Daqing Criminal Division

"Whoever touches a woman, don't shy away from it."

"If a woman dies due to unknown pregnancy, Le Zuo Po will test whether there is a pregnancy in the abdomen. If there is pregnancy, the heart goes down to the navel and pats it with the hands. It is as hard as iron and stone, and it is soft when it is not.

If there is no pregnancy and no scars, Lezuo Poding is in the birth test door, and there may be other things. "

—— "Records of Washing Injustices"

This night, Duan Xiao stayed alone for a long time before finally lying down and sleeping in this state mansion.

When the case was closed last time, the deep cut scar left on his chest has not fully healed yet. Once he goes out, it hurts badly when he touches water, but Duan Xiao doesn't want to continue to apply medicine.

Because sometimes the more discomfort the pain brings, the more awake he can be. His mind often needs to be in a tense state, which is also a personal habit he has always developed.

But as soon as he closed his eyes, the incident that was recalled in his mind before appeared unconsciously in front of his eyes.

In fact, he didn't think much about it before, but after coming to this state because of the case of the dead woman in red shoes, it was still in the dead of night and no one was around, so he recalled it.

Familial psychosis.

——In history, there are many records of such diseases in pharmacopoeias, and the most famous one is the Gao family of Northern Qi Dynasty.

In the history books of the past dynasties, including medical works, there are many mentions of the Gao family. The Northern Qi Dynasty is known as the beast dynasty.

Among them, Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang is a well-known tyrant, moody all day long, and has severe mania and violent tendencies.

Once he got sick, he could dismember other people's corpses in front of the civil and military courts, make the concubine's leg bones into pipas and play them. When he was affectionate, he would hold the corpses and cry loudly. The emotional changes only completed the ups and downs in a short time.

The good doctors of the predecessors had long concluded that all adult males of the Gao family in the Northern Qi Dynasty might suffer from a genetic disease called schizophrenia.

This disorder is a dissociative phenomenon identified in psychological, thinking, and emotional behavior.

It belongs to the most common type of mental illness characterized by incoordination between mental activities and the environment, and it is also a severe mental illness. As for the manifestations in ordinary people, most of them are paranoid, often accompanied by hallucinations, suspicion, and delusions of persecution.

The disease usually occurs in young and middle-aged people.

It is manifested as excessive excitement, speech disorder, incoordination of thinking, emotion and behavior. Once the disease occurs, it is completely reduced to a patient with mental illness.

His father, Duan Qingshan, was such an out-and-out schizophrenic patient.

From Duan Xiao's impressions, most of the time his father looked very normal, with a very good demeanor, came from a family background, and treated everyone well.

At that time in Yanzhou Mansion, the Duan family was well-known as a scholarly family.

But his father preached Confucianism in front of people during the day, and also donated books to give lectures to the people in the state capital.

His mother knew nothing about it.

From time to time, I feel that my husband is under too much pressure outside and behaves differently from ordinary people, but at that time Duan Qingshan is already terminally ill.

The way he vents the pain caused by his mental illness is mostly to torture and abuse Duan Xiao.

Whenever the six relatives do not recognize when the disease occurs, it is accompanied by serious violent and sadistic tendencies.

Every time at this time, Duan Xiao had to endure the cruelest torture brought by his biological father. The iron lock hidden in Duan's house had locked him for ten years, and every time he had to beat him until his skin was torn to pieces.

To make matters worse, all the men in the four generations of the Duan family suffered from this kind of disease, and even he himself was not spared in the end.

It is for this reason that he cannot marry a wife, let alone have children.

Because once he marries a wife and has children like ordinary people, the pain in himself will continue to be brought to the next generation until this mental problem is passed on from generation to generation.

His addiction to pica was initially revealed when he was young.

Because of his father's inheritance to him, and the continuous physical abuse of him at that time, but also because of the inherent mental illness carrying practice of the Duan family.

Practicing calligraphy and reading, he is full of talents, but he is also a terrifying lunatic like an uncertain factor. The Duan family is extremely intelligent, but most of them died young due to schizophrenia.

It is almost impossible to find a way to treat and cure this disease.

Because he is also an adult, he has become settled in terms of xinxing, and it is the same. Since he was a teenager, Duan Xiao has never easily revealed himself in front of people.

He studied, practiced calligraphy, learned chess, and was also proficient in rites and music, and finally passed the exam and became a very famous minister.

But deep down in his heart, he also knew very well that one day, he would have to expose the disadvantages of such a family disease and become a person like his father.

Thinking of this, Duan Xiao, who was alone in the middle of the night with his eyes closed, also fell silent.

If it wasn't for Songyang this time, he might never be able to get married in this life.

