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As the dead person’s throat was cut open, it began emitting a vile nauseating smell of charred flesh and blood.
Jing Rong continued to frown, but kept her silence
Ji Yunshu put the knife aside. Next, she used both hands to widen the cut on the throat. When she applied some force with her fingers, the bones in the throat snapped into pieces.
This action also ruptured some veins, causing blood to trickle out. The texture resembled a gelatinous blob of blood more than a liquid.
Because Ji Yunshu forgot to wear her gloves, her hands were now completely soaked in blood. As if she was playing with a toy, she continued to fiddle inside the throat cavity in search of something.
This was absolutely sickening!
Standing on the side, at this instant, it was no longer possible to describe what Jing Rong was feeling. On the battlefield, he had killed a countless number of people. His hands were dyed with the blood of more than ten thousand souls. He had seen enough corpses littered everywhere to the point it had became a normal sight for him.
Yet, it was the first time he had seen someone dismantle a dead body with their bare hands in such a manner. The scene was truly too educational!
“Did you see something?” Jing Rong wrinkled his nose as he inquired.
“When we examine the body of those deceased by poisoning, the most important thing to determine is the type of poison used.”
“What poison killed them?”
“We still don’t know for now.”
Ji Yunshu knocked her hand on the throat bones. After pondering for a moment, she took the bones, still dripping in blood, with her.
Fu Bo, who had just finished giving incense to the dead, came in and saw Ji Yunshu going to the door.
She asked, “Fu Bo, did you boil the vinegar and water?”
Fu Bo nodded while pointing at a small hut inside the courtyard. “I knew that you might’ve needed it, so I prepared it beforehand. When you’re done with it, don’t forget to change the water.”
“I know.”
She promised straightforwardly. She clasped the hyoid bone and surrounding cartilage bones and went inside the hut.
Like a shadow, Jing Rong also tagged along and went inside.
As soon as he entered the hut, Jing Rong was scared out of his wits. His legs halted at the door frame and wouldn’t budge, like it was glued to the floor. He still forced himself to move forward one step at a time.
In the dim hut, there was only a single candle moving to and fro from the ceiling. All the walls inside the hut were covered by tall shelves. On each shelf, there were earthen jars with bone ash piled up inside!
Ji Yunshu walked to a big cauldron, containing a solution of white vinegar bubbling merrily under the heat of the fire. Next, she threw the throat bones into the cauldron. She shot a glance at Jing Rong and guessed what was on his mind. Soon afterwards, she spoke to him. “Your Highness doesn’t need to be scared. Those jars contain the ashes of those travellers from foreign lands whose identities remain unknown. Fu Bo couldn’t bear for their corpses to be thrown out in the wilderness, so he cremated them and their ashes are put in an earthen jar.”
Jing Rong retorted, “Scholar, when was this prince scared?”
Ji Yunshu’s mouth curved down.
‘Damned bastard! He can’t even admit it!’
While Ji Yunshu was lost in thought, Jing Rong moved next to her and watched the bone that had sunk into the boiling vinegar solution. His mind gave birth to some doubts.
“What are you doing?”
Ji Yunshu blurted out, “I’m making bone broth1.”
The instant Jing Rong heard her answer, he felt as if the back of his skull had been forced open, with a cold sensation drilling into his brain from there! While he was assailed by cold shivers, Ji Yunshu let out a cry of surprise and pointed at the vinegar solution. “Your Highness, look at this quickly!”
Jing Rong got annoyed but still approached to take a look. Then, he saw the originally white and transparent liquid was gradually turning black.
“Why is it turning black?” He was flabbergasted.
“This humble one mentioned the other day that the hyoid bone is soft while the part above and below is hard. This indicates a very strong probability of the victim dying from poisoning. Since it’s a poison that passed through the throat, there must have been some poison that seeped inside the bone marrow. I simply boiled the bones inside this vinegar solution. By boiling the bones, the poison inside the bone marrow will percolate out. The black liquid oozing out from the bones is the poison we’re looking for.”
Jing Rong once again learned something new!
Swiftly, Ji Yunshu fished out a white handkerchief from her sleeve and soaked the corner of it with the black liquid.
“The toxicity of this poison is very fierce. Otherwise, it would be impossible to have that much poison seeping out from such small bones like those irregular bones in the throat.”
