Chapter 40: Hiding Bodies Underwater
When Yuan Xiu jumped into the ice lake, Ning Zhao's face turned pale.
Shengjing has a cold winter, the year has just passed, and it is not yet the day when the snow melts, how can the ice on the lake collapse? Fang Cai danced Ji Huxin to perform, so many people did not collapse the ice, but Hu Wan collapsed when he came, and it collapsed under the pavilion on the Hou Ye's side.
This incident is too coincidental, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that there are ghosts in it, but people fall into the water in the courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion and have to be rescued. But this rescue is only afraid that it will save trouble, how important is the woman's name? Hu Wan wore a thin dress when she danced, and she fell into the ice lake and wet her clothes, and the Hou Ye was kind to save her, but after looking at her body, he was afraid that he would take her into the house.
Yuan Xiu also understands these truths, he grew up in the Prime Minister's Mansion, what tricks have he never seen?
He jumped into the ice lake with his eyes closed, his hand fished, his fist shook angrily, the ice cracked with a click, and the people on the shore saw the snow like mist, and the ice shattered like a broken mirror.
"Get out of the way!" Yuan Yu shouted, and the ladies came back to their senses and let go one after another.
As soon as the crowd dispersed, Yuan Xiu fell into the pavilion, and threw her to the ground with Hu Wan in his hand, his hands were wrapped in brocade cloth, his eyes were closed, his robe was wet, and his body was in good shape. The wind blew into the pavilion, and the man's face was covered with ice, and his face was cold and domineering.
The ladies in the pavilion looked at Yuan Xiu blankly, Ning Zhao looked at Yuan Xiu's closed eyes and hands wrapped in brocade cloth, his eyes were ecstatic and moved, and his face was rejuvenated.
"Master Hou......" Hu Wan's lips were purple from the cold, her temples and cheeks were frozen and the cold was biting, but she didn't faint with the last consciousness. She was lying on the luxurious camel blanket, looking at Yuan Xiu pitifully, with joy and loss in her eyes. The joy is that Yuan Xiu really saved her, but the loss is that he actually abides by etiquette, don't look at indecent things, don't move indecent things, his hand is wrapped in brocade cloth, and he doesn't even touch her dress directly.
Today's plan she even gave up her life, since she would not admit it like this, she endured the biting cold, trembling and calling Yuan Xiu, praying for his mercy and cherishing the jade.
But this call awakened the minds of the ladies in the pavilion, Yuan Yu looked disgusted, raised her eyes and saw her maid leading a group of girls from the courtyard to rush over, so she ordered angrily: "Send Miss Hu to the warm pavilion, first ask the house doctor to take a look, and then hand the sign into the palace to invite the imperial doctor!" ”
There was another person next to Yuan Yu's maid, it was Hu Wan who brought the girl from the other courtyard, the girl rushed to Hu Wan's side, crying and wrapping the big girl on her, Yuan Yu saw it and scolded angrily: "Your young lady did the pickled thing, you cried first!" If it weren't for the water in the courtyard of our prime minister's house, would they think that I love to keep you? Sue you, I just invited the Imperial Hospital to bring Xu Lao here, and I will definitely cure your young lady, and I will never let her rely on her! Hurry up and carry your young lady to the warm pavilion, it's too late to freeze out and get sick, I'm afraid I'm going to do something that depends on my sixth brother for the rest of my life! ”
Yuan Yu is the proud daughter of the sky, since she was a child, she was raised in the boudoir by Hua, she was very well protected, and she had never seen such a shameful thing with her own eyes. After scolding the maid, she didn't look at Hu Wan again, as if she felt that her eyes were dirty after one more look.
The maid was reprimanded and her face turned red, and she wanted to die headlong, but she didn't dare to ignore her master and hurriedly helped Hu Wan.
Ning Zhao said: "Master Hou's clothes are wet, first bring a big coat, and quickly go to prepare a new robe!" ”
Yuan Xiu heard that this voice was not Yuan Yu's, and knew that it was probably Ning Zhao, so he closed his eyes and didn't even look at her, but said lightly: "No need." ”
With that, he was about to exit the pavilion, when he suddenly heard a scream, and the voice was so frightened that people got goosebumps!
