Xu Jia shook his head: "If the nails are peeled off before death, the nail bed will bleed and the flesh and blood will be blurred. If the nails are peeled off after death, because the person is already dead, the blood does not circulate, and there are not many blood stains on the nail bed."
He pinched the dead man's finger and said, "Look at the nail bed, which is white and without any blood at all. How could it be peeled off before death? It was clearly peeled off just after death, or not long ago! It must have been peeled off not long ago!" Did you peel it off?"
The village guard was trembling with fear.
Xu Jia continued to threaten him: "You said you were a village keeper, but you actually abused the corpse. No, I'm going to report it to the official!"
Xu Jia pretended to report to the official, but the village guard was so frightened that he grabbed him and said, "No, no, no, don't report to the official."
"Don't report it to the official? Then explain clearly, where did you take the nails of the deceased?" Xu Jia angrily said: "If you don't tell me why, I will report it to the official and accuse you of abusing the corpse. Let's see what you do next." Stay here!"
The village guard cried loudly: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I am also obsessed with money. I agreed to peel off people's nails. Just one person, he will come to me every other month or so to buy the nails of the deceased."
"Buy the dead man's nails? What's the use of those things?" Xu Jia asked puzzledly.
The village keeper shook his head: "I don't know either. I just want to make some money to support my family!"
Most of the corpses in Yizhuang are unclaimed. After they have been parked for a period of time, if no one comes to claim them, they will be burned.
A few years ago, a person suddenly came to Yizhuang. She called herself Aunt Gui and said she wanted to buy nails. She started with three or four nails and then bought ten nails now, with more and more money.
With money on one side and an unclaimed body on the other, the village keeper took over the deal.
In the past five or six years, the nails have been sold dozens of times, and the owner of the village has never missed it once. Who would have thought that someone who came to claim the body would find out.
"What's she doing buying nails?"
The keeper shook his head: "I don't know either. The person who bought it said he likes to collect nails. You said there are so many strange people in the world, why is it strange to meet someone who likes to collect nails? I didn't ask any more questions. , we made a deal with her. It has been more than five years now."
"She keeps buying ten nails?"
"No, when she first came here, she bought five, then six or seven, and gradually more and more. In the past two years, she has bought ten." The storekeeper answered truthfully.
Xu Jia also took out a piece of ten taels of silver from his arms and threw it to the village guard.
The man holding the banker was holding the silver with a confused look on his face: "This, this..."
"Don't mention what I'm asking you to anyone. Otherwise, if you abuse the corpse for five consecutive years, it will be enough for you to sit in jail until you are reincarnated in the next life."
The village guard knelt on the ground with a plop: "Don't worry, I won't mention it, and no one will."
No one responded to him.
The village guard looked up, but there was no one else in front of him.
Xu Jia quickly returned to Xu Mansion and directly returned to Lihuayuan.
Xu Wanning's confinement was extremely boring.
Chen Wang and Fu Bai were both sent out to do errands by her. She took red plums and green apricots and spread a blanket under the pear tree. On the blanket were placed some melon and fruit snacks, as well as pear blossom wine.
Bring good luck and talk while looking at the blue sky.
Jixiang is also a talkative, and he competes with Qingxing You, "Sister Qingxing, have you promised Brother Chen Wang?"
When Qingxing heard this, her face suddenly turned red: "Jixiang, what nonsense are you talking about!"
Ji Xiang defended: "I'm not talking nonsense, I heard Brother Chen Wang said he likes you!"
Was there a third person when this happened?
Qing Xing wished she could dig a hole under the pear tree and crawl in. Her face was so red that it looked like it was bleeding, and she remained silent.
Seeing her shame, Xu Wanning said with a smile: "It's time for men to get married and women to get married. Chen Wang is also a good man, so why bother? Tell me, have you agreed to him?"
"I, what did I promise him! I don't like him!" Qingxing said against her will.
Xu Wanning snorted: "If you don't like it, that's fine. If you don't like it, forget it. I'll find you a better one in the future!"
Qing Xing's face turned pale and red for a while, then turned dark again after hearing Xu Wanning's words: "Miss, you will make fun of me. Me, I don't want anyone, I will stay with the miss."
"You want to be an old girl?" Xu Wanning said in surprise: "If you want to be an old girl, I won't stop you, but Chen Wang always wants to get a wife. Since you have no intention of him, okay, I will also introduce him to a wife. .”
Qing Xing stood up immediately, with a look of resistance on her face, "Miss, he won't agree either!"
Xu Wanning pretended to be hurt: "Then what do you want? Do you all want to be an old aunt and a bachelor by my side? Others will laugh at me as the master of Master Jue. I will divorce myself. , and don’t allow people around you to talk about love or marriage.”
"Who said that about you?" Xu Jia came over and said, "If he dares to say that to you, I will tear his mouth open."
As soon as Xu Jia arrived, she heard the last words Xu Wanning said and thought it was someone saying something bad about her. Xu Jia would never let it go.
"No." Xu Wanning saw that Qingxing's face was dripping with blood. She quickly laughed and changed the subject: "Brother, why are you here? What's wrong with your voice? And your nasal voice, is it because of the cold? ?”
Xu Jia nodded: "Yes, a little bit. I saw the doctor on the way back and bought some medicine." His eyes seemed to fall on the head of Hong Mei Qing Xing inadvertently, and Xu Wanning understood it.
"Hongmei, hurry up, go and boil the medicine for your elder brother. Qingxing, go and bring him a cup of hot water. Jixiang, you go and help Hongmei."
The three maids were all taken away.
Xu Wanning looked at Xu Jia curiously: "Brother, what happened?"
Xu Jia said: "When I was seeing a doctor today, I met the personal maid of Wan Lan, the old lady of Duke Wei's mansion. What do you think she did today?"
Xu Wanning sat down and waited quietly for Xu Jia to continue.
Xu Jia told Xu Wanning in detail what he saw and heard.
Xu Wanning was a little curious: "She peeled off dead people's nails, and she definitely didn't just keep them for admiration." It also needs to be fresh. It doesn't make much difference whether it's dead or not!
Unless it's needed, it won't last long.
Xu Wanning quickly thought of the connection: "Could it be that Wan Lan's fingernails are sick and she needs to use good nails to cover it up."
Xu Jia nodded: "There is only one kind of nail disease, goose claw wind. This disease is caused by the poison of exogenous rheumatic fever and can be transmitted to each other. At first, there are only one or two, but after a few years, it will spread to other nails, and finally Ten fingernails and even toenails can become infected. If left untreated, it is highly contagious."
He listened to the village keeper. At first, Grandma Gui only bought five or six, and a few years later she bought ten.
Based on this, it can be deduced that the probability of Wan Lan suffering from goose claw syndrome is almost 100%.
