In the middle of the night, the entire fire was cleared, leaving nothing but a charred corpse.

Originally, Ye Caitang was asked to come over, because he was afraid that there would be a corpse in the fire that needed to be examined, but now only a charred corpse was found, and it was burned alive after being knocked unconscious.

But it's all here, and Ye Caitang is not in a hurry to go back.

Xia Yue must be here to guard the scene, and it is not interesting for her to go back alone.

So Xia Yue took a cloak and spread it on the ground for Ye Caitang to sit.

Ye Caitang sat on the cloak and watched the servants clean up, thoughtful.

After a while, Xia Yue walked over, and Ou Xiuran squinted at Xia Yue, who had always been cool, sitting down next to Ye Caitang and handing over a glass of water.

It turned out to be hot water.

This is the side of the fire, do you still need hot water? Ou Xiuran thought sourly, you are almost done.

Ye Caitang took it, he wasn't thirsty, he just held it in his hand.

"Sleepy?" Xia Yue said: "If you are sleepy, I will ask someone to send you back first, or find a farmhouse to rest?" ”

There are still a lot of people nearby, and it's easy to say that you can give money. As long as the money is in place, the whole family will be able to give you the room immediately.

"Not sleepy." Ye Caitang said: "I'm thinking about something. ”

"What?"

Ye Caitang said: "Here, the baby boy is in short supply, and it may need to be prepared in advance." What about a baby girl, if it's a baby girl, does anyone want it? ”

Xia Yue thought for a while: "If it's healthy, it's generally what people want." ”

"Are those who don't have girls who want to have both children?"

"It's not." Xia Yue hesitated for a moment and said, "Some Qinglou will look at those girls with beautiful eyebrows, buy them at a very young age, and cultivate them from an early age." There are also some families, if they have a son in the family, if they meet a girl who no one wants, they will also adopt one, and it doesn't take much to raise them, and if they are five or six years old, they can do things for the family, and when they grow up, they don't have to work hard to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

"Child bride?"

"Yes."

Ye Caitang sighed.

Xia Yue didn't know what to say, he knew that Ye Caitang had always been full of deep sympathy for women in terms of men and women, and was angry at the injustice suffered by women, but the world was like this, even he couldn't do anything.

Fortunately, Ye Caitang does not drill the tip of the horns.

Ye Caitang said slowly: "Hua Po has definitely done a lot of things to deliver pregnant women here over the years. Baby boys are sought-after, baby girls are sent away and someone takes them in, so ...... What about a dead or sick child? ”

Xia Yue was stunned.

"There must be." Ye Caitang said: "Hua Po prepared a baby boy for everyone who is willing to spend money, that is to say, when giving birth, she must do whatever it takes, as long as the other party gives birth to the child." For example, with strong oxytocic drugs, or other means, in this case, it is impossible for a baby to be unharmed. ”

Ye Caitang's gaze looked at a piece of land on the side of the charred house.

Xia Yue's face also changed slightly, and he got up and walked to the front of the field.

There was some vegetable planted in this field, and it was obvious that it was growing much better than the next place, and it seemed that more fertilizer had been applied on purpose than elsewhere.

Ye Caitang also walked over.

When Ou Xiuran saw it, he also walked over.

"What's wrong?"

Xia Yue frowned and shouted, "Come over a few people." ”

Immediately several officers came.

Xia Yue lowered his chin a little: "Dig up this piece of land." ”

Under normal circumstances, Lord Xia doesn't need to use his hands, just move his mouth.

But Ye Caitang was more natural, standing to the side with his arms crossed, looking like everything had nothing to do with me.

Xia Yue said to dig, and the official naturally didn't dare to slack off, so he dug it up, and the green vegetables were shaved everywhere.

Suddenly, Ye Caitang said: "Slow down, light, stop if you touch something." Probably not stone. ”

In a word, the official who hadn't thought too much about it suddenly became a little nervous.

There was a bold saying: "Not a stone...... What is that? ”

Ye Caitang pursed his lips, it's hard to say.

Xia Yue said: "Anyway, just be careful." ”

At this time, the sky was already a little cloudy, and the people who were working were sweating all over their bodies, and the wind was blowing, and they suddenly felt a little cold.

I was almost shouting the trumpet and working hard, but now I don't dare to work too hard, and dig carefully.

After a while, someone suddenly groaned.

"I seem to have touched something." The man stopped.

Several other diggers also hurriedly stopped.

The man carefully dug up a layer of soil and suddenly exclaimed, "There are bones." ”

Everyone exclaimed, but Ye Caitang and Xia Yue remained silent, and it was really the same as they thought.

All the dead babies, the defective ones that could not be sold, were buried in this vegetable patch next to the house.

The little baby is only a little bigger, and it digs a small pit in the ground and buries it, so that it does not alarm anyone.

But this is too cruel, stillbirths are just that, and many defective babies are not fatally flawed, they are all alive. Maybe a finger was missing, maybe it was a rabbit lip, or maybe they weren't good enough, they came into the world with a sound and stayed here forever.

Everyone looked at the small bones that had been dug up, the small bones were only the thickness of fingers, and the head was not even the size of a strong man's fist, and they all stopped talking.

Those who were afraid didn't know how to be afraid, and they looked at the bones on the ground one by one, and scolded the murderer for eighteen generations of their ancestors in their hearts.

You can be human, but you can't be so non-human. Are you really not afraid of going to the eighteenth layer of hell after death?

In the vegetable field, there is an indescribable smell, which is different from the fertilized vegetable field next to it.

Xia Yue said with a cold face: "Dig." ”

The officials continued to excavate.

This digging, digging for another two hours, Ye Caitang was not sleepy at all, put on gloves, and sorted out the bones dug out of the vegetable field.

It was all the bones of a newborn baby.

Some are long, some are closer, and some are not even completely rotten.

The stench comes from the corpse of a baby that is not completely decomposed.

The vast majority are female babies, with a few male babies.

When Ou Xiuran started, he looked at Ye Caitang putting together these bones, and his expression was very strange, but later he also joined the team to help.

Until noon the next day, all the vegetable patches and surrounding areas were dug up, sifted through, and the bones were dug up.

Ye Caitang finally put the last one together, but in fact, she didn't dare to guarantee that she was right.

Because there are too many, and they are all baby bones, they all look the same.

"It's done." Ye Caitang held his waist and wanted to stand up, but when he lifted his body, he only felt a pain in his waist and shook it.

Fortunately, in the next moment, Xia Yue immediately supported her.

Xia Yue held Ye Caitang's arm with one hand and pressed her waist with the other.

"You can't keep squatting like that." Xia Yue pressed Ye Caitang on his waist: "My waist can't stand it." ”

For the first time, I felt that it was not a good thing for my subordinates to work too hard, Ye Caitang sometimes saw that the work was running faster than anyone else, for fear that he would be caught if he took a slow step. Sometimes you can't shout anymore, and you can't drag it out.

"It's fine." Ye Caitang held his waist like a seventy-year-old man, looked at the bones on the ground and said, "Things are different from what we thought. ”