he knew that Huo Weilou had arrived.

"Meet Lord Hou—"

Everyone knelt on one knee to salute, Huo Weilou was silent, just looked behind them, a few steps away, two carts were pulling the coffin, the coffin was covered with a straw mat and tied with hemp rope, Huo Weilou passed the road, "Back to Zhuangzi!"

The embroidered envoy responded to the sound and was about to lead the horse. The expression of the captain Xiaoqi in the front changed a few times, but he couldn't help getting up. He quickly stepped forward, and bowed to the window of the carriage again, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, The subordinates are following His Majesty's order to hold the coffin, if Lord Hou wants to cut the coffin, the subordinates will not be able to explain."

Huo Weilou watched as the embroidered envoys turned their horses' heads, and said in a low voice: "This Marquis is also following His Majesty's order to investigate the case. Whatever your Majesty blames, I will fully bear it. You can rest assured."

The Xiaoqi Lieutenant hesitated to speak, but he didn't dare to contradict him, and finally asked hesitantly: "Then... the subordinates are now..."

"Go back together. If the corpse in the coffin has nothing to do with the case, we will naturally let you continue to escort it."

Captain Xiaoqi gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement.

Huo Weilou led a group of people back to Zhuangzi in a mighty manner.

The carriage stopped in front of the gate of the village, and Huo Weilou and Bo Ruoyou came down together. The embroiderer in front had already untied the hemp rope, and when the straw mat was raised, there was a tightly seamed ice coffin underneath. He pointed to the door, "Carry it to the courtyard." !"

Shicai's road was icy and snowy, so it was really not a good place for an autopsy. After the ice coffin was carried into the atrium of the front yard, many lamps were found to light it. Not long after, the front yard was brightly lit.

This is the first time that Bo Ruoyou has seen these two ice coffins. The shining light fell on the coffin surface, reflecting a thin light. Huo Weilou asked which coffin contained Feng Yu, and then pushed the coffin lid away himself .

Seeing the corpse inside, Bo Ruoyou frowned, "Move out the eldest son's corpse first."

The corpse in the coffin was the same as it was seen that day, and because of the bright lights today, the body surface was even more pale. The embroiderer moved Feng Yu's body to the straw mat in the room, and the clothes on his body had not been polished. , Broken into pieces, Bo Ruoyou put on the gauntlet and cleaned up the clothes sticking to the corpse, and the corpse that had been parked in the ice cave for seventeen years was revealed in its entirety.

The surface of the corpse was covered by patches of mildew. When the light was lowered, spots and filamentous mildew could be seen all over the face, facial features and skin folds, so the face of the deceased was even blurred, and the appearance was difficult to distinguish. Half of the hair on the top of the head His cheeks were fleshy and his cheeks were close to the bone, his eye sockets were sunken, and because he was well preserved, there were no obvious wounds on his body. Looking at him, his demeanor seemed to be peaceful, as if Feng Yu had just fallen asleep peacefully when he died.

"The body has been stored for seventeen years. Because it has been in an extremely cold place all year round, it has not rotted. However, because the ice in the underground palace will melt, the environment in which the body is kept is not only cold but also humid. Corpse wax."

While talking, Bo Ruoyou carefully wiped off the mildew spots on the surface of the corpse, "The wax keeps the corpse in its original state, but the loss of moisture from the corpse still makes the flesh withered and shriveled, and the water vapor will also cause the corpse to decay very slowly, so The mouth, nose and lower body of the corpse, and mildew stains are even worse, and the wax may preserve traces of injuries during life, such as strangulation marks, rope grooves, etc.—"

Pieces of mold stains adhered to the surface of the corpse. Due to years of breeding, it was difficult to remove, and the waxy surface of the corpse was easily dented. Bo Ruoyou had to wipe off the mold spots very carefully to expose the original corpse.

"If it's just a shallow scar, it will be covered up when the wax is formed. Only the deeper scars before death may remain until now."

After Bo Ruoyou finished speaking, she had already cleaned out the face of the deceased. Yuxue's supposedly cute child's cheek had already turned into pale wax leather. Looking at it suddenly at this moment, it was quite frightening, but at this moment, it could be seen that the face of the deceased was still alive. The appearance, eyebrows, eyes and bones intertwined, indeed had two parts of Feng Qin's shadow. Bo Ruoyou started to clean up the dead man's neck again, and after cleaning up the entire upper body, no suspected scars were found.

