The duke of the governor's family is leaving again

Chapter 205 The Remedy for Preserving Corpse
Liu Yanchun confirmed with a straight face, "Yes, rice bran."

"So what if it's rice bran?"

Chen Yuan didn't quite understand why everyone was so serious.

Regarding her question, Guan Zhixian, Yu Quan and Liu Yanchun all showed a look of surprise.

"You don't even know this?"

"I... should I know?"

Chen Yuan became unconfident. After all, she was not a pure ancient. She lived in an era where cremation had been practiced for nearly a hundred years. She really didn't know what rituals were required for burial. This was her blind spot in knowledge.

"no problem, no problem."

"It turns out that Chen Yuzuo also doesn't understand."

On the contrary, the few people seemed to be relieved, and smiled.

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Their behavior made Chen Yuan very inexplicable.

Yu Quan explained from the side, "As the saying goes, if you don't do bad things, you are not afraid of ghosts calling your door. People who have done bad things must take some precautions. According to folklore, stuffing rice bran into the mouth of the wronged dead can turn the dead into ghosts." After that, I couldn’t speak, and even when I got to the underworld, I couldn’t open my mouth to complain to King Yama.”

"If you see Rice Bran, you don't need to examine the corpses. I'm sure there must be grievances between the two corpses!"

"Chen Yuzuo, hurry up for an autopsy, find out the grievances that these two corpses want to tell, and open a mouth for them!"

Chen Yuan didn't understand the legend of rice bran, but she still believed in the autopsy results.

Guan Zhixian urged her, Chen Yuan rolled up her sleeves, called Liu Yanchun, and carefully lifted the charred corpse in the coffin.

The onlookers also heard the rice bran, and they gathered around to verify.

It was found that there was rice bran in the corpse.

"Who put rice bran in Miss Sheng's mouth? It's so vicious!"

"Could it be that Old Master Sheng offended someone, and that person set fire to Miss Sheng's death, and even secretly stuffed rice bran into the body?"

"The girl who caused trouble also stuffed rice bran in her mouth, and she is not from the Sheng family."

"Old Master Sheng is so kind to Miss Sheng. He will definitely check her condition before the burial. How could someone stuff rice bran?"

"What do you mean? Do you want to say that it was the rice bran stuffed into the mouth of my own daughter by the old master Sheng?"

"It's ridiculous. Everyone in Weiyu County knew how much Old Master Sheng loved Miss Sheng."

"Someone must be jealous of Mrs. Sheng's business expansion and intentionally take revenge on Miss Sheng. The revenge has not yet been completed, so they sealed the mouths of Ms. Sheng and maid Miaoyun, and waited 17 years later to kill Mrs. Sheng's son-in-law to take revenge!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, no wonder the yamen wants to open the coffin for an autopsy. Sure enough, Sheng Dongyue's death is related to Master Yu's. They were all done by the same person."

The people's speculations became more and more outrageous, Chen Yuan blocked the discussion of the people, and carefully examined the autopsy.

Charred corpses will shrink, much shorter than their original stature.

Therefore, the skeleton of "Sheng Dongyue" seems to be only about 140cm tall at the moment.

Because when "Sheng Dongyue" was burned to death, her legs were straightened, her upper body turned to the right and then she lay down on her stomach. In order to allow her to lie in the coffin, someone used brute force to break her lumbar spine and twist it straight , making her appear to be lying in a coffin in a slightly awkward position.

Chen Yuan cut open the shroud on the female corpse of "Sheng Dongyue", and was shocked to find that the charred body of the female corpse was unevenly distributed with yellow solid paste-like grease, not only that, but there were also many white crystals on the black skin of the charred corpse.

"Senior sister, why are you in a daze?"

Chen Yuan stopped singing the newspaper and stared at the corpse in a daze. Liu Yanchun walked to her side and urged her.

"The amount of corpse oil is wrong, there is too much oil." Chen Yuan frowned and thought.

Generally, the ignition point of animal fat is between 300-500°C, and the working temperature of cremators in later generations is 700-1000°C, which can not only burn bones to ashes, but also use corpse oil as a gas to burn clean.

Therefore, there will be no situation in which the crematorium corpse oil is collected and sold to the roadside stalls in the urban rumors, because there is no corpse oil residue at all.

The temperature at the scene of a fire can reach 400°C, which can burn corpses into oil, but it will also consume a lot of corpse oil into a combustion accelerant, but it will not consume clean corpse oil.

Under such circumstances, there will be corpse oil on the charred corpse, but it is impossible to leave so much corpse oil on this corpse.

Lieutenant Ge County has been a coroner for a long time, and he has seen charred corpses before, "Chen Yuzuo, you mean that the woman's corpse was splashed with oil?"

"Yeah." Chen Yuan nodded.

Then, with bamboo tweezers in her gloved hand, she took some white crystals from the charred corpse.

He rubbed it in the palm of his hand, confirmed his guess, and knew what the white crystal was, so he handed it to the three adults standing aside for inspection, "My lord, look, what does this white crystal look like?"

Guan Zhixian was not sure, "Like...salt?"

Wei Xiancheng also had the answer in his heart, but he folded his hands and didn't want to speak.

Lieutenant Ge Xian was extremely determined, "It's salt!"

The yamen servants were also puzzled, "Why is there so much salt on the corpse?"

Yes, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to have so much crystallized salt on the corpse.

The melting point of salt is 801 degrees, and ordinary fire will not reach the ignition point of edible salt, and salt will not become a combustion accelerant, so the fire did not burn the salt.

Some of the people watching nearby also had a sudden realization, "In order to preserve the lard for a longer time, we will add salt when refining the lard."

The gentleman is far away from the kitchen, and the three adults only know Chunqiu and don't understand life. After hearing the words of the common people, their thoughts immediately cleared up.

Guan Zhixian was stunned, "That is to say, Sheng Dongyue was poured with lard that has not yet solidified to support the combustion, so she was burned to death like this?"

"This is the old house of the Sheng family. How can anyone know that lard has just been refined in the kitchen? It was successfully taken out and thrown on Sheng Dongyue?" Wei Yue speculated, his complexion became more and more bad, and he felt that the truth might be unacceptable .

He even turned his head and took a look at Yu Enming who was sitting on the ground dejectedly, clutching his forehead.

Chen Yuan returned to Jiaoshi's side and continued to dissect the corpse.

She first moved the knife at the arm she was most suspicious of.

The scorched skin on the arm was peeled off, revealing the pure white bones inside, with lightning-like cracks on the bones.

As she had guessed, she sang and reported, "The humerus of the upper arm of the right hand, the radius and ulna of the lower arm all had cracks, which should have been hit by gravity, and the force of breaking bones was enough to cause muscle damage."

"There are no cracks in the humerus, radius, and ulna of the left hand, and there are no cracks in the bones of the lower limbs."

Lieutenant Ge Xian whispered his speculation to Guan Zhixian with emotion, "Sure enough, it is the same as Chen Yu's previous speculation. This female corpse is lying on the bed in such a posture. On the bed, the murderer then poured lard that had just been refined and had not yet solidified on the unconscious woman. The woman woke up...perhaps because she was woken up by the lard. She reached out to beg for mercy and caught the murderer. Hitting her arm violently, the woman's arm was weak and let go, and then... the murderer lit the fire."

"Who is so cruel?" Guan Zhixian was dripping with cold sweat.

　The lard noodles are delicious, so don’t eat them next time (well, I figured it out while eating noodles).

　　
　
(End of this chapter)