Fortunately, someone is a man, and the two of them don't match their names, which saves a lot of trouble.

But although he hasn't shown it for many years, he is not really a normal person. If one day, the real hidden problems in him are accidentally discovered by that person, then maybe... it will be a real trouble.

Duan Xiao thought so, and slowly opened his eyes.

Thinking that he still had serious things to do tomorrow morning, he just looked down at his white and bleak hands expressionlessly, but didn't say much, and fell asleep on his side for a long time.

……

On the second day, early in the morning, it was bright.

There were a few knocks on the door, and as soon as Duan Xiao opened his eyes and got up, the policeman Ma Zixiu went to the temporary mansion to look for them again.

Woke up in the morning with a cup of tea.

He seemed to have returned to normal, and no one else would see that Duan Xiao had any problems last night.

According to the arrangement of the people sent by the government today, Fuchaerji and Nama will go to see the four scattered crime scenes by themselves.

Because Yizhuang in Chuzhou Prefecture happened to be near this official residence, you can go there without a carriage, so another apprentice named Wu Linzhu led him to Yizhuang.

The three of them made an appointment to meet at noon.

When they left, Fuchaerzi and Duan Xiao didn't say much between them. They just kept a business-like attitude of not interfering with each other, and they split up.

On the way to Yizhuang, the apprentice Wu Linzhu led him forward respectfully all the way, and Duan Xiao, who came with his own box, chatted with him from time to time.

This Wu Linzhu is not very old, but his tongue is quite sharp.

He said that policeman Zhang Ji is really very sad now. He handled the case in the early years and finally got a daughter. Now that his daughter is killed, he is so devastated that he can't forgive himself.

In addition, he told Duan Xiao that on the day Zhang Meichu was killed, he followed the officials to see it with his own eyes.

At that time, it was an old butler from the county government under the Chuzhou government who personally picked up the corpse on the river bed. If you say that the female corpse was mostly the same when it was picked up, but the tragic state of Miss Meichu's corpse also frightened Wu Linzhu. light.

"Master Duan, you don't know that the murderer is not as good as a beast. That day... a few boatmen and government servants fished it up with a harpoon from the small boat. , the body was thrown down the river, the water in the stomach had become dead, all the way to the bottom, if it wasn't for the red shoes on the feet, it was hanging on the side of the boat, it might have sunk for a few days No one will find out..."

"So, have those red sleeping shoes been on the feet of Miss Mei Chu and the other three dead?"

Duan Xiao asked.

"Yes, all the time."

Wu Linzhu also replied.

Hearing this, Duan Xiao didn't say much, but narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, and continued walking this time.

It was also outside the righteous village, and the two reached out and pushed the door together to go in. It was the first time he saw the four corpses in this case that had been waiting for his autopsy.

Looking at it this way, Songyang County is no better than this state capital.

Because it is the government office of the state government, the establishment in this Yizhuang is much better than that in the small county government office. The place where the corpses are buried is obviously much larger.

In front of him, the four corpses of the women who had been killed in this case were all side by side, lying naked in the last posture of the state capital in Yizhuang.

Because Wu Zuo is different from ordinary people, in the eyes of Wu Zuo, there is probably no difference between men and women.

So Duan Xiao, who was expressionless, didn't respond when he saw the tragic death of the four naked corpses.

He changed his clothes outside, and took out his usual bone saw, bone knife, hemostat forceps, large curved needle, and a spoon from his box before he came out.

"Wu Linzhu, can you find a piece of paper and pen to help me record the physical signs of the four corpses?"

"Okay, Master Duan."

The apprentice standing aside also said the same thing as he folded his hands.

Hearing this, Duan Xiao nodded, then wiped his hands,

After putting down the towel, he walked up to the corpse and took a look.

Right now, this place is considered big. Black cloth is drawn around the house, and herb and oyster shell ash are lit inside and outside to disperse the smell of corpses.

For the sake of easy identification, the government servants marked the four corpses as A, Ji, C, and D, and Duan Xiao could conduct autopsies on them one by one in this chronological order.

Among these four people, Zhang Meichu was the first to be discovered, and his body was thrown under a river ditch outside the city when he died.

Ruan Xiaoyi was strangled to death, and was also naked when she died, and was thrown behind a Yexiang center below Chuzhou County.

Cao Sun is the only woman who ever gave birth.For having a son.

Her pelvis is the largest among them, and she is also accompanied by some common gynecological diseases and palace pendant diseases.Perhaps it was for this reason that the only perverted murderer who did not rape was Cao Sun, who also cut off her genitals and uterus, and threw them behind Cao's mansion.

The most miserable thing is that prostitute Ma Fenghuang.