Ji Yunshu carefully observed the black blotches on the handkerchief with suspicion.
“Teacher, do you know what poison it is?”
“This humble one is not a doctor and I can’t make poison, so I can’t tell just by looking at it.”
“Can you investigate what type of poison and find the murderer from that knowledge?”
“I cannot.” Ji Yunshu replied calmly without hurry.
Jing Rong’s eyebrows knitted into a unibrow. “Then why waste time to investigate? This prince is not in the mood to follow you in your confusing antics!”
“Who said I was playing around?”
“But your investigation is useless.”
“Can’t I have a mind full of curiosity? Can’t I want to know what poison killed that person? Prince, if you don’t like to waste time, then you don’t need to hold me here to investigate the case. It’s better to stay at home and sleep than to be here during the cold night.” Every phrase she spoke was eloquent and reasonable!
Jing Rong was rendered speechless. ‘This scholar talks too much.’ The space between his eyebrows wrinkled until it looked like this: 川. He waved his hand and exclaimed, “Stop, forget it! I was the one who approached you and requested for your help. Naturally, I will not question your qualifications. But those five are my subordinates. They received my orders to return to the capital, yet they died under someone’s evil schemes.”
The worry made Jing Rong put away his frivolous attitude and nefarious, cunning temper, leaving only a genuine expression of pain and stubbornness. It made him appear devastatingly more charming!
‘Men should be like this!’ Ji Yunshu stuffed the handkerchief in her waist belt. The handkerchief looked quite creepy with her bloody handprints and black spots of poison.
She turned and strode away. “Your Highness, do you still want me to investigate? If so, let’s move on.”
“…” Jing Rong obediently followed behind Ji Yunshu. As soon as they left, Fu Bo came in.
Every time Ji Yunshu came, he always boiled a cauldron of vinegar solution for her to boil the bones. When he saw the black content in the cauldron, he helplessly shook his head. “Every time, this child always forgets to change the water.” In the end, he still changed the water.
Yunshu and Jing Rong returned back to the five corpses. Ji Yunshu currently had her eyes lowered, showing a serious expression, not caring about her blood soaked hands. Her sleeves were rolled up, revealing a pair of slender arms as fair as jade, turning a corpse’s head to the side.
With her fingers, she pressed on the nape of the dead body for a short moment, then picked up a large knife and cut into the nape until the back of the cranial bone was exposed.
Then, she analyzed out loud. “Surprisingly, there are still some traces left from the battle between the deceased and the murderer. By examining the body, we will certainly be able to find a clue left by the murder. If we examine the wounds on the victims, we can deduce the murderer’s unique habits and characteristics.”
“Do you have a concrete example?” Jing Rong asked.
“For example, we can determine if the murderer was tall or short; a man or a woman; or if he used his left hand or right hand to kill. We can even determine if he ambushed from behind or if he took them head on. And so on…”
It sounded rather incredible how much can be found from so little!
Although Ji Yunshu found the murderers of Miss Zhou based on her dead body, Jing Rong was still skeptical about her abilities.
“You can find out this much just from examining a corpse?”
“If the deceased wishes to inform us of their grievances, we can certainly find it.”
After a moment, Jing Rong became puzzled again. “Teacher Ji, aren’t you a painter? How come you can do the work of a coroner? Furthermore, you’re also doing the work of the law enforcers!”
That’s right! How could he forget that her official position in the yamen was that of a painter!
There were many times when Ji Yunshu asked herself where did she go wrong? She was obviously an expert in facial reconstruction and clearly occupied the position of a painter at the yamen, but her work always took another tangent. Who can she blame? She can only blame having a dad who was a forensic investigator!
You’re a damn Clostridium difficile! I didn’t give anyone permission to host this translations their websites apart from volare novels. If you’re not reading on volare novels. Translations credits : Grenn, pyon and Q. Read it on volare novels.
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This was absolutely sickening!旁边的景容，已经无法形容自己此时的感受了。
Standing on the side, at this instant, it was no longer possible to describe what Jing Rong was feeling. On the battlefield, he had killed a countless number of people. His hands were dyed with the blood of more than ten thousands souls if not, at least more than a thousand. He had seen enough Ccorpses could be seen littered everywhere to the point it had became a normal sight for him.
