The two looked at each other and smiled, and both shook their heads slightly to express helplessness. From this point of view, the two really have a very tacit understanding.

"Eat first, you rest for a while, and I'll have people follow the clues you speculated to check on the suspects' homes of the six people." Xiao Qinglang saw that Xu Chu's eyes were black and couldn't hide the tiredness on his face, so he couldn't help but say softly, "The matter of restoring the appearance of the skull is not in a hurry. ”

Until now, Xiao Qinglang still didn't believe that Xu Chu could really restore the appearance of the deceased. Although during the reign of Emperor Wenchang, there was a drama and Wenyan that there was a Wenqu star who went down to become the Qingtian who judged the sun day and investigated the Yin Division at night, and that Qingtian could not only push the case, but also restore the appearance of the deceased.

When he was young, he was quite interested in this matter, and let people search the official history and the barnyard official history, although he found the original body of the blue sky, but found no record of this skill.

Then he asked the inspectors of the Three Law Divisions to work together to reshape the human skeleton after examining many unclaimed corpses. But in the end, they all failed, and none of them succeeded.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but move his gaze to Xu Chu's slightly rough hands, but he didn't know what to think in his heart.

"The case is urgent, and there is no room for delay."

This case is too unbelievable, it can turn a village into a ghost village, so that even if the people in the village are alive and dead, its methods are bound to be outrageous. Forcing the villagers to kill each other, making the good and the tiger their pawns, Xu Chu couldn't imagine how perverted those people were.

However, she knew that when the croppers who only relied on the sky for food, facing the loess and facing the sky, were forced to commit crimes, and even pushed the women of the same village into the fire pit with their own hands, they would bear what a heavy sin they would bear in their hearts.

As long as she solves the case as soon as possible and kills the group of thieves, the remaining old and young people in the village will be out of the clutches of the devil one day sooner. It is true that she does not have the consciousness to shoulder the mission of justice, but within the scope of her ability, she will never easily let go of heinous crimes.

Not to mention......

"Besides, the murderers are extremely vicious, and my father doesn't know if it falls into their hands, and I won't be at peace for a day if I don't solve the case."

In the inn, she found no trace of her father, so she felt a little relieved. Come to think of it, no news is the best news.

But now that it is found that those thieves dare to pretend to be officials, the degree of their audacity is beyond Xu Chu's imagination.

It can be said that from the past life to this life, there are countless cases and investigations she has participated in, and she has never encountered such a strange thing in her life. Kill the officials of the imperial court, replace them, and then erect a state city......

With the orders of King Jing'an, the prefect will act in a way that will make it convenient for Xu Chuxing. Now that she has left Shaohua Academy, she has asked people to prepare clay used by market craftsmen to make clay sculptures, twine, bamboo sticks, iron wires and other materials.

even ordered the kitchen to send the fish gelatin for later use, but there was no explanation, as if acquiescing to all of Xu Chu's actions.

Others are suspicious, Miss Xu is not a child, and she wants to play with mud? Even some officials in the palace who had long looked down on women for servants, and when they heard that she suddenly asked for mud, they all scoffed a little.

They really think that he is a living judge, but they don't want to be as good as the children in the family, and they still have to be muddy at the age of Double Ten. Even if someone later sent the dry bones brought back from the inn, so what? I'm afraid it's just to hide people's eyes and ears, so it's just a mystery.

Only those who really followed the inn knew how clean and neat Miss Xu Chuxu's autopsy was. A woman, but more shocking than many men. Just that guts is enough to make people look sideways.

Although Xiao Qinglang didn't know Xu Chu's plans, he heard what she needed, and he still sent someone to prepare the best clay very quickly. Just in case, he also specially sent someone to find a few masters of the official kiln molders to come to help.

After everything was ready, Xu Chu began his work. The so-called skull restoration technology has long been extremely mature in the era when forensic technology was mature in the previous life, and has even developed into a science. Although the soft tissues of the human face are different, the landmarks measured are uniform. In the final analysis, it is the hairline, between the eyebrows, the base of the upper lip at the base of the nose, the philtrum, the labial fold, the convex chin, the lower chin, the center of the eyebrows, the lower point of the orbital margin, the lower edge of the lower jaw, the upper edge of the zygomatic arch, the ascending ramus of the mandib, and the angle of the mandible.