Because her body was still abused for a long time after death, so that the lower half of her body was bloody and bloody, and it was very difficult to carry the whole body back to the yamen when it was found.

At this moment, the first body of Duan Xiao, whose body is the most rotten on the surface, and whose original appearance can no longer be seen is the 14-year-old Zhang Meichu.

Her body was also the most immature among them, with shoulder bones, leg bones and hip bones that hadn't grown yet.

The chest has the traces of the white cloth corset that is usually used at home, and the frame is small and weak. From the thin appearance, it looks like a full-fledged little girl.

Because of the high degree of rot, and after another month, her facial features could no longer be seen clearly on her half-dried face, only the mole made her instantly recognizable at that time.

The blackened face can now only see the upturned nasal cavity, and a suction pot gap in the mouth where the flesh has rotted together.

This symptom is mostly choking water in the nose.

Duan Xiao only used the pliers on one hand to probe into her mouth, and sure enough, there was the same river mud in the mouth and throat as in the nose.

This shows that she should have been alive when she was thrown into the river by the murderer that night.

At that time, she was raped and abused by the murderer, but she retained consciousness until she was thrown into the ditch. When she sank, she swallowed a lot of drinking water, and finally drowned to death.

The hair was stained with river mud and sewage when it was fished out.

The officials in Chuzhou did not clean it up completely, but wrapped it in a white cloth to preserve the evidence. Right now, when Duan Xiao lifted the white cloth with one hand, he covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief.

A stench of rotting flesh and corpses filled the nostrils.

It was the same, in order to be able to distinguish the smell, he also removed the veil, leaned down and smelled the smell of the corpse carefully.

This smell was mixed with the smell of river algae and mud, and also mixed with some strange powdery smell. Duan Xiao thought about it and asked Wu Linzhu to record it, and then looked down at Zhang Meichu's hand.

She still had two long red nails with the juice of impatiens when she was fished up.

Such beautiful and fragrant nails.

Duan Xiao had already seen it just now, as Wu Linzhu said, like the red sleeping shoes, the four women had them before they died.

However, according to the results of the first autopsy in Chuzhou, none of them had the habit of dyeing their nails or wearing red shoes during their lifetime.

Except for the No.2 deceased Ruan Xiaoyi and the No.3 deceased Cao Sun.

Both Zhang Meichu and Ma Fenghuang were poor women, and Ruan Xiaoyi's family was originally from a weaving workshop, so she had to do a lot of needlework, so she couldn't do anything even if her nails were stained.

This indirectly shows that this is what the murderer deliberately left on their bodies every time.

In particular, the red nails are fine, but the red sleeping shoes are very strange.

Because the woman's red sleeping shoes were not ordinary cloth shoes.

But since ancient times, it has been specially worn by girls in spring before going to bed. In order to keep their golden lotus feet beautiful when they are asleep, they have to wear red sleeping shoes.

However, after entering the customs in this dynasty, the court has expressly prohibited women from binding their feet.

Because the aunts and grandmothers of the Eight Banners' family used to have big feet, so only in the south of the Yangtze River can we see this foot-binding practice now and then.

But because footbinding is clearly illegal, if anyone finds out, he will be arrested by the government.So the only people who use red night shoes to bind their feet are a few official girls who don't leave the door, the female family members in the inner courtyard, and some prostitutes who are dedicated to this kind of entertainment in the fireworks and willows.

The murderer took great pains to put red nails and red shoes on all four women, which is different from other murderers.

It was also this autopsy, which took Duan Xiao nearly two hours.

In addition to the basic autopsy process, he also asked Wu Linzhu to do something for him at the end of the day. It was also this weird behavior that he noticed a little bit as expected.

Because these four female corpses, apart from their gender, all have one thing in common, that is, their feet are all the same size.

The feet of the four pairs of female corpses are all the size of ordinary people's palms.

And she has not had her feet bound, so she is a girl born with little feet.

After listening to Duan Xiao's words, I measured it carefully and repeatedly with the meter on the side, and it was really four pairs of feet of the same size.

This scene was a bit jaw-dropping.

Especially this kind of victim who seems to have been measured by a ruler and was found to be exact, is the precise target of the murderer. Thinking about it this way, Duan Xiao only listened to Wu Linzhu who was already stunned and asked a question. .

"But Duan, Lord Duan...that's not right. Why, the murderer only wanted to find these little-footed girls, and then deliberately killed them to put on red night shoes?"

Hearing this, Duan Xiao, who had already had some thoughts in his heart, looked down at the four female corpses in front of him expressionlessly, and then said slowly,

"Obviously, because this murderer is a complete... foot fetishist."

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