Chapter 259 - 163: Trap_2
The autopsy complete, Liu Qingsong quickly wrote down the autopsy report and handed it to County Magistrate Song, then he and Ran Yan got into the carriage and left.
Wan Lu had vomited until she was depleted. Once she got into the carriage, she fell unconscious. Ran Yan took her pulse, saw there was nothing seriously wrong, then asked, "Did you perform the autopsy?"
"How could I do such a thing on my own!" Liu Qingsong immediately denied, but then added, "His intestines were all over the ground; I merely helped put them back and took the opportunity to open him up and take a look."
As Liu Qingsong spoke, his complexion also appeared somewhat unsightly. Yesterday, Ran Yan had told him about finding clues through the contents of the stomach, so he couldn’t wait to try it today, and after he cut open the corpse’s stomach, he nearly wanted to die. At that moment, he truly began to admire Ran Yan; being a forensic doctor was truly not something ordinary people dared to attempt.
"Did you find anything interesting?" Ran Yan asked with great interest.
Liu Qingsong suppressed the discomfort in his heart and said, "You wouldn’t know until you look — it’s quite shocking. This Feng Zhao really could eat! And he had stuffed his stomach with all sorts of good stuff, the food mostly in its original shape, and there was a strong smell of alcohol. Among the stomach contents, I could distinguish a dish of broiled quail called ’Chopstick Spring,’ a dish from one of the highest standard banquets."
Ran Yan’s eyes brightened. Her usually calm eyes shimmered with excitement, "This means he had dinner in town, then came here, and met his end within half an hour!"
There’s no larger county nearby. Half an hour, even if he had ridden a horse at full speed from Luoyang after dinner, he wouldn’t have made it. He must have dined in town. However, Jushui County is not big; this big meal had to have been had either at a restaurant or at some wealthy household’s home—it wouldn’t be difficult to investigate.