The Delicate Lady Coroner Chapter 65: Sihexiang 05

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Chapter 65 Sihexiang 05

The next day it was not bright yet, and Bo Ruoyou got up. When he was having breakfast, he saw that Cheng Yunzhi was a little absent-minded. Bo Ruoyou didn't ask, and after finishing breakfast, he called Zheng Liang aside. , "Uncle Liang, what did your foster father tell you to do in the past two days?"

Zheng Liang became a little nervous when he heard this, and he lowered his eyes and did not dare to look at Bo Ruoyou. Bo Ruoyou's narrow eyes asked, "Did your adoptive father ask you to inquire about the Bo family?"

Zheng Liang raised his head with surprise on his face, and Bo Ruoyou sighed, "When my adoptive father comes back this time, I can see that he wants me to recognize my ancestor and return to the clan, but in these years, the Bo family has never Just ask, I don’t think about them anymore."

Zheng Liang saw that Bo Ruoyou had guessed it, so he smiled bitterly and said: "Miss, for no other reason, if you want to get married in the future, you must have a family background, not to mention that you are Miss Bo. Why not fight for it?"

Bo Ruoyou thought for a while, "Then what did you find out?"

Zheng Liang said hurriedly: "I just returned to the capital a few days ago and went to Changlefang for a tour. The Bo family's old house has not changed. Now the eldest master is on duty at the Ministry of Industry. He seems to be just a fifth-grade member. , the second master is taking care of the family business, and nothing else. Oh, the eldest lady is already engaged, and the eldest young master is now studying in the Imperial College, and I heard that he is very knowledgeable."

This news was unexpected by Bo Ruoyou. In her father's generation, the only one who stood out was her father. Later, her father died, and it was difficult for Bo to have a place in the court. As for taking care of things, Business, getting engaged and going to school for the younger generation are just what ordinary families do.

Bao Ruoyou nodded, "My foster father doesn't want to tell me, so I'll just pretend I don't know. You can persuade my foster father. If I came back to Beijing just to enter that old house, it really doesn't look like me." ."

Zheng Liang hurriedly responded. Bo Ruoyou saw that it was getting late, so he planned to go to the Yamen.

Zheng Liang prepared his carriage and horses, and the two of them arrived at the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion together. Unlike yesterday when they were left alone, as soon as Bao Ruoyou arrived at the door today, a Yamen official came to greet him, and when he entered, there were clerks to guide him. , and went straight into the back hall where guests were entertained and discussed.

Sun Zhao was at the Yamen. Hearing that Bo Ruoyou had arrived so early, he also came out to greet him, "Xiao Bo is so early..."

Bo Ruoyou said, "Because I have a case in the past two days, I thought I might be able to help."

Sun Zhao led her in with a smile and asked her to sit down. After waiting for tea, Sun Zhao said: "Xiao Bo, I heard from Wu Xiang yesterday. He said that you are very good at autopsy. The Marquis recommended you." It's very reasonable, but you are a girl. No matter whether you have a case or not in the future, you don't have to come so early. If you are happy, come to the Yamen for a visit. If you feel tired or encounter any wind or rain, Yes, you can just rest at home, and according to my opinion, you can't be too busy. Your salary is the same as that of a government official, so you, a little girl, don't have to work so hard."

Bo Ruoyou heard it, and it was just to let her live a leisurely life. After thinking about it, Bo Ruoyou felt that this was all because of Huo Weilou, so he only asked: "Sir, do you think I can do autopsy?" Not superb enough?"

Sun Zhao said hurriedly: "No, no, no. Wu Xiang has been a head catcher in the government office for many years and has seen several widowers. He said that you did the autopsy very carefully. Although you are a little girl, you are not afraid of hardship. Tired, I believe what he said."

Although Bao Ruoyou was sitting, her back was straight, her features were pretty, and she looked like a fairy. Just looking at her like this, it was hard for people to associate her with a corpse. When she heard this Chu spoke softly again, "Since you don't question my autopsy skills, please don't treat me as a woman. If there is a case that requires an autopsy, you can send me to it."

