Mu Yirong ordered someone to erect a long board at the ashes, and then he lifted up the two outer robes in front and back of himself and tied them around his waist, so as not to stir up the ashes on the ground when he walked.

Seeing this, Ruicao hurriedly followed suit, wanting to lift her long skirt, but Mu Yirong was so frightened that she clamped her hand.

Prince Nineteen, please watch the play, Mu Yirong and Seocho are both dressed in casual clothes, Seocho followed Bao'er's advice and wore a very cumbersome long skirt, which has now become a burden.

Mu Yirong, who smiled bitterly, knocked on Seocho's little brain melon and asked her what she thought, how could a girl's family casually lift her skirt outside in front of so many people?

"I'm wearing pants underneath. ”

"That's not going to work either. ”

"Then how do I get in and see the corpse?"

"When I'm done, I'll order someone to carry the body out, and you can check it out. ”

"No, I'll have to go inside the ashes and take a look. ”

After Seocho finished speaking, he broke free of his hand from Mu Yirong's hand, and then lifted the outer skirt and tied it with the petticoat inside on both sides, like a swimming ring, hanging on his knees.

Then, her snow-white embroidered shoes stepped on the wooden planks laid on the ground and walked towards the center of the ashes.

Three temporary roads were erected on the ground with wooden planks, one was occupied by Seocho, one was occupied by Mu Yirong, and the remaining one was prepared for the eldest prince and others.

However, the prince ordered that no one be allowed to approach the ruins of the burned stage except for the wooden squire and the pavilion chief of Dali Temple.

Seocho, who was quietly squatting on the wooden board, pulled off the handkerchief pinned to his chest and tied it around his mouth and nose behind his head, then lowered his head and began to examine the body carefully.

The corpse was charred black, the facial epidermis was visibly cracked, and there was a slight curled up into a fist fighting posture, but it was not serious.

Seocho carefully observed the outer corners of the corpse's face, and then pried open the corpse's mouth to check, then pointed to the ground under the corpse and asked Mu Yirong, who was squatting next to him, what can he see?

Mu Yirong held a branch that he had picked up from nowhere, and gently lifted the side of the corpse, revealing the obviously clean ground and a large piece of complete clothing.

"Cremation after death. ”

Mu Yirong and Seocho spoke in unison, preliminarily concluding that the body in the ashes of the stage was cremated after death, so the next step was to deduce the identity of the corpse.

Due to the severe burning of the surface of the corpse, the facial features are no longer visible at all, but it can be concluded that it should be a male corpse.

The nineteenth prince disappeared on the stage, and many searches failed, but the stage was inexplicably on fire, and there was a burned corpse lying underneath, which could not help but make people think.

At this time, the sky was already very bright, and the people standing on the periphery gradually saw the corpse lying in the ruins of the charred stage.

Liu Qingyan, who covered her mouth all of a sudden, looked at the eldest prince with very uneasy and frightened eyes, and tried her best to lower her voice: "Could it be ......?"

The soft-legged Ministry of Works, Tuntian Lang Nachar, almost spit out the name of the nineteenth prince from his mouth, his body was crooked, leaning on the body of his friend Ma Anyuan, as if he had lost his soul, and muttered: "No!

Even if the Nineteenth Prince is unreliable, he will not get a corpse and throw it on the stage and set it on fire to tease them.

Ma Anyuan also felt that he was about to lose his position, and wanted to take two steps forward and ask Mu Yirong and Ruicao, was the charred corpse lying on the ground the nineteenth prince Xuanyuan Yang?

But he really didn't move, his feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

Mu Yirong and Ruicao, who were inspecting the corpse, did not flip the back of the corpse to check, but first observed the ashes around them.

The stage made of wood had been completely unrecognizable, and the planks were all burned to black charcoal and scattered on the ground.

The thick black ash covered the ground, as if the ground had collapsed into a huge deep pit, which was dizzying.

Staring at Seocho near the head of the corpse, the corpse's face seemed to be sprinkled with combustibles, which was likely to be the point of fire.

Mu Yirong Road stage caught fire quickly, and the fire was very large, which was difficult to extinguish, and it may have been splashed with things that supported the combustion.

Raising her nose and sniffing around, Seocho said that she did not smell the smell of oil smoke such as tung oil, nor the residual smell of sulfur or saltpeter, so she could not guess what the combustible substance was.

During the Tang Dynasty, there was a Taoist priest who made alchemy and accidentally discovered a black powder that ignited when it caught fire, and even exploded, so as to invent gunpowder.

With gunpowder in hand, some craftsmen began to have the idea of using this explosive effect to be used in warfare.

As a result, a prototype of a firearm filled with gunpowder and gravel in a long bamboo tube appeared, and it was successfully applied to the battlefield.

However, this firearm, called the "assault rifle", has a range of only 150 paces and is not lethal at all.

In addition to the fact that the movement is very loud and can scare the timid people enough, hitting people is not much stronger than the deterrent power of tickling.

Later, some people brought advanced Western firearms to the Central Plains, and the assault rifle completely withdrew from the stage of history.

It's just that the craftsmen are still continuing to study such things as firearms, but they have not achieved much success.

However, in terms of gunpowder, there are many craftsmen who have played a lot of tricks.

During the Tang Dynasty, someone invented a novelty called "blasting rod" to celebrate the new calendar and avoid evil spirits in the mountains.

Later, it was renamed "firecrackers" and developed to welcome the gods and celebrate marriages.

Since then, gunpowder that supports combustion and has a blasting effect has been widely used.

For incineration of the stage, gunpowder is the best choice. However, there was no smell of gunpowder burning around the ruins of the stage, which reminded Seocho of the substance that used homemade special powder to create a rich white smoke during the previous performance of the Hu Ren illusionist.

It is possible that the combustibles used to burn the stage and the corpse were also specially made.

In this regard, Mu Yirong and Seocho are not experts, so they need to put away some of the ashes left over from the on-site incineration, and ask the craftsmen who study gunpowder to analyze it.

Seocho and Mu Yirong, who had returned their gaze to the corpse, reached out and gently lifted the side of the corpse.

The back of the corpse was also visible with intact skin, as well as large pieces of clothing, and clean floors.

Looking at the fragments of the moon-white hot silver lotus pattern robe that were clinging to the back of the corpse, Mu Yirong and Seocho glanced at each other, and they all frowned suddenly.

Standing not far away, the big horse An Yuan looked at the ruins of the stage with his feet crossed, and he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise when he saw the fragments of clothes left on the back of the corpse.

When watching the play today, the nineteenth prince was wearing a moon-white robe with a silver lotus pattern, and he also flatteringly said at that time that only when the nineteenth prince wore this dress, he would have an elegant and not tacky taste.

Nowadays, this kind of bronzing and silver clothes are very popular, and the long skirt on Seocho's body is also hot silver.

Although the bronzing technology has been very mature, but the cost is too high, the average person wears bronzing clothes, but only the gilding edge pattern at the mouth of the leader, and rarely the whole robe is bronzing in a large area. Not only is the price high, but also the bells and whistles, but also too dazzling, walking in the bright sunshine, like a pile of gold and silver into fine, can blind people's eyes.

So far, in the entire Shangjing City, Ma Anyuan has seen two people wearing this kind of bronzing and silver clothes.

One is the second prince Xuanyuan Chen, and the other is the nineteenth prince Xuanyuan Yang.

And the only person he had ever seen wearing such a moon-white hot silver lotus pattern robe was the nineteenth prince.