Chapter Seventy-Eight: Bones Can Talk
When the scorching sun is on the head, the yellow wind goes to the ground, and this thought only makes people feel cold on their feet and neck.
Fighting on the battlefield, killing countless people, the generals have no ghosts and gods in their hearts, but this case is strange, I thought it was a murderer, but he became a deceased, and personally sent the body to the general's mansion.
"Recall carefully, the person you saw yesterday was also as tall as you?" Twilight asked.
The soldier was stunned for a while, thought about it for a while, and his brows gradually furrowed, "The general doesn't think it if he doesn't ask...... The man is taller than me! On that day, I went out to help him carry meat and vegetables from the carriage, and when I stood with him and talked, I felt a little strange, but I couldn't tell what was strange. Now that I think about it, I looked up when I talked to him that day, and he was taller than me! ”
In the past two or three years, Xiao Zheng has come to the General's Mansion every evening to deliver food, and he also goes out to move in the carriage every evening, Xiao Zheng is taller than him, but because of his lameness, the size of the two of them is not much the same, when he speaks, he is level-eyed, yesterday because of the meat sent too much, he specially asked a few words, and the words were more than usual, at that time there was a strange feeling in his heart, but he couldn't tell where it was. If he hadn't been asked, he wouldn't have remembered!
Yesterday evening, the sunset burned half of the city, he felt particularly dazzling, so that people couldn't open their eyes, at this time, recall, it was because he looked up at people! Xiao Zheng has his back against the sunset, his face is particularly gloomy, he sometimes can't see it really, but the outline is not to be said......
"He's taller than me! Don't say half a head taller! ”
The sound of determination, but it is like thunder on a sunny day, which makes people's scalps numb.
That's not Xiao Zheng!
Twilight looked at the soldier's size, nodded, then lowered her head and continued to fight.
The military order that they were supposed to return to the camp to strictly inspect the whole city was suspended, and the courtyard was silent again, but the doubts still existed in everyone's minds.
"How do you know he's Xiao Zheng?" After a moment of silence, Yuan Xiu asked.
She said that to know who the murderer is, you must know who the dead are. She didn't know who the bones were in advance, she divided the bones, fought the bones, and before the bones were finished, she knew who the person was, and even knew that people had made military achievements!
How do you know?
"He sued me." Twilight's movements did not stop, "He is twenty years old, and he is ...... long"
"How do you know he's twenty, and how long he is?" Qi He interrupted Twilight, this corpse has no head and no feet, how can you see the appearance of it?
He had been keeping an eye on her, and had seen her write something on the ground, and her body had blocked most of the yellow clay characters, and he didn't see it clearly, but he saw that she was writing very quickly, and he erased it.
What did she write?
"People have years, and bones have bones. As we age, some bones form new bone and some heal, and the process of bone development and disappearance has a chronological sequence that can be used to estimate age. In addition to this, the length of the bone can also be used to estimate age. Even the healing of skull sutures, the wear and tear of teeth, vertebrae, shoulder blades, clavicles, sternum, pelvis, and even residual bones have their own methods of estimating age. Twilight spoke quickly, and her hands moved non-stop, dazzling and dizzy.
"This corpse has no head, and the most valuable pelvic is incomplete. As far as the parts of the current spelling out are concerned, the left arm and left leg are relatively intact, and the epiphysis and backbone of the upper arm have been completely healed, and it is inferred that the deceased was 20 years old for about two years. Considering the effects of genetics, nutrition, and health on his bone age, combined with the healing of the epiphysis of the scapula, the healing of the anterior end of the clavicle shoulder, the condition that the sacral vertebral space can still be distinguished, the fourth and fifth tail vertebrae have appeared, and the second to fourth tail vertebrae have healed, it is comprehensively inferred that the deceased was about 20 years old. ”
"The length of the body is very good to infer when the bones of the upper and lower limbs are relatively intact, and his age is the maximum height period, which does not need to be increased or decreased due to age, and the error is between one inch and three inches."
Twilight Qing spelled out another arm bone as she spoke, but few people could understand what she said, not even Qi He, who was the old disciple of Wu Lao Gao in the left courtyard of the Imperial Hospital.
