Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 787
Li Canghai glanced at the old man, ignored the old man and the others, and retreated on his own.

After leaving the ancestral hall, Li Canghai asked Lu Jitong to find some strong men, and headed towards the Yuan family's deserted house in the southeast with a pickaxe on their shoulders.

Yuan Tiangang's descendants actually lived in Fufeng Town, which Li Canghai never imagined.

There are many mysteries in it, which makes Li Canghai feel puzzled.

Yuan Tiangang is famous all over the world, why did he move his family here?And why are future generations not allowed to practice physiognomy?

What happened to the Yuan family?Why did Yuan Zimei, a descendant of the Yuan family, die in his backyard?
According to Liu Yang, Yuan Zimei left Fufeng Town with his family back then, but his body was found in his backyard, which made Li Canghai feel unsure.

Judging from his experience in solving cases these days, I'm afraid there will be other corpses in the Yuan family's backyard.

In order to verify what he thought in his heart, he took everyone to the Yuan family's deserted house.

The Yuan family's desolate house was dilapidated, and when one walked into the yard, one felt desolate and desolate.

Li Canghai led everyone to the backyard.

Apart from the weeds in the backyard, there were only two dead trees left.

"Young master, this backyard is so huge, where do we dig it?" Lu Jitong asked.

Li Canghai did not speak, but glanced at the entire backyard.

The backyard covers an area of ​​about two acres, and they are short of manpower, so it is obviously impossible to dig it all up.

However, the weeds in the backyard caught Li Canghai's attention.

Although those weeds were already withered and yellowed, there was a big difference in where they grew.

Every few feet or so, there is a bunch of weeds growing together.

Although the weeds were defeated, it can still be seen that these piles of weeds are much more lush than the surrounding ones.

Li Canghai pondered for a while, then pointed to those haystacks and said, "Start with these haystacks!"

Under Li Canghai's command, the crowd brandished hoes and dug around the weeds that had grown together.

Soon, a pile of wild grass was dug up, and someone found a leg bone inside, and immediately yelled loudly.

Li Canghai hurried over, carefully picked out the leg bone, and put it in the open space beside him.

"My lord, why are there human bones here?" Lu Jitong looked at the leg bones and asked in surprise.

Li Canghai looked solemn, and said: "It seems that, as I guessed, the Yuan family may have been wiped out."

"What? Another massacre?" Lu Jitong said in disbelief.

Li Canghai nodded, and said, "Brother Lu, when you ask everyone to dig the soil, be careful not to hurt those bones."

Hearing this, Lu Jitong knew the seriousness of the situation, nodded his head, and led the crowd to continue digging.

After half a day passed, three large pits were dug out in the backyard.

On the open space in the backyard, there were several dead bones.

Wearing cotton gloves, Li Canghai carefully arranged the dead bones one by one according to the human bones, and there were three broken bones in different degrees.

"My lord, we dug all over the backyard and only found these three skeletons." Lu Jitong walked over, put down the hoe, and said.

Li Canghai nodded, and asked Lu Jitong to use a pen and paper as a document to record the condition of the corpse.

"The first skeleton is five feet two inches tall, with a wide pubic bone. It can be concluded that it is a woman. The cause of death is broken posterior tibia..." Li Canghai carefully examined the neck of the first corpse, and closed his eyes again in his mind. After simulating for a moment, he said, "This person should have been hanged."

Lu Jitong recorded the post-mortem form and asked in puzzlement, "Master, this corpse has been turned into dry bones. How can you be sure that this person is a woman and was hanged?"

Li Canghai pointed to the pelvic bone of the corpse and said, "The best way to distinguish the sex of the dry bone is from the pubic bone. Men's pubic bones are narrow, while women's are wider. The cause of her death was the fracture of the tibia at the neck. When a person is hung up, the neck goes down and the tibia breaks off, causing this scar."

Lu Jitong let out a sudden realization.

Li Canghai then inspected the second corpse. He looked it over carefully and said, "The second skeleton is six feet five inches tall. It is a man. The cause of death is unknown. There are multiple fractures on his body. It seems that he fell to his death from a high altitude... …”

Speaking of this, a strange feeling suddenly flashed in Li Canghai's heart.

"My lord, what's the matter with you?" Seeing him still in a daze, Lu Jitong asked in bewilderment.

"Oh, it's nothing." Li Canghai came back to his senses, closed his eyes and calmed down, and continued, "Let's look at the third corpse. The third corpse is three feet tall...the teeth have fallen out... Hmm? A girl?"

"Girl?" Lu Jitong was stunned.

Li Canghai's expression became extremely serious in an instant. He examined the skeleton carefully and found a deep crack on a tibia at the neck of the skeleton.

"My lord, why did this girl die?" Lu Jitong asked.

Li Canghai's tone was cold, his eyes were burning with anger, and he said coldly: "There is a bone injury on the neck, and he was killed by cutting his throat with a sharp weapon."

When Lu Jitong heard the words, he immediately gasped.

"Who would use such cruel methods to deal with a child?" Lu Jitong said in disbelief.

Looking at the three skeletons, Li Canghai's expression became more serious.

But at this moment, the fake old man rushed over with Liu Yang and others.

The story that Li Canghai led people to dig up the bones in Yuan's deserted house soon spread throughout Fufeng Town.

"Mr. Li, what's going on? Why are there so many skeletons in Yuan's former residence?" Liu Yang saw those skeletons with a look of surprise on his face.

Li Canghai took off his cotton gloves, and said in a deep voice, "If my guess is correct, these corpses should belong to the Yuan family."

"What? This...how is this possible?" Liu Yang walked over tremblingly and screamed.

"Old man, how many people were there in the Yuan family?" Li Canghai asked.

Liu Yang was stunned for a moment, and said: "After Brother Zimei dismissed the servants, he, his son, daughter-in-law and a granddaughter are left..."

Speaking of this, Liu Yang suddenly thought of something, he hurriedly looked down at the three corpses, only to feel dizzy before his eyes, and almost passed out.

Aren't these three corpses the same as Yuan Zimei's family?
"Why... this happened? Who the hell killed brother Zimei's family!" Liu Yang cried tremblingly with wet eyes.

"Infinite Heavenly Venerable, it's no wonder that there is so much hostility here. I didn't expect it to be a tragic case of extermination." The fake old man recited his love, shook his head and sighed.

But Li Canghai didn't have time to pay attention to the fake old man, and said to Liu Yang: "Old man, when you found Yuan Zimei's body, where did you bury it?"

"It's in the woods outside the town." Liu Yang said, wiping away tears.

After Li Canghai asked the guards to leave the bones, he took Lu Jitong towards the forest outside the town.

(End of this chapter)