Lu Youxin was startled when he heard the words, "You mean, someone came in here in the middle of the night?!"
Qin Wan was still squatting, "Or, he went out in the middle of the night."
Lu Youxin was shocked for a moment, and he and Deng Huang's two mothers looked at each other, both of them were surprised.
Qin Wan continued to stare at the boots carefully, "Did he go out again after he came back yesterday afternoon?"
Lu Youxin frowned and shook his head, "No, I haven't been out. Not long after I was taken to Wutong Garden in the afternoon, he pretended to be wounded on the ground. Later, my second brother and sister-in-law rushed over, and I couldn't send him out, so I sent him back here , first pulled his parents and cried for a while, then invited a doctor to see the injury, and never went out again after that."
Qin Wan frowned and said, "When did the people who came to see him that night leave?"
Lu Youxin recalled, "He was taken to Wutong Garden in the middle of Shenshi. After a long commotion, he was sent back at Youshi. People came to see him one after another at night. His parents stayed with him very late. It's almost time for Haishi..."
A sharp light flashed in Qin Wan's eyes, "When you come back in the afternoon, the earth dragon in the house must be on fire. Since he has never gone out again, it is impossible for his boots to get wet. In Haishi, for two and a half hours, the earth dragon has not been broken, and according to the heat of the earth dragon in the Hanyu Pavilion, the boots should have been dry long ago."
As Qin Wan spoke, she lit up the soles of the boots for everyone to see. Everyone saw that there was indeed a thin layer of icicles on the soles of the boots, and the heels had been frozen hard. It condensed into ice after being wet for a long time.
In today's weather, even starched clothes can't be dried outside, and even when the sun is out, the clothes will freeze into lumps, so they can only be placed next to the stove or in a house with earth dragons burning. Let the clothes dry slowly, the temperature of the earth dragon in this room has already dissipated, and it is as cold as an ice hole at the moment, Lu Youxin looked at Lu Jingcheng's pale dead face, and couldn't help but feel chills in his heart, which was why Qin Wan said She didn't quite understand.
"Then what does Guan'er mean? What is he going out in the middle of the night? So we can judge that he went out in the middle of the night?"
Qin Wan shook her head when she heard the words, "It's just a piece of evidence."
Qin Wan put down his boots and stood up, and went to check the top of Lu Jingcheng's hair. His bun was tied on the top of his head, which looked very neat. Qin Wan turned Lu Jingcheng with a little effort, and immediately frowned. There was an obvious bruise on his neck, and there seemed to be dampness on the back of his neckline.
Qin Wan frowned, and immediately began to untie Lu Jingcheng's neckline.
Seeing that Qin Wan wanted to untie Lu Jingcheng's clothes, Lu Youxin and the others had complex expressions, but Qin Wan's hands were very neat. After unbuttoning the shirt, he saw Lu Jingcheng's neckline, especially the back of his neck. It was a little wet, as if she had sweated too much, but Lu Jingcheng's dead state probably couldn't be sweat.
Taking another look at the robe hanging on the screen next to him, Qin Wan said, "Does he have any other clothes?"
The blue robe was covered with mud spots, if people like Lu Jingcheng would not be able to wear it, after Qin Wan asked, the two nuns Deng and Huang were at a loss.
Qin Wan said casually, "I would like to ask Mammy to ask the female slaves who are serving him closely. They should know. It is best to ask how many sets of clothes Lu Jingcheng brought and what styles they are. See if there is anything missing."
Huang Nanny looked at Lu Youxin, Lu Youxin nodded, and Huang Nanny hurried out.
All the servants were sent to another courtyard, and Madam Huang didn't rush to ask people.
The room became quiet again. This time, Qin Wan not only untied Lu Jingcheng's neckline, but even took off Lu Jingcheng's entire clothes. Soon, Lu Jingcheng's chest and abdomen were exposed. Lu Youxin frowned, looking worried, The corners of his lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he wanted to say something but couldn't say it.
While Fu Ling was watching, she walked slowly to Lu Youxin and said softly, "Ma'am, in the eyes of our princess, this corpse is just flesh and blood, no different from pork."
Lu Youxin turned her eyes to look at Fuling. Her gaze was always sharp, and Fuling's neck shrank in fright in an instant.
Fu Ling quickly blessed Fushen and walked back to the original place, Lu Youxin snorted, "Why do I need you to explain?"
Qin Wan's frown became tighter the more she looked at it. After looking at the clothes and boots, she had to find out the cause of Lu Jingcheng's death, but now that Lu Jingcheng had no injuries on her body, she couldn't see where the fatal cause was. Qin Wan After looking at Lu Jingcheng's chest, abdomen, shoulders and back, she saw nothing unusual, so she carefully checked Lu Jingcheng's hair top again. She removed Lu Jingcheng's hairpin and groped Lu Jingcheng's scalp carefully, but still to no avail. Eyes, ears, mouth and nose.
When she opened Lu Jingcheng's eyelids, Qin Wan's eyes narrowed slightly.
There were several tiny bleeding spots on Lu Jingcheng's eye mask.
