Qin Official

When Youyou Shuwu of Jinshui Township heard the news and rushed to Liushu with the head of the township pavilion and several others, he found that he was a step late. The house at the murder scene was a simple thatched house, located at a fork in the road more than a hundred steps beyond the inner wall. This was the residence of the Orion.

A maroon horse was tied to a willow tree stump at the intersection. A group of people were watching from a distance, pointing at the house.

The head of the village pavilion raised a two-foot-high wooden slip, separated the noisy crowd, and shouted loudly: "You are coming, everyone, get out of the way, get out of the way!"

The crowd quickly separated. Surrounded by the pavilion soldiers, Shu Wu walked in with his head held high, only to find a hemp rope in front of him...

This is the reason why the crowd only watches from a distance at the intersection instead of pushing in.

Shu Wu frowned. Several hemp ropes were tied together. They were stretched from the pillars of the house to the tree stumps at the intersection. The height was just waist high, so it was difficult for him to jump over or bend down to get through. The time is a bit awkward.

Seeing this, the head of the rural pavilion pulled out his short knife and wanted to cut the rope to let Youyou pass.

At this time, the onlookers quickly waved their hands to him and said: "You can't cut it! The director of the pavilion inside asked him to tie it up, and he said he was not allowed to take a step!"

"Pavilion chief? This place is under the jurisdiction of Guixiang Pavilion. Apart from me, is there any other pavilion chief?"

The head of the rural pavilion suddenly became unhappy, cut the rope with a wave of his knife, and walked to the door of the house with You Gong Shuwu.

Before they entered the door, they smelled a faint smell of blood. When they took a closer look, they saw the body of a woman lying five steps inside the door. Her hair was messy, her lower body was naked, and there was something inserted in her back. Holding a knife, blood all over his body...

A few steps further in, there was a naked body of a man lying on his back on the bed. There was a stab wound on his neck, a major artery was punctured, and the blood flowing to the deerskin mat had solidified...

In addition to the two corpses, there was indeed a pavilion director wearing a red turban busy inside. At this moment, he was holding the white wall and drawing circles around the two corpses...

"Heifu Pavilion Chief."

Seeing this person, Shu Wu's face suddenly turned dark and he asked, "Why are you here?"

Hei Fu raised his head and saw Shu Wu and the head of the township pavilion. He stood up and bowed and said, "I have seen You You. I just went to Yuanxuan to run horses. When I passed by this place, I heard someone shouting for murder, so I heard the sound and came over to take a look. Seeing that the local pavilion chief hadn't arrived, he took matters into his own hands and restrained the onlookers to prevent them from damaging the scene of the crime."

"Destroying the crime scene?"

Shuwu looked at the hemp rope at the intersection and found that there was also a hemp rope tied at the open window, and any place with blood stains indoors was circled with white wall paper...

He was not a professional jailer, and of course he did not understand the benefits of doing so. He just said with a straight face: "Since you are the first to come here, why don't you chase the murderer instead of wasting your time here? Doing these useless things ?”

"Useless thing?"

Heifu was a little funny. He had taken a criminal investigation class in his previous life, and one of them talked about how to protect the crime scene. So he followed suit and asked Li Zheng to help him wrap ropes around the entrances and exits to seal off the scene. Restrict the onlookers to twenty steps away from the crime scene and prohibit them from getting closer to prevent damage to the evidence of the crime outside the scene. It is best not to step on the roads leading in and out, and do not move the door or window!

But Xia Chong couldn't speak to Bing. Since Shu Wu didn't understand, he stopped caring about the matter and pointed at the corpse and said: "Please look at You You, the blood stains on these two people are almost solidified. I gave it a try." The body temperature has cooled down in most places, and there are faint body spots on some parts. It can be seen that the two deceased have been dead for at least two or three hours, and the murderer has long gone to a far away place."

This also involves forensic methods for inferring the time of death of the deceased. Heifu only knows the simplest three methods, but speaking of them at this moment is enough to make the two of them stunned.

