Chapter 44: Restoration of Appearance

79_79301 Hu people?!

The news was so shocking that Yuan Xiu was at the door of the flower hall and was speechless for a while.

Wu Jin looked at Twilight's hand, he had come earlier, he had already seen her reset skull, and he still remembered the feeling when he first saw him—surprised, amazed, amazed! Three days ago, the broken bones had become a complete skeleton, he had never seen such a skeleton, each broken bone surface edge had small holes drilled through the wire, the holes were thin, the craftsmanship was even more meticulous, the wires were twisted and hidden in the skull, and even the teeth were entangled with gold wires, as delicate as antique ornaments, and he still felt that the skeleton was beautiful for the first time.

The Tu'e tribe believed in the spirits of the dead, the holy maidens of the Niang tribe, and the temple was full of the bones of the dead, which he had seen, and he could not see any difference except the bones of young children.

Twilight had already ordered someone to bring all the things needed to the flower hall, and she had already set up the human skeleton on the ground in the middle of the flower hall, and there was a large table behind it, and there was a skull on the table, no one knew whose skull it belonged to or where it came from.

Twilight said, "This is the skull of the Daxing people I asked people to go to Yizhuang to retrieve. ”

The skull was placed on its side, and Twilight pointed to some features on the top and said, "The skull of the Daxing man is wide, the skull shape is smooth and round, the cheekbones are high, the face is flat, and the mouth outside the eye socket is round, just like this skull!" The one in my hand has a different character, the skull is narrow and low, the skull is long, the cheekbones are not high, the mouth and nose are protruding, and the chin is protruding! ”

As she spoke, she put the skull of the Hu man in her hand on the table, side by side with the skull of the Daxing person, Wu Jin looked at it, and saw that the difference was distinguished!

"Although people are different, it is not an individual difference, but a racial difference. Remember when we were in the desert? Thanks to the human bones buried in the desert and in the tunnels of the underground palace, I have studied some differences, although I don't know which tribe this person belongs to, but he is indeed a Hu person. The differences between the Daxing and Hu people are also expressed in other bones, such as the pelvis, such as the anterior curvature of the femur. Twilight glanced at the human skeleton on the ground.

She found that these bones did not look like Daxing people when she was in the Xiangfu Courtyard, but she was not completely sure, and at that time, there was a group of scholars outside the Warm Pavilion, and the people who died in the lake in the Xiangfu Courtyard may be Hu people. She brought the skull fragments back to reset them to verify her guess, and her guess turned out to be correct.

Twilight Qing's words, Yuan Xiu never doubted that during those days in the desert, she was a lot of human bones buried under the yellow sand, but he didn't expect that she would really be able to use them one day!

In the past three days, his own soldiers have found out all the Lang Zhong who can fill the teeth in the city, but the mended tooth is in Twilight's hand, so he has not asked those Lang Zhong, he originally thought to wait for her to reset the skull, but he didn't expect this head to be a Hu person.

The corpse of the Hu man sank in the lake of the Xiangfu Courtyard, what is the identity of this person, how did he get into the dragon residence of Daxing, and why did he die in the Xiangfu Courtyard, and who killed him?

The corpse was found in the courtyard of the Xiangfu, and he was afraid that it was related to the Xiangfu, but after the poetry meeting that day, his father and mother were quite angry when they heard that the corpse was hidden at the bottom of the lake, and the father was angry that he should not go into the water to fish for the corpse, and let those scholars know about it, which ruined the reputation of the Xiangfu, but it didn't look like he knew about it.

So who will the murderer be?

"If you want to know who the murderer is, you must first find out who the deceased is." Twilight Road.

"How to check? This man has turned to bones! Yuan Xiu said in a deep voice.

Silver paste is valuable, mostly used by the children of Daxing nobles, this person used silver paste to fill his teeth, indicating that it is very likely that Langzhong invited in Shengjing, which Langzhong will admit this matter? Once admitted, the sin is a collaborator!

He knew that she was the best at judging the truth and falsehood of what people said, but Na Lang Zhong might also be killed afterwards.

Yuan Xiu was not optimistic about this matter, but he heard Du Qing say: "Who said that if you turn into white bones, you can't investigate?" I have my own way of restoring this man's former appearance! ”

Yuan Xiu was stunned for a moment, Wu Jin was still looking at the two skulls on the table, carefully comparing the differences, and raised his head when he heard this, his eyes lit up.

"Restoration...... What did you look like before you died? Yuan Xiu almost thought he had misheard.

When a person dies and becomes a skeleton, how can he know his appearance before he died?

"There is a method of craniofacial restoration, and the human face is based on the bones, and when you see the bones of the deceased, you can see his face." Twilight Qing turned around and picked up the Hu man's skull and held it in his palm, and shook it in front of Yuan Xiu, the skeletal black hole eyes were lifeless, but Wu Jin's eyes were full of bright light.