He had been dead for a day, and the eye mask had already started to turn gray. Even so, he could still see a few streaks of blood. Seeing this, Qin Wan couldn't be sure whether the bleeding spots on his eye mask were originally with bloodshot eyes. Appeared, or appeared at the time of death.
With this doubt in his heart, Qin Wan went to look at Lu Jingcheng's mouth and nose again, but after seeing it, Qin Wan found something abnormal again.
There were scattered icicles in Lu Jingcheng's nasal cavity, like sand. When he checked the ear canal again, it was even more surprising. There were also scattered icicles in Lu Jingcheng's ear canal. Qin Wan was a little surprised. It was not impossible to freeze to death.
Qin Wan remained silent, the only sound in the room was the howling wind outside the window, the cold wind rushed in from the half-closed door, blowing the lamp in the servant's hand shaking, and the shadows of several people in the room also swayed, quite ghostly. Lu Youxin couldn't help but said, "Guan'er, what's the matter?"
Qin Wan straightened up, "If you want to know the exact cause of his death, you need an autopsy."
Lu Youxin frowned, "What? Autopsy?! Are you going to dissect him?"
Hearing this, and thinking of the words about pork that Fu Ling said, Lu You's heart and stomach suddenly felt sour, and he almost retched.
Seeing Lu Youxin's expression, Qin Wan knew what she was thinking, and was about to appease her, when Huang Momo quickly walked into the door and said, "Princess, this servant has already asked clearly, and said that this time the fourth young master came with a total of six sets of clothes. , the outer robes and middle sheets are all prepared in a set, and now they are all placed in the high cabinet in the house."
Hearing this, Qin Wan looked towards the corner of the room, and there were indeed two red lacquer cabinets standing there, Qin Wan said, "Please trouble Mammy to see if there are still five sets of clothes inside."
Huang Momo nodded and walked to the cabinet, opened the cabinet door and checked it, then turned around in surprise for a moment, "Princess, there are only four sets of clothes in it!" She said and looked at other places in the room. There was only one set of clothes hanging on the screen, "It's strange that one is missing! That little slave made it very clear that the other sets are all in the cabinet..."
Qin Wan narrowed her eyes, "It seems to be almost the same as what I guessed. The clothes disappeared in the cabinet, so he must have worn them himself."
Lu Youxin frowned, "He used it to wear it, why didn't the little slave beside him know?"
"Because he went out in the middle of the night, his suit was already dirty during the day, and he changed into a new one when he was going out at night."
Lu Youxin said again, "Then why can't I find it everywhere now? Even if he went out, he wouldn't just throw his clothes outside, right?"
Qin Wan looked at Lu Jingcheng's pale and gray face, "It's not that he left his clothes outside, but someone took off his robe."
Lu Youxin frowned in confusion, and Qin Wan simply said, "There must be a reason for him to go out in the middle of the night. His boots were wet and his clothes disappeared. Most likely, the clothes were taken away."
Lu Youxin looked back at the door, and the broken door bolt that Qin Wan found was still there.
Lu Youxin said, "But when I found him in the morning, the door was locked from the inside!"
Qin Wan nodded, "This inference is not absolute, so I want to have an autopsy."
Lu Youxin's complexion changed slightly again, not to mention that Qin Wan, a delicate and beautiful little girl, would never have imagined an autopsy on the body, this Lu Jingcheng was the only son of the second family, and now that he died for no apparent reason, could it still damage the body
Lu Youxin knew without asking that his second brother and sister-in-law would never agree.
"This... but his parents may not be willing."
Qin Wan was not surprised when he heard the words, and nodded after thinking for a moment, "I know, if that's the case, then I won't do the autopsy."
Qin Wan turned around to look at Lu Jingcheng's body, and said, "I may have to take off all his clothes for inspection. If Auntie feels something wrong, go to the Nuan Pavilion and wait."
Lu Youxin opened his mouth and didn't say anything for a long time. Qin Wan had already untied the lapel of Lu Jingcheng's body. Now that Lu Jingcheng's breasts and belly were exposed, it was already very indecent. Hearing what Qin Wan meant, he even wanted to take off Lu Jingcheng's pants. Big deal!
Deng and Huang looked at each other with surprise in their eyes.
Lu Youxin thought for a while, straightened his back, "I don't think there's anything wrong, you can do whatever you want." He said and looked at the two young men holding the lamp, "Give the lamp to the two of them, first Back off."
Hearing this, the boy holding the lamp felt as if he had been pardoned, so he gave the lamp to Fu Ling and withdrew.
Qin Wan nodded, "Okay, since that's the case, please trouble Madam Huang to help me find some rice wine and white vinegar."
Although Nanny Huang was puzzled, Qin Wan seemed to have changed since entering the room. Nanny Huang was now intimidated by her, and hurried away after hearing this.
Qin Wan told Bai Feng, "Help take off your clothes."
Bai Feng had also seen Qin Wan's autopsy before, and he immediately helped out. When all the clothes were taken off, Lu Jingcheng's body was uncovered.
