Cypress Boat Floating

"What did you find?" Lu Zhixing asked as Ye Jianqing had just returned to the study and had not yet sat down. He was now looking forward to Ye Jianqing giving him something that he had never discovered before.

Ye Jianqing handed the handkerchief wrapped with a little bit of dirt to Lu Zhixing, "This is a little bit of dirt found in the nails of the female corpse. With this little bit of dirt, we should be able to find where her body was dumped before."

"Anything else?" Lu Zhixing was unexpectedly calm. When he saw the handkerchief, he simply raised his eyebrows and did not seem to be very interested in it.

Ye Jianqing naturally noticed his attitude and knew that he probably knew about the existence of the soil. Yes, if he could find such an obvious thing, then those experienced coroners should be able to find it too. If only he could find it, then those experienced coroners should retire and stop working.

Ye Jianqing shrugged and continued, "I found obvious knife marks on the female corpse's thighs, and bruises on the inside of both thighs. It looks like she was forcibly pried apart by someone before she died. That person was quite strong and showed no mercy at all.

The angle of the bruises on her thighs made me suspect that this girl might have been abused before she died. To confirm this idea, I also checked her private parts, and there were indeed traces of strong friction and bleeding. "

Lu Zhixing was a little surprised by her result, but at the same time he had to remind her: "Why do you suspect that she was abused just by the bruises on her thigh? You should know that even if she is dead, you say she was abused before finding out the truth. This is an insult to her reputation."

Ye Jianqing was also clear about what Lu Zhixing said. Whether in ancient times or modern times, it is easy for people to have preconceived ideas if they make rash judgments before finding out the truth. If this judgment spreads, it can easily cause secondary harm to the victim. Therefore, Ye Jianqing never makes rash decisions. But today, she did come to this conclusion based on her own judgment. She did not dare to say that what she said was right, so it was just a reasonable suspicion.

"The wound on her thigh would have been hard to have been caused from other angles if he hadn't wanted to have sex with her. I also suspect that the person who abused her is likely a sexual abuser. He may also be very violent in his daily life. This is what I can see at the moment. After all, I'm not a coroner. It's beyond my ability to judge a suspect based on the wound."

"Sexual abuser?" This was a term that neither Lu Zhixing nor Lu Ci Qiu had ever heard of.

"A sexual abuser is someone who gets sexual satisfaction by abusing the other person during sex. Usually, this kind of abuse mainly involves beating or scolding the person to satisfy themselves. The marks left on the female corpse are not fatal, but the angles of those wounds are very strange. I just simulated it myself and think it is more likely that these marks were left by the person abusing her during sex. The last fatal wound was on the head, which is likely because something angered the other person, causing him to be furious and beat her to death."

After saying this, Ye Jianqing did not forget to remind them to prevent them from having preconceived ideas because of his speculation: "Of course, this is also my reasonable suspicion. Whether it is true or not still depends on the final evidence."

"So what you mean is that there is a person in the capital who has a bad temper and will beat people. Then, when they are in the same room, he will abuse people to the extreme, or he may very likely regard this kind of sadism as a kind of pleasure." Lu Ci Qiu tried to summarize Ye Jianqing's words into something he could understand.

Ye Jianqing nodded in agreement and silently gave Lu Ci Qiu a thumbs up. She had to admit that his ability to understand was indeed good, but it was still a little lacking, so she helped to add: "You can say that, but this person may also appear to have a good temper outside, not only a good temper, but also the kind that is easily bullied. Just the kind of very honest person, this kind of person is also likely to seek pleasure in sadomasochism on women after being bullied outside. No matter what, this person must have a mental problem."

Lu Ci Qiu sighed, "Then this range is very wide."

"It is indeed very wide, so I suggest that Your Majesty start with the soil. I believe that the King of Qin should have a rough idea of ​​where the soil comes from." Ye Jianqing threw the question back to Lu Zhixing.

Ye Jianqing believed that Lu Zhixing had worked in the Dali Temple for so many years without making any mistakes, and even used this to gain the emperor's appreciation, so he would definitely find out something like this. If he had gotten the clue of the mud earlier, he would have sent people to investigate by now, and would definitely not wait here for him to find out.

