Chapter 31: Open coffin autopsy
"Everyone worked hard to get the work done in the evening. Don't fucking procrastinate. โ
In the ancestral tomb of the Zhang family, the eight grave fathers were sweating like rain, and they were in full swing to remove the floating soil on Zhang Ran's grave and prepare to open the tomb.
"This week, my aunt is too vicious, and I blame the old man for being negligent, when your father was buried, he forgot to be buried with your mother." Zhang Fu sighed lightly.
"This can't be blamed on the old patriarch, when my mother died, my father was still alive, and according to the rules, my mother was not allowed to enter the ancestral grave. It may be that Aunt Zhou has never held such a major event, and a momentary negligence is inevitable. Now that I have been filial for three years, I should be buried with my parents. Zhang Mu looked into the distance with an uncertain expression and smiled.
Zhang Mu knew in his heart that Aunt Zhou did this just to think that he was alive without rectification, and when he died and was buried together, it would be regarded as rectification.
Since sending Tao Xingchang away, Zhang Mu is looking for his father's relics at home like a madman, and the others have also stopped, his father is the general banner of Jinyi Wei, the seven-grade official, the official uniform, the official seal, and the waist card These things should be there, but they have not been found.
It's not that Zhang Mu doesn't believe that Tao Xingchang said that his father is the general banner of Jinyiwei, but if his father is assassinated, these things will not have time to be handed over, and they should be in his father's coffin.
"Grandpa, did my father learn martial arts when he was young?" Zhang Mu asked suddenly.
Zhang Ren recalled for a while and said: "I have learned, it seems that I still learned from a very powerful master." At that time, the Yuan people were still there, and then there was a rebellion, the people were like dogs, and human life was as cheap as mustard. Even people like us have a very difficult time.
I forgot whether it was the twenty-sixth year or the twenty-seventh year of Zhizheng, anyway, when Emperor Hongwu attacked Zhang Jiusi, your father was not at home during that time, and he didn't know what he was busy with.
When Hongwu was in the second year, he suddenly came back with a very seriously injured person, and later opened a branch to take a scholar, he was the first talent of our Zhang family, your grandfather was going to let him take the exam again, but he couldn't live or die. It's still making a lot of noise. โ
Listening to what the old patriarch said, it was right with what Tao Xingchang said, his father did participate in the battle to exterminate Zhang Shicheng, and he made meritorious contributions if he didn't do it well. As for why he returned to his hometown later, Zhang Mu couldn't figure it out, but after he returned home, he was afraid that he had been acting as the eyeliner of the imperial court, otherwise he would not have waited for Jinyiwei to be established, and he would have become the general banner.
Zhang Mu said on TV before that Zhu Yuanzhang was very vigilant, and in order to rectify the rule of officials and keep abreast of what the officials were doing, Zhu Yuanzhang implemented strict monitoring. The officials chanted poems and paintings, entertained and gave gifts, and even quarreled between husband and wife, and Zhu Yuanzhang knew everything about what happened at night early in the morning.
And his father, Zhang Ran, is afraid that he has always acted as the corner of this kind of small report.
"Just now my grandfather said that my father brought back a seriously injured person, who is he?" Zhang Mu asked curiously.
"It's the Yan Yuanwai of Yifeng Township now, otherwise do you really think that with your husband Wang Hongtai's two mouths, the Yan family is willing to help?" Zhang Fu said with a smile.
Zhang Mu suddenly realized at the moment, no wonder the Yan family would send his favorite "son" to his side as a bodyguard, it turned out that there was a cat in it.
"Master, young master, the tomb is open." At this time, the head of the grave hurriedly ran over and said.
"Let's go, let's see." At that moment, the old patriarch Zhang Fu took Yan Su and others towards the ancestral tomb.
After Zhang Mu walked closer, he found that the ancients did not directly dig a pit to put the coffin inside, but to build a burial pit underground, which is equivalent to building a small house underground, the Zhang family is relatively wealthy, and his father's burial pit is still made of stone.
