Chapter 78 Ji Lao's Doubts
Although it is ridiculous, among all things in the world, only the internal organs of pigs are the most similar to humans. That night, the leader of the caravan knocked on the door of the tax collector's house, brought the list of all pigs, pig dealers and butchers within thirty miles around, and sent more than a dozen people to investigate overnight.
At dawn, the guys who sent out to inquire about the news came back to the inn one after another. After collecting the news, they did not find any signs of collecting live pigs. Moreover, within three days, all the butchers around Hanzhong City only slaughtered twenty pigs. Together, they were less than half of the dead people in the warehouse.
Since the number is not up to par, it means that it is not like what Ji Lao said that someone exchanged the heart of a pig. Although many people died, as long as it is not such a strange thing, the caravan leader will feel a little more at ease.
After dawn, all the people in the caravan were brought to the warehouse where the murder case was caused by the government. After waiting for a while, the Hanzhong County Magistrate rushed over in an official sedan chair. Originally, the county magistrate didn't have to go to the county magistrate himself, but he usually ate too many people in the Sishui number. He also knew that the Sishui number raised half of the imperial court and the other half was the Empress Jia family, and it was not a small county magistrate who was the one who was a small county magistrate. Now all the people in their warehouse died overnight. If you don't check it clearly, once the two owners of the Sishui number think that he is in the middle of the matter, they might kill him to a place that will not be left next time.
The county magistrate's surname is Zhou, a short and fat man in his thirties. After getting out of the sedan chair, he was disgusted by the bloody smell of the yard. The county magistrate Zhou took out a silk squid and covered his mouth and nose, frowned and surrounded by the yamen runners and entered the warehouse.
Under the explanation of the officer leader, Zhou Junjun walked around the warehouse roughly. The dead people last night were already placed in the warehouse, and Lord Zhou did not dare to go in and check it. Then he immediately left the warehouse, sat in the awning that had already been built, and called the caravans who discovered the murder last night and asked them what they had seen last night.
The leader of the caravan and the few guys who rushed in last night told the county magistrate all the things they saw. After that, the county magistrate's aide walked to Lord Zhou and whispered a few words in his own ear. After the aide said that, the county magistrate snorted and said, "How can you change the corpse list and eat something like that? Can you make a mistake in the time of the incident?"
The staff member smiled and said, "He deals with dead people every day. He must drink two more cups at night to enhance his courage. He may have drunk a few more cups last night, and he misjudged the changes on the body. The old man gave this coroner another chance because he is still reliable in his daily life."
While speaking, the staff member smiled and placed another corpse list in front of the county magistrate Zhou. Unexpectedly, Lord Zhou was furious after seeing this corpse list. He slapped the table with a "snake", pointed to the corpse list and said, "You still plead for him and go see it yourself; last night's corpse list said half a day of death. Now he has changed his corpse list for more than ten days and his internal organs are ulcerated. You say, is he talking about human words?"
When the staff spoke to Lord Zhou, the caravan leader couldn't help but say: "Sir, the corpse list says that it was impossible for the person to die for more than ten days. I saw it with my own eyes last night. The person in the warehouse had just died shortly after the corpse had not been rotten. It was definitely not like he had been dead for more than ten days;;
"I'm talking to the adults for being arrogant. Why are you a little grass man so much?" In front of so many people, the aide was taught a lesson by the county magistrate. When his face was ugly, he was interrupted by the caravan leader, and he immediately spread all his tone on the caravan leader.
When the aide was still trying to scold him, he was pulled back by his master: "What you said, why can't people say that the Sishui company can be in charge? You said that the official is in charge of you. I saw something last night;;"
The caravan leader called Ji Lao over and said that the monk had checked four corpses in advance last night. He could see clearly from the side that the internal organs were fresh and definitely not festering. Then he asked Ji Lao to speak aside.
The former master Wentian Tower said everything except the story of Zhu Xin changing the heart of others. However, the staff member still refused to give up. After sneering, he said to the beggar who claimed to be a monk: "You actually did a private corpse before the official mission arrived. Do you want to destroy any evidence? You claim to be a monk? How could you know the changes in the internal organs after death?"
The poster now seems to be no longer angry. After shook his head gently, he said to the staff: "A monk must know the changes in the internal organs and qi meridians of the body after the breath is running. When I was young, I followed the seniors of the master to check the differences between the internal organs of living people and dead people;;"
After saying a few words, Ji Lao turned around and said to Lord Zhou: "Sir, please let me go and check the changes in the dead body. See what's different from last night;;"
This was not in accordance with the rules, but the county magistrate Zhou thought Ji Lao was a monk from the Sishui. They were doing the best job of the autopsy, at least they could take them out. If the Sishui retaliation was not dependent on him. Lord Zhou ignored the staff and said to Ji Lao: "You can go check this monk, I will make the decision. The head of the class, please give the monk a corpse list and ask him to fill out a copy."
With the words of the county magistrate, no one dared to stop Ji Lao anymore. At that moment, the poster and the caravan leader were taken to the warehouse together and saw dozens of corpses covered with reed mats. Before he could see a strong smell of rotten smell had already flowed over. After taking their officers and soldiers to let the two of them enter the warehouse, he went out alone to vomit.
I found one of them casually, and the body of the corpse was already festering and looked directly at the internal organs in the wound. As expected, it seemed as what the staff said just now. The internal organs in the abdomen had liquefied. I couldn't tell what was at all, let alone the slight difference between human hearts and pig hearts.
I checked two corpses in a row, both of which were of height. Then I found one of the corpses I checked last night, which was completely different. I lifted the wound on my abdomen, and the ulcerated internal organ juice flowed out by itself. After seeing the changes in these corpses, Ji Lao walked around the warehouse again. Then he said to the caravan leader: "Original, we came here last night and saw any changes."
"The grass at the door died overnight;" The caravan leader traveled around the world, without this little sight, and could not sit in his current position. After sighing, he continued to say to Ji Lao: "Is this coming for the Sishui or the people in the warehouse?"
"It came to people's hearts;" Ji Lao sighed, and drew a strange rune on the corpse list with his fingers dipped in the corpse water. Then he put the corpse list on the forehead of the dead corpse. Almost the moment the corpse list touched the dead, the paper began to corrode quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was covered with green hair, and then the paper turned yellow and black at an incredible speed. In just a few breaths, it turned into a black brown wrinkled piece of paper that looked disgusting;;.
After seeing the changes in the corpse list, Ji Lao closed his eyes in a little entangled manner. After pausing for a moment, the poster opened his eyes again, took a deep breath, and followed the caravan leader out of the warehouse. No matter how the leader asked him, Ji Lao shook his head and refused to answer.
When he arrived in front of the county magistrate Zhou, Ji Lao used the excuse to lose the corpse list and just used his mouth to describe the appearance of the dead corpse. It changed greatly as last night. What he said was the same as the one described in the new corpse list of the coroner. This is not how Master Zhou thinks about it. As long as you, the Sishui people admitted the corpse list.
Chapter completed!