There were no obvious wounds, and no strangle marks. If no clues were found on the corpse, not only would it not be able to prove Feng Qin's crime, but even their suspicion that Feng Qin had harmed Feng Yu was wrong.

The room was freezing cold, and Bo Ruoyou was bending over with her gloves on, but her forehead was sweating profusely. Others couldn't help after the autopsy, so they could only wait quietly without disturbing her. Huo Weilou stood in front of her, Sun Zhao and Wu Xiang Guarding the door, the imperial guards also guarded outside full of apprehension, they really don't know why Wu Zhaohou came to inspect the corpses of Uncle Zhongyi's wife and children.

"Lord Hou—"

In the silence of the room, Bo Ruoyou suddenly opened his mouth, and Huo Weilou rushed forward, only to see that Bo Ruoyou was cleaning up the mildew on the child's feet, but on the outside of the child's left foot, there was a three-finger-wide rot. wound.

There were no obvious wounds on the whole body, so this wound became extraordinarily weird, after Bo Ruoyou removed the mildew spots, even after many years, the original wound could still be seen to have turned out and rotted and scabbed.

Huo Weilou's eyes darkened, "What kind of injury is this?"

"It was a traumatic injury. The original wound was probably only the size of an inch-long knife edge, but after the deceased died, he was not sent to the underground palace immediately. Therefore, the wounded place that had seen blood first rotted, and later the corpse was moved into the underground palace. The corpse stopped decaying, and instead Keep the wound." A cold look appeared in her pupils, "We all know that the child died of the plague, but Feng Yu was so rich and precious back then, there was absolutely no possibility of trauma on his body, and the nurse and maidservant around Feng Yu were killed. To be killed with a stick is to cover up people's eyes and ears, and kill people to silence their mouths."

"Later, the burial of the child was probably done by him himself. Of course, no one knew about the abnormality of the child. Moreover, most of the children, including Wen Jin, were injured on the outside of the ankle. It's an abrasion, and I don't think it was done by the murderer, and Feng Yu also has wounds on his feet."

Wu Xiang knew this best, and immediately stepped forward, "What about the cause of death? Maybe it's bloodletting?"

Bo Ruoyou stared, the corpse was pale, but it may be due to years of freezing and mildew, so it cannot be treated as excessive blood loss, and Feng Qin claimed that the child died of the plague, and the plague had a sore throat and a severe cough The blood was still visible, Bo Ruoyou pondered for a while, "The cause of death cannot be determined."

She looked at Huo Weilou again, "Master Hou, I want to have an autopsy to see if this child has really suffered from the plague. According to the Lighting Institute, if he was able to cough and bleed back then, and his clothes were stained red, the child's lungs There must be a lot of residual blood in the esophagus and trachea, as long as the viscera has not completely decayed, it can be seen."

Having reached this point, of course Huo Weilou didn't need to ask Feng Qin what he meant, he made a decisive decision, "Then let's do an autopsy."

Bo Ruoyou opened the box, picked out a handy autopsy knife, and quickly stabbed the blade into the chest of the corpse. The corpse had been frozen all year round. Although it was moved out of the underground palace, it was still cold outside, so the appearance of the corpse did not change. But the waxed flesh felt like candle fat, and the blade cut in, but no corpse water flowed out. Soon, the throat cavity and the entire chest cavity of the corpse were cut open.

Moldy corpses are different from rotten corpses, and the smell of corpses is also light. However, this is a child corpse. It has been dead for many years, and now its chest has been cut open. For anyone who has never seen an autopsy, it is a little scary Feeling this, Sun Zhao's pupils trembled and he turned around and took a few steps outside. Bo Ruoyou half-kneeled on the edge of the straw mat, her sharp sword as firm and steady as her eyes.

The cold wind was howling outside the door. In order to prevent the body from being heated and changed, neither Bo Ruoyou nor Huo Weilou intended to start a fire. It took another half an hour before Bo Ruoyou straightened up, "The internal organs of the deceased are also moldy. It's just that the deceased's left and right lungs, lung ducts, trachea, and throat have not found traces of residual blood. Not only that, even though the deceased's organs were moldy, they were quite different from the tuberculosis organs I had seen. Lung disease."

