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Chapter 78 Pregnancy
Since Zhuang Zhi was no longer stubborn, Cao Tianbao glared at his nephew and bowed to Zhu Yu again: "Then I'll ask you to examine it carefully!"

"It's my duty." Zhu Yu also returned the gift politely.

Cao Tianbao glanced at Lu Qing beside Zhu Yu with an ambiguous look, grabbed his nephew Cao Chenfeng's collar, and strode out.

Jingzhao Yin did not dare to delay and hurried to catch up. When he passed by Zhu Yu, he also bowed to her.

Of course, the morgue of Jingzhao Prefecture would not be set up in a prosperous place in the capital. The road from the General's Mansion was not very short. As soon as Lu Qing and Zhu Yu left the General's Mansion, Fu Lu had already parked the carriage there waiting for them. After the two got in the carriage, they drove straight to the morgue.

This time, they were accompanied by carriages from Duke Yan's Mansion and Prince Yi's Mansion. Others should have followed as well, but most of them had already taken the opportunity to avoid them.

After all, if Cao Chenfeng's innocence can be proven, it would be fine. If not, then all the people who witnessed all this would undoubtedly become witnesses to General Cao's disgrace.

It’s better to stay away from this kind of trouble as far as possible.

Even Lu Ze, who usually liked to join in the fun, held back and stayed in the General's Mansion to wait for news, and did not go with them.

Even so, for a place like a morgue, this time the scene was quite big. When the carriages stopped outside, all the yamen runners guarding the morgue ran out in fear, not knowing what was going on today.

The Jingzhao Yin got off the car first and quickly signaled the yamen runners to carry the body of the young lady from the Zhuang family to the platform in the morgue so that Zhu Yu could examine it. He also arranged for people to carry out a few chairs and placed them under the shade of a tree in the yard, a little way away from the morgue.

After all, Duke Yan and the others are all prominent figures, and we can't let them be exposed to the sun like that.

Zhu Yu quickly got into the mood. She was already wearing a narrow-sleeved dress today, so it wasn't too much trouble. She simply took a plain linen coat from the morgue staff and put it on, then entered the morgue alone.

Lu Qing did not follow this time. After all, Zhuang Lanlan was an unmarried girl. Although death is like the extinguishing of a light, her father Zhuang Zhi was still alive, so she had to consider his feelings.

Zhu Yu entered the morgue, closed the door, and stretched her stiff shoulders and neck. Now that she was alone here, she felt much more at ease.

She walked to the front of the platform, where Zhuang Lanlan's body had been placed. Since she was naked when she died, her body was only covered with a piece of cloth. When the cloth was lifted, the condition of the body became clear.

Although Zhuang Lanlan had been dead for five or six days, the temperature in the morgue was relatively low and particularly cold, and Zhuang Zhi had someone buy large ice blocks to help cool her down. Her skin now looked a lifeless bluish-gray color, but there was no obvious ulceration, and her overall condition was still relatively good.

Zhu Yu immediately spotted the glaring knife wound on Zhuang Lanlan's left chest. It was obvious the cut was deep. She carefully lifted the body a little higher and examined the back. There was another wound at the same spot, which appeared narrower than the one on the front of the chest. Judging from its location, it suggested it was a penetrating wound.

Apart from the corpse spots, there were no obvious scars on Zhuang Lanlan's body. The nails on her ten fingers were intact, and the fingertips were smooth and unharmed.

Zhu Yu put his hands into Zhuang Lanlan's loose hair and carefully touched her skull, from forehead to back of head, not daring to miss a single part. He found that Zhuang Lanlan's skull was intact, with no blood scabs and no internal or external injuries.

She went to the door and got the onions, peppers, white plums and other things that the coroner of Jingzhao Prefecture had prepared in advance. She wiped Zhuang Lanlan's body carefully and checked every part carefully.

After all the ordeal, there were still no other scars on Zhuang Lanlan's body. Zhu Yu concluded that she was caught off guard and was stabbed through the chest and back by someone from the front.

The strike was a clean, decisive blow, without a single scrap of scrape or scrape, and it gave Zhuang Lanlan no chance to defend or dodge. It was likely that before the poor girl could even come to her senses, her name had already been crossed out from the book of new words by the King of Hell.

Zhu Yu first checked Zhuang Lanlan's lower body, and then adjusted the strength, tapping and pressing from her heart to her belly button.

Zhuang Lanlan's lower abdomen feels noticeably hard, completely different from the rest of her body.

Zhu Yu made a judgment in his mind, and after checking Zhuang Lanlan inside and out, his attention once again fell on the knife wound on her chest.

The wound looked ordinary at first glance, just a cut left by a sharp knife piercing the flesh, but when you looked closely at it closely, there was something unusual about it.

The wound was about two inches wide, and the two-inch wide flesh in the middle of the wound curled slightly toward the middle. The color of the wound was also darker, appearing dark red.

However, the flesh on both sides of the knife wound showed no signs of curling, and the exposed wound was a pale white.

Zhu Yu looked at the wound on Zhuang Lanlan's back again and noted the length of the wound.

The wound on the back had the skin and flesh curled up from beginning to end, and the color was consistent.

Zhu Yu frowned in thought, but soon his brows relaxed again.

She covered Zhuang Lanlan with the sheet again and opened the door of the morgue. Outside, Lu Qing had already arranged for people to prepare charcoal and vinegar, just waiting for Zhu Yu to come out.

Zhu Yu followed the rules and stepped over the brazier with vinegar on it. After being inhaled by the sour hot air, he came to Lu Qing's side.

She was about to speak to Lu Qing when she saw Lu Qing wink at Cao Tianbao. She understood what he meant and walked past Lu Qing directly to Cao Tianbao and said to him, "General, I have carefully examined the woman's body.

The woman was killed by a knife wound that went through her chest. The knife was stabbed with great force and was cut cleanly.

Before she was murdered, she had sex with someone, and according to my preliminary investigation, she was pregnant before her death, probably for two or three months.

Cao Tianbao was a little surprised and immediately looked at Cao Chenfeng who was kneeling beside him.

Cao Chenfeng's face had already turned pale, and when he heard Zhu Yu mention that Zhuang Lanlan was pregnant, he looked even more ashen. He quickly knelt and crawled forward two steps, then fell at his uncle's feet, trembling and saying, "Uncle, it was only that night that I heard Zhuang Lanlan say she was pregnant. I panicked and left in a hurry, but I really didn't kill her!"

Cao Tianbao ignored him and asked Zhu Yu, "Have you discovered anything else?"

Zhu Yu nodded to him and asked Cao Chenfeng, "Mr. Cao, could you lend me the sword you usually carry with you?"

(End of this chapter)