After the fiancé was cut off by the county owner

Chapter 33 Open the coffin

In mid-August, Yan Li and Qi Tanying finally arrived in Wuzhou.Before going to the old house of Qi's family, Yan Li changed into his normal clothes and turned into a prospective son-in-law who followed his fiancée back home to worship his father-in-law.

Qi's old house, the main courtyard of the long house.

Qi Juemin took the main seat, and Qi Tanying and Yan Li sat on his left, right and lower heads respectively.

After exchanging pleasantries, Qi Juemin looked at Qi Tanying and said, "When I sent the nobleman to Beijing for the election in April, my niece Atan hadn't decided on her marriage yet. It's only August, and she brought her prospective husband to the door."

Although he had a smile on his face, anyone with a discerning eye could see that his smile didn't reach his eyes at all.

These words sounded like a joke, but in fact, there was a hint of questioning in it.

After all, Mrs. Qi never told the people in the old house about Qi Tanying's engagement to Yan Li.If it weren't for the need to open the coffin for an autopsy this time, the uncles in the old house might not be able to see Yan Li until their wedding day.

Although Qi Tanying hated Qi Juemin, she still needed to be respectful to him on the face, she stood up and said, "It's all A Tan's fault, please forgive me, Uncle."

Qi Juemin's face became serious, "My niece A Tan is engaged now, and she will be the official wife after she gets married. The old man and the Qi family still need to rely on you and your niece and son-in-law."

Qi Tanying pretended not to understand the irony in his words, "Uncle's words are serious."

Qi Juemin stared at her a few times, then snorted coldly.

Seeing this, Yan Li got up and cupped his hands to Qi Juemin, saying: "The capital is thousands of miles away from Wuzhou, so it is very inconvenient to communicate with each other. My nephew wants to come to Wuzhou to see the place where A Tan grew up when he was a child, and then come to visit him and tell his uncle and father about his engagement. Uncle and father If you want to blame, then blame my nephew."

Qi Juemin took a closer look at him, and saw that the corners of his mouth were raised slightly. Although his tone was humble and respectful, he could feel that this man didn't take himself seriously at all.

He looked at Qi Tanying who was bowing his head again, feeling extremely annoyed.

Okay, very good, the mother and daughter of Wufang are really good at it. Without the Jiang family's marriage contract, they even found a sixth-rank Dali Temple Cheng as their backer.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Qi family hadn't risen yet, he would have let them know that what is life is the Qi family, and death is the ghost of the Qi family.

For a girl who was raised on the Qi family's rice to get rid of the Qi family by getting married, it's a fool's dream!

After getting angry, Qi Juemin put on an amiable face, "It turns out that it is like this. It seems that the old man wronged A Tan and his niece and son-in-law."

After thinking about his words, he asked again: "I'm afraid that A Tan and his niece and son-in-law came to Wuzhou not only to pay respects to my fifth younger brother who died young, but also for other things?"

Yan Li didn't hide it, if the autopsy was to be opened smoothly, the patriarch Qi Juemin had to be present.

He took out the letter approved by Yuan Hedi, Qi Juemin's face changed a few times, and he didn't dare to say a word of objection.

However, opening the coffin for an autopsy is a major event, and this event cannot alarm too many people, so it can only be carried out at night.

The time for opening the coffin was set on the fifth day of August, and it took almost an hour to dig the grave.Ten years later, Qi Heming's coffin has not rotted, but the corpse inside has become bones.

Yan Li brought a very powerful butcher from Dali Temple. He picked up Qi Heming's bones piece by piece and assembled them into a complete human figure.

After putting it together, Wu Zuo suddenly said: "No, the bones are wrong."

All people looked at Wu Zuo in unison, Wu Zuo said: "Humans have skulls, and men have eight pieces from the top to the ears and the back of the head. The woman only has six pieces, and there is a horizontal slit at the back of the head, which should be straight and seamless."

