The Bai family has been leaving Guangde County for several days, and the small town has returned to its former peace.

On this day, Yang Qiuchi was sitting bored in the room when he suddenly heard a crying sound from the revenge criminal's cell. The sound seemed to be Long Zixu, and he hurriedly asked Da Banya what was going on. Da Banya told Yang Qiuchi that the mansion above had approved Long Zixu's death crime and was going to report to Yingtian Mansion. Long Zixu got one step further from the execution ground. Long Zixu was crying loudly in the prison when he heard the news.

Yang Qiuchi frowned. After the last time he felt that his wife murder case was a bit strange, he did not ask about it when he encountered Mr. Bai Qian's proposal. Anyway, he was idle now, so he decided to go and have a look. Yang Qiuchi brought Dabanya to Longzixu prison and saw him lying on the ground in the cell and crying. When he saw Yang Qiuchi coming in, he got up and knelt on the ground, and kowtowed repeatedly: "Master Yang, please save me. I really didn't kill my wife, I was wronged."

Yang Qiuchi has heard this sentence many times, but now he is talking about it again, a little upset: "Okay, okay, you said you are wronged and can't show evidence of killing your wife. How can you help you if you ask me?"

When Long Zixu heard this, he became even more desperate. He kowtowed and kept crying and screaming for injustice.

Yang Qiuchi thought to himself that he had nothing to do. He heard him tell him how he was wronged and said, "Don't cry, just do this, tell me about your wife's disappearance, let me hear, what's wrong with you?"

Long Zixu wiped his tears, nodded, and sobbed, "At about this time last year, one day when I came back from outside, my wife disappeared. I searched everywhere but couldn't find it. In the beginning of this year, they dug out a bone from my neighbor's vegetable field, either saying it was my wife, and grabbed me, and found a washing stick from my house. They found blood on it, saying that I beat my wife to death with this wooden stick. - I was beaten up, and I really didn't kill my wife."

Yang Qiuchi always felt something was wrong in what he said. He frowned and thought for a while, but still couldn't find anything wrong. He decided to revisit the plot: "Your wife disappeared in the early winter of last year, right?"

Long Zixu nodded.

"When did they find that bone?"

“This year’s spring.”

"Oh~! I understand..., what? This is the beginning of spring? You said they found a white bone?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

"Yes, I even caught me and saw it. It was a white bone." Long Zixu didn't know why Yang Qiuchi asked like this.

"A rack of bones without any flesh?"

Long Zixu nodded again. Still couldn't understand why Yang Qiuchi asked this.

Dabanya on the side also said, "It's indeed a white bone. Many people went to see it at that time. I also went to see the fun. It was a white bone, without meat and clothes. Maybe it was buried."

Yang Qiuchi's face became severe, and he thought about it and asked again: "Your wife really disappeared in the early winter of last year? You remember correctly, are you?"

"Remember, it was already very cold at that time. We had a fight for winter clothes. The family had only a little money and it was not enough to buy rice. She insisted on making a new cotton-padded jacket. I disagreed and started arguing. She even scratched my face and the neighbors came to persuade the fight to pull it away. After a few days, she disappeared."

Yang Qiuchi stood up, walked around the cell, suddenly stopped, turned around and asked, "Where is that corpse?"

Dabanya said, "I heard that it seems that the scholar's wife's family was taken back and buried."

"Buried? Where did you bury?"

"I don't know." Dabanya said.

Long Zixu also shook his head.

"Apart from the corpse, what else is left behind in this case? Such as relics, weapons, etc."

Dabanya said, "Master Yang, I really don't know. I just went to watch the fun. I heard that there was only a skeleton that was dug out, and there was not even any remaining clothes. This weapon is right, scholar, why did you kill your wife?"

Long Zixu cried and said, "Master, I really didn't kill my wife!"

"Okay, okay, it's not your kill, it's me, okay? Then what did they say I used to kill your wife? It seems like you said it was a laundry stick, right?"

Long Zixu cried and said, "I can't stand it before admitting it. But I really don't have it~!"

"Didn't you just say that they found blood on the laundry stick? If you didn't hit your wife, how could there be blood on the laundry stick?"

"Then...that's..." Long Zixu stopped talking, looked at Yang Qiuchi and Dabanya, hesitated for a while, then lowered his head and whispered: "That's me, I really have nothing to eat, so he secretly beat a pig from the neighbor's house to death with the laundry stick and took it home to eat it, so he was bleeding."

Yang Qiuchi frowned and asked, "Did you tell me about this in the lobby?"

