In the middle of the night, the first pot of bones was cooked.

Twilight asked the fire to stop, put the lid aside, and waited for the water in the pot to cool down. The moonlight shines into the pot, and the pot is steaming, and it smells like a pot of soup made with stinky meat in summer, and the smell is unforgettable.

Twilight had long been used to it, and turned around to see Bu Xihuan still sitting in place, not looking at the pot, only at her. The mountain wind blew the hot air in the pot and drifted towards her, she looked at the man through the steaming heat, and some couldn't really see his face, so she only said: "Your Majesty, please go and sit elsewhere, and you will take the bones from the pot for a while, most of the people who have seen this noodles will not want to drink meat and bone soup in the future." The chef in the imperial dining room will be frightened if there is no dish to enter. ”

This sounds like it's for his sake, but it's actually scolding him for being difficult to wait, right?

Bu Xihuan chuckled, and when she saw that Twilight was about to sit down, the heat in the pot rushed to her, almost swallowing her thin body. He frowned slightly, and suddenly patted the other side of his side and said, "Come and sit here." ”

Twilight was stunned, Bu Xihuan got up, took her hand and walked upwind. Twilight's hand shrank unconsciously, she wasn't used to being touched, especially during an autopsy. The gloves she wore were plain cloth, and she took them off after the corpse was put into the pot, but her hands were still stained with some liquid from the decomposition of the corpse, which was unacceptable to ordinary people, but the man did not frown, as if he was used to smelling the smell of rotting corpses for a while, and when she was still stunned, she had led her upwind, and the two sat down side by side.

Listen to the man: "Although the road in the world is difficult, but tonight there is only a pot in front of you, when you can sit upwind, don't always sit downwind." ”

Twilight turned her head, and there seemed to be a deep meaning in her words, but she saw Bu Xihuan looking at the coffin in the distance, the mountain wind was rising, and after passing the treetops, the sporadic sparks on the torches lit up and flew away, and the man's voice was differently low, "I have seen the scene in the coffin many years ago, but I have never seen the bones in the pot, so it doesn't hurt to take a look." ”

Twilight was puzzled, had you seen the scene in the coffin many years ago? But he is the body of an emperor, who will let him see the scene in the coffin?

Bu Xihuan didn't speak again, and Twilight Qing was not a person who talked much, the two sat side by side, watching the firewood getting colder and the heat in the pot getting weaker.

When the heat cleared, Twilight got up, took off her coat and spread it on the floor, rolled up her sleeves, put on her gloves, and went to the pot and put her hand inside.

Bu Xihuan didn't get up, as he said, and looked.

Twilight first took out a skull, the bone glowed with cold glow in the moonlight, but because the water was not cold, there was a thin layer of heat, and there was something like rotting flesh hanging in the eye sockets, Twilight shook, the thing slid into the pot softly, she didn't look at it much, only turned the skull at the moonlight, and then put it on the coat spread on the ground. After the skull was placed upwards, she turned around and fished out a long bone from the pot, looking at the length of the thigh bone, which looked like a human thigh, the bone had been boiling for a long time, and there were still some soft tissues left on it, and she put the bone on the coat, a little far from the skull, and then went to the pot to fish.

In the clearing, several men in black held torches, their eyes followed the bones in Twilight's hands, and the eyes of the men sitting on the ground followed her, but they fell on her arm at some point.

She pulled up her sleeves, exposed her arm, the fire was shining, the cold jade was the muscle, the warm light was crossing, and she was holding the bones in her hands, but the bones did not pierce his eyes with the arms.

The man's gaze deepened a little, and he stared at the arm for an unknown amount of time, and when he woke up, Twilight had already fished out the bones in the pot, carried the remaining bones into the pot in the coffin, covered the lid, and let people make a fire to continue to cook the corpse, and squatted down to clean up the bones that had just been fished out.

There were still some soft tissues on those bones, and Twilight didn't have a brush in her hand, so she had to go to the forest to pick some grass roots, and when she came back, she tore a piece of clothing and cloth and wiped it gently. It's not very easy to use, but it's better than nothing.

In this way, the cleaning speed was much slower, and after the first pot of bones was cleaned out, it didn't take long for the second pot to be cooked. When the water cooled down, Twilight began to busk around the pot again, the moon shadow slanted to the west, the torches were gradually extinguished, and when the sky was about to dawn, a human skeleton was spread out on the ground.

