Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 260 Land Inspection

The fire last night was so ferocious, and as Master Cui said, Kang Xu was besieged here, so his chance of escaping was extremely slim.

However, Chang Feng did not lose confidence because of this. He believed that Kang Xu would not die so easily, just as he believed that Li Canghai would wake up sooner or later.

"Head, here's a discovery!"

Just when Chang Feng didn't know how to comfort Xue Xuan, a yamen servant suddenly yelled.

Chang Feng hurriedly walked over and asked, "What did you find?"

"Boss, there is a dungeon here! We found a charred corpse inside!" the yamen servant glanced around, lowered his voice, and said cautiously.

Chang Feng trembled involuntarily when he heard the words, and hurriedly ran over.

Xue Xuan heard the conversation between the two, and her figure flickered much faster than him, and she rushed to the dungeon in an instant.

Chang Feng secretly prayed in his heart that it must not be Kang Xu's corpse, and came to the dungeon quickly.

The heat wave in the dungeon has not dissipated. Due to the narrow space, the dungeon is full of pungent burning smells and overwhelming ash.

"Cough cough." Chang Feng coughed a few times, quickly covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, and walked inside with his eyes narrowed.

In one of the cells that had been burned out of shape, lay a charred corpse.

hiss~
Chang Feng suddenly took a deep breath, the corpse was burnt to charcoal, and there was no trace of a human figure.

Xue Xuan recklessly squatted in front of the corpse, and began to observe carefully, but the clothes and skin on the corpse were all charred, and there were no useful clues at all.

"Miss Xue, this corpse is already unrecognizable, so it may not be an adult." Chang Feng looked at the corpse and secretly prayed in his heart that this corpse must not be Kang Xu.

Xue Xuan ignored his words, just observed the corpse over and over again, trying to find even a little bit of evidence that the corpse was not Li Canghai.

"Miss Xue, I have already sent someone to invite Dr. Zhang to come here. He is proficient in the way of Qi and Huang, and he will definitely be able to identify the identity of the corpse." After a pause, Chang Feng added heavily: "I believe that your lord will not die. of!"

After a stick of incense, Zhang Xuanming and Xiao Wu rushed to Lichunfang with tools.

They only knew that there was a big fire in Lichunfang, but they didn't expect it to be so serious that the whole Lichunfang was almost burnt to the ground.

The two ignored the surprise and hurriedly walked towards the dungeon.

In the dungeon, Chang Feng anxiously paced back and forth, while Xue Xuan was still observing the corpse.

"Miss Xue? Why are you here?" Seeing Xue Xuan, Zhang Xuanming suddenly asked a little strangely.

Chang Feng looked at the two in surprise, and asked, "Do you know each other?"

Zhang Xuanming nodded and said: "There have been several connections before."

"So that's how it is." Chang Feng suddenly realized, he sighed and said softly: "Miss Xue suspects that this corpse belongs to 'Master Li', so she has been looking for clues about her identity."

Chang Feng deliberately emphasized the word "Master Li" to signal him not to slip up.

"My lord? Why is your lord here?" Xiao Wu asked suspiciously.

Chang Feng simply told the two of them what happened, and they were suddenly shocked.

Zhang Xuanming's face became very solemn, and without a word, he hurriedly walked to the corpse and began to observe.

"The corpse has been burned into coke, it is impossible to know the identity of the corpse." Zhang Xuanming said with a sigh.

"Is there no clue?" Chang Feng asked in a daze.

At this moment, Xiao Wu looked at the charred corpse and said suddenly, "That's not necessarily the case."

Zhang Xuanming looked at him in surprise, and couldn't help being curious: "Xiao Wu, do you have a way to identify the corpse?"

Xiao Wu shook his head: "It is not yet possible to determine whether it is feasible. In my opinion, the corpse was naturally curled up by the flames, and there was no sign of struggle. This shows that this person was in a coma before being burned by the flames, that is, It is said that the person did not appear to move while being incinerated by the flames."

"So what?" Chang Feng scratched his head, not understanding what Xiao Wu wanted to say.

"After the human body is burned, it will leave fat, and we can estimate the height of the deceased based on this." Xiao Wu pondered.

"The body of the deceased is curled up here, and nearly half of the body has been burned to ashes. How do you estimate the height of the deceased?" Zhang Xuanming asked while rubbing his chin.

"Brother Chang, go get someone to find some sesame seeds." Xiao Wu thought for a while and said.

Chang Feng was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly sent people to buy sesame seeds.

While the yamen servants were going to buy sesame seeds, Xiao Wu asked a few people to help clean up the surrounding ashes, and then moved the corpse away from the place.

After a while, a yamen servant came in with half a bag of sesame seeds.

Xiao Wu ordered people to set fire to the ground where the original corpse was, until it was hot, sweep away the remaining fire, and then sprinkle sesame seeds around.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what he was doing.

After a while, Xiao Wu took a broom and gently swept away the sesame seeds, and what appeared after that surprised everyone.

After the surrounding sesame seeds were cleaned, a clear human figure appeared where the corpse was.

Everyone suddenly felt miraculous, and Chang Feng was even more curious: "Xiao Wu, what kind of magic is this? You can make the earth show the figure of the dead?"

Xiao Wu scratched his head, and said shyly: "This is not a spell, but a method of autopsy that the adults told me, called the 'Search Method'. It is because when the human body is burned, there will be oil into the body." The ground is in harmony with the sesame, and after the sesame oil enters the ground, the traces of the corpse will naturally appear."

"So that's how it is." Chang Feng said with a sudden realization.

"Now let's take a look at this person's height." Xiao Wu squatted on the ground, measured it carefully, and said, "The deceased is about seven feet tall. This height... seems to be quite close to that of an adult!"

Xiao Wu's face suddenly became ugly, and he said in horror: "Could it be that he is really an adult?"

Everyone fell into silence at once. It couldn't be such a coincidence. Lichunfang was burned to ashes, but no body was found, and a body happened to be found in the dungeon.

"Could it be that the adults hid in this dungeon because they had nowhere to hide... It's just that they didn't expect the fire to spread here..." Xiao Wu said with a trembling voice.

At this time, Xue Xuan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood. Her face was pale, and she muttered to herself: "Cang Hai...how can you die?...Who killed you?...I want to avenge you!"

Muttering a few words in despair, Xue Xuan's whole body was suddenly enveloped in a cold killing intent, and she disappeared into the dungeon in an instant.

After Xue Xuan left, Zhang Xuan looked at the corpse and asked, "Do you think this corpse is an adult?"

"This person's body is close to that of an adult, and we haven't found any other corpses. This is the worst judgment I can make." Xiao Wu frowned.

Zhang Xuanming looked around, then at the corpse, and pondered: "I don't think this corpse is an adult."

"Why?" Xiao Wu asked in surprise.

(End of this chapter)