Sun Zhao's smile was a little stiff. Bo Ruoyou seemed young and careless, but behind her was Wu Zhaohou. Sun Zhao couldn't understand that Huo Weilou didn't keep the beauty in the house but sent him to the Yamen to be with the corpse. , and more importantly, gave him a hot potato, "This is natural, you still have to show your talents to some extent——"

Bao Ruoyou was a little helpless, "Sir, the Marquis told me last night that since I came here on his recommendation, I must not lose his face. If you don't let me do something because of your sympathy, I'm afraid it will spread. Everyone thought that Mr. Hou was showing favoritism."

Sun Zhaozai looked at Bo Ruoyou carefully and saw that her expression was calm and not pretending, so he leaned forward and said: "Xiao Bo, although this is the second time I see you, I feel that you are different from others. The little girl is very different. Tell me the truth. Did the Marquis recommend you here because he really wants you to show your talents? Are you not afraid of hardship?"

Bo Ruoyou nodded naturally and said, "I know what you are worried about, but you don't need to think too much." After a pause, Bo Ruoyou said simply: "The reason why the Marquis recommended me is because I went south. I helped Mr. Hou solve two cases by performing autopsy, so he was appreciated by him. Mr. Hou cherished his talent, so he made an exception and recommended a woman. Mr. Hou and I have only known each other for two months."

Sun Zhao was stunned when he heard this. As a court official, he knew very well what case Huo Weilou was going south to handle. It turned out that Bo Ruoyou was Huo Weilou's acquaintance in the south. They had known each other for two months. That was really true. It's not as complicated as he thought.

Sun Zhao felt relieved. He had been working for Jing Zhaoyin for many years. Of course, he was not only able to guess Shangfeng's thoughts. Since Bo Ruoyou had done errands for Huo Weilou and was appreciated by him, then she must have real materials. , if it can really be used by the government, it will be beneficial and harmless.

He quickly asked: "Did you handle both of the two cases Mr. Hou went south to?"

Sun Zhao is the chief official of Jingzhao Mansion and has Huo Weilou's approval. She doesn't have to hide it from him, so she said: "Yes, I was helping the Qingzhou Mansion before. When the Marquis arrived at the Anqing Marquis Mansion, It was me doing the autopsy."

Sun Zhao asked again: "What about the other case? Did the Marquis take you to Luozhou?"

Bao Ruoyou nodded, Sun Zhao sat up straight, his eyes changed when he looked at Bao Ruoyou...

Soon, he leaned forward again and lowered his voice and asked: "So, the Anqing Marquis Mansion really hid a twin daughter? In the Luozhou case, was Wang Qingfu of Taichang Temple really the culprit ten years ago?"

Sun Zhao looked like he was trying to find out the secret, which made Bao Ruoyou a little funny, and she nodded.

Sun Zhao looked satisfied with the affirmative answer, "It turns out that it's all true. You don't know that the two sects run by the Marquis in the south caused a lot of turmoil in the court. One was originally the second prince's concubine. A story involving several fourth-rank officials in the DPRK and China was reported back to the capital. Everyone only dared to discuss it in private. Now there is no conclusion, but they don’t expect you to be the person handling the case."

At this moment, Sun Zhao realized that Huo Weilou had not stuffed him with a hot potato, but recommended a treasure to him. His eyes straightened and he said: "Since you can help Mr. Hou solve those two cases, I want to decide You are a talented person, and you said that you don’t need to be treated as a woman, so I will ask you to do errands.”

This is what Bo Ruoyou wants, "My lord, just give me your orders."

Sun Zhao then said: "You should have seen it when you came in just now. Wu Xiang is not here today, and the number of yamen officials has been reduced by half."

Bo Ruoyou nodded, and Sun Zhao's eyes looked a little gloomy, with a hint of Jing Zhaoyin's authority on his face, "Another person died last night. Someone reported it to the official before you came, and Wu Xiang just brought someone with him. It hasn’t been long since I left.”

Bo Ruoyou's expression changed slightly when he heard this, "Another person died?"

