C24 Part2

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It was dark but fortunately the moon illuminated the grave with its light.

The moonlight was pouring out its light and shining like Mercury, but it was not beautiful at all.

It illuminated the carcasses and the white bones of dead bodies and they were rotting and disgusting bones.

She poked with the branches here and there, almost fainted by the rancid smell of the corpses.

"WHAT----?!"

Hearing the exclamation of His Highness, Shen Zhiyan rushed over reflexively and asked in a panic:

"Your Highness, what's the matter?"

To be honest, when he heard the cry of His Highness, he was really scared to death.

Murong Ci grinned in horror, almost crying,

"It seems...something is blocking my feet...

Is it a...ghost's hand?"

He bent down, shook his head and smiled,

"His Royal Highness, don't be afraid, it's just a grass root."

She breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt embarrassed again,

"Am I overreacting out of fear?"

"It's the first time Your Royal Highness comes to this kind of place, so it's only natural to be a little afraid...

The first time I went to dig a grave, I was scared to death."

He comforted her tenderly and smiled.

The moonlight stream flowed in his elegant and delicate eyebrows, like a flower blooming quietly, with unparalleled elegance.

'To think that such a handsome man, with a jade-like figure, has a mysterious love for examining corpses...what a contradiction.'

Murong Ci was not so scared anymore, and the two continued to search.

"Shen Zhiyan, there are two sacks here."

She exclaimed happily,

"These sacks have a royal mark on them.

It must be it!"

"I'll open them and take a look."

Shen Zhiyan cut open the sacks quickly, and it turned out to be two bodies.

Then he dragged the two corpses to a flat place and let the corpses lie flat.

She squatted aside and stared at the two faces,

"I don't know them in the Palace.

I don't know if they are the maids or the concubines who have been relegated from common people."

He began an autopsy, starting from the head.

"The deceased was about forty years old.

Judging from the corpse, she should have been dead for about four days...

There was no injury on her body.

The fatal injury was a three-inch neck wound.

The deceased's face and body were scary white because the blood was drained."

"This is the same too?"

Murong Ci asked about the other corpse.

"The same fatal wound."

Shen Zhiyan inspected the limbs of the corpse, and then said,

"The wounds between the two deceased's necks are thin and long.

It can be seen that the murderer was skillful in committing crimes, clean and neat, and killed with a single knife."

"Hey, the thumb and index finger of this hand are tightly pinched.

It's a bit weird."

She saw the hand curled up at her feet, and did not touch her, following his instructions.

"Let me see."

He picked up that hand and faced the bright moon.

The curled shape of that hand was weird, especially the thumb and index finger, which seemed to be pinching something.

He looked at it carefully, pinched something gently, and then put down the hand,

"It's a hair."

Murong Ci raised her eyebrows in surprise,

"The deceased still held this hair after she died for so long.

Perhaps this hair belonged to the murderer, and she obtained it from the murderer when she was dying."

"Although we have found it, a piece of hair seems useless."

Shen Zhiyan was extremely disappointed, put this hair in a silk paw, and then wrapped it up.

Then he took a closer look, except for the fatal wound and the hair, nothing else was found.

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The pine wind blew, and the crow cried sternly.

They rushed their horses back to the city, and Shen Zhiyan sent His Royal Highness to the gate of the East Palace.

Murong Ci watched him leave before turning her horse's head and galloping in the direction of the East Palace.

After returning to the East Palace, she lay down after taking a bath and changing clothes.

She was tired and soon fell asleep.

The next day, she did not get up until almost noon.

After eating her meal, she took out the hair they had found the previous day at the mass grave, and found that most of it was silver.

'So, the murderer of the two unnamed female maids was an elderly person or one with gray hair...?'

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END of CHAPTER 24 PART 2

.....................to be continued