A female coroner arrived at the Jingzhao Prefecture.

Chapter 20 What kind of monster is this?

Unexpectedly, Song Shuyu looked pained and strongly refused, "Um... I don't eat ginger, it's spicy..."

"My lord, please bear with it." Mu Qingcheng raised her hand and pressed it against the man's mouth, afraid that he would spit it out and waste the good stuff.

Song Shuyu froze, her eyes, stung by the spiciness, were wet and glistening, like a startled rabbit, helpless and shy.

Mu Qingcheng's skill in coaxing people was all honed for Bai Zhizhi. In order to make Song Shuyu listen, she blurted it out subconsciously without thinking much about it.

However, Song Shuyu's expression made it seem as if she had bullied him, which was extremely awkward. She couldn't help but let go of his hand sheepishly, and said with a forced smile, "My lord, I did this with good intentions, to prevent foul air from entering and harming your health. Please don't take offense."

"You, you..." Song Shuyu's mouth was full of ginger, and his words were unclear. "Didn't you say that men and women should not touch each other?" Whether it was anger or embarrassment, his heart was pounding like a drum, and his handsome face was burning hot.

“The words of the sages are not ironclad rules; they must be interpreted according to the circumstances.”

Mu Qingcheng put a piece of ginger in her mouth, then took a face towel to cover her face, and bowed to Song Shuyu to take her leave.

Song Shuyu was both amused and annoyed. He hadn't expected this girl to be so cunning. The same words were like wise counsel when they benefited her, but she would scoff at them when they didn't.

The courtyard was a stone pit about three feet square, covered with a wooden plank. After the body was discovered inside, the lid was lifted off the ground.

Mu Qingcheng stepped closer to inspect, and the first thing she saw made her glad that she had taken precautions in advance!

A corrupt giant's perspective!
She had worked as a coroner for eleven years and had examined no fewer than a hundred different kinds of corpses, but this was the first time she had ever encountered a corrupt giant!

Lin Shuban was a clever man. Seeing that the adults valued Mu Qingcheng, and that he and Mu Qingcheng had worked well together at Yuntai Temple yesterday, he rushed over to volunteer again. "Coroner Mu, do you need me to help with the record-keeping?" "Thank you." Mu Qingcheng did not refuse. Today was a big day, and she really couldn't handle it all by herself.

Lin Shuban stepped forward excitedly with paper and pen, but then his eyes rolled back, his legs went weak, and he knelt down on the ground with a thud!

He covered his mouth tightly, his eyes filled with terror, "What...what kind of monster is this?"

Unable to resist his curiosity, and emboldened by the fact that he had applied sesame oil and sucked on ginger, Song Shuyu strolled over and secretly peered into the courtyard—

The corpse was swollen and enlarged into a giant, with dirty green skin, a swollen face, protruding eyeballs, thickened and everted lips, a protruding tongue, and deformed features, making it extremely difficult to recognize its appearance in life! Moreover, its limbs were swollen and thickened, its chest cavity was bulging, its abdominal wall was tense, its intestines were distended, and its lower body was swollen several times its normal size into a spherical shape. Calling it a monster would not be an exaggeration!

"This is just a corpse phenomenon, not a monster."

Mu Qingcheng further explained: "In spring and autumn, if a person dies five to eight days after death and the body has not undergone embalming, it will decompose into a highly decomposed state, producing a large amount of putrid gas that fills the whole body, causing the entire body to swell into a huge creature."

"I see." Lin, the clerk, struggled to his feet, clasped his hands in a fist and said, "I misspoke. Please forgive me, Coroner Mu."

Mu Qingcheng shook her head, "It's alright, ignorance is no excuse."

"grown ups!"

Jiang's sudden exclamation made Mu Qingcheng instinctively turn her head. Her legs reacted faster than her brain, and she rushed over to catch Song Shuyu, who had fainted and fallen into the courtyard!

See you in the next chapter, my darlings!
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