After he finished speaking, Pei Tan didn't speak for a long time, and when he saw this, he held the piece of skin in both hands and respectfully handed it to Pei Tan again.

Pei Tan stared at the pattern on the piece of skin, it was indeed crooked, it was difficult to say whether it was a pattern or a miswritten word.

The attendant then said, "What is the intention of the man who threw the human skin into the arms of the lord?" Do you want your subordinates to take someone to find out the identity of that person now? ”

Pei Tan looked at the piece of human skin for a long time, and then picked it up and put it in his sleeve.

"You don't have to look it up, you can't check it."

The attendant stiffened slightly, it seemed a little stupid, Dali Temple is also a place dedicated to murder, there are dead people's skins taken off, even if they can't be found, how can there be no reason not to investigate.

Pei Tan said at this time: "The person we saw during the banquet was a woman dressed as a man. ”

The attendant and the servant in the hall were shocked, and the two seemed to look at each other.

"How can you see it...... Is this person dressed as a woman? ”

That person really attracted attention during the banquet. Inappropriate manners. But Pei Tan concluded at a glance that the other party was a woman dressed as a man.

Pei Tan's fingers slid lightly under his nose: "When she hit me, there was a smell of rouge and corpses mixed with corpses on her body. ”

Women will only use rouge, and if they have carried this human skin for so long, they will naturally have a corpse smell.

The attendant was standing next to Pei Tan at that time, and Pei Tan said that the rouge or any smell was not smelled at all.

But whether it is an attendant or a servant, he does not doubt what Pei Tan said. Especially knowing that his adult nose is different from ordinary people, even if he has carefully washed it, the smell on everyone's body can still be detected by Pei Tan.

Who is this woman, and why did she appear at someone else's wedding feast, and why did she carry a piece of the skin of a dead man?

The two attendants of Dali Temple felt a little numb in their backs.

"That person is not a citizen of Chang'an, not even anyone who lives on Chang'an Street. So no matter how you check it, it's impossible to find it. ”

He subconsciously asked, "My lord means that she may be an outsider?" ”

It is also possible that many of the cases handled by Dali Temple over the years are headless cases and eventually become death cases. The number of merchants and travelers who travel to and from Chang'an is innumerable every day, and after committing a murder, they slip away, where can they go to arrest people.

Pei Tan's eyes were deep: "No, in addition to outsiders, there is another kind of person who has lived in Chang'an for a long time, but it is impossible to find it on Chang'an Street." ”

I saw that the servants and the attendants were all asked, is there such a person?

Pei Tan said: "She toasted with Su Shouyue during the banquet just now, and she used palace etiquette and subconscious blessing actions before leaving. ”

Many of people's actions are deep-rooted, especially the things they have been exposed to since childhood, no matter how deliberately they cover them up in the later stage, they will still inadvertently reveal clues.

Not only was she surprised, but her face changed, "My lord wants to say that she came from the palace?" ”

Otherwise, who will have palace etiquette?

Who will be the woman who comes out of the palace?

Suddenly, the hearts of the people in the hall were covered with a shadow.

Pei Tan's face was still gloomy: "The women in the palace have only two identities. "One is the imperial concubine, and the other is ...... Slaves.

"Naturally, it won't be a princess with a dead man's skin, then it can only be a palace maid."

"But even if it's a palace maid, how can there be flesh and skin of a corpse on her body?" The attendant is unknown. How can an ordinary palace maid be so bold.

Pei Tan's eyes also deepened, and he said after a moment: "Where in the palace will you come into contact with corpses?" ”

The person sent out to investigate quickly gave Pei Tan a reply.

"Outside the palace gate, there is a cemetery, close to the Xuanwu Gate, that cemetery is specially used to bury the nameless corpses that died in the palace, and after a long time, it has become a recognized mass grave." That place has always been used to pile up the bones of felons executed in the palace, because it is a felony by default, and family members are not allowed to collect the corpses after death, so they can only be thrown into the mass graves.

The name "mass grave pile" could not be more apt.

Pei Tan glanced at the attendant quietly: "Then let's go to this 'mass grave' to see what it is." ”

There can't be a cemetery in the palace, because of bad luck, but as long as it's out of the palace walls, no one will care what kind of hell it is.

Pei Tan sat on the blue soft sedan chair, and under the lifting of several sedan chair drivers, he came to the place outside the palace that no one cared about.

Except for the corpses and the people who brought them here, naturally no one else would want to drill here.

But Pei Tan's fingers crossed his nose, and the smell on the little palace maid yesterday was exactly the same as here.

Pei Tan slowly walked to the cemetery, and there were several grave bags bulging on the ground, and the smell of corpses could still be faintly emitted inside.

He saw a patch of freshly turned soil.

The attendants had already brought shovels, and Pei Tan looked at the place: "Dig it up and take a look." ”

The attendants immediately moved, not far away is the Xuanwu Gate, as long as the guards of the Xuanwu Gate are not blind, they will definitely be able to see Pei Tan and these people.

But no one cares, the cemetery belongs to the category outside the palace, or secondly, the main reason, standing in the middle of the cemetery, dressed in plain clothes, is Master Pei.

