Getting back to business, several people began to exchange the conclusions of the crime scene and the autopsy.

Luo Yihe nodded at Chu Su, "Bring me the picture book!"

Chu Su hurriedly ate his hands clean and took out his picture book.

Xuanwei was about to pick him up, but Luo Yihe rushed him there first.

"The paper is covered with oil." Luo Yihe opened it in disgust and showed it to her, "Here, this is the crime scene of the mainland collector. Have you just examined his body? Combined with the scene,

What do you think?"

Chu Su's white painting of the scene was very clear and clean. Xuanwei looked at it carefully for a while, pointed to the folding screen in the picture with the deceased pressed on it and asked: "What pattern is engraved on the waist of this screen?"

"Haha! I knew you would notice this." Luo Yihe said with a smile, "I specially made it clear. On this 20% fold screen, a story of the Three Kingdoms is engraved on the waist of each side."

"Three Kingdoms?"

There were so many stories about the Three Kingdoms, how could she know which one it would be? Xuanwei was a little speechless, but suddenly remembered that Prison Secretary Liu in the third case had a volume about the crimes of the former magistrate of Xunzhou, and guessed: "The story of Yang Song?"

Yang Song was a traitor in the Three Kingdoms. Xuanwei was thinking that the former magistrate of Xunzhou was also a traitor. This charge seemed to be that the murderer deliberately left it next to Liu Yusi's body.

If the story of the Three Kingdoms on the screen that crushed Collector Lu to death had murderous intentions, it might have been the traitor Yang Song.

"No, no, no," Luo Yihe shook his finger, "It's the story of Lu Bu killing Ding Yuan."

Uh. Xuanwei was shocked. Lu Bu killed Ding Yuan? The son killed his adoptive father?

What do you mean, could there be a sworn relationship between Collector Lu and the murderer?

"I saw the same expression on your face at that time." Luo Yihe smiled and raised his hand to pinch her face, but then realized that his hands were stained with meat oil, so he took it back, "It wasn't until I saw the second one.

At the scene of the case... I finally understood the connection between the clues of the three current cases."

He turned to the next page of the picture book.

"I went to see the scene, but I was afraid that it would be too abstract to tell you, so I asked Chu Su to draw another one. You see, the second deceased pawnshop owner was smashed under this birch table."

Xuan Wei took a closer look and found that unlike Collector Lu, who died with his back on his back, the deceased in the painting died lying on his back, leaning on a birch wood table.

"This is the initial crime scene. The tabletop is close to the body of the deceased." Chu Su explained from the side, "Then according to the second master's instructions, we drew the tabletop pattern and put it on the next page."

Xuanwei turned it over and looked at the desktop pattern. There was a phoenix engraved on it.

A phoenix looking upward, looking up from below.

Xuan Wei stared at the extremely carefully and clearly painted phoenix and looked at it again and again, and then he realized: "'treachery'."

While the three of them gathered together to look at the pictures and discuss, Chu Yanmei finished the barbecue and wiped her hands and came closer: "What kind of treachery? How did you see it?"

"What is engraved on this table is the Five Virtues Phoenix." Xuan Wei explained:

"The ancestors endowed the five virtues of human kindness on different places on the body of the divine bird Phoenix. The five virtues are virtue, righteousness, etiquette, benevolence, and faith. Among them, 'righteousness' is on the back of the phoenix, and 'faith' is on the abdomen. 'Treachery'

The meaning is that if you put the word 'faith' on the back by mistake, then the word 'righteousness' must be removed, which is called 'betrayal'."

Chu Yanmei understood, but she didn't fully understand: "But the phoenix carved on the table has its 'letter' on the abdomen, not on the back?"

"Silly girl, didn't you see that the deceased on the previous page was facing up?" Luo Yihe squinted at her angrily, "The deceased's back is against the 'letter' on the belly of the phoenix on the table. Isn't that a 'breach of trust'?"

Chu Yanmei sighed and suddenly realized. Xuan Wei also suddenly realized: "So that's it...the information of these three cases is not directly connected, but the core can be connected through the five virtues!"

Lu Bu killed Ding Yuan, and the son committed patricide, thus losing the five virtues; the former magistrate of Xunzhou colluded with the powerful to oppress the people, and also lost the five virtues.

"But the connection is still very weak." She thought about it and felt a little discouraged. "Anyone who has a grievance and takes revenge will mostly think that the victim has lost his five virtues first."

"So we need to combine the autopsy." Luo Yihe comforted her, "Tell me, what are the connections between these three ways of death, and what are the differences?"

Xuan Wei came to the biggest conclusion: "They were not 'smashed to death', but 'crushed to death'."

Chu Su and his sister had the same doubt: "What's the difference?"

"'Smashing to death' was established in a very short period of time. It focuses on heavy objects hitting people hard in an instant, causing serious bone fractures or organ rupture, and death will occur soon." Xuan Wei explained in detail:

"The establishment of 'crushing to death' takes a relatively long time, focusing on the fact that heavy objects press on the person's body for a long time. The accumulation of time will cause severe squeezing, which will block the meridians and cause internal organ failure. The first one to bear the brunt is the kidneys.

'So, those who were 'crushed to death' would have obvious fatal injuries, but those who were 'crushed to death' would not have any. There were only traces of squeezing on their bodies, but that was not fatal. What was really fatal was their kidneys.

Rapid depletion."

Chu Yanmei stared at her as if she had seen a ghost: "You didn't come to this conclusion after autopsying many dead people's kidneys, right?"

Xuanwei lowered his eyes and said: "That's true. Before I left the army, I used some unclaimed prisoner corpses for training. Among them, the kidneys of the criminals who died from shackles were... hmm?"

Shackles?

Xuan Wei suddenly opened his eyes, and a flash of inspiration flashed through him.

"Shackle punishment?" Luo Yihe also snapped his fingers, his eyes sparkling, "It's the kind of shackles that use very heavy shackles and put them on the necks of prisoners who are unwilling to confess, and keep increasing the weight until

They couldn't bear the punishment so severe that they confessed?"

Since the founding of the Chu Kingdom, Da Chu did not like to use too bloody punishments. Therefore, those tactics of extracting confessions that often saw blood were changed to less bloody ones, such as shackles.

Xuan Wei stared at him blankly and murmured: "That's right, and this kind of torture to extract a confession can easily lead to death... Either the weight is accidentally added too much and the prisoner's neck is broken; or the shackles are removed after the prisoner confesses.

When the board was removed and the weight on the prisoners was suddenly lifted...it actually led to their death!"

"Why is this? He died after lifting the weight?" Chu Su asked with a frown.

It is not that he has never used shackles in his punishment department, and there have indeed been cases where prisoners confessed and died inexplicably after taking off the shackles. However, no one has found out why this happened.

"You stupid guy." Luo Yihe scolded him with a smile, "Let me ask you, if there was a flood in Taozhou, would you order people to close the gates of the dam to stop the incoming flood?"

"Definitely not!" Chu Su said, rubbing his head. Although he was not a flood control expert, he definitely had this bit of common sense:

"The gate may be able to hold back the flood for a while, but if the flood accumulates too much, sooner or later it will break through the gate and surge out! It would be much more terrifying to rush out the accumulated flood than if it were not blocked!"

"So this is the principle of shackles, you silly guy." Luo Yihe laughed and pushed him.

"...," Chu Su was stunned, then slapped his thigh, enlightened.

I see!!
Chapter completed!