Coroner, also known as Wu Zuo, Qian Zuo, passerby, head of the walk, group head, and slaughtering. It was first seen in the "Wu Zuo" in "Yu Tang Gossip" by Wang Renyu of the Five Dynasties, and the "Collection of Suspicion of Prisons" written by He Ning.

According to the "Tang Law Commentary": Those who commit fraudulent illness, death, injury, or incoming tests are falsely tested shall be reduced to one level according to the fraud; if the actual illness, death, injury, and injury, they shall not be considered as an experiment, so they are considered as guilty.

The Tang Law has very detailed and special provisions on the judicial appraisal of killing cases. In particular, different injured objects are distinguished and different consequences are punished separately for murder and injury cases.

*** accompanied by Chang'an County bad guy ** and Yang Yizhi, the head of the county's constable squad, walked into the house in front of him.

This is not in Dali Temple, but a special "mortar room".

Time is urgent, and he and Su Dawei act separately.

Su Dawei went to check the goods and the merchants in the caravan.

***, on the other hand, had questions about the condition of the body and decided to read it myself.

People may lie when they are alive, but corpses will not lie.

The mortar room was dim and there were vaguely visible stone beds.

Some had corpses on them and covered with straw mats.

Some are empty.

The air is filled with a scent of rottenness and is very unpleasant.

Two coroners were whispering around a body, and there was still a person standing beside them.

This person has a different temperament, tall and thin figure and neat clothes.

His cheeks were long and his eyes were slightly sharp.

At this time, he was holding his hands and listening quietly to the conversation between the two old coroners.

"I tried it with scallion. There were no obvious wounds outside. I don't know if there were any bone injuries."

"Please carry him to the yard later and take a look at him from the shadows."

"If there are no bone injuries, you have to consider whether you are poisoned..."

"You can use silver needles to test it."

**A few intentional coughs interrupted them.

"I've seen bad coach, Yang Bantou."

The two Qianzuo stopped their work and clasped their fists at ** and Yang Yizhi.

"This is Di Langjun. He is ordered by the county master to come and see the body in the morning."

** said, and said to the tall and thin man again: "Who is this?"

"After the Ministry of Justice, Zhou Yang, just call me Zhou Erlang."

"It turned out to be Zhou Lingshi, I don't know..."

"A coincidence, I got Shangguan's order and came here to take the autopsy."

Zhou Yang smiled slightly, glanced at him, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

He knew that this person who was a criminal name inside and outside Chang'an knew when there was another Di Langjun?

But it is not easy to ask directly at this time, let’s see the situation first.

Yang Bantou said at this time: "Where is the body of Hu Shang who sent this morning? Is it this one?"

He pointed at the corpse on the stone couch.

"Oh no, here, follow me."

A pestle signaled sideways, and then led several people to the backyard.

Here, there are many coffins piled up.

In the Tang Dynasty, the priestry industry was not as subdivided as forensic doctors in later generations. The bodies that had been tested by coroners would be placed in the coffin in the backyard and were claimed by others.

If no one claimed it, the government would find a piece of land to bury it.

"I have experienced Hu Shang's corpse and I have no relatives in Chang'an, so we put him in the coffin."

Lao Chuzu pointed at a coffin and said, "It's this one."

** and Yang Bantou looked at ***.

"Open the coffin."

"Open the coffin." ** said: "Di Langjun wants to re-examine it."

The coroner was confused, but he didn't dare to ask too much. He found an iron brazing to insert it into the gap in the coffin board and tried his best to sled.

The ears creaked, and a crack wide across the fingers of the coffin board broke, and the coroner's hands struggled.

The coffin board covered by the coffin suddenly opened and fell to the ground, making a thud.

** and Yang Bantou were startled and shouted: "You are not serious in your attack."

"Hehe, I was in a hurry. The coffin was nailed a little tightly. Let's take a look."