He pointed to the skeleton, "This is the skeleton of a woman."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.Qi Tanying took a step back, unable to believe it: "How come, I watched my father's burial with my own eyes."

Qi Juemin also said: "I was there on the day of the burial, and there is indeed Fifth Brother in the coffin."

Yan Li looked at Wu Zuo: "Could it be a mistake?"

Wu Zuo shook his head with certainty: "It's not wrong. In addition to the skull, the number of left and right ribs is also wrong. Normally, men have twelve ribs each, eight are long and four are short. Women each have fourteen. The younger one counted several times, and there are only fourteen ribs in this skeleton."

Yan Li's face became serious. If it was as Wu Zuo said, why was there a woman's skeleton in Qi Heming's coffin, and where did his skeleton go?
Yan Li immediately decided to have the woman's bones sent to Yizhuang to verify her identity, and to investigate the whereabouts of Qi Heming's bones.

Qi Tanying thought of her father being poisoned before his death, his bones disappeared after death, and she could not sleep peacefully under the nine springs. She felt as if a huge stone was pressing on her heart, and the dull pain made her unable to breathe.

Tears swished down her face and flowed down her cheeks to the corner of her mouth. The taste of the tears was salty and bitter. She couldn't control herself any longer, and let the tears rush wildly, crying bitterly while covering her face.

Father, daughter is unfilial, daughter is unfilial!The incense that originally belonged to the father was borne by a strange woman.If Dali Temple hadn't handled the case and opened the coffin for autopsy, no one would have discovered that the bones had been replaced.

Yan Li was standing outside the door, listening to her cry quietly, the cry was like a drizzle, penetrating into the skin through the fabric, and then into his heart.

After a while, he sighed and walked into the room.

"I will get Uncle Qi's bones back. He promised her.

Qi Tanying raised her head upon hearing this, and looked at him with tears in her eyes, "Really?"

"Really." Yan Li leaned down and gently wiped away the tears from her eyes, "I will do what I promised you, even if it is extremely difficult."

Qi Tanying stopped crying and stared at him blankly.

Yan Li said again: "Wu Zuo has already found out the age and cause of death of the corpse. It was about ten years after death, and the cause of death was dystocia. I have sent someone to investigate. As long as we find the grave of a woman who meets this cause of death, Maybe we can find Uncle Qi's bones."

Qi Tanying had a glimmer of hope in her heart, no matter how you say it, this is good news.

In the next few days, the people of Dali Temple kept staring at the scorching sun and ran around Shangyang County and its surrounding areas. The emperor paid off, and finally found some clues.

In the eighth year of Yuanhe, there were four women who died of dystocia in Shangyang County, two of whom were between seventeen and seventeen.Upon receiving this news, Yan Li didn't delay for a moment, and immediately summoned the two families to prepare to open the coffin for an autopsy.

One of these two families was surnamed Zhu, and the head of the family was the shopkeeper of a silk and satin shop in Shangyang County. The woman who died of dystocia was his original wife.

The other family was named Chang, and the head of the family was the Jiaoyu of Shangyang County School, and the dead woman was his divorced daughter.

Hearing that Dali Temple was going to open the coffin for an autopsy, and that there was still an order from the Holy Master, shopkeeper Zhu did not dare to object at all.After excavating the grave of shopkeeper Zhu Fa's wife, after inspection by the foreman, the bones lying in the coffin were not Qi Heming.

Excluding Zhu's house, Yan Li took people to Chang's house again.Chang Jiaoyu was not as easy-talking as shopkeeper Zhu, he was a scholar, and his tongue was very sharp, and he scolded Yan Li and the entourage of Dali Temple by citing scriptures.

Even the magistrate of Shangyang County came to persuade him, but he still refused to open the coffin for autopsy.

At first Yan Li was good at persuading him, but later he saw that Chang Jiao's instruction was really stubborn, so he had to find another way.

　The method of bone examination in this article comes from Song Ci's "Bone Test".

　　
　
(End of this chapter)