Chapter 70: The Corpse in a Strange Posture (Part )
Su Liuyue raised her eyebrows slightly, quickened her pace and walked in front of them, saying, "Have you been to the scene? Are you sure it's a murder?"

She had always felt that a murder was about to happen.

For a city as big as Xinjing, especially one where the new dynasty had just been established and there were still many loopholes in all aspects, it was rare that there were no murders for such a few days.

"We are about to go to the scene, but according to what the reporter said, it is undoubtedly a homicide."

Lu Lu said in a deep voice: "According to the person who reported the case, this is not only a murder, but also...very bad."

Su Liuyue frowned slightly and immediately said, "I will go with you now."

Lu Rou was promoted during this period and became the head of all the yamen runners. Now he is mainly responsible for various cases of all sizes outside.

Zhou Yunke does have some vision in employing people. Although Lu Rou is a little arrogant, he is the calmest and most rational among these yamen runners, and he truly loves investigating cases.

She followed a few people on the route and went all the way to the southern edge of Xinjing East. This place was even more dilapidated than the Xinghua Lane area they had been to before. Along the way, the houses were all tattered and full of spots. The most common people were homeless vagrants. There were basically no ordinary people on the street. Even if there were, they had a gloomy face, lowered their heads, and hurried forward without saying a word.

Su Liuyue glanced at a middle-aged man who hurriedly passed by her and asked, "What's going on here?"

Lu Yu, who was walking in the front, sighed and said, "The edge of the outer city is where the lowest class of people gather. At the end of the previous dynasty, because of the wars, the court forcibly conscripted many soldiers, and the first to be conscripted were these lowest class of people.

Many people went to the battlefield and never came back, leaving only the elderly, the weak, women and children at home, which is why this place has become so deserted and silent. "

Families with the ability could flee to avoid conscription, such as Changshan, the murderer in the previous female serial murder case. The reason why they hurriedly left the capital was, firstly, to avoid the war, and secondly, they did not want to be forced to die on the battlefield.

But no matter how poor Changshan's family was, they still had some savings. Other families who were worse off than them couldn't escape even if they wanted to.

While Lu Jie was talking, he led the group into a narrow alley. As soon as they entered the alley, they saw several people gathered in front of a house not far away. The crime scene must be there.

Lu Lu immediately strode over and said in a deep voice, "Make way, the government is investigating the case!"

Su Liuyue followed him and entered the yard smoothly.

It was a very narrow and old courtyard with only a low and dilapidated hut inside. As soon as Su Liuyue entered, she heard a sad and desperate cry of a child. The voice was constantly begging: "Mother... Mother... Wake up, don't abandon Xiaodouzi..."

There is a small hall in the middle of the room, with a room on each side. The sound came from the room on the left.

The officials walked in quickly and saw a woman standing in the room on the left, holding a child who was no more than five or six years old tightly.

On the ground right in front of her, an almost naked woman was lying on the ground in a strange kneeling posture. Her slightly yellow skin was covered with tiny wounds, and her messy black hair completely obscured her face.

Su Liuyue's eyes suddenly darkened.

This posture... Everyone was also shocked by this strange corpse. Because the room was too small, Lu Lu could only look at the big and small in the room and said, "You two come out first."

But the one holding the child was a middle-aged woman in cloth. Upon hearing this, she ignored the child's cries and walked out with him in her arms. She said to the road with a helpless look on her face: "You are the government officials, right? I... I am their neighbor. This morning, I and my husband heard Xiaodouzi crying from next door, so we hurried over to take a look, and we saw... we saw that Madam Ning was... she was gone..."

Lu Lu nodded to show that he understood, and turned to the yamen runners and said, "The room is not big, I, Chen the coroner, and Su Xiaolangjun will go in and take a look first, and you go ask the people nearby about this Lady Ning's situation."

After saying that, he walked in with Su Liuyue.

Su Liuyue walked straight to the deceased, and Chen the coroner followed closely behind her. They carefully turned the deceased over. When they saw her front face, they all couldn't help but frowned.

But this lady Ning was only wearing a bean green bellyband embroidered with lotus patterns and a pair of underpants. She had a very pretty face, and the small mole under her right eye made her look even more charming. But at this moment, a bloody swelling had appeared on her forehead, and it was a mess of blood and flesh.

Looking at the ground where she had been lying, there was a little blood on it. It was obvious that she had kowtowed repeatedly before she died, causing her forehead to be bruised like this.

There was an obvious mark of strangulation on her throat. Coroner Chen stepped forward to examine it and said, "The deceased was strangled to death. The murder weapon should be a rope similar to a belt.

The dead body's skin was covered with many tiny abrasions, even on the inside of the dead body's thighs. Judging from the condition of those abrasions, they were caused by the dead body before death. However, these abrasions did not look like they were caused by the murderer beating and torturing the dead body. How were they caused..."

These abrasions were not serious, but... there were many of them, very many, almost covering every part of the deceased's skin!
Su Liuyue stared at the corpse for a while, and suddenly seemed to think of something. She stood up abruptly and looked at a bathtub placed in the corner of the room.

Just before she came in, she noticed the bathtub. Most people would not take a bath in their bedroom. There are other places to take a bath, so why make the room full of water?

Just now they saw a simple cubicle made of firewood in the yard. On weekdays, they should take a bath there.

Then how come this bathtub appears here at this time?

Su Liuyue walked over quickly and saw that the bathtub was full of water. The water was slightly turbid, obviously it had been used.

And under the water, there was something sinking there quietly. Su Liuyue's eyes narrowed slightly, he rolled up his sleeves, reached his hand in, and took out the thing that sank to the bottom of the water.

Lu Rou and Chen the Coroner were both staring at her movements unconsciously. When they saw what she took out from the bottom of the water, Lu Rou couldn't help but stare and asked, "A bamboo brush?"

Coroner Chen was also surprised and asked, "Isn't this bamboo brush usually used to scrub pots and pans? How did it end up in the bathtub in the deceased's room?"

Su Liuyue brought the bamboo brush close to her eyes and took a look. She could clearly see dots of bright red on the thin bamboo sticks.

She said calmly, "The scratches on the victim's body were caused by this bamboo brush. Before killing her, the murderer made her take a bath and used this bamboo brush to scrub her thoroughly inside and out."

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