"Is this possible today?" Wu Jin asked urgently, the man who is usually holy and indisputable, and treats people gently and lightly, was a little excited and eager at this moment.

Twilight turned to the back of the table and said, "Everything is ready." ”

She brought out a toolbox from behind the desk, and all the tools for the autopsy had been cleared, except for the tools for reconstruction—yellow clay, toothpicks, rulers, and tools for carving. These tools are slightly different from those used by the carver, they were all drawn yesterday and asked Moon Kill to go to the blacksmith shop urgently. Plasticine is mostly used for face restoration, but this thing cannot be found, so she has to use the yellow clay used by folk craftsmen to knead clay people instead.

With all the tools in place, she moved the skull of the Daxing people on the table aside, leaving only the Hu people, dragged a chair to the table and sat down, and began to restore her appearance.

Wu Jin got up and came to Twilight Qing's side, Yuan Xiu also approached with his hands, the two of them stood behind Twilight Qing on the left and right, staring at the movements of her hands, and listening to her: "There are basically fifteen measuring points on the human face, nine in the midline, and six on the side of the face, such as the hairline, between the eyebrows, the root of the nose, the bridge of the nose, the root of the upper lip, the philtrum, the lower edge of the orbit, the zygomatic arch, etc., first determine the thickness of these parts, and then elevate them." ”

Different races, the thickness of some tissues such as facial muscles is actually different, Twilight Qing studied mostly human bones in the desert, occasionally saw a few dried corpses, and did not conduct much facial tissue research, but she found that even if the Daxing and Hu people could apply the racial theories and calculation formulas they had learned in their previous lives, they were bold to try today.

She took a toothpick, measured the thickness of the hairline, between the eyebrows, and the zygomatic arch with a small ruler, then cut the toothpick with a scalpel, and glued the toothpick to the skull of the Nahu man with yellow clay. I saw that there were some small scales on the small ruler in her hand that she had never seen before, and her movements were neat and careful, and after a while, there were more than a dozen round small yellow mud blocks stuck to the skull of the Hu man, and it looked like a person with rivets nailed to his face, although it was ugly, but it was so novel that the two big men were so curious that they were holding their breath and condensing, and their eyes were reluctant to blink.

There are many people in the world, but today only the two of them can see with their own eyes such a miracle that makes the face of the dead reappear, how fortunate they are!

Twilight marked some key heights, then picked up the yellow clay and pasted it on the face of the skull, saying as she pasted it, "The deceased is a man, in his early twenties, and he is a young man. Most of the prairie men were on horses, and most of the young men were tall and strong, and few were fat, so it can be inferred that this man's face must be lean. ”

Twilight first pasted half of his face with yellow clay, and then took out a carving tool to refine it, "This skull is long, the skull is wide and narrow, the face is wide and narrow, and the jaw is narrow, so you should always pay attention to these skeletal characteristics when restoring your face." ”

"The positioning of the eyes, ears, mouth and nose also has its own rules, the width of the mouth is roughly the distance between the pupil, and now his eyes have not yet been made, so the position of the mouth can be determined according to here." After trimming her face, Twilight pointed to the teeth in the skull in front of her, "The length between the left and right canines and the first molar is basically the length of a person's lips, and the width of the lips is mostly half the height of the upper and lower enamels. However, most of the Hu people's lips are relatively wide, and the mouth and nose of this person are a little protruding, so his lip characteristics should be like this......"

As she spoke, she pinched the yellow clay and carved out her lips like a clay figure.

"The bridge of the nose of the Hu people is higher than that of the Daxing people, and they usually have some characteristics of an eagle's nose, which is as wide as the width of an eye."

"The length of the ears is close to the length of the nose, and it is in the same plane as the nose, and the ears of the Hu people are larger and the ear beads are thick."

"The size of the eye is the most difficult to deduce, but the location can be determined first, with the outer corner of the eye at the tubercle of the orbit and the inner corner at the middle of the lacrimal sac fossa. The person's eye sockets are angular and slightly raised, and the inner eye angle of the person is mostly lower than the outer eye corner, then the person's eye shape should be like this......"

Twilight carved her facial features as she spoke, her hands were extremely skillful, although sometimes she couldn't understand her words, but watching her do things was a pleasure, and she couldn't help but forget how complicated the case was, and gradually her heart was surging.

Yuan Xiu stared at Du Qing's hand, her hand was white and delicate, and her fingertips were stained with yellow mud, but it became more and more white of the girl's fingers, he couldn't help but be a little distracted, smiled and shook his head, I don't know why he didn't find out that she was a daughter for so long.