The coroner reached out and patted the coffin, and said with a conceited look on his face: "I watched this person with Lao Du. I will never make any mistakes. There are no external injuries, bone injuries, and no poisoning. I will definitely die from sudden death."

No external injuries, that is, no knife wounds or blunt weapon wounds.

No bone injuries, that is, no ribs, skull fractures and other injuries.

No poisoning was detected...

Then there is no better explanation for this except sudden death.

There was no such thing as cardiovascular in the Tang Dynasty, so naturally I didn’t understand diseases such as heart disease or stroke.

If a person cannot find out the cause of death, all of them are classified as sudden death.

*** Close your mouth and nose, take two steps forward, and look into the coffin.

The man lying inside was indeed the Hu Shang Abar who was ordered by Han Turkic in the morning.

There was still a smile on his face, his eyes wide open.

Due to the time of death, the joints of the body have become stiff and blue and black corpse spots have begun to appear on the face.

In this case, the smile on his face became even more strange.

***Just about to speak, Zhou Erlang, who was standing beside him, said: "How did you investigate this corpse?"

"According to the condiment, first mash the corpse with green onion and cover it with white paper. If there is any external injury, it will be printed on the paper.

Afterwards, we washed the body with water.

If there is a wound, the water flow will stagnate.

Then put the body in the sun in the yard and checked through the silk. If there is a bone laceration, you can see it."

Zhou Yang nodded aside: "You are using the method in "The Collection of Suspicion of Prisons".

"Zhou Lingshi is indeed an expert." Chu Zuo clasped his fists and praised him.

"There is another way to test bone injuries. You can place a piece of paper of moderate thickness on the suspected fracture area, and then use a ball of dough made of special materials to roll it on it. If there is a wound under the white paper, after ironing for a period of time, the cracks in the bones will appear clearly on the white paper."

Zhou Yang said, and said to Yang Bantou and **: "Pick out the body and look behind it."

*** looked at him thoughtfully: "Zhou Lingshi is also very familiar with these?"

"I have been interested in Xingming since I was a child, so I read more books on this."

On Zhou Yang's thin face, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, revealing a look of satisfaction and smile.

"In the pre-Qin period, there was a book called "Feng Diagnosis Style". "Feng" means sealing, "Diagnosis" means investigation and inspection, and "Style" means rules and regulations; autopsy is part of "Diagnosis".

In the Qin Dynasty, the coroner was called the imperial examination and the autopsy result was called "Yuan Shu".

I remember a pre-Qin case documented "The Death of a Thief", which says: A man's body is on the south side of a house, lying on his back. There is a blade wound on the left corner of the man's head and two blade wounds on his back. They are both longitudinally, 4 inches long and 1 inch wide, with a concave in the middle of the wound...

There is a pair of Qin-style hemp shoes on the west side of the corpse. One is slightly more than 6 steps away from the corpse and the other is 10 steps away from the corpse. Put the shoes on the corpse, which is just right. The ground is hard and there are no traces of the murderer. The deceased is a middle-aged man with white skin, 7 feet and 1 inch long, his hair is 2 feet long, and there are two old scars on his abdomen."

*** After hearing this, he couldn't help but look at him twice: "Zhou Lingshi is indeed knowledgeable."

I thought to myself: I heard that some people are obsessed with alcohol and some are obsessed with music. This Ministry of Justice seems to be obsessed with the name of punishment.

At this moment, the frowning ** and Yang Bantuo had moved Abal's body out of the coffin and placed it on the open space in the yard.

"Di Langjun, Zhou Lingshi, come and see."

Not at the right time.

Several drums sounded from the drum tower.

The sun slants slightly to the west.

A middle-aged man looked up at the Drum Tower, stretched out his arms, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cuffs.

He carried a box on his shoulder.

The wood in the box looks very crude, just like the firewood used in ordinary people's backyards.

Strangely, such a rough box was dyed with good paint.
To be continued...