But he listened to Twilight Qing continue: "Bones can speak, when he fell and injured his knee when he was young, when he was young, he chased his playmate and injured his foot, maybe when a person grows up, his skin and flesh heal, and his memory will fade away, but bones will help him remember a qiē." The skeleton had a fracture on the left upper arm, and it would take three or four years for an adult to disappear for such fracture marks to disappear, and the fact that he had not disappeared indicates that he was injured during these three years. In addition, if the fracture is strict or the recovery is not good, it will leave lifelong marks on the bone, just like the left leg of this corpse, the bone at the calf is not connected, which will inevitably affect his walking, so his left leg is lame. Fractures were also found on his left ribs, and his left arm, left leg, and left rib cage were all wounded on the left side, which should have been a fall injury caused by landing on his side. When a person falls and is injured in the army, I can only think of riding, I have just learned to ride a horse, but I know that dismounting is on the left. So, there is a high probability that he is a cavalryman. ”
"This wound could not have been sustained during drills, but must have been on the battlefield. In military drills, it is rare for a soldier to be so seriously injured, even if there is a possibility that a horse may be seriously injured by a frightened fall, but it is very convenient to find a military doctor in the city. Horse warfare in the northwest border is a common thing, military doctors are very experienced in dealing with bone injuries, the deceased's leg bones are broken very crisply, if such injuries are treated in time, lame should not fall, unless the injury is delayed, the greatest possibility of injury delay is on the battlefield! ”
"Broken bones after falling from a horse, he must have been injured not in the desert, but in the grassland. The Urkut grassland is different from the Hucha grassland, flat and open, endless, semi-desertified, the grass is low and the soil is yellow, the stumbling horses cannot be hidden, and people cannot hide, and it is difficult to predict the enemy's attack route if you want to dig traps. He fell from his horse, either because of stumbling and traps, that is, he had a head-on collision with the Hu people, and there were war horses and Hu people's scimitars everywhere, and he did not die, but only lame, indicating that he was good and fought bravely. It is very common for such elite soldiers to have military merits. ”
"The placement of the remnants in the army is the same, whether it is cavalry and infantry, elite soldiers or weak soldiers, either receive twenty taels of silver and return to their hometowns, or stay in the army. Obviously, he stayed in the army, but he couldn't go into battle to kill the enemy, where could he go if he stayed in the army? The battalion is like my personal soldier Liu Heizi. ”
"The person in the kitchen said that Xiao Zheng had been in charge of delivering meat and vegetables to the house for two or three years, and it was very close to the time when the deceased had broken his bones, and if the time for him to recuperate from his injuries was excluded, it would be even closer. What a coincidence! ”
"The person in charge of the meat and vegetable errand in the house is about twenty-five years old, and he called the person who delivered the vegetables to the house Xiao Zheng, indicating that Xiao Zheng is younger than him, that is, about twenty. And our deceased was in his twenties, which is also a coincidence! ”
"The errands in the General's Mansion are not ordinary people can receive, they need to be done well, and people can trust them, most of them have to be old people in the army. Xiao Zheng is only about twenty years old, even if he joined the army at the age of fifteen, he was only seventeen or eighteen years old when he received the errand of the General's Mansion two or three years ago, and he only joined the army for two or three years, and his qualifications are very new! So how can he lead the errand in the house? Only recommended by Shangguan. Why does Shangguan recommend it? It is highly likely that he made military achievements. ”
"Don't you think it's more coincidental? Three coincidences, if I still think it is a coincidence, then I must not have taken my mind out today. ”
Twilight Qing reasoned quickly, and the speed of fighting the bones in her hands did not slow down at all, and after reasoning, the bones in front of her were almost finished.
There was no sound behind him, and there was nothing but exclamation at the moment!
Not to mention the ability of the autopsy, only to talk about bones. Not long after she fought her bones, the soldiers went back to the house to tell Xiao Zheng that he was missing, after they heard about it, they all thought that Xiao Zheng was the murderer, the old general ordered to find people, they invited themselves back to the camp, and the general allowed it, these are just talking about the work, she said that the dead on the ground was Xiao Zheng.
In such a short period of time, fighting bones and conducting autopsies, she not only broke the age and length of the bones, but also broke out that the person was a cavalryman, and even where the battlefield was, under what circumstances, and the things that had made military achievements. In addition, she also deduced how old Xiao Zheng was and why he was able to lead the errand in the house!
It's just the work of their talking......
"This kid, what's the brain?" A famous general sighed, and the rest of the people were silent, and their expressions were the same.
"Haha!" Lu laughed and patted the general on the shoulder, "Lao Tzu didn't lie to you, right?" ”
He smiled a little happily, with some schadenfreude, when he was in the mountains of Qingzhou and Shangyu Village, he faced this kid, twice suspected that his brain was not good, today look, he is obviously not the only one who has a bad brain, he is finally comfortable!
The generals were silent, sighing in their eyes, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes today, it would be hard to believe that there was such a smart person in the world!
Yuan Xiu looked at the twilight, he didn't say anything for a long time, the scorching sun was in the sky, but the man's eyes were brighter than the sun, as if he saw the heroic spirit of the world, illuminating the clear sky.
"General, this kid is good, isn't he?" Lu laughed.
Yuan Xiu laughed, his eyes did not turn away from Twilight's back, only laughed heartily!
At this point, Twilight's bones are complete!
A human skeleton, headless hands and feet, the right arm, right leg and pelvis are all missing, apparently except for the skull, hands and feet, the rest of the missing parts have been eaten, such as the elbow.
"Okay, the identity of the deceased is known, and now it's the murderer's turn." Twilight got up and didn't turn back, but the atmosphere in the courtyard sank again.
Admiration and freedom are all silent in this speech.
Yuan Xiu led the generals to stand solemnly, looking down at the mutilated bones that had been spliced together, as if performing a belated military salute.
Xiao Zheng, no one remembers his name, he is one of the 300,000 troops in the Northwest, he is an elite soldier, and there is no shortage of elite soldiers in the Northwest Army. He killed the Hu people and made military exploits, all of which were buried in the gang head camp in the past two or three years, and no one remembered them anymore. And at this moment, he is lying in front of people in the form of a broken white bone, and the broken white bone is the last language he left in the world.
Just, someone who could read what he was muttering.
This person stood in front of him at this moment, in front of a group of high-ranking generals of the Northwest Army, and conveyed to him, "The bones can speak, whether the murderer kills by mistake or deliberately murders, the bones will tell us." There are heavenly principles in the world, and the principles of heaven are clear and indelible. ”――
Off topic -
Reasoning about the content, checking the information, and reasoning about the case is more time-consuming, so the number of words in these two chapters is not sorry for everyone.