Chapter Twenty-Three: Master Xu was not seen
Dong Xiaoqian bit her lip and was a little anxious and didn't know what to say.
Zhang Baiyi looked at Dong Xiaoqian's appearance of biting her lip and couldn't wait to climb up and take a bite, and scolded secretly in her heart, the dead shemale seduced Young Master Ben again.
"It's not early, Dong Gongzi should go back to the room early to rest!" Zhang Baiyi resisted his impulse and hurriedly ordered the eviction.
"I still think that a good man should serve the country and win glory for the country!" Dong Xiaoqian said to Young Master Zhang before going out,
Dong Xiaoqian's master and servant returned to their room,
One night without a word, the next morning,
"Bang-bang-bang-"
There was a knock on the door of Young Master Zhang's room,
"Who!" Zhang Baiyi screamed in confusion,
"Zhang Gongzi is already in his prime, it's time to get up!" Xiaolan's voice sounded outside the door, "Yesterday, my son-in-law promised to introduce Master Xu to my son-in-law, and my son-in-law was already waiting on the first floor." ”
I'll go, did the ancient people get up so early, Young Master Zhang looked at the dark sky outside and was a little crazy,
Dong Xiaoqian was thirsty, she hadn't slept well all night since she knew about Xu Youji yesterday, and she got up early today to wait for Young Master Zhang.
Young Master Zhang washed up and walked downstairs to the door of the inn, where a carriage was already waiting.
Zhang Baiyi looked at the slightly white sky in the distance, and just wanted to complain,
Xiaolan poked her head out of the carriage and said to Zhang Baiyi: "Why are you still stunned, come up." ”
Zhang Baiyi reluctantly got into the carriage,
Young Master Zhang said a place to the groom and fell asleep in the carriage in a daze.
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"Some, a few guest officers, we've arrived," said the groom outside after some time, and his tone was a little strange.
Dong Xiaoqian smelled a smell of coke, and pushed the sleeping Young Master Zhang with a slight frown.
"Hmm~ What's the matter, have you arrived?" Zhang Baiyi said in a daze,
The curtain of the car was opened, and Zhang Baiyi smelled a very pungent smell of coke, and instantly sobered up a lot.
By this time the sky was already white,
The three of them got out of the carriage, and Zhang Baiyi saw that the location that belonged to Xu Youji's residence had been burned into ruins by the fire, the ruins were broken, and the crockpots were all burned and cracked, and it could be seen from the degree of barbecue of the coke how fierce the fire was.
"This lady, what's going on here," Zhang Baiyi asked, pulling a peasant woman onlookers.
The peasant woman looked at Young Master Zhang and said, "There was a fire here yesterday, the fire was very big, and it was a thatched house, so it was too late to put out the fire,"
"It's so on fire for no reason!" Dong Xiaoqian stepped forward and asked curiously,
"I heard that the old scholar wanted to boil medicine for his mother-in-law, who had been paralyzed for many years, and accidentally knocked over a kerosene lamp to cause the fire. The fire is so big, and no one comes out, it's really pitiful! When the peasant woman had finished speaking, she walked away.
Xu Fuzi said that he wanted to continue to pursue learning, but he didn't expect to die like this, Zhang Baiyi sighed in his heart, after all, we are also a master and apprentice, and we can't let you be exposed.
Young Master Zhang strode into the ruins and came to the location of Xu Youji's house, ready to find the bones of Xu Youji and his wife.
Dong Xiaoqian also wanted to follow up, but when she saw the soot all over the ground, she hesitated, and finally gritted her teeth and followed Zhang Baiyi in.
Xiaolan followed Dong Xiaoqian into the ruins,
Zhang Baiyi pulled out a few bones from the ruins,
Dong Xiaoqian saw the dead man's bones and screamed in fright, hiding behind the back of Young Master Zhang,
Xiaolan was even more unbearable, standing there trembling in fright and not daring to move,
Young Master Zhang was a little funny in his heart,
"What bones are you two old men afraid of, what is there to be afraid of when people are dead."
Zhang Baiyi put the bones on the ground and continued to rummage,
In the end, Young Master Zhang found an incomplete skeleton, and because the fire was too big, several bones of this corpse were burned, and two arm bones and a calf bone could no longer be found.
"Judging from the size of the pelvis, it should be the bones of a woman, and it should be the bones of Master Xu's wife," Zhang Baiyi analyzed.
