Dreaming back to the Tang Dynasty, I was working as a detective in Chang'an

I asked: "What about the bodies of Chen Ping and his wife?"

Wang Bin shook his head and continued: "Later, I returned to Chen Ping's house, but when I arrived, their house had been burned to ashes. I originally thought that if I could find the bodies of Chen Ping and his wife, I would bury them. So that they can be buried in peace, but I have been looking for them for a long time and couldn't find them. Maybe their bodies also turned into ashes with the fire."

Since the bodies of Chen Ping and his wife cannot be found, it will be very difficult to overturn the case of the Huier sisters.

Were the bodies of Chen Ping and his wife really burned to ashes, or were they moved?

The fat man said, "It seems we need to go back to the crime scene again. This time we must find out where their bodies are!"

I said to the fat man: "What can you do?"

The fat man said: "My ancestors left behind a steaming test method that covers the ground. Maybe you can give it a try."

I wondered: "How to test by covering the ground with steam?"

The fat man said: "Well, if a person is burned to ashes, then the person's grease will seep into the ground. Although it has been 8 years, the grease will not evaporate underground, so we can cover it with firewood. When it is burned underground, the grease will melt when exposed to heat, and it will seep onto the ground and form a human shape, so we can see whether Chen Ping and his wife were burned to ashes by the fire."

I asked the fat man: "But the Chen Ping family back then has become a ruined temple now. How can we find the place where they were killed?"

The fat man said: "Then burn it inch by inch, don't miss any place."

We rushed back to Wugong County overnight.

It was already dark at this time, and the ruined temple where Chen Ping and his wife were buried was shrouded in shadow in the night, full of a desolate and strange atmosphere.

Fatty and I found a lot of dead branches in the forest near the temple, and we planned to start the experiment from the innermost part of the temple.

We divided the house into four rectangular areas and lit them next to each other to see if there was any grease seeping out of the ground.

The dead branches were lit, making a crackling sound. The fat man muttered something in his mouth, as if he was chanting a curse.

We burned the first area for more than an hour, and we could already feel the scorching heat on the ground. After the dead branches were burned to ashes, we started to sweep up the ashes with a broom and put them in a sack.

There are no marks on the innermost ground.

Following the same pattern, we burned all parts of the house with dead branches and found that there was no change on the ground.

The fat man looked solemn and said: "It seems that the bodies of Chen Ping and his wife are not in this room. Their bodies may have been moved!"

I said: "There is another place that we did not burn." After saying that, I pointed to the strange statue in the room.

So the fat man and I moved the statue to another place. The statue was not as heavy as we thought. Although it looked like it was made of copper from the outside, it was hollow. We moved it easily. .

The fat man knocked on the statue and said to me: "I've always thought this statue is strange. It's neither a monk nor a secular person, but it's empty. I wonder what's inside it?"

"Let's burn the ground first to see if Chen Ping and his wife were killed here."

The fat man nodded and began to cover the dead branches on the ground and start burning them. The result was the same, there were no traces of grease on the ground.

I said to the fat man: "Since there are no bodies of Chen Ping and his wife here, they must have been removed. It is not easy to remove two bodies, and people will notice it, so they How were the bodies removed?"

"They didn't take away the bodies at all, but hid them in this statue."

"Ah, how is that possible?" I asked in shock.

The fat man pointed to the back of the bronze statue and said to me: "Look here, there is a round solder joint. This solder joint is different from other solder joints. This one was obviously welded on later. If I guessed correctly, the remains of Chen Ping and his wife must be here."

Fatty and I decided to open this statue.

As the fat man said, there were two corpses inside.

The two bones had turned into white withered bones. The fat man looked at the two bones carefully and said, "One of the two bones is a man and the other is a woman."

I asked in confusion: "With just two bones, you can tell whether they are male or female?"

The fat man said: "It's very simple to distinguish between men and women. Men have a larger frame, and their leg bones are thicker and longer than women's. Also, a woman's pelvis is wider than a man's, especially a woman who has given birth to a child."

I said: "Even if you can tell that the two skeletons are a man and a woman, there is no way to prove that these are Chen Ping and his wife, right?"

This is a high-tech job. In modern times, it is very simple. Just test the DNA and it will be ok. But this is in the Tang Dynasty. I can’t say to the fat man, follow me back to 400 years in the future. I will use Black technology tells you whether he is.

The fat man muttered: "I have a way!"

I was surprised: "What can I do?"

The fat man said: "The bone dripping method!"

I asked: "What is the bone dripping method?"

The fat man said: "We can let Chen Lan'er and Chen Hui'er prick their fingers and drop blood on the two bones. If they are their biological parents, the blood will seep into the bones. If not, it will not."

I asked: "Is this reliable?"

Fatty said: "This is the only way at the moment, and it's worth a try."

I said to the fat man: "Now we only need to find the person who made the statue, or find someone who can weld, and we will find the insider, and there will be a breakthrough in this case."

The fat man nodded and said, "Yes."

The fat man carefully wrapped the two corpses in cloth, took out a section of the bones from each, put the original bones back into the statue, and put the statue back in its place.

The metallurgical technology of the Tang Dynasty was already very developed. Even a small place like Wugong County had three blacksmith shops.

We quickly found out that when the temple was built, the statue was cast by the largest blacksmith shop in Wugong County, and the shop owner was named Chen She.