Qin Ming, forensic doctor of Anhui Public Security Department. The pictures in this article are all Wang Yitu.
Qin Ming, a forensic doctor, put on a mask, and Zhang Yudang, a colleague, put on protective clothing. They prepared instruments and records and got into a low bungalow-the autopsy room of Hefei Funeral Home.
Two hours later, after the autopsy was completed, they walked out of the autopsy room, took off their masks and protective clothing, squeezed out a few drops of hand sanitizer by the washbasin and rubbed their hands hard. After changing clothes, they got into a car and Qin Ming drove away.
Qin Ming, a 35-year-old forensic doctor in Identification Bureau, Anhui Provincial Public Security Bureau, started serializing novels on the Internet five years ago and was later made into an online drama. Since the online drama "Forensic Medicine Qin Ming" went online last year, Qin Ming has been on fire.
Qin Ming in reality is not like "Qin Ming" in the online drama: wearing a suit and tie, unsmiling, listening to Bach’s music and watching "What Dogs See". As a matter of fact, he is not beautiful or fashionable, but he is just joking and shakes off a few burdens from time to time.
Before Party Zhang Yu went to work in the ministries and agencies, he knew that Qin Ming was a "fat man" and a "jerk". Qin Ming teased himself: "When you watch online drama, you should forget the real Qin Ming."
Qin Ming, forensic doctor of Anhui Public Security Department.
"Go to the place with the most deaths."
Henry morgan, a forensic doctor in the American TV series Immortal Forensic Medicine, said, "If you want to know about death, go to the place where there are the most deaths."
Qin Ming is one of more than 300 forensic doctors in Anhui public security organs, who undertake the on-site investigation of nearly 10,000 abnormal deaths every year. "Hanging, suicide, traffic accidents and all kinds of accidental deaths must be confirmed by forensic doctors."
The most basic requirement of his profession is to get used to the smell of corpses and tell himself that what he smells is nothing but butyric acid, biogas and other compounds that are common in nature.
He never smeared peppermint cream or other things on his upper lip to cover up his body odor during autopsy, like the FBI agent in the movie The Silence of the Lambs. "As far as I know, no one did that. After a while, you get used to it and don’t think about it. "
But outside of work, it is inevitable to encounter some embarrassment caused by occupation-once, my colleague Li Xinqiang just sat down and introduced his work, and the other party stood up and left directly.
"Chinese is afraid of death, so they will think that people who deal with death are unlucky." Qin Ming said. Now, in order to avoid embarrassing situations, Li Xinqiang never takes the initiative to shake hands with people.
No matter from which angle, this is a job that needs to have a strong heart. Zhang Yudang joined Qin Ming’s department only for half a month. He just graduated from Xi ‘an Jiaotong University with a major in forensic medicine, and has not handled any specific cases. Although he has been trained in autopsy at school, he "has no fear in his heart," but staying alone in the laboratory still makes him a little scared.
Of the 20 students in Zhang Yudang’s class, only one girl volunteered for this major, and the rest were transferred. Zhang Yudang, who was also transferred to the forensic profession, said that it was the "sense of accomplishment when solving the case" that drove him into this profession.
This job requires practitioners to be bold and cautious. In the face of a highly corrupt corpse, it is necessary to touch, examine and dissect it at close range, because every inch of skin should be clearly seen for injuries. And a corpse with a "severe infectious disease" may also become their danger source-they didn’t have each other’s health information before dissection, and once they break their fingers during dissection, they are at risk of being infected.
When he first joined the work, the old forensic doctor taught Qin Ming not to wear a mask, because he needed to "sniff" to identify the possibility of poisoning. Nowadays, more advanced instruments and equipment can be used to extract and test poisons, which finally makes the era of "nose sniffing" a thing of the past.
