Cao Hanyu introduced: "Master Bu, this is Cui Xiao. She is a work of Dieshui County. Cui Chengzuo, this is Lord Bu, from the capital, the commander of the Jinyi Guard. ”

Cui Xiao gave Bu Chang a salute again.

Sure enough, it's a big official, how many grades of officials is the commander of the Jinyi Guard? I don't know, it looks quite majestic anyway, it should be not small, and there is real power.

Bu Changbei didn't care about saving people, he just made a gesture, no matter who the other party was, he would save it. But there was some surprise: "Your work in Dieshui County is a woman?" ”

"Yes." Cao Hanyu explained: "We are a small place, and it is difficult to find it. Cui Chengzuo's father is a local old man, Cui Chengzuo has been with his father since he was a child, and he has been exposed to it, and he is better than the blue, and his skills are exquisite, so he was left in the yamen by me, and it can be regarded as a son inheriting his father's business. ”

So that's the case, Bu Changbei nodded.

It is understandable that it is really difficult to find a job, it is not a profession with a good reputation, but it has high requirements for people's abilities in all aspects, and they are bold and careful and knowledgeable.

Those who don't have the ability can't do it, and those who have the ability don't disdain to do it.

Not to mention, in his brocade guard, he always felt that there was a lack of a good work, but he couldn't find it.

But a maid is ...... Bu Changbei didn't say anything, just said lightly: "You guys do things as usual." ”

A leader's posture at the end.

Cao Xian ordered everyone to do things, and he followed Buchang to the north step by step.

Before leaving, Bu Changbei glanced at Cui Xiao again, but didn't say anything.

must have recognized the wrong person, Cui Xiao patted the ashes on his body and beckoned to the officer: "Brother Zhao, Brother Qian, come and take a hand to move these two corpses out, be careful." ”

Two officers came to help, whispering as they worked.

Dieshui County is away from the capital to say that it will take seven or eight days, the embroidery workshop was on fire in the middle of the night yesterday, and it burned until the early hours of this morning, the fire has just been extinguished without a stick of incense, and the people in the capital have arrived. Then they obviously didn't come for the fire. I just happened to meet him.

What did the people from the capital do? Could it be that something happened, a bigger case than the fire in the embroidery workshop that killed dozens of people?

Cui Xiao didn't know that her grade was not good enough to care about such a lofty thing, just do her job well.

She and the officer continued to clean up the body.

Busy until dark.

In autumn, the weather is dry, and countless cloths and silks are piled up in the embroidery workshop, as well as coal and wood hoarded for winter, all of which are flammable and flammable things, if it does not happen to rain heavily, this fire will not be extinguished for a while.

The largest courtyard was cleared, and the corpses were neatly laid out.

There were thirty-two corpses in total.

Bu Changbei stood aside with his arms crossed: "Pingxin Embroidery Workshop, how many people are there in total, but there is a roster?" ”

Cao Xianling said embarrassedly: "I think there is a roster, but a fire has burned all of them, and I really can't find it." But thirty-two are the number of the greatest. ”

Cao Xian Ling took out a self-made roster.

"What is this?"

This is based on the memories of the surrounding people. The embroidery workshop has been opened in Dieshui County for several generations, and the embroidery lady and the embroidery workshop shopkeeper hired in it are all familiar to the surrounding people, so this number of people should not be wrong. ”

There are not only the number of people, but also the name, gender, and age, and there may be errors, but there will not be much error.

Buchang North took the roster and looked at it.

Bao Maodian, the shopkeeper of the embroidery workshop, has a family of five, two husband and wife, an old mother, and two children, one is three years old and one is six years old.

The housekeeper Pu Xiangdi, the cook and the maid, plus the embroidery girls and workers in the embroidery workshop.

Thirty-two people, thirty-two corpses, one not many, one not many.

Bu Changbei groaned: "Although this is right, can you be sure that these thirty-two corpses are the thirty-two people in the embroidery workshop?" ”

Cao Xian Ling was blocked for a moment, and lowered his head and said, "This is really not guaranteed." ”

If the body can be recognized, the surrounding neighbors will be able to recognize it. But now there are only a dozen corpses that can be recognized by faces, and the rest are already charred and blackened, even the most familiar people cannot be recognized.