Even if this group of Xuanwu Sect guards were sent to this remote place, far away from the prosperity of the palace, they would not not raise their eyes and not know Master Pei Tanpei.

Zong Huo's case is famous inside and outside the palace, and Zong Chuke, who even failed to save the queen's intercession, is old and has a son, the name of the plague god who was vomited blood and cursed by Zong Chuke that day, and the blue soft sedan that must be sat on when traveling, they only need to take a glance to know that this is Lord Pei.

Now that you know, naturally no one will look for bad luck.

Pei Tan stared at the movements of the attendants, and glanced at the two Xuanwu Gate guards who were as immobile as a mountain, and the gate was separated from the palace and the palace.

With so many corpses and bones, the palace can accommodate them.

At this time, the shovel in the attendant's hand touched something hard, and he immediately looked up: "Sir, I dug it." ”

Pei Tan raised his feet and approached: "Open it and see what it is." ”

Together, the two attendants dragged the heavy corpse wrapped in the mat up from the middle of the excavated soil.

Suddenly, a heavy smell wafted in, but it was not the stench of corpses.

The attendant frowned: "This is ......"

There seemed to be a layer shining on the wrapped mat, and the attendant touched it with his hand, put it to his nose and asked, asking for astonishment.

"My lord, it seems to be fire oil."

The body was buried deeply. And the other corpses here are buried very shallowly, so there is a corpse stench, only this one wrapped in a mat, buried very deeply. Naturally, this was done deliberately.

Another attendant also affirmed: "It seems that someone poured fire oil on it, trying to burn it and destroy the corpse." ”

So why didn't you do it? and buried it in the ground.

Pei Tan stared at the straw mat, the carefully tied knots on it were all under his eyes, and the hair exposed inside.

The attendant then asked, "My lord, are you open?" ”

Pei Tan bowed: "Open." ”

The attendant immediately drew the knife from his waist and slashed twice on the mat, which split completely in the middle, revealing the corpse inside.

The attendant turned the corpse over, and suddenly, everyone's faces were shocked, and Pei Tan stared at the corpse's face.

Cutting off the head of a corpse is in itself consternation. In contrast to this, it was obvious that the corpse's clothes were exceptionally neat and clean.

And this dress, if others are not familiar with it, but these people in Dali Temple are very familiar.

After the attendant inspected it, he was even more stunned, and looked up at Pei Tan: "My lord, is it...... Clothes of Shangshufu. ”

The corpse was dressed in brocade and jade belts, the gorgeous clothes were dazzling, and the jade seal of Shangshufu on his waist was clear, indicating that this person was not a slave, but a serious master of Shangshufu. The serious master died here, combined with the previous events, this deceased has only one identity, that is, the only son of the military department Shangshu Zong Chuke, who was sentenced to death some time ago...... Zonghuo.

Zong Huo was sentenced to beheading. The attendants stiffened.

This, if this is really that Zonghuo, wouldn't they not only killed someone, but also dug up his grave after death?

Even in Senran's Dali Temple, the two attendants also felt the back of their heads tingle.

Pei Tan was still faint at this time, and said, "Lift his sleeves." ”

The attendant didn't understand Pei Tan's intention to do this, but he still stepped forward tremblingly and slowly rolled up the sleeves of the corpse.

At this glance, I was immediately shocked.

I saw that on the arm of the corpse, a blurred piece of flesh was exposed, and a whole piece of skin was missing from it.

Pei Tan took out the piece of human skin in his sleeve and slowly compared it to his arm. No more, no less, exactly the size of the missing piece of skin on the corpse's arm.

The attendant was shocked and frightened: "My lord? ”

I really can't imagine that the skin they got was Zong Huo, who had already been executed, and who cut the skin off Zong Huo's body and threw it to Pei Tan?

Everyone thought of the tension between their own lord and the military department Shangshu before, because Pei Tan stabbed Zong Huo's case of arson and wounded people in front of Zhongzong, and Zong Huo had to die.

Because of this incident, the military department Shangshu Zong Chuke naturally hated Pei Tan, could it be that this piece of human skin was specially used to retaliate against Pei Tan?

Pei Tan obviously didn't think so, he squatted next to the corpse and carefully examined the corpse's body.

Because it was obvious that it had been cut off, but this patterned piece of skin, and the rest of the corpse, was still intact.

If it's just for the so-called revenge on him, why do you choose to cut off this piece?

"I remember saying before that this tattoo may be a kind of ink punishment to punish slaves, since this is the case, why does Zong Huo, who is a dignified son, have this on his body?" Pei Tan's personal attendant asked.

Pei Tan also withdrew his gaze from the corpse at this time, and fell to the bloody face of the deceased for a while and said, "Or perhaps, it is not Zong Huo who died?" ”

Even if he was wearing Zong Huo's clothes, his body size was about the same as Zong Huo, but the deceased's ruined appearance, including this suspicious human skin, had reason to make Pei Tan suspect that the person who was dug up in front of him was no longer the dead Shangshu Gongzi, Zong Huo.