Although he had some doubts, he should be fine in the official office of the Criminal Department, so Ran Yunsheng instructed Ran Yan to say a few words and follow Liu Qingsong to the side hall to rest.

Xiao Song and Ran Yan went to a small room in the southeast corner of the courtyard. As soon as the door opened, Ran Yan immediately smelled the strong smell of burnt atractylodes and soaphorn, and saw the smoke filling the room.

The light in the room was bright, and two figures trotted out of the smoke, stood still in front of Xiao Song, bowed and said, "Xiao Shilang, I have burned the atractylodes and soaphorns according to your wishes, and prepared ginger slices." ”

Only then did Ran Yan see clearly that the two of them were about thirty-five years old, and their skin was unnaturally white, which was a sign of long contact with the corpse, but they did not take protective measures.

They know rough medical knowledge, but the awareness of self-protection is not enough, most of the time they are just covered with a layer of cloth to get close to the corpse, and sometimes they don't even have this thin cloth, directly facing the corpse. Long was eroded by the ** gas of the corpse, so it presented a sick description.

Xiao Song stretched out his hand and waved the smoke, and said, "Are you ready, don't skip words."

"Ready." The two replied in unison, but their eyes secretly glanced at Ran Yan, thinking that it was strange enough for Xiao Songtang's squire to watch the autopsy in person, and he also brought his female dependents, not afraid of being scared out of something?

The two of them thought about it, but they had already dragged the prepared box in their hands and opened it in front of Xiao Song.

"You have injuries on your body, is there anything wrong with touching the filth?" Xiao Song turned his head to look at Ran Yan.

Ran Yan shook his head, "There are only bones left, there is not much ** gas, no big problem." ”

Listening to the conversation between the two, he was secretly surprised in his heart, and couldn't help but glance at Ran Yan again.

Xiao Song took out the mask, smock, and gloves from the box, handed the gloves and mask to Ran Yan, and shook off the smock to help Ran Yan put them on.

Ran Yan didn't care about it, because the tie of the blouse was behind him, and before the autopsy, he and his assistant helped each other tie the belt, and the next few times, it was also a habit to wear it in the evening. But the two servants widened their eyes, forgot even etiquette, and stared at Xiao Song's movements in disbelief.

Xiao Song glanced at them sharply, shivered, and hurriedly shrunk his neck.

The two helped each other put on their blouses, took ginger slices, put on masks and walked indoors together.

At this time, Ran Yan saw the situation in the house clearly, the place is not big, there are similar bookshelves on both sides, and small boxes are placed on them, the lighting in the house is particularly good, and the front wall by the south is not made of bricks and stones, but made of wood as a support, and pasted Korean paper with excellent light transmittance.

The low wooden platform where the corpse was placed leaned against the window, and Ran Yan squatted down and lifted the white cloth that covered it.

The skeleton placed on the platform, as Ran Yan had inferred when he first saw the calf bone, was about five feet five in height, and there were no birth scars in the pubic area of the female.

The bones looked intact, and the head was the one Ran Yan had been in the tree hole that day. But the flesh on the calf bone in the snow was completely invisible, and the bone was white, and it looked particularly eye-catching when placed in a pile of black bones. Is it because of the different places, so the degree of ** and weathering is also different? Or do they belong to two bones?

Ran Yan told Xiao Song this question and began to test.

Because of Xiao Song's presence, she naturally didn't dare to stop her movements, but seeing that Ran Yan had a calm face after removing the shroud, they faintly arrived at Ran Yan's profession, and they couldn't help but be even more surprised, because they had never seen a lady do a job, and what was even more strange was that Xiao Shilang seemed to be very unusual to this girl!

After carefully inspecting the condition of the whole body, Ran Yan began to conduct further examinations.

"The bone sutures on the limbs have basically entered the epiphyseal healing period, and the preliminary judgment is that the age is over 10 years old." As he spoke, Ran Yan took out a knife with a large and small hand from the toolbox, neatly shaved off the hair on the bones of the corpse, brushed away the remaining air-dried flesh, completely exposed the skull, and pointed at the gap between the two parietal bones in a sagittal position with the sword, and said, "The sagittal suture has not yet begun to heal, and it should not be more than twenty-two or twenty-three years old." ”

After a series of bone examinations, Ran Yan finally came to the conclusion, "The deceased was a woman, aged between seventeen and twenty-two, and had never given birth. ”

Ran Yan's heart moved, and he took a look at the healing degree of the left and right calves, although there were slight differences, but other aspects were consistent with the entire corpse.

"I returned this next to the head, and it seems that the cause of her death was not robbery." Xiao Song took out a hairpin from a box on the shelf next to him.

It is a silver hairpin, the whole is a soft curve that does not fluctuate much, the part of the hairpin handle is in the shape of Ruyi, inlaid with a red gemstone, and more than ten small jasper are inlaid around according to the shape of the pattern.

