The mind-reading coroner drove the court crazy

Lu Qingchen walked over hesitantly, "Master Liang, what are they doing here?"

Liang Hongkai leaned close to his ear and said, "Young Marquis, didn't your aunt marry into the Tian family? Please tell them quickly that since the cause of Lord Tian's death is suspicious, we at the Dali Temple must investigate thoroughly."

Lu Qingchen was shocked. "What's wrong? Was Tian Guangyuan's death not an accident?"

Liang Hongkai nodded silently. "It was Xiao Qin who heard that someone had drowned in Xiaoxiang Lake and went to join in the fun. He found the body strange and took it back. That's why the Tian family came to claim the body."

Lu Qingchen: "..."

Robbery of corpses?

He looked up at the sky speechlessly. It was really something that woman could do.

"Okay, I'll tell them."

Lu Qingchen didn't know what he said to the Tian family, and he sent them away after a while. The other party only asked them to solve the case as soon as possible and to catch the real murderer who killed Tian Guangyuan.

Liang Hongkai breathed a sigh of relief and pulled him towards the backyard of the yamen. "Young Marquis, you've come at the perfect time. Xiao Qin is about to perform an autopsy. You should come and take a look."

"Wait! Sir Liang, I'm not from your government, why should I go with you to the autopsy?"

What a joke! How could he, the head of the Jingzhao dandies, do such a thing?

Liang Hongkai immediately put on a face full of bitterness and hatred, "Young Marquis, you have also seen how unreasonable the Tian family is. If you don't get involved in the case, and they come to cause trouble in the future, I won't be able to withstand it. Wouldn't I be eaten alive by them?"

Lu Qingchen became even more speechless as he listened, and couldn't help but remind him, "Sir Liang, you are a third-rank official, and you still need to be afraid of him, a fifth-rank imperial censor. Do you think this makes sense?"

Liang Hongkai smiled awkwardly, "I'm about to retire and return to the countryside. I'll be a commoner from now on. How can I not be afraid of him being an official?"

Lu Qingchen raised his eyebrows, "Has His Majesty agreed?"

As far as he knew, Lord Liang was also a strange man in the court. He had been asking the emperor to retire for half a year every year, but was never allowed. Why was he allowed this year?

Sure enough, as soon as he finished asking, Liang Hongkai's eyes immediately became frustrated, and he gritted his teeth and said, "No."

Lu Qingchen smiled secretly in his heart, it was indeed so.

"But..." Liang Hongkai stared at him with a burning gaze and said, "Xiao Qin can't stand up to the Tian family!"

Lu Qingchen was stunned. It seemed to be the case. After all, the body was taken away by that woman!

As they were talking, they had already arrived at the corpse stable.

After the last ant incident, some new plants were planted near the corpse stable, specifically to repel ants, snakes and insects.

Liang Hongkai teased, "Young Marquis, are you coming in?"

Lu Qingchen gritted his teeth and said, "Come in."

The two pushed the door open and saw Qin Miaoxi lying on the chest of the corpse with very ambiguous movements.

Lu Qingchen took a deep breath and rushed forward to pull the man away. "What are you doing? He's dead."

"Autopsy!"

Lu Qingchen gestured angrily, "Is this necessary for an autopsy?"

"of course."

Qin Miaoxi said without looking up, "I didn't find any water plants or mud in Tian Guangyuan's mouth or nose, but I did find cyanosis in his mouth and bite marks on his tongue. It's more like the result of body spasms during suffocation."

She pointed at the body and said, "I just checked his lungs and found no signs of lung expansion, which is consistent with drowning. Therefore, we can conclude that he died of asphyxiation. His hands and feet also showed signs of being tied up, with subcutaneous bleeding and bruising, which were inflicted before his death. The direction of the ropes used to bind him suggests it was someone else who did it."

She said with certainty, "Tian Guangyuan's body was dumped into Xiaoxiang Lake after his death, deliberately creating the illusion of drowning."

Lu Qingchen followed her instructions skeptically, lying on the chest of the corpse, pressing and knocking with his hands to listen for the echo, and sure enough, he did not hear the sound of water accumulation.

"Then how did he suffocate to death?" Liang Hongkai asked in confusion. "There is indeed a thin, light-colored mark under his neck, but could it be that he fell into the lake and got entangled in the water plants?"

The strangulation marks on the corpse's neck were too shallow, unlike normal strangulation marks.

"There are blood spots under the skin of this mark, which was caused before death, but..." Qin Miaoxi hesitated.