Lu Zhixing took a handkerchief and looked at the piece of soil carefully again and again, then put the soil on the table and turned to ask Ye Jianqing: "Where do you think this piece of soil came from?"

Are you testing me?

Ye Jianqing was shocked!

Why does this scene look so much like a teacher asking questions when I was in school? No way, no way, come to ancient times and still have to deal with the teacher's random checks?

Ye Jianqing walked to the table, picked up the piece of soil and examined it carefully.

If someone who doesn't understand looks at it, they will just think that this soil is the same soil under their feet, what's the difference? For example, Lu Ci Qiu thinks so.

But people like Lu Zhixing and Ye Jianqing can roughly tell where the soil comes from and roughly where it can be found at a glance. If they are more precise, like modern criminal investigation experts, they can even tell you the ancestors of the soil.

It’s a pity that although Ye Jianqing has this knowledge in her mind, she is not particularly familiar with the terrain here, and she can’t recognize where she is for a while.

But what is certain is that it is definitely not in the city.

"Think again, where did the corpse appear?" Lu Zhixing guided Ye Jianqing step by step like he was taking care of a child. At the same time, he was also guiding Lu Ci Qiu. He wanted to train Lu Ci Qiu to have this skill.

Through the contact during this period, he discovered Ye Jianqing's intelligence. If possible, he wanted to train Ye Jianqing so that she could be Lu Ci Qiu's military advisor in the future. He believed that Ye Jianqing had this ability.

"Yanming Gate!" Lu Ci Qiu answered quickly.

"If that person is really the kind of sexual abuser I mentioned, he won't be satisfied with just one victim, so there will definitely be a second and third victim." Ye Jianqing thought as he said, "So many bodies can't be hidden in the city, otherwise they will be discovered soon once the stench comes out, so they can only be hidden outside the city."

"If you want to dump a body from outside the city, you can't just dump it casually. Dragging a stinking body around in the city will definitely arouse suspicion, so the person who dumped the body can only dump it at the nearest city gate."

"And Yanming Gate is on the east side, so the body is outside the city in the east district." Ye Jianqing made the final decision.

Lu Zhixing nodded with satisfaction. His vision was indeed correct. Ye Jianqing was a good candidate. He only gave her a little guidance, but she was able to judge so many things.

"Then why don't we go outside the city and take a look now?" Lu Ci Qiu asked.

"can."

When the coroner showed him the soil found on the female corpse in the morning, he immediately judged that it was from Guanyin Mountain outside the city wall of the East District. In order not to alert the enemy, he sent several people to secretly search on Guanyin Mountain to see if there were any clues.

If Lu Ci Qiu had not come, he would have been on the mountain by now, so Lu Ci Qiu's suggestion was in line with his wishes.

In order to avoid attracting attention, the three disguised themselves and sneaked out of the city to Guanyin Mountain. Guanyin Mountain got its name from a Guanyin Temple on the mountain that was very popular. However, something happened later and the Guanyin Temple collapsed. However, Guanyin Mountain has always retained the name, but few people come to this mountain anymore, so Guanyin Mountain has been abandoned.

"I don't think a corpse would appear at the city gate for no reason. Did someone do it on purpose?"

Several people walked in Guanyin Mountain, stepping on the fallen leaves. Ye Jianqing looked at the deserted mountain and asked a question that he had been thinking about since morning.

"The distance from Guanyin Mountain to the city is not short. If someone didn't do it on purpose, I don't believe the corpse could have run that far on its own."

"I think so too. Could it be that the person who dumped the body has a grudge against the murderer?" Lu Ci Qiu nodded in agreement. He also felt that Ye Jianqing's statement made sense.

Lu Zhixing was walking in the front, keeping an eye out for clues left by the officers and soldiers on the way, and when he heard them talking he also paid some attention to them.

