It rained continuously for the whole day and stopped at night.
The front yard of Ji's house is entertaining distinguished guests from the capital, and Ji Yunshu is arranging the paint in the box at this time. These ink paints are all mixed by her. The color is moist and will only get brighter and brighter. .
About a tea hour passed.
Luan'er hurried in and said, "Miss, the county magistrate asked you to rush to Dongjiao Village, saying that there was a fire in the Dongjiao houses, and many people died, and now the family members are waiting for the corpses to be recognized and buried. , but those corpses were burned to charcoal and beyond recognition, so let you go and see."
"When did this happen?"
"An hour ago."
Ji Yunshu let out an "um", and calmly closed the sandalwood box, changed into a man's clothes, lit a lantern, and went to work again.
Ji Yunshu was out of work and never brought Luan'er with him. Naturally, he had to keep someone to guard him in the yard.
The road is not easy to walk at night, but fortunately, Dongjiao Village is not very far. As soon as Ji Yunshu arrived, he saw smoke from the collapsed houses, and the smell of burnt wood was very choking. The villagers surrounded the outside with lanterns, some were weeping and some were sighing.
Taking a closer look, there are more than a dozen charred corpses neatly placed on the ground.
When the county magistrate saw Ji Yunshu coming, he hurried over, lowered his voice, and said in a friendly voice: "Yunshu, look, if the situation is not serious, this official does not want to disturb you, this kind of thing happened in the first month, don't say anything. You feel unlucky, now everyone is crying bitterly!"
"It's not early, so go back earlier."
"Good good."
The county magistrate ordered someone to carry a table and put a dozen pieces of rice paper on it, and then asked the yamen to surround the surroundings.
Looking at the corpses all over the floor, Ji Yunshu's apricot eyes drooped slightly, and a deep emotion was hidden. Although she was used to seeing them, it would be a lie to say that she didn't feel anything at all.
After a while, she walked to the first corpse and squatted to check. The charred corpse in front of her was not only open to flesh, but also had a slightly swollen face. She looked at it for a while and whispered: "The eyes are deep and unformed, The cheekbones are low and flat, the frontal bone is broad, and the mandible body is narrow."
Immediately, he took out a pair of white gloves from his waist and put them on, and lightly pressed the person's face and parietal bones.
He folded back to the table, opened the sandalwood box, took out the brush and color, and drew a portrait on the rice paper.
As soon as the portrait came out, one person rushed out of the crowd and ran to the first corpse crying: "This is my husband, husband, how could you just leave me and leave like this? What to live…”
Ji Yunshu continued to examine the second corpse, the occipital bone was cracked, it must have been smashed by a wooden stake, the sphenoid bone was raised, and the upper jaw bone was slightly inclined...
The second portrait is out again.
A man and a woman rushed up, screaming "mother".
That scene was really tear-jerking!
…
It took Ji Yunshu half an hour to draw all seventeen charred corpses. Among them, twelve were claimed, and five unidentified corpses remained unclaimed.
The county magistrate asked people to take the portrait and ask around, but no one in the village recognized it.
Unknown corpse
Jinjiang's Dongjiao Village is not very big, how could there be five unidentified corpses? Could it be a foreigner
But how could a foreigner appear in a house in the eastern suburbs