Xiao Qinglang responded in a deep voice.

Under the starless and moonless night, a delicate woman with a thin figure jumped out of the carriage. Then, the tall figure with a slender figure also got out of the carriage, but even if it was the action of jumping out of the car, he also did it with a noble posture, and Xu Chu couldn't help but sigh again.

Sure enough, elegant people are elegant in their bones. No matter what actions or behaviors you do, they are pleasing to the eye and outstanding.

Although this is not a royal mausoleum, there are guards who often walk around to inspect it, so they are really pressed for time. After Xiao Qinglang walked to Xu Chu's side, he gave the coachman dressed as a secret guard a look, and then the coachman and the guards quickly faded. Now, only the three people who helped Xu Chu dig the grave before are left.

They moved extremely fast, and quietly disappeared into the shadows without making a sound, without alerting any of the guards.

Xu Chu was not surprised by the uniform actions of the guards, after all, who could be an errand by Xiao Qinglang's side and become his confidant, which one was a simple person? And most of them are comrades who support each other and come down from the battlefield, and the tacit understanding is naturally deeper than ordinary people.

Xiao Qinglang saw that Xu Chu had already set his sights on the bluestone tombs that only had a small stone stele, so he didn't delay any longer, and walked over directly with Xu Chu's toolbox.

The so-called once born and twice ripened, after digging the tomb of the British duke, now the grave of a small chief manager is naturally difficult for them.

However, with a cup of tea, the bluestone tomb bag that was originally complete was directly opened. Although it is not big, it is enough to carry out the coffin for Xu Chu to take a closer look.

This time, it was not that Xu Chu was unwilling to enter the tomb to check, but because Wang Mingyang's tomb as the chief administrator was not as grand as the cemetery of the British Duke. Naturally, the space in the tomb is also quite different, and it is not allowed to allow Chu to enter for inspection.

However, it is much easier to carry the coffin out.

Because they had to act secretly, the guards did not dare to light the torches with as much fanfare as they did in the British cemetery, but only took two glass lamps to help Xu Chu illuminate them in the front and back of the coffin.

At this time, several guards can be regarded as unchanging about digging graves. As for whether they were disrespectful to the dead, they didn't care.

For the first time, people like them who have fought from the pile of dead people don't care much about the ghosts and gods. The two, compared with those ghostly ghosts and gods, they firmly believe that being able to avenge others is the greatest fear for the dead, just like the prince.

This coffin does not look very valuable, there are not many carved dark patterns on it, it is just an ordinary black lacquered wooden coffin. However, this is also commensurate with Wang Yangming's identity as a eunuch.

The glass light flickered in the darkness, illuminating the inside of the coffin, and the dim light dimmed the faded garment of the chief eunuch and the white bones that covered it.

The trees near the tomb swayed endlessly, and the black shadows were jagged, adding a lot of gloomy atmosphere to the silent cemetery.

The cold wind with water vapor blew, making Xu Chu couldn't help but shiver. Although she was already wearing a jacket, she still couldn't resist the chill of the autumn wind after the rainy night in late autumn.

Xiao Qinglang moved slightly, stretched out his hand to tighten the cloak on her body for her, and then stood on Xu Chu's right side without care, blocking some cold wind for her.

After his body was slightly warmed up by the cloak, Xu Chu raised his head and winked at Xiao Qinglang. At this time, she was wearing the mask used for the autopsy, and only a pair of eyes were bright and black, but even if it was just one look, it was enough for Xiao Qinglang's heart to move, and then her eyes deepened......

He exhaled deeply and said softly, "Let's test it." ”

Xu Chu nodded, and his eyes returned to the coldness and concentration of Su Ri's autopsy. At this time, it is not suitable for a bone steaming autopsy, so at this time, she can only look at this skeleton with her eyes and hands.

She slowly lifted her skull, and then the light of the glass lamp took a closer look.

At this time, her face was extremely calm, only a pair of hands that had just removed her gloves, and the plain white and slender ones kept touching on the white bones.

It was a slender finger, sliding gently, glowing under the light, like a beautiful painting. But partially, this pair of picturesque hands is holding a white skull at this time, as if they are holding some jewelry, which makes people feel mad.

But she didn't know anything about it, and was careful to rub her fingertips against every part of the skull.

After a few breaths, her brow suddenly tightened. Immediately, there was a surprised "Huh"?

"Lord Wang, this is a female corpse." Xu Chu cautiously removed the clothes on the bones, took the pelvic bones of the bones and examined them again, then looked up at Xiao Qinglang, and said in a firm tone, "Lord Wang, this is the skull with corpse bones is smaller, lighter, the bone surface is smoother, the muscle line and muscle valley are not obvious, and the skull wall is thinner. The lower part of the frontal scale of the frontal bone is steep and straight, the upper part is curved backward, and the frontal tubercle is prominent. The supracrest of the mastoid process is indistinct, the posterior margin of the mastoid process is short, and the interglabellar protrusion is inconspicuous and relatively straight. These are all characteristics of women......"

