When the west gate of Tiancheng Old City goes out, there are large villages distributed. This area is famous for printing woodblock New Year paintings. There are dozens of villages of all sizes. Most villagers live in this industry with relatives and surnames, and almost every household is engaged in this industry. Usually farming, every few months at the end of the year, they start printing New Year paintings. The New Year paintings produced are sold well in the north and south, and everyone knows them.

Among these dozens of villages that work, Zhoujiazhuang is very famous. Zhoujiazhuang and Lidianzi are adjacent to each other and are connected by a river. Logically speaking, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. Villagers should have frequent exchanges, but in fact, in recent years, their relationship has been incompatible with each other.

In fact, it was said that Li Dianzi learned the skills from Zhoujiazhuang at the earliest. However, Li Dianzi was not kind. More than ten years ago, he poached several big customers in Zhoujiazhuang at a price lower than the industry, and the relationship between the two sides became evil. It happened that Zhou Laosan, the master of Zhoujiazhuang, died of illness again, and the New Year paintings of Zhoujiazhuang declined. Until a few years ago, Zhou Laosan's son Zhou Qingnian carved a unique picture of a hundred sons for blessings, which was very popular. His sales were far ahead of the year, which made him famous again. It has not officially started this year, but it is said that the orders have been scheduled to the end of the year.

In sharp contrast to Zhoujiazhuang, Lidianzi is the nearby one. He had been prosperous for a while by disgraceful means, but it has been no longer possible in recent years. Seeing Zhoujiazhuang booming, the villagers were jealous.

The murder dispute occurred five days ago.

Zhou Qingnian from Zhoujiazhuang went to the city to buy ink. On the way back to the village, he met Li Xiangrui from Li Dianzi. The mule accidentally met Li Xiangrui. Li Xiangrui had an attack on the spot, saying that Zhou Qingnian deliberately wanted to kill him, and beat Zhou Qingnian and left.

According to the villagers of Zhoujiazhuang, after Zhou Qingnian returned, he suffered from bleeding from his nose and vomited blood in the second half of the night. He lasted for three days and unfortunately passed away the day before yesterday.

Li Xiangrui is the village chief of Lidianzi, a landlord. His family has hundreds of acres of fertile land. He hires tenants and knows how to make some fuss and feet. He is usually rampant in the countryside and is vicious. No one dares to provoke him. Back then, he instigated the village to grab business at a low price. In recent years, because he was jealous of Zhoujiazhuang's business, he led the villagers to cut off the water flowing to Zhoujiazhuang's fields during the busy farming period. For this reason, Zhoujiazhuang has been in trouble for several years and even sued to the trial hall.

The trial hall sentenced Li Dianzi to release water. The villagers of Zhoujiazhuang took the verdict. They were ripped during the day and blocked at night. They went to ripped again. The road was blocked, saying that the village was boundary and outsiders were not allowed to pass. They sued the local police shed, and the police chief collected the benefits and sent someone to the motions. The verdict was like a piece of paper, and Zhoujiazhuang was miserable.

The Zhou family's printmakers for generations can be called the soul of the Zhoujiazhuang New Year paintings. Zhou Qingnian is honest and responsible and inherits his ancestral property. A few years ago, his wife disappeared, so he lived with a daughter. It was only in recent years that the villagers turned over again. Now such an accident suddenly happened. He left behind his daughter who was only seven or eight years old and unfortunately passed away.

The villagers of Zhoujiazhuang were extremely angry with the new revenge and rushed to Lidianzi with a kitchen knife to avenge Zhou Qingnian.

Li Xiangrui refused to admit it, saying that he was kicked by a mule at that time and was injured. He was so angry that he punched Zhou Qingnian in the face. The villagers on both sides fought and went to the police shed in the jurisdiction again. The police chief asked the people below to investigate.

This kind of dispute involving villagers was the most difficult to deal with, but now it is a life-threatening person. Moreover, the old fried dough stick in the police shed knows that the sheriff and Li Xiangrui said behind his back to drink with his brother. Who would have been willing to go to this muddy water and pushed the matter to Ye Xianqi, who had just joined the new job.

