Li Lu walked through a mess of grass and pushed the door of the hut open, and suddenly saw a dead body lying on the ground in the door.The room was half-lit and half-dark, with an empty wooden bed against the back wall, and a rough pine table and two stools beside the bed.Li Lu ordered Luo Canglin to open the window, and he and Li Songyi squatted down to carefully examine the dead body.The deceased was dressed in a blue cloth shirt and trousers, about fifty years old, tall and thin, with dark skin, gray hair and beard, but very neatly trimmed, and several blood spots sticking to it on closer inspection.The deceased's jaw was dislocated, and his dull eyes were wide open in horror.He rested his right hand on his chest and stretched out his left hand against his body.Li Lu wanted to raise the deceased's left arm, but he was already stiff."
I guess I was killed last night."
Li Lu said to himself, don't look at Li Lu's profession as an emperor, but he was a doctor in his previous life, and he himself had studied forensic science, so it was not difficult for him to judge the time of death.Li Songyi suddenly said: "Your Majesty, look, what's going on with the deceased's left hand?"
”Li Lu took a look, and it turned out that the four fingers of the deceased's left hand had been cut off, leaving only the bloodstained stump, only the thumb was intact.Li Lu carefully inspected the deceased's left hand again and said, "Songyun, you see, the skin color of the deceased's little finger stump has a circle of white marks, and the texture is consistent with the two coiled golden snakes on the wrench.Yes, the deceased was indeed the owner of the wrench, but he was killed. ”Li Lu instructed the guards to carry the dead body outside the door, and he and Li Songyi immediately inspected the hut.They found a thick layer of dust on the floor, on the table, and on the stools, but the bed was very clean, and there was not a drop of blood in the hut except for a few scattered footprints.Li Songyi is the big leader of Jinyiwei, and criminal investigation is an old business for him, he looked at the scene and said, "Your Majesty, there is no trace of dragging the corpse on the ground, I think this dead body was brought here from the outside."
But the murderer did not put the body on the bed after cleaning it, which is puzzling.Why don't we go outside and see how?
”Li Lu nodded, then pointed to the pile of straw and said: "Songyun, I think so too, it seems that the signs are in line with your and my guesses, I saw several of the same straws stuck to the monkey's body in the morning."
It is believed that when the body was carried to the hut, the wrench on the stake of the corpse's left hand fell into the straw pile.When the monkey passed by this early this morning, he noticed something shiny in the straw stack, so he picked it up.There is a mountain trail from here to the pavilion behind the palace, but it doesn't take long for the monkeys to climb the branches and go straight down. ”Li Songyi bent down to carefully inspect the cutting board made of the stump, and said, "Your Majesty, it's strange that there is no blood on this cutting board, and no four fingers have been cut off. ”"The deceased was apparently killed elsewhere and moved here after four fingers were cut off."
Li Lu said."
Your Majesty's judgment is that if the murderer has no accomplices, he must be a strong man, and it will not be easy to move the dead body here."
Li Songyi nodded and said.Li Lu examined the deceased's head, and he concluded that the deceased had been killed by a blunt blow to the back of the head, and he examined the deceased's right hand, and found that although the palm of the hand was quite rough, the nails were very slender and seemed to be intentionally well protected.Li Songyi searched the clothes and pants of the deceased but found nothing, and there is no doubt that the murderer took all the things that could lead to the identification of the deceased.Li Lu said: "As long as we hold this golden wrench, the murderer will definitely come here to look for it." ”He turned around and asked Luo Canglin, "Have you ever seen this person?"
”Luo Canglin replied respectfully: "I haven't seen it." ”He asked the two guards with his eyes, and they shook their heads."
Your Majesty, the villain guessed that this dead man must be a merchant from a foreign country."
Li Lu instructed the guards to inform Wang Min, the prefect of Banga City, and Wang Min learned that there had been a murder, so he did not dare to delay, and immediately brought the governor of the city to carry the dead body back to the palace, and sent a message to all the people in the government to identify it, and on the other hand, let him come to the autopsy.Li Lu instructed Luo Canglin to invite the Huang shopkeeper of the crude medicine shop opposite the mansion to meet him in the yali.Wang Min on the side was a little puzzled, so he asked, "Your Majesty, do you think Shopkeeper Huang knows the deceased?"
