After Xu Chu saw him speak, several other people also showed similar expressions of approval, and said with a slight groan, "One is to distinguish between human bones and animal bones. Second, we can distinguish between one-person bones and multiple bones and their genders according to the baggage, and then infer the height of their owners according to the length, size and thickness of the bones such as long bones, and then pick out similar bones. Finally, look at the bone damage and narrow down the range of bones that can be spliced according to the damage or bone fragmentation. ”

If you follow this method, even if it still takes some time, it is not impossible. At least, those packs of white bones can be spliced together.

After saying this, Xu Chu once again advised, "It is naturally good to be able to put the bones together, and it can be regarded as giving the deceased a whole." However, the most important thing is to check the cause of death, to see if there were any injuries before his death, and whether there are bones that can determine his identity. The rest is to find the animal bones mixed in with it."

When the bones of a living person are injured, it will cause bone bleeding, and blood will seep into the bone tissue, forming dark red spots. For example, when she inspected the bones of the fake Egan Baildi before, she saw that the bones were smooth and complete, without the slightest injury and heel bone marks, so she directly concluded that the deceased was not the Egan Baildi who had been on the battlefield for a long time and was often injured.

And some obvious bones, such as the depression left by a head injury when a child was young, or the scar that hurts the bone, even if it grows well, will often leave some marks. These are of great significance for determining the identity of the deceased in the future.

After all, they still suspect that these bones are likely to be the girls who were lost in the nearby villages and towns in the 30s of the emperor's life.

If a bone examination can identify some unique characteristics, and then compare them with those of girls who have been lost in the register, it may be possible to determine whether they are what they suspected.

As soon as Inspector Cao and a few servants heard her say this, they had some bottom in their hearts. At that moment, several people did not delay any longer, and went directly to work together.

Because Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu were still suspicious of the female corpse in the coffin, the two of them did not stay here longer.

Because the female corpse was very likely to be a British duchess who had been missing for many years, Xiao Qinglang did not rashly let Xu Chu directly dissect it. He asked Wei Guang to find the dossier about the British duke and his wife, and then said to Xu Chu, "This matter is too strange, I didn't look carefully at the time, but now I think about it, although the woman in the coffin is wearing a palace dress with a luan bird pattern, the phoenix tail embroidered on it is eight-tailed." ”

Xu Chu looked at him suspiciously, she was not as familiar with things as Xiao Qinglang as she was in palace clothes, so she naturally didn't talk much at this time, so she could only wait quietly for him to continue.

Xiao Qinglang's fingers moved slightly, and he took a pen and ink to outline an outline on the paper on the desk, "Since ancient times, the palace dress worn by the queen has been embroidered with a nine-tailed phoenix, and the concubine, as a concubine of the second grade, has a Luan Niao on the palace costume, and Luan Niao has eight tails. Next, there is the palace costume of the four concubines embroidered with the pattern of the six-tailed luan bird. ”

In other words, the female corpse of the suspected British duchess was wearing a palace dress of the grade of a concubine, and the makeup on her face was also the makeup of the concubine who was prosperous at the beginning.

Speaking of which, things seem to be getting weirder and weirder.

It was recorded in the dossier that the British prince and the first emperor looked similar, so they were deeply loved by the queen mother at that time, that is, the queen of Gongshun. And counting it, he is really the same age as the first emperor."

In addition, the Duchess of England participated in the draft and was given a marriage to the Duke of England after losing the draft. After she was pregnant, she lived in seclusion until she was about to give birth, and suddenly handed a sign into the palace."

Xiao Qinglang saw that Xu Chu began to talk about the events of the year, so he added, "Soon after he entered the palace, there was no news, and soon after, the British duke's old injury recurred and died." ”

This matter seems to have nothing to do with it, but if you think about it carefully, it is full of loopholes and flaws.

Xu Chu carefully looked at the dossier that Wei Guang had just found, but found that there seemed to be an extra volume in the stack of dossiers he had already read.

When she opened it, she found that it was the Inner Court Chronicle, and the time marked on it was the fifty-sixth year of the first emperor. That is, the year when the British Duchess disappeared and there was an accident in the palace.

"The concubine's behavior is immoral, causing trouble in the palace, and her body is not genuine and unclear, and she has lost the emperor's grace, so she confiscated her seal and was demoted to the palace maid who was not allowed to be buried as a concubine after her death."

Even if there is such a record, in the entire file, except for the birth and life of Concubine Shu, there is almost no record of her troubles in the palace. In other words, this is simply an assertion that is not much basis at all.

Xu Chu looked at it repeatedly, and suddenly paused his gaze on the three words of Jinling Mansion, where Concubine Shu was born.