At this time, Heifu walked to the door again, pointed at a village woman in her thirties, Jingchai in a sarong, and asked her to come over and talk.

"She was the one who first discovered the murderer. Huan, please tell You You and the head of the township pavilion what happened."

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

The village woman named "Huan" walked over calmly, but she didn't dare to look at the body. She kept her face with a straight face. After saluting Shu Wu, she began to tremble and tell what happened again.

"This woman's name is Wei Hua. She is the wife of the hunter in the village. She and I know each other. We often pick mulberries and forage for wild vegetables together on weekdays. At noon today, I made some sunflower soup and wanted to share some with her. So I left the inner gate. , came to her door, only to find that the door was ajar. I shouted a few times but no one answered, so I opened the door and saw her lying on the ground with a knife stabbed in her back..."

Huan's teeth chattered as she spoke, which showed that the scene left an indelible impression on her, and the splash of sunflower soup at the door also confirmed her words. After she shouted loudly, Hei Fu rode on The horse came over and took over the scene.

"This woman is the wife of Orion, and the dead man inside is Orion?"

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

Huan hesitated for a while, then whispered: "That person... is not her beloved..."

"no?"

Shu Wu immediately asked: "Then who is he?"

Heifu answered: "According to the identification of the people who were watching, that man is the keeper of the prison, and he is a high-ranking official."

"A superior actually died, or was he in prison?"

The head of the township pavilion was a little surprised, while Shu Wu stroked his beard and said: "So, the prison gate has committed adultery with Orion's wife!"

In the Qin State, the punishment for adultery and cheating was very strict. Ordinary men and women who committed adultery were caught with wooden weapons and displayed in public. If there is adultery between half-brothers and sisters, they will be punished by abandoning the city.

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

This may be related to the early experience of the First Emperor. His mother, Zhao Ji, had a very unruly private life. Not only did she break up with Lu Buwei, she later even raised the fake eunuch Lao Ai in the palace. The two even gave birth to two children...

This incident brought a huge psychological shadow to Qin Shihuang, so after he unified the world, the punishment for adultery was further strengthened: "If the husband is a slave (jiā), killing him is not guilty." The so-called "Send Chi" refers to a boar that goes to other people's homes for breeding. It means that if a man gets into someone else's bed like that boar, you don't have to admit responsibility for killing him. Everyone can get it and kill him. Of.

Of course, it hasn't reached that level yet. It's still illegal to kill someone, let alone two people killed in a row, one of whom was an official.

Shuwu thought for a moment, then patted his head and said: "I know, it must be the hunter who came home and discovered that his wife had committed adultery, so he killed the two of them in a rage and fled! That must be the case!"

With that said, he asked someone to arrest the hunter.

Heifu said: "The hunter is indeed very suspicious, but according to people in Li, he often goes to the mountains to hunt, and he goes there for several days. I have entrusted Li Zheng to search for it..."

Shu Wu found that everything he needed to do had been done by this black man, and he couldn't help but feel unhappy, but he couldn't get angry in front of everyone.

At this moment, the crowd outside made another noise. It turned out that the jailer stationed in the village from the county jail had arrived.

Jailers are equivalent to the bailiffs and forensic doctors in later generations. They have received special training. Whenever there is a murder case, they are required to appear. The jailer who came is not a stranger, but Xi's right-hand man. Heifu once dealt with the "Angry" ".

Frowning angrily, he came into the house and greeted everyone. He had already seen the ropes blocking the way outside. After entering, he saw the white circles drawn on the ground. He couldn't help but ask: "Who did these measures?"

Shuwu was secretly happy, feeling that this black man was not only overstepping his authority and dictating the area under the jurisdiction of the village pavilion chief, but also said something about "protecting the crime scene", tied ropes randomly, and drew circles on the ground that had no purpose.

He has handled so many cases, but he has never seen a prison official do these things before?

So Shuwu gloated and pointed at Heifu and said, "The jailer is all done by this Heifu pavilion chief. I don't know why he did this."

He looked at Hei Fu angrily, but his face looked happy and he praised loudly: "Well done!"