”"Nope!
I only asked him if he had heard the sound of the mob fighting on the mountain last night, and then asked him if there were any other families living on the mountain besides him and the golden shopkeeper who opened the pawnshop. ”Li Lu said with a smile, "In the vicinity of my palace, there was a murder case, which shows that this murderer did not take my law into account at all......
At this time, Li Songyi suddenly raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this case is too strange, from the appearance of the deceased looks like a craftsman, but his face seems to be a well-educated person."
He has this priceless wrench, which undoubtedly shows that he is quite wealthy, but his face is dark, his hands and feet are calloused, but he seems to be out and about all year round, and the most strange thing for me is whether this deceased is Han or Tianzhu, I can't tell at all......."
Wang Min disagreed when he heard this, and said: "I don't think that relying on this wrench alone proves that the deceased is very rich.Your Majesty, here in Tianzhu, whether it is a thief or a beggar, they often cling to a stolen treasure and do not let go, and they are paranoid that this treasure is closely related to their lives. ”"Hey, this case is a little strange, the four fingers that were cut off are really puzzling to think about, could it be that the murderer tortured him before killing him and forced him to confess the truth of something?
Or the finger is cut off only to remove some kind of mark on the finger, so that one cannot identify the deceased's surname. ”Li Lu said thoughtfully."
Your Majesty, as far as your courtiers know, that desolate thatched hut is often inhabited by wandering merchants and lawless thugs from other countries.Your Majesty knows that most of the merchants and thugs have gangs, and each gang has its own unique way of swearing allegiance to the gang leader, and it is common to cut off a pinky finger.If the murder was indeed a cannibalism within the gang, the killer might have deliberately cut off four of the deceased's fingers to cover the fact that the deceased had cut off a little finger, so that the background of the fight and the killing could not be detected. ”Wang Min said, "Although the minister has repeatedly ordered that gangs are not allowed to form factions, but ........ it."
Li Lu was silent when he heard this, the gang thing, even in modern society more than a thousand years later, still exists, and if this thing wants to be eradicated, it is simply an impossible thing.At this time, he respectfully presented the autopsy report, "Your Majesty, this deceased was about fifty years old, and he had no illness or physical defects before his death, and there was no sign of brawl or fighting.The four fingers of the deceased's left hand should have been cut off before and after the murder, and the deceased was killed about late last night. ”He paused for a moment, then continued: "As for how those four fingers were cut, it is uncertain.The remaining phalanx of the deceased's left hand was not broken, and the cut was neat and smooth.According to Xiao Chen, it can only be cut so neatly with a special cutting tool, and ordinary knives and axes cut the cross-section unevenly and broken, but the deceased obviously did not resist and struggle......
"Li Lu asked, "How are the deceased's feet?"
”"Back to Your Majesty, the deceased had a thick layer of calluses on the soles of his feet, and he walked a lot, and he may have been a traveling merchant who carried burdens before his death."
He said that the so-called traveling merchants are actually not much different from the homeless, but they have more business roles than the homeless."
Does anyone recognize him?"
Li Lu asked again."
Back to Your Majesty, no one in the palace knows him."
He replied.After he retreated, Luo Canglin brought the shopkeeper Huang in.The yellow shopkeeper was born with a short figure, and his waist and back were slightly hunched.The expression of the white face is a little indifferent, the chin is a few goatees, the oil is black and shiny, and the hoodie is very neat up and down.As soon as he saw Li Lu, he hurriedly knelt down, "Little old man to see Your Majesty......."
Li Lu also politely sat down, smiled and said to him: "I am tired of the shopkeeper Huang coming in vain, you don't have to be restrained, I just want to ask about some situations on the top of Jiashan Mountain, of course, you are busy in the shop all day, but I want to come to the shopkeeper to stay in the mansion on the top of the mountain, right?"
”Li Lu said with a smile.Shopkeeper Huang hurriedly nodded and replied: "What Your Majesty said is very true, it is much cooler in the mountains than in the city. ”