Pei Shu retracted his hand with lightning speed.

Fortunately, he and Chen Ying were both wearing large-sleeved shirts, and their standing positions were a little backlit, which blocked the eyes of the servants.

Pei Shu's heart was slightly relieved, but his eyebrows moved imperceptibly.

Chen Ying didn't notice this at all.

She was also looking at the boat in front of her, and suddenly saw Pei Shu withdrawing her hand, she thought that she didn't hand it in the right direction, so she sent the confession forward again, and said casually: "This is an easy-to-get evidence, please take it." ”

Pei Shu was stunned for a moment, and then reached out to take it.

This time, he saw the position, and there was no previous accident.

"My lord, it seems to have been fished out." Suddenly there was a sound of talking at the water's edge.

Pei Shu immediately retracted his thoughts, followed the sound, and saw that it was an official who spoke.

The officer had been observing the scene ahead, and at this moment he saw that the two corpse collectors had stopped diving into the water, and were sitting on the boat as if sorting out something, so he whispered a report.

Pei Shu let out a low "hmm", took two steps forward, and intentionally or unintentionally widened the distance between him and Chen Ying.

And Chen Ying still didn't notice his strangeness.

At this moment, all her attention was on the water in front of her.

"It's a skeleton." A moment later, the officer spoke again, his voice extremely solemn.

The boat gradually rowed towards the shore, and Chen Ying finally saw clearly that what was salvaged this time was indeed a skeleton.

Green bones.

This is not a symptom of strange poison in martial arts, but on the skeleton, it is covered with aquatic creatures such as algae, and from a distance, it is a piece of green forest, so the skeleton also becomes green.

After a while, the boat landed on the shore, and when he got closer, Chen Ying realized that the two corpse collectors had pale faces and purple lips, and they looked as if they were exhausted, and they almost collapsed on the boat, without even the strength to climb out.

"Water...... Undercurrent ......" After a long while, the young corpse salvage spoke, his lips trembled, and he reached out and gestured in the direction of the corpse just now: "The corpse is stuck...... There are ...... underwater Trap ......"

It can be seen that his physical strength is extremely depleted, and his voice is intermittent, and it took him a long time to explain the original story.

It turned out that under that body of water, there was a small undercurrent, and in the center of this undercurrent was a natural underwater pit.

Jiao Xing's corpse, as well as the nameless skeleton, were all led by the undercurrent and fell into the pit one after another. It's just that the skeleton in front of him obviously fell into it earlier, so Jiao Xing's body floated above him or her.

And just now, when the corpse collector went into the water to salvage Jiao Xing for the first time, he vaguely saw the bones under the rotting corpse, so he said "There are two corpses".

Chen Ying is now clear.

It is no wonder that the light boat that Liu Shuang was riding in would spin in the water, and it must have been pulled by this undercurrent.

At this moment, the two experienced officials had already come to the front of the boat and investigated the bones nearby, although Chen Ying was desperately stopped by Feng's mother and could not approach, but he still tried to take a few steps forward in order to see the situation in the boat.

At first glance, she saw that in addition to the bones, there was a pile of rusted and barely visible objects in the cabin, which looked like chains or something.

When the body was first examined, there was no such thing on board.

Obviously, this was just fished out of the water, and the fact that the man had placed it on the boat indicated that it must have been related to the bones.

"What is this? Also fished out of the sunken corpse? Pei Shu also noticed the pile of things early in the morning, so he asked.

At this time, the two corpse diggers had finally regained some strength, their faces were much better, and their speech was not as intermittent as Fang Cai, so it was still the young man who answered the question.

"If you go back to your lordship, it's an iron chain, and it's wrapped around the top of the bone. The little ones fished it out together. He spoke in a strange rhythm, not quite like a person from the Central Plains.

However, Chen Ying's focus is clearly not on his tone, but on what he says.

Is that really a chain?!

According to Chen Ying's eyesight, the chain was at least three meters long.

Such a long iron chain is actually wrapped around the bones!?

This is......

"Where is this chain wrapped around the bone?" Pei Shu seemed to be asking a question on behalf of Chen Ying, and every time he asked a question, he asked the key point that Chen Ying wanted to know the most.

The young corpse collector replied respectfully, "Lord Hui, this iron chain is wrapped around the waist of the corpse, and there is a stone lock tied to each end of the iron chain. ”

There was a slight inhalation in the field.

Wrapped in iron chains around the waist and tied with stone locks, this is to sink this corpse to the bottom of the water forever!

Who did this?

What is the identity of this corpse?

Chen Ying also frowned at this time.

With bones and chains alone, there are several possibilities: for example, intentional murder in which people are killed first and then the body is thrown; Another example is when someone kills the deceased and abandons the body in the wild, but the body is seen by an unrelated third party, and the third party sinks the body to the bottom of the water for fear of being involved; Another example is that the deceased died in an accident, and the person who threw the body sank under the water out of fear of seeing an official or other reasons.

The above three speculations are only possible under normal circumstances. Perhaps the facts themselves are even more tortuous and bizarre than Chen Ying's speculation. According to Chen Ying's experience in dreams, many cases in the real world are sometimes even more incredible than legendary stories.

She thought about these things repeatedly in her heart, and involuntarily walked forward, and Mother Feng on the side didn't stop her this time, so she could only follow her closely and follow her to the front of the boat.

The officials of the Criminal Department were all performing their duties at this time, and most of them turned a blind eye to this strange girl who stayed at the scene, and occasionally swept their curious eyes, and they were immediately glared back by Feng's mother's fierce eyes.

The two corpse collectors also came to the side of the boat, and under the instructions of the officials, they peeled the green algae from the bones and moved them to the other side of the black cloth.

They were careful and skillful, and they were evidently on a regular basis, and they seemed to have a good relationship with the officials, and often talked a few words.

Chen Ying walked to the black cloth again and carefully observed the bones.

The bones were scattered and did not form the shape of a complete human body, and each bone was attached to it with mud or aquatic plants, giving off a strong watery smell.

Chen Ying lifted a corner of the fence, carefully inspected the black cloth, then stretched out his hand and pointed to the location of the skull, looked back at Pei Shu who was standing behind him, and said calmly: "The parietal part of the deceased's skull has traces of being hit by external forces. It could be a homicide. ”