Everyone present was shocked. In this day and age, slicing open a corpse was considered deeply inauspicious. To do so to Old Madam Jiang would be seen as an act of grave filial impiety. Consequently, there was no way the Marquis of Pingchang would ever consent to an autopsy.
"You rebellious daughter, shut your mouth! Slicing open a body—the things you come up with," Jiang Zhiping snapped furiously.
"Only by performing an autopsy can we determine the true cause of Grandmother’s death. You want to pin the crime of murdering Grandmother on my eldest sister based on nothing but your words; my eldest sister will never accept that. We don't even know if Grandmother died of natural causes or if she was poisoned. Father, are you blocking this autopsy because you already know the truth?"
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