Chapter 93 Crime Scene

When Shuwu, the patrol officer of Yushui Township, learned the news and rushed to the willow tree with the head of the township pavilion and several others, he found that he was a step too late. The house at the murder scene was a simple thatched house, located at a fork in the road more than a hundred steps outside the inner wall. This was the residence of the hunter.

A reddish-brown horse was tied to a willow stump at the intersection. A group of people were watching from afar, pointing at the house.

The head of the township pavilion raised a two-foot wooden tablet high, first separated the noisy crowd, and shouted loudly: "The patrol officers are coming, get out of the way, get out of the way!"

The crowd quickly separated, and Shuwu walked in with his head held high, surrounded by the guards, but found a hemp rope blocking the way in front of him...

This is why the crowd only watched from afar at the intersection and did not squeeze in.

Shuwu frowned. The hemp rope was tied together from the pillar of the house to the tree stump at the intersection. The height was just up to his waist, so he couldn't jump over it or bend over it. He was a little embarrassed for a moment.

Seeing this, the head of the township pavilion drew out his short knife and wanted to cut the rope to let the patrol pass.

At this time, the onlookers waved their hands at him and said, "Don't cut it! This was tied by the head of the pavilion inside. He said that you are not allowed to step in!"

"Head? This place is under the jurisdiction of the township pavilion. Who else is the head of the pavilion except me?"

The head of the township pavilion was immediately unhappy. He cut the rope with a knife and walked to the door of the house with the patrol Shuwu.

Before entering the door, the two smelled a faint smell of blood. When they looked closely, they saw a woman's body lying five steps inside the door. Her hair was disheveled, her lower body was naked, and there was a knife stuck in her back, and blood was all over her body...

A few steps further inside, there was a naked upper body man lying on the bed. There was a knife wound on his neck, and his aorta was punctured. The blood that flowed onto the deerskin mat had already coagulated...

In addition to the two bodies, there was indeed a pavilion chief wearing a red cap who was busy inside. At this moment, he was pinching the white wall and drawing circles around the two bodies...

"Heifu Pavilion Chief."

Seeing this man, Shuwu's face suddenly turned black and he asked, "Why are you here?"

Heifu looked up and saw Shuwu and the head of the township pavilion. He stood up and bowed, saying, "Greetings to the patrol officer. I was just going to the park to race horses. I passed by here and heard someone shouting murder. I came to see what was happening. Seeing that the head of the township pavilion had not arrived yet, I took the initiative to restrain the onlookers to prevent them from destroying the crime scene."

"Destroy the crime scene?"

Shuwu looked at the hemp rope at the intersection and found that there was also one tied to the open window. In the room, any place with bloodstains was circled with white wall paper...

He was not a professional prison guard, so of course he didn't understand the benefits of doing this. He just said with a straight face, "Since you are the first to arrive here, why don't you chase the murderer, but waste time here? Doing these useless things?"

"Useless things?"

Heifu was a little amused. In his previous life, he had taken a criminal investigation class, and one of the lessons talked about how to protect the crime scene. So he followed suit and asked the village head to help him put ropes around the entrances and exits to seal off the scene. The crowd was restricted to 20 steps away from the crime scene, and they were not allowed to approach to prevent the destruction of the crime traces and evidence outside the scene. It was best not to step on the entrance and exit roads, and the doors and windows were not allowed to move at all!

But summer insects cannot talk about ice. Since Shuwu didn't understand, he didn't care about it anymore, but pointed at the corpses and said: "Look, you Jiao, the blood on these two people is almost solidified. I tested the body temperature. Most of the parts have cooled down, and some parts have faint corpse spots. It can be seen that these two dead have been dead for at least two or three hours, and the murderer has already run away to a very far place."

This involves the forensic method of inferring the time of death of the deceased. Hei Fu only knows the simplest three, but speaking it out at this moment is enough to make the two stunned.

At this time, Hei Fu walked to the door again, pointed to a village woman in her thirties with a thorn hairpin and a cloth skirt outside, and asked her to come over to talk.

"She was the first to discover the murder. Huan, tell the patrol and the head of the township pavilion what happened again."

