After being reborn with my scumbag ex-husband, I became his sister-in-law.

A look of confusion flashed in Qing Tong's eyes as he listened to their conversation: "Why is it impossible?"

Upon hearing this, Song Xizhi and Pei Yunyi exchanged a glance.

Song Xizhi received his signal and spoke first: "Because judging from the degree of decomposition of these people's corpses, they died at the same time, at least a dozen years ago."

"The Chen brothers have been robbing and plundering for decades. If these were the bodies of victims, they could not have died at the same time."

Everyone looked blankly at Pei Yunyi, who then explained, "There are signs of a fight in this room, so these bodies are roughly divided into two parts."

"By looking at the location of their deaths and the direction of their muscles, we can roughly determine that these two groups of people died from fighting each other."

Pei Yunyi spoke, his sharp gaze sweeping over everything in the room. He paused slightly, then frowned and said, "No."

"To be precise, it was a tragedy that occurred because of a life-or-death struggle between one person and a group of people."

Everyone followed Pei Yunyi's gaze and then frowned deeply.

At this moment, they have no idea what exactly happened in this tomb.

However, simply waiting won't bring the truth to you.

The group had no choice but to divide the work and, after taking the anti-poisoning pills provided by Song Xizhi, began to examine the corpses scattered all over the ground.

As Pei Yunyi said, the scene before him was the result of a fight between one person and a group of people.

A group of people fighting against one person ends up dying together.

Most of them have prominent cheekbones, deep-set eyes, prominent brow bones, usually high and narrow nasal bones, long nasal cavities, and relatively thick and heavy limb bones.

Song Xizhi frowned as he looked at the skeleton in front of him, and his heart skipped a beat: "These corpses are all male, none of them are from the Central Plains. They look like the skeletons of foreigners who grew up in the colder north. Their teeth are heavily worn and they are used to eating meat."

The others also breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Song Xizhi's words.

Pei Yunyi frowned, a guess immediately forming in his mind: "You mean, these people are all Western Rong people?"

Song Xizhi pursed his lips: "I'm not sure, but it's very likely."

Pei Yunyi's eyes darkened for a moment, then he pointed to the corpse in front of him: "Then you examine this body. I suspect he is from the Central Plains."

"He alone killed everyone else in the tomb."

Song Xizhi nodded, squatted down, and gave it a cursory examination:

"This corpse is also male. Although he is also tall, has a strong bone structure, and his teeth are worn down quite a bit, his skull is relatively round, his cheekbones are relatively high and wide, his face is relatively flat, his nasal bone is relatively low and flat, and the lower edge of his eye sockets is relatively blunt and thick. He is probably from the Central Plains, but he is a Central Plains person who has practiced martial arts and eaten meat for many years."

As Song Xizhi spoke, he suddenly looked up at Pei Yunyi: "I suspect that he has been living on the frontier or in a military camp for a long time."

A Central Plains person from a military camp? Then wouldn't it be very likely that he was a general of the Great Qian Dynasty?

Pei Yunyi nodded silently, then asked, "Can you roughly estimate this person's age?"

Song Xizhi frowned: "At present, we can only make a rough estimate, between twenty and fifty."

Pei Yunyi nodded and squatted down with Song Xizhi to examine the corpse's belongings and clothing.

So much time had passed that the corpse had decomposed to the point where the flesh was sticking to the bones, not to mention the clothes on his body, which were almost completely rotten and unrecognizable.

However, he was still tightly clutching a sword in his hand.

Pei Yunyi took the sword from the man's hand and examined it carefully with a tinderbox, but he couldn't find any trace of it.

Pei Yunyi didn't recognize the sword, so he had to start from other clues.

Time keeps flowing by, and no one knows exactly how much time has passed.

The tomb was already lacking in air, and it was filled with corpses, so the place reeked of decay.

Even after swallowing the pills prepared by Song Xizhi, Pei Yunyi himself was already feeling quite weak.

He glanced intently at Song Xizhi before him, noticing her furrowed brows and pale face, yet she continued to meticulously examine the body.

Pei Yunyi pulled her to her feet. Even though the details at the scene were of utmost importance, they couldn't care less about anything else right now.

"Men, secretly transport all the corpses from the tomb back to the capital. All of them will be examined in my private prison."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

Song Xizhi knew that everyone's bodies were nearing their limits, so he did not object.

She watched as the guards below moved the corpse in front of her away, then she stood up unsteadily, wanting to make way.

But at that very moment, something suddenly fell from the back of the skeleton belonging to the people of the Central Plains as an external force moved.

Song Xizhi frowned slightly and picked up the piece of paper that had been hidden behind the corpse, which she had initially overlooked.

After she reached out and wiped away the bits of flesh stuck to it, she could see that it was a jade pendant the size of her palm.

Only when the torchlight got close to the jade pendant did Song Xizhi see the words and patterns on it.

Upon just one glance, Song Xizhi's eyes narrowed involuntarily, and his body involuntarily stumbled back a few steps.

Upon seeing this, Pei Yunyi swiftly grabbed Song Xizhi and hugged her around the waist, then asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

Song Xizhi slowly raised his head to look at him, his throat a little dry and hoarse: "I recognize this jade pendant."

"This jade pendant comes from Sun and Moon Mountain. People of lower rank on the mountain have wooden pendants, while people of higher rank have jade pendants."

The shape of this jade pendant is similar to that of the jade pendant that Song Juncai took off that day, but its material is jade, extremely high-grade jade, so the owner of this jade pendant is not of low status.

...even comparable to her master.

As Song Xizhi thought about it, he felt his emotions becoming increasingly chaotic.

Pei Yunyi lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment. He hurriedly called out to the hidden guards who were carrying the body: "This body does not need to be sent to the private prison. Send it to the abandoned courtyard of the 'Illegible'."

Upon hearing Pei Yunyi's words, Song Xizhi understood his meaning at that moment: "You want to call... Master to come and examine the body?"