The night was deep, and the wind and rain did not stop.

When Su Wuming left the palace, it was already the middle of the night, and the carriage was speeding in the empty Chang'an City, and the jade beads splashed from time to time flew out, as if it was a waltz.

The eerie silence of the streets, the crackling of the rain, and the occasional barking of dogs give the night a breathtaking magic.

The rain fell for a long time, and it was not until after dawn the next day that it stopped a little.

Because he solved the murder case in the palace, Su Wuming at this time seemed quite idle, and as for the enemy army outside the city, he had never been too worried, because judging from the current situation, all of them were in the hands of Emperor Li Yan, and King Xin wanted to rush in to be the emperor, but he was still far away.

The wind in the early morning was cool, and after a heavy rain last night, the flowers and plants in the courtyard were crooked, but Su Wuming didn't have the heart to help them, Wen Wan'er stood in the corridor with an oil-paper umbrella in her hand, and smiled at Su Wuming: "Xianggong, Grandpa Guo is here in Cheshire." ”

Su Wuming was stunned for a moment and asked, "What is he doing here?" ”

"Xianggong is really forgetful, didn't he ask you for something a few days ago, but you haven't had time, so you have been dragging him on."

Su Wuming suddenly remembered this, so he hurriedly sent someone to invite Cheshire into the living room, when Cheshire came, he was holding an oil-paper umbrella, but his oil-paper umbrella looked much bigger than asking Wan'er, Cheshire entered the living room, threw the oil-paper umbrella to the corner of the door, and said a little nervously: "Lord Su, something is wrong!" ”

Su Wuming asked Cheshire to monitor the mansion before, and if he could, he could dig three feet into the ground to see if he could find anything, because he didn't see Cheshire's reaction for a few days, Su Wuming thought that the incident was just Cheshire's suspicion, but now when he heard Cheshire suddenly say such a sentence, he was a little apprehensive, so he hurriedly asked Cheshire to sit down, and said, "Grandpa Guo, what's going on?" ”

After Cheshire sat down, he said, "Didn't it rain heavily yesterday?" ”

Su Wuming nodded, but he didn't understand very much, what does the big incident have to do with the rain?

"There was a heavy rain last night, and the latrine in my house was unroofed, so it was filled with rainwater, and earlier today, I asked someone to clean the latrine, who would have thought that they would find a white skeleton in the latrine."

When Cheshire said this, Su Wuming and Wen Wan'er couldn't help but be surprised, and Su Wuming hurriedly asked, "A white bone?" ”

Cheshire nodded again and again, and there was a look of fear on his face: "To be exact, it is a white bone that has been decomposed, and the white bone is in the latrine, and when it is salvaged, it looks so scary." ”

No matter who it is, they will not throw the white bones into the latrine, that is, the white bones must be problematic.

"I don't have anything to do about the white bones, so I remembered Lord Su, can Lord Su move?"

Su Wuming nodded: "Naturally, the matter of Grandpa Guo, Su does not dare to shirk." ”

After the two of them left the Su Mansion with umbrellas, they got into the carriage that Cheshire was sitting in when they came, and the carriage ran wildly in the drizzle, and soon came to the mansion that Cheshire had bought before, and after entering the mansion, someone immediately greeted them, and Cheshire asked directly: "Where are the white bones now?" ”

"If you go back to your grandfather, the white bones are still next to the toilet!"

Cheshire bowed, and then led Su Wuming to the latrine.

There is a smell in the latrine, and outside the latrine, there are more than a dozen white bones, and when the white bones are taken out, there is a lot of filth on them, but after being washed by the rain, it is white and scary at this time.

The white bones were scattered in the rain, Su Wuming took a general look, and there was a lot of difference from human bones, so there should be nothing missing, but he still asked: "Can the latrine be cleaned up?" ”

A subordinate hurriedly ran over: "Back to Lord Su's words, they have all been cleaned up, and these things have been found." ”

"Move these things to the pavilion over there."

Cheshire's mansion is still not small, there is a pavilion in the courtyard, surrounded by scattered flowers, which is where Cheshire is ready to laugh and laugh with his lover, when he heard where Su Wuming was going to raise the bones, his face was a little unhappy, but in the end he endured it and let those subordinates carry the white bones over.