Qin Ming’s colleague Li Xinqiang, who is studying clinical medicine, joined the ranks of forensic doctors in 2008. A year later, the first case he came into contact with was "rape, murder and dismemberment". It was in July that the body of the deceased was highly corrupt, and the autopsy was carried out in an empty place on the scene to build a simple hut. The sweat on Li Xinqiang’s forehead kept dripping. "The body is particularly smelly, and it is already a giant view (note: a kind of postmortem phenomena, the whole body swells and expands into a giant)."
After that, Li Xinqiang "has nothing to be afraid of". To cross that hurdle, most forensic doctors rely on self-regulation.
Not everyone can cross the past. For example, Qin Ming’s wife, who also graduated from forensic medicine, found that this job was not as "cool" as in TV series, so she couldn’t bear it and finally changed her profession.
For those who have never seen an autopsy, Qin Ming will persuade, "Don’t go, the psychological impact will be greater."
Qin Ming, forensic doctor of Anhui Public Security Department.
"For the rights of the living, speak for the dead"
In 2011, Qin Ming wrote in Weibo: "I dreamed of struggling at work again. Mengcheng was slain, Suzhou exploded, langxi disguised as a scene murder case, a series of robberies and murders of prostitutes, poison crossbows, Yanzihe murder case, Yingshang gun case … Suddenly I feel that all the major and mysterious cases I have done in recent years are concentrated in last year. It seems that last year was really not a good year, but I learned a lot. "
For a time, Qin Ming had the same dream over and over again, dreaming that he was dissecting a corpse and solving a case.
As for the specific scene, William R. Mapps, a famous American forensic doctor, once described it directly in his autobiography: "Think about every horror movie you have seen in your life. Together, they are just an ordinary moment that is insignificant and not novel in my daily work."
It was also during this period that Qin Ming developed the ability to eat while staying with the corpse.
Qin Ming was born in a police family in Tongling, Anhui Province. His father is a criminal policeman. "He feels that someone must inherit it. He hopes that I will be a policeman when I grow up, and any major can be done."
In 1998, when he filled in his volunteers for the college entrance examination, he filled in the column of advance approval, the column of key universities, the law department of Anhui University, the third undergraduate course of Weinan Medical College, and the last column of technical secondary school, the police school. Finally, Qin Ming was admitted to Southern Anhui Medical College. He filled in the volunteer column of the college entrance examination as a forensic major. There are 40 people in the class, except him, all the others come from "obeying distribution".
On the first day of entering Weinan Medical College, Qin Ming met Director Li of the Department of Forensic Medicine. He said a word to Qin Ming: "I can’t call you Qin classmate in the future, but I will call you Qin forensic doctor."
Qin Ming later recalled that this was the beginning of his sense of professional honor.
At that time, there were about 200 forensic graduates every year in China. Qin Ming knows nothing about this profession. In fact, it was not until a few years later that the Hong Kong TV series Forensic Records, which is a forensic theme, gave mainland audiences a glimpse of forensic work.
In fact, this is an ancient occupation. The earliest forensic doctor in the world was the "Ling Shi" of the Qin Dynasty. According to the Qin law, autopsy should be conducted in all cases with unknown causes of death. In the case of human life, the main contents of identification and inspection include the location of the body, the location, quantity, direction and size of the trauma. A written report, called a "written report", must be submitted after the inspection of Ling Shi, which is the earliest forensic expert conclusion and field investigation report in the world.
Qin Ming participated in the autopsy for the first time in the summer vacation of his freshman year. He was taken to the scene of a death case caused by a gang fight. When the face of the corpse appeared in front of him, 18-year-old Qin Ming was stunned. The person lying down was an alumnus of his primary school. "At that time, his mind was blank."
The alumnus was stabbed to death in a group fight, and one of the five or six knife wounds on his body was fatal. The forensic doctor carefully examined the wound and found that there was a "flap" at the fatal knife wound, indicating that it was a curling knife, thus locking the murderer.