"It's too early to conclude whether there is a grudge against the murderer. It's also possible that it was just an accidental discovery. But no matter whether it's the murderer or the person who dumped the body, we have to pay attention. The murderer must be caught, and the person who dumped the body must also be found out." Lu Zhixing said.

"So which direction should we go now?" Ye Jianqing couldn't help but ask as he saw them going deeper and deeper.

Lu Zhixing stopped, pointed ahead and said, "We're here."

Looking in the direction Lu Zhixing pointed, one could see a group of people dressed in Dali Temple officer uniforms digging something with shovels in their hands.

Confused Lu Ci Qiu and Ye Jianqing looked at each other and turned their gaze to Lu Zhixing, hoping to get an answer from him.

"Let's go, we'll know when we get there," said Lu Zhixing, and he was the first to walk over, followed closely by Ye Jianqing and Lu Ci Qiu.

If you want to know what really happened, you have to see it with your own eyes.

At this moment, in a mansion somewhere in the capital...

"Master, King Qin and his men have already found Guanyin Mountain." A masked man informed the person hiding behind the curtain of the whereabouts of Lu Zhixing and others.

"Have they found the body?" A light, faint voice came from behind the curtain. If you don't listen carefully, you might not know whether the person behind the curtain is speaking.

"Found it." said the masked man.

Through the curtain, I could vaguely see the person inside nodded, and then said, "Let the servant go."

"Yes."

The masked man left the mansion and went to a house outside the capital.

In the woodshed of the house, a servant with a forehead wet and almost frozen was lying in the firewood. The masked man opened the door and saw that the servant was still unconscious, so he carried the unconscious servant on his shoulders and took him away to the place where he was knocked unconscious and taken away in the first place.

Not long after the masked man left, the servant woke up in a daze. The wound on his forehead was aching slightly, and he looked up at the sky in a daze.

"Oh no!" The servant jumped up hurriedly. It had been two hours since he was knocked unconscious and taken away. It was almost noon now, and the things his master had asked him to do had not been done yet.

He had delayed for so long, and if he didn't even handle the matter properly, he could imagine what kind of punishment he would receive when he returned. He couldn't help but shudder when he thought of his master's methods.

He quickly ran towards Guanyin Mountain.

In his haste, he did not notice that the man who knocked him out and took him away was staring at him closely from behind, making sure that he was running towards Guanyin Mountain. Only then did he leave slowly.

He had done what he had to do, and now all he had to do was watch them become a mess.

......

The servant who was running towards Guanyin Mountain had no idea that he had been used and had already fallen into another trap.

At this time, Guanyin Mountain had already been surrounded by Dali Temple. The officers and soldiers on Guanyin Mountain had already searched the entire mountain. Following Lu Zhixing's instructions, they successfully found a rather strange small mound somewhere at the foot of Guanyin Mountain.

After successfully digging up the mound of earth, they found three bodies wrapped in straw mats inside.

None of the officers and soldiers dared to touch the corpses. They stood there waiting for Lu Zhixing's orders.

When Ye Jianqing saw the corpses, he closed his eyes in pain. The straw mats did not completely cover the corpses, and his eyes could see their heads from the exposed parts.

These people are the missing women.

Even without opening the straw mat, Ye Jianqing could probably tell what their bodies looked like underneath it. She felt sad and her nose was sore. She felt very sad, especially for these women.

Lu Ci Qiu was stunned when he saw these corpses, "This..."

This was a scene he had never seen before. As a child who had always grown up under protection, even though he knew that the world was dangerous, the dangers he encountered were rare. He could not imagine how vicious a person's heart had to be to do such a thing as treating other people's lives as worthless.

Everyone present fell silent when they saw the female corpses. These people had been following Lu Zhixing to investigate the missing persons case for the past two days, so they naturally knew who these women were.

"Is the coroner here?" Lu Zhixing looked at the corpses without any expression on his face, but asked in a slightly hoarse voice.

"On the way." replied an officer leading the team.

"Let's carry out the bodies first." Lu Zhixing turned around and waved his hand to arrange. Even though he had seen so many corpses, he couldn't help but be moved when he saw the bodies of these women.