It is as if the shape and walking of the eyebrows are the same as the shape and walking of the eyebrow arch of the skull. Eye size and protrusion are related to orbital morphology. Nose morphology is associated with the nasal bone, piriform foramen, and anterior nasal spines. In the final analysis, the changes in the facial features are dependent on the bones, as long as the appearance of the deceased can be restored according to the characteristics of the bones.

In fact, the wisdom of the ancients is really infinite, when studying forensic medicine in the previous life, the teacher once said that as early as before modern times, the ancients could already check the identity of the deceased by restoring the appearance of the skull. In that era when information is backward and there is no Internet, this can be regarded as a rebellion.

The book records that the corpses that have been burned and buried for a long time and decayed, or turned into white bones, in addition to distinguishing men and women by pelvic bones and other places, can also be restored according to the laws of ordinary people's muscles, meridians and bones, trends, and veins. Then, based on the presumed condition of the deceased, the appearance of the deceased is reconstructed.

Normally, after measuring the bones, leave dotted line marks, and then use a kind of hard yellow clay to measure the size by yourself, pinch the skin and flesh texture, and then wear it with a few thin wires and hemp rope. When there is an overall shelf, take out a softer kind of yellow mud and make pieces of flesh and blood, covering the bones inside. After that, when the soil is slightly dry, take out a few pieces of white tulle, cut them and cover them on the outside, and carefully paste them with fish gelatin.

In this way, the approximate appearance and form of the deceased can be restored.

However, since she came to the Great Zhou Dynasty, she has also checked many autopsy works, but has never found relevant records. It is precisely because of this that she never told anyone about it until she had to do so.

What's more, the restoration skills she learned have been precipitated and updated for thousands of years, and they are much more detailed than those recorded in the books of the ancients in her previous life.

At this time, Xu Chu picked up one of the skeleton skulls, carefully measured its hairline, between his eyebrows, the base of his nose and his upper lip, and then carefully mixed the clay according to the proportions and filled in the few places he had measured. As she moved, it didn't take long for the still hollow and terrible head to be covered with dirt of varying shades.

"The deceased's cheekbones are protruding, the cheeks are sunken and thin, the maxilla is a square bulge, showing a protruding pyramidal structure, the front of the mandible is flat, and the lower lip is flat......" Xu Chu kept moving his hands, and said to the master who came to help, "I will repeat the characteristics of several people one by one, and I also bother several masters to help me carve it according to the clay sculpture technique." ”

When the general face appeared, she took a bamboo stick and carefully traced the appearance of the skull on her hand. She does it very seriously, and her technique is as light as if she has done it thousands of times, which is not much worse than several masters who have been making clay sculptures for decades.

Although a few people couldn't understand what she meant, they couldn't help but be surprised when they saw her move with her bare hands, and she actually restored the terrifying skull to a bit of human appearance.

At this time, Xu Chu, who was immersed in repairing his facial features, didn't notice that a person with Chunhui eyes in front of the door was looking at her with a good look.

Xiao Qinglang didn't know how to describe his current mood, if at the beginning, his eyes were drawn by that plain white finger, then as the skull and face gradually appeared, the shock in his heart was really indescribable.

Since he took over the affairs of the Three Laws Division and the Inner Court, he has seen countless cases, and has encountered countless officials who have worked and pushed cases, but no one has ever been able to examine the dry bones, let alone restore Bai Sensen's human skull to its original appearance.

Seeing the soil under her hands gradually revealing a clear appearance, Xiao Qinglang couldn't help but hold his breath. But all the shocks can't be matched by the shock after seeing the more and more clear facial features.

Although it was only a general appearance, Xiao Qinglang could still see it clearly, and that person was Liu Rangmo, a fellow acquaintance who was specially allowed by the emperor to go to Jinzhou as an official from King Ning's mansion. Although his appearance is much younger in the mud, his eyes, ears, mouth and nose are very recognizable.

If it weren't for the fact that he had seen this person when he was young and had cleared the siege of this person once, Xu Xiao Qinglang would not have recognized him for a while.

He gasped and set his eyes on Xu Chu, who was immersed in the busy room again.

But seeing Xu Chu respectfully arrange the remaining skulls, and then quickly glued the clay up according to his own speculation and measurement, and then said to a few sculptors: "Bother a few masters to fill in the remaining skulls according to the method I just had, if you have any questions, just ask me at any time." ”

Xu Chu really didn't expect to be able to restore the skull one by one, what she needed was a general appearance, and then sketch it on paper for comparison with the drawings of officials up and down Jinzhou.