A common saying in forensic medicine is: "The right of the living speaks for the dead". William R. Mapes has made a touching statement about this: "They have stories to tell us, even if they are dead. It is my responsibility as a forensic skeletal scientist to capture their silent cries and whispers and interpret them, for the sake of the living, until the end of my life. "
Just after graduating from college, 22-year-old Qin Ming worked as an intern in the Forensic Medicine Center of Nanjing Public Security Bureau, and met a traffic accident. Several little girls were killed and their bodies were arranged in a row in the corpse repository. Family members came over and the teacher arranged for him to deal with it. Until now, Qin Ming can hardly forget the pain of the family members of the deceased. "The psychological shock is even greater than the shock when I dissected."
But this job demands restraint of reason. "Learn not to bring personal emotions-compassion for the deceased and anger at criminals-to work."
Forensic doctor Han is the chief of forensic medicine of Hefei Public Security Bureau, nicknamed "Han Yidao". In the summer of 2005, Han Yidao took Qin Ming, who had just joined the work, to the scene of a case that happened in the wild. His impression of this student was "calm and hardworking"-under the scorching heat, Qin Ming could dissect three bodies a day and work for nine hours continuously.
dual identity
In the autopsy room of the funeral home in Hefei, a staff member gathered in Qin Ming’s ear and smiled and said, "The online drama is very popular!" "hmm." Qin Ming looked down at the phone and replied flatly.
When the first episode of the online drama Forensic Qin Ming was broadcast, Qin Ming was on a business trip. After the day’s work, he went back to the hotel and turned on the computer to watch the play. At 3 o’clock in the middle of the night, he watched the whole play with fear-he was worried that the relevant forensic expertise in the play was inaccurate, and "he was relieved after reading it."
This online drama is adapted from Qin Ming’s "Forensic Qin Ming" series of novels. After the broadcast, the number of Weibo fans in Qin Ming increased to more than 3 million. During his seven days in Beijing, he received 11 interview outlines.
"Writer" is another identity of Qin Ming besides forensic medicine.
In 2011, Qin Ming began to play Weibo. His "playing with heart" in Weibo began with a case. At that time, zhouyan, a girl from Hefei, was seriously injured by her classmates, causing social concern. After more than five months, the forensic doctor issued the appraisal results. Some people accuse forensic doctors of procrastination, and there are also some "conspiracy theories".
At that time, Qin Ming wrote with the Weibo account of Anhui Forensic Medicine Society: "Not all forensic examinations can be made immediately after injury, and some involving disfigurement and dysfunction will take three to six months before medical treatment can be made after the end of the illness."
However, the skepticism did not stop until Qin Ming found the original text of the Supreme People’s Court’s relevant judicial interpretation. "Public opinion quickly subsided a part."
After that, Qin Ming paid more and more attention to hot events. He criticized the current disadvantages and claimed that "sand is not allowed in his eyes". A year later, his fans in Weibo exceeded 10,000, and he went to study some "successes" of Weibo’s "Big V", "No baggage, no Weibo. If you play Weibo and don’t know how to shake the burden, no one will watch it. "
Someone encouraged him to write, so he recalled that he had been in contact with the first corpse for more than ten years and had handled countless cases. "There are many things to write."
However, the beginning of writing is not a flood of ideas, and it is even difficult to put pen to paper. It was January 29th, 2012, New Year’s Eve. The family sat around to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and Qin Ming got into the room alone. The case was hovering in his mind, but he didn’t know how to start: there was no outline, no characters, and names and places could not be copied. Finally, he wrote a preface and the first chapter of the story and posted it on Sina blog and his own Weibo.
The next day, he opened it,
That article has been read about 1000 times and more than a dozen messages. "It’s already a big number for me." Only then did he have the motivation to continue writing.
Now, sitting in front of a computer, Qin Ming can type 10,000 or 20,000 words a day. Often, when he just finished the case, he reconstructed the plot, designed different endings, and his writing became more and more mature. He would think about "how to be more interesting, more reasonable and more popular". In this way, he wrote a book with 300,000 words a year, which Qin Ming felt was fairly easy.
After writing the stories of four or five cases, Lotus, the moderator of Tianya Lotus Story, paid attention to Qin Ming and suggested that he publish it on Tianya. Lotus pushed his post to Tianya’s "Focus on Headlines". On the same day, the click of the article broke 100,000. At that time, he was still quite uneasy, "worried about whether it would violate discipline."
