Chapter 52 Saliva Spots
Lu Jinping smiled faintly, glanced at Luo Sifa next to him, and said, "It doesn't matter to me, I can wait, but I'm afraid that Luo Sifa and others can't wait. Because General Li urged this case very urgently, he sent people to the yamen to handle it again and again. Including Governor Feng, he was very anxious. Even Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice, supervised the case and asked to solve the case as soon as possible. In this case, if you just want to dig a hole again and enter the investigation, you will have to delay time and ask for instructions. I'm afraid that the investigation of this case will be further delayed."
My uncle smiled but didn't respond.
Luo Sifa next to him was anxious. Indeed, what Lu Jinping said was what he was most worried about. He wished that the case could be solved today. Therefore, he said to his uncle and Li Cunzheng: "Yes, Mr. Lu was right. General Li was urging this case very urgently, so he really couldn't delay it. Besides, he just opened the original thief hole, not digging the entire tomb. The thief hole already exists, and it is convenient to solve the case. I believe General Li will agree in the future. Otherwise, it is OK to do so? We sent someone to report this to General Li, and at the same time digging the thief hole for Mr. Lu to go in and investigate immediately, and then seal it again after it is finished. If General Li has any blame, I will bear it. What do you think?"
Li Cunzheng also advised his uncle and said, "Yes, Mr. Lu, Mr. Luo is right. General Li asked you to take care of the Li family's ancestral tomb. As a result, General Li's tomb was stolen. General Li was no longer angry. If you find some excuses to push and block the yamen from investigating this case, I am afraid General Li may not be happy if he knows it."
This sentence ends with the pain of his uncle. Last time General Li learned that his grandmother's grave was stolen, he did scold him severely after returning to the village. Although his uncle was General Li's elder in terms of seniority, General Li did not give him any face, which made him very embarrassed. Thinking of General Li's anger, he couldn't help but tremble and nodded and said, "Okay, since Luo Sifa has said that, then you will do it as your way. However, it's better for Blind Zhang to see the time again. When is the best time to open and when to close it again, he has to calculate."
Luo Sifa was a little unhappy: "The tomb robbers dug up this grave but didn't invite the blind man to see it. Now if Zhang is invited, he will have to say that it will take ten days and half a month to excavate. Then will we still solve the case? Even if he doesn't say that it's that long, we can't stand it if he says it for three or five days. OK, since he has decided to excavate, there is no need to invite him to see it. At worst, just ask him to see it when it is closed again."
When the uncle heard this, he felt it was reasonable and quickly laughed and said, "Then let's do it according to Luo Judicial's intention."
At that moment, the uncle's son and nephew immediately ran back to get a hoe and shovel, and dug the hole again. The hole was not big, but it could be climbed in while lying down.
The thief hole was tilted downward. Lu Jinping told Li Cun to bring a torch, tie it to a long bamboo pole, and slowly send it into the thief hole. He observed that the flames were not extinguished and the combustion was sufficient. It should be that after the thief hole was opened, the tomb robbers had been waiting for a while, and the thief hole had been closed again for only one month, so the air was relatively fresh.
After Lu Jinping confirmed that there was no danger inside, he wanted to go in person. Ye Qingqing hurriedly pulled him and said, "Sir, will I go in?"
Lu Jinping said: "I'm going to find clues to solve the case, not to go on an adventure, I have to go there myself. Don't worry, after I climb in first, you can bring the box in to me."
He tied a rope around his waist, and Ye Qingqing and the others pulled it outside, then held a torch with one hand and slowly crawled into the tilted hole.
He climbed very slowly because he wanted to observe whether there were traces left on the thief hole, but unfortunately, no suspicious traces were found.
After climbing for a while, I arrived at the tomb. Although the tomb is not very big, because it is pitch black, the light of the torch cannot illuminate the entire tomb. However, you can see a coffin in the middle of the tomb.
Lu Jinping slowly went down to the tomb, untied the rope, and then looked around with a torch. He found that the coffin lid of the coffin had been pried open and overturned, and the cover plate had obvious signs of prying and pressing.
After squatting down to see that there were no noticeable traces on the ground, he carefully walked to the edge of the coffin without touching it. He looked in. Except for two old and faded quilts, there were no corpses and no other objects to be buried alive.
At this time, Ye Qingqing outside the tomb room tied the forensic survey box with a rope and slid it in from the thief hole. After Lu Jinping caught it, he untied the rope and took it out of the blue cloth package and placed it on the ground.
Lu Jinping opened the forensic survey box, took out the fluorescence-enhanced protective glasses from it and put them on, then took out the micro ultraviolet laser evidence detector and opened it. The fluorescence immediately spread to the ground. Through the fluorescence-enhanced protective glasses, carefully observe whether there is any strange reflected light at the irradiation, which can prompt whether there are trace evidences of human body similar to blood stains, saliva, etc. on the coffin, the ground.
Lu Jinping quickly discovered that there were several pools of light cyan fluorescence next to the coffin, indicating that there were likely body fluids such as saliva spots. Although it had dried up, under the irradiation of ultraviolet light, when viewed through fluorescence enhancement glasses, light cyan fluorescence different from the surrounding area would be displayed, indicating the existence of body fluids. Lu Jinping observed carefully and confirmed that it was probably saliva spots.
The blood type substances contained in human saliva and the DNA in epithelial cells that fall off the oral mucosa can be preserved for a long time in saliva plaques. Therefore, DNA identification can be performed after the saliva plaque is extracted.
Lu Jinping was very excited. The reason why he suspected that there would be human body fluids such as saliva spots here was because he knew that in ancient times, they were basically burials. The stench produced by the corpse after the decay was difficult to dissipate in the closed coffins and tomb chambers. Once the coffin was pried open, the stench would definitely make the tomb robbers feel suffocating and would subconsciously spit. Therefore, he believed that the saliva spots on the ground were probably left by the tomb robbers.
He immediately took out the gauze soaked with a small amount of normal saline from the forensic survey box and wiped the saliva spots for testing.
Then, he searched for the lid of the coffin again, but this time he was disappointed because there was no fingerprint found on the coffin, which was understandable. Because tomb robbers had to remove clothes from the corpse or take burial objects from the coffin. Generally, they would wear gloves and would not touch the corpse directly with empty hands. This is a kind of self-protection that people subconsciously protected themselves. Because they were wearing gloves, they could not leave fingerprints on the lid of the coffin.
Then he observed other places and found no suspicious traces. The saliva spots he had discovered before had already made him very happy, which may be the key to solving the case.
He tied the survey box to the rope and pulled it a few times. Ye Qingqing pulled the survey box up, then threw the rope in. He grabbed the rope and crawled out of the thief hole.
Luo Sifa immediately accompanied him to smile and asked, "Have you discovered anything? Sir."
Lu Jinping said: "It is not advisable to disclose it to you now. I will tell you together when I have any questions."
Speaking of this, he turned to his uncle's son and nephew and said, "Who got into the thief hole after digging the thief hole last time?"
The two said: "We all got in and found that Grandma Gaozu's corpse and burial objects were stolen."
Lu Jinping asked again: "After you two entered, did you spit on the ground?"
"Absolutely not!" Both of them said with certainty. They explained that although there was a little smell in the tomb, they were still tolerated. Because it was the tomb of Grandma Gaozu, of course they could not spit randomly.
Chapter completed!