Although the plague is not a tuberculosis disease, according to Ming Zhonghuai's description, Feng Yu's lesions were mostly on the lungs, but now the autopsy finds that Feng Yu does not look like someone who has had lung disease, Bo Ruoyou said firmly: " I speculate that Feng Yu should have just contracted the wind and cold back then, but Feng Qin said that he had the plague, and the plague needs to be isolated alone, which is convenient for Feng Qin to attack him."

Wu Xiang was overjoyed, "In this case, Feng Qin is lying! Based on this alone, we are justified!"

Huo Weilou's eyes sank coldly, "Feng Qin preserved the corpses of his wife and children as a cover for himself, but I'm afraid he didn't expect that, so he also just preserved the evidence of the crime!"

Bo Ruoyou was also afraid for a while, if the two of them were buried in the beginning, or Feng Qin used other methods to preserve the corpse, but if the corpse is corrupt, there will be no evidence of these crimes now!

Huo Weilou turned around and asked Lu Ke to come in, "Catch Feng Qin!"

Whether it is the Fobao case or the murder of several children, it has been delayed for several years. These days, everyone has worked hard for it, but the real culprit has always been hidden in the dark. It was easy to find Feng Qin, but he was almost convicted of a serious crime. Little escaped punishment, now Huo Weilou's four words have lifted everyone's spirits!

"Yes! This subordinate will go back to the city to get someone!"

Lu Ke called several embroidered clothes envoys to accompany him, and soon left Zhuangzi. Bo Ruoyou arranged Feng Yu's body, got up and asked Huo Weilou, "Is there any obstacle in taking people now?"

Huo Weilou had thought of this for a long time, "After I return to Beijing, I will go to the palace immediately to face the saint." He looked at the body on the straw mat and the ice coffin outside, "The body of Princess Anyang is still temporarily placed here, Feng Yu was killed Or, his body will be sent back to Yizhuang in the capital for parking.”

Bo Ruoyou had already started to take off her gauntlet, but when she heard this, she looked thoughtfully at Princess Anyang's ice coffin.

Before coming here, I only speculated that Feng Yu was the victim, so the target of the inspection was Feng Yu's body. Now that Feng Yu's body is finished, they only need to put it in a coffin and they can leave here and return to Beijing, but Bo Ruoyou suddenly felt a little uneasy feeling.

She stepped up to the side of the ice coffin, "I want to see the body of Princess Anyang."

Huo Weilou ordered the Embroidery Envoy to put Feng Yu's body back into the coffin, and then came over and pushed the coffin lid open. The next moment, the body of Princess Anyang appeared in Bo Ruoyou's eyes.

The crimson palace skirt is gorgeous in color, like a happy dress. Looking at this moldy face, Bo Ruoyou seems to be able to imagine how beautiful she was when she was alive. Her pupils shrank suddenly, "Ming Yuan was saying , the imperial doctor in the palace went to the uncle's mansion back then, and Princess Anyang's condition had stabilized, but after the imperial doctor left, the princess' condition relapsed, and she died in the end."

Huo Weilou naturally remembered this remark, "Yes... you suspect that the death of the princess is also strange?"

Bo Ruoyou frowned, "There's no proof, it's just that although postpartum hemorrhage is dangerous, the imperial doctor said that the condition has been stabilized, so it shouldn't be a sudden sudden death."

"If you have doubts, let's check." Huo Weilou immediately ordered the embroiderer to carry Anyang's body out and put it back on the straw mat inside the house.

Naturally, Bo Ruoyou also wanted to find out for peace of mind, put on the gauntlet again, and began to examine the head and face of the corpse.

Also parked in the extremely cold place for several years, the body of Princess Anyang was also covered with mildew. After a long period of fatigue, most of the hair fell off, and the rest of the hair was also withered and fragile. After a little stroke, it broke off from the top of the skull. Bo Ruoyou habitually cleaned up the broken hair on the top of the skull, and then went to check the skull that should be perfectly stitched. Soon, an obvious dent under her fingertip made her face change.