At this moment, the grave is blowing air inside with a bellows, Zhang Mu's mother's coffin is rotten, looking at these, Zhang Mu can't help but think of his parents, and stands there in a daze.
After a while, the grave man lit a lamp and jumped down, and when he entered the grave, he shouted, "Come and invite the one above." โ
So several gravemen carried Zhang Mu's mother's coffin into the grave pit, and then the grave fathers came out one after another, bowed their waists and said, "Two masters, do you go down to have a look?" Otherwise, I'll be sealed here. โ
"Wait, I'll go down and take a look, you guys stay out of the way." Zhang Mu shouted.
When the grave man heard this, he knew that Zhang Mu was going to put it inside for burial, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "That little master is sharp, it's cool down there, don't be sick." Let's go over there and take a break. โ
The patriarch followed the tomb and they chatted in the shade of the tree, Zhang Mu gave Yan Su a look, and the two of them jumped in with a small box.
The tomb is not big, barely able to stand upright, Zhang Mu's mother's coffin has been parked, and Zhang Mu's father's coffin is placed on one side.
Zhang Mu opened the box, which was not gold, silver and jade, but a hammer and a chisel, and walked towards his father's coffin without saying a word.
"What are you going to do?" Yan Su was suddenly startled and asked in a low voice.
"Shhh......, I'm going to open the coffin for an autopsy, don't ask so much first, come and help me." After speaking, he began to open Zhang Ran's coffin.
Zhang Ran's coffin has been buried for three years, although it is made of fine pine wood, but it has also been loosened, Zhang Mu nailed the chisel into the gap in the coffin cover, and opened a gap with a little force.
Seeing this, Yan Su hurriedly went up to help, but fortunately, there were not many python nails nailed to the coffin, and after a while, he lifted the coffin cover forcefully.
Suddenly, a rancid and unbearable smell wafted out in an instant, making people can't help but gause.
Inside the coffin, Zhang Ran was wearing a shroud, his hands crossed on his chest, and the bones were highly decomposed, mixed with blood and corpse oil, and dirty.
Zhang Mu took out the scissors from the small box and twisted the shroud, and Zhang Ran's bones were gradually exposed.
Yan Su raised the lamp, frowned and took a closer look, "Sure enough, your father was killed by someone." โ
"Where do you see that?" Zhang Mu asked curiously.
"Look here, his left rib near the heart vein was broken, and before he died, someone should have hit him hard in the chest, causing the rib to break and pierce the heart and die. In addition, his cervical vertebrae were also broken, and his hand bones and leg bones were also cracked. It can be seen that he was tortured before he died. Yan Su said immediately.
In the end, he was born as a martial artist and has a general understanding of the structure of the human body, and this trauma is so obvious that even a famous person can distinguish it.
Zhang Mu's heart sank, but he didn't have time to think about it at the moment, and hurriedly began to turn over in the coffin, if his father was killed, Aunt Zhou must be involved, otherwise it would not be so well hidden. It's a pity that Aunt Zhou was killed by him, but it is certain that this matter has nothing to do with Zhang Chi.
Sure enough, inside the bedding under the corpse, Zhang Mu found a red sรจ package, lifted it out vigorously, and spread it on the ground.
On the other side is a waist card, which reads: "Jinyi Wei General Flag Zhang Burn" several big characters.
"Your father is Jinyiwei?" Yan Su looked at Zhang Mu dumbfounded at this moment and said in dismay.
"Cover the coffin first." Zhang Mu put the official uniform back into the coffin, saw the official seal and waist tag put it in the box he brought down, and as soon as Yan Su closed the coffin lid, he heard Zhang Fu shouting: "Muzhi, come up quickly." The underneath is too yฤซn cool. Be careful with your body. โ
"Don't talk about this to anyone, it's a big deal." Zhang Mu looked at Yan Su and said earnestly.
Yan Su nodded, and Zhang Mu shouted, "I'll come up now." โ
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