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The tomb of Widow Zhou is on Changze Mountain in the eastern suburbs of Dongyin County.

The carriage left Quzhai along the barren, broken and rugged road, crossed another bridge, and entered Dongyin County.Shi Feng, Shi Yun and Yan Qinghai were already waiting by the bridge.Waiting for Xie Xuan's carriage to come, he quickly followed.

The news that Qu Qiyuan did not commit suicide, but was killed by Qi Wu, has already spread after several hours of deliberation.I also heard that in the afternoon, the tomb of the widow Zhou will be dug again, and the autopsy will be performed again. The people of Dongyin County have already guarded the vantage point to see the truth.Seeing that the convoy was heading towards the eastern suburbs of Dongyin County slowly, the daring ones followed immediately.The timid ones also grouped into small groups and began to talk about it.

The object of discussion is Chen Chaoyan.

As for the content of the discussion, it is not enough.

Although Widow Zhou was the victim, her cause of death was particularly disgraceful in the feudal era.Therefore, compared to Qu Qiyuan's cemetery, which is crisp and spacious, hers is quite desolate.

After the convoy stopped on the official road, looking around, it was full of weeds that were taller than people.Zhechong soldiers finally cleared a road with their swords, but they couldn't find her grave.After cleaning up all the weeds around her, but still couldn't find her grave, Shi Feng simply ordered someone to forcefully call her son Zhou Zhiping and nephew Zhou Zhigang over.Even so, after Zhou Zhiping and Zhou Zhigang arrived, they also searched for a while before finding her grave.

Originally, after finding Widow Zhou's cemetery, she should report to Xie Xuan immediately.But after wiping the sweat off two handfuls of his forehead with the handkerchief Shi Yun handed over, Shi Feng couldn't help but took a few steps over and kicked Zhou Zhiping, "Your mother never treated your siblings badly before she was alive. After she left, this is how your sisters and brothers treated her!"

Zhou Zhiping was silent.

But Zhou Zhigang murmured indignantly: "Whoever gets such a mother, don't stay far away."

When Shi Feng heard this, he couldn't help but also kicked him twice, "What's wrong with such a mother, is she willing to suffer this crime!"

Zhou Zhigang rubbed his thigh and fell silent.

Shi Feng couldn't hold back his anger, "You two just wait there! I'll take care of you slowly after Miss Chen comes up to finish the autopsy!"

Zhou Zhigang wanted to mutter again, but Shi Feng gave him a cold look, which made him shut up awkwardly, and reluctantly dragged Zhou Zhiping to the place he designated.

And Shi Feng didn't have time to take care of them anymore.After quickly walking down to the official road and telling Xie Xuan that he had found Widow Zhou's tomb, before he got out of the carriage, he quickly took out Shi Yun's handkerchief and wiped the hot sweat from his forehead again.When Xie Xuan got off the carriage, he suppressed the heat again, and quickly led the people towards the hillside.

The tomb of Widow Zhou is a small mound.

Several Zhechong soldiers used less than a cup of tea to dig out the bones that were only wrapped in a broken straw mat.

Obviously, seeing the broken straw mat, Shi Feng was pissed off again.But because of Xie Xuan, he didn't have an attack, he just stared fiercely at Zhou Zhiping and Zhou Zhigang who were in the distance.

Qu Qiyuan was protected by a coffin, but only a pair of bones remained.Widow Zhou only had a broken straw mat, and it was even more unbearable.

Chen Chaoyan put on protective clothing, a mask and gloves, and carefully entered the new mud. It took more than half an hour to pick up the scattered bones.Then, it took more than half an hour to put all the bones together on the newly spread bamboo mat to form a complete skeleton.

And at this moment, it was the end of the unitary hour.

The evening glow dissipated, and the darkness descended.

The Zhechong soldiers lit the torches, and the fierce fire illuminated the area as bright as day.

At the end of the day, near where Zhou Zhiping and Zhou Zhigang stood, there were still people gathered in twos and threes to watch the excitement.These common people were either whispering or commenting, although it was not early, they were still full of energy.