After the white bones were placed in the pavilion, Su Wuming connected those white bones one after another, so it took a stick of incense to put them together, and after putting them together, Su Wuming looked at Cheshire and said, "What can Grandpa Guo see from this corpse?" ”

Cheshire looked embarrassed: "Master Su, don't embarrass me, I see something there." ”

Su Wuming smiled slightly, then pointed to the corpse bones and said, "The corpse bones are five feet long," it shouldn't be very tall, but it's a man. ”

was reminded by Su Wuming, Cheshire immediately had some doubts: "A man who is five feet tall is not too short, if it is a woman, it is much more normal." ”

Su Wuming smiled: "Grandpa Guo, look at whether the bones are men or women, not about height, Grandpa Guo, look here." Su Wuring pointed to the ribs of the corpse and said: "The man's left and right ribs are twelve, eight are long, and four are short, and the woman has fourteen each, and this corpse has twelve ribs on the left and right, and there is no trace of rib loss, obviously a man." ”

As he spoke, Su Wuming pointed to the coccyx of the corpse bones again, and said: "The man's coccyx is concave at the vertebrae, with sharp flaps on both sides, like water chestnuts, and there are nine cavities around it, and the woman's is straight at the junction of the vertebrae, and there are six cavities around it. ”

Now that Su Wuming has made the situation clear, Cheshire no longer has any doubts about the sex of the bones, so after the head of the jaw, he stood aside and let Su Wuming check the bones.

After Su Wuming carefully looked at the bones, he shook his head slightly, and when Cheshire saw this, his heart sank slightly, and he hurriedly asked, "Master Su, is there no way?" ”

Su Wuming nodded: "It is best to dig a pit for steaming bones in a sunny weather, so that if you look at the sun again, you can see whether the deceased was poisoned, beaten to death, or beaten to death after death, but now the weather is dark and it is raining lightly, if you want to examine the bones, I am afraid that you can only wait until the weather is clear." ”

When Cheshire heard that it was just because of the weather, his heart was a little relieved: "In this case, why don't you wait for the weather to clear, and Lord Su will come for a bone examination?" ”

"That's all there is to it!" Su Wuming said, and was about to open his mouth to ask his subordinates to put away the bones, but at this time, Su Wuming suddenly found that there was something strange at the head of the bones, so he hurriedly waved his hand, everyone was puzzled, and was about to ask, Su Wuming suddenly ordered: "Bring the lamp." ”

Everyone was even more puzzled, but Cheshire still ordered someone to do what Su Wuming ordered.

Not long after, a subordinate brought a lamp, after the lamp was lit, Su Wuming came and shone on the head of the corpse, the wind was not blowing, the lamp was swaying, if it was at night, the scene must be very scary.

After Su Wuming saw this, he frowned slightly, but he still blew out the lamp and handed it to a subordinate, Cheshire saw this, and hurriedly asked, "Lord Su, but what did you find?" ”

Su Wuming nodded: "There is a little discovery, but the cause of the deceased's death is still unknown." ”

"What is Lord Su's discovery?" Cheshire looked curious.

Su Wuming picked up the deceased's head, pointed to one of the places to show Cheshire, and said, "Grandpa Guo, look at the bones here, there is a scratch?" ”

Grandpa Guo took a closer look and found that there was indeed a scratch, but he didn't understand what a scratch meant, so he asked, "This ......?" ”

Su Wuming smiled: "When I wanted to come to the country's grandfather to order someone to fish up the bones, he didn't order someone to use sharp things to turn the white bones, right?" ”

"Of course, there is no such thing."

"Don't you think it's strange for Grandpa Naguo to have scratches on the skull of the bones?"

"Maybe it was left behind when I was killed."

Su Wuming nodded: "There is this possibility, but there is also another possibility." ”

"What?"

"After the deceased died, the murderer removed the flesh from his body, and the scratch was left by the murderer when he deboned it."

As soon as the words came out, the people around the entire pavilion couldn't help but feel chills, they had all seen the butcher kill pigs and sheep, and naturally they had also seen the deboning, but when they imagined the scene of a person cutting off the flesh of a corpse one by one, they couldn't help but shudder, they felt that only a madman could do such a thing.

In Su Wuming's concept, this kind of thing is not only done by madmen, as long as it is a murderer, in that extremely nervous situation, it is also done, because at that time, all he was thinking about was how to get rid of the punishment of the law, and the fear of corpses was not so strong.

The pavilion was silent for a long time, and for a while there was only the sound of drizzle and wind in everyone's ears.

After a long time, Su Wuming suddenly spoke: "This white bone may not have turned into a white bone because of time, it may have been removed by the murderer from the flesh on his body, maybe because the murderer felt that after being dealt with like this, no one would know the deceased, maybe he felt that the bones were easier to hide, or it could interfere with our judgment of the time of the deceased's death." ”

After Su Wuming said this, Cheshire closed his wide open mouth, and then hurriedly asked, "Lord Su, what should we do now?" ”

"Judging from the current situation, it should have been a while since the deceased was killed, and it is useless for us to be in a hurry now, it is better to wait for the weather to clear, let's find out the cause of death of the deceased first, of course, if Grandpa Guo really can't wait, we can send someone to inquire around, and see if the people in this vicinity have seen a man with a height of five feet come here recently, a man is five feet tall, it should be easy to leave an impression."