Ye Xianqi was full of righteousness. After hearing the accusation of the villagers of Zhoujiazhuang, he was furious and took office without saying a word. He took a surrogate from the Qing yamen to take the autopsy. The coroner had a quick check and said that the deceased had only scars on his face. At such an attack, it was impossible to kill someone. It was determined that it had nothing to do with Li Xiangrui, but Zhou Tiancheng himself died.

Li Xiangrui was overjoyed, but the villagers of Zhoujiazhuang did not believe it, and Ye Xianqi did not believe it either. Knowing that the coroner had taken Li Xiangrui's benefits, he secretly gave advice to the people in Zhoujiazhuang, asked them to go to the city to hire a lawyer, bypass the police shed, find the top team officials, and threatened to publish it to the newspaper, exposing the corruption in the police station and covering up the crime.

After all, life was born, Zhou Qingnian was also a little famous in the nearby townships. The team official was named Liu An. I remembered that the boss, Yao Nenggang, called a group of team-level police officers, including himself, to a meeting a few days ago, conveying the director's meaning, saying that Director Sun was preparing to rectify the negative impression of the police station to reverse the people's negative impression of the police station. Measures were being formulated closely.

He was afraid that the matter would be a big deal and implicated himself, so he went down to inquire. He withdrew the police captain on the spot and asked someone to arrest Li Xiangrui first. He also praised Ye Xianqi and decided to attack Li Xiangrui and kill the chicken to warn the monkey to quell the public's anger.

Li Xiangrui probably knew that he had hit the limelight this time. Once he pleaded guilty, he would be dead. He screamed desperately in the police shed, but he resisted the torture and left half his life. He refused to admit it and insisted that he had only hit the other side a few times.

If he couldn't get a confession and there was not enough evidence, the case could not be closed. Ye Xianqi thought of the work his cousin did last time, and had a sudden inspiration and suggested that Liu An follow Commander He and ask the forensic doctor to come for an autopsy. With the authoritative conclusion of the forensic doctor, even if Li Xiangrui did not plead guilty, it would be enough to be convicted. He also said that his cousin was a top student in the Military Medical College. The last time Commander He could quickly solve the case of the Luo Family Gang was entirely due to his cousin's superb ability.

In the past two years, public opinion has vigorously promoted science. Liu An was reminded and asked his cousin if he was the young man who took a photo with Mr. Zong, an inspector of the Ministry of Education, at the opening ceremony of the military medical school last time. When he learned that it was just that, he was overjoyed and immediately asked Ye Xianqi to ask his cousin to help the police station to perform the autopsy. Ye Xianqi rushed over and finally arrived. He finally arrived at his cousin. He couldn't wait to tell the case again and was filled with righteous indignation.

"Li Xiangrui is not dead, it is not enough to calm the public's anger! Xue Zhi, I tell you that after I knew he was arrested, just one day yesterday, more than ten people came to the police shed, all of whom had suffered from his bitterness in the nearby townships before, but now I know that he is going to be beheaded, and they all applauded!" After saying that, he kept urging, saying that Liu An and the others were waiting for her to come.

When Su Xuezhi heard that a murder case occurred in the countryside, she did not refuse. She went in to find the provost, told the situation, and asked if she agreed to ask her to go on behalf of the school to help the police station perform an autopsy.

I am afraid that no one is willing to go to this kind of work that is officially established. After all, no one of the students in this school came for this. Forensics is just involved and is not a compulsory study. Now she is willing, and the provost is reluctant to ask for it, and he agrees, saying that as long as she wants, the school can provide her with all the conveniences.

After obtaining the approval, Su Xuezhi prepared the toolbox and hurried to the countryside of Zhoujiazhuang with Ye Xianqi.

The unfortunately dead dead person has now been pulled into a temporary straw hut behind the police shed. It is surrounded by villagers from nearby villages who heard the news. It seems that there are still a few people who look like reporters. It should be that after Ye Xianqi came up with the idea, the people from Zhoujiazhuang gathered the participants and asked the lawyer to spend money.

