There is a god in the sky

Chapter 20 The Yicun Murder Case 2

Xiao Ji stared intently at Wei Lanxiang as she examined the body.

It's clear that she has handled many corpses; she can pinpoint the deceased's information with almost every movement.

Xiao Ji took out the paper and pen he always carried with him, squatted down, and asked, "What did you see, young lady?"

Wei Lanxiang was somewhat surprised when she saw his actions. Could this man really be an official?

However, she does need someone to record her actions.

"The examination revealed that the deceased was a woman, about 25 years old, 6 feet 2 inches tall, and thin. Judging from the degree of rigor mortis and the activity of her skin, she had been dead for about five hours."

Xiao Ji recorded quickly, but he was puzzled as to why he had to record useless things like height and weight.

And how was she able to tell at a glance that the deceased had been dead for five hours?

He stared at Wei Lanxiang's movements.

She then removed the hemp rope from the corpse's neck.

Instead of looking at the wound, she stared at the hemp rope for a long time.

"Is there something wrong with this rope?" Xiao Ji couldn't help but ask.

"No, it's just the most common hemp rope found in farmers' homes; every household should have it."

Wei Lanxiang placed the hemp rope aside and lifted the corpse's chin to examine the deceased's neck.

"The examination revealed severe abrasions on the deceased's neck, deep ligature marks, distorted facial features, protruding eyes, and a slightly protruding tongue..."

Wei Lanxiang glanced at her feet. "Her toes are straight, and when she was hanging, she should have been dangling. The initial assessment is that she was hanged."

However, whether it was suicide or homicide requires further investigation.

Xiao Ji's eyes lit up, and he asked with admiration, "You've studied detective work?"

Wei Lanxiang shook her head.

She examined the body from head to toe. Through the clothes, she couldn't see if there were any other injuries, but the clothes were neat and without any tears or bloodstains, so she assumed there were no injuries.

"Preliminary assessment indicates that the deceased died from mechanical asphyxiation."

"Suicide?"

"Not necessarily. It's also possible that the murderer strangled her and then hung her from the tree."

"Then how do we distinguish them?"

Wei Lanxiang picked up the corpse's hand and examined the crevices under her fingernails, finding some fleshy tissue.

However, it cannot be ruled out that she grabbed her own neck when she hanged herself.

After all, when a person hangs themselves, the feeling of suffocation and pain is extremely unpleasant, and they will subconsciously grab the rope.

In modern times, the DNA of these tissues can be extracted from under the fingernails, and the DNA can be compared with that of the deceased.

But here, Wei Lanxiang could only say, "It's hard to tell at the moment who discovered the body first."

“It’s…it’s me.” A little boy stepped forward.

He looked at Wei Lanxiang cautiously, then his mother pulled him away.

"What nonsense are you talking about? What's it to you? Go home!"

Wei Lanxiang asked again, "Who put the body down here?"

This time, it was Li Tiezhu who stepped forward. "I ran over when I heard Xiaocao screaming. I saw someone hanging from the tree, but I couldn't see who it was. I just pulled her down."

"Yes, yes, when we came over, we saw Tiezhu carrying Guihua down."

Granny Wang shrieked, "Tiezhu, it's not that I'm criticizing you, but you and Guihua are of different genders. How could you hug her?"

Someone said unhappily, "Old Wang, your daughter-in-law is already dead, why are you still clinging to your innocence?"

"So what if someone is dead? A dead person is still a member of the Wang family, and no other man can touch them!"

Wei Lanxiang interrupted her and asked, "At what time was the last time Granny Wang saw Guihua?"

"That slut ran out in the middle of the night last night, who knows which wild man she was meeting with?"

"Didn't you come out to look for them?"

"Last night was the Ghost Festival, who would dare to go out in the middle of the night?"

Sure enough, it was the right thing to stay home on the night of the Ghost Festival. Look, those who went out are doomed.