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

Unexpectedly, the retired emperor did not get better after taking the medicine. Instead, he gradually fell into a coma and lost consciousness. All the imperial doctors on duty at the Imperial Medical Bureau soon arrived, took turns taking his pulse, and boiled bowl after bowl of medicine, but none of them could feed him.

The imperial doctors were helpless. Seeing that the pulse was getting weaker and weaker, which was a sign of the emperor's death, the imperial doctors had no choice but to send someone to inform Emperor Sui Ming. Afterwards, all the palaces got the news and came one after another.

Xiao Mubei already knew what happened next. He put down the record and walked out of the hall, just in time Chu Yunxi came out of the bedroom.

"How is my royal grandfather?" Xiao Mubei stepped forward and wiped the sweat from her forehead very naturally.

Chu Yunxi glanced at the bedroom and said, "He fell asleep. My father-in-law and I went in to keep watch. I came out to take a look. Did you find anything?"

Xiao Mubei brought her to the main hall, handed her the record, and handed her a cup of tea.

Chu Yunxi took the tea and drank it all in one gulp, then began to read the record carefully. After reading it, she pointed at the record and said, "Except for the emperor and those who did not enter the bedroom, the others need to be questioned one by one. Each of them is a suspect."

Xiao Mubei nodded, "However, the Empress and the Imperial Concubine are a bit troublesome, and the Crown Prince is not in the capital at all now. You can call the others over to ask."

"Let's start with the simple things first. Call the palace maids, eunuchs, imperial doctors and nannies over to ask them first." Chu Yunxi made the decision.

Xiao Mubei immediately ordered his men to bring all the servants who had entered the emperor's bedroom from the day before to yesterday to Yongshou Palace.

Eunuch Baochan was extremely dissatisfied and said in a shrill voice: "We came here with His Majesty. What does the Eighth Prince mean by this? Could it be that you still doubt His Majesty?"

Xiao Mubei had a proper smile on his face, and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "Eunuch, calm down. I am following the Emperor's order to thoroughly investigate the Yongshou Palace incident. Everyone must cooperate. All those who have been to Yongshou Palace in the past two days must be questioned according to the rules. Eunuch is someone close to the Emperor, so you should follow the Emperor's order and set an example for others. Don't you agree?"

Xiao Mubei brought up the imperial edict, and Eunuch Baochan had nothing to say. He could only snort coldly, "Then please hurry up, Eighth Prince. We have to rush back to serve the emperor."

Chu Yunxi was taking notes herself. She said nothing, just listened to Xiao Mubei's questions, writing non-stop, and occasionally looking up to see the speaker's expression.

Eunuch Baochan: "I followed the emperor to visit the retired emperor. After entering the bedroom, I served by the couch. The emperor and the retired emperor had not said a few words when the retired emperor said he was tired. I saw that the retired emperor looked bad, his hands were always covering his chest, and his breathing seemed not to be smooth. The emperor wanted to call the imperial physician, but the retired emperor said he would be fine after a short sleep, so the emperor took me away."

Yu Jiao, the personal maid of the Queen, said: "I accompanied the Queen to visit the Retired Emperor before dinner the day before yesterday. The Retired Emperor looked in good spirits when I came. He must have taken medicine. The Queen brought some seasonal fruits for the Retired Emperor, but he said he had no appetite, so we left them alone. The Queen told the Retired Emperor about the twelfth prince and that he missed his grandfather. The Retired Emperor said that he would ask the nanny to bring him over to play tomorrow. The Queen agreed and sat for a while. Then the Queen took me away."

Fu Yu, the personal maid of the Imperial Noble Consort, said: "When I and the Imperial Noble Consort came, we happened to see the Empress leaving. When we entered the Emperor's bedroom, the Emperor had his hands on his chest and was sweating profusely. The Imperial Noble Consort and the Eunuch were wiping the sweat off the Emperor. The Imperial Noble Consort hurried forward to greet him and asked if he was okay and if he wanted to summon a doctor. The Emperor waved his hand and said no. He drank a cup of tea and then seemed to be better. The Imperial Noble Consort left not long after sitting there."

Doctor Du: "I came to see the retired emperor the day before yesterday afternoon. His breathing was not smooth and his chest was stuffy, so I prescribed medicine and asked Min Qiao to boil it directly in the small kitchen of Yongshou Palace and give it to the retired emperor. During this time, I gave him acupuncture and talked with him for a while, reminded him of some precautions, and then left. When I left, the retired emperor had improved a lot. On the morning of the second day, Yongshou Palace sent someone to summon him again. When he arrived this time, the retired emperor's condition was very serious. He could hardly breathe and took deep breaths. He said that his chest was stuffy as if it was going to explode. I was terrified and hurriedly took his pulse. I found that the retired emperor's pulse was extremely weak. I gave him first aid but it was of no avail, so I asked several other doctors to come, but they were all helpless. Finally, when I saw that he was dying, I notified the emperor."

Huang Ma, the wet nurse of the twelfth prince, who was beside the queen, said: "I brought the twelfth prince to Yongshou Palace early yesterday morning. The twelfth prince was naughty and playful, running back and forth in the emperor's bedroom. I could only follow him. The emperor looked in good spirits at the time, and he even held the twelfth prince and teased him a few words. I was afraid of tiring the emperor, so I took the twelfth prince away after playing for a while. I didn't notice anything wrong with the emperor when I left."

According to the memory of the eunuch, the emperor fell ill after the twelfth prince and Nanny Huang left, so Xiao Mubei asked again, "Did you see a black cat when you were in the bedroom?"

"A black cat?" Madam Huang opened her eyes wide in surprise. "Doesn't Yongshou Palace prohibit the keeping of cats and dogs? How come there is a cat?"

As expected, everyone knew that the emperor could not touch these pets. Xiao Mubei asked other people and they all said that they had not seen the black cat.

After asking the question, Xiao Mubei asked them to go back. Chu Yunxi then stood up and took the confession she had just recorded, "Let's go, let's go see Grandfather Huang."

The retired emperor Xiao Zhongyuan had already woken up and finished his fluid infusion. He ate a lot for lunch, drank two bowls of soup, and had some snacks, which made his father-in-law and father-in-law very happy, and he also drank two more bowls of soup.

Chu Yunxi and Xiao Mubei had just had time to have some lunch, which her father-in-law had prepared for them long ago. Chu Yunxi handed the confession to the emperor and said while eating, "Grandfather, please check if these people are lying or not. Is there anything wrong?"

The retired emperor took the confession and read it carefully, then gave it to the eunuch to read again. Both of them agreed that there was no problem and that this was the fact.

Chu Yunxi picked up a piece of chicken and brought it to her mouth, but she didn't put it in her mouth. Instead, she thought, "No one is lying, and these confessions all said that they didn't see the black cat. Especially the twelfth prince, who ran around the bedroom but didn't see the black cat, which means that the black cat was not there at the time. The emperor's attack was indeed triggered by the appearance of the black cat, which means that the black cat came right after the twelfth prince left." Chu Yunxi's eyes were determined, and she ate the chicken in one bite. She said to Xiao Mubei, "My lord, I want to see the twelfth prince!"