CHAPTER XXXIX

She said it very quickly, but her words were still embarrassing, and the good woman opened and closed her mouth to love men and women, and her lower body was firm, how to think about it. can be biased to Xu Chu's seriousness, without the slightest blasphemy and eroticism, let alone a delicate look, so even if others are a little embarrassed, they will not really have crooked thoughts. What's more, with a pile of bones around him, what kind of charming reverie can there be?

There were six more skeletons next, but perhaps a little older, and most of them could not be seen clearly. Some have even turned into dry bones.

Most of the bones were forcibly stuffed into empty wine urns, and all of them were a little curled up unnaturally. Xu Chu glanced at it a few times and found that in addition to the two corpses, which were decaying and not brittle, the remaining four bodies had all been piled up into a pile of bones, leaving only a hollow skull to show that they were human bones.

Just when everyone thought that Xu Chu would inspect directly, they saw that she carefully opened the lid of the mud-sealed wine urn. After repeated confirmations, she made it to the next urn lid. After a long time, as if she had confirmed something, she got up and looked at the six wine urns with satisfaction.

"There were no scratches in the lid of the urn, no traces of blood remaining, and the corpses that could be seen clearly in the urn were only signs of struggle. It can be confirmed that the person was not buried alive. ”

"Hey, not buried alive?" Wei Guang looked at the row of lids, although he didn't understand what Xu Chu meant by that, but it was too hasty to conclude that it was not buried alive?

But seeing Xu Chu's eyebrows stretched, he asked rhetorically: "Brother Wei, if you are buried in an urn in the ground and you can't breathe due to lack of oxygen, what will your first self-help reaction be?" ”

"Naturally, it is to knock on the lid of the urn, and if there is no one, find a way to smash the urn and get out." Wei Guang frowned, always feeling as if something was wrong, and only reacted after a moment and said, "I'm definitely not going to let people be buried alive in the ground." ”

Seeing that his face was much closer than before, Xu Chucai hooked his mouth and said: "Tapping the urn lid is everyone's first reaction, and then when there is no way to escape and can't save themselves, people will instinctively scratch the container trapped in themselves." This urn lid is made of wood, full of wooden thorns, if you really try to catch it, I'm afraid your hands will be bloody......"

And when blood seeps into the wood, it will inevitably leave a mark, not as smooth and clean as it is now.

After explaining, Xu Chu turned his attention to those wine urns again.

Since the two decomposing corpses could not be examined for a while, she flashed straight over. And the rest of the white bones, she didn't dare to let people help, so she had to tiptoe in person and carefully take out the white bones from the wine urn one by one.

Perhaps the deceased was stuffed directly into the wine urn, and although the bone was damaged, it was extremely intact. More than 200 bones, large and small, were placed on the white cloth that had already been laid on the ground as if they didn't need to think about it. Her movements were swift, from the bones to the hands to the swings, without the slightest hesitation or pause.

In the desolate ruins of the desolate inn, I saw a girl with a mask looking focused and serious. The dazzling movements of her bare hands made a thin layer of sweat ooze slightly on her forehead.

Xiao Qinglang's eyes looked at the girl who seemed to be forgetful, and he only felt that she was really more and more able to make people want to explore. He never knew that a puppet could know a corpse in such detail, even if it was just a broken bone that a layman couldn't even see.

For nearly an hour, the sun turned to his head, and the cold of autumn was dispelled a lot, and at this time, Xu Chu was able to splice the four corpses that had turned into white bones into a complete human frame.

"Bother the prince to let me record ......" As soon as Xu Chu's words fell, he saw that Xiao Qinglang had already spontaneously taken a pen and paper from the guards. His expression was too normal, so normal that Xu Chu felt that it was not unbelievable to ask the dignified prince to write the autopsy list.

There was little damage to the surface of the body, and there were no signs of poisoning or serious injuries or fractures. She looked at the skull and pelvic bones of the first human skeleton and said, "Remember, the deceased's skull is thick, the bone surface is rough, the forehead bone is tilted, and the eyebrows and eyebrow arches are prominent. supraorbital margin blunt and thicker; The nasal bones are broad, and the piriform foramen is high; The temporal mastoid process is prominent, the posterior margin is long, the circumference is large, and the skull base is large and rough. And the shape of the pelvis is narrow and high, the upper pelvic mouth is heart-shaped, narrow anteriorly and posteriorly, and the pelvis is narrow and deep, funnel-shaped, which is male. The xiphoid bone has a tendency to be hard, the sternum is completely hardened, and combined with the continued ossification of the leg bones, coupled with the degree of tooth wear and calcification, the deceased was probably between 30 and 35 years old. ”

"The wear and tear of the deceased's permanent teeth was relatively light, and compared to the ossification of the body, it is speculated that this person lived a well-educated life, and his family was rich and wealthy."

"Based on bone physiognomy, this person is tall and biased towards northern physiognomy."

"According to the degree of embrittleness, the time of death is more than ten years."

