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Chapter 130 Autopsy
"Is it someone from the Champa Office?" A hint of suspicion flashed in Fu Jingyu's eyes: "Not necessarily, it could be Lu Qiuyang's own people."

Xu Yuan sneered silently and pointed to the inner room. Fu Jingyu went in and saw Lu Qiuyang's official boots lying beside the bed.

The official boots were obviously smaller than the shoe print.

Lu Qiuyang is not tall and has small feet.

Fu Jingyu came out, his eyebrows knitted together: "Are these bloodstains meant to cover up the shoe prints? But why not just wipe them off?"

Xu Yuan shook his head: "I don't know either. I'll have to ask the people from the Champa Office."

Before Fu Jingyu could react, Xu Yuan had already reached the door and shouted, "Inspector Zhu, come and take a look."

Zhu Sili walked in with a gloomy face. Seeing the shoe prints on the ground, he was stunned for a moment before he thought of something. His expression changed several times, and finally he said gloomily: "This is a clue. I will arrange for the captains to hand over all the official boots."

Xu Yuan calmly asked, "What's the level of Inspector Lu?"

"The seventh-rate cultivation method is to cultivate magic tricks."

"There are footprints hidden under the bloodstains. Dozens of people died before, and the Champa Office didn't even notice?"

Zhu Sili glared at Xu Yuan. "What does Inspector Xu mean? Do you suspect that my Champa Office is harboring evil spirits?"

Xu Yuan pointed down at the shoe prints: "Whether it's evil or not, that's another matter of opinion."

Zhu Sili angrily said, "You are very capable and have a high level of skill. You are very good at controlling the fire in your belly! With the support of the Commander, you have a bright future! None of the alchemists in our Champa Office are as good as you. You were the first to discover the clues, and you are the first to solve the case. Is that enough? What else do you want to say?"

Yu Yunhang and Song Lu heard the quarrel and rushed in. Yu Yunhang asked, "What's going on?"

Song Lu saw the shoe prints on the ground, but didn't give Zhu Sili face: "Were we wrong to do our best to handle the case? Zhu Sili, listen to the Lu family's deafening cries outside! Lu Qiuyang and He Junan have also been your colleagues for many years!"

Zhu Sili gritted his teeth, holding back words but not saying them. He turned around abruptly and strode out the door.

The moment he rushed out of the room, a look of relief suddenly flashed across his face...

The four people in the room looked solemn. Looking at the shoe prints on the ground, Song Lu gritted his teeth and whispered, "I just don't believe that the Champa Office really has no clues in this case!"

Yu Yunhang said anxiously, "How about... let's talk to the commander first? If this is a conspiracy, we'll..."

Fu Jingyu waved his hand to stop him from saying anything.

Xu Yuan said slowly, "The Champa Administration might not have discovered anything. The bloodstains covered up the shoe prints. If someone deliberately only assigned eighth- or ninth-rate alchemists to be responsible for the final cleanup, and burned it all down, there wouldn't be any trace left."

Even if it was not a deliberate arrangement, this kind of "odd jobs" would have been done by ordinary lieutenants, and even the inspectors would not dare to do it.

Xu Yuan still had another question: "Why did they kill two people yesterday? And they were both from the Extermination Bureau?"

Xu Yuan squatted down again and carefully observed the remaining bloodstains.

With the experience of the first shoe print, Xu Yuan had some experience and could roughly determine which bloodstains contained shoe prints.

Then, with great enthusiasm in his heart, he spent half an hour to find all the shoe prints in the study.

Looking at the shoe prints, the four of them fell silent.

The shoe prints showed that the murderer walked in through the main door of the study.

Even Song Lu could analyze that the murderer should know Lu Qiuyang and came in by knocking on the door.

But Xu Yuan still felt strange: Lu Qiuyang was killed in the middle of the night - everyone analyzed the case together in the Champa Office last night, and it was already very late when they came back.

And yesterday there was no night travel ban.

Lu Qiuyang is quite powerful, and he is in the city, so it is understandable that he violates the ban on traveling at night to return home.

But after returning home, someone knocked on the door late at night. Lu Qiuyang did not suspect that the other party was a ghost, so he not only opened the door but also let the other party in...

Lord Lu not only knew him, but was very familiar with him and trusted him very much.

But the murderer who killed Lord Lu must be an evil spirit, and the strong yin energy at the scene cannot be faked.

Xu Yuan was thinking about these things in his mind while cleaning up the rest of the bloodstains, doing his job thoroughly.

Lang Xiaoba appeared at the door, peered inside, and then reported, "The autopsy results are in."

...In the next room, the two coroners looked pale and their hands and feet were trembling. They were exhausted every time they performed an autopsy.

Lu Qiuyang's body was placed on the long table next to him and covered with a thick white cotton cloth.

On the cotton cloth, at three locations approximately on the face, navel, and ankles, there were respectively pressed an old inkstone, an old weight, and iron shackles.

This is a necessary post-autopsy procedure in the coroner's profession, also to prevent the corpse from becoming abnormal.

The profession of coroner is actually also a form of Dharma practice.

What we practice is the "rest method".

It is not difficult to get started with the Resting Method, and it is relatively simple to practice.

But those who practiced the Sabbath method did not live beyond the age of forty.

Usually they die at the age of around 37 or 38.

Death is extremely painful.

There are several industries like this in the Ming Dynasty. Only those who really have no way out and can't survive will do it.

For example, a coroner or an executioner.

The "medicine guide" required to become a coroner can be obtained by ordinary people.

Find a charity cemetery where there is an unidentified corpse. If nothing strange happens overnight, look for a grayish-white insect on the corpse. After finding it, bring it home and feed it with your own blood. After seven days, the insect will turn into a gray moth, and you will eat it.

This method is accomplished.

The moth that was eaten did not die, but instead continued to parasitize on the coroner's chest. During the autopsy, the moth would make a sound that living people could not hear, soothing the corpse and preventing it from jumping up.

This is the "Sabbath Method".

But this only ensures that the corpse will not become deformed during the autopsy. Other things such as how to move the corpse and various detailed techniques of the autopsy have to be taught by predecessors.

Therefore, even if you have mastered the method of rest, you still have to please your seniors after entering the government office. If you meet someone who likes to make things difficult for others, your life will be difficult.

Although the salary from the court was good and there was a considerable pension in case of death, this business was by no means prosperous.

The two coroners in the Champa Office are the "old and the new", one is the master and the other is the apprentice.

Zhu Sili still had a sullen face. He stood in the middle of the room with his hands behind his back, giving Xu Yuan and the other three a big pat on the back.

"Have you found anything?"

Zhu Sili asked formulaic questions. He had performed autopsies several times before, but had never found anything.

"We have indeed found something." The coroner standing on the left bowed in response.

Zhu Sili was surprised and wondered if these people in the Southern Office were so lucky?
"speak!"

The two coroners exchanged a glance and gritted their teeth, saying, "Inspector Lu might have been set up in advance!"

Zhu Sili's expression changed: "What conspiracy?"

"My lords, please take a look."

The coroner removed the things and rolled up the white cloth.

Lu Qiuyang's body had been cut up like a butcher cutting up an ox, with the skin, muscles and bones separated.

It's just that it's posed as a human.

Song Lu just took a look and ran out covering his mouth.

No one cared at first, but Yu Yunhang tried to hold back several times and couldn't help but run out. Zhu Sili glanced at him from the side and snorted coldly.

Xu Yuan and Fu Jingyu stepped forward and the first thing they noticed was Lu Qiuyang's skeleton.

In addition to blood, the fascia of the bones was also covered with a dark black filamentous grid.

(End of this chapter)