jdhmnovel Chapter 135: This has happened before.
Chapter 135: This has happened before.
The coroner, Lao Qiu, had already ordered people to carry the male corpse from the innermost part of the morgue to the outside and lit a dozen candles to illuminate the body.
When Xiao Meng brought Ji Zichu and Shen Wen to the scene, Lao Qiu was burning incense for the deceased. After that, he asked Shen Wen and others to pay their respects as well. He also prepared ginger slices and masks to prevent corpse poison, and gave them to Shen Wen and others, asking them to cover their mouths and noses.
After several people finished doing what they were told, Lao Qiu pulled Shen Wen closer to the corpse and pointed at the abdomen of the corpse and said, "Young Master, look, although the abdomen of this male corpse has begun to rot, there are scars from the sutures on the right and left lower abdomen."
Then he only showed her the shape of the scar and said, "This scar is very strange. It is three inches long and the incision is straight. At first I thought it was stabbed by someone with a very wide knife. Then the deceased met a trauma doctor with excellent sewing skills who sewed it up."
At this point, Shen Wen touched the scar and shook her head. But she heard a voice behind her saying, "Impossible, I have never seen a trauma doctor who can sew a wound so smoothly like an embroiderer, and such a deep scar can heal so well that it is almost invisible."
Everyone turned around and saw that it was Doctor Sun.
It turned out that the old man had not left. He just followed Shen Wen and Ji Zichu from a distance. Later, when the two of them were led here, he also followed quietly.
Shen Wen glanced at him and turned back to observe the male corpse.
The male corpse was half decayed overall, with the lower body severely decayed, but the limbs and head were still intact.
When Shen Wen looks at a corpse, he likes to observe from the footsteps upwards.
His feet are thin, and the soles are smooth, clean, and free of calluses. Then look at his legs...
Shen Wen said to Xiao Meng beside him: "Has this male corpse been washed by you? Why is it so clean?"
Xiao Meng said, "Yes, sir, you don't know that this male corpse was found at the bottom of a cave. When he was pulled out, his whole body was covered in blood and mud. The bloody smell was disgusting. Because they thought that this body might be related to the disappearance of Mr. Liu's daughter, Constable Lei ordered us to bring him back for an autopsy. At that time, we discussed it together and washed the male corpse with river water before bringing it back to the government office."
Shen Wen said: "Oh? Then did the foul-smelling blood on his body come from his body?"
Xiao Meng recalled and shook his head, "It's unlikely. His entire body was soaked with blood, even his hair was wet with blood. Only the dirt beneath his body was stained. It was probably because he stayed there for too long, and the dirt was also wet. I washed it clean, and I didn't see any blood holes on his body, so it couldn't have come from his body."
Shen Wen reached out and touched the corpse's calf and said, "Strange, considering the degree of decay, the skin on his calf is still elastic, and... the elasticity is too good, not inferior to the leg of a 28-year-old girl."
Shen Wen glanced at the man's abdomen and asked, "Did his stomach get cut open?"
Lao Qiu said: "I dug it..."
His face looked grim, probably because he was thinking about what he had found. He paused before saying, "In his stomach there are... the bones of a premature fetus... with flesh and blood."
Everyone was shocked when this was said, especially Ji Zichu. However, after he was surprised, he said, "Oh, this is not surprising. Ancient books have recorded that there is a kind of person who is male on the outside, but female on the inside. When they reach childbearing age, they can give birth to children just like normal women."
Lao Qiu also nodded in agreement.
Lao Qiu wanted to say something, but stopped himself.
Shen Wen observed the corpse's hands. She even picked up his fingers and examined them one by one. She found that his index finger had some calluses on its tip, but they were not very obvious. But looking at the hand as a whole, the joints were wide, probably because it had been maintained later, so it was not visible. She had seen many transgender women in modern times, especially transgender women who loved to do manicures, and their hands were probably the same as the male corpse's.
There were red blood clots under his fingernails. Shen Wen leaned forward and smelled them carefully. As she smelled, she recalled the bloody smell left by every crime scene she had come across over the years.
but……
But none of them are as strong as this stench, like... like what?
Many images overlapped in Shen Wen's mind, like a novel with a long history settled in a forest of corpses, bloody and smelly.
She couldn't help but sneeze.
A sneeze came out, and Ji Zichu was so scared that he quickly pulled away her arm that was holding the corpse's hand, and said nervously: "You are always so careless, you should leave here, and when you get out, I will ask the doctor to take a good look at you."
Shen Wen ignored his words and suddenly asked like a lunatic: "Do you know what a woman's placenta is? Not the placenta from a recent birth, but the placenta from a pregnant woman who was murdered. It was soaked in a bloody vessel for a long time until it was almost rotten to dryness. What did the placenta smell like when it was dug out of the pregnant woman's body?"
