Situ Ce asked: "Where was the last person who saw the deceased? Who was it?"

Long Xiang said: "It was on the morning of the first day of the discovery of the body, about fifty miles away from the place where the body was thrown. They stayed there overnight the night before, and left after breakfast the next morning, and no one had seen them since then. Until the next morning, the villagers went to the field to work and found their bodies."

"Have the postmaster asked? Are there any suspicious figures following them?"

"I asked, I was arrested and questioned. I just said I didn't see it."

"Where are you going from the post station to the place where the body is thrown? Have you visited?"

"We also visited along the way, mainly to check whether there were any eye-catching strangers, or whether we saw a carriage passing by, who was driving the carriage, etc. We checked them all, and used all the eyeliners to check for suspicious clues. I think we have used all the solutions we can think of, but there is no result yet."

Situ Ce smiled bitterly. The Jinyiwei was not a false reputation. Its eyes were widespread. It was spread all over the place. Investigation and visiting was the most good and most commonly used method of solving problems in ancient times. If they could not find the result, what new tricks could they have? So, Situ Ce said: "I am afraid I can't help you in this case. You have already thought of everything I can think of and have done it. There is no clue in this way. What else can I do?"

Long Xiang regretted that he had said everything he had died, which scared Situ Ce and hurriedly changed his words: "A hundred secrets are a secret. No matter how careful we are, there are always times when we can't imagine it. Moreover, you know that your magic is very useful to solve cases. After so many days, many cases have been solved continuously, and they all rely on your magic. This time, you have to help us no matter what, otherwise, Lord Yang said that he is in trouble, and we don't expect a good life below, especially the Jinyiwei in Zhenhai County. The things were thrown away by our Jinyiwei, and the people were killed. If he was dismissed by Lord Tongzhi, he would not let us go if he was dismissed. He would be killed by him."

Situ Ce said: "Since that's the case, I'll give it a try. First go to the morgue to see the two killed servants and see if there are any clues."

Long Xiang hurriedly agreed and took Situ Ce to the morgue of the Jinyiwei Yamen.

This morgue is much better than that of the yamen. It is in the basement, and the four walls, including thick bluestone, are neatly shaped by the four corners of the house, separated by thick quilts to absorb heat, and the entrance is divided into three doors. Each door has ice cubes on both sides to form an isolation belt. The entire underground morgue is like an ice cave.

It seems that the ancients have clearly realized that low temperatures are conducive to the preservation of corpses. Many cases solved by Jinyiwei are major cases that are concerned by senior officials at all levels, and it is naturally not neglected when it comes to preservation of corpses. Therefore, the underground morgue that preserves corpses is also advanced in equipment. It is not something that ordinary financial resources can do.

When we arrived at the door, there was a special locker room with thick cotton jackets. The two changed into it. The attendant on duty opened the thick doors layer by layer. One of the attendants carried a horse lantern and led the two through the long passage full of ice, lit the lamps all the way, and waited for them to pass, and then the attendants were blown out behind them to minimize heat.

They kept going down the stairs and walked down the ground. After a long time, they arrived at the underground morgue.

The morgue is divided into several small rooms, each surrounded by ice walls.

The attendant led them to one of the rooms, opened the door, lit the lantern, and closed the door after the two of them entered.

In the middle of this room, there were two large beds made of bluestones, and ice was placed under the bed. Two corpses were lying on the bed, all over the body, and nothing was covered.

Long Xiang said: "This is Lord Wei's victim's servant. The wound is at the back of his head."

Situ Ce lowered his head and found that both bodies had mild symptoms. The body surface was checked, and there was no other trauma except for the three sharp weapons on the back of the head.

Situ Ce said: "I want to dissect the body."

"Anatomy?" Long Xiang was stunned for a moment and said embarrassedly: "This is Lord Wei's servant. Although he is a slave, hehe, hey, please don't."

Situ Ce sneered, bowed his hand, and said nothing, turned around and left.

Long Xiang hurriedly caught up and said, "Brother Liuchuan, where are you going?"

"Since I'm not allowed to be dissected, I'm really powerless in this case. Why are I still staying here if I don't leave?"

"Is this... really necessary to be dissected?"

Situ Ce stopped, turned around, and said, "Anatomy is just to further identify the cause of death and find clues. Of course, there may be nothing to be found, but how can you know that there is no gain if you don't have an anatomy?"

"That's it..." Long Xiang hesitated for a moment, bit his steel teeth, and said, "Okay! Since that's the case, then let's dissect it. I'll take care of anything. Anyway, if the case cannot be solved, I'll do the best of this test."

Situ Ce nodded and continued to walk out. Long Xiang was stunned again and hurriedly caught up and said, "Are you going to dissect it? Where are you going?"

"When you go back to get something, you must have a special scalpel tool for dissecting it. Just relying on a common rotten kitchen knife or your embroidered spring knife, no matter how sharp it is, it will not work without help."

"Okay, then I'll go with you!"

The two left the morgue, and it was already full of colorful clouds. They hurried back to the yamen, took the survey box, and returned to the morgue of the Jinyiwei yamen.

Situ Ce said: "Sorry, when I dissect, I need to cast spells, but when I cast spells, there is no one else present, so you have to avoid it."

"No problem!" He Longxiang said with a smile, exited the door and pulled up the door.

Situ Ce checked the wound and found that it was two sharp angles, with smooth cavity and no inter-tissue bridge in the middle, which indicated that it was a double-edged sharp weapon, which might be a sword or a double-edged dagger.

Then he took out the anatomical tool and started dissecting it. First, the head part was found, and the three blades had pierced the brain stem of the deceased, and the knife was fatal. The depth was not very deep. Judging from this, the weapon was probably a double-edged dagger.

No other trauma was found in the head, and no fractures or subcutaneous bleeding were found in the neck, which could rule out mechanical asphyxiation.

Continue to dissect the chest and abdomen, and there are no obvious damage or lesions in the internal organs.

Finally, through dissection, it was confirmed that the judgment of the Jinyiwei was correct, and the deceased died of brain trauma in the back of the brain.

Finding out the cause of death was not the main purpose of Situ Ce's dissection this time. What he wanted to do was to find as many clues to solve the case as possible.

The deceased finally saw them at the post station, and then until the next morning, the body was discovered, fifty miles apart from the post station to the place where the body was found. The deceased should have been murdered at this distance. Fifty miles is still too wide to detect the investigation. Even institutions like the Jinyiwei, which have a wide range of eyeliners, have not investigated any useful clues, which is enough to show that the scope of the detection must be further narrowed. It is best to find the first scene where the deceased was killed. Only there can be as many clues as possible.
Chapter completed!