Chapter 918 The Walking Dead
No wonder it was said to be extremely urgent, indeed something big had happened again!
Shortly after noon, the Dali Temple suddenly received a report that the recently retired Left Censor-in-Chief Lin Qisheng had been poisoned to death in his study.
Although in principle, the Dali Temple does not accept direct reports of crimes, but is responsible for handling difficult and complicated cases submitted by local governments, or special cases assigned by the court.
But the person who died was, after all, a second-rank official, and the chief of the censors!
No matter how against the rules, no one in the Dali Temple would dare to shirk responsibility.
Therefore, after receiving the report, the temple secretary Yang Zhiming hurriedly brought all his men and rushed to the Lin Mansion to investigate the case.
Just as the reporter had said, Lin Qisheng had indeed died of poisoning on the soft couch in the inner room of the study - but the strange thing was that Lin Qisheng's body had already begun to rot and deteriorate!
At first, Yang Zhiming thought it was due to the onset of poison, but after repeated examinations by two coroners, they believed that Lin Qisheng had been dead for at least three days.
Yang Zhiming then concluded that it was the people in the Lin family who deliberately concealed the truth, so he sent someone to report the case to the government long after Lin Qisheng's death.
And the person who insists on deceiving is most likely the murderer!
However, his inference was quickly overturned.
Because there were at least two dozen people in the Lin family who could testify that Lin Qisheng had been fine for the past few days until noon today, when he was found dead in his study.
The case became confusing.
Yang Zhiming was also a little confused. He randomly deduced several possibilities, but not only did he fail to clear up the mystery, but because it was too absurd and bizarre, he angered Lin Qisheng's family and almost led to a conflict.
In desperation, he had to run to the Sun Mansion to ask for help.
In fact, the Lin family went directly to the Dali Temple to report the case, originally targeting Sun Shaozong.
So when Sun Shaozong led the people from the Dali Temple to visit for the second time, the Lin family not only did not reject them because of the previous conflict, but instead gave them an even more grand reception.
This made Yang Zhiming feel quite disappointed.
But who cares about the whining of the incompetent?
After being welcomed into the study by the Lin family like the moon surrounded by stars, Sun Shaozong gave ruthless orders to stop all the Lin family members outside the door, and then took Yang Zhiming and others to the crime scene.
As soon as he entered the room, Sun Shaozong smelled the stench of a corpse coming from the inner room. Judging from the strong and pungent smell, it could not be fresh.
But just now on the road, Sun Shaozong had repeatedly confirmed that Lin Qisheng had appeared alive in front of people until this morning.
"Your Excellency."
Seeing Sun Shaozong's nose twitching and then showing a suspicious look, Yang Zhiming, who was covering his nose, could not help but speak out: "I have heard that in ancient times, there was an alchemist who used the wrong elixir recipe. After taking the medicine, the poison immediately killed the person, but the person was not dead yet, and still walked freely like a living person until a few days later. This is called a living corpse."
As he spoke, he pointed to the body on the bed and said, "Lord Lin is probably in the same situation."
Sun Shaozong glanced at him, walked to the couch in the inner room and began to examine Lin Qisheng's body.
Lin Qisheng is now 69 years old. He maintained himself very well during his lifetime. Although he cannot be described as having a youthful face with white hair, he has the appearance of a dignified elder.
But now his face was black and blue, blood was gushing out of all his orifices, and he was emitting a foul stench from inside out. No matter how handsome he was, his appearance could only be described as horrible at this moment.
Sun Shaozong first checked the stiffness of the corpse's muscles, then he pulled open Lin Qisheng's eyelids and examined his pupils.
Phew~
Although he tried his best to restrain his strength, when the eyelid of his left eye was lifted, a sticky white liquid still gushed out of his eye socket like a spring.
vomit!
Yang Zhiming had been trying his best to endure it, but when he saw the turbid white mucus mixed with the originally purple and black poisonous blood spreading on the corpse's face like a shot, he gave up his lunch on the spot.
Sun Shaozong turned his head and glanced at him, saying calmly: "Master Yang, please take care of yourself."
As he spoke, he patted Yang Zhiming's back gently, and took the opportunity to wipe all the foul-smelling pupil fluid on his fingertips onto his official robe.
Ugh!
Yang Zhiming vomited even more violently.
He crouched down, raised his hands, shook them randomly a few times, and then stumbled out of the study.
Tsk~
This kind of person actually has the nerve to serve in the Dali Temple!
Sun Shaozong was too lazy to care about him anymore, and he opened the mouth of the corpse as if nothing had happened, and checked the decay and damage inside the mouth.
After examining all the facial features, he came to a rough conclusion: Lin Qisheng had indeed been dead for three to six days.
The reason why the time span is so long is, firstly, that it has not been fully investigated; secondly, because the body had been stored in other places for a long time and was only moved to the study later. Before confirming the environment and temperature of the place where the body was hidden, it is naturally impossible to accurately determine the time of death.
As for Sun Shaozong's conclusion that "the murderer had moved the body", it was based on the abnormal indentation on the back side of the head and the corpse spots diagonally above the left wrist.
Things like corpse spots only appear in the 'lower' part of the corpse and basically never appear in the upper part.
Not to mention the indentation on the back side of the head. The soft cushion is very flat and soft, and there are no hard objects around it. That irregular cone-shaped indentation can't have appeared out of thin air, right?
After examining the head, it was time to examine the victim's limbs.
Rigid, hard, corrupt...
In addition, there are muscle groups that are disproportionate to age.
It's not easy to maintain such a strong physique at the age of nearly seventy .
but……
Since he is in very good health and his career is at its peak, why would he suddenly want to retire and return home?
Is this somehow related to his death?
Speculating in his mind, Sun Shaozong reached into the sleeve of the corpse again, and first felt some hard and heavy small objects, probably metal objects such as private seals.
I put my fingers into the gap and found that there was mostly fluffy silk underneath.
After a while, he took out those things, and as expected, there were two heavy copper seals and a soft and large handkerchief.
"Chen Jingde."
Sun Shaozong suddenly turned around and asked, "Did the coroner touch anything in the sleeves of the corpse during the autopsy?"
"this……"
Chen Jingde hesitated and subconsciously looked at Huang Bin beside him - it was obvious that this guy did not personally watch the autopsy process at that time.
"Reporting to the Lord."
Huang Bin had no choice but to come forward and report: "At the time, the two coroners were only ordered to examine the degree of decay of the corpse and did not look for other clues."
In this case, the thing in the sleeve pouch was most likely put there by the murderer.
Because according to the layout of the things in the sleeve pouch, as long as the victim's arms dropped, the two heavy seals would sink deeper into the silk, instead of maintaining delicate contact and balance as they do now.
Based on this inference, it is very likely that those items were placed inside the victim after his death, so these items will always remain in the state they were in when they were placed.
As for these things, they were originally in the sleeves. The murderer took them out, looked at them, borrowed them, and then stuffed them back.
It is not yet known whether the murderer found it from somewhere else and put it into the sleeve of the corpse for some purpose.
However, one thing is clear, that is, there are at least two murderers involved in this case - otherwise it would be difficult to keep the body in a horizontal state during the process of moving the body!