Before she could finish, Xiao Meng and Doctor Sun, who had heard half of it, could no longer control their imagination and suddenly leaned over and vomited.
But Shen Wen still felt that the taste she described was different from the one just now. She shook her head and wanted to say something.
Fortunately, Doctor Sun, who was covering his mouth and nose, stopped him and said, "Alright, alright... stop telling such horror stories. Even the most famous storyteller in our Dajue country doesn't have such a bizarre storyline as yours."
Shen Wen couldn't describe it, so he gave up for the time being.
She then moved from the male corpse's arms to his shoulders and neck, ignoring the scattered rotten areas. Seeing the smooth and graceful lines, she couldn't help but touch them and said, "You don't know, this transgender man is more beautiful than our real women, especially the shoulders and neck. Not only will it make men have impulsive thoughts, but even women will be impulsive. It is really natural and beautiful."
This statement is nonsense, but seeing his emotional and excited expression, the several grown men present were very embarrassed. Who told them that they lacked knowledge in this area? They were not perverts, and they didn't have time to study how beautiful a male-to-female second chair was. If they really felt the same as Mr. Shen, then they would be perverts.
Shen Wen ignored them and looked at the male corpse's head and face.
The male corpse had picturesque eyebrows and eyes. Although his eyes were closed, his facial features were regular, and he looked seven parts delicate and three parts elegant. Except for the decay on the right half of his face from the ear to the cheekbone, the rest of his face was intact and his skin was fair and tender.
but……
When Shen Wen looked at the corpse again, she felt that he looked familiar. She couldn't help but ask herself, could it be that I have seen him somewhere before? But she felt that it was impossible, so she asked Ji Zichu beside her, "Hey, do you think he looks familiar? Who do you think he looks like? Why do I feel like I have seen this person before?"
Ji Zichu quickly observed it himself and shook his head, saying, "It doesn't look familiar. I don't think I've seen it before." So he asked Xiao Meng, "Didn't you find the family of this corpse? Where is he from? What's his name? How old is he now?"
Xiao Meng said, "My Lord, this man is called Wen Rulan. He is from nearby Langang County. His parents are still alive and are engaged in business. They have shops and fertile fields all over the country. He is the fourth of four brothers and sisters. It is said that he has been a talented person since he was a child. His family said that he disappeared when he came to Beijing to visit relatives and friends on October 13th after the imperial examination when he was fifteen years old. At that time, his family used a lot of manpower and material resources to look for him, and of course they also alerted our government office, but they found nothing after a long search. Now his body has been found again, more than six years after he disappeared."
Ji Zichu said to Shen Wen, "His name is Wen Rulan, he is already in his twenties, and he has been missing for six years. Um...six years ago you were still a big boy of eleven or twelve years old. Have you really seen him? Do you have any impression of him?"
Shen Wen shook his head and said, "I don't have any impression, but he looks familiar..."
Xiao Meng thought the conversation between the two was very interesting and couldn't help but smirk for a while, but he laughed out loud, which made Li Zichu roll his eyes. Ji Zichu asked him unhappily, "What are you laughing at? What did you find out? Is Meng Yayi trying to bring honor to our government office?"
Seeing that he was really angry, Xiao Meng didn't dare to offend him. His mind went blank when he was asked. Suddenly, he pointed at the male corpse and said to Shen Wen, "Hey! Mr. Seventeen, look, he really does look like you. Both his figure and facial features are very similar to you. Especially his elegant temperament, which is... very... similar... to you..."
The last three words were like the buzzing of a mosquito, without the tail sound.
Xiao Meng was scared to death. He had seen what the third son of the Ji family, who was usually approachable, looked like when he was angry. He was like a government official, wanting to kill people with his eyes, right? It was too fierce!
Shen Wen suddenly realized what was going on when she heard this. She asked why she felt that this person looked familiar. However, she felt that he was not like her physical body, but another person who always appeared in her dreams. Although she didn't know who that person was, she didn't know whether he was a real person in "Shen Wen's" life.
Shen Wen sighed and decided to personally open the man's belly to check.
But when he scanned the man's face again, he was suddenly stunned.
She went back to touch the man's jawbone, and after feeling it and confirming it, she pried open the man's mouth and asked Xiao Meng to hold the candle higher and closer to look at the man's back teeth. Shen Wen said, "There are no wisdom teeth. They have been extracted."
Lao Qiu asked, "Ah...would the absence of wisdom teeth be a clue?"
Shen Wen said: "This involves a person who is very dissatisfied with his appearance. This kind of person has a bold idea, which is to make his appearance more beautiful by changing the facial bone lines. For example, remove the wisdom teeth, open the skin and flesh of the mandible, grind down the protruding bones of the mandible, and then sew the skin and flesh back together..."
After she finished speaking, she saw several people looking at her as if she were a monster, except for Doctor Sun, who had a heavy expression on his face.
He stroked his beard and said, "Well, it's not like no one has ever done this before."