"Yes, and the deceased are both women." Sun Zhao sighed, "I don't know what the situation is, but I have found several female corpses recently. This is not a good sign. It has just begun the first month. If the emperor's feet were born within a month, After a few murder cases, I have to take off the black hair on my head and let it go."

The administration of officials in the capital is a top priority. Any disturbance will be spread to the palace accidentally. If there is trouble in the capital, the first person to be blamed is Sun Zhao. Naturally, he feels great pressure.

Bao Ruoyou stood up and said, "Since we have just left, could you please send someone to take the girl to the place where the crime occurred? The girl also wants to take a look. If there is evidence left at the place where the crime happened, the case can be solved." It will be broken in a short time."

Before, Sun Zhao didn't know Bo Ruoyou and was afraid of Huo Weilou, so he had many concerns, thinking that maybe she didn't know how to do autopsies at all, or that her autopsy skills were superficial and she just wanted to have fun, or that she was very good at autopsy but relied on her Huo Weilou refused to accept the assignment, or most women in the world are delicate. If he complained about suffering for three days and was tired for two days, it would be his fault when he came to Huo Weilou. But he didn't expect that Bo Ruoyou said he was here on an errand, so he took it seriously. He was on an errand, and just the neatness of saying he wanted to go to the place where the crime occurred made him feel at ease.

"Okay, I'll send someone to take you there right now, just to the east of the city."

As he said that, Sun Zhao called an official to come in, "This is He Chang, ask him to take you to the place where the crime occurred." After saying that, he told He Chang, "Take care of me. When I see Wu Xiang, Just say I ordered Xiaobo to go."

He Chang is a young government official who is less than ten years old. He is not tall, but his face is quite upright. In particular, his black and white eyes are looking at Bo Ruoyou curiously, but he does not feel rude. , He has a youthful spirit that makes people feel friendly just by looking at him.

"Miss Bo, please——"

He led the way, and Bo Ruoyou said goodbye to Sun Zhao and left the house.

Bao Ruoyou was riding in a carriage, and He Chang was driving the horse. He followed the carriage and said, "The body was found by the Yuxi River."

The Yuxi River is an inland river in the city. It winds across the east of the city and finally converges to Weiyang Lake in the west of the city. Bo Ruoyou frowned slightly when he heard this, because Changxingfang is not far from the Yuxi River. .

We walked through the streets and alleys all the way, and when we arrived at the Yuxi River, we randomly asked people and found the place where the crime occurred. The place where the crime occurred was a bit remote, but there were also markets around. People who reported to the police in the morning It was a restaurant boy, and he had been discovered for a long time. Before he could get closer, he saw many people gathered at the fence by the river.

The government officials were guarding the fence, constantly urging the people to stay away, but Wu Xiang was not seen yet.

He Chang was wearing the official uniform of the Yamen. He dismounted from the horse far away, and Bo Ruoyou also got off the carriage. Uncle Liang followed, and the three of them went to the river together. Seeing that the Yamen official was coming, the people naturally got out of the way, but Bao Ruoyou also followed, which surprised the onlookers.

"Who is this girl? How can this girl go in and see?"

"It looks like a young lady from some family. Could it be that she is here to identify the body?"

The people were talking a lot, but Bo Ruoyou ignored it. When he walked to the guardrail, he saw Wu Xiang and five or six people standing on the half **** of the river beach. The water level of the Yuxi River was quite high in summer. It was only February, and the deepest part of the river was full of people. The gentle slopes of a large river beach were exposed, and the body that was found was exposed on the river beach.

Bao Ruoyou hadn't even come close yet, but after just a quick glance, her brows furrowed.

The corpse is lying prone and its face cannot be seen clearly, but one can tell that it is a woman by the long hair and figure. Although her dress is stained with a lot of mud, it can still be seen that it is a bright red color. .

The victim was another woman in a red dress.

"Miss Bo, go down the stairs over there." He Chang pointed to the stone steps not far away.

Bao Ruoyou nodded. The yamen guarding outside was a little surprised to see He Chang, but did not dare to stop him. Wu Xiang was talking to the yamen below. When he turned around and saw Bo Ruoyou, he immediately took a bite. shock.

