The coroner and the concubine doctor pursue the murderer in the Dali Temple

Qin Shiyue was stunned for a moment, and asked in disbelief: "The princess... is a coroner?"

Chu Yunxi looked at her and asked, "Why? Not like her?"

Indeed, it didn't look like it. The villagers of Lijia Village were also whispering about it. No one had expected that a princess would actually be a coroner.

But no one dared to say anything loudly, and Qin Shiyue did not dare to question it. She just lowered her head and said, "Then I'll trouble you, Princess."

Wang Youshan wanted to say something, but Xiao Mubei glanced at him indifferently, and he dared not say another word.

Wen Rulan stood up at this time and said to Madam Wan and Wan Ruwei: "I will go with Junior Sister to take a look."

Now that Baiyu and Heimu are not around, Wen Rulan naturally has to be responsible for Chu Yunxi's personal safety. What's more, he was also a detective in his previous life, so he can also help Chu Yunxi if he encounters a case.

Wan Ruwei said hurriedly: "Okay, go ahead and get busy."

The engagement banquet was over. After Wen Rulan and Chu Yunxi left, many villagers also left in twos and threes. Some of them stayed to see what was going on. Wang Youshan was also sitting at the banquet. Although Xiao Mubei did not send anyone to arrest him, he kept an eye on him all the time, making him feel uneasy.

Chu Yunxi and Wen Rulan followed Qin Shiyue and Qin Huai back to their mother and son's home. As expected, they saw a funeral was being held at home. There was a white banner hanging at the gate. After entering, there were two old men in the yard. Qin Shiyue introduced them, "These are my parents. They are here to help me take care of Xiao Huai these days."

Chu Yunxi greeted the two old people, who seemed a little at a loss. Chu Yunxi signaled them not to be nervous, and then she and Wen Rulan went into the house together. The main room was decorated as a mourning hall, with a coffin placed in the middle. The tablet on it read, "The spirit tablet of my late husband Du Pei."

Chu Yunxi first walked around the coffin. It was a common pine coffin. The lid was already closed. Chu Yunxi asked, "When did your husband die? How did you find out?"

Qin Shiyue held her son Qin Huai's hand and said with tears in her eyes, "Three days ago, I returned home in the evening and found that the oil lamp was not on. My husband's home time was not fixed every day. I thought he had not come back yet, so I pushed the door open. As a result, as soon as I opened the door, I saw him hanging on the bed beam. He was already dead, and he was... he was not wearing any clothes."

Chu Yunxi frowned, "No clothes on?"

Qin Shiyue nodded. "Fortunately, I sent Xiao Huai to my mother's house that day. I was so scared that I screamed and ran out. The neighbors heard the noise and rushed over. I was so scared that I couldn't speak, so they all ran in and saw... him... him..."

Chu Yunxi understood what she wanted to say. Du Pei's death was seen by the neighbors, so the whole village probably knew that he died by hanging, and they all saw that he was not wearing any clothes.

"Okay, let me take a look at the body first." Chu Yunxi did not continue asking. She had to examine the deceased first to avoid making a preconceived misjudgment.

Wen Rulan pushed the coffin lid open. Chu Yunxi asked Qin Shiyue to take Qin Huai out first and not let the children see these. Then she put on gloves and gave Wen Rulan a pair of gloves. The two of them turned the coffin lid over on the bench and then carried Du Pei's body out together.

Chu Yunxi untied the shroud on the corpse in no time. She saw that Du Pei was about 27 or 28 years old, about 1.75 to 1.76 meters tall, thin, with grooves on his neck, punctate hemorrhages on his skin, a cyanotic face, and an exposed tongue. It was indeed a typical death from hanging and suffocation.

Chu Yunxi looked down again and couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed. It turned out that Du Pei's lower body was actually erect.

Chu Yunxi certainly understood that this situation happened only because blood entered the genitals during the process of being hanged. She was an experienced forensic doctor and this situation often occurred in people who were hanged.

But now Wen Rulan was also around, which made her feel a little embarrassed, but she was a professional forensic doctor after all, and the embarrassment lasted less than a second.

"Brother, Du Pei was indeed hanged, but he was hanged on the bed beam. Considering the direction of the strangulation marks on his neck and the state of his genitals, he was probably face down at the time. Normally, it is not easy to hang someone in this position, because it is easy to save yourself. Just lift your head a little, or push off the ground with your feet, and you won't die."

"Do you think he committed suicide or was murdered?" Wen Rulan put down the small notebook with the records and asked Chu Yunxi.

Chu Yunxi said, "He was murdered. Who would commit suicide by stripping naked? And if he strangled himself in this position, then his desire to die must be very strong."

Wen Rulan nodded, "Yes, that's true."

The two of them turned the body over and checked the back. There were no other surface injuries. Chu Yunxi checked it bit by bit and suddenly exclaimed "Huh".

Wen Rulan was looking at the marks on the neck of the corpse. Hearing this, she turned around to look at Chu Yunxi and asked, "What happened?"

Chu Yunxi said awkwardly: "The deceased... had been sexually assaulted before his death."

"What?" Wen Rulan almost suspected that she had heard it wrongly, "Sexual assault? Isn't this a man?"

"Can't men be sexually assaulted?" Chu Yunxi pointed at Du Pei and said, "Brother, look, the anus is red and swollen, the sphincter is loose, and there are torn injuries. This is abnormal sexual assault."

Wen Rulan wiped the sweat off her forehead with the back of her hand and sighed, "It turns out perverts are everywhere!"

I thought this kind of perverted murder only existed in modern times, but I didn't expect it also existed in ancient times. It really subverted the cognition of the two time travelers.

"It's a pity that there is no DNA testing now, otherwise we would know who the murderer is at once." Chu Yunxi couldn't help but sigh at the backwardness of technology.

After the autopsy, the two men dressed Du Pei in shrouds again, carried the body into the coffin, closed the coffin lid, and then called Qin Shiyue in again.

Qin Huai was not brought in by his grandparents, so Qin Shiyue came in alone. Chu Yunxi got straight to the point and asked, "Qin Shiyue, how do you know that Wang Youshan killed your husband? Do you have any evidence?"

Qin Shiyue shook her head. "I have no evidence. I am just guessing."

"Guessing doesn't count," Chu Yunxi shook her head. "Also, since you suspected that Wang Youshan killed your husband, why didn't you report it to the police until today? And you secretly cleared the crime scene, causing the evidence to be lost?"

Qin Shiyue was obviously panicking and waved her hands repeatedly, "Princess, I didn't mean it. I didn't know the prince was in our Lijia Village before. I only found out today. When I found him dead that day, I guessed that Wang Youshan killed him. I also wanted to report to the police, but the village chief is gone. I'm a woman with a child, and I don't know where to go to appeal. The neighbors all advised me that the body would rot if left for too long, and asked me to put the body in the coffin as soon as possible. I had no choice but to bury him. I didn't expect any evidence."