Chapter 104 If You Don’t Believe, Then There Is No
Song Yuntang didn't pay attention to the movement around her. After putting down the knife, she picked up the needle and thread and carefully sutured the wound on the corpse. Her suture technique was even more skillful and experienced than that of Xu, the coroner who had been doing this for decades. The faces of the people around her were all surprised.
"Miss Song, have you really never performed an autopsy before?" asked Coroner Xu.
"No." Song Yuntang put away the needle, tidied the clothes of the dead man, covered him with white cloth again, put his hands together and said to her, "I'm sorry."
Coroner Xu was stunned for a moment, then seeing that the autopsy was over, he began to organize his tools.
"The girl is really gifted. If she were not a woman, she might be able to become Master Zhu's right-hand man in the future."
"I don't deserve to be your right-hand man." Song Yuntang said as he washed his hands, "I'm really not good at autopsies. In fact, if you look carefully, many people can find the evidence on the deceased's body. My only advantage is that I'm a woman."
After she finished speaking, she nodded slightly to Coroner Xu and walked out of the room.
At this moment, Zhu Deming and Qin Maoshi had also arrived outside the house and were talking to Xu Qingye.
Song Yuntang was very surprised when he came out and saw him.
"Why are you here?"
Looking at her pale face, Xu Qingye said gently, "I left the teacher's place and passed by the government office, so I wanted to see Master Zhu. I didn't expect you to be here by chance."
Zhu Deming bowed to Song Yuntang and said, "Today's autopsy is really thanks to Miss Song. I wonder why Miss Song came to see me today?"
If this case is solved perfectly, and as long as nothing goes wrong next time, there will be hope for promotion next year.
Song Yuntang smiled embarrassedly.
"Master Zhu knows that I am a doctor. I like to study all kinds of flowers and plants. I heard that Madam Zhu has two pepper plants, but I am not familiar with Madam Zhu. So I want to ask you about Madam Zhu's preferences so that I can ask her for some pepper seeds."
Zhu Deming waved his hand and said, "This is a small matter. Let alone pepper seeds, even if the young lady wants a pepper tree, I must ask for it from the lady today. However, the husband of the deceased has not yet arrived. In order to prove that we have not desecrated his wife's body, please rest here for a while and serve as a witness for us. I will arrange for someone to go to the mansion to get what the young lady needs."
Song Yuntang nodded, "I'll follow your instructions."
Seeing this, Zhu Deming hurriedly asked Master Qin to make arrangements.
There were not many rooms in the backyard of the yamen. After a while, Song Yuntang and three others were arranged to stay in a side room, where they sat around a table.
Seeing that Song Yuntang's face was pale, Song Jinsheng poured her a glass of water in advance and asked with concern, "Tang'er, are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I'll be fine after a while. Don't worry, brother."
Song Yuntang picked up the water cup and put it to his mouth, but before it touched his lips, his stomach started churning and he put the cup back on the table.
Seeing that she was frowning and looking uncomfortable, Xu Qingye quickly reached out and smoothed her back.
"It's normal to feel uncomfortable when doing an autopsy for the first time."
He neither blamed her for meddling in other people's business nor interfered with whether she would try to perform an autopsy again in the future.
Song Yuntang turned his head to look at him, "It is said that it is unlucky to touch a corpse. Do you mind?"
Here, being a coroner is not a good job.
I thought he didn't know about it, but I didn't expect that he would come to the yamen and see the whole process of her autopsy.
Xu Qingye shook his head gently.
"If you don't believe it, then you don't have it."
Hearing this, Song Yuntang rarely showed a smile.
Even if she can't find someone who shares the same feelings with her in this life, it seems like it would be nice to have someone who understands her and tolerates her.
After hearing Xu Qingye's answer, Song Jinsheng finally let go of his anxious heart.
Apart from anything else, Xu Qingye's tolerance and courage are indeed greater than many people.
He was almost scared to death when he saw his sister's autopsy just now.
Zhuang Ziang was also somewhat surprised by Song Yuntang's reaction. From the look of her, she did not seem to reject Xu Qingye's contact. It was obvious that her engagement with him was not just to annoy Lin Jingyao.
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It was already three quarters past noon. Not long after arranging the few people to the side rooms, Master Qin thoughtfully asked someone to send them snacks and dried fruits for them to fill their stomachs at noon.
Song Yuntang didn't have a good appetite as it was his first autopsy, so he didn't eat any snacks. He just put a few slices of sweet and sour preserved fruit in his mouth to suppress the churning in his stomach.
Not long after, the deceased's husband Jiang Dafu was brought to the yamen. After Song Yuntang arrived to testify, he took advantage of the scorching sun outside to listen to the whole story in the yamen.
Jiang Dafu refused to confess at first, but after being threatened by Zhu Deming, he soon told the whole story.
Jiang Dafu was a night watchman. The night before yesterday, he returned home after beating the night watch. He saw a figure sneaking out of his house over the wall. At that time, he just thought it was a thief. Thinking that he didn't have much money anyway, he didn't chase after him.
He only vaguely remembered the man's figure in the cover of night and returned home. At that time, he didn't know that his wife was dead. Seeing that there was no sign of the house being turned over, he didn't take it seriously.
After washing up and returning to the room, he found that his wife was unresponsive. However, he searched her body and found no other wounds except signs of being raped.
But the doctor had clearly told him that his wife's heart disease would no longer be life-threatening. Only then did he realize that the person who had climbed over the wall from home might be the murderer.
He was very scared at the time and didn't know whether he should report to the police.
As a night watchman, he had seen other people's excitement about such things before. If there was an obvious suspect and motive for the crime, it would be fine as his wife had no wounds on her body. Even if the case was brought to the government, it would be left unresolved in the end.
After cleaning her body, Jiang Dafu had some inappropriate thoughts when he looked at her still young and beautiful body...
The next day, Jiang Dafu did not dare to report to the police because of his foolish behavior the night before. However, it was difficult to explain why his wife died for no reason, so he kept her for the time being and told his children that his wife was not feeling well and asked them not to disturb her.
This continued until the third morning, which was this morning, when the children smelled a foul odor in the room and realized something was wrong. Jiang Dafu realized that he could no longer hide the secret, so he made up a story to clear himself and reported it to the authorities.
Zhu Deming interrogated the case again and finally identified Zhao Jin, who had been treating the deceased during this period, as the suspect.
After hearing this, Song Yuntang almost understood the twists and turns of the matter. Although Jiang Dafu was not the murderer, he could not be considered a good man for doing that to his dead wife.
As for the murderer, if nothing unexpected happens, it should be the doctor who treated his wife.
Having guessed the ending, Song Yuntang didn't want to stay any longer. After saying goodbye to Zhu Deming, he left the yamen.
As soon as we arrived at the gate of the yamen, Baosheng, the personal maid of the county magistrate's wife, Yao, was already waiting there with a potted plant of chili peppers.
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