Could it be that the dead are just performing? But what is the explanation for the weird laughter and the terrible sound of the lute?

The night is deep, and in the magnificent Lotus Villa, the cool breeze gusts, bringing the sparse shadows and the steepness under the rocks. And this material, at the moment when Xu Chu opened his mouth, pressed everyone directly, so that a layer of cold sweat oozed from the backs of the people present.

Could it be that it is really haunted! Suddenly, several pairs of eyes turned to the corpse, and they didn't dare to stagger their eyes for a moment.

However, Xiao Qinglang still looked calm, and under the light of the moon, his face did not show the slightest panic and surprise. He paused, calmly squatted down to Xu Chu's side and said, "Do an autopsy first, check the characteristics of the deceased, and determine who the body is." The rest, more on that later. ”

Xu Chu has long been accustomed to Xiao Qinglang's cooperation with his autopsy, and he may have been surprised at first. But later, they worked together to investigate the case again and again, and now they have each other's hearts, and the complicated feelings she had at the beginning have gradually calmed down.

When she saw Xiao Qinglang reach out and take the lamp that Wei Guang was carrying, and then slowly placed it on the side of the corpse to make her see more clearly, she immediately smiled.

The moon-like candle flame, against the wind and snow outside, dispelled a little of the fear in the dark night.

Xu Chu looked at the corpse, his eyebrows and eyes were focused, his expression was serious, and he didn't have the slightest smile that flashed just now. She raised her hand, took off her plain gloves, and then took a white handkerchief, wrapped it around her fingers, and rubbed it in the deceased's mouth.

"There were no traces of soot in the mouth and nose of the deceased, indicating that the deceased was no longer breathing when the fire started."

Even if the deceased is immobile in the sea of fire for some unknown reason, it is impossible not to breathe as long as he is alive. Once breathed, there is no way to avoid the inhalation of soot and soot. Even if she wanted to hold her breath, the pain would force her to move when the fire hit her, which was inevitable even for those who were inhaled.

For the most part, this is also a kind of human instinct.

Suddenly, there was another wind in the water pavilion, not only did Hua Wuzhi not believe it, but even Xiao Mingzhu and Wei Guang and others were a little stunned.

Along the way, they have long been convinced of Xu Chu's ability to conduct an autopsy. And they all believe what she said with her own prince, there are no ghosts in the world, and the so-called ghosts and ghosts are nonsense.

But right now, people are obviously dead in front of them, how can they get the conclusion of Xu Chu's autopsy......

Since people are not burned to death by this nameless fire, there must be a side cause of death. Since there are other causes of death, and such a painstaking layout, the murderer must have a plan.

Generally speaking, the murderer must have killed in order to satisfy some of his needs, and this need can classify the motive for killing. In addition to throwing out passion, impulse, provocation, fighting, and killing, it is nothing more than love and hatred for money. And now, Xu Chu feels that the possibility of the murderer being a revenge is extremely high.

Otherwise, if it is for love, it is really inappropriate to kill two people in a row, and it is not too entangled without Lotus Villa. Moreover, if he committed murder for the sake of love, why did the murderer pretend to be a ghost in the villa for many years?

As for the motive for money, the murderer showed the idea of destroying the villa from the beginning, how could it be for money? You know, this Lotus Villa is worth a lot of money. Not to mention the high-rise buildings with carved beams and paintings, just to say that the place on the top of the mountain is by no means ten thousand taels of silver can be bought. If this place is haunted, and people are killed because of the haunting, then the value of the place will be greatly reduced, and no one will even care about it.

In this way, the most likely thing is to seek revenge. Moreover, two murders in a row can also show that the murderer took great pains to put people to death, and always intimidated those who stayed in the villa.

Thinking of this, Xu Chu couldn't help frowning, what kind of hatred and hatred was so persistent. The people left in the villa are complicated, in addition to the people of the Jin family, the rest are guests and female dependents of various families, as well as a team of jugglers and a troupe. But what is the reason why the murderer gathered these people who couldn't be hit with eight strokes together and did such a bloody and horrific thing?

"There are no wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, no eyelash symptoms, and it is not a burn characteristic."

When she added, everyone except Xiao Qinglang couldn't help but look at each other, what wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, what eyelash symptoms, they had never heard of at all.

Obviously, Xu Chu also found that what she said was obviously confusing, so she simply explained to everyone when she got up and put on a mask: "Generally speaking, if in a fire, because of the stimulation of smoke, out of the instinct of self-preservation, people tend to reflexively close their eyes, so the outer corner of the eye will form a "goose claw-like" shape that is not blackened by smoke, also known as the outer corner of the eye fold. It is precisely because of this that only the tips of the eyelashes are scorched in the human eye, which is the eyelash syndrome. ”

And these phenomena, along with the phenomenon of ashes on the mouth and nose, are characteristic of being burned to death before death. If the dead or alive are thrown into the fire and burned, these phenomena will not occur because the deceased has no signs of life or movements. ”

As Xu Chu spoke, she gently tapped the part she had just said with tweezers, and concluded clearly and cleanly that the deceased in this case was burned after death. After she finished speaking, she looked at Xiao Qinglang, and was relieved to see him bow his head gently.

