After three rounds of drinks, the hotel manager walked in with a violinist and a three-layer cake.

The small banquet hall was very lively with people cutting the cake, singing Happy Birthday, and sending blessings.

During this time, Xie Qing's uncle spotted Xie Qing and waved her over warmly.

The Chen family is quite talented in art. Chen Yuehua is a dancer and Chen Yuexing is a erhu player.

Xie Qing also has two aunts. The second aunt is a full-time housewife who likes gossip, and the eldest aunt is in the hotel business and is a real strong woman.

The original owner liked her uncle and kept her distance from the eldest and second aunts.

Xie Qing didn't want to go, but she had to go, so she had to bite her back teeth and go over.

Chen Yuexing asked Xie Qing to sit on the chair between him and Chen Yuehua, and said with a friendly face: "I heard that you work in the Municipal Bureau. How is it? Are you adapting?"

"Brother!" Chen Yuehua looked around vigilantly.

Chen Yuexing said lightly: "Why, can't I chat with Qingqing for a few words?"

The Chen family has strict rules. Since the old man and the old lady are not here, Chen Yuexing is the boss here.

Chen Yuehua was a little disappointed, "Brother, you misunderstood. I didn't mean that."

Chen Yuexing ignored her and continued, "I have inquired about it. Your job is very hard. There are few girls and many prejudices. Have you thought it through?"

He also did not approve of Xie Qing being a forensic doctor, but he knew the right measure.

Xie Qing said, "Uncle, I studied at Peking University for five years. I put my knowledge into practice and adapted well."

"Ah..." Chen Yuexing sighed, "As a parent, there is no one who doesn't want the best for their children. Do you understand?"

Xie Qing said firmly, "Don't worry, uncle. I understand."

"I will let your mother give you a month to think about it. If you have made up your mind, don't give up halfway. Do you understand?" Chen Yuexing waved her hand, indicating that she could leave.

This was like an ultimatum.

It was Xie Chen's birthday party, and it was not good to ruin the atmosphere. Chen Yuexing just gave a few nagging and stopped.

Xie Qing didn't care and went back to continue eating, drinking and listening to gossip.

The banquet ended at around 8 o'clock.

The younger generation saw off the elders and prepared to go to the gold cabinet for karaoke.

When getting in the car, Chai Yu found that Xie Qing was missing, "Xie Chen, where is our second sister?"

Xie Chen said, "She had something to do and went back first."

Chai Yu felt a little regretful, "Why didn't you tell her to drive her there?"

The young people all looked at him.

Chai Yu raised his hands quickly, "I definitely don't mean anything else. Xie Chen is too busy entertaining guests. Isn't his sister my sister?"

Qin Jie laughed and joked, "She's still young. You'd better not mean anything else."

"What do you know?" Chai Yu opened the door of the Santana, "Xie Qing and Yun Yun are fraternal twins..."

"Let's go, Old Chai." The man in black-framed glasses patted his shoulder, "Get in the car."

"I just mean something, and Xie Chen won't have any objections." Chai Yu finally expressed his whole meaning. Qin

Jie looked at Xie Chen.

"He's right." Xie Chen said, "Qingqing is only ten minutes younger than Yun Yun, she just looks younger."

Qin Jie got into his Lingzhi car thoughtfully.

Xie Yun and Xie Chen left together.

Closing the car door, she said, "Brother, isn't Brother Chai the mayor's secretary?"

Xie Chen started the car, "Yes, what's wrong?"

Xie Yun said, "It seems that Tan Yi is very rude to him."

Xie Chen smiled slightly, "They are both from Beijing, so they have a good relationship. However, Tan Yi looks arrogant and difficult to approach. Maybe his family background is better than Chai Yu's."

Xie Yun said, "Oh", and then said, "How old is Chai Yu? Why is he still not married?"

Xie Chen said, "Twenty-eight. If he doesn't care about our Qingqing, She is a forensic doctor, which is appropriate. "

Xie Yun was a little surprised, and said tentatively: "Brother, Qingqing is a little willful, if..."

Xie Chen shook his head, "People will change, Qingqing has been working, and she is much more sensible than before."

Xie Yun thought for a while, and reminded: "Qingqing may not compromise on work matters. Let's tell the truth to avoid trouble later."

Xie Chen said: "My uncle said to give her a month to consider it. In my opinion, we should keep it secret for a while and talk about it at the end of the year."

In Chai Yu's car.

Chai Yu said: "I never thought that twins would be so different. One is quiet and elegant, and the other is like a little hamster."

Tan Yi slumped on the back of the co-pilot's chair, closed his eyes, and said nothing.

Chai Yu was a little dissatisfied and stretched out his hand to push him, "Brother, at least give me a reaction."

Tan Yi glanced at him, "You also know that they are alien eggs, what's there to say." "

Boring." Chai Yu complained, "Don't you think the two sisters are very beautiful?"

Tan Yi said, "Xie Yun is very beautiful, but her mind is on Gu Ling, you have no chance. The one next to me didn't look carefully, I just thought she can eat, she knows how to eat, and she ate the crab shells cleanly."

"That's it? Phew..." Chai Yu burst into laughter, "Aren't you Sherlock Holmes? Why are you so careless this time?"

Tan Yi said, "She's just a simple-minded little girl, what's there to analyze."

"Tsk~ what do you know." Chai Yu said disdainfully, "Old Tan, I'm not saying anything to you, but after all these years, can't you look forward?"

Tan Yi looked at him with a warning, "If you're a brother, then don't say anything."

Chai Yu was helpless, "Okay, okay, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it. I'm afraid of you."

...

Xie Qing asked Li Ke to call her. After receiving the message, she left a few minutes earlier on the grounds that she had a mission.

