Chapter Twenty-Eight Bears the Dead and Kills the Living
Let's talk about the dead man's mouth at that time. He was only over forty years old, and he was very famous in the Yamen. He was at the peak of his age.
In his revolving memory, most of the events of the past fifteen years have been forgotten. Only that rainy night, the door was clear!
That night, it rained heavily, falling like beans, and it was a hot summer night, so his wife cooked him a bowl of fragrant fried noodles.
But just after the chopped green onion was sprinkled on the dead man's mouth, and before he even had time to pick up the chopsticks, the Yamen summoned him back to the autopsy room with an order.
Holding an umbrella and braving the rain, I returned to the autopsy room and found twelve neat corpses placed in front of the dead man's mouth.
There is also a dog.
No matter humans or dogs, they were all changed beyond recognition, as if they had been beaten to death with random sticks, their flesh and blood were bloody, and it was inhumane.
Even Dead Man Zui, who was used to seeing dead bodies, couldn't help but frown.
——The Weishui River is not big, and the number of murder cases is not large, maybe only a few a year.
This is the first time I have seen twelve people die neatly in one death like this. It is also the first time I have seen the mouths of dead people.
However, although these corpses are numerous and shocking in appearance, it is not difficult to examine them.
——They were all beaten to death with maces and the like. Judging from the corpses, there were no traces of resistance. It can be judged that the perpetrators were extremely powerful.
It only took more than two hours for Dead Man's Mouth to examine the twelve corpses and the dog clearly.
Just when he had written the conclusion and was about to hand it in.
In the night, the door opened.
Two masked men in black came in, holding a bright sharp knife against the dead man's mouth and neck, and asked him to change the autopsy record.
But what was the identity of Dead Man Mouth at that time?
The first coroner of the Yamen, he is famous for his integrity and integrity!
Which one are you threatening with?
There is a scar as big as a bowl on my head!
Afraid of you?
He closed his eyes and said, "Just kill me." The autopsy records will never be changed.
But the two masked men were not upset after hearing this, and actually let him go home.
But before they got home, the lousy wife was at the door, crying all the time in the rain, saying that they lost their three-year-old baby just when they went out to pee!
Immediately, it was like being struck by lightning!
For some reason, Dead Man Mouth immediately thought of the two masked men.
After returning to the house, the two masked men were already waiting inside.
The dead man opened his wife's mouth.
One of the masked men said that if Dead Mouth did not change the autopsy records, it would be fine, then those five members of his Dead Mouth family would be lying in the autopsy room tomorrow.
This famous coroner never expected that the other party would be so vicious that he would threaten his wife, children and mother.
Suddenly, I was in a dilemma.
On the one hand, there are the strict teachings and professional ethics of the master, and on the other hand, there is the wealth and life of the whole family.
The dead man's mouth was in extreme pain and entanglement.
Finally, his body stooped and his eyes dimmed, like a zombie, he returned to the autopsy room in the rain.
Following the instructions of the two masked men, the autopsy records were finally changed.
——Originally, in the eyes of the dead, the twelve corpses were beaten to death with weapons such as maces; but under the threat of the masked man, they were changed to being beaten to death with "mace weapons."
As for the rest, it remains intact.
After changing the autopsy records, the two masked men no longer troubled him, and his children returned home at noon.
It's as if nothing happened.
The only thing that was heard was the threat from the two masked men - if the dead man dared to reveal what happened today, his whole family would not be safe.
After that incident, Dead Man's Mouth sat on the threshold of the autopsy room for a day without saying a word.
But in the evening, when he stood up, his body stooped a little, as if his backbone had been taken away.
He lied about the autopsy.
But at this time, he still hadn't thought that the real nightmare had just begun.
Generally speaking, those criminals who want to use connections to modify autopsy records usually do so to exonerate someone.
I have encountered Dead Man's Mouth several times before, such as trying to change a strangled corpse into one that hanged itself.
If you commit suicide, there will naturally be no murderer.
Of course, these guys were all sternly rejected by Dead Man Mouth.
Because of this kind of thing, I feel sorry for the deceased.
The dead cannot speak, so the examiners become others' mouths. If they tell nonsense, the truth about the deceased will never be revealed.
But what he never expected was that this time the two masked men asked him to change the autopsy records, not to escape guilt.
But... guilty.
It was only after this incident that the dead man, who was focused on autopsy and did not ask about other things in the yamen, found out.
——In the entire Wei River, there are only two people who can make a pair of mandarin ducks and copper maces.
Those were the chief arrester, Yu Tiesheng, who was known as the Iron-faced God, and his wife Yu, who was also the arrester.
On the second day, there was a secret trial at the Yamen.
In the hall were the chief minister of the Wangqi Department, the county magistrate and the principal.
Down the hall were two rows of officers and soldiers, surrounding the twelve murdered corpses and Yu Tiesheng and his wife.
Pieces of evidence were put forward, and witnesses came out to testify one by one, vividly depicting a tragic case of killing a family on a rainy night!
In the end, the police couple were convicted of murder and family extermination, and were thrown into prison to be executed at a later date, implicating future generations!
At the end of the court session, everyone was dumbfounded.
He had no idea that the autopsy records that he had edited under threat would become the key to the conviction of these two admirable detectives.
By changing the autopsy records, he not only failed the twelve tragic-looking corpses, but also harmed the living people!
At that moment, the dead man's face turned pale, his whole body could not help but tremble, and his heart was extremely tormented. But thinking about his wife, children, and children at home, he really did not have the courage to retract his confession in court.
The final result was that the police couple had their heads chopped off and their children became criminals.
The scene that I will never forget is that in the courtroom, Yu Tiezuo looked at all of them calmly without saying a word.
This sight was like a nightmare that would accompany him for more than ten years.
Every time I think about it, I feel like I'm sitting on pins and needles and my whole body is tingling!
From then on, the dead man quit his job as a coroner and went crazy. He drank to drown his sorrows all day long and turned into a joke.
Finally, I walked out of the house and never went back, living on the streets and begging for a living.
These years, the dead man's mouth has been extremely painful.
Countless times I wanted to go to the graves of the policeman and his wife and kowtow to apologize, but every time I didn't have the courage.
Finally, at a tiger-head banquet fifteen years later, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a young man who looked like Yu Tiezhu at the table next to him.
Immediately, the two figures overlapped in the dead man's eyes, making him seem to have returned to that courtroom again.
In a daze.
Even the delicious tiger feast was tasteless.
Finally, he accidentally swallowed a huge piece of tiger tendon, choked his throat, and died.
And until his death, he never fulfilled his last wish, which was to go to the grave of the policeman and his wife and kowtow to apologize!
I will never die with my eyes closed!
Watched the revolving door.
Yu Chen remained silent.
Sitting blankly in the earthen house, under the wall, on the bench, I sat there all day long.
It wasn't until night fell that I finally came back to my senses.
When the revolving lantern saw this, how could he still not understand?
In the dead man's memory, the police officer couple who were wrongly accused were none other than his father and mother.
And the culprit who was implicated was himself.
Chapter completed!