Chapter 029: The Naked Corpse Case in Yunshui Lane (Part 2)
Seeing Sun Shaozong fiddling with the thing with his sword, turning it over and over for a while, then turning the corpse over and staring at the white buttocks, the horse-faced squad leader felt a dull pain in his anus.
Just as he was secretly sighing at his bad luck for having such a heavy-handed boss, someone behind him suddenly said in a muffled voice, "Erlang, you've been turning this over and over again, have you figured out anything?"
The horse-faced leader was startled and looked back quickly, only to find that it was Jia Lian who had become impatient and finally mustered up the courage to come over - at this time, besides three servants and five strong servants, there was also a handsome young man.
The horse-faced squad leader hurriedly called all the yamen runners to come forward and pay their respects. The crime scene was in chaos for a moment, and only Sun Shaozong stood still, lifting the legs of the corpse and looking them up and down.
But how could Jia Lian have the patience to deal with these "lowly creatures"?
Without blinking, he took two steps closer, patted Sun Shaozong on the shoulder, and said half complainingly and half jokingly: "Erlang, what treasures have you looted? Look at your meticulousness. If someone doesn't know, they might think it's Cao Sikong's tomb raider!"
Sun Shaozong then stood up straight and threw his sword to the horse-faced leader.
The horse-faced squad leader hurriedly took it and saw that the scabbard was obviously stained with some dark yellow dirt. He quickly poked it into the snow and prepared to rub it a few times. Unexpectedly, he heard Sun Shaozong say, "Keep it for now. It is at least a piece of evidence."
exhibit?
The horse-faced squad leader hurriedly picked up the knife again, but after looking left and right, he could not see that these filthy things looked like evidence at all.
Jia Lian, who was standing by, saw a smile on Sun Shaozong's face and asked hurriedly, "Erlang, have you found any clues?"
Sun Shaozong grinned and said, "It is basically certain that this person died of poisoning or was killed by his mistress - the mistress should be a young woman living alone, and she is not a prostitute, but a famous and romantic woman."
Seeing how confident he was in speaking, the people around him couldn't help but feel skeptical.
Others couldn't ask further questions, but how could Jia Lian bear it?
He hurriedly asked, " How do know that the one who killed him was a young and charming woman, and that she was not a prostitute?"
Sun Shaozong pointed at the horse-faced leader and said, "The stuff on the scabbard is usually caused by a venereal disease . I just checked carefully and found that this person's thing is very neat and tidy, without any pimples. It can be seen that this stuff was contaminated from someone else."
After a pause, he continued, "It's not easy to get this stuff on someone other than doing that thing, so I concluded that this man died of poison when he was having sex with a woman, or just after having sex. Only in this way would there be these filth left on the body, and there was no time to clean it up."
Everyone suddenly understood what he said, but he turned around and pointed at the male corpse, saying, "This man's hair is dry and split, the skin behind his ears is rough and dark, and there are many calluses on his feet. It is obvious that he is often on the road."
"But his teeth are very neat, and the skin on his hands is very tender. He also looks like someone who doesn't often exert himself. Combining these two factors, we can basically judge that this person is either a wealthy merchant or the manager of a business."
"A man like him who has some spare money in his pocket would not be interested in those long-time prostitutes. He would most likely look for a young and beautiful woman."
When everyone heard this, they were already greatly impressed.
Especially the yamen runners headed by the horse-faced team leader, they admired him but also felt a little ashamed - they had worked hard for the whole morning, but they didn't get as much as others in just a moment!
Jia Lian continued to ask, "How do you know that the one who killed him must be a young prostitute, not a prostitute in a brothel?"
"Has Second Brother Lian never been to a brothel?"
Sun Shaozong laughed and said, "This body was obviously thrown out last night. There are many people in the brothel every night, and it would be difficult for an ordinary prostitute to make such a big sack in the middle of the night, right?"
Jia Lian was about to retort, saying that many of the courtesans in the brothel were independent.
But he was not a fool after all. He immediately realized that with the financial resources of a traveling merchant, if he wanted to sleep with the courtesan in a brothel, he might even lose everything he had. Besides, what reason would those courtesans have to kill a small traveling merchant?
Seeing that a unsolved case was finally figured out by Sun Shaozong in no time, the spirits of the horse-faced squad leader were lifted.
He held the knife with the "evidence" on it horizontally and said excitedly, "Master, there are only fifteen or sixteen young prostitutes around here at most. My brothers and I will search each of them one by one and bring this vicious woman to justice!"
Having said that, he was about to call on all the yamen runners to act separately.
Unexpectedly, Sun Shaozong said, "Don't worry, I still have a few clues to tell you."
"Any clues?!"
The horse-faced squad leader widened his eyes in astonishment. The previous inference was already amazing enough, but who would have thought that Judge Sun actually found other clues!
Jia Lian was also very interested when he heard this, and hurriedly urged Sun Shaozong to tell the story quickly.
Then Sun Shaozong said, "First of all, it must be an accident that the body was thrown here. I paid special attention to it when I came here. This place is not far from Wanliutang. No matter how you think about it, the body should have been thrown into the pond."
"So I infer that the murderer wanted to transport the body to Wanliutang to dump it, but he got frightened on the way and dumped the body here - so there is no need to check the direction of Wanliutang."
"In addition, there are clear scratches on this person's armpits, shoulders, and ankles, which shows that he was lifted up by two people after his death. This person is only one meter tall... Ahem, this person is less than five feet tall [1.66 meters], and he is very thin. According to common sense, let alone a man and a woman, even two adult women working together can easily move him."
"But there are obvious dragging marks on the body's buttocks. So if nothing unexpected happens, the woman should have only one accomplice, and he was either a minor or a weak old man."
Everyone was stunned to hear that he had even deduced the characteristics of the murderer's accomplice.
But Sun Shaozong's performance was not over yet. He pointed at the corpse and said, "Also, among the murderer and his accomplice, one of them had an injury on his left ring finger. He normally doesn't use much strength, so some of the scratches on his ring finger are very shallow, and some are even invisible. "
"ah!"
As soon as Sun Shaozong finished speaking, the handsome young man beside Jia Lian jumped more than three feet high and shouted excitedly: "I know, I know! It was Sister Feng who killed him. It must be Sister Feng who killed him!"
