Concubine

Chapter 104
This bone is complete, Yang Qiuchi is slightly relieved, he is most afraid of a large pile of bones piled up in a mess, and he has to distinguish whether it is a human bone or an animal bone, and the bones of several people. Now there is no instrument, if you want to It is even more troublesome to distinguish clearly, but fortunately this bone is intact.

Yang Qiuchi glanced at the pelvis of the bone, and preliminarily concluded that it was a female skeleton.Because the female pelvis is obviously different from the male pelvis in order to meet the needs of pregnancy and childbirth.The female pelvis is slender, the upper opening of the pelvis is round or oval, wider, and the lower opening is also larger; while the male pelvis is heart-shaped and much narrower.In addition, there are obvious differences in the pubic symphysis and obturator.I also looked at the characteristics of the skull and the entire skeleton. This bone is relatively slender, in line with the characteristics of a woman's bone. If it is a man's bone, it is relatively thick and rough on the surface.

Yang Qiuchi measured the length from the top of the bone's skull to the heel of the foot, and added five centimeters (the thickness of the soft tissue under the foot) to the obtained data, and the obtained data was the original height of the person.The height of this white bone was measured to be four feet eight six (equal to 1.62 meters).

Next, he needs to judge the age of this person. He leans down and observes the teeth of this white bone carefully. He needs to infer the age of this white bone from the degree of wear and tear of the teeth.After observation, the cusps and edges of the first molars of this white bone are only slightly worn. From this, it can be judged that the degree of wear has not reached the first level, and the age of this white bone should not exceed 20 years old.

Judging the exact age of a person mainly depends on bone age. Biopsy generally checks the X-ray photos of the palms, wrists, elbows, shoulders, knees, and ankles of a person. Much more.

Yang Qiuchi checked the sternal ossification point of the bone, and found that the third to fourth and second to third sections of the sternum had healed, but the second section had not completely healed, which indicated that the age of this bone should be around [-].The appearance and healing of the ossification points of the scapula, sacrum, and coccyx were also checked, which was consistent with the previous conclusions.

Judging from the above inspection, this skeleton is a girl about 1.62 meters tall, I don't know if she is pretty or not, but she is not pretty now anyway.

Next, Yang Qiuchi needs to check the cause of her death.Soon, Yang Qiuchi found the answer.There is an obvious comminuted fracture area on the top of the skull of this white bone. The fracture lines intersect each other to form multiple bone fragments. The ring fracture around the foramen magnum, the cervical spine is embedded in the skull, the vertebrae are compressed, and the ribs are symmetrically fractured.

Yang Qiuchi sighed. It seems that the girl fell to her death from a height, and landed on her head first.The fractures detected just now are typical characteristics of high-fall injuries. The huge impact even caused her cervical spine to rush into the cranial cavity, resulting in vertebral compression fractures. Such fractures cannot be formed with ordinary murder weapons.

However, judging from the fracture situation, the degree of injury from the high fall is not too serious. The height of the fall should not be very high, and it is estimated that it will not exceed two floors, or the height is higher, but the ground is relatively soft, such as hard sand. Even the grass, unfortunately only this bone remains, otherwise, Yang Qiuchi could judge the circumstances of the fall from the attachments on the scalp when the head of the deceased hit the ground, thus providing clues for judging the murder scene.

Falling from a high place is mostly suicide or accident, and a few are homicide, or after killing the victim first, they are thrown from a high place, pretending to be suicide or accident.Whether the girl committed suicide or homicide must be carefully observed.

Yang Qiuchi stretched his upper body into the coffin, lowered his head and slowly checked for suspicious traces little by little.Finally, a thin fracture line on the temporal bone on the right side of the white bone caught his attention.

This fracture line was obliquely upward from the front to the back. What caught Yang Qiuchi's attention was that one of the comminuted fracture lines on the top of the skull extended downward and intersected with the fracture line on the right temporal part, and stopped at the intersection without continuing. Extend down.

This is very strange. The skull fracture extends from the point of application to the surrounding area, while the fracture line of the temporal bone exists in isolation and does not extend from the point of application. Moreover, when the fracture line extending from the point of application intersects with it , an interruption occurred.This shows that the fracture line of the right temporal bone existed before the comminuted fracture of the top of the skull!