Bao Bao is the editor of "Forensic Medicine Qin Ming" series. As a "suspense fan", in 2012, she read all Qin Ming’s books on her blog and felt that "he wrote very carefully and logically, although his writing style was not particularly perfect, it was amazing enough."
Determined to sign Qin Ming, she wrote him a letter of two or three thousand words, in which she suggested that Qin Ming show the written content to the people in charge and decide whether it can be published.
After being approved by the organization, Qin Ming agreed to publish a book first, but he told Bao Bao that he would only write it once without changing the content. "At that time, a lot of adjustments were made to sick sentences, typos, words and so on."
After the first novel came out, some people rated it as "story-meeting style" after reading it. On Douban, some readers thought that the book was more documentary than literary, like "diary style and case file integration".
Therefore, Bao Bao recommended Qin Ming to read the mystery novels of Defoe, Keigo Higashino and other writers for nourishment, and he would also revise the second and third drafts according to Bao Bao’s opinions. Now, the message from more readers is that "the writing style, plot and suspense design of Qin Fatty are constantly improving".
There are few domestic forensic novels, not to mention the author is an insider. In the second year after the book was published, a film and television company came to the door and bought the copyright. Now, five novels have been published in Forensic Medicine Qin Ming series, and all the film and television rights have been sold.
After the first payment came to hand, Qin Ming had a "little happiness" in his heart and finally treated himself with a delicious meal.
"He is a down-to-earth person." The bag commented. Obviously, his income from publishing books is much higher than his salary as a forensic doctor. Occasionally, his colleagues will make fun of him and persuade him to give up being a forensic doctor and become a full-time writer. Qin Ming shook his head and even said "no." "Even if there are millions or even tens of millions one day, I will not resign. I still have feelings for this job, and writing is always a hobby. "
In the first book "The Corpse Whisperer", Qin Ming wrote "without reservation" the 20 most impressive cases since his career. When this book occupied the first place in the major sales networks, Qin Ming was blinded, and he was "at a loss" about the sudden fire.
Cross that hurdle
Qin Ming has five QQ fan groups, which are divided into underage fan groups and adult fan groups.
Bao Bao masterminded the name of Qin Ming readers’ fan base, and she once initiated an online voting. The highest vote was "beast", and the second place was "celery." "Of course, you can’t use the first one, so you can use the second one." As a result, in April 2015, at the Qin Ming signing ceremony of the Hangzhou Book Fair, all the fans present had a few celery in their hands. "As soon as they arrived at the scene, they smelled like celery."
Qin Ming didn’t count the specific number of fans, but there is no doubt that Qin Ming, a forensic doctor, has a star aura.
Some fans took celery to the door of Anhui Provincial Public Security Department to find his signature. Some people who haven’t contacted for many years suddenly started to contact him and asked him to eat and drink. "But I don’t have the time and energy to socialize." He doesn’t like excitement and prefers to stay at home and read books. Once, a school brother invited him to dinner through WeChat, and Qin Ming replied that he didn’t have time. The other party directly replied: "Don’t you just call the roll? What’s the big deal? You don’t even come to dinner. " A similar situation troubled him, "I don’t know how to deal with these relationships."
However, in the eyes of colleague Li Xinqiang, the famous Qin Ming is no different from the past, and he is still very kind with his colleagues.
At noon on the day of The Paper’s visit (www.thepaper.cn), colleagues sat together for lunch. Sitting opposite Qin Ming was Wang Lintao of Trace Inspection Department, who was also the prototype of Lin Tao in the online drama and went to the provincial office to work at the same time as Qin Ming. The two often go to the scene together. "There are frequent debates. One says that criminal technology is called a big trace, and the other says that criminal technology is called a big forensic doctor."