Xu Chu said categorically, extremely accurately, but it made all the people who were still cold-hearted look at the skeleton with wide eyes. How can you see that there are a few human bones that are silent and look like they don't make any difference at all, how can you see so many doorways?

However, Xu Chu was not impressed by the doubts caused by her series of words, and now she had already walked to the second human skeleton to examine it.

"The deceased, male, was about forty to forty-five years old. The skull has a mass, but no cracks, no marks of blowing, and is presumed to have been left by a collision during the juvenile plastic stage. Xu Chu said, while taking a few teeth that had fallen out and looking at them, he continued, "There are tooth decay, and the permanent teeth are seriously worn, so it is speculated that the life was depressed when he was young and he was middle-aged...... The time of death is about five years. ”

By the time she examined the third skeleton, everyone's eyes had calmed down a lot, although they were all confused, but seeing that the prince recorded it very seriously, they all felt that Miss Xu was really good. It's just a pile of bones, but you can also see a lot of doorways.

In fact, Xiao Qinglang is not without doubts, but he knows that the so-called interlacing is like a mountain, what he can see, Xu Chu is the same, but Xu Chu can see it, but he may not be able to do it. What's more, the two of them have worked together for more than a day or two, and he still trusts Xu Chu a lot. If she didn't really have the credentials, she would never say it loudly, but would open her mouth as "suspicious".

"The permanent molars of the skull are fully erupted and calcified...... Over 50 years of age...... There is plaque and severe dentin damage, this person likes alcohol, good snacks, and is thin. Xu Chu said while breaking open the jaw of the skull, and only after the glove rubbed a few times on the skull did she reflexively take out the autopsy knife from the box and carefully scrape it a few times.

Only a few creaks were heard, and the blade rubbed against the bones to make a terrible sound, resounding in the quiet environment. made many timid people turn pale again, and even inexplicably began to think of the sound of maggots gnawing bones......

At this time, Xiao Mingzhu, who was weak, happened to come back with weak legs and feet, but she didn't expect to hear a creaking sound as soon as she came over, and her sister Xu was holding a skull in one hand and scraping the top of the skull with a knife blade in the other. Just for a moment, her stomach was churning again......

"There are periosteal soft tissues remaining on the skull, and the leg bones and ankle bones are stained with sludge-like materials, and the body buried in the ground can delay the ossification of the white bones, so it can be speculated that the time of death of the deceased was within three years."

Xu Chu was not disturbed by Xiao Mingzhu's movements, but looked at the fourth white bone more and more clearly. This one is obviously a woman's skeleton, if her guess is correct, it should be the legendary Hibiscus beauty bone that appeared in the inn ten years ago on the night.

She glanced at the facial features of the skull, then swept to the pelvic bone of the human skeleton, and said: "The deceased has a thin bone wall, a small cranial cavity, a small frontal scale, and a small slope of the frontal scales, which are round and plump. The eyebrow arch is slightly visible, the pelvis is low and broad, the bone is light, the bone surface is smooth, the iliac wings are thin and translucent, oval, and female. Identity unknown. The epiphyseal line was shortened, the cartilage at the epiphysis and metaphysis was ossified, but it was not closed, and the age of the deceased was 16 to 18 years old...... The knuckles were swollen, and the deceased often did rough work before his death, and finger injuries were often accompanied by knuckle pain......"

When the words fell, I saw that she had already picked up the pelvis of the female skeleton and frowned and thought.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Qinglang waited for a long time, but he didn't see Xu Chu speak again, so he couldn't help but ask slowly.

Xu Chu's eyes were full of inquiry, he frowned and glanced at Xiao Qinglang, and asked hesitantly, "Has the prince ever read any miscellaneous talk about women's childbirth?" ”

Hearing her question, Xiao Qinglang couldn't help but be stunned, and countless thoughts flashed in his heart for a while, and his mind was much more worried than when he was dealing with official documents in the search day. The pen in his hand trembled, and a drop of ink blackened his left hand, which was holding the autopsy sheet.

The back of his hand, which was as slender as jade, was instantly dyed black, but it couldn't withstand the emotions surging in his eyes.

"I've read a few medical books occasionally, but I'm not proficient in it." Xiao Qinglang's face was calm and calm, looking at Xu Chu's slightly distressed appearance, and asked rhetorically, "What's wrong?" ”。

How could he not know that Xu Chu's question must be related to the case, not mixed with personal feelings.

"Strange." Xu Chu studied the pelvic bone in his hand again, paused and said suspiciously, "It stands to reason that when a woman gives birth, the pubic union is slightly separated, and with the birth of the fetus, there will be two pits left on the bone surface here. Although there are no traces on the surface, it is still different from a woman who has not given birth when you look closely. ”

Saying that, Xu Chu raised the pelvic bone in his hand to Xiao Qinglang, pointed to both sides of the phalanx and said, "Normally, if you are separated here, you will inevitably leave traces. According to the degree of widening of the pelvic bone, it should be in the late stage of pregnancy, and there is no separation and no strain or dent at the symphysis pubis. ”