Chapter 98 How Can You Touch Me at Will?
"master."
The guard's voice suddenly sounded outside the carriage.
"We are already near the city gate."
Xie Tingzhou said "hmm" lightly, lifted the curtain and looked outside.
This was not the place where they rested outside the city last time they came to Beijing. The guards deliberately found a quiet place to camp near a forest.
Without being told, the guards got busy and soon found some dry firewood to light a fire, and then made some hot tea and sent it to the carriage.
Sanfu and Sixi huddled beside the fire. They knew that the person in the carriage was no ordinary person.
The two of them had secretly seen that person's appearance at the mass grave before. He was stunningly beautiful, with an innate aura in his every move. He was a person that they, the others, could never even touch even the slightest bit of his clothes even if they had to tiptoe around for their entire lives.
Si Xi reminded him, "The young master cut your hair today as a reminder. We should not ask about other things. Just take the money and do the work for the young master."
He lowered his voice and said, "You have seen what happened today. It is not an ordinary scene. You must take care of yourself. The lives and fortunes of our family of six depend on it."
Sanfu had been frightened by the previous incident and had lost all his courage, so he just nodded and said yes.
Shen Yu felt suffocated in the carriage, and more importantly, she now felt it was dangerous to stay with Xie Tingzhou.
He seemed to have a special power that could wear away people's will invisibly, making her feel that it was fine as it was.
But she still has a great revenge to take, and still needs to forge ahead.
"I'll go down and get some fresh air." Chen Yu didn't dare to look at him. She got out of the carriage and gently closed the door.
The guards sat around the carriage, and the bonfire was also surrounded in the middle.
Shen Yu looked around, found an empty seat and sat down, then began to sort out her thoughts step by step.
There are only two things that can be confirmed now, that is, the deceased is a member of the Gui family, and the Gui family has indeed become bandits. This is the news she knew when she was in Hezhou.
All the speculations and analyses that Xie Tingzhou and I had just made had no substantial evidence, but now the person is dead, and there is no evidence to show that the matter of their going to Beijing to file a complaint to the emperor was related to the robbery of grain and fodder.
But it’s not completely hopeless. Isn’t there still a survivor, the old man called Zang Shu?
A figure suddenly fell beside her, interrupting Shen Yu's thoughts.
Feng Yang sat down and asked, "Why did you come down? You need someone to serve you."
Shen Yu looked at him, "Why don't you go?"
"I can't do that." Feng Yang shook his head and said, "I have touched so many dead people with my hands, I dare not even touch your highness's cup."
Being a coroner is a menial job, a job that even the lowest classes look down upon. Ordinary people don't like to deal with the dead.
It is said that coroners with heavy yin energy find it difficult to have children, but that is just hearsay. The skill of Feng Yang's autopsy is passed down from ancestors.
Fortunately, he was always by Xie Tingzhou's side, and no one dared to look down on him.
Chen Yu looked at her hands in the firelight and murmured, "You probably haven't touched as many dead bodies as I have."
Feng Yang didn't believe it, "How many have you touched?"
"A few thousand?" Chen Yu thought for a moment and said, "Maybe tens of thousands."
Feng Yang was stunned. "Why are you touching so many dead bodies?"
"Looking for someone on the battlefield."
Feng Yang then remembered that he had heard that it took Shi Yu a day and a night to find General Shen's body in a sea of corpses, which showed how heroic the battle was.
The forest suddenly became very quiet, with only the crackling sound of burning wood as the only sound.
When Feng Yang mentioned the unpleasant things, he didn't know where to look. His gaze turned inadvertently and fell on Shi Yu's hands.
He stared at the hands for a moment, with doubt in his eyes, then looked at Shi Yu's face and suddenly asked, "Can I touch your hand?"
Shen Yu was startled, "What?"
Feng Yang gritted his teeth and grabbed her hand without waiting for her to react. After squeezing it twice, his pupils instantly grew larger, and he was so unresponsive that he forgot to let go.
"What are you doing?"
The two men turned around in response. Feng Yang looked at his hands and suddenly jumped up.
"master."
Xie Tingzhou glanced at the two of them, then looked at Feng Yang's panicked eyes, and said in a deep voice: "You guys follow me."
Chen Yu looked puzzled, and Feng Yang lowered his head and dared not say a word.
Walk to the edge of the woods.
Xie Tingzhou turned around and looked at Feng Yang, "What did you find out?"
Shen Yu was about to speak.
Xie Tingzhou: "Shut up."
Shen Yu gritted her teeth and shut up.
Feng Yang didn't even dare to raise his head, and said bluntly: "I found out that she is a woman."
Chen Yu opened her eyes wide in disbelief. She had been pretending to be a man for so many years, but this was the first time someone could tell she was a woman just by looking at her hands.
"Understand?" Xie Tingzhou looked at her. "Since you want to pretend to be a man,
You should be more cautious. How can you let others touch your hands so casually?"
Chen Yu: "I'm not casual."
Feng Yang: "I didn't touch you randomly."
The two of them retorted in unison.
After Feng Yang finished his defense, he felt that he was probably finished.
Before, he said that he didn't even dare to touch His Highness's cup with his hands that touched dead people, but he turned around and touched His Highness's body and was caught by His Highness.
God wants to kill me.
Chen Yu asked curiously, "Can you feel it out just by touching your hands?"
"What else do you want to touch?" Xie Tingzhou turned around and asked.
Feng Yang looked extremely innocent and quickly explained: "I didn't say anything. I didn't want to touch anything."
"That's not what I meant," Chen Yu explained, "I meant to say that the coroner is so powerful? You can tell just by touching his hand."
Faced with such praise, Feng Yang felt a little proud. If Xie Tingzhou hadn't been right next to him, he would have been very proud.
"It's possible, but touching the hand alone usually doesn't allow for complete confirmation."
"Then why did you find it out as soon as you touched it?"
Feng Yang said seriously: "Because your hands feel small and soft."
Xie Tingzhou: “…”
Chen Yu: "Then what else can we rely on to confirm it?"
Speaking of his old profession, Feng Yang opened up, "Let me tell you, apart from the hand bones, the easiest ones to recognize are the pelvis, hip bones, and skull bones."
"You can also use the bones and hair of a highly decomposed corpse to infer the gender, age, and occupation of the deceased. You can also determine whether the deceased died of poisoning. There are so many things that I can't finish talking about in a short time."
The two of them started chatting as if no one was around.
"Does it also depend on touching?" Chen Yu was full of curiosity about this line of work.
She had been in the army for so many years and thought she had become very good at pretending to be a man, but Feng Yangguang only pinched her hands a few times to identify her.
"Of course not. It's mostly used to distinguish between skeletons and living people—"
Feng Yang was speaking excitedly, and when he shook his head he saw Xie Tingzhou's expression and immediately stopped talking.
"Are you finished?" Xie Tingzhou raised his eyebrows slightly.
Feng Yang: "That's all. I'm going to get out of here now."
Having said that, without waiting for Xie Tingzhou to say anything, he ran away stepping on the dead leaves.
Xie Tingzhou believed Feng Yang and did not give any reminders. Feng Yang would keep his mouth shut.
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