The mind-reading coroner drove the court crazy

Chapter 373 Someone You Shouldn’t Offend!?

Everyone's eyes widened in shock. The wooden stick as thick as a wrist was broken by her. Several people were kicked out by Qin Miaoxi and fell on the villagers who were watching from a distance, and they all let out terrible screams.

The village chief banged his cane and shouted, "Fight her."

Qin Miaoxi's eyes flashed coldly, and she took out a token from her bosom, "Look carefully, we are from the Dali Temple, who dares to be presumptuous!"

The villagers suddenly fell silent, even the village chief remained silent, staring at the token in her hand with an unfathomable expression.

"The Dali Temple has now taken over this murder case. You are required to cooperate with the investigation."

Qin Miaoxi and the village chief looked at each other in silence for a few seconds. The village chief bowed his head reluctantly and said, "It should be so."

"Young Marquis, please bring the medicine box."

After she finished speaking, she didn't get a response for a long time. She turned around and saw Lu Qingchen staring at her with an infatuated look.

[Woohoo! My wife is so awesome! I feel so blessed to be protected by her. No wonder those wimps always look for awesome women. It turns out he doesn't understand the joy of living off a gigolo. A thousand gold coins is so worth it.]

Qin Miaoxi: "..."

Is it too late to regret now?

"Wife, what did you ask me to do just now?"

He rolled his eyes to the sky, and sometimes I really wanted to report him to the police. It was obvious that his brain was different from normal, and it would be dangerous to let him out.

Soon, under the deterrence of the Dali Temple, the scene was cleared and the identity of the deceased was preliminarily determined.

The village carpenter Wang Tiezhu was missing, and his height was almost the same as the deceased, so it was almost certain that it was Tiezhu himself.

Upon hearing the name, he immediately asked, "Wang Tiezhu was the one who cursed the deceased a year ago as a jinx who would bring bad luck to his wife?"

The villager she questioned was stunned for a moment, and it took him a long time to remember who he was talking about. He nodded and said, "Yes, but that was something they said in anger after drinking too much. Don't take it seriously."

Qin Miaoxi lowered her head in thought. The person who cursed the deceased also died a year later. The same way of death had a special symbol, which seemed to be the murderer's mark of killing.

"The police are powerful... Big sister, who is the murderer? Why did he kill Tiezhu? Tiezhu is a very loyal man and a man who can get things done."

"We still need to find out what clues the murderer left on the iron pillar. We can't tell right now."

Qin Miaoxi walked over to the corpse and saw Lu Qingchen looking at the swollen body with a headache. "What the coroner fears most is the body floating in the river and the body being charred. The temperature and humidity affect the determination of the time of death, and the charred body destroys the information left on the body's surface about the contact with the murderer. When these two methods of death are combined, it is a disaster for the coroner."

"You are now familiar with the basics of autopsy."

"That's right, like wife, like husband!"

He grinned foolishly, feeling a sense of satisfaction that "he who gets the wife gets the world".

Qin Miaoxi pursed her lips, ignoring him and looking down at the corpse. Only when she looked closer did she realize that the corpse was far more horrible than she had imagined.

The thin layer of skin was swollen with accumulated water, charred black with a bluish-gray hue. The water beneath the skin seemed to be moving, making him look alive. His facial features were so swollen that his appearance was unrecognizable. The most difficult thing was that it was impossible to determine if he had suffered any injuries from the body, but his limbs and other bones were intact and unbroken.

"The time of death is no more than three hours. The deceased was burned to death and then dumped in the river. There is black and gray dust in the nose and mouth. It took three hours to become what it is now. Over time, that layer of skin would swell and burst. Based on this, it is estimated that the time of death was the early morning hour of the first lunar month."

Lu Qingchen couldn't help but click his tongue. "Is the murderer crazy? Why would he burn someone to death and then dump the body? It's a thankless task."

"It could be to hide the body, or it could have some meaning."

The first thing Qin Miaoxi thought of was a murder case a year ago. The same method of death was used. According to the records of the coroner at the time, it was similar to Tiezhu's death. It was not ruled out that the same murderer committed the crime.

While they were examining the body, the village chief stood quietly by and watched. His undeniable aura made him look more than just a small village chief.

Qin Miaoxi glanced at him and her suspicion grew.

The village chief wasn't a heartless person. Initially, she'd lied about coming to the village looking for someone, and he'd even helped her find them. But why was he so xenophobic? He even turned a blind eye to the murder of a villager. Was he truly cold-blooded?

"What were the findings at the scene?"

Lu Qingchen spat, "What can we find? The footprints are all messed up. This is called a river, but it's actually just a pond. The water is only up to the knees, it would be difficult to drown someone."

"Wang Tiezhu was last seen yesterday evening. After delivering the custom-made chairs for the villagers, he said he had something to do that evening and therefore declined their invitation for a drink."

"The time matches." Qin Miaoxi pondered, "Do you know what happened to him?"

"He didn't say, but he left and walked towards the mountain. He didn't go home."

Mountain?

The first image that appeared in Qin Miaoxi's mind was the bronze bull on the mountain.

"Son!"

A burst of footsteps approached from afar, and an old woman with half-white hair stumbled and fell on the corpse, wailing at the top of her voice, "Son, you died so tragically, which heartless thing killed you? Son~"

"Auntie, please get up first and don't destroy the body."

The old woman's eyes were blurred with tears. When she saw Qin Miaoxi, her face became ferocious and her rough hands reached out to pinch her neck.

"Did you kill my son? I want you to pay with your life."

Lu Qingchen blocked it sideways and shook her hand away with his backhand, "What are you doing? Attacking a lady of the imperial court, do you want to go to jail?"

The old woman was frightened by his aura, and was even more afraid of the government and prison he mentioned, so she cried even louder.

"This is outrageous! My son died tragically, and the government didn't seek justice for the people. Instead, they threw an old woman like me into jail. Let me die!"

Lu Qingchen: "..."

At this time, he still has the energy to make trouble. I'm afraid his expression of sympathy for his son is fake, right?

"Does your son Tiezhu have any grudges with anyone?"

"How could my son, who is so honest, have any grudges against others? Don't talk nonsense."

The old woman hurriedly denied it, and her wandering eyes finally fell on the village chief, but she quickly retracted them.

He thought he had done it perfectly, but everything fell into the eyes of Qin Miaoxi and the others.

[The old woman and the village chief are having an affair? Tsk tsk, these villagers are really outrageous!]

Qin Miaoxi couldn't stand it any longer, "Shut up!"

Lu Qingchen was so aggrieved that he became like a big dog. "I didn't say anything!"

She closed her eyes to suppress the anger boiling in her heart, and calmly asked the old woman, "Where did your son go last night?"

The old woman's eyes flickered, and she said without hesitation: "My son has been at home."

"You're lying. Some villagers said your son went to the mountains. What did he do there?"

"No, no."

"You'd better tell the truth, otherwise we won't be able to find the murderer."

The old woman held the hem of her clothes tightly with both hands. What was she hesitating about?

Should I tell him that my eldest son is already dead? Even if the murderer is caught, it doesn't matter. If we offend someone we shouldn't, our whole family will be in trouble.

Qin Miaoxi's eyes tightened. Someone who shouldn't be offended! ?