Concubine

Chapter 86 Who is the murderer?

Although Yang Qiuchi didn't understand the reason behind this, seeing Song Zhixian admiring Bai Sumei's "filial piety", what this representative of the bureaucrats of the feudal society said should represent the thoughts of the ruling class. That's right, then it's inconvenient for me, a modern youth from the 21st century, to interfere too much.

Song Yuner smiled and said, "Brother, you don't even understand this? I thought you knew everything."

"Of course I know everything!" Yang Qiuchi teased her with a smile.

"Doo toot, bragging!" Song Yuner made a grimace, "Since you know everything, tell me," Song Yuner pointed at Yin De's body on the ground, "How did he die?"

Yang Qiuchi looked at Yin De's terrifying corpse, and said slowly in a deep voice, "She was strangled to death by Miss Bai!"

This sentence made everyone feel chills all over their bodies. Song Yun'er said: "Hey! Don't be scary, okay?" She shrank back to her father, Song Zhixian, and looked around carefully. At this moment, the sun The west is sinking, the wind is blowing all around, and the corpses lying on the ground make this place even more like a Shura field.Song Yuner was even more frightened, thinking: Little sister Bai died a few days ago, could it be her ghost...

Yang Qiuchi patted Song Yuner on the shoulder. Song Yuner was looking around nervously to see if there were any ghosts. Yang Qiuchi's slap made her almost jump up in fright, and shouted: "Damn you! You."

"You're still a chivalrous woman, that's all you have the guts to do!" Yang Qiuchi laughed.

Song Yuner asked nervously: "Didn't you say that this Yin De was strangled to death by the ghost of Bai Xiaomei?"

"It was Bai Xiaomei who killed her, not Bai Xiaomei's ghost!"

"What little girl Bai...isn't a ghost...what are you talking about?" Song Yun'er was confused, so she simply blamed her.

"Little sister Bai was actually not killed by old man Yin, but was strangled to death by Yin De - old man Yin just covered her mouth and made her unconscious, but she didn't die. Later, Yin De strangled little girl Bai's neck to be on the safe side, and finally put little girl Bai He was strangled to death. Yin De is the real murderer, so little sister Bai seeks revenge from him."

Song Yun'er shivered and looked around: "How do you know?"

Mr. Bai Qian also frowned, not understanding the meaning of Yang Qiuchi's words.

"I know because I pay attention to observation! By observation." Yang Qiuchi smiled, "I checked the corpses that day and found that the size of the pinch marks on the necks of the two sisters was very similar, indicating that the same person probably did it. Moreover, the pinch marks It was long and wide, and it was powerful enough to crush the throats of both of them. Generally speaking, only young people can do this. In addition, Yin De's various abnormal behaviors later made me suspect that he did it. .”

"That's right! I also think Yin De is very abnormal," Song Yuner said afterward. "When he saw the little sister opened her eyes, she was so frightened that she sat on the ground, and didn't even know that her hand was pierced by a nail. And what else?" , he saw Bai Sumei sister resurrected from the dead, he was not happy at all, instead he was nervous about something. He must have a guilty conscience!"

Yang Qiuchi raised his thumb: "Smart, Yun'er observes very carefully, she is getting smarter and smarter!"

Song Yuner smiled triumphantly.

Mr. Bai Qian asked: "Young Master Yang, how do you know that my daughter Bai Xiaomei didn't die when she was strangled by old thief Yin, but she was strangled to death by Yin De later?" Song Yuner, Song Zhixian and others also looked at her expectantly. Yang Qiuchi.

Yang Qiuchi said: "Didn't Old Man Yin just say that when Younger Sister Bai shouted, Old Man Yin covered Younger Sister Bai's mouth with his hand, which can be confirmed by Younger Sister Bai's face being bruised and gums bleeding inside her nose and mouth. The reason why I am sure Younger Sister Bai did not Died, just passed out, because when Yin De pinched her later, the pinch marks had obvious life reactions."

"Life reaction?" Song Zhixian and others asked in unison, but they couldn't figure out what it meant.

Yang Qiuchi smiled and said: "Simply speaking, the reflection of life is that if a person is still alive, when he is stimulated by the outside world, the body will cause a corresponding reaction. For example, subcutaneous bleeding is a typical sign of an injury before death."

"Injury before death?" Song Zhixian had never heard of this term before, "What is injury before death?"

"Injury before death and injury after death refer to whether the injury occurred during the deceased's life or after death." Yang Qiuchi explained to them patiently. Yes, it's just that the magistrates of Song County didn't do it specifically, and they didn't study these things.

"Take this case as an example. The fatal injury of Bai Xiaomei was the choke mark on her neck. If the choke mark on Bai Xiaomei's neck was an injury during her lifetime, it means that she was not dead at the time. If Yin De strangled her, it was an intentional homicide; If the mark is a post-mortem wound, then what he pinched was a corpse, at best it was an attempted murder."

Song Zhixian was a little confused again: "Attempted?"

This term is not easy to explain accurately in a few words: "Attempt means failure to achieve the goal." It is not accurate, but most of it refers to this meaning, "If Yin De pinches, Bai Xiaomei is already dead, then he can't say goodbye to Bai Xiaomei. The death bears the criminal responsibility. The old man Yin who covered the mouth of the little sister Bai and caused her death should bear the criminal responsibility for intentional homicide."

"Punishment, criminal responsibility?" This made Song Zhixian even more confused.

My God, these words are all modern criminal law terms. Of course, these ancient people can't understand them, but we don't need modern vocabulary, and Yang Qiuchi doesn't know the ancient vocabulary. How to explain it?It seems that they can't go on talking, and they will think that they are going crazy.

Yang Qiuchi waved his hand: "In a word, if the pinch mark on Miss Bai's neck was injured during her lifetime, then the murderer is Yin De; if it was injured after death, the murderer is his father, Old Man Yin!"

"Oh, Xian, my nephew's words are very reasonable." If the magistrate of Song Dynasty realized something, he thought about it and asked again, "How do we know whether it was an injury during life, rehab, or after death?"

"My nephew carefully observed the pinch mark on Bai Xiaomei's neck, and there was subcutaneous bleeding. This is the life reaction I just said. If she had died at that time, there would generally not be subcutaneous bleeding. Therefore, the pinch mark on Bai Xiaomei's neck It was an injury during her lifetime, and the murderer should be Yin De. And the old man Yin just smothered Bai Xiaomei. He was only responsible for the rape. There is no criminal responsibility for the death of the younger sister."

After Yang Qiuchi finished his analysis and saw Song Zhixian and others staring at him with their mouths open, he realized that he had said a lot of criminal causality theories in modern criminal law. No wonder they were stupid.However, Yang Qiuchi has never studied how to explain these problems clearly with ancient criminal theories.

Song Yuner blinked her eyes and asked, "Brother, you said that the pinch marks on Miss Bai's neck are subcutaneous...what's under the skin?"

"Subcutaneous bleeding."

"Oh, yes, the bleeding under the skin means that it was injured before death?"

Yang Qiuchi thought to himself, judging the injury before death is not so simple. In addition to visual observation, the most reliable way is to observe with a histological microscope to see if there is any tissue inflammatory reaction; special histochemical staining can also be used to detect the surrounding area of ​​the injury. Changes in the activity of various enzymes in tissues and so on.However, none of these methods can be explained, and they can't understand it.

Yang Qiuchi nodded: "Basically, it's certain."

Song Yuner glanced at Yin De's body: "Brother, you have been around for a long time, but you still haven't made it clear why Yin De was the murderer who strangled little sister Bai?"

(End of this chapter)