"Jinling Mansion British Mansion" Xu Chu muttered for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Lord Wang, I remember hearing that Mr. Storyteller said that in the time of the ancestors, there was a rebellion by the remnants of the previous dynasty who took advantage of the wind of ghosts. And at that time, the person in charge of counterinsurgency was the British Duke and the Governor of Jinling Mansion."

Xiao Qinglang saw Xu Chu asking, and after a little thought, he said, "That's true, to be precise, it should be my grandfather's case." At that time, during the reign of Emperor Chengzong, there were people of foreign tribes who harbored evil intentions to confuse people with religion and instigate the people who did not know the truth to be hostile to the imperial court, so Emperor Chengzong sent people to clean up many times. Later, because it involved the rebellion of Jinling Wei, Emperor Chengzong sent the British duke, who had just inherited the title of duke, to lead troops to suppress it"

"During the period when the British Duke was in Jinling, he often shared with my grandfather the suppression of the rebels, which the emperor mentioned many times beforehand, and even promoted my mother's will to concubine, and also mentioned that my grandfather was crowned because of his meritorious work in quelling the rebellion."

The so-called prosperity and loss, and later with the abolition of Xiao Qinglang's mother, the Liu family in Jinling was no longer what it used to be, and finally the population withered and declined.

At the beginning, Xiao Qinglang was worried about being jealous of the first emperor, so he only did not investigate the affairs of his grandfather's family. It wasn't until he won the attention of the first emperor that he took the opportunity to go out to handle the case and secretly sent someone to look for it, but found that since the death of his grandfather, the Liu family has completely disappeared from Jinling Mansion, and no trace has been found so far.

When talking about this, Xiao Qinglang's tone was obviously solemn, and it could be heard that he also had great doubts about this matter.

"Later, I searched for the files of the rebellion case at that time in the Sanfa Division, but whether it was the files reported by the Jinling Mansion or the files approved by the Dali Temple, there were varying degrees of deficiencies. In this way, the case cannot be pieced together in any way. ”

Under normal circumstances, a case is like a jigsaw puzzle, and the time, task, place, witnesses, evidence, and testimony should all be complete. However, there were many deviations in the rebellion case that should have been the clearest case.

Just when the two of them were deep in thought, they saw a servant hurriedly come to ask for a meeting, saying that Xiao Qinglang had caused a fire in the home of the dim sum chef who was tracked down

"Lord Wang, something has gone wrong over there in Zhou Ji. Originally, according to the orders of the prince, Lord Sikong found the dim sum master Zhu Neng and escorted him back to the prison of the Criminal Department for interrogation. However, after interrogation, it turned out that Zhou Ji's recently launched lychee cake was not made by him personally, because his right hand was injured and he didn't want to lose his errand, so he asked his nephew Zhu San to help him buy and make dim sum according to the secret recipe every day. ”

As for the official money found in his home, he couldn't tell what was going on. However, he suspected that it was brought by Zhu San, because he had eaten the wine and threw it under the wine table. ”

"Lord Sikong knew that in addition to the fork, he immediately asked people to arrest Zhu San. But as soon as he arrived at the door of Zhu's house, he found that his yard was on fire. By the time the neighbors had extinguished the fire, Zhu San's house had burned down, leaving only a charred corpse. ”

Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu glanced at each other, and their hearts were full of joy, this matter was very similar to the hanging of Zhang Cell, who committed suicide in Jinzhou City, and cutting off the clues they pursued with the death of one person was really the most common method used by that person.

It's just that the reason why Zhang Cell hanged himself was because the person behind the scenes was threatening his nephew. What about Zhu San?

"Let's go to the site first." Xiao Qinglang got up, glanced at Xu Chu and said, "Now we need to determine whether Zhu San's death was an accident or a man-made." ”

The involvement of this case is getting deeper and deeper, just like a vast net that only shrouds the capital and the Great Zhou. And Zhu San may be just a small shrimp in this big net, or it will be a knot that disintegrates this big net

Just as Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu both firmly believe that there is no unsolvable case in the world, as long as Zhu San is killed, the murderer will not be able to escape. And if the murderer is caught, then the clues of this case can still be continued, at least the mastermind behind the scenes who wants Xiao Qinglang to enter the game with her and falls into hallucinations will be more and more unable to hide his figure.

In the carriage, Xu Chu frowned, and was silent for a long time before saying, "Can the prince guess what that person wants to do?" ”

It took so much effort to say that it was a provocation, and it seemed that it was deliberately revealing the affairs of Jinling Mansion back then.

Xiao Qinglang saw Xu Chu asking, thought for a moment and said, "I don't understand this matter, but if it is connected to that person's temperament, it may not be without explanation." ”

"I remember Xiao Chu once speculated that man was conceited and arrogant. For a person of that temperament, I think it should be very painful for him to cover up his identity and erase his name to plan a big case like Jinzhou City. So, to bring us into the game, maybe just to prove himself, but also to make us lose the last game. ”