Ou Xiuran hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Ye Caitang said: "We originally thought that what was buried here was a dead baby and a sick baby after the flower woman delivered the baby, and the baby with defects. But there can't be so many ......"

What can be sorted out, it can be determined that it is an independent skeleton, there are ninety-eight pairs.

Among them, there are 76 pairs of baby girls and 22 pairs of baby boys.

Ye Caitang divided the baby into two places, one side for the baby girl and the other for the baby boy.

The number of female babies is much smaller, compared to the number of male babies.

Ye Caitang said: "If it is the bones of an adult, it is easy to distinguish between men and women. But these newborn children are too small. I can't be sure of it, but I can only distinguish it slightly from their mandibles, and in the bones of children between the ages of zero and five, out of a hundred, there may be seventy to ninety. ”

But there is no way, there is no instrument here, and I can only distinguish it based on experience.

"That's enough." Xia Yue said: "The baby boy is about the same as we expected, only the dead baby and the baby with problems will be buried. ”

The difference is that there are too many baby girls.

Ye Caitang exhaled softly: "But all the baby girls, they were directly killed and buried, and they were not taken out." ”

That's why there are far more girls than boys here.

It may be because it can't be sold at a high price, or it may be because selling babies is a dangerous and illegal thing after all, and there is a risk of being discovered, and once it is suspected, it will be over.

If it is for huge profits, they are willing to take risks, but if they can't sell for a price, why take this risk.

For these children, I don't know if it's a blessing or not.

Unfortunately, they were born dead and didn't even have a chance to struggle. But even if they survive, this life will inevitably be difficult, and dying may also be a relief.

Xia Yue nodded lightly.

"I have ordered someone to block the exit of various waterways and dry roads outside Jiangzhou, and I will definitely arrest Hua Po and her comrades."

The life of a baby is also a life, there are so many lives in his hands, and there are blood stains, and a thousand cuts are not enough to anger the people.

Ye Caitang has been doing his best for the past two days and one night.

Xia Yue looked distressed: "You take a rest on the side first, someone ...... come"

A servant hurried over.

"Go find a carriage." Xia Yue said.

The officials hurried to go.

Ye Caitang sat on the side with his chin in his hands, looking at Bai Sensen's bones on the ground, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Xia Yue was instructing to invite a good Taoist priest or monk team to give these bones a superordinate master. Then according to the quantity, how many count, go to Baishipu to build a coffin, and then converge according to the rules, and then find Mr. Feng Shui to find a good place to be buried.

Hey, it's a pity that Xie Zhi didn't come along, otherwise he would have been able to do all these jobs and save a lot of money.

Ye Caitang looked at the bones, and then went to see the vegetable field.

Most of the bones were dug up in the vegetable patch, but there were a few that had not completely decomposed.

If everyone dared to get their hands on the bones later, only Ye Caitang dared to look at the highly decomposed corpses, and there was Xia Yue behind him, and then Ou Xiuran also gritted his teeth and came over.

But after Ye Caitang stuffed Xia Yue with a mask, before he could stuff Ou Xiuran with a mask, he ran to the side and vomited.

After throwing up, he came over again and threw up a second round.

However, Ye Caitang still admires him, he is a man.

The carriage had not yet come, and Ye Caitang's gaze stayed on the vegetable field for a long time.

The corpses, which had not yet had time to completely decompose, and had different degrees of decomposition, were placed near the vegetable patch. Everyone is a little afraid to approach that place, although this hurtful thing has nothing to do with the people here, but I always feel that the same adults are responsible.

It's as if all the people in the world owe these children.

Ye Caitang looked at it for a long time, then suddenly got up and strode over.

She thought of something she had just overlooked.

Xia Yue was instructing his subordinates to do things, but the corner of his eye kept signaling Ye Caitang, seeing that Ye Caitang suddenly got up and walked away, he hurriedly said a few words, and also walked over.

Ye Caitang walked all the way to the vegetable field, looked at the few words of rotting corpses, and then looked at the vegetable field.

The soil in this area has been completely cleaned, because some of the baby's bones are too small to be found without a fine sifting. And with tools directly, many of them will be smashed and shoveled.

Xia Yue walked up to Ye Caitang and didn't speak until her gaze retracted and fell back on a few babies that were not completely rotten, and then asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Ye Caitang frowned and said, "I think this flower woman and her accomplices don't just make money by delivering baby boys. They're still selling one thing. ”

"What?"

Ye Caitang said: "I was negligent just now, there is one thing missing from the corpses of these babies that have completely decomposed. ”

"What's that?"

Ye Caitang said: "Placenta." ”

Placenta, also known as Zihe car, is also known as coating or birthworth.

Ziheche is a very common traditional Chinese medicine made of placenta through drying processing, Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded: "In the pregnancy of children, the umbilical cord is tied to the mother, the fetus is the mother's spine, and the mother's shadow is formed, and the father's sperm and mother's blood are combined." Although the form of the day after tomorrow, he has the innate qi, which is obviously not comparable to his gold, stone, grass and trees. Its nourishing function is extremely heavy, long-term service deaf and clear, beard hair black, prolonging life".

Since ancient times, it has been regarded as a nourishing product.

Although the baby girl can't be sold at a high price, the placenta can, and the hospital will accept placenta medicine at a high price, and there are some folk home remedies, and some rich people use it to make medicine, thinking that they can prolong their lives and regain their youth after eating.

Male babies sell for money, female babies sell placenta, I have to say that Hua Po uses the value of people to the extreme. In their eyes, every baby can be exchanged for money, but no one is a living person.

The carriage finally came, and Xia Yue asked Ye Caitang to get on the car and go back to rest.

Before, he only arrested Hua Po and her comrades, but no one knew what Hua Po looked like and what her comrades looked like.

But now it is estimated that they have sold countless placentas over the years, where did they go? Pharmacy, or wealthy people? Either way, it's a new clue.

It is difficult to achieve such a scale with only two and a half old women, and the number of female babies is nearly 100, so how many people should be abducted and abducted, it is estimated that not only in Jiangzhou, but also in the surrounding areas, there may be victims.

On the way back, Ye Caitang was about tired and in a bad mood, so he leaned on the wall of the car groggily.

After a while, it seemed that Xia Yue also got into the carriage.

He sat down on the side and adjusted Ye Caitang's posture so that she could lean on himself and be more comfortable.

"Sleep for a while." Xia Yue pressed Ye Caitang's temple.

Xia Yue sometimes complains a little bit about Ye Ming, a daughter's family, why should she teach her the ability of autopsy, what to do, and face so many cruel and bloody things, isn't it distressing to be a father?

But if it weren't, maybe they wouldn't see each other again.

Well, it's not a bad thing.

"Hmm." Ye Caitang responded, lay down a little, pillowed his head on Xia Yue's lap, and closed his eyes.

Outside the carriage, Ou Xiuran rode aside, staring blankly ahead.

Hey, Xia Yue actually got into the carriage and took the carriage?

Hey, is this still the Xia Yue he knows?