Chapter 96 Autopsy
The corpses were piled up together. The ones at the bottom had turned into bones, but the ones at the top still had human shapes.
Sanfu glanced at them casually and pointed, "The ones next to the ones wearing blue cloth."
"Are you sure?" Chen Yu asked, tilting her head, worried that his finger was too casual.
"Sure." Sanfu said, "The clothes are still the same."
Fortunately, only a few days had passed, and there weren't endless deaths in Shengjing every day. Apart from the new corpse on the top, the ones below were the ones Sanfu mentioned.
Feng Yang called to the guards, "Carry the person up, be careful, don't bump into anything, or it might explode."
"Can this still explode?" Sanfu asked stutteringly.
"Do you want to see it?" Feng Yang was nonchalant and deliberately scared him, "When it explodes, your heart, liver, spleen, lungs and eyeballs will all fly around, just like flowers scattered by fairies."
Sanfu shrank his neck and waved his hands, "No, no, no, I'd better not watch it."
The guards were well-trained and they carried the bodies out carefully and laid them out in a row without changing their expressions.
Chen Yu frowned as she looked at the bodies on the ground, "Why are there only three? Where's the other one?"
"Huh?" Sanfu was also stunned. He looked around the mass grave again and said, "I didn't see the old man."
Chen Yu warned: "Watch carefully, if you don't watch carefully I will kick you down and turn you over one by one."
Sanfu was frightened when he heard this, and quickly hid behind Sixi, stretched his neck and said, "Look carefully, definitely look carefully."
Feng Yang nodded to Chen Yu to confirm, "The degree of decay and time of the rest do not match, and there are no signs of being bitten by wild dogs."
Chen Yu asked, "Didn't you say that all four were dead? You even came to confirm it yourself."
Sanfu was almost crying with fear. "I saw those men in black taking action and thought they must be all dead. How could there be one missing?"
Shen Yu frowned, but there was actually another possibility.
Sanfu didn't look carefully. When he saw people being killed, he thought everyone was killed. When he saw the bodies, he thought they were all here.
But what if that person didn’t die at all?
Or, what if that person is actually in cahoots with those men in black?
Feng Yang has already opened his toolbox.
White silk, cloth bags, gloves, bamboo strips, and leather bag chains are neatly arranged with various small knives, hammers, awls, etc. made of fine iron, which are used to dissect the chest and abdomen of corpses.
Once the autopsy began, Feng Yang's aura changed. He changed from being careless just now to being extremely cautious.
Everything was quiet, and everyone held their breath, afraid to disturb
Feng Yang.
Chen Yu squatted down in front of a corpse, staring at the corpse's legs in a daze.
Feng Yang noticed her actions and came over to check.
Chen Yu pointed at the corpse and asked, "Would a normal corpse swell like this?"
"The legs of this corpse are obviously more swollen than the other two. However, the degree of exposure of the corpse will also affect its decomposition. We have to touch it to know what is going on."
As soon as Feng Yang finished speaking, Xie Tingzhou's voice was heard behind him.
"What do you see?"
Shen Yu looked back at him, "I'm not sure."
Xie Tingzhou: "Just say it."
Chen Yu said: "I wonder if you have ever heard of the Three Absolute Legs?"
Xie Tingzhou nodded slightly, "The Three Unique Legs came from the Gui Family, and were also known as the Gui Family Three Unique Legs. But later on, the Gui Family was involved in a case and fell into disgrace, and the Three Unique Legs were lost."
He paused, "I heard that the Gui family chose to become bandits because they were dissatisfied with the court's decision, but it's just a rumor and can't be believed."
Chen Yu nodded, "The Three Absolute Legs have not been lost. The Hezhou Lu family has a guard who is from the Gui family, and the rumors that he became a bandit are also true."
Xie Tingzhou didn't know where these people came from, so he didn't understand the connection between them.
Shen Yu stood up and said, “The legs of these people seem to be different from those of ordinary people.”
