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After waiting for more than half an hour, after the filthy air inside was dispersed, they found a dog and tied it with a rope and sent it into the depths of the cemetery, and after a while, pulled it out, the dog was fine, Yang Qiuchi and others were relieved, lit the lantern, and entered the tomb.

The tomb road goes down obliquely, it is originally a cold winter, and it is deep underground, and it is even more cool.

Master Li, a member of the Ministry of Engineering who was responsible for the construction of the mausoleum, led the way in front, carefully dismantled the anti-tomb robbery mechanisms on both sides of the tomb road, and finally came to the deepest part, the main burial chamber of Chen Fangxian's coffin.

This main burial chamber is not big, in the middle is a huge white marble coffin more than one person high, the workmanship is extremely exquisite, the top of the coffin is placed with a wooden guard of honor and flags, the color is quite old. Around the coffin are jade, spices, and blue and white plum vases.

Under the command of Li Yuanwailang, the people carefully opened the lid of the sarcophagus and lifted it to the side, and then set up a wooden ladder on both sides of the coffin that was more than one person high.

Subsequently, Yang Qiuchi asked all the people to retreat outside the mausoleum. Let Nangong Xiong and other six guards stand guard at the entrance of the tomb, and only the eunuchs Jin Liang, Li Yuanwailang and Wang Zhixian were left in the main tomb, as well as himself and Song Yun'er.

More than a dozen lanterns are placed on the shelves on both sides of the main burial chamber, illuminating the main burial chamber as if it were daylight. The eunuchs Jin Liang and Wang Zhixian looked at the edge of the tomb from afar.

Yang Qiuchi and Song Yun'er both wore gloves, each took a lantern, went up the wooden ladder from both sides, and looked into the coffin in a predetermined mood.

I saw that the top of the coffin was a layer of satin quilt, and I carefully took out the satin back, but the bottom was still a satin back, and the nine layers were untied until the body of the virtuous concubine Niangniang below was revealed. He wears a black gauze pointed brown hat, a golden hairpin and a golden hairpin, an embroidered dragon square patch yellow silk jacket, a yellow lotus satin trousers, a long skirt with embroidered cloud dragon pattern at the waist, and yellow satin shoes.

On either side of the body were horses of brocade, clothes, gold and silver utensils, and several sets of dresses, pressed on both sides with gold and silver vessels.

Because after the death of Concubine Xian, the embalming work was in place in a relatively timely manner, and then it was buried in the cool ground, so the corpse was only slightly decomposed, and it was still complex, and it was really beautiful.

This made Yang Qiuchi very embarrassed, if the corpse was already highly decomposed, it would be fine, and the corresponding organs could be directly extracted for examination, but now that the body is intact and the face is like life, what should I do?

This is the virtuous concubine Niangniang, the most beloved concubine of Ming Chengzu, who even had to take with her when she went to Mobei, and she was not a tomb robber, although she was ordered to open the coffin for an autopsy, but the ancient open coffin autopsy was also limited to body surface examination, and it could not be autopsied.

If he carried out the autopsy without authorization, Ming Chengzu knew that he had stripped off the clothes of his most beloved concubine, disemboweled, plucked his heart and lungs, sliced and checked, and also opened and sawed open the skull of his beloved concubine, and took out the white flower brain, and swayed around, not so angry that he vomited blood on the spot, and it was also seven holes of smoke, as for the consequences, if he did not destroy his ten clans, he would also destroy the nine clans, and he would probably not be able to understand his hatred for not being able to delay twice.

Of course, it is possible to suture after dissection, but even if it is sewn after dissection, it will inevitably leave traces, and once the coffin is opened for other reasons, the filling will be immediately exposed. Therefore, even if he borrowed ten or eight more guts, he would not dare to mess around. I can't find out if it's a big deal, the emperor thinks that he has no ability and won't do anything to himself, but if he knows that he is disrespectful to the corpse of Concubine Xian, then the whole family will be finished. He didn't want to take that risk.

However, how can the cause of death be found out without an autopsy? What to do?

This question has been hovering in Yang Qiuchi's head since it was determined that the coffin should be opened for autopsy, and the biggest hope is that after the switch, the corpse has been [***], so that the corresponding organs can be directly extracted and examined on the spot, and then put it in. Then no one else can see it.

But now, the corpse is still far from the height [***], and now it is a cold winter wax moon, looking at it like this, the corpse will have to enter the height [***] stage, how can it take about half a year.

Of course, there is also a way to increase the temperature in the burial chamber so that the corpse can be [***] high within a few days.

But this obviously didn't work, because the ancients were already well aware of the important influence of temperature on the corpse [***], so the cemetery went deep into the ground, which was to use the low temperature to slow down the corpse [***]. If he wanted to light a torch in the tomb to increase the heat, then Li Yuanwailang of the Ministry of Engineering would obviously not accompany him to go crazy, and he would definitely report the situation, and he would also be doomed.

Therefore, it is obviously not feasible to wait for the corpse to decompose before extracting the internal organs for examination.

Therefore, when Yang Qiuchi was on the road, he weighed it again and again, in this case, he could only do one thing, and that was to probe his throat with a silver hairpin.

It is recorded in the "Record of Clearing Grievances": "Whoever examines the dead body of poison and occasionally has taken poison for a long time and cannot be tested in the test, must first use silver or copper hairpins to penetrate the throat of the dead, but wash it with hot vinegar from the bottom, and gradually go upward, so that the air must be penetrated, and the poisonous gas is fumigated, and the black color appears." Therefore, the silver hairpin probing the throat is recorded in the "Record of Clearing Grievances" and is a legal autopsy method.