In other words, the girl suffered two blows to the head, one on the right temporal region and one from a high fall on the top of her head.This time, the right temporal part should come first, and the high fall injury should come later, because the slam on the right temporal part caused this linear fracture line obliquely backward and upward. After the fracture line was formed, the high fall injury caused When the fracture line extends down to the temporal bone fracture line, it will be blocked.

Therefore, the girl was hit hard on the head by a bar-shaped weapon, resulting in a linear fracture of the right temporal bone, and then she was thrown from a high place.

The fracture line in the temporal part is relatively long, so it can be concluded that the force of the heavy blow was relatively large enough to cause the victim to lose his ability to move immediately. Moreover, judging from the direction of the fracture line and the strength of the blow, the trauma cannot be completed by itself. From this, it can be concluded that this girl was murdered!
This fracture line is in the right temporal bone. Generally speaking, a person's forehand swing is stronger than the backhand. In a premeditated homicide, the murderer will unconsciously choose to use the most powerful hitting method. Therefore, it is generally not Will use a less powerful backhand swing.The fracture line was in the right temporal part, and the forehand swung, indicating that the murderer was probably left-handed.

Yang Qiuchi put his entire upper body into the coffin, put his head almost on the bone's face, carefully observed the fracture line of the temporal bone, and found a few fine scratches on both sides. Since the hardness of the skull is similar to that of metal copper, the murder weapon should be Things harder than metal copper, such as iron and stone, will leave scratches on the skull, and the fracture line is relatively long, so the murder weapon should be an iron rod or something like that.

Next, it is more troublesome to determine the time of death. If the corpse has not decomposed, there are many things to detect, such as rigor, corpse plaque, corpse temperature, corneal opacity, the emergence and growth of fly maggots, and putrefaction blisters, etc.But the bones are much more difficult, and the bones have been transferred.Therefore, based on a comprehensive judgment based on the degree of ossification and the local climate and soil temperature, it is estimated that the girl died two years ago.

It is more difficult to judge the identity of this girl, but judging from the quality of her hair and the fineness of her bones, this girl did not engage in heavy physical labor before her death, and she was well nourished, so she was probably a rich girl.

That's all the information this bone can provide.The next step is to go to the first scene of the crime to investigate again to see if there are any other discoveries, and then restore the skull of this white bone.

Song Yun'er, Song Qing and the others have been watching Yang Qiuchi busy, not daring to disturb him.It wasn't until Yang Qiuchi finished the investigation that Song Zhixian carefully asked, "Nephew, how is it?"

Song Yuner also asked nervously and excitedly: "Yes, brother, did you find anything?" Song Qing stared at Yang Qiuchi questioningly with wide eyes.

After Yang Qiuchi asked Wu Zuo and other idlers to avoid him, he said in a low voice: "This bone turned out to be a girl, most likely a rich girl. She was four feet eight inches tall and was hit with a hard object such as an iron rod. In the middle right temporal part, and then dropped high, the top of the head first landed on the ground and died. That's all we know now."

"This sister is so miserable!" The clay doll Song Qing looked at the bones and sighed, "He must have been beautiful in his lifetime, if only he could see what she looked like before."

"That's no problem. After I restore her skull, you can see if she is beautiful."

"Really? Can you really restore her to her original appearance?" Song Qing asked excitedly, the charming dimple flashed on her round and fair face, "Brother Qiuchi, you are really amazing!"
Song Yuner patted her sister Song Qing on the shoulder: "How is it? I didn't lie to you." Song Qing nodded and grinned, revealing the neat row of small teeth.

Master Jin said: "Brother Yang can really restore the original appearance of this skeleton?" Song Zhixian also looked at Yang Qiuchi eagerly.Of course Song Zhixian knows that if the skeleton can be restored to its original appearance, then the identity of this person can be found out, clues to the crime can be found, and the suspect can be identified. The significance of this to solving the case can be imagined.

Yang Qiuchi said: "The girl's skull is complete, and her hair is still there. There should be no problem in restoring it. Although I dare not say it is exactly the same, it is almost the same."