Wu Jin stared intently at the eyeballs that Twilight was rubbing in her hands, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of her fingers, and his mind suddenly became suspicious, but most of his thoughts were on the new wonders of the restoration of his face, and as soon as this doubt was born, he was attracted by the half-finished face.

Twilight finished half of her face, and then finished the other half of her face according to it, and she didn't need to explain it, she was much faster, and when the whole face was restored, she took out the paint, adjusted it, and began to dye her face.

The skin color of the Wuhu tribesmen is a little different, and Du Qing doesn't know which tribe he is, so his skin color is the wheat brown that men often have. Hu men fight on horses all year round, and the wind knives of the desert grassland will cut their cheeks a little red, their lips are more ruddy, and the color of their eyes is black and blue.

The original muddy face gradually took on color, Yuan Xiu and Wu Jin took a breath, and they both held their breath.

When Twilight puts down her pen, a vivid face appears in front of the two of them! Twilight had one final job to do, she pulled a hair cover out of her toolbox and said, "I can't know if this man has a mole on his face, but he's in his early twenties, so he probably doesn't have a beard." In view of his status as a nobleman, and the nobles of the Hu people like to braided with colored beads in their hair, so yesterday I asked a craftsman to make a hair cover, because I don't know which clan this person belongs to, so I didn't make a crown. ”

She drew a picture overnight the night before yesterday, and handed it to Moon Kill early in the morning, and asked for a lot of things, but Moon Kill was quite efficient, and went out for a day, and took all the things back in the evening, and there was no shortage of them.

Twilight puts the hair cover on, and that's it.

I saw a bearded head on the table in the flower hall, with a hooked nose, hanging eyes, wide lips and a broad face, a black and red complexion, combed with colorful braids, and vivid eyebrows and eyes of different races!

Twilight Qing got up and stepped aside, and said to Yuan Xiu: "The moles, scars and other features on this person's face can't be known, so although the face can be restored, it can't be ten percent similar, only six or seven points, if you know him, you may feel familiar when you see it." ”

Six or seven points?

Wu Jin looked at Du Qing, his eyes were admiring, and he said with a smile: "Du Du is too modest, the holy hand of the world has the ability to rejuvenate the dead, and it can't regenerate the dead, how can a person who has become a white bone be harsh on his appearance to be as before he was alive?" These six or seven points of appearance restoration techniques have opened my eyes. ”

This boy is really a genius in the world!

Twilight only shook her head slightly, in her opinion, it was her profession, and it was necessary to have this professional ability, but she didn't talk to people very often, and when the work was done, she didn't have so much to say. She didn't say anything more to Wu Jin, but looked at Yuan Xiu, she had some speculations about the case and wanted to tell him, but before she could read it, she was stunned.

I saw Yuan Xiu staring at the Hu man's face, looking puzzled.

"You know?" Twilight asked in a deep voice.

Yuan Xiu was awakened by Twilight's voice, glanced at her, shook his head, and said, "No, it can't be him!" It is impossible for him to appear in Shengjing, let alone die! ”

"Who?" Twilight asked.

"King Ledane!" Yuan Xiu's words were shocking.

Wu Jin looked at Yuan Xiu in surprise, and Twilight Qing didn't speak for a long time.

King Ledin is outside the gate, in the first battle a year ago, Yuan Xiu also abolished his arm, how could he die in the lake of the Xiangfu Courtyard?

"This face is six or seven points similar, maybe it's just like." Yuan Xiu felt that it was just like it, "And this person is too young, King Ledan is seventy-thirty and seven, this person is only twenty-four or five, and the age difference is more than ten years!" ”

He only went to the northwest border pass ten years ago, King Ledin had just become king at that time, he had fought with the Ledin people in the past ten years, and he remembered the appearance of King Ledin when he was young, this person did look like him, but it would definitely not be him!

"Didn't you say that this man had been dead for half a year?" Half a year ago, this person was only in his twenties, which obviously did not match the age of King Ledan.

"I mean at least half a year, not that he couldn't have died more than ten years ago." Twilight Road.

"What?" Yuan Xiu was shocked.

Twilight turned around and picked up the waxed severed hand from the ground, and said, "If it's the summer in Jiangnan, the corpse in the water can be completely ossified in four years, and in the river it will only take two years, the waxed corpse in the inland pond or lake may be preserved for twenty or thirty years, and if the bone marrow cavity is filled with black-brown and brittle corpse wax clumps, then the corpse may have been fifty or sixty years ago." Some corpses may be preserved for hundreds of years or even longer after forming corpse wax, which has a lot to do with the surrounding environment. This is the north, the lake is frozen in winter, the corpse is not rotten, the process is slower than the corpse in the water in the south of the Yangtze River, you look at the color of the corpse wax in the bone cavity of this broken hand, it is already a little dull, plus the rest of the body has been completely ossified, so it is not impossible for this corpse to have been dead for more than ten years. On the day of my autopsy, I didn't say much because there was little evidence to infer the time of death from this severed hand, which was arbitrary. But now that the case is speculating, this may not be missed, and this person may have died more than ten years ago. ”

"You mean...... Could this person be King Ledane? Yuan Xiu took a long time to react.

