Chapter 118 Autopsy
Shen Shixu and Xiao Jinyi had breakfast in the room, greeted Shen's father and mother, and then went to the county government office.
Xu Wanda was waiting at the door early, and when he saw Shen Shixu coming, he smiled and walked up to talk to him.
"Lord Shen is here. It is true that young men are heroes. When I first saw Lord Shen, I felt that he was extraordinary and would become a great man in the future.
As expected, after just a few years of not seeing him, he has already become the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple. It is really admirable! ”
Shen Shixu did not interrupt his compliment, but after he finished complimenting, he said modestly: “Mr. Xu, you are too kind. No matter how high or low the position is, we all serve the people. Mr. Xu, don’t be too polite. Let’s do the case first!
By the way, where is the body of the deceased now? I want to see it for myself. ”
Xu Wanda took him and Xiao Jinyi to the morgue, and he kept looking at Xiao Jinyi along the way.
Xu Wanda didn't know Xiao Jinyi, nor did he know that Shen Shixu had been granted marriage. He just looked at Xiao Jinyi's clothes and the way he walked side by side with Shen Shixu, and knew that this was also a person he couldn't afford to offend.
They soon arrived at the morgue, where Miss Wu's body was still inside. In order to prevent the body from rotting, a lot of ice was placed inside. All of this was paid for by Xu Wanda himself.
As soon as Shen Shixu and Xiao Jinyi entered, they felt a chill and saw basins of ice placed around them, as well as basins that were obviously ice that had melted into water.
Shen Shixu thanked Xu Wanda, “Thank you, Master Xu!”
Xu Wanda waved his hand politely, "Of course I should."
Shen Shixu didn’t know about the corpse before, and the letter didn’t mention it. Today was the first time he saw it.
When he saw the corpse, Shen Shixu frowned. The girl's face was scratched and bloody, and her appearance could not even be seen.
Apart from being able to tell from her stature that she was a girl, it was really hard to tell who this person was. Shen Shixu was now very curious about how they confirmed that the deceased was Miss Wu?
"Master Xu, this woman's face has been scratched. How did you identify her as the girl from the Wu family?"
Xu Wanda also glanced at the scratched face. Even though he had seen it several times, he still felt a little nervous when he saw it again. He paused before answering.
"How can I recognize her? Even the coroner cannot really determine the identity of the deceased, whether she is the daughter of the Wu family.
But Wu Liang and his wife both said that this was their daughter. It’s impossible for the biological parents to fail to recognize their own daughter, right?
However, I did not completely believe them and asked other people who had seen Miss Wu to identify her. They all said that although they could not see the face clearly, the figure was indeed Miss Wu's. ”
After listening to this, Shen Shixu nodded silently and continued to examine the body, but he came in a hurry and did not bring any handy tools.
He took out a handkerchief from his body, wrapped his hand around it, and looked through the corpse.
Normally he would use specially customized gloves to look through corpses. Shen Shixu knew that there were bacteria on corpses, so he had to take precautions when touching them.
Not only did he do so, but since he came to Dali Temple, he had paid for the autopsy room to be equipped with protective equipment out of his own pocket.
But of course there are no such things down there, so we can only make do with it.
Shen Shixu looked through the corpse and first counted the knife scars on the corpse's face. There were a total of twenty-six, and more than half of the knife scars had turned over the flesh, which showed how cruel the person who did it was.
These knife marks were obviously inflicted after the death, and the wounds showed no signs of life.
The fatal wound was on the chest. Shen Shixu peeled off the dead man's clothes and revealed the fatal wound. It was a five-centimeter-long wound that pierced the heart directly. The dead man had obviously died of excessive blood loss.
Shen Shixu looked at the hands and feet of the deceased again, and immediately discovered the problem.
The Wu family was not extremely wealthy, but they were also one of the most famous merchants in Minglu City, and the girls in the family were all brought up in pampered conditions.
Especially Wu Liang's daughter. He only has this one daughter, and Miss Wu is very beautiful, so Wu Liang dotes on her even more.
Shen Shixu remembered that he had met Miss Wu before their two families broke up. At that time, he heard her talk about the longest distance she had walked since she was a child, which was from her boudoir to the gate of the Wu Mansion.
The reason why we talked about this was because the Shen family's house was bigger than the Wu family's. When Miss Wu walked from the front door to the backyard to meet Mother Shen, she was very tired. After Miss Wu left, Mother Shen said that the Wu family really loved her very much and were reluctant to let her walk more.
So how did a young lady from a wealthy family, who had never walked much, end up with calluses on the soles of her feet?
And her hands, although whiter and softer than those of other girls, there is still a thin layer of calluses on the fingertips. The most obvious is a scar on the back of her hand that was caused by a burn that was not treated in time.
Based on these two points, she doesn't look like the Miss Wu that Shen Shixu knew. However, it is not ruled out that since the broken engagement, Miss Wu has been disliked by her family and her quality of life has declined.
So Shen Shixu asked Xu Wanda again, “Master Xu, do you know whether the Wu family values this girl?”
As the prefect of a city, Xu Wanda was not very clear about such trivial matters, but he had a wife who liked to gossip about other people's family matters.
He had actually heard his wife talk about the Wu family. She said that the Wu family members were not very good people, but they really loved their daughters.
Even though the girl couldn't get married, no one looked down on her and she was treated the same as before.
But in fact, Wu Liang just wanted to raise his daughter well so that she could bring him more convenience in the future.
But no matter what his purpose was, Miss Wu had never suffered any physical abuse at home.
"This humble official knows that the girl of the Wu family has never been wronged. She was the same at home before and after."
After hearing this, Shen Shixu was certain that the deceased was not Miss Wu at all.
"Really? Then we have to re-examine who the deceased is."
When Xu Wanda heard this, he looked at the body in doubt and said, "Isn't this body Miss Wu?"
Shen Shixu pointed at the calluses on the soles of the girl's feet and the burns on the back of her hands and said, "Miss Wu has been pampered since she was a child. She hasn't walked much, so how could she have calluses on her soles?
There is also a burn on the back of his hand. How could the Wu family be short of scar removal cream? Even if Miss Wu got burned accidentally, it wouldn't leave such a big scar.
Based on these two points, we can already suspect that the dead person is not Miss Wu, but we still have to go to the Wu family to ask if Miss Wu has any obvious characteristics, such as a birthmark! ”
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