As she spoke, her fingers moved over the skull, stopping her fingers there every time she spoke, so that Xiao Qinglang could see more clearly.

Xiao Qinglang's eyes were deep and deep, but his appearance was extremely calm, he only glanced at the skull in Xu Chu's hand with a little coldness, and then looked at the white bones in the wooden coffin. He and Xu Chu had already expected this, so they would not be shocked. But what was expected was expected, and when he really heard the definite conclusion, his heart still couldn't help but wave.

Fortunately, he used to know how to restrain himself, so he never showed any difference.

"Possibly identifying him and the cause of death?"

Xu Chu put the skull down and said, "I don't know for the time being, I need to continue to inspect it." ”

After she finished speaking, her hands gradually ran down the bones. It was only after she carefully touched the limbs and bones that she said: "The skull is intact and there is no obvious damage, and there is no obvious fracture of the hyoid bone and cervical vertebrae, so it can be inferred that the deceased has not suffered strangulation or head injury." ”

"There are no obvious fractures in the limbs and body bones, and there are no callus and heels on the bones, so the deceased should not have had any injuries such as fractures before he died."

"The symphysis of the pubic symphysis is osteoporosis, the oblique osteoporosis is progressively broken. Therefore, it can be assumed that the age of the deceased was between 50 and 60. ”

With that, she lowered her pelvis and looked at her sternum again. After a brief inspection, she removed the sternum as well, and after looking at it, she said, "The sternocostal junction is starting to show small breaks. The stalk body is labial and curls downward. Deviate from the knot edge. Osteoporosis begins at the lower bony end of the dorsal body of the sternal body. Based on the sternum, the age of the deceased was between 45 and 53 years old. ”

"Looking at the pelvic pubic symphysis, it can be seen that this person has no history of childbirth."

"Taken together, it can be inferred that the deceased was a woman, about fifty to fifty-three years old, about five feet and one inch long, and quite a burly figure. The hand joints are thick and the bones are deformed, and it should be perennial labor, and most of them are doing washing or using cold water all year round, so that this person suffers from severe gout and calcane palsy. ”

Xiao Qinglang glanced at the skeleton deeply, squinted his eyes and said: "The Huanyi Bureau in the palace is a place where the nobles and eunuchs in the palace wash their clothes, and at the same time, it is also the most laborious place except for the court. If it is enough to make people suffer from gout and deform their bones, there is only one place to think of. ”

The palace maids and grandmothers there are mostly outside the palace who have no support for their families, and they do not leave the palace when they are old, except for the situation of being punished and not being free, most of them are just to mix in the palace for their old age.

So, the number of people there who die every year is not small. And because of his low status, it is impossible to get a place to bury like Wang Yangming, and his ending is without exception to be enslaved by the inner court to dispose of the corpse and throw the corpse to a mass grave.

Xu Chu nodded, looking thoughtfully at the skeletons under his hands. In other words, Wang Yangming is likely to take advantage of this mistake and fake his death to escape from the palace. It is precisely because of this that in the secret passage from the palace to the British government, there is only the tablet of his wife and daughter, but not his tablet.

However, even if he could fake his death and hide, how did he get out of the palace?

The slave who collected the corpse in the inner court, and the unrecognizable corpse received, that is, the corpse of this palace maid after decay, was then disposed of as Wang Yangming's. However, how did Wang Yangming, who pretended to be the corpse of the palace maid, avoid people's sight and was thrown to a mass grave by the people in the inner court? You must know that there is a big difference between real death and fake death, and there is a big difference between men and women who have not decayed beyond recognition......

Suddenly, Xu Chu remembered that when the Xuanyang Dao people were able to escape from the palace when they were in chaos, they could still set off a storm outside the palace.

At that time, she and Xiao Qinglang unanimously guessed that someone must have done their internal response. And that person is very familiar with the Imperial Palace, and he is also very familiar with the patrol routes of the garrison and even the Praetorian Guards. It can avoid the emperor's hidden stake, and it can also not alarm the palace guards at all......

Later, when she knew about King Su's lineage, she also guessed whether that person would be King Su or his person. But even if King Su had the power to confront the crown prince, he would not be able to touch the bottom of the Holy Grandfather, and the guards hidden in the palace in the shadows could not be so clear.

But the person who is partial is able to avoid people's eyes and ears, and quietly enter and leave the palace at will. This is not something that can be explained by a secret passage, after all, the secret passage is difficult to find, but a stranger suddenly appears in the palace compound and is not discovered, this is the difficult thing.