People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1065: Skull opening, bone steaming, bone touching, clay sculpture

Seeing that Li Xuan gradually calmed down, Ming Gui handed over his hand seriously: "Everyone in the world said that my father practiced the three religions in vain and angered the ghosts and gods, but Gui knew that his father was still somewhat interested in Confucianism, but he only had a look at Buddhism. The principles of Buddhist practice are very different from those of Taoism.”

The inheritance of Confucianism and Taoism has spanned more than 1,200 years from the late Spring and Autumn Period to the present.

For countless years, the two minds have been in constant conflict and collision, and they have become somewhat connected.

Therefore, it is possible to practice both Confucianism and Taoism.

However, Buddhism has only lasted a few hundred years from the Western Han Dynasty to the present, and they are far from being connected to each other.

Not to mention that there were five Huanhua and three hundred years in the middle, and Buddhist classics were lost. It would be better if Master Xuanzang returned from his journey to the west.

But it had only been a few years since Xuanzang came back, and even the Buddhists themselves had not yet figured out these classics, so it was the turn of Taoists to talk about the unification of the three religions.

"What's more." Minggui looked at the body on the wooden board with some pity and said softly: "There are sixty-four hexagrams in "Yi". The practice of "Yi" family has compatibility and conflicts. It is so eclectic that it is not so easy to go wrong. He was possessed and died, and it doesn’t look like he was possessed.”

He was possessed by a demon, with bleeding from all his orifices and swollen meridians. But now, although the face of the corpse cannot be seen clearly, the death state of the corpse is not hideous.

"Since you suspect that he is not your father, why did you not agree to the request for further autopsy before?" Li Xuan looked at Minggui with some confusion.

Li Xuan was not the first person to have doubts. In fact, before he came, someone had already doubted the cause of death of the body and requested further autopsy and dissection.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have done an autopsy, but this was the Shiyin Master Ming Chongyan, and the dissection of his body required at least the consent of the Queen of Heaven.

However, the Queen of Heaven did not directly agree, but pushed the matter to Minggui.

After all, this is his father, and a son has the right to say no, especially when the queen gives him a chance.

"At first they only suspected that the body was not a suicide, and they did not doubt whether it was my father." Minggui's pale face showed a trace of helplessness, and finally shook his head and said: "If the direction of the investigation is wrong, the details will naturally be ignored, especially At that time, from the outside, there was no problem at all, so even if this was not my father, Gui didn’t want to see him being blasphemed by others; now that the prince is here, the prince will naturally make the decision."

Minggui didn't trust the previous collaborations, not because he didn't trust their abilities, but because he didn't trust their focus.

This can easily lead to deviations.

Especially under such a detailed conspiracy.

Now that Li Xuan is here, he not only doubts that Ming Chongyan committed suicide, he even suspects that this person is not Ming Chongyan at all.

Minggui, who was already suspicious, immediately agreed.

"You said he is not your father, but it is not enough." At this time, Zhao Gong suddenly said: "What you said are all your guesses. If you want to confirm whether this corpse is Shi Yin's real person, you need to be more precise. If there is no new evidence in the autopsy, then this person is your father Ming Shiyin."

There was a bit of sadness on Minggui's face. He looked at the corpse on the wooden table, nodded and said, "The student dares to say that he is not my father. There is a reason."

Li Xuan raised her head and looked at Minggui.

Even if Li Xuan has found a lot of evidence now, if he wants to completely crucify this person who is not Ming Chongyan, his evidence is not enough.

Minggui lowered his head and said softly: "Although my father is just an ordinary person, he is from the Ming family after all. He has no jade pendant, magic beads, letter seals, legal books, posthumous letters, as well as the silver coins and money orders he carries. How can this man be my father?"

After Ming Gui finished speaking, Li Xuan immediately turned to look at Zhao Gong: "Uncle, don't you have these things?"

"No, we all ignored it." Zhao Gong's face looked a little ugly.

Although he took over this case not long ago, he has never thought about it in this regard.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, it’s fine if the others don’t matter, but what about the official seal?

What Ming Chongyan should have carried at all times was the seal written in the Prime Minister's Mansion, but he didn't.

"Although it is not completely certain, it is enough to make people suspicious." Li Xuan looked at the corpse on the case and said softly: "Now, the last step is left."

An autopsy is needed to determine whether this person is Ming Chongyan and how this person died. Only an autopsy can be the most convincing.

"Does your father have any skeletal characteristics, or is he injured?" Li Xuan looked at Minggui for final confirmation.

"No." Minggui lowered his head slightly and said, "Actually, Minggui also hopes that this is his father, and he also knows that his father is likely to be unfortunate, but the ancestral graves of the Ming family cannot bury people who are not from the Ming family."

"It looks like we have to use some means." Li Xuan took a deep breath, looked at the door, and shouted: "Bring everything in."

"Here!" There was a promise from outside the door, and immediately, Su Baotong walked in from the outside carrying a black box.

"What is this?" Zhao Gong looked at Li Xuan in surprise.

"It's just a personal trick." Li Xuan looked at Jiang Xing and said, "Brother Jiang, please take Brother Mingxian down to rest. I'm afraid it will take some time now."

"Here!" Jiang Xing glanced at Su Bao, handed over his hand, and then invited Minggui down.

……

"Uncle!" Li Xuan asked Zhao Gong.

Zhao Gong shook his head and said, "You do your thing, I'll just watch."

"Okay." Li Xuan nodded. Zhao Gong was not a novice. As the commander of the secret guards, many people had died at his hands.