"You still know how to perform an autopsy!" Dong Xiaoqian saw that Zhang Baiyi was looking through some bones and gradually became a little bolder, and asked curiously,
"The pelvis is the bony connection between the trunk and the lower limbs, and is an important structure that supports the trunk and protects the pelvic organs. The female pelvis is also the bony birth canal through which the fetus must be delivered, and the female pelvis is usually wider and shallower than the male pelvis, which is conducive to the delivery of the fetus. Young Master Zhang began to tell Dong Xiaoqian about biology,
After Zhang Baiyi finished speaking, he pointed to the pelvic bone of this corpse and said: "You see that the pelvis of this corpse is oval, and the real pelvis is located above the pelvic dividing line, so it can be seen that this is a female corpse that has not given birth." ”
"As far as I know, Master Xu has no offspring, so it can be inferred that Master Xu's inner family cannot have children." Zhang Baiyi reasoned,
An old man on the side was surprised: "This little brother is really powerful, Xu Youji's wife has suffered from a vicious disease since she was a child and cannot have children, and later when she was forty years old, the vicious disease changed and caused paralysis, and she had to be maintained with medicine often,"
Dong Xiaoqian admired Young Master Zhang a little at this time, and she could infer whether she had an heir before birth based on just one pelvic bone, which is really, amazing.
Zhang Baiyi rummaged through the ruins and did not find the bones of Master Xu, and wondered in his heart, it was difficult for Master Xu to be burned to death.
Xu Fuzi wouldn't have deliberately burned down his home, and suddenly such an idea rushed into Zhang Baiyi's mind, and Zhang Baiyi was taken aback by this idea.
"No, no," Zhang Baiyi couldn't accept such an idea,
"What wouldn't?" Dong Xiaoqian suddenly said behind Young Master Zhang,
"I didn't find the body of Xu Fuzi, I guess Xu Fuzi may not be dead" Zhang Baiyi said his inference,
"Really?" , The news that Xu Fuzi did not die is undoubtedly good news for Dong Xiaoqian,
"Where is Master Xu now?" Dong Xiaoqian asked again,
"I don't know!"
"I thought you were omnipotent!"
Young Master Zhang was a little speechless,
After Zhang Baiyi collected the bones of his master and mother, he put the few remaining bones into a clay pot, found a location with better feng shui and buried them, and the three of them wasted a lot of strength to dig a small pit and put the clay pot containing the bones of Xu Youji's wife into the pit, and then filled the soil and buried it into a half-human-high mound. I found a wooden board and engraved the words "The Tomb of My Mother Xu You's Wife".
After the three of them were busy with this, they bought some paper money and lit it in front of the grave.
Looking at the burning dark money, Zhang Baiyi said, "Master, go all the way,"
After the paper money was burned, Young Master Zhang walked to the grave and bowed his hands, knelt down, and knocked three times in a row.
Zhang Baiyi got up, patted the dust on his body, and said to Dong Xiaoqian and the others, "Let's go,"
In a small forest in the distance, a figure watched all this Zhang Baiyi do from a distance, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart. If Zhang Baiyi was here at this time, he would definitely exclaim, Master Xu.
That's right, this person is Zhang Baiyi's Xu Fuzi who did not find the skeleton at the fire scene, at this time Xu Fuzi boasted a package on his shoulder, and there was no trace of dust on his face, and outsiders knew at a glance that this was going to travel far away.
Zhang Baiyi and the three of them got into the carriage and left.
Xu Youji, who was hiding in the depths of the woods, also walked out and came to his wife's tombstone, looking at the words on the tombstone, crying and laughing for a while, I don't know what he was saying,
The carriage sent Young Master Zhang to Zhang's mansion and left,
"Hello Uncle Li," Zhang Baiyi took the lead in greeting the porter,
"Less, young master"
"Young Master" Zhang Ergou saw Zhang Baiyi aggrieved and pounced on Master Zhang,
"Young master, why are you back, the master hasn't lost his breath yet! Let's go! Zhang Ergou said and pushed Young Master Zhang out of the door,
"By the way, the young master didn't bring silver last time, how did you spend the past two days, this is the silver you carry." Zhang Ergou said and stuffed Zhang Baiyi with a bag of silver,
Zhang Ergou is still very loyal to himself, and Young Master Zhang is very moved in his heart.
"Ergou, it's okay, young master, I'm prepared this time." 、
"Master, the eldest young master is back," a house slave who was more loyal to Father Zhang shouted and walked towards the room where Zhang Sanjin was,
After a while, Daddy Zhang rushed out of the hall with a stick in his hand, and said angrily: "You little rabbit, finally roll back, see me clean you up like this,"
"Li Fang, close the door."