Yu Jiao said calmly, "Go on."
Chou Ge'er breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "The two people who practiced suturing had long ago asked me to help them keep an eye out for pregnant corpses. It just so happened that the dead woman was already four or five months pregnant, and the fetus was just formed, which met the requirements of the two people. So I sent them a letter, and the two people went to the charity cemetery at night, cut open the abdomen to take out the fetus, and sewed up the belly of the dead body. They used the same knife you are holding to cut open the belly of the dead body."
Knowing that Yu Jiao was interested in the knife, Chou Ge'er said it specifically.
"Is it also this kind of knife? Or this one?" Yu Jiao asked quickly.
Ugly Brother shook his head, "Of course it's not mine, but it looks the same as this one. I've seen their knives, and they're not as sharp as mine, nor are they as finely forged as this one."
They are not the same ones. How come Taiyan has so many scalpels? Yu Jiao narrowed her eyes slightly. She was puzzled. Could it be that someone had traveled to Taiyan before her and happened to be a doctor? Otherwise, how could scalpels be so popular in Taiyan?
"Then what kind of needle did they use to sew?" Yu Jiao asked.
The ugly boy replied, "It's the silver needle that ordinary doctors use, but it's a little thicker and thinner than the iron needle used for sewing."
Yu Jiao was confused. If they were doctors from another world, they shouldn't use ordinary silver needles during suture operations. Although silver needles are soft, scalpels can be smelted from wrought iron, so they should be able to make angle needles and round needles.
Yu Fuling pulled Yu Jiao's clothes and whispered, "Yu Jiao, how can there be people in this world who would perform a cesarean section to remove a fetus?"
Yu Jiao was also full of doubts. Just from what Chou Ge'er said, it was clear that the two men who went to the charity cemetery to practice did not know how to perform a caesarean section. They learned the method from somewhere and were still in the stage of learning and researching it.
It is also possible that they are not learning. If they are doctors from another world like her, it is also possible that they practice on corpses first because there are no surgical instruments and sterile conditions.
When Chou Ge'er saw Yu Jiao's reaction, he suddenly understood that she must recognize this shape of knife.
For a moment, Chou Ge'er was a little confused, and then he remembered that Yu Jiao had examined him and bandaged his abdominal wound. If a close relative of his family was not a doctor, then she was also a doctor. Could it be that she happened to know the people from Baoyaotang?
Ugly Brother's heart was in a knot when he heard Yu Jiao ask, "Then how did you become a wanted fugitive?"
When Chou Ge'er said this, he couldn't help but spit. "It's really unlucky. Who would have thought that the female corpse was not a maid at all, but a concubine that the official kept outside and doted on. After the mistress of that household knew that the concubine was pregnant, she was afraid that the official would marry her into the mansion and dote on her. So she took advantage of the official's long trip and took people to inject arsenic into the concubine, killing two people with one corpse. Then she ordered people to send it to the charity cemetery overnight to create the illusion that the concubine had left without saying goodbye."
"Who knew that the official was worried that his mistress was pregnant, so he returned to the capital early. When he found out that the mistress was missing, he knew that the wife at home was jealous, so he carefully questioned the servants at home, and after beating them severely, he got the clues and found my charity cemetery." Ugly boy said angrily, "It's the mistress who was stupid. How could a pregnant woman leave without saying goodbye?"
Ugly boy sighed and said helplessly, "The official found the funeral home, hugged the body of his concubine and cried bitterly. It seemed that he had a deep love for the dead woman. He said he wanted to take the body back and bury it properly. He felt sorry for his unborn child, so I had to let him take the body back. Maybe the official felt sorry for the child he had never met, and in grief he lifted the shroud and took a look at the belly of the dead body..."
"Anyway, soon rumors started to spread that I ate dead fetuses and was a mad monster. The officials went to the funeral home and said that I had done something sinister to the dead and destroyed their bodies, and they wanted to arrest me and punish me. If I was caught by the government, they would definitely chop off my head in order to quell the rumors and appease the weird speculations from the outside world."
Yu Jiao and Yu Fuling both had indescribable expressions on their faces. They didn't expect that so many stories would be involved later.
Ugly Boy scratched his hair and complained, "The two men who practiced sewing had poor skills. They cut open the woman's belly and sewed it up with crooked threads, like a centipede. Not only was it ugly, but the stitches were also thick. It was also my fault for being so kind that I removed the stitches they used and stuffed the dead baby back into her belly. I also helped to sew it up to make it look better, so I couldn't bury the body early. Otherwise, when the officials came to my house, the body wouldn't be there. In the end, I became the scapegoat."
It's cold today, so the body can be preserved longer. If it were summer, the body would rot quickly and the traces of sutures might not be visible, Yu Jiao thought.
She was very curious about the identity of the person who went to Yizhuang to practice Caesarean section surgery, so she asked, "Why don't you tell the truth to the government and let them find the real culprit?"
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