Asking the victim and witnesses to stay where they are and wait for the criminal investigation personnel to arrive is also one of the ways to protect the scene.

The village woman named "Huan" came over hesitantly, but did not dare to look at the body. She turned her face away, saluted to Shuwu, and began to tremble as she repeated what happened.

"This woman's name is Weihua. She is the wife of a hunter in the village. I know her and we often pick mulberry leaves and look for wild vegetables together. At noon today, I made some sunflower soup and wanted to share some with her. I went out of the house and came to her door, but found that the door was ajar. After shouting a few times and no one answered, I pushed the door open and saw her lying on the ground with a knife in her back..."

Huan's teeth were chattering as she spoke, which showed that the scene left an indelible impression on her. The sunflower soup spilled on the ground at the door also confirmed her words. After she shouted loudly, Heifu rode over and took over the scene.

"This woman is the wife of the hunter. Is the dead man in there a hunter?"

Shuwu found that there were a lot of animal skins and bones piled in the house, and there was a bow hanging on the wall, but the string was loosened.

Huan hesitated for a long time before whispering, "That man...is not her good man..."

"No?"

Shuwu immediately asked, "Then who is he?"

Heifu replied, "According to the onlookers, the man is the village guard, and his title is Shangzao."

"A Shangzao actually died, and he is also the village guard?"

The head of the township pavilion was a little surprised, and Shuwu stroked his beard and said, "In this case, the village guard committed adultery with the hunter's wife!"

In the Qin State, the punishment for adultery and cheating was very severe. Ordinary men and women who committed adultery were caught and put on wooden shackles for public display. If it was adultery between half-siblings, they would be executed by being thrown into the market.

Heifu didn't know that after the Qin Dynasty was unified, this law would become even more severe under the will of the First Emperor. Not only would women who cheated be criticized by society, but men who couldn't control their lower body and hooked up with married women would also be severely punished.

This may be related to the early life of the First Emperor. His mother, Zhao Ji, had an extremely undisciplined private life. Not only did she have an affair with Lu Buwei, but she also kept the fake eunuch Lao Ai in the palace. The two also had two children...

This incident left a huge psychological shadow on Qin Shihuang, so after unifying the country, the punishment for adultery was further strengthened: "If a man is a boar that runs to someone else's house to breed, it is not a crime to kill him." The so-called "boar" refers to a boar that runs to someone else's house to breed. It means that if a man gets into someone else's bed like that boar, then he does not have to admit responsibility if he is killed, and everyone can kill him.

Of course, it has not reached that level yet. Killing is still illegal, not to mention killing two people in a row, one of whom is a village official.

Shu Wu thought for a moment, then slapped his head and said, "I know, it must be that the hunter went home and found that his wife had committed adultery, so he killed the two people in anger and fled! It must be like this!"

As he said, he wanted someone to arrest the hunter.

Heifu said: "The hunter is indeed a big suspect, but according to the people in the village, he often goes up the mountain to hunt, and he stays there for several days. I have asked the head of the village to look for him..."

Shuwu found that all the things he needed to do were done by Heifu, and he couldn't help but feel unhappy, but he couldn't get angry in front of everyone.

At this time, the crowd outside was noisy again. It turned out that the jailer stationed in the village by the county prison had arrived.

The jailer was equivalent to the later bailiff and forensic doctor. They had received special training and were needed to appear in every murder case. The jailer who came was not a stranger, but Xi's right-hand man, "Nu" who Heifu had dealt with before.

Nu came into the house with a frown on his face and greeted everyone. He had already seen the ropes blocking the outside. After entering, he saw the white circles drawn on the ground and couldn't help asking, "Who did these things?"

Shuwu was secretly happy, thinking that Heifu not only overstepped his authority, but also pointed fingers in the jurisdiction of the township headman, and even said something about "protecting the crime scene", tying ropes randomly, and drawing circles on the ground for unknown purposes.

He had handled so many cases, but he had never seen the jailer do these things?

So Shuwu pointed at Heifu and said with gloating, "The jailer was done by this Heifu headman. I don't know why he did this."

Nu looked at Heifu, but his face showed joy, and he praised loudly, "Well done!"

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