The mind-reading coroner drove the court crazy

When Liang Hongkai and Lu Qingchen moved to the corpse stable, as soon as they reached the door, the yamen runners panicked and shouted, "Sir, this is not good."

Liang Hongkai shouted, "Shut up, what's the matter?"

What he can't stand hearing the words "not good" the most now is that they are very unlucky.

The bailiff grumbled for a long time before finally explaining the reason. Liang Hongkai was so angry that he pushed him away and walked in himself.

"Sir, don't go in!"

Unfortunately, it was too late to stop him. Liang Hongkai had already fallen to the ground and retreated in horror.

"Inside..."

Lu Qingchen took a quick step forward and saw a cluster of black objects gathered in the stable. They turned out to be thousands of ants.

The ants were covering the corpses, and from a distance they looked like a wriggling ball of flesh, so terrifying.

"How is this going?"

Even if the corpse rotted quickly, only maggots would grow, so how could it attract ants? Moreover, there was a large amount of ice in the stable to slow down the decay of the corpse, so this situation should not happen.

Liang Hongkai immediately called out, "Call the coroner to investigate."

The bailiff cautiously reminded him, "Sir, the coroner Qin has gone to see General Xuande to confirm the situation. Do you want to bring her back?"

"No need." Liang Hongkai refused without thinking. Not everyone could go to the general's place. Besides, he had already spent the money, so how could he give up halfway?

"Go find another coroner to check it out."

Lu Qingchen couldn't help but look around. He had never seen other coroners before and was very curious.

It didn't take long before the yamen runners sprinkled white vinegar around and a little old man was pulled over.

"Ouch! Slow down, my bones are about to fall apart." The old man stopped in front of Liang Hongkai, panting, "Sir, what do you want to see?"

"There are a lot of ants in there, look at where they came from."

The old man nodded, tiptoed to find a place to stay, and tiptoed into the stable.

After a while, the old man's voice came, "Sir, there is a rotting corpse covered with ants. It must have been smeared with something sweet, which is why it attracts so many ants."

The bailiff immediately said, "Impossible! The body was brought back directly from the cave. No one except Qin the coroner has touched it."

The old man came out, his face covered in dust. "That means the murderer smeared something on the body. It might not be visible at the time, but it will evaporate afterward."

"What could that be?"

"Sugar water, preserved fruit sauce, or honey? If you want to know, you still have to start with the corpse. There are too many ants on it now, so it's hard to tell."

Simply put, get rid of the ant colony first and then proceed to the next step, otherwise it will be all in vain.

"How do we get rid of so many ants?" Liang Hongkai felt his scalp tingling just by looking at the ants in the corpse stable, let alone getting rid of them. Just now, the yamen runners just got a little closer and he got several big bites on his hands and feet.

Lu Qingchen pondered and said, "How about using a fan? Put some food to attract ants nearby and see if that can lure them away."

Liang Hongkai nodded. At this moment, he extremely hoped that Qin Miaoxi was present. Whenever he encountered a problem that could not be solved, she could always come up with strange and bizarre solutions, so he didn't have to worry about it at all. The only bad thing was that it was a waste of money.

The yamen was busy expelling the ants. Just when they had blown away most of the ants, Qin Miaoxi came back with information from the General's Mansion.

"what are you guys saying?"

[Auntie, you're finally back. These ants are so fierce that they've eaten all my flesh.]

Qin Miaoxi looked at the dead body being carried out, and her expression instantly turned cold. "Why are you touching the body? And you let the ants crawl on it. Don't you know that this will destroy the information left on the body?"

Lu Qingchen came over sweating profusely. "Don't blame us. When we arrived at the corpse stable, it was already overrun by ants. The corpses were all covered in ants."

Qin Miaoxi looked at the people around her and got the answer from everyone's inner voice. She immediately checked the fourth corpse. The skin had been partially eaten by ants, and the rotten flesh inside was exposed.

Everyone present couldn't help but vomit when they saw this scene.

"Can you find out what attracted the ants?"

Qin Miaoxi pinched the corpse fluid with her fingers and said, "Go get me some water and paper."

"You let me..." Lu Qingchen protested dissatisfiedly, but when he met her cold gaze, he dared not say anything.

"Young Marquis, I'll go!"

"Get out of the way. Why did Qin Gu let me go and not others? That was a manifestation of her love for me. What does it have to do with you?" After saying that, he happily went to get some water.

Yamen: "..."

Soon, Qin Miaoxi took a little water, mixed it with the same amount of corpse fluid, and then dripped it on the paper.

"What should we do now?" Lu Qingchen waited patiently for the next instruction.

Qin Miaoxi said calmly: "Wait."

They both looked at the water droplets on the paper, and the liquid turned into spherical droplets on the paper.

"What's going on? Shouldn't the water seep down?"

"Because there's honey in the body." Qin Miaoxi slapped her forehead in frustration. "Why didn't we find honey on the body during the first autopsy?"

"Why are you still hurting yourself, woman? What if you break it?" Lu Qingchen quickly took her hand away and muttered softly, "Even if you don't feel bad, I still do!"

Meeting Qin Miaoxi's sharp gaze, Lu Qingchen immediately fell silent. He finally understood that this woman was more terrifying than the ancestor.

"In ancient texts, applying honey to corpses can help preserve them. But outsiders don't know that honey needs to be refined twice, otherwise it will contain sugar, and applying it to the body will only accelerate decay." Qin Miaoxi said as she picked up the mucus on the corpse. "The reason we know that honey was applied to the body is because honey contains gelatinous substances and particles, which generally don't penetrate paper quickly, while sugar water will seep through immediately."

"What did the murderer want by smearing honey on the corpse?"

Lu Qingchen's head ached from thinking about it. Was killing someone so difficult? Beating them, digging them out of their graves, dumping their bodies in a cave, and finally smearing them with honey—even in school, he hadn't gone through so much.

"It could be to prevent the body from rotting quickly, or it could be to speed up decomposition. The murderer was very clever. He dumped the body into the hidden river in the cave, using the current to wash away the honey on the body, leaving behind yin and yang marks, making us think it was caused by soaking in water."

Qin Miaoxi gritted her teeth, guessing that a lot of honey had been smeared on the corpse, which seeped into the skin through the wounds. Therefore, she failed to find the presence of honey during the initial autopsy, thinking that it was the corpse fluid produced by the decaying body, but in fact it was a mixture of putrefactive fluid and honey.

Facts speak louder than words. This time she really made a mistake. She was so obsessed with the murderer's cruel methods that she ignored the details.

By this time, all the ants on the corpse had been cleared away. Lu Qingchen couldn't help but sigh, "This family died so tragically. No one had a good end. But someone has avenged you, so you can rest in peace now."

Qin Miaoxi grabbed his hand tightly and asked anxiously, "Wait, what did you say?"