"good."
The news of the Xu family's successive deaths had already caused a great stir in Yulin, and now that someone was going to dig up the Xu family's graves, the whole city was in an uproar.
Many curious people flocked to the Xu family ancestral graves.
In the past, digging up someone's ancestral graves would have been condemned by everyone, scorned by the world, and would have created a blood feud.
Su Ruojin, claiming to be a cousin of the Xu family, wanted to exhume the bodies and examine the corpses to find out the cause of death of the Xu family members.
Furthermore, since most of the Xu family members had already died, the relatives from the collateral branches were even more afraid of getting involved with the Xu family at this time and causing trouble for themselves, so no one would step forward and no one cared about this matter.
The Xu family ancestral tombs were surrounded by layers of local people.
When this reached Tong Mingshan's ears, he smashed his teacup. "Nonsense! Zhao Ruojin is just a woman, not a member of the Xu family, and not a coroner. What right does she have to examine a corpse! Go, send someone to stop her! We can't let her examine the corpse!"
The cause of death of the Xu family members is now causing a great stir in Chongqing. Everyone says it was a sudden death, a punishment for offending the water god.
But only Xu Mingshan knows the true cause of death of the Xu family members. If it were to be revealed...
No, we absolutely cannot let her perform the autopsy!
Tong Mingshan remembered that Zhao Ruojin's maid had a medical certificate.
In the Great Chu, anyone with a medical license could serve as a coroner, but not everyone who served as a coroner necessarily had a medical license.
After all, in many people's eyes, being a coroner is not a good job because they deal with the dead all the time. People with medical licenses only go to clinics to see patients, so who would want to be a coroner for no reason?
Moreover, the results of a medical examination are equivalent to those of a coroner's autopsy and are valid in court.
Wearing a veil and a face mask, Su Ruojin arrived at the Xu family ancestral graves. According to tradition, she asked someone to perform some rituals and set up a tent to show respect for the deceased members of the Xu family.
Then the people they hired started digging up some of the newer graves, revealing the coffins inside.
"Open the coffin!"
"Don't open it!"
No sooner had Liu Jing finished speaking than someone spoke up to stop him.
A group of yamen runners rushed in, and the leader roared, "Who gave you permission to open the coffin? Did you get permission from the government?"
Su Ruojin snorted coldly, "I am a member of the Xu family. If I have doubts about the cause of death of a member of the Xu family, what's wrong with me asking a licensed doctor to open the coffin and conduct an autopsy?"
The constable sized Su Ruojin up and down. "You say you're from the Xu family, but do you have any proof?"
If one is not a member of the Xu family, opening someone else's coffin without authorization is a serious crime.
Su Ruojin calmly took out a jade pendant and had Yanlu hand it over.
The yamen runner took the jade pendant and examined it; it was engraved with the character "Xu".
Someone in the crowd spoke up, "This is a Xu family brand; I've seen it before."
Generally speaking, each family has its own emblem, which may be a jade pendant, a wood carving, or a gold or silver ornament. These emblems or marks are engraved on the family emblem to prove their identity.
Since Su Ruojin has the Xu family token, she must be a member of the Xu family.
"Who are you to the Xu family? I've never seen you before." The constable held the Xu family token in his hand, his tone full of disbelief.
"I am the daughter of Xu Jinling, the second wife of the Xu family. My mother married far away to the capital and recently passed away from an illness. Before she died, she hoped that I could return to the Xu family to visit, so I brought my mother's jade pendant to Yulin."
Unexpectedly, upon arriving in Yulin, they discovered that almost the entire Xu family had perished. The Xu family's tragic deaths were highly unusual. Fortunately, the maidservant of the commoner possessed a medical license and was eager to exhume the bodies to investigate the cause of death.
Moreover, if the deaths of members of the Xu family due to some epidemic are not dealt with promptly, thus endangering the people of Yulin, then that would be a sin on the part of the Xu family.”
As soon as Su Ruojin said this, the onlookers subconsciously took a few steps back.
Epidemic?
Who isn't afraid of disease these days?
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