CHAPTER XLII

The deceased died ten years ago, and according to the female treasurer, this is the pile of white bones that replaced Fleur. Since the Bone Curse doesn't exist, it proves that this is another murder. But if you push forward ten years, the bones of the deceased are not enough to turn into white bones......

If the female shopkeeper is not lying, it means that she has made a mistake in the investigation. However, Xu Chu knew in his heart that his conclusions would never be wrong. So the only possibility is that from the very beginning, what the female shopkeeper, who was the entourage of the Fleur, saw was not a white bone, but a corpse that had just died!

Then, she put the body in a wine urn and buried it under the osmanthus tree, and since then the whole person has been controlled by Li Bo and his thieves.

The wind is blowing, the sun is setting, and the sky is gradually darkening. And Xu Chu was no longer entangled, and after scanning the autopsy list recorded by Xiao Qinglang, he walked straight to the two cauldrons that were still burning.

At this time, the fire gradually went out, the heat in the pot dissipated, and the carrion of the two bones fell off. Only a few of them hung on the skeleton and could be cleaned with a slight rubbing of the hand.

The night wind swept the dead leaves and rose, and the backs of the people were chilled. And Xu Chu wore gloves and leaned over to take out the bones from the pot one by one.

First, the skull with the hair stripped away, then the hand bones, the cervical vertebrae, the thoracic vertebrae, the tail vertebrae, and the carrion that was not cleaned, she would also use gloves made of plain cloth to peel off the flesh. The movements are simple and decisive, as if they have been done a thousand times.

The white bones glowed with a faint cold light in her hands, but Xu Chu was still engrossed in repeating the action of peeling. It wasn't until the twelve ribs were cleaned that everyone looked away, even if the scene of pork rib soup was churning in their minds, it would no longer be so embarrassing that they couldn't help but gag as they were in the daytime.

In the darkness, the torches gradually rose, and Xu Chu also fished out the two pots of corpse bones completely, and quickly connected them with hemp rope.

Xiao Qinglang watched her movements motionlessly, and he didn't know how long he watched it, but when he brought it back to his senses, he saw that Xu Chu had already finished arranging the two skeletons.

Xu Chu stood on the side of the two skeletons, then looked at the lights carefully, and after a long time, he frowned and said, "Pour out the water in the pot and see if anything is missing." ”

The two guards smiled bitterly, and stepped forward to pour out the rotten water in the two cauldrons according to Xu Chu's words. As some carrion and black-gray unknown things flowed out, there were some endless scraps of meat left that were too low, but there was nothing Xu Chu needed.

Xiao Qinglang also walked to Xu Chu at this time and looked at the two corpses on the ground, if the first one was still complete, the second one was missing the last distal metatarsal.

Xu Chu saw Xiao Qinglang's sudden expression, and he estimated that he had already guessed the identity of this person, and he was afraid that the person's body was already disabled. Simply, she stopped looking for it, and went directly to the bones to investigate.

"There were no external injuries to these two bodies, judging by the loss of nails, there was no cardiovascular emergency, and there were no signs of poisoning in the bones." Xu Chu raised his eyes, "The corpse is highly decomposed, but if the speculation is good, the death method of the two should be the same as the death method of the Jinzhou Prefecture official, taking excessive sexual aphrodisiac drugs, and finally having a death ......."

She pondered slightly, then looked at Xiao Qinglang and asked, "Has the prince received the file of the disappearance of the relevant officials of the Criminal Department or Dali Temple?" ”

"Not really!" Xiao Qinglang's eyes were dark, and he said solemnly, "Not only has this king never received it since he was in charge of the Three Law Divisions and the Inner Court, but even in the past twenty years, there has never been a case of a similar official missing reported to the imperial court. ”

An official on one side, not to mention a dignified state government official, only said that even if the county official is registered and the county official is missing, it is a great deal. Yilu should have reported it as soon as possible, but it has been more than half a month since the recent killing of Jinzhou officials, and he has never received any news about the case.

Not only did there be no news from the inner court of Dali Temple of the Criminal Department, but even the various channels of the Jing'an Palace's private palace did not find any clues. The biggest possibility is that in the eyes of others, these people disappear as commonplace, or they have not "disappeared" at all!

"Based on the autopsy alone, I can only test so much at present, and if there are more, I can only review the file and then push the case." Xu Chu took off his gloves, but found that when he examined the corpse before, some juice had already penetrated into his fingers, and his entire palm was extremely wet and uncomfortable.

Seeing this, Xiao Qinglang did not hesitate to hand over the white handpiece in his hand again, and then said slowly: "A few years ago, Ning Wangfu once recommended a strategist named Liu Rangmo to join the office. "And the reason why that man was talented but did not participate in the imperial examination was because of a foot disease...... According to King Ning, the man was missing a toe, so he couldn't walk fast at ordinary times, otherwise he would be lame......"

The moonlight was getting thicker, but at this time it was obscured by a sudden dark cloud. And under the light of the soft torch, Xu Chu's eyes looked back at Xiao Qinglang like electricity, and he only felt a bone-chilling chill spread from his body.