A group of people from Zhoujiazhuang were carrying a little girl in a 7 or 8-year-old linen mourning clothes. They were waiting by the straw shed when they saw the captain Liu An accompanying a weak-looking white-faced young man. They rushed over with the child, kneeling down and begging not to use the knife.

Liu An said angrily: "You are the ones who said they were beaten to death by Li Xiangrui, and you are the ones who obstructed the doctor now! What do you want to do? Do you still need to investigate the case?"

The villagers were all honest people, afraid that Zhou Qingnian would not leave his entire body if he died. If the underworld was not well, they wanted to stop him. Seeing that Liu An was angry, he did not dare to speak out and looked at Su Xuezhi with fear.

Liu An convinced the man and turned to Su Xuezhi to smile: "Young Master Su, I'll bother you! The country people are stupid, don't be as knowledgeable as them."

Su Xuezhi was about to go in, but stopped.

The little girl kneeling on the ground was thin and weak. She had obviously cried for a long time. Her big eyes were red and swollen, but she could not shed tears. Her eyes were covered with bloodshot. She looked at herself timidly, her eyes full of sadness, confusion and fear.

I remember a master who taught her before said that people who do this job and are willing to continue working have a kind and soft heart.

She didn't say it at the time and didn't agree.

I am an exception.

She was cold-hearted. Otherwise, her ex-boyfriend, who had been chasing her for many years, would not have been persuaded to see a psychiatrist when she broke up because of her insistence not to change her career.

But for some reason, now seeing this little girl, maybe she remembered herself when she was a child. She hesitated for a moment, put down the toolbox, walked over, led the little girl from the ground, took her to the side, squatted in front of her, and asked softly: "What's your name?"

“…Xiaoyu…”

After a while, the little girl finally responded timidly, her voice sounded like a mosquito.

Su Xuezhi smiled: "Xiaoyu, don't be afraid. When I finish the examination, I promise to help your father recover. When he arrives at the place he goes, he will have nothing to do and will be doing well."

The little girl looked at her at first, and gradually, tears burst out from her originally dry eyes. She nodded, raised her hand to wipe her eyes, and choked: "Okay..."

Su Xuezhi smiled and was about to stand up, her eyes stopped on the little girl's raised arms again.

She carefully held it, rolled up her sleeves, checked it, pointed to a piece of under-skin stain on her skin and asked, "How did this come about?"

Xiaoyu shook her head: "I don't know, wherever I touch it, there will be..."

Su Xuezhi checked her other arm again, rolled her eyelids, and finally lifted her pants.

Very unfortunate, what she saw, as she thought.

She gently touched the little girl's slightly swollen knee joint, frowned slightly, and asked Xiaoyu a few more words. After hearing her answer, she was in a daze for a moment and turned around and asked Ye Xianqi to take her back, instructing her to be careful not to fall and touch her. She then walked into the straw shed.

The deceased was placed flat on a broken wooden board, and the previous coroner acted as her attack and removed the deceased's clothes as she told her.

Su Xuezhi put on her clothes, masks and gloves, and after preparing, she first checked her appearance.

The deceased was about thirty years old, his body was thin, his joints were abnormally swollen, and there were no obvious scars except for his face. According to the story, the death was two days. Because the weather was getting colder, there was no major change in appearance except that he could smell the extremely slight odor when he was close to him. There were calluses between the upper knuckles of the middle finger of the right index finger, which was in line with the professional characteristics of the printmaker before his death.

Su Xuezhi examined the deceased's face and saw extensive bleeding of subcutaneous soft tissues on the cheeks and the tips of the eyebrows and nose, no fractures were found, and submucosal hematoma on the nose wings, and no other scars.

She took out the scalpel and started working in the weird gaze cast by the coroner.

There were about 500 ml of yellow fluid in the chest cavity on both sides of the deceased and about 50 ml of dark fluid in the stomach. There were extensive bleeding of the mucosa of the stomach and esophagus. In the intestine, a total of about 1,000 ml of black fluid was collected, and the spleen capsule was crimpeded.