And in the middle of the day, after Chen Chaoyan put together the skeleton, he didn't check it immediately. Instead, he asked the waiter to bring the case, and quickly passed it by the firelight before seriously checking it.

According to the records of the case, Widow Zhou was stabbed eleven times, all in the chest and abdomen.

The skin and flesh of Widow Zhou have melted away, leaving only the skeleton.Chen Chaoyan told Ruolan to get closer with the torch, after that, as usual, she checked her whole body first, and after making sure that there was no damage anywhere else, she set her eyes on the chest and abdomen.

Bones are scattered.

In order not to miss a trace, Chen Chaoyan could only pick up the bones one by one or check them piece by piece.Fortunately, the location has been enclosed, and soon, she found seven knife wounds on five ribs.

Asking the servant to bring Qu Wensheng's 'assailant' dagger, Chen Chaoyan began to compare.

Dagger. Seven inches long, curved and single-edged.

Although it has been idle for 20 years, it is still as bright as new.

Chen Chaoyan used the blade or the back of the dagger to carefully press it against the marks on the ribs.

Without exception, no matter whether it is a blade stab or a knife back injury, every trace can be perfectly matched.

That is to say, judging from the blade traces on the ribs, the eleven wounds on Widow Zhou's chest and abdomen were indeed from Qu Wensheng's dagger.

Although she was psychologically prepared for this result, Chen Chaoyan couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

Xie Xuan was standing next to her, seeing her frowning eyebrows, even though he had witnessed the whole process, he still asked: "The result is not satisfactory?"

"No." Chen Chaoyan answered casually, picked up one of the ribs, and looked at the light screen under the guise of observing the firelight.She wanted to see if there was bone marrow hyperplasia at the blade wound on the ribs, so as to judge whether it was an injury during life or after death.However, the rib section has long been polluted by mud, and even with a light screen, it cannot be fully seen.

I can only take it back first, and wait for the sun to come out tomorrow, and then judge according to the bone steaming method recorded in Song Ci's "Xie Yuan Ji Lu".Putting down the ribs, Chen Chaoyan walked towards the place where the bones were dug out, preparing to collect some soil under the chest and abdomen and bring them back for poison testing.

Ruolan held the torch and followed her closely.

Comparing to the corresponding place on Widow Zhou's chest and abdomen, Chen Chaoyan used a dagger as a pen, and circled the broken straw mat and the soil under the straw mat. Sliding on the broken straw mat to the calf.

Ruolan grabbed her hand quickly, and stopped the tragedy when the dagger was about to hit her calf.

Chen Chaoyan took a look at the position of the dagger and calf, said to himself twice, and was about to thank her when a light flashed in his peripheral vision.

Chen Chaoyan raised her eyes quickly.

But nothing was seen.

Although it was very possible that it was the light produced when the torch burst out, Chen Chaoyan still took the torch in Ruolan's hand, motioned her to stand aside, and squatted down to search one by one.

instantly.

An iron nail about an inch long, only as thick as two embroidery needles, was dug out from the torn edges of the straw mat.

Most of the iron nails have rusted, only the tail is still clean.It was probably because when Ruolan rescued her just now, the torch accidentally shone on it, causing it to reflect the light.

The iron nail shouldn't be short in the first place, because what she was holding was obviously the second half of it.

After wrapping the iron nails in a handkerchief and handing them to Ruolan, Chen Chaoyan started searching again.But this time, she searched for it for a long time but could not find it.Although she still wanted to continue searching, she gave up after taking a look at the sky outside.

On the corpse wrapped in straw mats, there was an iron nail... This is not normal no matter how you look at it.

Chen Chaoyan took the iron nail back from Ruolan's hand, looked at the torch for a while, and walked thoughtfully to the skeleton of Widow Zhou.

The position where the iron nail is found corresponds to the skull.

Returning the torch to Ruolan, Chen Chaoyan squatted down to lift up Widow Zhou's skull.