Long Zixu shook his head and looked ashamed: "I am a scholar. This matter is a disgrace to such a gentleman. I...sorry to say it."

Are you embarrassed to lose your head? Yang Qiuchi is so amazed and crying. No wonder, no matter how knowledgeable a person is, he may not be able to resist the temptation of food when he is hungry. He turned around and asked Dabanya: "Where is the washing stick?"

Dabanya said: "Since it is a murder weapon, it should be in the small room next to the morgue where these murderous weapons and other things are piled up."

Yang Qiuchi said to Long Zixu: "Don't cry first, I'll check your case." Then he rushed out of the prison cell. Long Zixu kept kowtowing behind to thank him.

Yang Qiuchi came to the small room next to the morgue. When he was an apprentice, he had the keys to several rooms of the morgue. County Magistrate Song did not ask him to hand them back. Yang Qiuchi opened the door and flipped through a pile of murderous weapons. From more than ten wooden sticks, he found a wooden stick of one foot long with a piece of paper on it, saying "The murder weapon of Long Zixu's wife murder case."

Yang Qiuchi took the wooden stick out of the room and looked carefully outside. Sure enough, there were obvious dark red marks on the wooden stick, which looked like blood.

Yang Qiuchi took the wooden stick home, went into his forensic room, closed the door. He first extracted the blood sample on the wooden stick, and then conducted a blood-stained species test. The results came out, and the blood marks on the stick were not human blood!

Yang Qiuchi's brows were furrowed together. He walked back and forth in the room, thinking, and just now Long Zixu said that his wife disappeared in early winter last year, and the bone was discovered in spring and summer this year, with only half a year interval.

The problem lies here: According to the climate of Guangde, a corpse buried in the ground cannot turn into a bone in half a year!

The speed of corpses rotting is closely related to the surrounding environment. Generally speaking, corpses rot the fastest when exposed to the air, followed by water and the slowest when exposed to the soil. The general ratio is 1:2:8. In other words, if a corpse is on the ground and exposed to the air, it will take 2 months to rot into a bone, under the same conditions, under the soil, it will take one and a half years to turn into a bone.

The decay rate of corpses buried in the soil varies depending on the soil quality, depth of burial, whether the coffin is used, and the quality of the coffin, and the seasonal factors of burial. Generally speaking, corpses are ossified for about three to five years in northern China and about one to one and a half years in the south.

Of course, if the climate is stuffy, the geothermal heat dissipates slowly, and the soil temperature is higher, the time for ossification will be shorter. In some hot climates in the south, corpses buried in summer can be ossified in less than half a year.

Guangde County has moderate climate and cold winters. According to the climate here, Yang Qiuchi judged that if the corpse is buried directly in the soil, it will take at least two years to completely bone-bone. Long Zixu's wife disappeared in early winter. If it were buried in the soil at that time, Guangde's winter climate would be cold, and the body corroded would slow down a lot. And the burial site is a vegetable field, which is often watered. Therefore, even in summer, the temperature of the soil should be relatively low. In this way, the time for bone-bone will be longer. If it is dug out after half a year, most of it should not rot, and it is absolutely impossible to turn into bones.

Therefore, this white bone cannot be the wife of Long Zixu! This white bone should have died and buried in this vegetable field a year and a half before Long Zixu's wife disappeared!

Long Zixu said that the laundry stick was the blood that he used to steal and kill the piglets from his neighbor. Yang Qiuchi just now tested the blood species of blood, which was to check whether the blood mark was human or animal blood. After the test, Long Zixu's statement was confirmed.

The case of Long Zixu's killing of his wife turned out to be a wrong case!

Who is this bone? To find out this problem, you must first conduct an autopsy.

However, it is not that simple to open a coffin and examine the autopsy, especially in the Ming Dynasty, where feudal ethics are very prosperous. If it is not done well, it must have sufficient reasons to cause public outrage.

If in modern society, just the time of osteogenesis is inconsistent with the time of death of the victim, a coffin can be opened and the autopsy can be conducted. But now we use this thing to convince County Magistrate Song to overturn his own death sentence of half a year ago. He will not do anything he can't do, and no one will believe it.

The most convincing thing is to find Long Zixu's wife! If you can't find his wife, everything will be useless. Only by finding his wife will Magistrate Song and others believe that this bone is not Long Zixu's wife. Only in this way can Magistrate Song have to overturn his own judgment, re-examine the case, and allow the coffin to be opened and examined.
Chapter completed!