Jing Rong once again learned something new!
Swiftly, Ji Yunshu fished out a white handkerchief from her sleeve and soaked a corner 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 and suspiciously observed the black blotches on the handkerchief.
“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 it is and find the murderer from that knowledge?”
“I cannot.” Ji Yunshu replied calmly and unhurriedly.
Jing Rong’s eyebrows knitted into a unibrow. “Then why waste time on investigating? 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 this 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 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. But it only made him appear more devastatingly charming!
‘Men should be like this!’ Ji Yunshu stuffed the handkerchief into 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 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, as she turned 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.
This time, 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 murderer. 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 could 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 also do the work of a coroner? Furthermore, you’re also doing the work of 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 she went 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!
1.Ji Yunshu really based herself on real cooking to make her bone broth. Although, it’s not for the same results and reasons