Li Qingcha smiled.
"Are you really not going to tell me?"
"..."
"Well, let me tell you."
As he spoke, Li Qingcha squatted down, picked up the skull from the white cloth, and moved in front of Chen Wujiu.
The skull was eerie, and the dark eye sockets seemed like a bottomless abyss that could directly connect to hell, revealing a ruthless and endless resentment that wanted to devour people alive.
scare!
Chen Wujiu staggered back and fell to the ground.
Of course, Li Qingcha couldn't let him escape. With a change of his Qi, he easily held Chen Wujiu's body.
He held the skull and continued to move forward.
"First of all, this is a male corpse, not a female corpse. You can tell from the angle of the pubic bone."
Sirou snorted and looked away with a red face.
Chen Wujiu defended himself, "I... um... the palace only sent a skull. It is difficult to judge based on the skull alone. I... the imperial physician can also make mistakes."
Li Qingcha's mouth curled up.
"really?"
"You...what do you mean?"
"Look at this skull. The muscle lines are so obvious, the cranial cavity is relatively large, the eyebrows are clearly developed and protrude above the root of the nose, and the upper edge of the eye sockets also has a sense of frustration. Aren't these evidences obvious enough?"
Li Qingcha did not originally possess this knowledge.
After determining yesterday through the pubic bone that it was a male corpse, she went back to the Imperial Observatory to read medical books and study late into the night.
Chen Wujiu continued to argue: "No...that's not right..."
Li Qingcha asked back: "Am I wrong?"
"No, what Lord Li said is correct. However, this corpse is more than four years old. The body has been corroded and weathered, and it is possible that the sharp parts have been worn down."
"You seemed to have said, 'More than four years'?"
"..."
"..."
An eerie silence.
Chen Wujiu's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, which dripped down and spread onto the ground, making a small wet area.
Li Qingcha snorted coldly.
"There are so many ways to distinguish between men and women based on their skulls. The more you try to explain yourself, the more it shows that you have something to hide!"
As he spoke, he moved the skull forward again.
Chen Wujiu's stomach churned.
Endless fear, pressure, panic...
All kinds of negative emotions surged up and made him want to vomit.
Li Qingcha said, "Jinzhen Chen... hehe... you have such a high reputation among the people, so I think your medical skills are good and you must have read a lot of medical books. You must be able to judge the gender of a child based on the skull, but why did you make such a mistake?"
Chen Wujiu wanted to defend himself.
The skull sent to the Imperial Hospital was not the same as the skull found at the scene.
But he couldn't express his pain.
Because the one in the Imperial Hospital also belonged to a male corpse.
NMD,
I was so miserable!
Li Qingcha laughed and said to the eunuch not far away: "Eunuch, please help me."
The eunuch bowed.
"Master Li has said a word, and we will do our best."
"I would like to ask you to help investigate the disappearances in the palace between four and five years ago. The missing persons are men. The most important thing is not to focus only on the eunuchs."
"I'll report this to the Emperor first, is that ok?"
"Of course. Thank you for your help, father-in-law."
The eunuch looked at Chen Wujiu deeply, as if he was looking at a dead person.
After that, he left in a hurry.
Sirou lowered her voice.
"Not a eunuch?"
Li Qingcha nodded slowly.
"Well, the possibility that he is not a eunuch is very high. Eunuchs have an imbalance of yin and yang in their bodies due to sexual intercourse, which makes them prone to growing tall and large. This also causes problems such as osteoporosis. However, this corpse is short and stocky, and..."
He glanced at Chen Wujiu beside him and continued to explain.
"It's been more than four years, and the leg bones of this corpse are still quite heavy, which means that it has grown and developed well. At least it doesn't have osteoporosis. It is very likely that it is not dead."
Sirou was puzzled.
"Can't it be a little eunuch?"
"A child's skeleton is completely different from an adult's, so it's easy to tell."
The so-called "imbalance of yin and yang in the body" is actually the lack of male hormones, which leads to late epiphyseal closure.
This is also the reason why eunuchs are generally tall.
Being tall is a good thing in modern times, but in ancient times when the average protein intake was extremely low, it would definitely be a disaster.
Li Qingcha has read ancient books, which generally say that eunuchs have a large amount of sponge-like reticular structures inside their bones, and that they are lighter than normal bones. These are typical symptoms of osteoporosis.
She patted Chen Wujiu's right cheek.
"Doctor Chen, what's the matter? Is there anything else you want to say?"
Chen Wujiu's face turned pale.
"..."
What else could he say?
I had thought that Li Qingcha was just a jack of all trades, and that even if he was good at criminal law, he might not understand the work of doctors and coroners. I hadn't expected that he was more professional than me.
Li Qingcha snorted coldly.
"Oh, forget what happened before. I want you to judge the cause of death."
As she said this, she kicked the other person on the butt.
thump--
Chen Wujiu knelt down.
Li Qingcha held his collar and moved back and forth over the corpse.
"How is it? Did you figure out anything?"
Chen Wujiu: “…”
Still silent.
Li Qingcha said: "Do you need me to tell you? Can't you see those dark red spots?"
She pointed to one of the ribs.
Chen Wujiu's lips trembled.
"I see it, I see it...I see it!"
"Okay, then tell me, what are those halos? Are they formed before or after the death?"
"It's blood! It's blood..."
"There is another question! Before death or after death?"
"..."
"Say!"
"Before death!"
Under the harsh questioning, Chen Wujiu finally broke down and burst into tears.
Li Qingcha glanced at him with disgust and threw him aside.
Si Rou asked curiously, "What pregnancy spots? Isn't he a man?"
What does halo have to do with men?
Li Qingcha was stunned for a long time before reacting, and said helplessly: "It's not the 'pregnant' in 'pregnant', it's the 'dizzy' in 'bleeding'."
Sirou blushed.
"You! @*#%￥..."
Li Qingcha pointed at the corpse's ribs.
One of the ribs was broken, but it was pieced together and put where it should be.
"Look over there. There are three ribs on the left side with dark red spots on them. That's blood. The reason why it can't be washed away is that the internal bleeding caused before death has seeped into the bones."
"Hmm... I see. If this stuff was applied after death, it can definitely be washed off, right?"
"Yes."
"But you just said you wanted to discuss the cause of death. What does this have to do with the cause of death..."
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden noise outside.
The chief eunuch rushed into the courtyard with a team of guards and said in a loud voice, "Li Qingcha, the head of the reception department of the Ministry of Rites, please come forward to receive the decree!"
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brush--
The guards knelt on the ground in unison.
The atmosphere in the Zhongcui Palace was already under high pressure, and the sudden arrival of the eunuch was like putting a lid on a pressure cooker, causing everything here to become distorted.
Li Qingcha looked around.
Suddenly, she noticed Gao Zhi in the crowd.
He stood next to the eunuch, about half a body length behind him, but there was an indescribable aura in his energy.
tsk...
It seems that there is something behind this bone case.
Li Qingcha shook his robe.
"My lord, accept the order."
As she spoke, she bowed down.
The chief eunuch immediately spoke out to stop him.
"Master Li, just stand and receive the order."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."
Li Qingcha glanced at Sirou who was kneeling beside him.
The girl lowered her head, and her expression could not be seen clearly.
This girl is very smart and I think she has some understanding of what happened today.