Based on what we see, a pathological inference can be basically made. The gastrointestinal mucosa of the deceased has multiple erosions, bleeding and edema, and is accompanied by multiple organ anemia.

Su Xue finished her anatomy and carefully sewed the deceased as she promised the little girl just now, asking Yang San to help her wear clothes back.

After packing up her things, she did not go out immediately. She stood beside the body of carbohydrate that had lost her life, closed her eyes and fell into meditation.

Liu An from the police station, a large group of villagers from surrounding villages, with a population of no less than a thousand. At this moment, they are all gathered outside this straw shed, waiting for her to announce the result with a different mood.

One is kind and the other is vicious.

One is innocent and the other is a criminal.

The vast majority of them hope that the latter will be eliminated.

This is a result that is in line with public opinion and hearts.

She hopes so, too.

"Master Su?"

The coroner walked to the entrance of the straw shed, looked outside, and came back and called her carefully.

"Captain Liu and the others asked, are you okay?"

Su Xuezhi opened her eyes and walked out.

Liu An, who was a little anxious, immediately came up and asked in a low voice: "How is it, it was Li Xiangrui who beat him to death?"

There is no condition for blood defect screening, but based on the deceased's surface joint characteristics, the anatomical pathology, the characteristics of the little girl Xiaoyu and her answer to her questions, "My father's bleeding, even a small hole, will take a long time to stop, so he is very careful in normal times." It can be inferred that Zhou Qingnian suffered from hemophilia.

The cause of his death was based on coagulation dysfunction. His nose was hit by blunt external force and hemorrhage continued to bleed, which led to a large amount of internal stress bleeding and finally hemorrhagic shock death.

Su Xuezhi shook his head: "Zhou Qingnian died, from a medical point of view, Li Xiangrui was secondary responsibility."

She explained her conclusion in detail.

This hereditary genetic defect disease has not made any major breakthrough in treatment research even in later generations. Now, it is because of the spread among European royal members in the last century that it has begun to enter the doctor's vision.

But she is absolutely sure that no one can help with this genetic defect.

Liu An's face changed, he turned around and quickly looked around, and invited her to an empty corner: "Are you sure that's right?"

Su Xuezhi nodded: "Yes."

He said in a negotiated tone: "Master Su, see if we can not announce this, just say..."

"no."

Su Xuezhi knew what he meant and refused.

Liu An was stunned and winked at Ye Xianqi who was following him.

Ye Xianqi also said: "No way? Xuezhi, you let that villain go like this? Then so many people are waiting here, and there are reporters who are shaking their pens. How can you explain it?"

When the villagers around saw her coming out, they did not announce the result for a long time and were talking, and the noise around them gradually became louder.

Su Xuezhi said: "I only make conclusions based on the examination. Li Xiangrui deserves to die. In this matter, from a medical point of view, he is not responsible for death. I don't want to see such a result, but unfortunately, if my conclusion is not in line with your wishes, you can ask for another cleverness, and I can't change it."

Liu An looked a little unwilling, hesitated for a while, whispered a few words to Ye Xianqi, and left in a hurry.

The discussions around the straw shed became louder and louder.

The villagers seemed to have had a premonition of something bad, and pointed at Su Xuezhi, and their expressions gradually became a little dissatisfied.

Ye Xianqi looked around nervously: "Snowy, please wait first, don't tell me. The law does not blame the public. I'm afraid that if they angered these people, who knows if they will do anything? If it is not good for you. Captain Liu went to the district chief to report it, what's wrong? Let's wait first." As he said that, he pushed her into the straw shed, and pulled several patrol officers to come to the city to invite a meal in two days, and asked him to help him guard the outside, and he stood in front of him and blocked the door.

Su Xuezhi stood behind her cousin, looked out, and met the girl who had been watching him silently with her eyes wide open.

Her father is a hemophilia patient, so this little girl named Xiaoyu should be a carrier.

It is misfortune and a blessing in disgrace.
To be continued...