Xiao Qinglang's face remained unchanged, and he only watched Xu Chu take the thin glowing autopsy knife in his hand again and start moving.

The sharp and chilling blade cut the neck of the deceased, but it was found that the mouth, nose, throat and even the entire tracheobronchus did not form soot mixed with mucus to form black line sticky sputum, let alone edema, ulceration and necrotic burns.

The autopsy had been driven down the muscles of the neck and chest until the lungs were dissected, but the lungs were not widely congested, hemorrhaged, emphysematous, or collapsed. Only then could she conclude that the deceased had not really been burned to death.

However, what else is there that will happen when there will be action after death?

The movement of her hand was slight and after a moment's thought, she turned the autopsy knife into the stomach of the deceased. She moved very quickly, without hurting the slightest major artery, and not even squirting out much liquid, but it was much cleaner than everyone expected.

"I only have some tea and snacks in my stomach, and I don't have anything to eat." And the tea should have been drunk when she went back to the house after Xie Niang's accident, as for the dim sum......

"The dim sum was specially prepared by the Jin family for Xie Niang, Yu Niang, and Yin Niang in the performance at the dinner." Xiao Qinglang saw that she took out a mass of undigested residue with tweezers, raised his eyes and said, "At that time, Jin Manshan opened his mouth and ordered, and Jin Fu personally arranged it. ”

In other words, there should be no problem with this snack? But in the end, we have to wait for Aunt Chu to help see before making a conclusion.

Her dissection did not stop, but avoided the various blood vessels and arteries to separate the flesh and bones until the white bones in the flesh were faintly exposed.

In the past, she basically boiled the corpse, but now she carefully peeled off the flesh and blood and carried it out directly, although it was a little difficult, it was also a last resort. After all, here, no matter how Xiao Qinglang could fool, it was impossible to fool the fake Song Derong to open his mouth and allow her to cook the corpse.

In fact, it is not impossible to directly peel the flesh and bones directly, but it is extremely difficult, and even now she can only select a few representative joints and sockets in the mouth to check.

As the autopsy knife slashed through the left and right collarbones, it crossed the chest and cut straight through a zigzag cleft, exposing the ribs and muscles of the corpse that were hidden by the flesh.

"Based on the age of the deceased's bones and the degree of tooth wear, it can be inferred that the age of the deceased was about 35 years old. The body is slender, well-developed, and well-maintained, showing a rich life. ”

"Tooth wear can also infer age to such a nuanced level?"

Xiao Mingzhu opened her mouth unconsciously, but after she opened her mouth this time, she obviously asked the questions in the hearts of several people, including Xiao Qinglang.

In the past, when looking at the autopsy list or singing the newspaper, the teeth could only be inferred from children, teenagers or old people. As for age, few people can guess.

It's not that they don't trust Xu Chu, but they have seen her perform autopsies a lot, and they have long been accustomed to her explaining and teaching from time to time. And every time she checked, even if she said words and phrases that they didn't understand, it still couldn't hinder the big guy's excited heart.

"Human teeth change regularly with age, and they are hard and not easy to decay, so they can naturally be used to predict age. There is also a pattern to the age estimation of its practical teeth, first of all, you can look at germination, permanent teeth and wisdom teeth. Look at the age of the deceased, for example, the permanent teeth begin to appear at the age of six, and they will not grow until the age of fourteen. Or wisdom teeth don't come out until you're 18 to 20 years old. Secondly, tooth wear, the bite wear of the mandibular incisors is usually graded by age range, and then the age is speculated. The calcification of the pulp cavity and root should then be considered. Xu Chu said as he pried open the gap in the deceased's mouth, and motioned for Xiao Mingzhu to look at Xiao Qinglang. Naturally, she didn't care about the expressions of Hua Wuxian and the others, whether she could understand or listen to them, and only explained the theory to the two people in front of her. With her explanation, and the tweezers on her hands pointing to various places in the mouth and teeth, the two of them really calculated the approximate age of the corpse in their hearts.

Xu Chu saw that Xiao Qinglang and Xiao Mingzhu understood, so he gave up inspecting the mouth and nose of the deceased. Instead, the autopsy knife was directly inserted into the muscles and directly to the white bones of Bai Sensen's joints, "There is no damage to the joint membranes, and it is presumed that the deceased was not a person who used physical strength to work before his death." ”

"The finger joints can be flexed to different degrees, and the bone length of the fingers of the left hand is half longer than the length of the finger bones of the right fingers."

Xiao Qinglang fell silent when he saw that she had inspected this place, so he spoke: "If you practice pipa all year round, it will often cause the fingers of your left hand to be longer than your right hand, and the length will exceed the reasonable degree of asymmetry between the left and right hands of ordinary people. ”