Chapter 41: Ancient Fillings
79_79301 When we arrived at the warm pavilion, the cloth bag containing the corpse was already on the ground.
Yuan Xiu saw that the noble sons were all coming, and couldn't help frowning, and went out and said: "Today, you came to the other courtyard, but such a thing happened, it is really that I did not entertain well, but human life is at stake, and the deceased is great, so I have to conduct an autopsy immediately." I just don't want to collide with you, yes, but I also ask you to move to the East Warm Pavilion, the cook has prepared meals and tea, and you will suppress the shock first, and then I will go to make amends. ”
Although the words were polite, Yuan Xiu's tone was a little sparse.
Eighty percent of the people at the bottom of the sunken body lake are related to Xiangguo Mansion, which is related to the secrets of the mansion, and outsiders should avoid it, but a group of scholars and sons came to find excitement, so they said shyly: "Lord Hou doesn't have to be polite, it will take some time for the cook to prepare the meal, I have nothing to do, I heard that the Governor of Yingrui has the ability to perform autopsies, and I want to stay and take a look, I hope that Lord Hou will allow it." ”
This is very clear, the cook will go back to the East Warm Pavilion after preparing the meal, and they will not stay here for long. In addition to the autopsy, Ying Rui also has the ability to judge the case, Yuan Xiu did not report the case to Shengjing Mansion, but asked the old ministry to conduct an autopsy, which should be because he wanted to know the reason for the case, but also did not want to publicize it. Even so, they only look at the autopsy and don't listen to the verdict of the case, and the secret of the prime minister's government is to let them listen, and they don't dare to listen.
Although these noble sons are pampered and willful, they also know the importance in the end.
Yuan Xiu was still a little unhappy in his heart, and he always felt that these people were too eyesore.
Twilight looked at the body bag in the warm pavilion, she didn't bother to ask about these things, she just had to do the autopsy.
"Open the door, ventilate!" She said.
Yuan Xiu turned around, he would not refuse Twilight Qing's request, but he didn't want to keep people in the courtyard, he just wanted people to take the sons to Dongnuan Pavilion, and the soldiers in front of him entered the courtyard.
The soldier rode to Yizhuang, coming and going quite quickly, not only bringing back the things that Twilight wanted, but also carrying back the toolbox for the autopsy.
Twilight didn't care about the people in the courtyard, she put on her coat, mask, and gloves, and took a pair of scissors out of her toolbox and cut them along the broken part of the body bag.
The dirty body bag was spread out on the ground, and Yuan Xiu looked over to see the lake flowing out, and a large stone pressed against the pile of Bai Sensen's human bones, some of which were broken, and under it were some black lake mud and stinking rotten grass.
The sound of retching in the yard was repeated, and a group of noble sons frowned when they smelled the stench, but they still felt irritated, and couldn't help but stretch their necks to take a look.
This man was killed and put in a cloth bag and sunk into a huge lake!
Wu Jin stood under the porch of the door, his wide sleeves were lightly flicked, and a mint fragrance emanated from his sleeves. ”
Before the autopsy, there are many people who burn the canopy and soaphorns, and when they come to the corpse, when they encounter a highly rotting corpse, in order not to be choked by the smell, they will also take ginger slices in their mouths before the autopsy, but in this way, the sense of smell will be affected, and some subtle smells on the corpse that are useful for solving the case will not be smelled, so she has never used this method, and it has become a habit for many years, no matter what kind of corpse is in front of her, she is not allowed to have other smells to interfere.
Although Wu Jin is a medical saint, he and his party are also interlaced like a mountain, and he didn't know that this move violated the taboo of Duqing, and he immediately apologized.
Yuan Xiu had a calm face, he knew that if these people stayed here, there would be chaos, but Yuan Rui still had to ask Wu Jin to detoxify and save his life, he couldn't say anything serious, but he wanted to find this opportunity to send those sons to the East Courtyard.
Before he could speak, he heard Zhao Liangyi say, "Huh? No, how can it be human bones? ”
Yuan Xiu was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look, and felt that something was wrong. The hands of this corpse have corpse wax, why are the bones in the bag already white?
"There's nothing wrong with that." Twilight squatted on the ground, moved the boulder away, and said to Yuan Xiu's pro-soldier at the door, "Fetch a basin of water, and then a white cloth." ”
The soldier had seen Twilight Qing asking for a white cloth in the mansion of the general of Jialan Guancheng, and knew that she was going to fight for bones, so he went in response.
"Full-body cadaveric wax is rare, and only a portion of most corpses can form cadaveric wax." Twilight picked up the hand wrapped in brocade cloth and said, "Corpse wax preserves the original form of the corpse, and can preserve some traces of violence, although we only have this human hand, but it can also tell us something—this human hand was cut off before he died, and there were fights before his death, and the dead resisted. ”
"Alive?"
"That's right." The man's hand was very complete, with half of his forearm attached to his palm, and Twilight Qing raised his hand to poke the section in front of Yuan Xiu's eyes, and said, "The section is very flat, it was obviously cut off." ”
Twilight turned her arm as she spoke, and saw an open wound on her forearm, the flesh was turned over, and it was already hard, but she could clearly see the flesh that had been cut, the yellow and white fat, the blackened muscles, and the tendons inside.
"Spindle-shaped wounds, knife wounds! The injuries here indicate that there was a fight, and the deceased raised his arm to block the knife, which left the wounds. Twilight put the severed hand away and picked up some long bones that looked like leg bones from the body bag, "The reason why I say that this hand was cut off before death, not after death, is because most of the bones in this body bag are intact, and there are no signs of being dismembered. Some of the bones were broken, but the sections were uneven, apparently crushed by boulders rather than severed by knives. It is unlikely that the killer will cut off this arm alone after killing someone, so there is a high probability that this arm was cut off during a fight. ”
Twilight Qing spoke quickly during the autopsy, Yuan Xiu was used to hearing it, but the brains of a group of noble sons outside the Warm Pavilion did not turn so fast, only to feel that the previous sentence had just been heard, and he was still thinking, and Twilight Qing had finished the next sentence.
