Chapter 52 HPV
"We need to add another test, which can be done at the Eighth Hospital. The deceased had growths on his vulva and perianal area, and they had been removed. You can see that these are scars left by the surgery. These places are recurrences, which means that the deceased knew what disease he had."
Zhao Xinli blinked his small eyes. He didn't understand and didn't know what Zhou Ning meant.
"What disease?"
"HPV genital warts."
Zhao Xinli shuddered. This thing was as terrifying as HIV. After all, these two diseases were inseparable from the word sex.
Zhou Ning took a deep breath, motioned to Zhao Xinli to take a photo, and then began to dilate with duckbill forceps for inspection.
There was congestion and minor damage in the vagina, which meant that the deceased had had sexual intercourse shortly before death. Zhou Ning quickly took samples from inside the vagina several times, even from the cervical opening. After all, there were likely to be some semen remaining here, and in such a quick-frozen state, they might be able to be preserved.
Zhou Ning stood up and talked to Zhao Xinli while suturing the chest and abdomen of the deceased.
"Send the test tube with the blue cap to the Eighth Hospital laboratory for testing to see if it is HPV. Have the rest of the samples sent to the Municipal Inspection Center and marked. The hair needs to be tested for DNA. If it is not human, I need to know what animal it is."
Zhao Xinli was stunned, blinked his eyes, glanced at the recorder, and saw that it was turned off before he said:
"No, wait a minute, I'm confused. Do you think this is not human hair?"
Zhou Ning nodded.
"I know you think this is pubic hair, but human pubic hair is short and curly, hard and flat, very elastic, and hard and straight. Even if there is a natural curl as you said, there will be traces of trimming at the end, and the cross section is relatively clear."
Zhao Xinli stiffened his neck, looking unconvinced.
"Then maybe it's armpit hair?"
“Although armpit hair is short, curly and extremely soft, these two hairs are too thin and the spirals have no follicles.”
Zhao Xinli smacked his lips and went to arrange the examination without any more words. Not long after he went out, Xiao Liu and Old Man Cui came over with a flatbed cart. Zhou Ning had already finished suturing, and they worked together to send the body out. Zhou Ning began to prepare the autopsy report.
Just then, Xu Dayuan came back and glanced at his watch and the empty dissecting table.
"The autopsy is complete. What are the findings?"
Zhou Ning nodded and waved the splint in his hand.
"Just finished, but haven't tidied it yet."
Xu Dayuan waved his hand.
"Let's go eat something and talk while we eat."
Zhou Ning took off his clothes and put on a white coat. His down jacket was wet by the ice water, so he could only leave it there to dry. After washing his hands, he followed Xu Dayuan out of the autopsy room. At this time, many people were in the yard, so Xu Dayuan just waved his hand.
"Time is tight. I need to get information from the hospital staff later. Let's have a bite of Huainan beef soup at the entrance of the Eighth Hospital. Let's make it clear that I can't go in and order any drinks or expensive dishes. If I want to order, I have to pay for it myself."
Everyone followed suit, all of them were extremely hungry, and shouted as they walked towards the entrance of the Eighth Hospital. Zhou Ning didn't see Zhao Xinli, so he turned around and wanted to take out his cell phone, but Xu Dayuan patted Zhou Ning on the shoulder.
"Don't look for Da Zhao. He's always the first one to come up with food. I told him to let them know that they're ready. Otherwise, there's no end to waiting. Let's go and talk while eating. Don't wait for the test this afternoon. Listen to the interrogation. It might help with your software."
Zhou Ning did not dare to respond. He understood that Xu Dayuan wanted to arrest the laborers, but he did not reject this arrangement of the team. In fact, the more he knew, the more help it would be for his book. After all, readers still wanted to see the final outcome of the murderer.
As they were talking, they arrived opposite the Eighth Courtyard.
There was a small door with the words Huainan Beef Soup written on it. Although it was past dinner time in winter, the place was still full of people. Zhao Xinli pointed to two tables in the outdoor shed and kept waving to the crowd.
After entering the shed, I found that it was quite nice inside. It was not one of those parasols that let wind in the wind from all sides in the summer. This shed had Oxford cloth doors on all four sides and transparent windows. I didn't feel cold sitting inside, especially with the aroma of beef soup filling the air. It seemed that nothing else mattered.
Zhao Xinli pointed at the table and directed everyone to sit down.
