The coroner and the concubine doctor pursue the murderer in the Dali Temple

Lin Haifu spoke very slowly. Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi did not rush him. They even asked Bai Yu to make some tea. The two of them sat down and drank while listening.

After returning from the army, Lin Haifu, at the instruction of King Jingyuan, appeared before the emperor as a witness and confirmed the charge of treason against Marquis Zhongyong.

After the mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery was ransacked and the family was exterminated, the matter was settled and Lin Haifu found the fifth prince, Prince of Anyang, Xiao Zijie. When he was a child, he was Xiao Zijie's study partner and they had a very good relationship. He had always worked for Xiao Zijie, and it was Xiao Zijie who recommended him to the Langya Army.

Now that he has returned to the capital, he is still following Xiao Zijie.

Xiao Zijie is a man who depends on King Jingyuan. He has no other hobbies but women.

He often said that since God had given him wealth and honor, it was so that he could play with all the beauties in the world. He did not like those daughters of wealthy families, but rather liked the peerless beauties who had fallen into prostitution. He felt that such women were more attractive and would not cling to him when he got tired of playing with them. Once he gave them money, he would just walk away without any worries.

The top courtesans in all the major brothels in the capital were all his playthings.

Lin Haifu was not interested in women. After he came back, every time he went to a brothel with Xiao Zijie, they would sit outside and drink all night long. Xiao Zijie often laughed at him for not being a man, as he was not tempted by so many charming women. If he didn't have a wife at home, he would have thought that Lin Haifu wanted to become a monk.

Not long ago, Xiao Zijie realized something was wrong. Nodules began to form on his lower body, and then slowly festered. At first he didn't care, thinking that it would be fine if he applied some medicine. Unexpectedly, after he healed here, he would start to develop ulcers there. Gradually, the speed of healing could not keep up with the speed of heal, and the ulcers even began to leave his lower body and spread to the whole body.

Xiao Zijie was frightened now, and hurriedly called the imperial physician to see him. The imperial physician took one look and said tremblingly that the prince had syphilis.

Xiao Zijie was stunned for a moment. He smashed a beauty bottle, called the imperial physician a quack, and drove him away. After driving him away, he was afraid that the physician would talk nonsense and spread his illness, so he ordered Lin Haifu to silence him and disguise it as an accident.

At this point, Chu Yunxi and Xiao Mubei looked at each other. It turned out that Doctor Yan was not the first doctor to die.

Although Xiao Zijie didn't believe that he had syphilis, he didn't dare to look for the imperial physician again. After all, the imperial physician was a palace staff member, and he couldn't just kill everyone he saw, so he started looking for doctors outside.

The doctors outside didn't know his identity, so they naturally wouldn't say anything nonsense. However, Xiao Zijie found many famous doctors, and they all said that they couldn't cure this disease.

Xiao Zijie became more and more desperate, and began to hate those women whom he had loved so much. He said to Lin Haifu, "It must be those unclean women who got this dirty disease and passed it on to me. They deserve to die. Lin Haifu, kill them all."

Lin Haifu was startled at the time and asked hesitantly, "Kill them all?"

Prince Anyang hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Kill two first, and kill the rest slowly. These bitches all deserve to die."

Lin Haifu didn't have the heart to kill a woman, so he handed the matter over to a secret guard in the palace. The guard disguised himself as a coachman and pretended that the prince had an appointment. He lured the woman out of the brothel, took her out of the city in a carriage, and then strangled her to death with the whip. Finally, he took out the stones he had brought from the carriage, tied them to the feet of the corpse, and threw it into the middle of the river.

After killing the two women, they waited for a few days and found that there was no movement. Not only were the bodies not found, but even the brothel did not report the disappearance. The disappearance of the two women was like throwing a tiny stone into the sea, which did not even cause a wave.

Now King Anyang and his men felt relieved. Every time they failed to find a doctor or medicine, Xiao Zijie ordered the killing of one person. In total, he killed six people.

After seeing many doctors, none of them were able to cure Xiao Zijie's illness, and he became more and more anxious. One day, he happened to find out that Yan Haosong, the former eldest disciple of Imperial Physician Luo and the Imperial Physician who had given his mother the wrong medicine, opened a clinic on West Fourth Street. The clinic was quite famous and was said to be able to snatch people from the King of Hell.

At that time, Xiao Zijie sneered and said, "If he can't cure me, I will send him to see the King of Hell."

He immediately arranged for Lin Haifu to pick the person up. At first, Yan Haosong was reluctant to come, but when Lin Haifu took out the token from Concubine Rou, he compromised.

Yan Haosong went to Anyang Palace. He didn't know at that time that he had already stepped into the gates of hell.

After carefully examining Xiao Zijie, Yan Haosong also frowned, "The prince's illness is a bit tricky."

"What do you mean by intractable? Can you tell me whether it can be cured or not?"

Xiao Zijie's brows were full of gloom and his voice was cold, but unfortunately Yan Haosong was wholeheartedly thinking about his illness at that time and did not notice it.

"I will look up some medical books when I get back and give you a reply tomorrow."

It was August 15th. On the way back from Anyang Palace, Yan Haosong went to eat a bowl of beef noodles and told the noodle seller who looked like his master about Xiao Zijie's illness.

What he didn't know was that the moment Xiao Zijie walked out of the palace, he instructed Lin Haifu, "If he is still helpless tomorrow, then..."

He made a horizontal stroke across his neck with his hand, and Lin Haifu immediately understood and prepared himself.

Yan Haosong searched medical books all night but still found nothing. This disease has a development process. If Xiao Zijie had been ill for a short time and the disease had not spread to the whole body, it would be easier to treat. But now, the disease has spread to the whole body, and there have been very few cured cases since ancient times.

On the second night, Yan Haosong came to Anyang Prince's Mansion again and said to Xiao Zijie, "The prince's illness is now difficult to cure. We can only try to treat it. I can't say to what extent it can be cured. I can only do my best."

What a good way to do your best! Xiao Zijie didn't believe him at all. When he was treating his mother, he swore that he was sure of it, but he used the wrong medicine. Now he was not sure about it, so he must be stalling for time!

Xiao Zijie made up his mind that he could not keep this old man. After Yan Haosong left, he immediately asked Lin Haifu to follow him, hoping to get rid of Doctor Yan without anyone noticing, just like he did the imperial physician last time.

Unfortunately, after killing Yan Haosong, he was accidentally seen by the night watchman. If there was only one night watchman, he would have been killed, but who knew that King Dingbei was actually nearby that night!

Lin Haifu had to evacuate the scene quickly and did not have time to deal with the bodies. Yan Haosong's body was discovered first.

After he returned and told Prince Anyang about it, Prince Anyang's face darkened and he scolded him for being so careless. Later he comforted him, saying that the night watchman didn't see his face clearly and he should be fine. He should hide for a few days and come out again after the storm has passed.