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Chapter 226 Bones
The red-faced old man stopped to keep the audience in suspense. Before he could continue to talk about how grand the Pang family's reception for the distinguished guests from the Lan Kingdom was, suddenly a cry of surprise came from the crowd digging a canal in the distance, and it sounded like they were very scared.

The people who were originally digging the soil out of the pit also climbed out of the pit in a hurry, as if they were afraid that if they moved a little slower, they would be grabbed by something and pulled back.

Zhu Yu quickly stood up and walked over there quickly.

Seeing this, the old men behind him stood up and stepped back a few steps. They watched the situation at the edge of the ditch from a distance, shaking their heads and saying, "This young man is so impatient. He wants to get in on everything that's going on! Doesn't he see that everyone else is hiding away?"

Zhu Yu didn't hear it, and even if she did, she wouldn't care. She walked quickly forward, pushed aside the panicked people in front of her, and came to the edge of the ditch.

There was no one left in the ditch. Only a pile of dirt and rocks that had not been dug out was left, and half of a human skull was exposed.

When he saw what it was, Zhu Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Qing was not around, and it was just her and Fu Wen. If something else strange really popped up, they didn't know if they could handle it.

But if it was a dead person's bones, it would be a piece of cake for her.

The pit of the canal was dug very deep. Zhu Yu sat on the edge of the pit and let himself slide down along the wall. After standing still, he found that only his head was exposed.

Fu Wen had already rushed over upon hearing the noise. He squatted beside the pit and asked, "Second Master, let me go down and help you."

"No need." Zhu Yu waved his hand, "You stay up there first, I'll see what's going on, and then we'll talk.

Even if you want to come down, at least pull me up first, otherwise it will be difficult for me to get up."

Fu Wen saw that only Zhu Yu's head was sticking out and it was indeed difficult for him to climb out by himself, so he nodded and watched from the side.

Zhu Yu squatted down and reached out to carefully fiddle with the loosened soil near the skull. Her fingers moved the soil particles and she could clearly feel that the soil was very dry. Except for the dug-up part, the rest of the soil covering the skull was very solid and could not be easily moved away with just a flick of the hand.

After a few twiddlings, Zhu Yu began to feel the sting of scratches on her fingertips. She stopped what she was doing and looked up at Fu Wen. Fu Wen seemed to have guessed her intention and quickly pulled out a dagger from his waist and handed it to her: "Second Master, you can make do with this for now."

Zhu Yu took it and saw that the tip of the dagger was narrow and just right, so he nodded to Fu Wen and continued to carefully dig out the skull.

A group of people stood by the ditch and watched from afar, not daring to get close, but unwilling to run away. They were afraid, but at the same time curious about why Zhu Yu dared to jump in alone to dig out the skull, and wanted to see what was going on.

Zhu Yuzai squatted at the bottom of the pit and worked carefully for a while, and finally dug out the complete human skull from the soil.

As a result, they had just dug out the skull when they saw a piece of white bone exposed underneath.

Seeing this, Fu Wen said to Zhu Yu, "Second Master, I'll pull you out, and I'll take care of the rest!"

Zhu Yu's hands ached from digging the skull out of the dry, hard earth. She realized it wasn't just a skeleton buried here, but a whole, skeletal corpse. She felt it was impossible to dig any further, so she gave up trying. She nodded, asked Fu Wen to pull her out of the pit, and handed the dagger back to him before examining the skull. The skull was highly ossified, spotless, without a trace of debris. From the frontal and parietal bones to the temporal and occipital bones, it was intact and smooth, without even a tiny wrinkle, let alone damage from trauma.

Zhu Yu turned the skull over and looked at the side where the cervical vertebrae should have been connected. Judging from the cross-section, it was not violently severed, but separated naturally after the bones turned to white and the cartilage rotted away.

Zhu Yu couldn't help but glance into the pit, muttering to himself, if it could turn into bones, it must have been buried here for quite some time.

At least the skull looks incredibly intact now. If the rest of the bones are also intact and nothing unusual can be found... maybe they accidentally dug up someone's grave while digging the canal...

But she quickly rejected this idea.

It didn't take long before Fu Wen dug out a lot of bones from the pit that were also completely whitened. Zhu Yu squatted by the pit and pieced them together, his brows gradually furrowed.

"Second Master, is there something wrong?" When Fu Wen threw out another bone, he saw that Zhu Yu's face looked a little strange. He knew that his mistress was not someone who would be afraid of these things. There must be some other reason for her to look so bad.

When he asked this question, those who were watching the excitement from afar pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what the young man called "Second Master" had to say.

They had not originally noticed this young man who was slightly thinner than the others, but now they saw this guy who seemed to be so weak at first glance squatting there and fiddling with dead bones without fear. The impact of this scene was so great that their fear was temporarily diluted by surprise.

Zhu Yu picked up a slightly triangular piece of bone in each hand and said, "Among the bones you just dug out for me, there are two shoulder blades.

They’re all on the right shoulder.”

Fu Wen's face turned grim, and he hurriedly continued digging out of the pit.

Soon, the soldiers of Prince Shuo's mansion who were digging a canal in another place also noticed something unusual here. They came to check the situation and saw bones lying beside the pit. The married second lady was squatting by the pit fiddling with it, while in the pit, the guard of Prince Xiaoyao was helping the second lady to continue digging out human bones. He was also stunned for a moment.

"What are you still standing there for! Two of you come down to help me, and the rest of you take the rest of the people and continue working over there!" Fu Wen was somewhat helpless about their reaction, but at the moment he had no time to comment on how Zhu Cheng managed the servants in the palace, so he just shouted.

The palace soldiers came to their senses and quickly followed instructions, leaving two people to help with Fu Wen while the others called on the onlookers to continue working in the ditch on the other side.

With the help of the two palace soldiers, many more human bones were dug out from the pit in a short while.

Zhu Yu's expression became increasingly ugly, almost changing from solemn to gloomy.

"Master...how many people are there?" Fu Wen straightened up, wiped the sweat off his face, looked at the yellow and white color still faintly visible at the bottom of the pit, and asked Zhu Yu.

"At least 9." Zhu Yu replied.