"And since Liu Rangmo took office in Jinzhou, there has never been a mistake in Jinzhou's local affairs such as salt, grain, theft, river defense, maritime frontier, river engineering, water conservancy, cleaning up military registration, and soothing the people......" Xiao Qinglang's voice fell into Xu Chu's ears with a cool chill, obviously an ordinary expression and words, but it seemed to contain overwhelming coercion, which was difficult to ignore.

The two were so close to each other that Xu Chu clearly felt the coldness and anger in his tone when he spoke.

Even though neither of them spoke again, they also knew that this matter was difficult to be good.

"The people from Jinzhou Prefecture invited my father to leave half a month ago, and the adult in that person's mouth is the same as Lord Liu." Xu Chu suppressed the panic in his heart, lowered his arms a little weakly, and spoke with difficulty.

"Wei Yan, immediately send someone to Jinzhou to investigate, activate all the connections and channels of the royal palace in Jinzhou, and be sure to make Jinzhou Tongzhi Liu Rangmo clear." At this time, the surrounding guards had already been replaced by the people he and Xiao Mingzhu had brought, and the government soldiers had already withdrawn to the periphery, so he was not worried about the news leaking.

Wei Yan, who had been in the dark, suddenly appeared, gave his hand away, and left the inn in a few ups and downs.

"Now that I've finished the inspection, I'll go back first, and I'll send someone to find out the official files for nearly twenty years and send them to the mansion."

Just when he was about to ask if he wanted to go back to the village to have a look, he saw a government soldier rushing over in a hurry, he gasped, knelt on the ground and said: "Tell the prince, there are several secret passages around the mass grave, but when the small ones dig up, there are no living ......people at all" Speaking of this, he gritted his teeth and shivered, as if he was frightened, "There is a dark passage with extremely heavy blood, and after the small ones entered with other government soldiers, they found ......"

Seeing that his appearance was not good, Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu couldn't help but sink in their hearts, "How is it?" ”

"I found a dark room in the dark passage, and there were dozens of young girls' bodies in the dark room." The Nafu soldier gritted his teeth, bowed his head and said, "In addition, there is a blood-colored skeleton that has just been deboned!" ”

Xu Chuteng took a step back, his heart was filled with anger, even if he had already guessed, he still let that group of vicious murderers escape?

"The little one has already sent someone to guard that place, does the prince want to go and take a look?"

Naturally, he wanted to go, not only Xiao Qinglang's face was gloomy, but even Xu Chu couldn't help gritting his teeth.

After a while, the two of them arrived at the edge of the mass grave, and looked at the trench dug by the government soldiers to know that they did not shirk and escape. As soon as the two of them entered the dark passage, they smelled a strong smell of blood that rushed straight to the heart and lungs.

When the two of them entered the dark room, they saw two government soldiers guarding both sides with red eyes, and in the middle was a pile of young women's corpses.

Xu Chu hurriedly swept over, and saw that some of them were strangled, and some of them had blood wounds and knife marks on their bodies, so before he stepped forward to check, he turned his head and said to the guards behind him: "Brother Lao, go and find a large amount of green onions, if you can follow it, frankincense, myrrh, stamens, or squid fish bones, or keels." After saying that, she jumped over Xiao Qinglang and squatted down to carefully examine the wounds of his group of fresh "female corpses".

The guard didn't know why, and subconsciously looked at Xiao Qinglang, but when he saw Xiao Qinglang nodding, he hurriedly hugged his fists and left.

In fact, what Xu Chu thought was that the group of wicked people left in an extremely hurry, the assassination was not successful, and they were besieged by the government soldiers and palace guards, if they didn't get out as soon as possible, they were afraid that they would become turtles in the urn. In a hurry, there will inevitably be negligence, and even if these women who were strangled or stabbed temporarily lost their breath as if they were dying, they may not be able to save them.

Sure enough, when she checked, she found that although there were injuries on two people's bodies, they were impermeable. According to the words of the dead party in the record of clearing grievances, there is still the possibility of life. Immediately, she asked Xiao Qinglang to take the handle and slowly flattened the two.

Although she knew that Xiao Qinglang had doubts, she didn't have time to explain, and instead looked at the women with obvious strangulation marks on their necks. pressed the pupils of several people in turn, but in an instant, I saw that the pupils that should have been dilated had recovered slightly. She didn't dare to be careless, so she directly pulled the hairband from her head and strangled the fingertips of several people, only to see that one of them's fingertips was congested and quickly bruised and swollen.

Speaking of which, this is a way to tell whether someone is fake or not, if there is incense or chicken feathers, it can also be judged by placing it under the nose. In the previous life, there was an extremely hot movie, during which Yang Guifei, who was buried in the country, used that method when she tested her life and death.

Generally speaking, the pupils can be restored, and the fingertips are bruised and swollen, which means that the person is still alive, at least the blood is still circulating. As we all know, blood no longer circulates after death, and it is a common method for forensic doctors to determine the time of death. It's just that most of the preconceived notions will be preconceived, and only rely on breathing and strength to confirm whether the arteries are dead, and many times it often leads to the result of fake death as real death.