"I can't rule out this possibility, even the priest of Ledin is fake, isn't it?" Twilight raised her eyebrows and said, since you want to speculate on the facts of the case, then you have to speculate in all aspects, "This person is a nobleman of Ledan, his identity may be the king of Ledan, or it may be his brothers and nephews, in short, he is related by blood." ”

“……”

"This person is a nobleman of Ledan, and when he came to Shengjing, he definitely did not come into contact with people like maids, and the people he met with must have a noble status. Given that the man had been involved in a fight before his death, had his arm cut off, and was subsequently killed, it is inferred that the person who met him may have been a martial artist or a martial guard. This person may be from your family, and it is not excluded that someone secretly made an appointment with Hu Ren to meet in the Xiangfu Courtyard and kill people and throw corpses. With the power of your family in the court, no one dares to investigate the corpse fished out of the lake, which is an excellent protection for the murderer. ”

“……”

"This person is a nobleman of Le Dan, and the fake priest is also related to Le Dan, whether there is a connection between these two cases, it is difficult to say now, and this is all I can deduce at present."

Yuan Xiu's face was as heavy as iron, and he was silent for a long time.

Twilight had a point, she was present when the body was fished out, and if she wasn't there, the servants would have reported that there was a corpse under the lake, and the manager would have taken advantage of the night to transport it out of the city and dump it in a mass grave. Even if the family wants to check, the work in the Shengjing Mansion must not have the ability to reset the skull and restore the face, a white bone, but just fill in a sentence on the corpse list without evidence to see. This murderer knew the momentum of the Yuan family, and he was quite bold when he looked at the act of throwing the corpse in the lake, but in fact, he was quite calculating.

Over the years, he has been defending his family and defending the country at the border, and he really doesn't want this murderer to have anything to do with his family.

"Next time you take a break in the middle of the court, you might come to the other courtyard again? I'll arrange for someone to meet you. In addition, those Lang Zhong have also been found out, and you can see them if you have time these days. Yuan Xiu looked at the Hu man's face, his eyes were as heavy as an abyss, and his words were like iron.

He doesn't want to be a member of his family, so this matter must be investigated!

"Okay." As long as she is not allowed to participate in the poetry meeting, she will be happy to investigate the case.

Because someone in the family was suspected of collaborating with the enemy in this case, Yuan Xiu was in a heavy mood, and said to Dui Qing that he would find a place to interrogate those Langzhong tomorrow, and then he took his leave.

Out of the governor's mansion, the soldiers brought the war horse, and Yuan Xiu took the reins, but he didn't get on the horse for a long time. The soldier saw that his face was calm, so he didn't dare to ask what was going on, only to see that after a while, Yuan Xiu beckoned him to come over.

The soldier was stunned and leaned forward.

"You go back and find a few people to pretend to be the sons and daughters of Beijing, go to the places where the envoys often go these days, and spread the news about the discovery of the corpses of the nobles of Ledan in Beijing, and be sure to let the prince of Ledan, Utu, know!"

Utu's poisoning of Dorje and the death of Budjang are making a big opening and demanding compensation. If he knows about this matter again, he may not know how to make trouble!

What he wants is for Utu to make trouble, and it is best for the Wuhu envoys to follow suit, in short, don't want to negotiate peace!

Yuan Xiu's eyes were shining, but the soldiers around him had not moved for a long time, Yuan Xiu couldn't help but be stunned when he found out, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The soldier scratched his head, "Those places where Hu people frequent? ”

"How?"

"Those Hu people are accompanied by the officials who negotiated peace between the DPRK and China, and they often go to Huajie Liuxiang these days......" The young man blushed before he finished speaking, he hasn't married yet!

Yuan Xiu smiled when he heard this, "What do you think!" I asked you to spread the word, but I didn't tell you to really go to find flowers and ask willows! ”

The soldier's face turned even redder when he heard this, and Yuan Xiu smiled: "Okay, go and do something!" ”

"Hey!" The soldier answered, and got on his horse and went out of South Street first.

Yuan Xiu looked into the distance in front of the Governor's Mansion, and saw that the young man's figure was gone, and his face gradually sank again.

The water in this Shengjing is muddy enough, you might as well muddy it more-

Off topic -

Recently, I stayed up late to revise the draft.,A little overdraft.,Yesterday I was chilled.,I rested early.,This chapter makes up for yesterday.,Another chapter before midnight in the evening.。

I see that many girls guess that the dead are priests, laugh~ In fact, this game of chess is bigger