The CEO's Substitute Wife Is A Genius-Chapter 371: Falling Off the Horse, Touched a Corpse? Ew~

Chapter 371: Chapter 371: Falling Off the Horse, Touched a Corpse? Ew~

When Officer Chen arrived, the elderly lady immediately instructed the servants to fetch an extra chair and invited him to join them for dinner.

Captain Chen strode briskly into the courtyard, not even taking the time to remove his overcoat.

His remaining time was limited; naturally, he had no time to stay for dinner.

He intended to get straight to the point and asked Wen Jingya and Jiang Man for a moment to speak privately.

"Officer Chen, since this concerns the case, please sit down and we can discuss it leisurely."

"Time is of the essence..." Captain Chen first noticed the elderly lady sitting in the seat of honor, obviously the most conspicuous.

Yet, there was another face at the table that he couldn’t take his eyes off.

"Jiang...?"

He had just been about to say the word "Doctor" when he swallowed it back.

He remembered the instructions from the research institute that Dr. Jiang was a nationally protected important figure whose identity could not be disclosed lightly.

Even her own family members were unaware of her status.

Captain Chen shuddered and abruptly stopped himself.

But the name "Jiang" had already been spoken, making it difficult for others not to notice.

"Officer, do you know Manman?" Lu Xuemei was surprised.

Not just her—everyone else at home found it strange.

Captain Chen knew that the research institute where Jiang Man held a key position would help conceal her identity.

However, her assistance with the autopsy might not be interfered with by the institute.

Once the police disclosed details, with the Lu Family’s influence, investigating would not be difficult.

Furthermore, assisting the police with an autopsy didn’t seem like a secret that needed to be kept hidden.

Thinking of this, Captain Chen gave Jiang Man a probing look.

Seeing her calm and composed as ever, he mustered the courage.

"Today we owe much to Miss Jiang for assisting in the autopsy at the precinct, uncovering the true cause of the victim’s death. Following the leads provided by Miss Jiang, we indeed found the murder weapon discarded near the crime scene, and the forensic department is currently extracting the DNA samples from it."

Captain Chen didn’t divulge all the details, only those that could be revealed.

He spoke without intent, but the listeners took it to heart.

Lu Xuemei had just swallowed a piece of meat when she heard this and immediately spat it out, even retching while clutching her throat.

"What did you say... Manman, she... helped you with an autopsy? An autopsy? Are you sure it was an autopsy??"

Lu Xuemei was almost screaming.

When her family heard her roar, they too threw down their chopsticks, daring not to eat.

"Manman, how do you even have such skills?" Meng Lian expressed both disdain and fear, sounding like she was praising Jiang Man but actually faulting her.

"Having touched dead bodies... and then you sit here and dine with us? Ugh..." Right away, Lu Yaobang vomited.

Not just those at the table, but also the servants standing by to serve, all frowned.

Who isn’t averse to the dead?

Moreover, they had been dead for seven days!

Seeing such a strong reaction from everyone, Jiang Man remained unaffected and continued eating.

After chewing and swallowing her food, she spoke indifferently, "I washed my hands with disinfectant, changed my clothes, and even discarded the clothes I wore to the autopsy room."

After a pause, she tilted her head and looked sharply at Lu Xingzhou, "What about it? Do you despise me too?"

Where could Lu Xingzhou feel disdain? He was shocked!

He knew Jiang Man feared neither heaven nor earth, but he had underestimated her courage.

She wasn’t even afraid of dead bodies?

"Doesn’t the criminal police brigade have medical examiners? Why did they need you to go there?"

Lu Xingzhou asked curiously, mindful of Jiang Man’s feelings, he too picked up his chopsticks and resumed eating.

At the table, only this couple seemed to relish their meal.

"It’s like this: the brigade’s senior forensic pathologist just retired, and the two young forensic pathologists left behind lack experience. The higher-ups wanted the brigade to solve the case quickly, so in their urgency, they sought help from various quarters."

"I do have medical skills, after all—Van felt handling the dead was not much different from handling the living, so he contacted the brigade and pushed me to step in."

Captain Chen and Jiang Man played off each other.

Jiang Man paused, took a sip of water to clear her throat, "Originally, when I studied medicine, I learned comprehensively. Moreover, I was fortunate—the bodies this time weren’t troublesome, and the causes of death weren’t hard to find."

Not hard to find?

That’s a bigwig for you, speaking so lightly.

Wasn’t it that the tiny injection site was ignored by the two forensic pathologists for seven days?

Captain Chen said nothing more, but he silently criticized a lot.

Lu Xingzhou knew that Jiang Man was being modest.

If the autopsy hadn’t been difficult, why would the brigade have sought help everywhere?

"Since Miss Jiang is also here, it just so happens I have a question to ask."

Captain Chen didn’t dwell further on that topic, knowing that Dr. Jiang was clever and would certainly have a way to explain things convincingly.

He was racing against time, eager to catch the murderer as soon as possible.

"Go ahead," Jiang Man wiped her mouth with a napkin, having eaten to her fill. freeweɓnøvel.com

"How did you determine that the murderer was left-handed?"

The family members’ eyes widened like curious babies.

They couldn’t contribute to the case conversation, but they felt Jiang Man’s stature seemed to grow significantly in an instant.

"It’s simple," Jiang Man hooked her mouth in a smirk, "On the day of the incident, I and my husband rushed to the crime scene, where I heard my sister-in-law explain the details of the case to the police."

As she spoke, she stood up and walked over to Wen Jingya.

Looking down from a height, her eyes intense.

"At that time, you said the murderer initially tried to drag you away but didn’t succeed because Zhang Jianwen pulled you away and stood in front of you, right?"

"Right..." Wen Jingya spoke softly.

"So, at that time, the murderer was facing the two of you, correct?"

"Yes," Wen Jingya continued to respond.

"And you?" Jiang Man then turned, looking at Jiang Man.

Jiang Man was confident, "At that time, I was sitting nearby. Although I moved aside in fear when the murderer rushed towards Jingya, I saw everything clearly. The murderer didn’t clash with Zhang Jianwen, I remember hitting him once, and then he ran away. I told all this to the police."

Jiang Man nodded.

Upon hearing this, Captain Chen instantly realized.

"No wonder, Zhang Jianwen’s wound was on the right side of his neck!"

If facing the victim, and it really was that slap that involved the needle, then it must have been the left hand that did it.

If the murderer’s dominant hand was the right, then in that urgent situation, an instinctive jab would likely have targeted the victim’s left neck.

"It’s not necessarily true that the murderer was left-handed, right? The right hand could also stab the right side of the neck!"

Wen Jingya picked up her chopsticks, pretending it was the murder weapon, and ’stabbed’ towards Jiang Man’s right neck.

"Wouldn’t this work?"

"Jiang Man, do you remember which hand the murderer used to hit Zhang Jianwen?"

"It was like this." As Jiang Man said this, she recreated the scene, lifting her left hand and stretching it out.

"Captain Chen, because the initial investigation didn’t discover the wound on the right side of the victim’s neck, the detail of the murderer’s left hand hitting the victim’s shoulder has been overlooked from the beginning. Did you come here to ask if it was the left hand or right hand used by the murderer at that time?"

"Yes..." Captain Chen was incredulous, his eyes widened.

He hadn’t expected that a prominent medical doctor would turn out to be a Sherlock Holmes!