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

Wen Rulan smiled, "I've already picked a shop. If you get tired of eating at the Dali Temple or the palace, you can come to eat at my place."

"That's great," Chu Yunxi was very happy. People like them were used to being self-reliant wherever they went. She took out her purse from her bosom and threw it all at Wen Rulan. "This is my two months' salary. It's not much. I'll give it to you later when I get paid. Count it as my share of the investment, 500 taels, and I'll pay it in installments."

"Does the investment come with installment payments?" Wen Rulan didn't have much money, so he accepted it without hesitation, "I'll give you dividends when I make money in the future."

"Of course I will," Chu Yunxi said, "When you open your business, I will bring the detectives from the Dali Temple to show my support. It's a good idea not to make money from an acquaintance. But your martial arts skills are a bit of a waste."

Wen Rulan flicked her head and said, "You can't have it all. My martial arts skills can at least ensure that no one causes trouble for my store."

The two of them thought a lot about the store's operations and main products, and it was almost dawn when Chu Yunxi returned to her room.

The lights were still on in the room. When Chu Yunxi entered, she saw Qingxi sleeping on the eight-immortal table. Xiao Mubei was sitting at the table reading a file. When she entered, he immediately looked up, raised his lips, and said, "You're back."

Chu Yunxi stepped back to take a look and asked, "You haven't slept all night, waiting for me here?"

Qingxi woke up, rubbing her eyes and continued, "Yes, I advised the prince to go to bed, but he said he would not go and insisted on waiting here."

Chu Yunxi also yawned, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. It's just that I haven't seen my senior brother for a long time, so I talked for a while longer. Your Majesty, go and catch up on some sleep."

As she spoke, she walked to the bed, fell on it and closed her eyes. The fatigue in her body surged up, and she heard Xiao Mubei say lightly: "Do you trust your senior brother so much?"

"Believe."

"No doubt at all?"

"No doubt about it."

Xiao Mubei was silent for a while. Just when Chu Yunxi was about to fall asleep, she heard him whisper, "I believe you."

Chu Yunxi breathed a sigh of relief, but soon fell into chaos.

Xiao Mubei looked at her sleeping face, sighed silently, walked over to cover her with the quilt, and then walked out with Qingxi.

The morning air was already slightly chilly. Qingxi whispered, "Does the prince really believe him? He used to be a member of Jingyuan Palace."

Xiao Mubei remained calm, "I just trust my own princess."

Qingxi laughed softly, "Don't mention it, the princess is really a very magical person. I also inexplicably believed in her and liked her the first time I saw her."

Hearing others praising Chu Yunxi so much, Xiao Mubei actually felt proud of it, so he went back to his room to catch up on his sleep in a good mood.

Chu Yunxi slept until the afternoon. She woke up because she was hungry. Qingxi had already prepared food and brought it to the room. She smiled and said, "The prince said that the princess must be hungry when she wakes up, so he asked me to prepare food."

Xiao Mubei understood her more and more. Chu Yunxi washed up and sat down. The table was filled with her favorite dishes: stir-fried shrimps, Dongpo tofu, eight-treasure pumpkin, crab meat lion head, pearl jade dumplings, and a bowl of barley porridge.

"This is too extravagant. How can I eat so much by myself? Qingxi, have you eaten?"

Qingxi smiled and said, "I am waiting for the princess. I knew that the princess would ask me to eat with her."

"Understand me." Chu Yunxi liked Qingxi more and more. She was a few years older than Hongyu, and it turned out that what she said and did was more in line with her heart.

Qingxi didn't hesitate to sit down and eat with Chu Yunxi. Chu Yunxi picked up a lion's head with chopsticks and asked, "Where are the prince and my senior brother?"

"We are talking in the front hall. You can come over after the princess finishes her meal."

"Oh, no rush."

Chu Yunxi had to fill her stomach first. After eating, she stopped Qingxi who was packing up and said, "There are some things I want to ask my sister."

Qingxi sat down again, "You can't call me sister, just call me Qingxi, you are the princess, after all, there is a difference between the high and the low."

Chu Yunxi knew that there were many rules in this era, and Qingxi was considered the best, but it was still impossible to completely accept the equality of all people ideologically, so she didn't dwell on this matter and called Qingxi back.

"I want to know about the things that happened between the prince and Concubine Xian when he was a child, and also after the prince left for the army, is there anything you think is wrong with Concubine Xian or Fanghua Palace?"

The smile on Qingxi's face gradually faded, "Princess, do you want to find out the cause of the queen's death?"

She actually guessed it!

"So there really is something wrong with the cause of Concubine Xian's death?"

Qingxi paused for a moment, as if she was organizing her words, and spoke again after a while, "Before she died, the queen instructed me not to tell anyone, especially the prince, that there was something strange about the queen's death. She didn't want him to investigate the matter and bring trouble upon himself."

"But the prince has already noticed it," Chu Yunxi said slowly, "If we don't investigate, won't it make the relatives sad and the enemies happy? The prince knew that the queen was murdered, but he did nothing. Do you think he can be at ease? Or maybe the queen has her own considerations, but nothing can be buried underground forever. There will always be a day when the truth comes out."

"If we investigate this matter, will the prince be in danger?" Qingxi stared at Chu Yunxi's eyes, "Can the princess protect the prince, or can someone else protect him?"

Chu Yunxi took a deep breath and said word by word: "He doesn't need anyone to protect him. He can protect himself."

"The princess is right!" Xiao Mubei walked in from outside, followed by Wen Rulan.

Xiao Mubei's face was as gloomy as water. He sat down next to Chu Yunxi and said, "Qingxi, don't hide this from me. Just tell me as much as you know. I have my own judgment. Mother is gone. I can't let her die in such an unclear way."

Qingxi sighed, stood up, knelt outside, kowtowed three times, and murmured, "My lady, it's not that I don't keep my promise, but I don't want you to be poisoned and remain indifferent. For so many years, I have kept my mouth shut, but in fact, I have been waiting for this day for a long time."

The other three people looked at her without saying anything. After Qingxi finished praying to the heavens, she stood up, sat down again, picked up a cup of tea and drank it in one breath, looked at Chu Yunxi, then looked at Xiao Mubei, gritted her teeth, and said, "Empress Xian, you must have been poisoned by a chronic poison."

Although she already knew it, Chu Yunxi couldn't help but ask, "Is there any evidence?"

"No, none of the doctors could find anything," Qingxi shook her head. "No poison was detected in anything the queen ate. But the queen became increasingly haggard and listless at first. Later, all parts of her body began to atrophy, first her limbs, then her body, and finally her face. The queen discovered the problem and moved out of the palace and came to the other courtyard. She didn't bring anyone out of the palace except me. Only then did her health slowly improve."