Qin Wan took the deerskin glove from Fuling again, and took the knife from Fuling, and then began to inspect bit by bit. The eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and nails of the limbs are all the parts of Lu Jingcheng's penis. Guan Du looked through it again, and Lu Youxin couldn't stand it, and turned his body slightly. Mother Deng was half a hundred years old, and her scalp was numb at the moment. Not long after, Mother Huang brought rice wine and white vinegar into the room. out of the house.
Qin Wan took the rice wine and daubed it on Lu Jingcheng's shoulders. There were already some scrapes and scars. After the rice wine was applied, new scars appeared after a while. Qin Wan screened them one by one, and waited. It was already half an hour after a thorough examination of the corpse table.
Even if the cold water in the room turned into ice, after this moment, thin sweat broke out on Qin Wan's forehead. When she straightened her back, she subconsciously paused. It was obvious that the pain in her waist was unbearable. Lu Youxin stood aside Looking at it, the fundus of the eyes changed from surprise to shock and admiration, and at this moment the fundus of the eyes was full of distress.
For ordinary girls, it is difficult to concentrate on such elegant things as reading and calligraphy, but Qin Wan is so devoted to the autopsy. Qin Wan has already experienced it, but Lu Youxin feels sorry for her, and did not take the initiative to ask her for a while.
Qin Wan changed for a moment before saying in a serious voice, "The spots on the corpse are very light, mainly distributed on the back and buttocks, and the surface of the corpse also has traces of redness after being frostbitten, but the scars of frostbite are also very light, which shows that the deceased died. In the last period of time, it was in extremely cold weather, otherwise the corpse spots would not settle so slowly. Fine icicles were found in the mouth, nose and ear canal of the deceased, and icicles also appeared in the nails. Ice formed from water, but snow particles like salt, I speculate that the deceased should have died in the snow, or was dragged in the snow after death."
"The corpse has already shown rigor, and judging by the degree of corpse spots and eye membrane melting, the deceased should have died around Yin hour last night, but this morning, the servant found that he was in the middle of Chen hour, and about two hours passed in the middle." During this period of time, the murderer moved the deceased indoors, cut off the earth dragon, took away the deceased's outer shirt, and pretended that the house was bolted from the inside of the door, so that everyone thought he was the dead man last night. Frozen to death."
Qin Wan spoke slowly, word by word, her voice was still so cold that people felt awe, what she said was so bizarre, but no one at the scene dared to question and refute, even Lu Youxin, who was unwilling to question now Qin Wan was convinced, and she suddenly believed in Qin Wan's conclusion.
"As for the cause of his death, it is preliminarily inferred that he died of suffocation."
After a pause, Qin Wan said again, in ordinary cases, the time of death and the cause of death are the most critical, but Qin Wan did not perform an autopsy, and she is not very sure about this.
Lu Youxin swallowed hard, "Suffocated?"
Qin Wan nodded, "It's similar. Being smothered to death, strangled to death, or hanged himself, they all died of suffocation. Now there are no obvious strangle marks on his body. I prefer that he was suffocated to death."
Lu Youxin's heart trembled, she was more inclined that Lu Jingcheng was frozen to death, so the case would be simple and clear, all that was needed was to deal with the boy who burned the earth dragon.
It's not that she doesn't spare her life, it's that after so many years, she has already learned to weigh the pros and cons of everything.
Now that the Lu family is on the cusp of the storm, and another murder case has emerged, one can imagine how turbulent and twists it will be.
Lu Youxin pursed her lips, "Didn't you really freeze to death?"
Qin Wan shook his head, "No, most people who really freeze to death have their bodies curled up, and the frostbite on their bodies will be particularly obvious. Ordinary people who suffer from frostbite are mostly red, swollen and sore, but if a person is frozen to death, most of them will produce blisters. Scars, some people even take off their clothes, and if they can be autopsyed, there will be more changes in their internal organs. Although there are frostbite marks on the surface of his corpse, the color of his face is also extremely pale, it is just because he died in the severe cold Among them, at that time, the body temperature of other people had not dropped, and the blood in the body was still flowing slowly, so frostbite occurred, and the corpse spots are also the same. If the blood flow is faster after death in a warm room, In this way, the travel speed of the corpse spot is increased, and the color is purple, but he is different."
Lu Youxin didn't fully understand, at this moment she only felt her heart beating faster, "But... but who would kill him? His parents made a lot of noise during the day, but I didn't take it to heart. Whenever the couple encountered any difficulties, It's all about blaming other people first, I still take it... I really took it as an accident... I didn't expect... Although this child is usually not very upright, he will not have a personal enmity with others. There are only so many people in this garden. Someone from outside killed him."
"It can't be people from outside. The murderer is very familiar with this yard. Otherwise, there is no way to send him back without anyone noticing and disguise the house as a secret room. To know who killed him, he must first get Know why he went out and where he went."
Qin Wan's voice was quiet, calming down Lu Youxin's chaotic mood. Although she had seen many storms, this was the first time she had experienced a murder case, and the murderer was by her side. Thinking of this, she felt a chill down her spine .