CHAPTER XLIV

Xiao Qinglang withdrew his lost right hand indifferently, his eyes flashed with pity, and then asked, "Do you want to rest for a while?" The king asked him to prepare some food......"

But he didn't want Xu Chu to shake his head, "The bones will be taken out for examination in less than half an hour in the steaming bone pit, and the corpses in the pot are except for me, who does the prince think can easily deal with them?" ”

You must know that reaching out to deal with the skin and flesh and adhered cartilage on it requires not only strong resistance to pressure, but also enough patience and courage. She is a child, dealing with all kinds of strange and even highly decomposed corpses full of maggots, but she also knows that ordinary people can't stand it.

She has never liked to be strong, and it is also a matter of habit, and some things are still done by herself.

The woman in her peach and plum years should be a gentle and clear age, but now she has been dealing with dead corpses and murders all year round. Xiao Qinglang looked at the girl curled up beside him but was still meticulous in burning wood and cooking corpses, and couldn't help but recall those pampered daughters in the capital, even if they were gentle and virtuous, they all had arrogance and nobility in their bones. It seems to be a Shude carved out of a mold, but it is the best woman who is good at beating around the bush, even if she has seven exquisite hearts, there is no one like Xu Chu who is enough for him to explore and examine and cherish.

"Then the king asked him to prepare some simple food and send it over?" He hesitated for a moment, then frowned and asked.

The pot in front of him gurgled and gurgling, and the heat that exuded a strange smell gushed out from all around the lid of the pot, making people want to vomit. But Xu Chu, a delicate girl, nodded without hesitation, which made the stomachs of the guards roll again.

"Wei Guang, let people prepare."

Wei Guang on the side was sluggish, and even moved a few steps without holding his breath, and then left quickly. Oh my God, he really saw that Xu Chu put the rotting pieces of the corpses that were already a little soft in the pot, arms, legs, feet, and ribs......

The more he thought about it, the more ugly his face became, and the pork ribs and pig's trotters he had eaten before involuntarily appeared in his mind, and suddenly, his appetite was tight. He vowed not to eat meat again for at least a month.

While waiting for food, Xu Chu did not forget the corpses in the two cauldrons. After a quarter of an hour, she picked a thicker stick from the wood and got up. I saw her open the lid of the pot, peeked in the smoke, and saw that the whole body was submerged in boiling water, so she stirred it along the edge of the pot with a stick.

With such a move, the smell in the pot became stronger and stronger, making the faces of the people around him turn bad again.

Maybe it was close to the fire, but now Xu Chu was sweating, and seeing that it would take some time to peel off the rotten flesh in the pot, she simply took off her gloves and wiped her face with her coat.

Xiao Qinglang saw that the broken hair on her forehead was tightly attached to her cheeks, and the clothes around her neck were also slightly sweaty, so she couldn't help frowning slightly, and subconsciously took out her usual handkerchief from her sleeve and handed it over, "Wipe it first, I'll be busy later." ”

Xu Chu was stunned, and saw a snow-white handkerchief neatly delivered to his eyes. This handkerchief does not have much embellishment except for the snow white, which is very different from the women's crepe silk, as if it is extraordinarily luxurious when you look at it.

On weekdays, she doesn't have much contact with men, and occasionally some of them are also the catchers and morgues in the yamen, or only her own father. And those people, most of them don't pay attention to life, as a lowly person, it is good to be able to fill their stomachs every day, how can they specially prepare a handkerchief for personal backup?

Now when she saw the brocade handkerchief at first glance, it made her hesitate, she unconsciously pulled down the sleeves of her shirt that were wet with sweat, shook her head and pursed her lips and said: "Thank you for your kindness, it's just that I can't be contaminated with corpse liquid when I conduct an autopsy, and it's not good to use such a valuable object." ”

In fact, she can't tell what it's like in her heart, as if there is sourness and a trace of inferiority that is not clear?

She turned her head to avoid Xiao Qinglang's gaze, looked at the sporadic sparks on the fire, and said in her heart that she was really not used to the life of a nobleman. In fact, she knew in her heart that after a post-mortem examination, she must have a lot of filth on her body, and after cooking two rotting corpses with her own hands, the smell of corruption on her body must be extremely strong. is embarrassed, vulgar and unrefined behavior, I am afraid that in the eyes of Xiao Qinglang, the prince, it should be full of disgust.

The heat in the pot surged, forming an inexplicable barrier between the two, and the steaming water vapor covered Xu Chu's expression, making Xiao Qinglang a little unrelievable. Suddenly, he stepped forward and stepped directly close to Xu Chu, the distance between the two was only between two fists, and then he chuckled lightly and said, "It's just a handkerchief, it's nothing." ”

The two stood side by side until Wei Guang came over with a bowl of white thorny noodle soup. The white noodles neatly soaked in the soup, the looming noodles, were no different from the maggots that kept eating and wriggling on the carrion corpse before, Wei Guang was disgusted when he saw it, and finally he could only hold the soup noodles with both hands, and his eyes were wandering and he didn't dare to take a second look.