There are four bowls on each table, and the rich aroma wafts from them. In the middle of the four soup bowls are four side dishes: spicy cabbage, cucumber with bean curd, cold potato shreds, and spicy kelp shreds.
The plate is not big, but the amount of food on it is definitely enough to fill a large plate. Just looking at the technique of loading the food, you can see the cylindrical shape. It must have been done by Zhao Xinli.
"The four bowls on the table on the left are made entirely of beef, including beef heart, beef blood, beef intestines, and beef head. The four bowls on the table on the right are made of pure beef. They are all set meals.
Each person gets a bowl, choose one and sit down, plus a preserved vegetable meat pie. If you don’t have enough, there are no pie. You have to wait at least half an hour for the next pot to cook. If you see that the pork chops are not burnt, you can eat as much as you want.”
Zhao Xinli's words were very clear. Xiao Liu and a few people on the periphery rushed directly to the beef table. Zhao Xinli blinked and winked at Zhou Ning.
"How about you just finished an autopsy, is it okay for you to eat this? If not, I'll catch someone to replace it for you?"
Zhou Ning waved his hands. He didn't really care. The key point was that he was really hungry, so he sat down next to Xu Dayuan.
Zhao Xinli and He Chunyang were also sitting at this table. The preserved vegetable meat pie seemed to be in short supply, so those who were hungry just took the glutinous rice cake and started eating.
Just as Zhou Ning was about to drink the soup, Zhao Xinli handed him the seasoning box.
"Put your own salt and pepper. There's also chili oil and vinegar over there."
Zhou Ning added some seasoning and stirred the soup. The white soup was not as watery as the ordinary beef offal soup. After drinking a spoonful of the soup, Zhou Ning's hungry and somewhat aching stomach instantly warmed up and his taste buds were awakened.
“This tastes really good.”
Xu Dayuan took a glance and said with a smile:
"He knows all the delicious places in Qindao, not to mention Qidong District. But their preserved vegetable meat pie is the best. They don't even allow takeaway."
Zhou Ning paused his hand that was stretched out towards the fire, and learned from Zhao Xinli how to mix kelp shreds and bean curd into the beef offal soup. He tasted the soup again and found it even more delicious, as if seafood was added to a large pot of beef soup. Even the bean curd was chewy.
After taking a few quick bites, a waiter brought the pancakes, one for each person, and divided them up directly. Zhou Ning looked the soup bowl-sized pancake up and down.
The preserved vegetable meat pie is not made in an electric baking pan. It is a thin, crispy pie baked in an oven, a bit like an ultra-thin naan. When you take a bite, it is so crispy that it crumbles away, and your mouth is immediately filled with the aroma of meat and preserved vegetables.
“Mm, it’s delicious !”
Zhou Ning sighed vaguely and hurried towards the beef soup. Soon, he had finished a pork pie with preserved vegetables, a steamed bun with fried dough sticks, and half a bowl of beef soup.
Zhou Ning rubbed his stomach and hummed comfortably.
"Yeah, it's comfortable. How come I didn't find this store?"
"It was just a stall. They didn't have a fixed location. They just bought the shop more than a month ago."
Xu Dayuan burped, and seeing that there was no one else in the shed, he lowered his voice and asked:
"Xiao Zhou, can you tell me what the autopsy found?"
Zhou Ning wiped his mouth, put the clipboard with the autopsy record on the table, and said while pointing to the location.
"The deceased had dragging injuries on his feet. Although they were antemortem injuries, there was not much bleeding, which occurred before death. In addition, a large amount of bloody foam and drowning fluid were found in the deceased's respiratory tract and lungs. These two points indicate that the deceased was thrown into the water alive and drowned.
The food found in the deceased’s stomach was very delicate, but except for shrimp, they were all vegetables. By the way, that shrimp was our local oyster shrimp. The largest piece found in the chyme was more than 18 mm long.
One shows that although the deceased was trying to lose weight, he ate in a hurry and did not chew thoroughly. After eating, he was in a hurry to meet the murderer, so the chyme was not digested well. In addition, the shrimps are larger than usual. We don’t see such large prawns in the market, unless they are booked in high-end hotels.
The most important point is that there are surgical traces and many growths around the deceased's vulva. I think the deceased was an HPV patient, and she had been treated many times. Her boyfriend or sexual partner would also have corresponding symptoms. "
Xu Dayuan paused.
"Then screen everyone she knows for HPV?"
