Record 173: White Plum Cake
When Li Sicheng saw Zhao Chonghuan coming, he was delighted. He waved to her.
"Master Temple Master! Can the cause of the deceased be found?" Zhao Chonghuan went over and asked.
Xie Changhuai was still standing in his original place, sometimes looking up at the sky cut by the bamboo forest, sometimes condensing Zhao Chonghuan and his group to work, their eyes were quiet and unconscious.
"At present, the deceased has no other injuries except for the deceased, and there is no sign of poisoning, so the cause of her death should be relatively simple, that is, she will die by beheading her head!"
Li Sicheng stood up, took off the cloth gloves on his hand, and took the test of the verb of the member on one side, "But looking at the cutting marks of the wound, the weapon should not be an axe, it should be a sword or other weapon!"
The Dali Temple coroner has been washing and applying various parts of the body with scattered vinegar, and tested it through the fire and light, but no other wounds were found.
Zhao Chonghuan squatted down and took out his homemade gloves from his sleeve. For the first time, he personally tested this woman who had been aware of her spirit for a long time but had not seen her face.
A woman who could fascinate Jia Pingzhang, but she risked the terrible risk of betrayal and being killed to have an incongruous relationship with Jia Zijing. She was really curious about the true appearance of this young lady.
"It seems that this is not a murder scene!" She looked at the dry blood stains on the corpse's head that had gradually become black.
"Yes, there was no large amount of blood splattering on the scene, only some residual blood on the head and neck!" Li Sicheng said, "The possibility of throwing the body is even greater! Unfortunately, all the traces have been destroyed, and the basic physical appearance of the murderer cannot be detected!"
So, where is the first murder scene in Pingzhang’s mansion?
Zhao Chonghuan frowned slightly, focused his attention and carefully inspected the deceased under his command, and silently remembered what he saw in his eyes—
A woman's body was lying on her back south of the bamboo forest of Pingzhang Mansion, lying neatly. Her body was slender and tall, with eyes measuring about five feet per inch. Her jade fingers exposed outside her sleeves had begun to turn green, but her nails were elixirs and pink, and she must have been a beauty who loved beauty when she was alive.
The woman's head and face were blurred by slaughter, and the true face could not be identified. The woman's hairstyle was kept intact, with a butterfly-shaped hairpin on her bun, and there were no other accessories. The earrings on her piercings were strange and unseen.
The skin between the wound at the connection between the broken head and the neck was not concave, which was not like a trace of axe chop. There was a little bleeding around the neck, slightly contaminating the shoulders and the ground. The rest of the area was not injured.
The deceased wore an apricot white silk skirt, with a long garland of the same color on the upper body, and there was little blood stain on the back and collar of the clothes.
There is a pair of exquisite embroidered shoes on the west side of the corpse, which is slightly more steps away from the corpse and is arranged neatly. Putting the shoes on the corpse is just right.
The ground was a little soft and wet after the rain, and had been trampled by several footprints, so it was impossible to tell which ones were the murderer's traces.
Zhao Chonghuan carefully examined the appearance of the deceased, remembering that Jia Zijing recognized the head as owned by Aunt Shi at first sight, but how did the others judge the headless female corpse?
She turned around and asked Li Sicheng: "Sir Sicheng, is this master sure this is Aunt Ten? Why is the basis?"
Li Sicheng said: "It's basically in line with the shape of the clothes and body, and Lord Ping Zhang and Aunt Shi's maid have all come to identify it," he signaled to his shoulder, "There is a tattoo printed on Aunt Shi's shoulder!"
Zhao Chonghuan was slightly surprised. As Li Sicheng said, he reached out and gently pulled away the collar of the Luo skirt, and took it apart and exposed his left shoulder.
There is indeed a petal tattoo with star-dotted gold powder. The shape of the petals is like a pear or a crabapple, and it is gentle and elegant.
Zhao Chonghuan stared at the golden pink petals, and there seemed to be a terrifying geese flying across his mind, and the shadows were like lightning, and it was fleeting in a blink of an eye.
She frowned in confusion, and couldn't think of the abnormality in her mind just now, so she slowly put her clothes back together.
"It is with this tattoo that everyone officially confirmed the headless female corpse Yiner!" Li Sicheng said.
Zhao Chonghuan nodded, picked up the blue hand of the deceased and looked carefully. While concentrating, his originally relaxed eyebrows and eyes became a little calm. She turned around and said, "Shi Cheng, can you borrow your fire cups from villains?"
Li Sicheng also looked at her movements. There were already corpse spots on the end of the deceased's fine white and beautiful fingers, hidden with blood shade, like fire moxibustion marks, slightly blue-black.
"What's wrong with this?" he was puzzled.
Zhao Chonghuan did not respond, but just narrowed his starry eyes and wanted to see clearly. Suddenly a ray of light illuminated the eyes. She looked up in surprise, and the man was squatting beside her with an oil-fire cup.
Seeing her stunned, Xie Changhuai smiled: "She is going to continue!"
Zhao Chonghuan didn't sound, and he really kept checking the deceased's fingers with the lights.
Li Sicheng's eyes moved, and he became more and more impressed by the incomparable accuracy of his foresight of Zhao Chonghuan's courtesy!
"No," Zhao Chonghuan approached the lights and looked carefully, "The corpse spots are aggravated, I'm afraid I'll read it wrong! Master Si Cheng has white plum cakes? The villain needs this thing to be tested!" she said again.
Li Sicheng was stunned and shook his head. He had only read the method of using Baimeicai torture test in books and had not practiced it personally, so naturally he did not prepare such materials.
The coroner of Dali Temple on one side couldn't help but praise: "This young man is indeed an old man. He even knows the method of testing the white plum cakes of the former dynasty's prescription officer! However, unfortunately, even we have never used this method!"
Zhao Chonghuan said modestly: "A villain has read this method and has used it twice when he is curious, which is quite effective!"
"What is the method of using white plum cake to test? What materials are needed?" Xie Changhuai, who had been silently speaking, suddenly said.
Zhao Chonghuan looked back at him and said, "The white plum cake is mainly made of white plum cakes, green onions, Sichuan peppers, and salt. Then it is roasted on the fire. Then stick a piece of paper to the place to be inspected. Iron the white plum cake back and forth on it, and the scars will appear."
"Okay! I'll give it to you later!"
Then Xie Changhuai stood up gracefully, called A Tao, and whispered a command.
When A Tao heard the instructions of Mr. Changhuai, he hurriedly went to prepare.
Everyone else looked at Xie Changhuai's Junya figure in surprise, and secretly ignored it in their hearts.
Zhao Chonghuan lowered his eyes and continued to check other positions, but the eyebrows were as full as the moonlight was on the water, and a ray of light swayed.
After about two incense sticks, Atao, who was quick-witted and skilled, came with what Xie Changhuai told him.
Xie Changhuai personally took a beautiful pottery dish with white plum cakes and handed it to Zhao Chonghuan.
Zhao Chonghuan thanked the other party, took the Tao Die, and started the method of testing the white plum cake as she mentioned in an orderly manner.
Everyone couldn't help but look at the scene in front of them with some excitement and wait for the result with great interest.
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Chapter completed!