But Xu Chu didn't care so much, in her previous life, she didn't eat for a few days because of the autopsy, and finally fainted with stomach bleeding pain. Now she naturally didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, so she took the noodle soup while the heat was not gone, and ate it on the spot.

She ate quickly, but she was not vulgar, and she couldn't help but remind Xiao Qinglang of the bowl of noodles at the small noodle stall not far from Qian's house that night. Inexplicably, he was also a little hungry.

A bowl of noodle soup made Xu Chu recover a lot of energy. She didn't care whether the gazes of others fell on her with admiration or disgust and dodging, she only felt refreshed, and got up and continued to examine the corpse in the pot.

In order to keep the carrion clean, she deliberately turned the carrion over when it began to soften. And a few guards next to her, when she moved, they all held their breath and didn't dare to move.

"Lord Wang, Miss Xu, the steaming corpse pit has been burning for an hour......" Compared to the guards watching the boiling broth in front of the cauldron, the guards guarding the steaming corpse pit on the other side are much more comfortable and relaxed. At the very least, you don't have to be nauseous.

Xu Chu nodded, took off his gloves, took the red oil-paper umbrella that the guards had prepared on one side and thanked him softly, and then calmly walked towards the four corpses.

"There are no injuries to the bones, there are no red or black fractures, and the first three bones have not been hit with blunt objects, nor have they been cut with sharp objects." Xu Chu took the umbrella in front of the steamed bones in the sun, and it wasn't until the fourth and only female skeleton that she looked at her sternum and leg bones and said, "The sternum was severely injured before her death, and judging from the cracks in the bones, it seems to be ......left by a sharp knife."

Xu Chu squatted down, touched the row of dark red on the ribs with his uninjured hand, thought for a moment and continued: "Look at the scars are not uniform, and they are slightly shallow, if my guess is right, it should be...... ...... left by the sharp knife during disembowelment"

As she spoke, she pressed her fingers on the leg bones that were still scarred, and a chill ran through her heart. She frowned, her face condensed, "The shoulder is also slightly damaged, but looking at the leg bone, it has been broken." ”

A pregnant woman who was not yet 18 years old was not only subjected to caesarean section, but also forcibly abused (harmoniously). Looking at the appearance of the scars, the murderer was ruthless and did not hesitate.

She was indifferent for a moment, and continued to examine the other wounds on the bones. After steaming the bones, there are almost no bones up and down, although they are not fatal, but the pain should be unbearable. It's as if he's been punished in some way, or he's been tortured so far.

"There are many injuries to the hand bones and ankles, and it is speculated that the marks are later than the rib knife wounds."

"Are you saying caesarean section isn't the real cause of death?" Xiao Qinglang asked with a twisted eyebrow.

"Yes, the real cause of her death should be - torture and murder." Xu Chu let out a long breath, squinted his eyes and said, "There is more than one murderer. ”

"According to the wounds on the bones, it can be inferred that the injuries to the deceased's shoulder blades and ribs were caused at the same time, and it should be that someone pressed the deceased's shoulder blades with both hands at that time so that people could perform the caesarean section." Xu Chu nodded at the shoulder blades and ribs of the female skeleton, and then lifted the shoulder blades and humerus, "There are obvious scars in these two places, but they are not caused by a large area of blunt force, and they look like injuries caused by human compression." It is necessary to know that in the third trimester, in order to provide enough calcium for the fetus, the mother will often cause osteoporosis and then brittle bones. ”

Xu Chu glanced at Xiao Qinglang, who was silent, and didn't know if he listened to it, but seeing that he had no doubts, he continued to analyze: "And the scar on the ulna and radius should be formed by instinctively raising her hand to protect her head when the woman was abused and beaten afterwards. It's just that the strength of the abuser is not great, so it only causes a crack and does not break. ”

"Normally, it's just that these injuries are not fatal, and I think the reason why the deceased died in the end was when he was beaten, and he died due to broken flesh or an infection from a caesarean section."

"In short, the murderer obviously wanted to vent his anger or simply vent, and he probably didn't want her life at first, but it was only a series of abuses that caused her death, from which it is inferred that the deceased died of torture (harmony)."

She said that she was reasonable, inferring what happened to the deceased from the bone injury, and then analyzing the situation at that time. If it weren't for Xiao Qinglang and her autopsy, I am afraid that she would have thought that her immersive analysis as if she had witnessed it was really because she had seen the murder.

"How do you know the killer didn't want to take her life in the first place?" Xiao Qinglang looked at the past with burning eyes, not the previous scrutiny, but full of appreciation and emotion.

"If you want to kill her, why save her after a caesarean section? And there are many murder methods, according to the ability and ruthlessness of that person to cut the abdomen, it is effortless to solve a woman, whether it is to kill with a knife or smash the skull. ”