Chapter 200 is about a special woman who cannot be mentioned.
In the coroner's room, Jin Shu tied her hands and stared at the corpse in front of her, unable to calm her mind.
She clicked her tongue, feeling that her reaction had been a bit too effeminate; in that situation, she should have firmly pushed him back.
In Li Jin's eyes, he was a man, so what was there to be afraid of?
The more she thought about it, the more she regretted it, and she thought that if there was a next time, she would definitely show more courage.
Thinking about this, I feel it's better not to do it next time.
She put on her gloves, hung the veil behind her ears, and took flat boxes from the display shelf, arranging them one by one behind her.
Looking at the corpse before him, he said in a deep voice, "I apologize."
The moment Jin Shu picked up the scissors, her expression became more solemn, as if the events that had just occurred were now history.
Her entire attention was focused on the victim's body in front of her.
This greatly displeased Li Jin, who was standing at the door without her noticing.
He was the only one who lost his composure, and he felt heartbroken.
Jin Shu opened the victim's clothes one by one, and the further she went, the stranger she felt.
The outer garment was quite valuable, but the inner garment was only half the quality, and the undergarment was even worse, being of lower quality than the gauze used by ordinary people to sift bean dregs.
The clothes were soaking wet, layer upon layer, and she placed them aside.
There was indeed something inside the waistband; when it was taken out, it was wrapped in a silk handkerchief.
Jin Shu carefully opened it, revealing a jade-green safety buckle inside.
Her gaze was fixed on the jade safety buckle, while Li Jin took two steps forward and picked up the handkerchief.
He immediately noticed the begonia flower embroidered on the lower right corner of the handkerchief: "Su Wanying?"
Seeing Jin Shu's confusion, he pondered for a moment and said, "I've seen this pattern before. It's been used in the birthday gifts for the past two years."
He picked up the safety amulet from Jin Shu's hand, weighed it in his hand for a few moments, then took a thoughtful step back and sat down in the chair behind him.
Seeing that he remained silent, Jin Shu continued with the examination process.
The victim had been submerged in water for two days, and the appearance of the body was not conducive to the examination.
The skin was very easy to peel off after being soaked in water, so Jin Shu was extra careful when removing his inner clothes, for fear of destroying the existing evidence.
When the victim's chest and back were fully exposed, the dark purple bruises under the skin on his back came into view.
"There are obvious blunt force trauma marks on the lower part of the neck." She looked at the blood bruise in front of her and held up her hand to measure its size. "It's about the size of a palm."
"However, considering that he has been underwater for two days, under the combined effects of ambient temperature and water pressure, the actual size of the wound should be about the size of a palm."
Underwater, as the body remains submerged for longer periods, it will gradually swell and turn white, and the original blood stasis and lividity will gradually become less noticeable until they disappear.
Fortunately, the victim was underwater for only a short time, and the weather in Beijing turned cooler after autumn, which allowed some traces to be preserved.
Jin Shu reached out and tried to touch the spine beneath the blood stasis, but it was soaked too deeply, and after several attempts, she still couldn't reach it.
She changed direction, stood in front of the victim's head, and easily reached out to touch it.
Then, in front of Li Jin, with a knife and axe in hand, he quickly located the fracture site of the skull below the back of Li Jin's head.
Unlike the linear fractures she had seen before, the victim in front of her had a depressed skull fracture, but because it was closed, it looked almost the same from the outside, so Jin Shu didn't notice it at first.
“This is rare,” she said. “Closed fractures are common in infants, while others are more or less accompanied by open wounds.”
“Moreover, the fracture site is actually in the middle cranial fossa, which could only be caused by a rapid and powerful impact.” She thought for a moment, “A long stick, a shovel, or something similar could have caused it.”
At this point, Jin Shu clicked her tongue slightly: "But the blood bruises on the back of the victim's neck are hard to explain."
“The cervical vertebrae were not broken, but the blows caused a dislocation,” she said. “It’s unusual that these two injuries appeared on the same body.”
Li Jin stood up, pinched his nose, and leaned forward. Looking at the corpse in front of him, he frowned and asked, "What's unusual about it?"
He said, "Strike him on the head first, and once he's unconscious, strike him again. Wouldn't that allow both to happen simultaneously?"
Jin Shu shook her head and pointed to the back of the victim's head, saying, "The human skull is very strong; this level of depressed skull fracture..."
She kicked one leg back as if holding a wooden stick, then suddenly swung the stick forward and struck: "My strength is not enough."
Li Jin understood.
"You mean, if he was standing when he was struck on the back of the head, he couldn't possibly stay upright, is that right?"
Jin Shu nodded: "Exactly, if he falls forward, then deliver a final blow to the neck..."
She shook her head: "Then it's impossible for the victim's chest to be completely unmarked. With such force, even if the forehead managed to avoid a serious impact to the ground, the subsequent blow would have left no bruises on the chest."
"Could it be because you soaked for too long?" Li Jin glanced at her. "Too long, so the bruises on your chest have dissipated?"
“It’s unlikely.” Jin Shu pointed to the almost black bruise on the back of the victim’s neck and said, “The force of that blow was no less than the blow to the back of the head.”
She said, "It's such a coincidence that I was hit twice in a row and there wasn't a single scratch on the front."
“So there’s only one possibility left.” Li Jin raised her hand, her fingertips tracing her chin. “These two wounds were inflicted at the same time.”
Jin Shu nodded: "Moreover, it should be that he was standing on the shore when he was attacked and thrown into the water by two people at the same time."
"Although there were no traces of green algae in the victim's mouth and nose, there was a large amount of fluid in the lungs, the eyes and tongue were relatively protruding, and the eardrum was perforated and bleeding."
“So,” she looked at Li Jin, “he probably died from a depressed skull fracture combined with drowning.”
The room fell silent for a moment.
Li Jin picked up the handkerchief and took a deep breath.
"How much force do you think a blow to the back of the head would have to be?" He turned to look at Jin Shu. "Could a woman have done that?"
She glanced at Li Jin, then at the handkerchief in his hand, and clicked her tongue, saying, "It's a bit difficult."
"After taking this blow, it's quite possible that the person would be sent flying into the air and crash to the ground. If it were a woman, she could manage it if she had a few meters of space to sprint at full speed."
Upon hearing this, Li Jin's gaze returned to the handkerchief, lingering on the familiar flower, and she remained silent.
Seeing his strange expression, Jin Shu cautiously asked, "Is that Miss Su the prince's favorite?"
Li Jin paused.
He turned his head, looked at Jin Shu's probing gaze, and deliberately said ambiguously, "She's a special woman who can't be mentioned."
These words were like a hand that squeezed Jin Shu's heart.
She gave an awkward laugh: "Then let's not talk about it."
Li Jin raised an eyebrow: "Sigh, let's not talk about it."
After saying that, he put the handkerchief away, a smile involuntarily spreading across his lips, and turned to leave.
He had been upset for an hour, but now he felt better.
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