Shocking! The young educated youth had just arrived and was already clashing with spies.

Chapter 376 I Know How She Died

The headquarters of Huaniuzhai Brigade is still a very simple house with brick bottom and adobe upper part.

Although it looks a bit worn out, you can tell at a glance that it is carefully maintained.

The windows and door panels were neat and intact, and because it was the Chinese New Year, there were red words pasted on them.

The walls are very solid, with several houses in a row, and the entire wall is written with big words "Serve the People".

Similarly, there were quite a few people in the brigade headquarters. After all, it was the New Year, and everyone slept late. Knowing that there would be something exciting to see at the brigade headquarters, everyone who was not afraid of the cold came.

Chu Xin walked into the yard, ignored the gazes around him, locked onto a room with an open door, and walked straight over.

The faces of the women blocking the door changed when they saw her coming.

But there were public security comrades following Chu Xin, and no one dared to say anything. They quickly stepped back and made way.

The police officer who came later entered the yard with a suspicious look in his eyes and asked Lu Weimin,

"Why are there so many people? Did they go into the crime scene as well?"

Lu Weimin said with an embarrassed expression, "Old men and women in the countryside don't have much knowledge, they just like to join in the fun."

The police were speechless. Was this just a way to join in the fun?

After Zhou Yichen glanced at everyone at the scene, he also went to the house where the crime occurred.

Lu Weimin glared, thinking that these two people were too casual.

Just as I was about to speak to stop him, I heard the police officer say:

"Send out all the nonessential people."

Then he entered the room.

Chu Xin was standing at the door of the house at this time. She didn't go inside, but was watching the police investigating the scene inside with burning eyes.

At the same time, she was observing every corner of the room.

It was quite surprising. It was just one night, but that unkind team leader actually heated the kang for the mother and daughter.

So the room is a little warm now, and I believe it would be even warmer if the door wasn't wide open.

However, it may be that no one lives in this house all the time, or it may be that someone who was very unrefined once lived there, and there is a faint strange smell in the house.

Chu Xin frowned and subconsciously looked at the stove hole under the kang bed.

She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she seemed to smell the smell of burning coal.

The old woman was lying straight on the kang, covered with a worn quilt. On the small kang table next to her were the empty bowls they had eaten in the evening.

Because of the angle and the distance, Chu Xin couldn't see the old woman's expression.

She turned her gaze and looked at her daughter again.

At this time, she was sitting at the other end of the kang with a sad face, wearing an old set of clothes that Liu Yanli found for her.

Although she looks rustic, she looks even more pitiful, just like a little white flower.

As if out of fear, her body was shaking slightly, and she was unable to say anything for a long time in response to the police's questions.

With her swollen eyes from crying, she looks so weak, pitiful and helpless.

Even the male police officers couldn't bear to speak loudly to her.

Her behavior is consistent with the nervousness that rural people feel when they suddenly see the police, and it also reveals her sadness over the death of her loved ones.

Chu Xin couldn't tell anything was wrong with her.

He looked away and looked around again and again without leaving any trace, but there was nothing unusual. Chu Xin couldn't help but frown.

How come it's so confusing?

The police found nothing after the inspection. Seeing Chu Xin and Zhou Yichen standing at the door, they thought of their identities and said:

"You can come in."

The two of them then walked in.

The public security comrade seemed to move his feet unintentionally, giving them the position closest to the old woman's body.

"Are you sure you didn't cause any physical harm to the elderly?"

"no!"

Chu Xin replied firmly.

Then he lowered his eyes to observe the corpse. His face was calm, his eyebrows and eyes were in the natural state of sleep, and his lips had no unusual color.

It doesn't look like poisoning.

Because the side effects of current poisons are basically very serious, it is impossible for a person to be on the verge of death without showing a hideous look on his face.

Zhou Yichen pointed at the body and asked the police, "Are there conditions for an autopsy?"

The police shook their heads helplessly and then nodded, "It can be done, but it needs to be reported to the county, and the county will then second people to the provincial government. This process will take one to two days.

If the medical examiner has other cases on hand, we'll have to wait another day or two."

There is no way around it.

After all, forensic scientists are rare nowadays, and usually one forensic scientist is used for multiple purposes, and any county that needs one will apply for one.

This is a common phenomenon of talent shortage in the country, and it cannot be made up quickly for the time being.

This is difficult to do.

Even though Chu Xin didn't understand forensic knowledge, he knew that the best time to examine a body was within 24 hours after death.

Especially now that we don’t have as many autopsy theories and equipment as we would in later generations, this time is particularly important.

Because the corpse changes the least during this period, early corpse phenomena such as livor mortis and rigor mortis can be observed most accurately, which helps to quickly determine the time and cause of death.

Zhou Yichen looked down at the old woman, and this time, he directly lifted the quilt covering the corpse.

Suddenly, a strong smell of urine hit my face.

Chu Xin frowned, but did not step back immediately. Instead, he stepped forward.

This smell is the same strange smell that was emitted from the room at the beginning, but it is more obvious now.

She looked under the body and was shocked to find that there was a large dark patch on the bottom blanket, which was obviously wet with urine.

This kang must have been heated quite warmly, because white urine alkali had appeared on the edge of the urine stain, which must have been half-dried by force.

Now the quilt that was covering the smell was lifted up, and the whole room was soon filled with the smell of urine, and the little white girl also reacted at this time.

He suddenly stood up and tried to grab the quilt, still whimpering and complaining.

"How could you do this? My mother is already dead, why don't you give her some dignity?"

Chu Xin narrowed her eyes, raised her hand to stop her from pulling the quilt, lowered her head and moved closer to the corpse, carefully observing the corpse's face again.

As for the urine smell that was baked by the hot kang and could reach the top of one's head, one just pretended not to smell it.

Seeing her like this, one of the police officers came over to take a closer look.

"what have you found?"

Chu Xin did not answer him immediately. Instead, she took out a handkerchief from her pocket, rubbed it on the lips and face of the corpse, and observed the nails of the corpse.

When the little white girl saw the two men were so close to her mother's body, touching and looking at the body, showing great disrespect, her face turned even paler and she was anxious to push the men away.

"My mother is dead, can't you let her go in peace?"

"Please be quiet!"

Zhou Yichen pushed her back through the quilt and made her fall to the ground.

No matter how much she cried, he stood in the middle with an expressionless face, not letting her pass.

While the girl was sobbing with her head down, her eyes were always looking out the door inconspicuously, glancing back and forth at the few people who stayed.

Zhou Yichen noticed it and quietly gestured to Chu Yunting who was staying outside the door.

The latter understood what he meant, and withdrew without a trace, standing at the back.

Chu Xin slowly stood up after finishing everything.

Her series of actions had already confused everyone. They all looked at her strangely, waiting for her to give an answer.

Chu Xin first looked at the girl meaningfully, then slowly said:

"I know how she died."