Naturally, it was not Xie Xuan's turn to order such a trivial matter.After Feng Shoudao gave an order, seven or eight yamen servants with various farm tools immediately stepped forward and dug around the grave.

The mound of graves is not big, but within a tea cup time, they were dug to the bottom.

Wang Fanniang's body was only wrapped in a straw mat.

Years passed.

The straw mats have long since rotted.

Even Wang Fanniang's bones had already turned into a pile of white bones, and as the grave was dug up, the sky suddenly appeared and scattered in all directions.

"There are only bones left, can we still find out the cause of death?" Yuejian asked while handing Chen Chaoyan a mask, gloves and other things.

Xie Xuan and Feng Shoudao looked at Chen Chaoyan one after another.

Chen Chaoyan didn't finish her sentence, "Try it and you'll know."

After putting on the protective clothing, mask and gloves that were made last night, Chen Chaoyan walked to the bones.After glancing at the bones scattered everywhere, she turned her head to let Chonglou lay a new straw mat. After that, she squatted in front of the bones and collected the bones scattered on the bright side from left to right and collected the small bones first. , and then collect the big bones one by one to pick them up, and then display them on the straw mat.

After that, after selectively collecting some of the soil under the bones, Chen Chaoyan took a small hoe and began to search for the clothes and belongings of the bones.

A few hoes went down, and a piece of jade pendant appeared on the ground.

Confirmed by Mrs. Zhao, the jade pendant is Wang Fanniang's personal possession.

Later, a few pieces of cloth were found.

Mrs. Zhao didn't know what clothes Wang Fan's mother was wearing when she died, so she couldn't make a judgment. Fortunately, Chen Chaoyan didn't give her hope of confirming everything.After collecting the clothes, Chen Chaoyan took a small hoe and dug around casually when he was about to stop.The crisp sound of the Jin Ge colliding and the shock of encountering a hard object made her dig around the hard object immediately after being stunned for a moment.

"This is..." The hard object appeared, and Chen Chaoyan was about to pick it up with a handkerchief, when Xie Xuan's cold and stern voice suddenly sounded above her head, "Don't move!"

Chen Chaoyan withdrew his hands, then looked up at him.

Xie Xuan's face was covered with frost, his gaze was like a sword, "Block Zhanghuang Mountain!"

Chonglou, Lingquan, and Nanling responded in unison, and disappeared in three directions like arrows in an instant.

"Master Feng." Xie Xuan spoke again, his voice was calm, but there was a hint of murderous intent, "Take your people and retreat to the Guanyin Temple. Without my king's order, no one is allowed to leave at will!"

After Feng Shoudao glanced vaguely at the hard object in front of Chen Chaoyan, he said yes in a deep voice, and quickly left the back mountain with everyone, including Huiyin.

Chen Chaoyan sensed that there was a difference in the atmosphere, and consciously stood aside.

"It's the tip of a pounding spear." Ruolan stepped forward, picked up the hard object, wiped off the dirt on the surface with a handkerchief, and said, "It doesn't have the engraving of the military inspector, it's a privately made thing."

Xie Xuan seemed to have known the result a long time ago, and said with an ordinary expression: "Keep digging."

Qingxue took a hoe and dug a circle around the grave mound, and then dug out two identical gun heads.

"Where there is iron ore, there is a workshop of the Military Weapons Supervisor." While Xie Xuan was looking at the head of the pounding pistol, Yue Jian quietly moved to Chen Chaoyan's side and explained to her in a low voice, "The Military Weapons Supervisor is in charge of weapon armor." Crossbow manufacturing is under strict supervision. From the entry of various minerals into the military supervision workshop to the quantity of minerals produced and the number of armored crossbows forged, there are detailed records. Each batch of armored crossbows will be numbered on the forging process , so that the responsibility can be assigned to the individual. In other words, as long as the armor and crossbows come out of the Military Weapons Supervision, they have numbers, and those without numbers are all privately made."

"According to the laws of the Great Wei Dynasty, privately manufacturing weapons is tantamount to treason, and the nine clans will be punished."

Chen Chaoyan looked at the tip of the gun in Xie Xuan's hand, and asked casually: "Weapons and armored crossbows are the sharp weapons of the country. Since the Military Weapons Supervision is the place where these sharp weapons are forged, the review of craftsmen must be extremely strict, and the requirements for forging must be extremely high. How about the forging process of these gun heads, can it be confirmed that they are from the Military Inspection Department?"

"It's from the Military Weapons Supervisor," Ruolan said.

"The workshop of the Military Weapons Supervisor has detailed data records for each process, so these gun heads came from another process?" Chen Chaoyan asked.

What she meant was very clear. Since iron ore was mined privately, and the iron ore was mined and then transported to the official mine, it was very possible to use the cover of the official mine to make weapons for private use.

However, private mining of iron ore can be said to be for money.

The nature of privately manufactured weapons has completely changed.

"These gun heads are all rusty, and it can be seen that they have been buried in the mud for at least three years." Xie Xuan held a gun head and said, "That is to say, at least three years ago, they had I'm making weapons privately."

The expressions of Ruolan and the others changed instantly.

Xie Xuan put away his coldness and murderous intent, looked at Chen Chaoyan, curled his lips and said, "Miss Chen, do you know why Wang Da buried these gun heads in the grave?"

Chen Chaoyan said: "Listen carefully."

"Miss Chen, have you heard of suppressing souls?" Xie Xuan glanced at the grave, then at the bones on the straw mat next to him, and said casually, "Suppress ghosts with fierce things so that they can't be reincarnated, let alone transform ghosts." harm."

Chen Chaoyan raised her eyebrows, glanced at the end of the gun in his hand, and then at the bones on the straw mat: Wang Da is still afraid of this?

"Man dies for wealth, and bird dies for food." Xie Xuan said quietly, "But this does not mean that he is not afraid. To punish the Nine Clans is not just talk."

That's right, Chen Chaoyan nodded.

"Privately mining iron ore, privately manufacturing weapons..." Xie Xuan muttered twice, then smiled, "Ms. Chen is indeed a lucky general."

Thank you, she would rather not, Chen Chaoyan remained silent.

Xie Xuan smiled lowly: "Miss Chen finished the inspection?"

Chen Chaoyan was silent for a moment, then said: "No, I have to go back and check again."

"Then go back." Xie Xuan said, handing the tip of the gun to Ruolan, and motioned her to keep it safe.

Just like that, the group went back to the Sheriff's Mansion.

As for how to deal with the aftermath, Chen Chaoyan didn't ask, and didn't plan to ask.So after returning to the Sheriff's Mansion, she went straight to the mortuary.

At noon, the sun was hot and dazzling.

After rejecting Feng Shoudao's proposal to have lunch first, Chen Chaoyan, with the help of old man Sun, spent more than half an hour in the sun outside the mortuary, reassembling the bones on the straw mat.

After finishing the fight, he walked two laps along the straw mat, squatted down under the red paper umbrella to pick and choose dozens of bones, and then said: "The deceased is female, aged between 32 and [-], tall and tall. It is about [-] feet [-] to [-] feet [-]. The occipital bone, ribs, sternum, spine, hand bones, and femurs have been broken to varying degrees. Judging from the fact that there is no growth on the fracture surface, it can be basically concluded that these are postmortem hurt."

"but……"

Chen Chaoyan picked out the temporal bone and the mandible and put them aside to make it easier for Xie Xuan and Feng Shoudao to observe more carefully, "Do you see the difference?"

Feng Shoudao said uncertainly: "This bone is white and clean, but these two bones are somewhat blackened and broken. Is this caused by... poisoning?"

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