Chapter 478: Opening the Coffin for Autopsy (2)
"Your Excellency!" Ge Tong brought his son and an apprentice to win from it, and they came to prepare for the opening of the museum in advance.
"Ge Tong, this is your son, what's his name?"
"Ge Ying, I haven't come here to see the adults yet!" Ge Tong snorted softly.
The young man who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old hurriedly knelt down for Meng Yan: "Ge Ying knocks on the lord!" ”
"Please, this is not a yamen, so there is no need for such a big gift." Meng Yan helped Ge Ying up and said.
"How many years have you been studying with your father?"
"Three years!"
"Three years, that's a veteran." Meng Yan said with a smile.
"My lord, he just learned a little bit behind the humble position, if it weren't for your lordship and you said that you need a more reliable helper, I wouldn't have brought him here." Ge Tong hurriedly explained.
"It's good to come out and see it." Meng Yan said with a smile.
"Ge Ying, I haven't thanked you yet!"
"Thank you, sir!"
"Hehe, how's the preparation?"
"As soon as you are ready to stop, just wait for the coffin to arrive, and you can do it when the adult gives the order." Kudzu channel.
"yes, okay." Meng Yan nodded.
At this time, Uncle Zhang and others had already entered the gate of Yizhuang with a heavy coffin and were coming inside.
"Ge Ying, go, take them where they want to go." Meng Yan turned his head and commanded Ge Ying.
Ge Ying nodded, turned around and ran.
"This bastard boy doesn't know how to say yes!" Ge Tong scolded.
"Children, I don't understand these things yet, but after training them later, I will understand." Meng Yan laughed.
"My lord, do you have a reluctant request?" Kudzu channel.
"Say!"
"I want to take the dog with me to learn the art of autopsy, I don't know if the adults can allow it?" Kudzu channel.
The Jinyi Guard Yamen is not an ordinary Yamen. Although Ge Tong is the coroner of the Inspectorate, he can't bring someone in at will, even if that person is his son.
Unless he got Meng Yan's permission, or recruited Ge Ying to join in, then he could take Ge Ying with him to learn and practice.
In addition to teaching by word and deed, the most important thing in this autopsy is to practice it yourself. The reason why experienced people are older is that this is the accumulation of experience over time.
Ge Ying will also have this dinner in the future, so it will be very helpful for him to quickly enter this identity in the future by letting his son enter the actual operation in advance.
"How old is Ge Ying?"
"I'm sixteen years old!" Ge Tong said busily.
"Sixteen years old, an adult, then stay in your forensic team, how about doing a handyman for the time being, and you can also receive one stone and five rice every month. How is it? Meng Yan thought for a while, this is still a minor, although it is said that the Ming Dynasty does not violate the law by using child labor, and the Jinyi Guard Inspection Department is not a good hall, so it cannot be opened casually.
If this Ge Ying hadn't been able to help, this work would indeed be a special talent, and ordinary people would not be willing to do this, and he would have been a lowly member. It was three generations that were affected.
"Thank you, sir!"
"Don't thank me, if he doesn't do a good job. If you cheat and cheat, the official will be dismissed at that time. ”
"Humble duty understands!"
"My lord, drink tea, this is freshly burned." The old man who looked at Yizhuang asked Meng Yan to take it away with silver, and now Meng Yan is the master of this huge Yizhuang, but he can't appear as the master. This Ge Tong played the role of the caretaker of Yizhuang.
knew that the coffin was going to be opened for an autopsy, in addition to Bai Suxin and Wen Xiaoyu, Guo Xiaochao was also clear, and then there was that Uncle Zhang.
No one else knows that this is no small matter. Naturally, the less people know about it, the better.
A side hall had already been cleared out, and it was very spacious inside, and Bai Xinyuan's coffin was carried in and placed in the center.
"Uncle Zhang, Master Meng has arranged a place to live, you can take Shaoqing and everyone over, and come back tomorrow morning." Bai Suxin called Uncle Zhang and entrusted Bai Shaoqing to him.
"Yes, eldest miss, there is a result, you must sue Uncle Zhang." Uncle Zhang nodded, although the people who came today can be trusted, but they still arranged for these people to go to other places, so that there would be no leaks.
"Got it!"
The irrelevant people left, leaving two men to guard the front and back doors, and the others entered the side hall.
Meng Yan also changed his clothes, and it was not the first time he had opened the coffin for an autopsy, and it was the first time he cooperated with Ge Tong.
Burn atractylodes and soaphorns, and sprinkle vinegar on the red-hot charcoal fire, which can stink and filth.
"It's okay, Brother Xiaochao, come over and help, open the lid for us!" Meng Yan commanded.
"Good!"
Guo Xiaochao also took two slices of ginger in his mouth, and then put on a mask and gloves and stepped forward.
"Hey!"
The coffin has been buried in the ground for almost three years, and some waterproof and antiseptic measures have been taken, so if you want to open it, you can't use brute force.
It's on!
This is a coffin made of fine Liuzhou wood, which is particularly strong and heavy.
A corpse smell spread instantly, even if they were wearing masks, it was difficult to resist, Bai Suxin and Wen Xiaoyu smelled this smell, and their pretty faces turned white.
"Open the window, blow it for a while, and you'll get used to it!" Meng Yan commanded.
