Hua Lizheng also said, "It was Dumb Wang from the village who discovered the dead body and came to me. Seeing the wretched state of the corpse, I knew this was not death by illness; even a fool would know it was homicide. I didn't dare let anyone move it to avoid disturbing the crime scene, so I immediately sent someone to inform the officials. Chief Wang then came with his men and examined the scene before instructing me to arrange for Zhu Daqi's body to be carried into the Zhu Family's Firewood Room. Afterwards, we kept the firewood room locked day and night, with people standing guard in shifts to prevent anyone from approaching the dead body, until the post-mortem examiner arrived today to conduct the autopsy."