Hu Wan's girl fell to the ground and couldn't stop retreating, staring at something on the ground in horror as she retreated, her voice was torn.
The ladies in the pavilion looked at the ground one after another, and saw that there was something more on the camel hair carpet that was still clean, and the thing was blue and black, and there was a layer of yellow-white wax on it, not to mention what the yellow and white thing was, but the blue and black thing looked like a human hand!
The atmosphere was quiet, screams were stacked, and Yuan Yu and Ning Zhao were also pale with fright.
Yuan Xiu opened his eyes when he heard that something was wrong, and saw that there was a human hand on the carpet, and his face couldn't help but change. ”
This person's hand was just the maid to help Hu Wan, from her scattered cloud bun touched, this person's hand hooked Hu Wan's hair, the maid didn't know what it was at first, touched the hand only felt cold and slippery, looked down, and was shocked to throw it out! She was first humiliated, and then frightened, at this moment, she saw that Yuan Xiu's eyebrows were as heavy as iron and stone, and the evil aura of killing the enemy on the battlefield made her roll her eyes in shock, and she only raised her hand and pointed at Hu Wan and fainted.
Hu Wan was already shivering from the cold, she would have risked her life and face to do such a thing today, but she was still a little ashamed to be humiliated by Yuan Yu in public, and at this moment, when she saw the maid pointing at herself, she couldn't help but think of something and pulled down her hair......
She lifted it in one breath, rolled her eyes before she swallowed, and fainted.
Yuan Xiu frowned fiercely, got up and looked at Yuan Yu, saw that her face was pale, and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”
Yuan Yu only shook his head, Ning Zhao looked at Yuan Xiu, looking forward to it, but Yuan Xiu didn't seem to see her, and only said to Yuan Yu: "Warm up the pavilion to rest, I will deal with this matter, and help people down for treatment first." ”
With that, he turned and flew out of the pavilion and went to the opposite side.
Ning Zhao looked from afar, a little depressed, and saw Yuan Xiu fall into the pavilion opposite, walking towards a young general.
Twilight saw that there was some chaos on the other side, and thought that it was busy treating Hu Wan over there, but then she heard the screams and felt that something was wrong, and when Yuan Xiu came back, Twilight saw at a glance that the brocade cloth in his hand was wrapped in something, so she asked, "What is it?" ”
"Sharp-eyed." Yuan Xiu smiled, then smiled, frowned and spread out the brocade cloth, and handed it to her, "The maid who found this thing was frightened, and she didn't ask where she came from, I'm afraid it's from ......."
"In the water." Before Yuan Xiu finished speaking, Twilight Qing said.
At this time, the sons in the pavilion saw that Qing Yuanxiu was holding a human hand in his hand, and they were also so shocked that they retreated, only Wu Jin and Zhao Liangyi and other generals of the Northwest Army did not move.
Zhao Liangyi touched his chin and smiled, and quipped, "Hey! It's really evil, I said, how can you encounter these wherever you go? It's as if these dead people know you're there, and they're coming in a crowd to find you. ”
"Shut up, you!" Yuan Xiu didn't like to hear this, and asked Du Qingdao, "How do you know it's in the water?" ”
The maid only pointed at Hu Wan and fainted, and Hu Wan could only have brought this hand up when she fell into the water, he still figured it out, he just wanted to hear what else she thought.
"This layer of yellow and white is corpse wax, which is formed by the corpse being soaked in water for a long time and saponified by fat." Twilight wrapped her hand in brocade cloth and took a closer look, "There's a corpse hidden at the bottom of the lake, and it's been dead for at least half a year. ”
This hand is an adult, and it takes half a year for an adult's limb to form corpse wax.
This was nothing to Twilight, but the pampered sons and brothers in the pavilion shuddered when they heard it.
Hiding a corpse at the bottom of the lake?
"I'll go down and see!" Yuan Xiudao.
"The lake is quite cold, and you can look for it when the ice melts in the spring." Twilight Qingdao, although it is important to avenge the dead, the living are more important.