The window opened, and the rancid smell in the room seemed to find an outlet for catharsis, and soon faded a lot.
"My lord, there is stagnant water in the coffin, first we must drain the stagnant water!"
"Well, without destroying the shape of the corpse, drilling!" Meng Yan nodded and commanded.
"Good!"
Drill a hole through the bottom of the coffin to drain the stinky water inside, revealing the true face of the bones inside.
"Look, my lord!" Ge Tong exclaimed.
"Isn't it just corpse wax, what's all the fuss." Meng Yan glanced at Ge Tong.
"The humble position is gaffe, the adult talent is far above the humble position, and the humble position has just been axed." Ge Tong smiled, and his old face was still red.
"Ge Ying, did your father teach you what corpse wax is?" Meng Yan raised his head and asked Ge Yingdao.
Ge Ying looked at his father timidly.
"Look at what I'm doing, my lord asks you!" Ge Tong blew his beard and glared.
Ge Ying turned around and nodded at Meng Yan.
"Okay, then the official will test you. How is this corpse wax formed? Meng Yan smiled slightly and asked.
"My lord, how can this kid answer such a profound question?" Ge Tong heard this, and protected the calf.
"You know?"
"I've only seen it. I really don't know how this corpse wax is formed? Ge Tong said with an embarrassed face.
"Indeed, the phenomenon of corpse wax is relatively rare, and there are few records in the autopsy classics, it is generally believed that the corpse can only form corpse wax after half a year or a year or so in a place where the air is isolated from humidity or soaked in water, and it is obvious that the corpse of the old man Bai has been soaked in water, which is the main reason for the formation of corpse wax!" Meng Yan explained.
"It turns out that this is how corpse wax is formed. Teachable, teachable! Ge Tong suddenly realized.
"This corpse forms corpse wax, which will basically retain the morphological characteristics of the deceased at that time, and we can judge the wounds of the deceased from the physical signs and the inference of the time of death, etc."
"Adults know a lot, and after so many years of hard work, it's better to learn from the adults." Ge Tong said sincerely, this time he brought his son over, didn't he want to open his eyes. If you can make Meng Yan value it, give a few pointers. That's inexhaustible.
Ge Tong's careful thinking, Meng Yan knows, he does not reject this kind of careful thinking, not to mention, he also wants to find someone to pass on his so-called advanced skills, so that he can do it. He will be much easier, and if he encounters anything, someone will do it for him, and he will have to do it himself, so he won't tire him to death?
"Liu Quan. Come here, help your master take out the body of Old Man Bai. Meng Yan called Liu Quan, Ge Tong's eldest apprentice.
"Be careful, don't break it, I'll put it back in a while."
"Good, good, slow, slow......"
The four of them carefully moved Bai Xinyuan's body, which had formed corpse wax, from the coffin to a wooden board that had been prepared long ago.
"If you want to see it, come here, but don't interfere with our work, and if you want to vomit, go outside, turn left, there is a latrine there." Meng Yan beckoned.
Bai Suxin and Wen Xiaoyu glanced at each other, resolutely let go of Wen Xiaoyu's arm, and stepped forward.
Wen Xiaoyu's face was pale, but when she saw Bai Suxin going up, she also gritted her teeth and caught up with Bai Suxin's footsteps.
"You two have the guts." Meng Yan turned his head and was quite surprised that the two women actually came.
There are steps in the autopsy, and this "Collection of Grievances" has long been recorded, but Meng Yan's autopsy has never been a process.
The process is too slow, and it will not be completed in two or three days, especially when the body is dug up from the grave, it will take even more time.
According to Bai Suxin's request, as long as he knew whether Bai Xinyuan died of illness or was poisoned, other routine tests could be ignored.
"Your Excellency, you see, this is a silver needle pierced into the throat just now!" Ge Tong, who was working with his head down, raised his head and exclaimed in surprise with a silver needle with a blackened tip in his hand.
"Poisonous?" Meng Yan's eyelids jumped, although he had a certain psychological preparation for this result, he was still surprised.
When Bai Suxin heard this, if she was devoured by thunder, she couldn't hold on at all, and she rolled her eyes and fell down, so she heard that Xiaoyu was behind her, and hurriedly reached out to protect Bai Suxin, who had fainted.
"Use the silver needle to test the abdomen and valley again!" Meng Yan commanded in a deep voice.
"Okay!" Ge Tong washed the silver needle with soaphorn water, wiped it as bright as new, and then pierced it into the abdomen of the corpse wax, and after about four or five seconds, he pulled it out.
The tip of the silver needle quickly turns black!
"Is it really poisoning?" Meng Yan frowned, although the method of detecting poison with silver needles is not so reliable or scientific, only poisons containing sulfur or sulfide can react with silver needles, and then produce a substance of silver sulfide, this is because the ancients did not refine arsenic, so that there was a certain amount of impurity sulfide in the arsenic.
There is no poison, but it is not for nothing that the silver needle can turn black, the silver needle pierces the egg, encounters the egg yolk, and the silver needle still turns black, because the egg yolk also contains sulfur, can it be said that the egg is highly poisonous?
Apparently not.
However, the cognition of this era is still too shallow, thinking that as long as the silver needle turns black, it is poisoned, and the substance that can make the silver needle black is highly poisonous. (To be continued......)