Li Xuan looked at Zuo opposite and said: "Let's start, little by little, check the skin inch by inch, don't let go of the slightly larger pores."

"The prince is saying... the golden needle penetrates the brain!" Wu Zuo already understood the meaning of Li Xuan's words, and his face was full of surprise and ugliness.

Li Xuan nodded, looked at Zhao Gong, and said: "A golden needle is inserted into the back of a person's head, directly causing death...Then the body is placed in a dry and hot alchemy furnace...the water evaporates. , the skin shrinks and the pinholes become smaller and invisible, which is why there are no wounds on the body.”

Zhao Gong nodded in disbelief and said, "This is what you thought of when you found the body hidden in the medicine cauldron."

"My nephew also makes alchemy." Li Xuan nodded sheepishly.

"But you have failed with your alchemy ..." Zhao Gong waved his hand and said, "Well, don't say this, start checking, do you want to start with your head." The heart, internal organs, all are fatal places. Eliminate everything that needs to be eliminated first, and finally enter the brain." Li Xuan looked at the head of the corpse, and he was basically sure that the method used must be to penetrate the brain with a golden needle.

The hair cover made the wounds more difficult to find.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, let's start." Zhao Gong stepped aside, and then watched Li Xuan and Fu Zuo put on their clothes one after another and prepare to take action.

Of course, everything is done with Wu Zuo as the main operator and Li Xuan as the assistant.

……

"My lord, I found it." Wu Zuo raised his head and looked at Li Xuan. He opened the back of his head with both hands, and a small hole that was larger than the usual pores appeared in Li Xuan's eyes.

"The golden needle penetrates straight through and kills the patient." Li Xuan sighed softly and said, "Bring hot water and scald the skin."

"Yes!" Wu Zuo immediately handed over his hand and left quickly and excitedly.

Zhao Gong looked at Li Xuan with some confusion and asked: "Da Lang, why don't you just steam it from the beginning?"

"This is mainly because I am worried that there are other wounds on the body that have not been noticed. You will know after a careful inspection." Li Xuan smiled and said: "There are autopsy steps in the autopsy, and something will be discovered after all."

"So...if nothing is found, what will you do as the last step?" Zhao Gong asked curiously.

Li Xuan shook her head slightly and said, "Steamed bones."

Zhao Gong was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said with a wry smile: "What have you learned from Master Xuanzang in these years?"

Li Xuan smiled and said nothing more.

He dare not say that some people have followed their masters since childhood and dissected corpses one by one in mass graves. What does this mean to him?

What's more, he has been fighting on the battlefield all these years, and countless people have died at his hands. This is really a small scene at the moment.

"No matter what, first of all we have confirmed that the person in front of us, no matter who he is, died of murder." Li Xuan looked at Zhao Gong and said: "If the court still insists on thinking that this is Zhenren Shiyin, then Shiyin Yin Zhenren died because of someone else's murder."

"He is indeed not Ming Chongyan, so..." Zhao Gong raised his head and stared at Li Xuan: "Dalang, who is he?"

"Uncle, you are still so serious!" Li Xuan smiled bitterly. Looking at Zhao Gong's serious look, he could only say seriously: "Well, let me see my nephew's methods."

Li Xuan walked to the table beside it, and then opened the box on it. Immediately, a bunch of mud-like things were taken out and put aside, but a piece of rice paper and a writing brush were already placed on Li Xuan's desk. in front of.

Walking to the corpse again, looking at the extremely skinny skull, Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction, and then started groping directly on his face.

With her eyes closed, Li Xuan walked back to the desk and started painting on the rice paper.

A somewhat distorted face gradually appeared in Li Xuan's writing.

Zhao Gong looked on at a loss.

After a while, Li Xuan finally finished the painting. She looked at the portrait in the picture in a deep voice, closed her eyes and started thinking again. Finally, Li Xuan picked up the "soil" on the side.

Zhao Gong wanted to ask what this was, but seeing Li Xuan's focused look, he didn't bother him.

But it's nothing too strange, it's just clay.

Clay used for firing ceramics in Jingdezhen.

……

Time passed little by little, and finally, a head appeared in Li Xuan's hand.

Gradually, the head gained five views.

Although it looks as distorted as the face on the rice paper, he has a face after all.

Soon, a clay sculpture that looked very much like a human head appeared in Li Xuan's hand, but it was not over yet.

Li Xuan picked up the knife placed aside and began to trim it carefully.

A little trimming.

From time to time, he even walked to the head of the corpse, groping a little bit, and then went back to slowly modify it.

I don’t know how long it took, but a clear human face appeared under Li Xuan’s hands.

The face is slender, the bridge of the nose is high, and the eyebrows are thick. Even though the eyes are a bit weak, the face is calm, and there is still a bit of a crooked look inexplicably.

Li Xuan modified her face again, then looked to the side and said, "Call Minggui to come in."

With a "squeak" sound, Minggui, who had been waiting outside the door for some time, immediately opened the door and walked in.

Looking at the human head placed on the table, he couldn't help but be stunned, but he immediately saw clearly that it was a clay statue.

"How are you doing? Does it look familiar?" Li Xuan asked, turning her head.

"I can't tell." After a slight pause, Minggui added, "But this person should have practiced "Yi" and his attainments are not low, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to fool so many people. Based on this, he should You can find out.”

"Very good." Li Xuan didn't hesitate at all and immediately drew it on the rice paper again. A clear face appeared in his pen.

"Uncle, send it to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for comparison. I believe it won't take long for the truth of this case to be revealed."

(End of this chapter)