He Chang stepped forward smartly, "Kor Angkor, I was asked to bring Miss Bo here. Miss Bo is here for an autopsy."

Wu Xiang looked Bo Ruoyou up and down for a moment and said, "You are very diligent, Xiao Bo. I thought you left with the Marquis yesterday and it would be a few days before I see you again."

Bo Ruoyou laughed, "Brother Wu, please stop teasing me. Now that I have arrived at the Yamen, I will not be rude. What is the situation now?"

Wu Xiang spoke solemnly, "There is a restaurant on this bank. There is a narrow pedestrian path next to the river embankment. On weekdays, most people would choose to walk in front. This morning, the waiter in the restaurant came here to drink. I found her when I was in the water. She was already dead, with external injuries on her body. The cause of death is still unknown. I just came here and asked people to check around, but they haven’t found out that the girl is missing."

Bao Ruoyou nodded and began to roll up his sleeves. The corpse was immersed in water from the waist down. The clothes were covered with mud. The hair was piled randomly on the nape of the neck. The exposed neck, hands and feet were all blue and white. The condition is that it has been soaked in water for a long time.

Bao Ruoyou took out his gauntlet and put it on, then inspected the body on the spot. While inspecting it, he asked, "When we came here, could we find any footprints on the river beach?"

Wu Xiang shook his head, "No, the waiter who found the body was afraid and did not dare to come down. Later, although there were many people, no one dared to come down to check."

Bo Ruoyou responded, then stared and stopped talking. She focused on the autopsy, regardless of what the officials around her were saying, and she didn't look at what the people on the case were pointing at her.

Wu Xiang looked on, inexplicably feeling that Bao Ruoyou at this moment was a bit shocking.

"Due to the different pelvises of men and women, people who usually drown are usually prone on their stomachs and women on their backs. It's a bit strange for her to be lying on her stomach like this." Bao Ruoyou said, after taking a look at it a priori. The corpse was turned over, face up, and a young woman's face was immediately revealed. Because she was killed not long ago, her appearance did not change much, and she looked like she was only fifteen or sixteen years old.

She had a bright face, but she closed her eyes forever at this moment. A trace of mud fell on the tip of her pale nose and forehead. Bo Ruoyou raised his hand and wiped the mud clean.

Bo Ruoyou frowned slightly. The clothes on the deceased were not scattered. Except for one shoe missing, the bracelets on the wrists and the pendants on the earrings were all there. They all seemed to be valuables, and she was red. The skirt is made of fine Hu silk, with exquisite embroidery patterns on it. It is not something ordinary people can afford. She must be a rich lady from some family.

Bao Ruoyou's eyes wandered across the corpse's appearance, and then glanced at the deceased's neck, which was covered by hair. She reached out to push the hair away, her pupils shrank slightly, and there was a bruise mark on the deceased's neck.

She leaned closer to examine and took out the purple marks, and then carefully examined her head and face down to her neck. Soon, she concluded: "The cause of death was strangulation, not drowning. The strangulation marks were fine. But it was quite rough, with small wounds and bleeding spots. It should have been strangled with a rough rope such as fine hemp rope, and the time of death should have been around midnight the night before."

Bo Ruoyou looked down his neck and saw that the lapels of the deceased's clothes were tightened, but there was a faint trace of blood here, and the dark red color looked different from other places.

If you are injured in the water, you will not be able to retain this dark red color, unless the person was injured while still in the case.

Bao Ruoyou frowned slightly, blocking the view of others with one side of his body, and then opened the flap by two points. The moment he pulled it open, Bao Ruoyou's expression changed, and she hurriedly pressed the flap back in place. As for Wu Xiang, who was standing nearby, he didn't know what was going on.

Seeing that she looked wrong, Wu Xiang took a step forward and asked, "What's wrong? What did you see?"

Bo Ruoyou frowned and said in a low voice after a moment of silence: "The deceased... a piece of flesh was peeled off from his heart."

Wu Xiang’s expression changed when he heard this. In addition to the one in Yizhuang, this was actually another female corpse in red with her skin and flesh taken away. Someone killed two people in a row in just half a month. ?