The Underworld Detective

Just as I wondered what was wrong with this skeleton, Grandpa said, "Yang, judging what this person did before life, how did he die? If it's a man or a woman, if it's a woman, have you ever had a child, how old you were when you died, what kind of illness you had in your life, how much you know to say? ”

“Grandpa, are you testing me?” I asked.

“Kind of!” Grandpa smoked faintly.

I mean, this is a fucking exam, right? Dragged me out of bed in the middle of the night and took me to the mass grave to dig someone else's grave. I don't think there will be a second grandfather doing this again.

“Let's see, this place is so cold, I'm afraid to eat this old bone for a long time.” Grandpa stamped his feet.

I calm my heart to measure this skeleton, and from time to time there are suspicious movements around the mass graves, plus the gloom here, which affects people! But as I settled down, I gradually removed all this interference.

This bone that I put together, from head to foot, was about a meter and eight long, and I wanted to come here before I was a big, tall guy, but the soles of my feet were very small, which was really not scientific. A fixed ratio of the foot to the height of about one to seven, the taller the foot is, the longer the foot, unless this man made his feet three inches of golden lotus, like a woman in ancient times.

I don't want to tangle this for the time being, I want to judge this person's gender, judging by the crude extent of the femur, my first reaction is men, but at first glance the diastolic pelvis, distinguished by the characteristics of women, and there are scars from labor on the pubic bone!

I picked up my skull to confirm my age, judging by the degree of wear on my teeth, and it was appropriate for an adult in his early thirties. However, looking at the femur, the bone is slightly lighter, which is a sign of calcium loss, and because of years of stress bending, these characteristics are distinguished as elderly, which is too strange...

What's more, this man's arms, his big bones, this should be the leg skeleton characteristic. Has this man walked with his limbs since he was born?

This skeleton is full of contradictions from head to toe. The more people look at it, the more uncertain it is. But suddenly, I understood Grandpa's intentions. This exam will never be that simple. I already have an answer in my heart!

I spent too much time squatting, and when I stood up, I was dizzy, black in front of me, and my legs were stiff like rocks. Grandpa threw a cigarette butt in front of him, so I didn't realize I was squatting there for half an hour.

“How's it going, Yang?” Grandpa asked.

“He was about thirty years old, a man and a woman, who lived in captivity for many years after his birth, walked on four legs, ate rough food and had seven or eight children, who were later drowned in water and then chopped to death. ”

“Is that your conclusion?” Grandpa grinned.

“Yes, because it's not alone!” I said.

“Oh?” Grandpa greeted. “Tell me why he's not alone. ”

The skeleton, with the exception of the head, borrowed all the parts from the animal, the legs from the sheep, the hands from the pig, the pelvis from the other old pig, the hands and feet from pieces of bone, possibly from the cat and dog.

If the cause of death is to be judged, judging by the fractured wound on the neck, it is beheaded and died.

After listening to me, Grandpa was happy to nod his head: “The children can teach, the ancients said that it would be better not to have a book. If you can't even distinguish between human and animal bones, then tell you that more is a waste of time. Good, good, I Song Jiaguo and then someone else. ”

“But Grandpa...” I said, "What the hell is going on with this skeleton? ”

Grandpa smoked a cigarette and revealed the origin of this strange skeleton...

That was 30 years ago.

At that time, there was a villager named Huang San at Yangshu Estate near the county town. Huang San was a idle barber, nothing but drinking, gambling, and overturning the widow's wall in the middle of the night. He vibrantly killed his own mother when he was less than 20 years old.

Of course, the kid didn't ask his wife. He borrowed money all day. People in the village very much disliked him. Huang San couldn't stay in the village, so he went out to work. He worked for two days at this construction site. He worked for two days at that restaurant. He ran to gamble with two pieces of money.

Once he owed $5,000 in gambling debt to run away, the debtor chased to the village for money, at that time it was a huge amount of money, enough to build a few nice houses in the countryside, relatives and friends no one wanted to carry this pot for him, said they didn't know him.

A few days later, someone picked up a black plastic bag on the side of the hill with a bloody head and immediately called the police! The police took a photograph and posted it in the newspaper. Huang San's distant uncle recognized that the head was Huang San. The kid must have been killed by the debtor. Everyone thought that the kid had killed himself. Plus the rural people's ideas were conservative and no lawsuit was filed, and the police didn't open a case and investigate. This murder would be over.

Huang San's head was sent back to the village. Everyone thought the Huang family was so miserable, so the incense fire was broken. Huang San didn't leave a whole corpse until he died, afraid it would be a ghost! As soon as it was discovered that Huang San's mother was Chaoshan, he was given a 'double burial' according to the customs of Chaoshan. In other words, he was given a body to be buried with the skeletons of other animals, which is to say that he was able to live in peace after his death.

After talking about the history of this skeleton, Grandpa asked me to bury Huang San's bones back. After I buried him, he took a piece of yellow paper out of his arms, wiped a match and lit it. He put it on his grave and said: “Brother Huang San, how disturbing. I know you died wrongfully, and you have no children behind you. I don't think the offering is eye-catching. On the day of your holiday next year, I will surely ask some monks to do the work for you, to transcend your dead spirit! ”

The voice had just fallen, a shady wind had risen for no reason, and the fire was fluttering, as if I had heard a whiff of crying in the wind, wrapped in paper ash and drifted to the sky.

I was scared by this scene, Grandpa pressed my head and told me to kowtow a few heads to apologize.

When I woke up, the wind had disappeared, and my voice shivered, "Is there really a ghost in this world? ”

“There are things that are in the letter, but not in the letter. But Yang, remember, testing the body is an affront to the deceased in itself! So you have to stay in awe at all times to be worthy of the heavens and the earth. ”

I nodded: “I remember! ”

But when I thought about it, did that mean that I could become a forensic doctor in the future? “Grandpa, I passed your test too. Can I become a forensic doctor for Uncle Sun in the future? ”

“No, absolutely not. The Songs' ancestral training is absolutely irreversible!” Grandpa drank loudly.