Yuan Xiu was happy when she heard this, she cared about him?
"Don't worry! The cold of this icy lake can't hurt me for a while! Yuan Xiu smiled proudly, what he practiced was the Yang Gong, this is true!
With that, he plunged into the lake with a fierce son.
In the pavilion opposite, Yuan Yu instructed the frightened girls to carry Hu Wan's master and servant to the warm pavilion, Ning Zhao comforted the rest of the ladies in a soft voice, and when he turned around, he saw Yuan Xiu jumping into the ice lake again, and his face couldn't help but turn pale again.
But Yuan Xiu didn't go into the water for too long, and after a while, he came up, carrying a dirty cloth bag in his hand, and the cloth bag opened a hole, and water flowed out of it, and a piece of Bai Sensen's arm bone stretched out from it.
The children's faces turned pale, Zhao Liangyi and others moved the round table in the middle of the pavilion away, clearing out a piece of open space, Yuan Xiu put the cloth bag on the ground, the cloth bag was spread out, and the water flowing out of it carried some lake mud, dirty like corpse water, some sons couldn't stand it, and turned around and vomited before they saw the corpse.
Dusk Qing said: "Prepare a coat, mask and gloves for me, and if you don't have one in the house, you will go to the yamen to ask for it." ”
Yuan Xiu recruited a pro-soldier and instructed the pro-soldier to go out of the courtyard to find what Twilight Qing wanted, and after the pro-soldier left, he asked, "This corpse may be moved to the warm pavilion for examination?" ”
It was noon, the wind was blowing on the lake, and the corpse had just been fished out of the water, and it was as cold as ice, and if she had done an autopsy, she would have frozen her hands.
"Okay." Twilight had no opinion, the corpse had been waxed, and the temperature in the post-mortem room had no effect on it.
Yuan Xiu recruited two more soldiers to carry the cloth bag and send it to the warm pavilion where the twilight was resting in the morning.
The princes in the pavilion couldn't help but be stunned when they saw it, there are some unsightly things in any house, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, there is a corpse hidden at the bottom of the lake in the courtyard, it is obviously done by their own family, it is too late to cover up such things, how can Yuan Xiu still let people perform an autopsy? Besides, just after the year, I met a corpse, if this kind of bad luck is encountered by another family, the body will be thrown to the mass grave, and then go to the Dahan Temple to invite the monks to come to the house for seven days to get rid of the bad luck, Yuan Xiu can be good, the body is not thrown, but moved to the house, this is bad luck is not heavy enough?
Yuan Xiu is indeed not unlucky, the people who killed the enemy on the battlefield have seen the corpse mountain, and they are still afraid of this corpse? He also knew that it might be related to his own family, but he wanted to know who this person was, why he died, and who killed him. He has been away from home for many years, and he doesn't know a lot of things at home, so he has to find out who he is and what he has done over the years.
Besides, she likes autopsies, and since she found one, it would be good to give her an exam. He would rather see her perform an autopsy than this boring poetry meeting.
But today's poetry meeting is that the mother invited these young ladies to come, and there was such a disappointment, Yuan Xiu was not good at issuing an eviction order, so he had to apologize to the sons in the pavilion, and asked everyone to move to the warm pavilion to drink tea to suppress the shock, and ordered the cook to re-prepare the meal.
As soon as they heard the meal, the sons almost vomited again, and everyone was interested in the autopsy rather than eating. Shengjing is prosperous, the family is rich, these aristocratic sons are the best at having fun, after so many years, they have played all the tricks that should be played, and they are all a little tired, when they heard that they were going to perform an autopsy, although they felt unlucky, they also felt excited, so they said that they didn't need to prepare meals, and when they saw that Yuan Xiu and Dusk Qing were going to Nuan Ge, they followed behind-
Off topic –
Send a new corpse and start eating it tomorrow~
Science:
Cadaver wax: The corpse is soaked in water or buried in wet soil with insufficient air for a long time, the decay progresses slowly, and the adipose tissue of the corpse is saponified or hydrogenated to form a yellowish-white wax-like substance, so that part or all of the corpse can be preserved, which is called corpse wax.