For the living, many people here have a way.

For the dead, there is only a whim.

But after all, it is just a work, not a god.

Bu Changbei walked up to Cui Xiao's side: "Miss Cui, you may be able to tell whether these corpses died in the fire, or were they already dead before the fire?" ”

Buchangbei's suspicions are clear.

These people were burned to death. Or was he killed and then set on fire?

Cui Xiao sighed, she was not tired, but a little tired.

Thirty-two big cases at a time, even if she has never encountered it for many years, even if there is, it is impossible for her to be busy alone. In the yamen, can't a ministry really be established?

"Back to my lord." Cui Xiao said: "I have examined twenty-two corpses, and these twenty-two corpses have soot in their mouths and noses, and they were indeed burned alive. But ......"

The most terrible but, the most hopeful but.

Cui Xiao said: "But these people were not burned to death in a normal state. ”

Buchangbei hurriedly said: "What do you say?" ”

Cui smiled and said, "My lord, look at the eyes of this corpse. ”

The corpse in front of Cui Xiao is one of the better among the many corpses, and it is also one of the few corpses that can see the face clearly. But the clothes on his body were all burned, his hair was burned, and his face was charred flesh. said that he could see his face clearly, but he also saw it very reluctantly.

Because most of the corpses no longer had facial features on their faces, only a mass of charred black charcoal.

Cui smiled and said that looking at the eyes, everyone looked at the eyes of the corpse together, but they didn't see anything.

I only saw that it was a mess.

"I checked his eyes." The skin and flesh of the corpse's eyes were burned and glued together, and Cui Xiao used a tool to prop up the corpse's eyes: "The inside of his eyes is also very badly burned." ”

When everyone looked at it, it was true.

The eyelashes were burned, and the eyes were full of black ash.

Cao Hanyu couldn't help but say: "What does this mean? ”

Cui Xiao said: "It means that he once stayed in the fire with his eyes open for a while." ”

It can be seen that Cao Hanyu trusts Cui Xiao very much and only asks about the result.

But Buchangbei was different, he asked, "How can you see it?" ”

Cui said with a smile: "In the fire, due to the stimulation of smoke and out of the self-protection of the human body, the victim often reflexively closes his eyes, thus forming a "goose claw-like" change in the outer corner of the eye that is not blackened by smoke, which is called the outer corner of the eye fold. ”

Everyone listened to Cui Xiao with expressionless faces.

The local county commanders and errands are used to it, Cui Chengzuo is so professional, her judgment of the corpse is very accurate every time, but sometimes she can't understand what she says. Maybe it's because of the family history, after all, each line has its own unique technology, and it can't be asked.

I didn't say it when I asked people, it was called stealing teachers.

And Bu Changbei and the group of people he brought with him wanted to ask, but they were too embarrassed to ask, and when they asked, it seemed that they were not as good as the local errand soldiers.

So in the charred ruins, Cui Xiao continued: "And there is no soot and charcoal in the eyes. At the same time, because the eyes are tightly closed, only the tips of the eyelashes are scorched, which is called eyelash syndrome. These signs are signs of burn death. ”

But the corpse in front of him is obviously not.

Bu Changbei groaned: "You mean, this person is in the fire, watching himself being burned with his eyes open?" ”

"Yes." Cui Xiao said: "This is unreasonable, no one can keep their eyes open in the smoke and fire, unless, he can neither feel fear nor pain." ”

Before entering the fire, he was already a walking corpse.

This is not something that can be done by being bold, even if a person makes up his mind to let himself be burned to death, he should close his eyes and close his eyes, this is the body's protection of himself, not subject to human will.

Cui Xiao's words were obviously beyond everyone's cognition, or Bu Changbei was well-informed from the capital, and said, "In addition to burns, does he have any other external injuries on his body?" For example, being threatened. Or, what drugs he took before his death that made him insane. ”

Cui Xiao was quite surprised, but he didn't expect Buchangbei to have two brushes.