Yet, it was the first time he had seensaw someone dismantleing a dead body with their bare hands in such a manner. The scene was truly too educational!
“Did you see something?” Jing Rong wrinkled his nose as he inquired.
“When we examined the body of those deceased by poisoning, the most important thing to determinething that need to be determined is the type of poison used.”
“What poison killed them?”
“We still don’t know for now.”
Ji Yunshu knocked her hand on the throat bones. After pondering for a moment, she took the bones, still dripping in blood, with her.with her the blood-dripping bones with her.
Fu Bo, who had just finishedwas just done giving incense to the dead, came in and saw Ji Yunshu going to thea door.
She asked, “Fu Bo, did you boil the vinegar and water?”
Fu Bo nodded while pointing at a small hut inside the courtyard. “I kneow that you might’ve needed it, so I prepared it beforehand. When you’re done with it, don’t forget to change the water.”
“I know.”
She promised straightforwardly. She clasped the hyoid bone and surroundingother cartilage bones and went inside the hut.
Like a shadow, Jing Rong also tagged along and went inside.
As soon as he entered the hut, Jing Rong was scared out of his wits. His legs halted at the door frame and wouldn’t budge,bulge like it was glued to the floor. He still forced himself to move forward one step at a time.
In the dim hut, there was only a single candle moving to and fro from the ceiling. All the walls inside the hut werewas covered by tall shelves. On each shelf, there werewas earthen jars with bone ash piled up inside!
Ji Yunshu walked to a big cauldron, containing a solution of white vinegar bubbling merrily under the heat of the fire. Next, she threw the throat bones into the cauldron. She shot a glance at Jing Rong and guessed out what was on his mind. Soon afterwards, she spoke to him. “Your Highness doesn’t need to be scared. Those jars contained the ashes of those travellers from foreign lands whose identities remain unknownthat no one knew of their identity. Fu Bo couldn’t bear for their corpses to be thrown out in the wilderness, so he cremated them and their ashes are put in an earthen jar.”
Jing Rong retorted, “Scholar, when was this prince scared?”
Ji Yunshu’s mouth curved down.
‘Damned duck! He can’t even admit it!’
While Ji Yunshu was lost in thoughts, Jing Rong movedwent next to her and watched the bone that had suank into the boiling vinegar solution. His mind gave birth to some doubts.
“What are you doing?”
Ji Yunshu blurted out, “I’m making bone broth2.”
他正“冷”得猝不及防时，纪云舒惊呼了一句，指着那锅白醋水。“王爷快看。”
The instant Jing Rong heard her answer, he felt as if the back of his skull had beenwas forced open, withand a cold sensation drillinged into his brain from there! While he was assailed by cold shivers, Ji Yunshu let out a cry of surprise and pointed at the vinegar solution. “Your Highness, look at this quickly!”
Jing Rong got annoyed but still approached to take a look. Then, he saw the originally white and transparent liquid was gradually turninged black.
“Why is it turning black?” He was flabbergasted.
“This humble one mentioned it the other day that the hyoid bone iswas soft while the part above and below isit was hard. This indicates a very strong probability of the victim dying from poisoning. Since it’s a poison that passed through the throat, there must have been some poison that seepeding inside the bone marrow of it. I simply boiled the bones inside this vinegar solution. By boiling the bones, the poison inside the bone marrow will percolateseeped out. The black liquid oozing out from the bones is the poison we’re looking for.”
Jing Rong once again learned something new!
Swiftly, Ji Yunshu fished out a white handkerchief from her sleeve and soaked the corner of it with the black liquid.
“The toxicity of this poison is very fierce. Otherwise, it would be impossible to have that much poison seeping out from such small bones like those irregular bones in the throat.”
Ji Yunshu carefully observed the black blotchesd on the handkerchief with suspicions.
“Teacher, do you know what poison it is?”
“This humble one is not a doctor and I can’t treat poisoned people, so I can’t tell just by looking at it.”
“Can you investigate what type of poison and find the murderer from that knowledge?”
“I cannot.” Ji Yunshu replied calmly without hurry.
Jing Rong’s eyebrows knitted into an unibrow. “Then, why waste time to investigate? This prince is not in the mood to follow you in your confusing antics!”
“Who said I was playing around?”
“But your investigation is useless.”