Perhaps because of her words, Xie Qing just got off the taxi at the police station, and the pager rang again:

"Come to the east side gate of Wangjiang Community on Linjiang Road as soon as possible, Cao."

This was Cao Haisheng's call.

Xie Qing didn't dare to delay and told the driver to continue driving. After seven or eight minutes, they arrived at the destination.

Linjiang Road, as the name suggests, is on the riverside.

Wangjiang Community is the best community in the area, with beautiful scenery, complete facilities, and high housing prices.

The taxi stopped, and as soon as Xie Qing opened the door, she heard a burst of mournful crying.

She walked quickly to the edge of the embankment and looked in the direction of the sound.

The water level of Qingjiang River was not high. There was a tourist road under the embankment. A group of people crowded on the road, watching the police and forensic doctors working the case across a cordon.

Cao Haisheng was talking to Huang Zhenyi, and a small body was lying next to them.

This is the rescue scene, and the dead is a child!

Xie Qing's heart sank, and she quickly ran down the stairs and squeezed in among the crowd.

"The police are working the case!" A policeman stopped Xie Qing.

Xie Qing said, "I am a trainee forensic doctor, and Doctor Cao is my master."

Huang Zhenyi ordered, "Let her in."

Xie Qing walked around and looked around. There were no trace investigators, only a lively crowd. It was indeed a rescue scene.

Does this kind of case also require the city police criminal police brigade to intervene, or is there something she doesn't know?

"Master, I'm here." Xie Qing took out a pen and paper from her bag and prepared to take notes.

Cao Haisheng squatted down with his hands on his waist, took out a small flashlight from the investigation box, and opened the eyelids of the deceased. "The face is swollen and cyanotic, and there

are petechial hemorrhages on the conjunctiva, mucous membrane, and serous membrane..." The child was about seven or eight years old, with chicken skin on his arms, pale epidermis, light corpse spots, obvious contusions on the edges of his lips, and slight bone abrasions on the top of his head - all injuries before death.

Because of the rescue, there is no mushroom-shaped foam in the mouth and nose, there is a partial depression in the chest, and the ribs are fractured.

Cao Haisheng initially judged that the time of death was no more than three hours - he had died before rescue.

The injury to the head was caused by a blunt instrument, but drowning is more likely.

Xie Qing put away the notebook, put on gloves, and helped Cao Haisheng put the body into the body bag.

"Qiqi, Qiqi, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry!" An old lady burst into tears, pushed the old man beside her away, and rushed to the riverside, "Wait for me, I'll find you now!" "

Mom, mom, what are you doing, wuwu..." The middle-aged man hugged the old lady's waist tightly, "Don't blame you, don't blame you!"

"Wuwuwu..."

Four or five people burst into tears.

Xie Qing felt uncomfortable and didn't dare to look anymore. She tried to focus on the conversation between Huang Zhenyi and Cao Haisheng.

Huang Zhenyi said to Cao Haisheng, "The deceased is Huang Qi, eight years old this year. He is usually taken care of by his grandparents. He is naughty and often causes trouble in the community. The Huang family has an early dinner. Grandma Huang made fried eggs with shrimps, sweet and sour pork ribs, and cold shredded potatoes, and they finished eating before five o'clock. Grandma Huang usually takes the children to play in the community for a while, and then goes upstairs after dark. At about six o'clock, Grandma Huang found that Huang Qi was missing."

Cao Haisheng nodded, "Okay, let's go to the funeral home first, and communicate in time if there is any situation."

Li Ke went home on the weekend, and Li Ji was there.

He helped Xie Qing put the body on the funeral home's car and whispered, "This is a big case, the third one already."

Xie Qing asked, "The modus operandi

is the same, all children?" Li Ji said, "Not all children, but the actions of covering the mouth, knocking the body unconscious, and throwing it into the river are exactly the same."

"No wonder you are here." Xie Qing said to herself and got into the car with Cao Haisheng. "See you later."

Li Ji waved, "See you later."

...

Autopsy room.

Xie Qing took off the clothes of the deceased and handed them to Cao Haisheng for examination.

She shaved the dead man's hair and re-examined the wound: "It is a linear contusion with sand in the wound cavity. It should be caused by the edge of a brick. There is a slight bone abrasion when pressing, but it is not fatal."

Cao Haisheng did not find anything on the clothes, so he asked Xie Qing to turn the body over and prepare for the autopsy.

Xie Qing did so.

Cao Haisheng picked up the scalpel, and as soon as he bent down, he stood up painfully - he had severe lumbar muscle strain and was sick again.

Xie Qing said, "Master, let me do it, you supervise."

Cao Haisheng hesitated for a moment, and finally put down the knife, "Okay, you do it."

Xie Qing held the scalpel in his hand and cut from the neck to the top of the pubic symphysis, with a quick and steady hand.

After opening the chest and abdominal cavity, the lungs were enlarged, with a large amount of foamy fluid in the lungs, and blood stasis in other organs...

Xie Qing cut open the stomach and took out two spoonfuls of stomach contents.

The stomach contents were relatively full, with clear shapes of shrimp, meat, and eggs.

There was a small amount of digestive matter in the duodenum.

She straightened up and put down the scalpel. "Combined with the body temperature, rigor mortis and other signs of the body, the deceased met with an accident not long after going out, within an hour after dinner, between five and six o'clock. Except for the injuries on the head and lips, there are no other injuries. This shows that the murderer acted without hesitation and was much stronger than the deceased. The initial inference is that it was an adult."

"Very good." Cao Haisheng took notes. "Sew it up. I'll call Captain Huang."

This was Xie Qing's first time to perform an autopsy, but it was his third time to sew it up. He was very relieved.