Wang Lintao in Qin Ming’s book is handsome, attractive to girls, afraid of the dark and ghosts, and narcissistic. "Everyone must have his personality. Anyway, he is fictional and not me." Qin Ming said with a smile, and Wang Lintao smiled.
In the eyes of new colleagues, Qin Ming’s books also have the function of professional teaching materials. For example, the thin, taciturn and gentle scholar-like Zhang Yu Party. On the first day of his visit to the Forensic Medicine Department of the ministries and agencies, Qin Ming gave him a set of "Forensic Medicine Qin Ming" series. Before going to the funeral home for autopsy that day, Zhang Yudang was reading one of them at his desk. From time to time, he drew blue lines in places involving autopsy and case analysis.
Is forensic Qin Ming a writer, or is the writer a forensic Qin Ming?
Bao Bao remembers that the first time I met Qin Ming, I made an appointment with him to eat hot pot near lishuiqiao, Beijing. Together with several of his forensic classmates in Beijing, we chatted while eating. Qin Minggang picked up a piece of boiled mutton and suddenly said, "Last time we used this colander to catch maggots in the belly of the corpse." Bag heart "collapse", Qin Ming as usual, the meat into his mouth, chewing is quite sweet.
For Qin Ming, the job of forensic medicine is inseparable from his life.
In an interview, Bao Bao learned that when he first entered the business, Qin Ming had been depressed by life and death at work, and went home from work at night to relieve his pressure by playing games. It was not until one day that he began to write a book and serialized it online, and someone responded to the encouragement online, that he moved out of his depression.
In 2011, Qin Ming encountered a case. A poor female college student, "she is very good and outstanding," used her internship to earn money in a shopping mall and repay the student loan. On June 20, the internship ended, and she just paid off the last student loan. "I just talked about a boyfriend, and a beautiful life is about to begin." Ten days later, "she was robbed and killed, sexually assaulted, stabbed many times in the neck by bamboo, and died."
Qin Ming recalled that in the time when the case was not broken, every night, he had repeated dreams, and the investigation at the crime scene, the small bamboo forest, the white bones and the autopsy room were all illogical dreams and fragmented plots. "I found clues in my dreams and caught the suspect." He also changed the QQ signature to "This case is not solved, like a fishbone choking my throat, and I can’t stop worrying all day."
It was not until the seventh day that the murder case was solved that Qin Mingcai was relieved.
Since he started his career, Qin Ming has seen many ways to die, from fear at first, to anger at criminals and compassion for the dead, and finally to thinking about life. He often looks at his heart from the life and death of others. "A good life is fleeting in a blink of an eye. What is the purpose of living?"
In the early morning of January 1, 2016, a female college student in Wuhu, Anhui Province was brought into the hotel by two boys in a drunken state, and fell to her death more than two hours later. The cause of death has attracted much attention.
At 7 o’clock that night, Qin Ming was having a New Year’s dinner with his family when he suddenly received a phone call. He quickly rushed to the scene, investigated and examined the body, and worked continuously for two days and two nights. "Through her injuries and on-site investigation, it was determined to be suicide."
Today, he is more inclined to face the profession. "This is my job. It is OK to be worthy of the dead and the law." He clearly knows what he should do. "I will look for evidence that can directly point to criminals."
At first, Qin Ming thought that autopsy was meaningless formalism, but after solving the case, he found that forensic doctors played a great role in it. In 2010, a murder case occurred in Mengcheng County, which was the first time that Qin Ming presided over the forensic work of a major case. With the help of the master, he successfully clarified the nature of the case and extracted the DNA data of two suspects, which provided important clues for solving the case.
Qin Ming crossed the first hurdle. "After this hurdle, I will concentrate more on my work."
That day, after coming out of the autopsy room of the funeral home, Qin Ming and four colleagues from the department got together in a Huizhou restaurant, bypassing several narrow streets. At the dinner table, my colleague asked about the anatomy. "Did you pull out your tongue?" "Hey." "When the body was stitched, was it the outer eight or the inner eight?" "Inner eight."
It was agreed not to talk about work, but a table of people didn’t hold back after all.