She raised her hand and pointed, "The way the Sanjue Leg bandages are tied is also different from the other methods, but the swelling is so severe that the bandages are hard to see."
"How do you know so much?" Feng Yang asked without even raising his head.
When Chen Yu didn't respond, Feng Yang realized that there was something difficult to say, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Feng Yang had already started the autopsy. Xie Tingzhou grabbed her arm and pulled her to stand a little further away.
Shen Yu was so busy thinking that she didn't notice it.
She said: "If we could have discovered it a few days earlier, we could have seen whether it was the Gui family's Three Absolute Kicks. People who practice the Three Absolute Kicks have a stable lower body, and their legs are different from those of ordinary martial artists."
Feng Yang pressed his fingers over the calf and said with full concentration: "It is even stronger, and the calf is as round as a waist."
"That's right." Chen Yu said, "And the knees will also become deformed due to frequent leg training."
She has loved martial arts since she was young and wanted to try everything, but she would not touch the Three Unique Kicks because she thought it looked too ugly to practice the Three Unique Kicks, as her lower body would be as strong as a bull. As a girl, she still loved beauty in her heart.
Xie Tingzhou looked at her profile, and her pupils were reflecting the blazing torches.
When she got serious, her whole body emanated a dazzling light.
Feng Yang unzipped the corpse's clothes.
Xie Tingzhou took a quick glance and moved sideways to stand in front of Shen Yu.
Chen Yu came back to her senses and looked up at his face. When their eyes met, something touched her heart, causing her to turn away uncomfortably.
At this time, Feng Yang said, "The bodies of the three people are intact, with no wounds on their chests, abdomens, or backs. Only the wound on the neck is about three inches long and deep enough to see the bone. If nothing unexpected happened, the cause of death of the three people was a single knife to the throat, but we still need to autopsy to confirm it. You two should go to the carriage and wait. I will report the results after the examination."
"No need for a cesarean section." Shen Yu said.
Xie Tingzhou tilted his head and asked, "You came to the mass grave so late at night, don't you want to know the cause of their death?"
Chen Yu thought for a moment, "I came here late at night just to confirm the identities of these people. I don't care how they died."
"Then go back."
The bodies were thrown back into the mass grave and the group returned home.
Xie Tingzhou stepped onto the shaft of the carriage. When he entered the carriage, he suddenly turned around and said to Shen Yu, "Get in."
Chen Yu came here on horseback. She guessed that Xie Tingzhou must have many questions, so she threw the reins to other guards and got on the carriage neatly.
The carriage wobbled as it drove towards Shengjing City.
Chen Yu leaned against the wall of the car and told Xie Tingzhou all the information she knew.
"Bandits are rampant in Huaitang County. We have been encircled and suppressed several times over the years but have not been able to eliminate them. Qichang Prefecture, like Huaitang County, is not a prosperous place. There must be many bandits who have become bandits, but they have lived in peace over the years. I have never heard of banditry in Qichang Prefecture."
"There are two possibilities. One is that the government colluded with them and concealed the truth. The other is that they are righteous bandits."
There are two types of bandits. One type burns, kills, robs and commits all kinds of evil just to make money.
There is another type of people who have become bandits due to desperation, but they have not lost their conscience. They rob people out of necessity, so they mostly target evil bullies and wealthy people, and occasionally they will help the poor people around them.
There was such a group of bandits in the early years. The government recruited them because they had good intentions although they became bandits. Some of them were sent to the army, and some were given land to stay.
"Do you suspect they are righteous bandits?" Xie Tingzhou asked, propping up his head.
Shen Yu didn't know how to explain it. She always felt it was strange that the grain and grass were stolen in Qichang Prefecture.
A group of unknown bandits, whom even the imperial court did not want to suppress, suddenly dared to rob the imperial court's food and supplies. There was no gradual process at all.
Chen Yu suddenly opened the curtain and asked, "Where is Sanfu? Bring him over."
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