Pei Shu didn't make a sound, but his eyes followed the direction pointed by Chen Ying.

The deceased's skull had been cleared out and was fairly well preserved, and it was clearly visible from where he was that at the top of the skull there was indeed a large fissure, in the shape of a crescent.

"He or she should have been dead before he or she fell overboard." Chen Ying said again, her tone firm.

A brain contusion of this severity is enough to cause immediate death and is usually unlikely to form in the water, unless it is a very high fall into the water and happens to hit some hard object with a round top.

However, looking at the Xingjibo Mansion Garden, there are no high-rise buildings that can cause such serious fall injuries, so Chen Ying came to the above conclusion.

"I think he or she was hit in the head and then dumped." Chen Ying stated her inference for the third time.

Judging from the shape of the wound on the deceased's head, it is believed that it was caused by a blow to a club-like object with a round tip. Of course, it is not excluded that the deceased accidentally hit a hard object, resulting in death.

It's just that Chen Ying intuitively didn't want to mention this kind of coincidence.

The deceased must have come from a humble background, otherwise it would not have been possible to sink the body for several years without anyone care. And if you don't make the problem more serious, this corpse is likely to be the second Jiao Xing.

Chen Ying didn't want that to happen again.

The older of the two officials raised his head at this time and glanced at Chen Ying, with a faint surprise in his eyes.

Chen Ying didn't notice any of this at all, still engrossed in observing the corpse.

Soon, she pointed to some of the bones and said in a very soft voice, "The deceased should be a woman." ”

"How so?" Before Pei Shu could speak, a relatively young official standing next to the black cloth couldn't help but ask at this time.

A noblewoman dressed in a splendid dress came up and said the cause of death in one or two or three places, and in a surprising manner concluded that the skeleton was a woman.

It's just a mouthful!

Even though he hasn't been in the criminal department for a long time, there have been dozens of murders, he doesn't understand, he didn't even see whether the bones were male or female, how could this girl be broken at a glance?

When Chen Ying heard this, she opened her mouth to answer, but she didn't prevent Feng's mother from grabbing her head and saying, "Girl, if you tell the slave maid, the slave will relay it for you." ”

Chen Ying was slightly stunned, and after thinking for a moment, he paced two steps to the side, but he stopped talking.

She was quick talking, but she forgot one thing.

She is a delicate woman raised in the depths of the boudoir, and she should not be proficient in these things at all. She can't say that she judged the sex of the deceased by the shape of her pelvis, right?

Without a reasonable source, her words will only cause confusion and even trouble.

So, she can't tell the truth, she has to find a borrowed day.

She stood aside with a deep groan, choosing the most suitable one among the countless plans that had rolled through her mind, but the old official preemptively said, "The deceased is indeed a woman." ”

All the people looked at him, but they saw him leaning down and picking up the complete bones of his left hand from the middle of the pile of bones.

His hand was wrapped in a clean white cloth, and the bone of his hand was held in a naturally open shape, and he pointed to the middle finger of the hand bone and said, "There's a ring on it." ”

As he spoke, everyone saw that on the middle finger of the phalange, there was indeed a black ring-like protrusion, which was relatively slender.

"I'm afraid it's a silver ring." The old official said again, his tone calm and affirmative.

He is not a servant, which can be seen from the official uniform on his body, he is a lowly official, and it is impossible to wear an official uniform. However, the old official's autopsy experience was as rich as that of the old man, and he seemed to be particularly accurate in appreciating such gold and silver objects.

Chen Ying nodded silently, raised his hand and lowered the power fence.

The heavy green veil fell, blocking the curious eyes of more people, and also brought this conversation to an end.

"I see." The young official who was watching nodded, and was about to say more, when he felt a chill in his heart, as if a sharp arrow was coming through his chest, he subconsciously turned around, and saw Pei Shu's murderous face.

His heart immediately sank, and he hurriedly lowered his head and concentrated on his work, not daring to say anything more.

"This kind of silver ring, most men don't wear it." The old official continued to speak, as if to explain his judgment, and after speaking, he bowed to Chen Ying again: "The girl has good eyesight. ”

With this move, there will be those who have doubts in their hearts, and they will be completely gone.

In this era, it is not popular for men to wear rings, and even if they want to wear them, they will only wear a wrench on their thumbs, and most of the wrenches are made of jade.

On the other hand, the phalanx is not only wearing a slender silver ring, but also on the middle finger, which is an exclusive ornament and wearing method for women.

With this reasonable explanation, everyone continued to get busy again, only Pei Shu and the old official tacitly glanced at each other and were silent.

Both of them could see clearly that the direction that Chen Ying was pointing in was not a hand bone, but a position like a pelvis.

Depending on the shape of the pelvis, can men and women be cut off?

Pei Shu's gaze swept lightly from Chen Ying's body, while the old official looked pensive.

Chen Ying, who was carefully observing the bones, knew nothing about it.

The work of sorting out the bones went well, and soon the bones were all gathered in a black cloth.

Chen Ying now knows that this black cloth is the body bag of the Great Chu Dynasty.

When the bones were gathered, a low-ranking official stepped forward, rolled them up, and prepared to carry them away for a while.

Pei Shu slowly walked to the front of the corpse salvage, opened it into the cabin, and asked, "Why don't you see the stone lock?" ”

Just now they clearly said that there were still two stone locks attached to the iron chain, but now there were only iron chains, and the stone lock was missing.

"Back to my lord, the stone lock is stuck in that pit and can't be taken out." The young corpse collector said, his face slightly pale: "In order to separate the iron chain from the bones, the villain's uncle almost couldn't come back." ”

Pei Shu frowned: "You guys have been delayed for so long, just to get the stone lock?" ”

"Yes, sir." The corpse salvage showed a palpitating expression, and his face became more and more pale: "The bones of the corpse are very tightly entangled with the iron chain, and the villain and the uncle are afraid of damaging the bones, so they can only take turns to go into the water." Originally, the villains had planned to pry open the stone lock and scoop it up with the chain. I don't want that although the undercurrent is not big, but the trend is extremely strange, the villain's uncle was almost swept away, and the stone lock was too tight. After trying a few times, the villains couldn't do it, so they had to think of untying the chains and bringing them up. ”