When questioning Wang Sicai, the two imperial doctors and the maid Lian'er, they all talked about a plot, that is, Concubine Xian was lying on her side at that time, and there was a pool of vomit on the bed next to her mouth. Although the vomit burned along with the sheets, since Concubine Hyun vomited before she died, it is likely that there were still stomach contents in her throat and esophagus that had not yet been vomited. If it can be extracted, it can also be tested for poisoning.

Because the ancient poison was mainly arsenic, the ancient production technology was backward, arsenic was almost accompanied by a small amount of impurities, mainly sulfur or sulfide, and sulfur and silver can produce a chemical reaction into black silver sulfide, so, with a silver needle to probe the throat, if there is arsenic in the throat and esophagus, the silver needle will be blackened due to the silver sulfide reaction. In this way, it can be determined that it is toxic.

Yang Qiuchi took out a pre-prepared silver hairpin from his arms, bent down, carefully held up the lower jaw of Concubine Xian's corpse, and then inserted the silver hairpin deep into the throat of Concubine Xian's corpse.

I saw that the front part of the silver hairpin had turned gray and black! This shows that Concubine Xian was poisoned with arsenic!

According to Lian'er's testimony, Concubine Xian only drank porridge that day, and drank noodle tea before going to bed, and neither of these two items contained sulfur, therefore, the food itself could not make the silver hairpin black, it should be arsenic in the food, arsenic poisoning will cause gastrointestinal reactions, so Concubine Xian vomited, and there were residual stomach contents in the throat and esophagus that did not vomit, and the silver hairpin probed the throat, so it turned black.

From this point of view, the person in charge of Concubine Xian's diet that day was a major suspect!

Yang Qiuchi and Song Yun'er's faces changed color, although they had predicted this result and were mentally prepared, they were still taken aback.

Yang Qiuchi handed the silver hairpin to Song Yun'er, who took out a handkerchief from her arms, carefully wrapped the silver hairpin, and put it in her arms.

Since they couldn't dissect it, and they didn't even dare to untie Concubine Xian's clothes for a full-body examination, there was only so much work they could do.

Then, Yang Qiuchi re-covered the satin quilt covering the corpse, and the two went down the stairs. Eunuch Jin, Li Yuanwailang and Wang Zhixian saw Yang Qiuchi and them coming out, and hurriedly greeted them, and Eunuch Jin asked, "Yang Houye, how is it?" What did you find out that you didn't? ”

Yang Qiuchi laughed in his heart, which green onion are you? Even if I find something, I won't tell you. With a slight smile, he turned to Li Yuanwailang and said that the inspection had been completed, and the coffin could be covered and the tomb could be backfilled. Then he walked out of the tombway.

After watching Li Yuanwailang arrange Minzhuang and restore the tomb of Concubine Xian Niangniang to its original state, Yang Qiuchi and the others returned to the county office.

It was getting late, and they stayed at the Yixian post station. Yang Qiuchi immediately wrote a secret letter to the commander Ji Gang, telling him what he had discovered, and asking him to immediately control the relevant personnel in charge of the diet on the day before the death of Concubine Xian Niangniang, the personal maid Lian'er, the palm print eunuch Jin Liang and others, and wait for his return to carry out further investigation. And attached the silver hairpin that was blackened by poison. After sealing the secret credit fire paint, Nangong Xiong sent two guards to send them back to Beizhen Fusi to Ji Gang.

Early the next morning, Yang Qiuchi and his entourage got up and returned.

This is Song Yuner's first trip after being Yang Qiuchi's concubine. In the past, the two of them were giggling and laughing, more of family affection, but now they are snuggling and lingering, and they are more tender.

The journey was warm, and I returned to the capital after more than ten days.

As soon as I entered the city, I felt a burst of bloody rain and bloody wind, the street was deserted, and there were almost no pedestrians in sight.

Yang Qiuchi was very surprised, could it be that something big happened in the capital?

As soon as I returned to the Yang Mansion, I was informed that the Yang Mansion family had arrived in the living room.

Qin Zhihui, Song Qing and Bai Sumei's mother and daughter have been received in the capital, and Feng Xiaoxue arranged to purchase a set of exquisite small courtyards for Bai Sumei's mother and daughter, which are being sorted out and cleaned, so Bai Sumei's mother and daughter are temporarily living in Yang Mansion.

Yang Qiuchi first gave a salute to Yang's mother, and after saying a few words to Feng Xiaoxue, he saw Bai Sumei and Mrs. Bai next to him who were looking at him happily, and was very happy, so he stepped forward and saluted Mrs. Bai who was sitting next to him, and took Bai Sumei's hand after sitting down: "Sumei, you are here, this journey has been hard!" ”

Bai Sumei grinned and glanced at him: "Brother Qiuchi, I heard that you have been promoted again, my mother and I are so happy." ”

Yang Qiuchi was a little embarrassed: "Hehe, this is nothing, I just thought you were coming, now that you are here, our family is reunited, so happy!" ”

Bai Sumei's hand held by Yang Qiuchi trembled slightly, her tender eyes looked at Yang Qiuchi, and said in a low voice: "Brother Qiuchi, Sumei is so happy......

Yang Qiuchi looked at her delicate cheeks, remembering the first time she kissed her red lips with artificial respiration in the mortuary, in fact, traveling to the Ming Dynasty, in addition to his wife Feng Xiaoxue, the first woman he ever kissed was Bai Sumei, although it was not a consensual relationship, but that kind of tenderness, Yang Qiuchi would never forget.

(To be continued)