Hearing Yang Qiuchi's affirmation, Song Zhixian was very excited: "Then there will be Lao Xian, my nephew. I don't know how long it will take to get it done, will it be done?" Song Zhixian is now eager to solve the case immediately, although there is a dead little carpenter as a scapegoat , there will be no danger of being dismissed from office for the time being, but he is always suspenseful. Only by solving this case can he completely get rid of this crisis, and it may even help his political performance. No wonder he is so nervous.

Yang Qiuchi smiled: "Not more than two days." He has done this kind of skull restoration many times before, and he is familiar with it.Although there was no soft rubber clay in the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that the clay used for firing pottery can be used instead, and the effect will be similar. "I need to bring this corpse back to the yamen first and put it in my house so that I can recover."

Song Qing said in surprise: "Put it in your house?...Aren't you afraid?"

"Scared, will you accompany me?" Yang Qiuchi blinked his eyes and asked with a smile. It is very pleasant to joke with a beautiful girl.

Song Qing smiled shyly, her dimples were captivating: "Am I alone?" She looked at Song Yun'er.

Song Yuner made a grimace: "Why are you looking at me? They want you to accompany me!"

Song Qing thought for a while, bit her red lips, put her hands behind her back, and said with a tall chest: "Okay, I also want to see how you restore this skull to its original appearance."

Yang Qiuchi didn't expect that she would really agree. He was a little surprised, but also a little moved. He glanced at Song Qing's slender figure, and his heart beat wildly.

Song Zhixian asked Yang Qiuchi, "Nephew, shall we go back now?"

"Well, send this bone to my house first, and then we'll go to the vegetable field to see if we find anything else."

Song Zhixian nodded, and ordered Wuzuo to nail the coffin back up, and carry it back to the county government office and place it in an empty room in Yang Qiuchi's house.Then the group came to the vegetable field where the bone was found.

There is a low fence outside the vegetable field, which separates the vegetable field from a small road outside. Walking along the small road, not far away is the main street of Xicheng District in the county, not far from the city gate.There are several families beside the vegetable field, including Long Zixu's.

It has been half a year since the bone was dug up in this vegetable field, and the original owner of the vegetable field dared not want this vegetable field anymore, so it has been left unattended.

Yang Qiuchi first asked Mr. Jin to send someone to call the owner of the vegetable field to inquire about how the bones were found.The owner of this vegetable land is an old couple.

Yang Qiuchi asked how they found out that there were bones in the vegetable field.The old man replied: "That morning, I went to the vegetable field to pick some cabbages. As soon as I opened the fence gate, I saw that the vegetable field inside was trampled in a mess, and there was a big hole. A lot of soil was turned over." I got up and piled up everywhere. I cursed angrily. After cursing for a while, no one responded, so I sorted out the trampled vegetables, and then went to fill the hole. When the soil came out, I knelt by the side of the pit, stretched out my hand to dig up the soil, and took a closer look, which almost scared me out of my wits. It turned out to be a dead bone."

Yang Qiuchi asked: "How deep was the pit at that time?"

The old man thought for a while: "It probably reaches around my knee."

"What bones of a dead man do you see?"

"It seems to be a hand. The flesh is gone, only the skeleton is left. I was so scared that I didn't sleep well for several nights." Speaking of it now, the old man still had lingering fears.

The old woman nodded and said, "Yes, I didn't dare to come over after hearing what he said, so I quickly reported it to Lizheng."

Yang Qiuchi asked, "Didn't the pit exist before?"

The old man said: "No! Absolutely not! I have to go to the vegetable garden every day to pick vegetables, and the first night was fine."

Yang Qiuchi lowered his head in thought, the hole was only half dug, and the skeleton exposed a hand. There are various possibilities, maybe the person who dug wanted to dig out the skeleton and move it to another place, but suddenly encountered something, interrupted the excavation and fled ; It is also possible that the bones were transported here from other places to be buried, and half of them were buried, but they escaped in an accident; It will stop at all, the purpose is to let others see.Of course there are other possibilities.

what is the root cause?Yang Qiuchi couldn't find a clue.

Yang Qiuchi asked the old man to point out the exact location of the pit, and then asked the staff to start digging carefully, and report any suspicious objects immediately.

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PS:
"Stop, Rob! Get your stuff out of your pocket!"

"I, I have nothing, except a monthly pass."

"The one who grabs is your monthly pass!"

"﹩&＊#@﹨﹪..."

(End of this chapter)