After all, the head that has been corrupted into white bones, no matter how it is restored, some things are unpredictable. For example, skin color, or scars on the face.

In fact, even in previous lives, when the technology was skilled, the restored photographs were not exactly the same as those of the deceased.

It was only when several masters began to get started that she cleaned up the clay on her hands, took the drawing paper to her, looked at her restored head and said to herself: "The bridge of the deceased's nose is collapsed, and the pinna of the ear is larger. In his early years, he had a difficult life and made a fortune in middle age...... The face should be more vicissitudes, and the skin is slightly rough. ”

After that, she kept writing and ink in her hands, and she had already sketched a simple shadow.

Within a quarter of an hour, an extremely clear portrait of a human face appeared on the white painting paper in Xu Chu's hand. The appearance and demeanor are really vivid, if it weren't for Xiao Qinglang's clear that Xu Chu had never seen Liu Rangmo when he was young, he would have doubted her.

Xiao Qinglang looked at him with admiration, but he didn't bother, but left quietly. It's just that after he returned to Yishantang, his expression became solemn, and when he reviewed the Jinzhou official files, he was extremely careful.

If Liu Rangmo is dead, who is the person who has been praised many times later? Why is the news from Jinzhou not unusual, even just looking at the file, there are not many discrepancies.

For two hours, it wasn't until lunchtime that Xu Chu asked people to return to Yishantang with a few restored heads and a few portraits.

"Lord Wang, the general appearance can only be restored to this, because the clothes are mostly rotten, and the identity cannot be determined one by one." Xu Chu handed over the portrait and said to Xiao Qinglang, "If you compare the shadow graphics, it is estimated that there may only be seven points of similarity." ”

When her words fell, Xiao Qinglang had already stared at the heads of those people and distinguished them from the portraits, and then waved his hand to let a few sculptor masters step back, and then handed over a stack of files in his hand.

"Judging from the portrait, several people are like Jinzhou City, Liu Rangmo, Song Derong, Tang Rucai, Zhao Yuanqing, Zhao Yuanqing, Zhao Weipin, and Zhao Weipin, the director of the prison, and Zhao Weipin, the director of the prison, ......" Xiao Qinglang's face sank like water, his eyes were like an abyss, and he continued, "There is also the first one you found in the wine urn that day, and Zhao Huanran, the general judge governor in charge of Jinzhou prison litigation and other affairs......"

Xu Chu couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he heard Xiao Qinglang's words. If all the officials of a state were really killed in successive years, and the partial court had not received any news, it would be extremely terrifying.

She pursed her lips and sat down next to Xiao Qinglang to check the dossier on the spot, if all the portraits were very similar to the skull statues she had restored.

"It's just similar, maybe the deceased is just blood relatives with several adults? So the faces are somewhat similar. ”

"Liu Rangmo has no family and no heirs!"

Xiao Qinglang glanced at Xu Chu and said in a low voice: "In addition, Song Derong and Tang Rucai also had a personal relationship with this king, and the two have no male nephews and heirs who are closely related by blood. And even if there is, it is definitely not old. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Chu also came back to his senses and smiled bitterly, he was really deceiving himself. Looking at the age, the bone age of the corpse is not much different from the age of several adults, and the so-called nephews and relatives are naturally impossible.

At this time, she seemed to have stepped into a cold pool, and she couldn't help but chill all over. Her ears were buzzing, and her eyes were dizzy, but she didn't know if it was worry or what.

"Xiao Chu?" Xiao Qinglang saw that her face was pale, and couldn't help but be worried, so he hurriedly leaned over to help her and called.

Xu Chu barely stabilized his mind, clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth and said, "I beg the prince to allow me to go to Jinzhou to check in person." ”

Even if you can't find Daddy's whereabouts, it's good to find some clues.

Xiao Qinglang glanced at her, but saw that her expression was firm, as if he decided that he would not be in danger with her. Sure enough, it is still the person who stubbornly refuses to trust him easily, even if the two of them have gone through a lot, and even have already reached a tacit understanding, it is not enough to make her feel at ease.

Xiao Qinglang stretched out his hand and slowly covered her eyes, and said in a dumb voice: "I thought I had a plan for this matter, you should rest for a while, and I will go to Jinzhou with light travel early tomorrow morning." ”

Her eyes were covered by warm palms, and the sudden intimate movements made Xu Chu stiffen, until she smelled the familiar smell of bamboo, which made her relax a little.