Widow Zhou's skull is very complete, and there is no visible damage on the bright side.

But the method of killing people with iron nails in the skull is a familiar story to her.Therefore, almost effortlessly, she saw a hole on the Baihui acupoint on Widow Zhou's skull that would be easily overlooked if she didn't look carefully.

The iron nails are all rusty and cannot fit into the holes.However, the existence of holes proves that the top of Widow Zhou's head was hit by iron nails.At the same time, the cause of Widow Zhou's death is also open to question.

Putting away the iron nails, Chen Chaoyan stood up and took two steps back, then said to Xie Xuan while undoing his gloves: "I'm a little tired, so I'll have people take all the bones back, and the other circle of straw mats and the soil under the straw mats are also gone." And take it with me, I will check it tomorrow."

Xie Xuan glanced at her shining eyebrows, then at the bones of Widow Zhou, and finally at the short nail in Ruolan's hand, and then gave her orders.

Before leaving, Chen Chaoyan paused, "Leave a few people here to guard."

Xie Xuan didn't need to order this matter, Zhechong soldier heard her words and arranged it by himself.In order to teach Zhou Zhiping and Zhou Zhigang a lesson, Shi Feng also called them over and ordered them to stay here.Zhou Zhiping was still silent, Zhou Zhigang wanted to resist, but he was afraid of chasing the soldiers, so he could only respond resentfully.

On the way back to Quzhai.

Chen Chaoyan took out the short nail again and handed it to Xie Xuan: "Can the rust on it be removed?"

Xie Xuan took the short nail, flipped through it twice, and asked her, "Is this the weapon that killed Widow Zhou?"

"I'm not sure yet." Chen Chaoyan said truthfully, "We have to wait until tomorrow to wash her bones, boil them with wine and vinegar for an hour or two, and then see which one is the knife wound on the ribs or the nail wound on the skull. Injury during life and wound after death. If the wound with the blade is the wound during life and the wound with the nail is the wound after death, then the dagger is the murder weapon, and vice versa."

"Steam with wine and vinegar?" Xie Xuan raised his eyebrows.

Bai Shao and Shi Shu also looked at her.

Chen Chaoyan glanced at the crowd, nodded calmly: "Yes."

Xie Xuan leaned back against the soft pillow, and asked with interest: "Tell me, what is the steaming method?"

Glancing at the crowd again, Chen Chaoyan curled the corner of his mouth intentionally, and said slowly: "Wash the bones and wrap them in a clean straw mat. Dig a pit a few feet larger than the bones, burn the pit with firewood and cook it in soy sauce." Then take out the firewood, pour in two liters of good wine and five liters of sour vinegar evenly, and then use the hot air to put the straw mat into the pit and cover it with something. After steaming for an hour or two, After the pit cools down, take out the bones, put them in the sun, and then use a red oil umbrella to block the sun for inspection. If you can see red bloodstains on the bones, it proves that they were injured during life, otherwise, they are injured after death.”

"Dissecting the corpse and boiling the bones." Xie Xuan smiled lowly, "Such a shocking thing, but the princess said it so casually, it seems that she has done a lot."

"Although not many, but not many." Chen Chaoyan agreed.The corpses that need to be boiled for bone examination are basically nameless corpses that have been dead for a long time, and their age cannot be judged based on their appearance.There are always one or two or three or four such corpses throughout the year.The number is indeed small, but it is indeed not small.

Bai Shao and Shi Shu really couldn't imagine the picture of steaming or boiling human corpses in a pit, so they looked at Chen Chaoyan's eyes, and felt a little more indescribable respect.

Xie Xuan glanced at the few people, twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, and handed the rusty short nail to Ruolan.

Back to the courtyard, it is past Haishi.

Chen Chaoyan numbly followed Bai Shao to go to the dark, bathed and changed clothes, went to Xie Xuan's main hall and had dinner together, then returned to the east wing room, soaked the straw mats and soil brought back with water, then fell down on the bed and fell asleep up.