The man's skeleton lay quietly in the mountain wind, in the darkest hours before dawn, Bai Sensen.

The young man stood in front of the human skeleton, looking down quietly, and the man behind him sat lazily on the ground, full of sleeves of mountain wind, his clothes were like clouds, and the ground was covered with maple red.

"Okay?" Bu Xihuan saw that Twilight Qing had not moved for a long time, and asked lazily.

Twilight turned around, ignored him, walked to the pot and said to a few black-clothed people, "Come two people, pour the water in the pot." ”

The two men in black who had gone to get the pot stepped forward and carried the pot to the edge of the forest as Twilight had said, slowly pouring the water out. The water was poured out of the pot, and some carrion and scattered small bones like stones gradually appeared underneath. The bottom of the pot looked like a pot of meat and bone broth that had reached the bottom, and there were some broken bones and meat foam left at the bottom.

No wonder she would say that people who have seen this noodle will not want to drink bak kut broth in the future......

When the bones were fished, due to the depth of the water in the pot, some wrist bones, phalanges and phalanges were scattered in it and not taken out. Bu Xihuan got up and came to her, and saw that she was holding a pile of irregularly shaped bones in her hands, if you don't look closely, these bones are thrown into the forest, after a long time, they are probably not much different from the stones on the ground, but she fights very fast, as if these things have been done countless times, like a chess formation, simply take it, put it neatly, and the wrists, hands and feet of the skeleton between the ups and downs have been put together.

Bu Xihuan's eyes showed doubts, Gushui County is a small county, how many corpses turned into white bones can be sent to Yizhuang in a year to practice her skillful technique?

Just as he was puzzled, he saw Twilight with her head down, staring at the last three bones in her palm, and stopped moving.

"How?" Bu Xihuan asked.

"Man is strangled to death!" Twilight Qing didn't turn around, but this conclusion made Bu Xihuan raise her eyebrows, and a bright color appeared in her eyes.

"How do you know?" He had seen the corpses, so he naturally knew how people died. I just didn't think that the body was rotting, and her bone examination could really detect how people died?

Twilight turned around, put the three bones in her hand together, made a hoof, and said, "The hyoid bone is broken." This bone is located in the front of the neck, between the tongue and the larynx, and because it is thin and fragile, the hyoid bone often breaks when a person is strangled. Although someone's hyoid bone will never turn into a single arc-shaped bone block, there are obvious linear fracture marks at the large horn of this piece, and the fracture is obvious! ”

Twilight Qing suddenly raised her eyes, and the light at the bottom of her eyes dazzled, "The murderer may not know martial arts, at least not a master of internal skills like you!" ”

Bu Xihuan raised her eyebrows, saw her suddenly turn her head, looked at the man in black closest to her, and asked, "If you kill a person, instead of a sword, but choose to strangle her with your bare hands, what will you do?" ”

The man in black didn't answer, looked at Bu Xihuan, and only after seeing him nod his head, did he say, "Break your neck." ”

Twilight nodded, "That's it." This is a person's logical thinking choice, and when there is a simple and labor-saving method, few people will choose the laborious method. A master murderer rarely takes the trouble to strangle a person to death, unless he has a deep grudge against the victim, or loses his mind in a moment of anger, so he will pinch the person until he strangles the person to death. But ......"

She groaned a little and asked Bu Xihuan, "Where was Concubine Liu when she died?" What time is it? ”

"On my dragon boat, your father's inference is when the hour arrives at the time of the child."

"There must be a lot of guards on the dragon boat, and it is the dead of night, her struggle will attract eunuchs or guards from the palace, and people with a little brain will not choose this time-consuming and laborious method to kill." Twilight Qing pondered for a while, her face was a little suspicious, and she asked Bu Xihuan, "No matter how late the hour is, there should be a palace eunuch by her side, right?" What about people? ”

Hearing this, the bottom of her eyes darkened, and the smile on her lips mocked lightly, "She didn't die in her own room, but in an empty room on the ship, and everyone around her was sent out by her." ”

Well?

Twilight frowned.

"What about those who were sent out by her? I want to meet. ”

Bu Xihuan's lips smiled and mocked deeply, and he said lazily: "I can't see it, everyone is dead." It wasn't killed, it was the will of the Empress Dowager. ”――

Off topic -

The bone examination has not been completed, and it will not be so easy to boil the corpse, so it will continue in the next chapter.