"but what?"

Qin Miaoxi pulled out a handkerchief and waved to Lu Qingchen, "Young Marquis, please come over here."

Then she stood behind Lu Qingchen and wrapped her handkerchief around his neck, pulling it back.

"Let me put it this way! If the murderer had strangled the person from behind, the strangulation marks on the neck would have been applied upwards, and the strangulation marks would have been angled upwards, rather than horizontally around the neck as they are now."

Lu Qingchen frowned, "Could it be that the murderer is the same height as the deceased, so the force is applied horizontally and crosswise?"

"Impossible. If the rope had a stress point, there would definitely be marks on the back of the neck from the excessive force. But look at the marks on Tian Guangyuan's neck, the depth is the same. This can only mean that the weapon used to strangle the victim was very special."

Lu Qingchen muttered to himself, "What kind of special method is this? It can only use ropes, silk threads, satin, or any other soft fabric. Can it also use swords?"

Suddenly, Qin Miaoxi's eyes lit up. "I know how he died. He died suddenly between the curtains."

Lu Qingchen and the other two were dumbfounded. "Are you saying that he died in a woman's belly?"

Qin Miaoxi shook her head and said, "Not all curtains refer to sexual matters between men and women. I know that some people, in pursuit of excitement, will use special methods to suffocate themselves, thereby achieving the effect of intoxication. Young Marquis, you are knowledgeable and should know this best."

"Shit, I don't know."

Lu Qingchen's face turned red and white, and finally his whole body was burning.

Liang Hongkai clicked his tongue in his heart. The young marquis was so angry that he forgot to call himself.

[What does this woman mean? I'm a good man who keeps himself clean, how could I know about such messed up things?]

Qin Miaoxi couldn't help but laugh secretly. Who would have thought that this young marquis was so innocent!

[But how did this woman know? Could it be that she...?]

"Cough cough!"

Qin Miaoxi immediately pointed to the strangulation marks on the body and said, "Look carefully, the strangulation marks are located below the cartilage, and I found something on the deceased's underwear that is enough to prove my previous speculation."

Lu Qingchen snatched the underwear from Qin Miaoxi's hand and warned her solemnly, "How can a woman like you touch a man's things? I will take care of these things from now on."

Qin Miaoxi was confused. What did he mean by "he will come later"?

When I turned my pants over, I saw some sticky liquid on the crotch.

This can't be that thing, right?

"When someone dies suddenly while being overly excited, their body will gradually relax, and those things will be excreted, leaving traces behind."

The faces of the two men present turned ugly. Lu Qingchen threw the underwear away and wiped his palms vigorously. They were too dirty.

Qin Miaoxi glared at them unhappily, picked up the underwear and put it away, saying, "However, those special methods are dangerous and can lead to death if not performed properly. Therefore, it is impossible that Tian Guangyuan died alone. There must have been another person."

Liang Hongkai instantly found the direction of the investigation. "Xiao Qin, you continue the autopsy here. I will arrange for them to investigate. Young Marquis, please explain to the Tian family with Xiao Qin."

After saying that, the man ran away.

Qin Miaoxi and Lu Qingchen looked at each other and fell silent at the same time, and the atmosphere became awkward.

"Young Marquis, I'll take care of the Tian family. You can just focus on your own affairs."

He retorted excitedly, "Of course not, the Tian family is sarcastic and mean, how can you go by yourself!"

Qin Miaoxi stood there in a daze, staring at him blankly.

Lu Qingchen then realized that he had been a little too radical. Two blushes suddenly rose on his face. His eyes wandered and he dared not look directly at her. He murmured, "Anyway, I'll go with you."

Qin Miaoxi didn't respond for a long time. He glanced at her guiltily again and again, his heart almost jumping into his throat. Finally, he heard her "hmm" and continued the autopsy.

Lu Qingchen let out a long sigh and followed her closely.

After a while, I realized that I had no idea what she was doing.

He scratched his head in regret, blaming himself for being ignorant and incompetent. Now he could only stand back like a piece of wood.

It took Qin Miaoxi half an hour to finish the inspection. She found some green plants from Tian Guangyuan's fingernails, three silver bills of one hundred taels on the front of his clothes, a bamboo leaf hidden in his hair, and a man's purse.

Lu Qingchen was watching intently when he suddenly made a great discovery. He pointed at the corpse's feet and asked, "Where are Tian Guangyuan's shoes?"

"Ok?"