“Can’t I have a mind full of curiosity? Can’t I want to know what poison killed that person? Prince, if you don’t like to waste time, then you don’t need to hold me here to investigate the case. It’s better to stay at home and sleep than to be here duringin the cold night.” Every phrases she spoke wasere eloquent and reasonable!
景容的眉间中央露出了一个“川”字，摆摆手，道：“罢了罢了，本王即是有求于你，自然没有催促你的资格，只是那五人皆是本王的下属，奉本王之令回京复命，却不曾想会惨遭毒手。”
Jing Rong was rendered speechless. ‘This scholar talks too much.’ The space between his eyebrows wrinkled until it looked like this: 川. He waved his hand and exclaimed, “Stop, forget it! I was the one who approached you and requested for your help. Naturally, I will not questioned your qualifications. But those five are my subordinates. They received my orders to return to the capital, yet they died under someone’s evil schemes.”
The worry made Jing Rong put away his frivolous attitude, and nefarious, and cunning temper, leaving only a genuine expression of pain and stubbornness. It made him appeared devastatingly more charming!
纪云舒将帕子塞进腰间，而那帕子因为沾了她血淋淋的手印，显得格外渗人。
‘Men should be like this!’ Ji Yunshu stuffed the handkerchief in her waist belt. The handkerchief looked quite creepy with her bloody handprints and black spots of poison.
She turned and strodestrided away. “Your Highness, do you still want me to investigate? If so, let’s move on.”
景容依旧乖乖跟了上去。
“…” Jing Rong obediently followed behind Ji Yunshu. As soon as they left, Fu Bo came in.
可看着锅子里泛黑的白醋水，又忍不住摇摇头。
最后，又是福伯自己换了水。
Every time Ji Yunshu came, he always boiled a cauldron of vinegar solution for her to boil the bones. When he saw the black content in the cauldron, he helplessly shook his head. “Every time, this child always forgets to change the water.” In the end, he still changed the water.
Yunshu and Jing Rong returned back to the five corpses. Ji Yunshu currently had her eyes lowered, showing a serious expression, not caring about her blood soaked hands. Her sleeves were rolled up, revealing a pair of slender and fair as jade arms as fair as jade, turning a corpse’s head to the side.
With her fingers, she pressed on the nape of the dead body for a short moment, then picked up a large knife and cut into the nape until the back of the cranial bone was exposedseen.
Then, she analyzed out loud. “Surprisingly, there are still some traces left from the battle between the deceased and the murderer. By examining the body, we will certainly will be able to find a clue left by the murder. If we examined the wounds on the victims, we can deduce the murderer’s unique habits and characteristics.”
“Do you have a concrete example?” Jing Rong asked.
“For example, we can determine if the murderer was tall or short; a man or a woman; or if he used his left hand or right hand to kill.? We can even determined if he ambushed from behind or if he took them heads on.? And so on…”
It sounded rather incredible how much can be found from so little!
Although Ji Yunshu found the murderers of Miss Zhou based on her dead body, Jing Rong was still skeptical about her abilities.
“You can find out this much just from just examining a corpse?” You’re a damn clostridium difficile! I didn’t give anyone permission to host this translations on their websites apart from volare novels. If you’re not reading on volare novels. Translations’ and half-assed editing’s credits to Grenn, pyon and Q. Read it on volare novels.
“If the deceased wishesd to inform of their grievances to us, we can certainly can find it.”
After a moment, Jing Rong became puzzled again. “Teacher Ji, aren’t you a painter? How come you can do the work of a coroner? Furthermore, you’re also doing the work of the law enforcers!”
That’s right! How could he forget that her official position in the yamen was that of a painter!纪云舒也多次问过自己，她明明是人像重建师，明明做的是画师那份雅致的工作，偏偏误入“歧途”。
There were many times when Ji Yunshu asked herself where did she go wrong? She was obviously an expert in facial reconstruction and clearly occupied the position of a painter at the yamen, but her work always took another tangent. Who can she blame? She can only blame having a dad who was a forensic investigator and Grenn for being pissed off by people who copy&paste without permission, don’t give due credits and don’t link back, even manga aggregator knows not to take out credits.
Grenn’s Rants Corner
This is a real chapter customized for aggregator website and will stay like this for an undetermined time. *gives middle toenail*
Please do not follow Yunshu’s example. Please wear gloves when doing autopsy.