At this time, Yuan Xiu's personal soldiers returned.
Twilight spreads the white cloth out of the clearing, picks up the bones from the body bag, and begins to put bones together. I don't know how long the bones had been soaked in the lake water, stained with lake mud and aquatic weeds, and some dirty, so Twilight picked up the bones and put them in a basin of water before putting them on the white cloth.
She was fast, as if she didn't need to tell where the bones were to go, and even the bones that had been crushed by the boulder could go where they needed to go.
The winter sun was cold, and I saw the young man squatting on the ground, washing bones and fighting bones, neatly and decisively, her hands and human bones in her hands dazzled people's eyes.
Wu Jin has saved countless lives and helped the wounded, the name of the medical saint is not in vain, and he knows the meridians and acupoints of people very well, but he does not know human bones. Those small bones that seemed to him to be like stones, if it weren't for Twilight Qing spelling them out, he wouldn't have known that those small bones were actually human carpal bones!
The man looked at the young man's movements, his eyes shining.
In just a moment, a human skeleton was spelled out on the white cloth, but the head was missing.
The corpse's skull was crushed by a boulder, and the skull was spherical, unlike other bones, which were difficult to put together under the existing conditions, so Twilight only washed the broken bones and picked a few pieces to take a closer look.
No one knew what she was looking at, let alone a broken skull, even if it was complete, could a skull be able to see who it was?
Yuan Xiu, Zhao Liangyi and other generals of the Northwest Army looked at it seriously, they had seen the ability of Dusk Qing to perform an autopsy, even if it was a dead man's bones, when it came to her, she would definitely be able to detect something!
Twilight said, "This corpse is difficult to infer that it was fatal or wounded, there are no knife wounds on the skull, and it is difficult to make any other judgment except that the arm was severed before death. Moreover, it is difficult to infer the time of death of corpses in the water, especially those that form corpse wax. ”
Yuan Xiu was stunned, and the sons of the scholar clan who were looking at the bustle outside the courtyard were also stunned.
Doesn't it mean that this Wise Governor has a lot of ability to perform autopsies? They thought that even if it was a bone frame, she had the ability to see who it was! It turned out that the rumors were exaggerated.
Someone showed a mocking look, but they didn't dare to say it, at today's poetry meeting, everyone saw that Yuan Xiu was defending this kid a lot, and even the concubine of Cao Shangshu's family and the grandson of Hu Wenru, the head of the Hanlin Academy, were driven out. If you don't want to offend Yuan Xiu, it's best not to offend this kid.
"So, it's hard to identify this corpse?" Yuan Xiu asked, he was not disappointed, she was not a god, and it was normal for there to be cases in the world that she couldn't solve.
Wu Jin raised his eyebrows and smiled, even if he couldn't test anything, it would be a big gain to be able to see how to fight bones today.
"Who said that!" Twilight Qing glanced at Yuan Xiu lightly, "I just said that the time of death and death is difficult to determine, did I say that the identity is difficult to determine?" ”
She has never liked to talk big, what can't be detected is undetectable, and she won't say a word less if she can!
Twilight picked up the pelvis from the ground and said, "The deceased's pelvis is high and narrow, with rough bones, and the upper mouth of the pelvis is heart-shaped—male!" The dorsal side of the deceased's pelvic symphysis has begun to form a high crest, the connection of ossified nodules has appeared, and the ventral margin has also begun to form an oblique plane, combined with the appearance of the ossification center of the deceased's clavicle body, scapula body and epiphyseal healing, the deceased is a young man, aged between 22 and 24 years old! Moreover, his status is either rich or expensive! ”
As soon as everyone thought that Twilight couldn't be tested, she said a series of unintelligible words, and the last word was even more shocking!
Outside the warm pavilion, all the sons looked at the missing human bones with their heads, and saw that those bones were not inlaid with gold or silver, how could they find out that their identities were either rich or expensive?
But seeing that Du Qing didn't move those human bones, but fished out a dead man's tooth from the basin, showed it to Yuan Xiu, and said, "This tooth has been filled!" ”
Ancient medicine was not divided into specialties, and most of the doctors were general practitioners, such as internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and gynecology, and they could treat any disease, even stomatology. However, tooth filling was a technical work in ancient times, with elm bark, cinnamon and other herbs to fill teeth, ivory, cow bones and other animal bones to fill teeth, walnut, sandalwood and other materials to fill teeth, and there is also a kind of "silver paste".
Silver paste is made of silver, tin and a small amount of copper and zinc in a certain proportion of filing into powder, and then mixed with mercury into a malleable soft body, which can be as hard as silver after solidification, which is an amalgam that can be used to fill tooth loss.
But no matter what kind of filling method or material is used, ordinary people can't afford to fill it, and only the powerful can enjoy such high-tech services.
"This tooth has been knocked out, and it should have been made of silver paste, and the outside has been tied with soft gold iron wire, which is beautiful and exquisite, and it is expensive. Ordinary people can't afford to fill this tooth, and this person's identity must be either rich or expensive! Twilight pinched the tooth, the silver paste had turned black, only a little silver was shining in the middle, and the gold thread was also dirty, and it was impossible to find the tooth if you didn't look closely.
But bones can speak, and some murders are destined to be revealed to the world after all.
"I believe that there are not many people in Langzhong who are so skillful, and if you want to find it, you will definitely be able to find it!" Twilight Road