Chapter 237： the truth

Chapter 237 The Truth

After the guards opened the lid of the coffin, a strong stench swept up again.

Seeing this scene, Tan Miao's eyes suddenly showed a hint of cunning.

Chu Nanzhi covered a face towel, put on the gloves prepared by Hu Maoxi, and went to the coffin with the two coffins to examine carefully.

Although the house is filled with dry ice, and there is also dry ice under the coffin to reduce the surrounding temperature, but in this summer and autumn season, the corpse has already begun to rot, and the swollen body has already appeared in many places.

Although the two counties have conducted autopsies for many years, they suddenly seemed helpless.

First of all, the knife edge on the neck is obvious, which can directly determine the knife killing; moreover, in this era, there is no effective method for the verification of poison killing, unless it is a highly toxic substance such as arsenic, which can be tested for toxicity with silver needles.

As for the others, they can only be judged based on the experience accumulated in the past.

Seeing the perplexed faces of the two of them, Chu Nanzhi had no choice but to go forward and tell everyone in detail: "The corpse has been soaked in water for many days and has been dead for half a month. It is really difficult to detect clues through the appearance. Two inspections are required to determine whether the deceased was injured by a murder weapon or died of poisoning."

Speaking, she first turned to Haikang County, thinking about the contents of the autopsy report, and confirmed with him: "During the autopsy in Niujia Village, it was written by the old man, right?"

"good."

Old Wu nodded thoughtfully: "The contents of the autopsy archives are all the common conclusions drawn by the old man after examining many corpses."

"Okay, I remember that there are records in the autopsy documents that there are white horizontal stripes on the nails of the deceased."

Chu Nanzhi looked at the white stripes printed on Zhu Yue's nails, and said slowly: "The old man has done autopsies for many years. If it is an ordinary deceased, would you notice such abnormalities?"

"The old man has never found such symptoms before, except for the Niujia Village case."

Haikang County Zuo Zuo shook his head blankly.

Luyan Gang Zuo squinted his deep-set eyes, and said slightly: "The old man once inspected the deceased in a case of poisoning by swallowing gold. There were white horizontal stripes on the nails of the deceased. There are also such records in ancient methods."

Chu Nanzhi nodded and said with a smile: "Then, please see if Zhu Xiancheng also has this symptom on his fingernails?"

The two of them leaned closer and took a closer look: "It's true."

The old butler of Luyan Port frowned: "Could it be that the Prime Minister Zhu also swallowed the gold?"

"Metal poisoning does not necessarily require direct ingestion of raw gold to cause toxicity."

Chu Nanzhi looked at Tan Miao and Chen Wu meaningfully, and asked, "Chen Wu, when did you start using the salt from the salt well in Majia Village to feed Zhu Xiancheng's diet?"

Chen Wu thought for a while, then replied sadly: "The beginning of this year."

"That's it."

Chu Nanzhi pursed her lips and explained: "There is a smelting mine in the upper reaches of Majia Village, the smelting sewage flows into Niujia Village, seeps into the ground and combines with the brine for cooking salt, which is also highly toxic, and it will naturally cause metal poisoning if taken for a long time. Sex poisoning, Mr. Tan, I don’t know if you think what I said is right or not?”

Tan Miao lowered his head and ignored it.

He didn't know about it. At first, he suspected that the death of the villagers in Niujia Village was indeed related to the salt in the salt well, and he tried to murder Qian Xiancheng with a tentative mentality, but he didn't expect to succeed.

Chu Nanzhi looked at Zhu Yue's neck again, touched it lightly with his hands, and the throat was swollen with black plaques coagulated, then asked Chen Wu again: "Chen Wu, please tell me in detail how you murdered Zhu Xiancheng that day. "

Chen Wu buried his head and didn't dare to look in the direction of the coffin, and replied in a low voice: "On the night of June 24th, the young one was ordered by Master Tan to stay at the intersection in the west of the city, waiting for Zhu County Prime Minister to return to the city, but he just waited for a long time. The county magistrate was nowhere to be seen, so the young one had to search along the way, and found him by the canal about 20 miles away from the city, but the magistrate had been out of breath for a long time, so the young one cut his throat with a knife , throwing the corpse in the ditch."

"How do you conclude that Zhu Xiancheng has died for a long time?"

Chu Nanzhi asked.

Chen Wu didn't know how to answer, so he could only make a figurative analogy: "The little one used to kill pigs. If a live pig was stabbed into the throat with a knife, it would be hot blood rushing out. Only by bleeding a dead pig can there be no blood."

Paused, he went on to say: "Qian Xiancheng and Yu Xiancheng also died for a long time. The younger one cut the throats of the two adults and there was no blood. The younger one deduced Master Zhu's death from this."

"good."

Chu Nanzhi pointed to Zhu Yue's neck, and said to the two assistants:

"Zhu Xiancheng died for many days, and his body was soaked in water for many days. It is impossible to tell from the bloodstain alone, but his throat was cut before he was alive, which would definitely cause a lot of bleeding. Afterwards, the muscles around the wound contracted, and the skin tightened and sluggish. Zhu Xiancheng's throat was obviously swollen and darkened, and there was a lump in his throat, so he died of poisoning and then his throat was cut."

At this point, she looked at Tan Miao with a gloomy gaze: "Mr. Tan, you have mislead everyone since the beginning of the case. First, you used Qi Dongqiang to instigate Kang Mingyuan and Qi Luan to lead the disaster to Sun Wuji. Afraid of the rumors about the death of successive county magistrates in the county, and the other person was eager to protect his son, you secretly reminded the two of them that it was Qi Dongqiang who killed Zhu Xiancheng, so they went straight to the end of the canal in Sunjia Village,

Yesterday, when you saw that the matter was exposed, you misled me to investigate Qi Dongqiang, and killed him before I entered the mansion to try to prove his death, but you never thought that Chen Wu was not a careful person, and there was no time to do too much in a hurry. Cover up more, so it only takes a little attention to detect that Qi Dongqiang did not commit suicide. "

At this point, Chu Nanzhi slowly moved from the side of the coffin, motioned for everyone to cover the coffin, and then stared at Tan Miao with low eyebrows again, and said leisurely:

"Until I was about to go to Niujia Village, you began to realize the seriousness of the situation. You first encouraged Kang Mingtang to send people to intercept us halfway, and at the same time ordered Chen Wu to notify the Dongsang people, and the nursing home at Kang Mingtang's home The dead man ambushes the city, waiting for the opportunity to assassinate Lin Yushi, but you have calculated thousands of times, and you have never calculated that this fledgling disabled commander is better than you, and you will lose everything in an instant."

As soon as she finished speaking, Hu Maoxi yelled: "Tan Miao, now that there are all witnesses and evidences, what else do you have to distinguish?"

"I'm wronged, my lord, I have no grievances or enmity with Zhu Xiancheng in my humble position, why bother to harm him?"

Tan Miao pretended to be innocent and knelt down to beg for mercy: "The lowly position is just a humble county government official, how can I know so many things, let alone know what so-called metal poisoning can be caused by private salt, which is unheard of."

"Maybe you really don't know such a profound knowledge, but you do know the principle of judging the past and the present. The government of the Niujia Village tragedy closed the case as a plague, deceiving the upper and lower, but you took advantage of Kang Mingyuan's weakness to make a big fuss. It was he who sensed something strange about the case, and would only pursue the investigation according to the clues given on the surface, and hastily closed the case of the deaths of the previous county magistrates with sharp weapons."

Hearing the word "humble" mentioned by him, Chu Nanzhi sneered a little disapprovingly: "Master Tan claims to be a humble master, I don't think so."

(end of this chapter)