"This hairpin seems to be used only by women." Ran Yan said.

This kind of wishful shape and color is basically not used by unmarried women.

"I roughly estimated the price, this hairpin is worth about 30 yuan, it is made by Ping'an Building, and the selling price will definitely not be lower than 50 yuan." Xiao Song wore a mask on his face, revealing only a pair of bright black eyes with a slight smile.

Ran Yan continued her words, "There are traces on the bones of the deceased that are suspected to have been injured by a sharp blade, I just counted them, there are places, this is a bone injury, I am afraid that the actual trauma is more." ”

Ran Yan suddenly thought of something, Chai Xuanyi and his party were looted, but the robbers were not for robbing money, but for robbing sex? Or is there something else going on? glanced at Xiao Song, saw the affirmation in his eyes, and understood in his heart that he had already achieved this result.

After all, it was eight months ago that the crime happened, and it is impossible not to find the slightest clue.

"Do you want to meet Chai Xuanyi and Wenxi County Lord?" Xiao Song lowered his head and whispered in her ear.

Ran Yan moved, but hesitated, "Tenth brother......

"Don't worry, he won't." Xiao Song wrapped the hairpin in a plain cloth and put it in a small box, "Let's go." ”

Ran Yan no longer had any worries, took off the smock and other items on his body, and left the small room with him.

Out of the door, Xiao Song grabbed her and led her into the next room. It turns out that there are doors on both sides of this house, which serve as a passageway.

Out of the passage, Xiao Song asked, "Is there any big problem with the wound?" ”

"It's okay, don't be so nervous about a little injury." Ran Yan said and pulled his wrist out of Xiao Song's hand.

Xiao Song was a little lost in his heart, but he still said with great interest on his face, "Let's go, I have prepared a carriage at the east gate." ”

Ran Yan answered, followed him through the winding path, went out of the east gate, and sure enough, he saw a carriage waiting there. Xiao Song arranged everything so properly that Ran Yan couldn't help but start to suspect that he didn't actually need her to perform an autopsy, but just to send her away.

This suspicion made Ran Yan very uncomfortable, she was working with a serious attitude, not for fun.

"If you've been doing this for a long time, why are you looking for me to do an autopsy today?" Ran Yan stopped in front of the carriage, she didn't ask about this matter, and she was not happy.

Xiao Song felt Ran Yan's emotions, and he also paused, not explaining for a while.

"If it's to help me get around, it's completely unnecessary." After Ran Yan finished speaking, he seemed to feel that his tone was too stiff, after all, he was also thinking about her, so he added, "Although I appreciate your kindness, I don't like this." ”

"It's not." Xiao Song's original intention was not to help her, he just thought of her confident appearance when she performed the autopsy, so dazzling, so he thought of taking her with him when he solved the case.

He didn't mean to explain much about this.

"Let's go." Ran Yan was the first to board the carriage. She is not the kind of person who doesn't know what to do, Xiao Song is ready, even if it is just to help her send it away, she also uses her thoughts, and when she asks it, she just doesn't say that she is unhappy.

After the answer, you can advance and retreat next time.

Xiao Song was also a little angry in his heart, he tried his best to be good to her, but in the end, he was full of no!

It will be uncomfortable for anyone to put this matter on, not to mention, Xiao Song is not a person without a temper.

So after getting into the carriage, the two began a cold war, one was dead and silent, the other was like a volcanic eruption, and in the carriage merged into a terrible atmosphere, even the coachman who was driving the car outside felt chills down his spine.

Yongxingfang is very close to the government office, but Chai Xuanyi's house is very remote in the square, and the carriage is turning around in the alley, which is extremely unstable.

Calming down, Xiao Song found that his anger had already dissipated, especially when Ran Yan was still by his side, he had no other thoughts than wanting to get close to her.

Xiao Song endured it for a while, and glanced at Ran Yan with her back to him, leaning against the wall of the car with her back to him, and she couldn't tell if she was still angry from the small side.

At first, she couldn't pull her face, but her eyes fell on the white cloth around her neck, and when she saw a slight oozing blood, she suddenly stopped caring about her dignity, and hurriedly said, "Ah Yan, the wound is cracked." ”

Ran Yan said sullenly,". ”

"That's it!?" Xiao Song said angrily, said, moved to her side, and said in a consultative tone, "Don't go to see Chai Xuanyi, I'll send you home?" ”

"It's almost there, why don't you go?" Ran Yan turned around, looked at him and said, "It's just a little cracked, and it's not in the way." ”

Ran Yan's train of thought is that since Xiao Song kindly brought her here, even if it is useless, she can't hold back, she hates the kind of person who drags her feet and has more than enough success in her life.

Facing Ran Yan, Xiao Song felt that he didn't know where to use the strength in his body, and he couldn't always find out what she was thinking, and he felt a sense of heroic shortness of breath.

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