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

When they arrived at the Dali Temple, Lou San was sent to the morgue, while Luo and several coffin bearers and funeral procession members were taken to a side hall and questioned separately by Xiao Mubei and Li Jinghong, who led the detectives.

Chu Zhongxi followed Chu Yunxi and Bai Yu into the morgue.

Chu Yunxi paused and put on a smile, "Second brother, autopsy is not very pretty, why don't you go to the study to rest first?"

"It's okay. I've been to the battlefield and have seen a lot of corpses." Chu Zhongxi didn't care. He just wanted to see how his younger sister performed the autopsy and whether she was really not afraid.

Bai Yu sincerely advised, "General Chu Er, this is different from seeing a corpse."

The prince has also been to the battlefield. Both he and Hei Mu have been to the battlefield, and they vomited as well.

Unfortunately, Chu Zhongxi couldn't understand and waved his hand, "Just keep busy and pretend that I don't exist."

Chu Yunxi and Bai Yu looked at each other and tried their best.

Lou San was placed on the morgue, wearing a heavy shroud, with a flat head and a big hole on his chest. He looked a little creepy, but it was nothing for people who were used to seeing corpses.

Chu Yunxi instructed Bai Yu, "Take off his clothes."

Bai Yu started to take off layer after layer, until only...

"Wait!" Chu Zhongxi couldn't help it, "Are you going to...take off all your clothes?"

"Yes," Bai Yu was used to it. "You have to be naked for an autopsy. How else can you do it?"

"But, you are a woman," Chu Zhongxi pointed at Chu Yunxi, "Doesn't the prince care?"

"Second brother," Chu Yunxi explained patiently, "Coroners and doctors are the same. In our eyes, there is no distinction between men and women. We only check the symptoms or cause of death. If we take this into consideration or that into consideration, the autopsy cannot be performed. The prince also understands this."

"But...it's not right anyway."

Chu Yunxi had no choice but to say, "Second brother, this is the Dali Temple, I'm on duty, if you want to stay, don't make a sound, just watch from the side, if you don't want to, you can go to the study first, I'll ask Hei Mu to make you a pot of good tea."

Chu Zhongxi wanted to walk away in anger, but the person in front of him was his only relative, and he couldn't bear to quarrel with her. Thinking about how his little sister had been stubborn in everything she did since she was a child, it was impossible to persuade her, so he could only let her be.

Seeing that her second brother had compromised and stopped trying to stop her, Chu Yunxi nodded to Bai Yu, and Bai Yu quickly stripped off all of Lou San's clothes.

Chu Yunxi put on a mask and gloves and began to work seriously. There was already a big hole on her chest. Chu Yunxi leaned over to check it carefully.

"The incision was smooth, and the knife was steady, accurate and ruthless. The murderer used a very sharp knife, not an ordinary dagger, but a sharp knife for boning. The murderer was very experienced and perfectly avoided the heart, cut a hole around it, and took the heart out without any damage."

Bai Yu couldn't help but ask, "You mean, this isn't the first time the murderer has dug out a heart?"

"No."

"You've never received a similar report before?"

Chu Yunxi used a scalpel to neatly cut open the skin on the chest of the corpse. "That's probably because other people didn't find it. If we hadn't seen it today, I'm afraid Lou San would have been buried already. There's no way anyone would have known that his heart had been dug out."

As he spoke, Chu Yunxi had already opened the chest of the corpse and took out the organs one by one for examination.

Chu Yunxi and Bai Yu checked and recorded without changing their expressions. Various organs were piled on the plates beside them. Chu Zhongxi was watching nearby and couldn't help it. He suddenly turned around and walked out. Soon, the sound of vomiting was heard in the yard.

The two of them paused for a moment, Chu Yunxi sighed, and Bai Yu said, "It's not the princess' fault, it's General Chu who didn't listen to advice."

"I still feel a little bad about it. My second brother is also worried about me."

Just as he finished speaking, Chu Zhongxi unexpectedly came back. Chu Yunxi stared at him with wide eyes. He waved his hand and said, "It's okay. You guys go about your business."

Chu Yunxi smiled bitterly, and Bai Yu silently gave Chu Zhongxi a thumbs up.

After the inspection, it was already afternoon and Xiao Mubei had finished asking questions, so they set up a meal in the pavilion in the courtyard and shared information while eating.

Chu Zhongxi couldn't eat at all. He just drank a lot of tea to suppress the churning in his stomach. No one else tried to persuade him to eat. Everyone understood his feeling, after all, they had all been there.

Chu Yunxi said first, "Lou San's cause of death was indeed a fall from a height, and there was no other fatal cause. His heart was cut out with a sharp knife after his death. It was probably in the first half of the night, when the blood had not yet completely coagulated, and other organs in the body had not decreased. However, I detected a poison in his blood, which should be a kind of... hallucinogenic poison. After taking it, people should become confused, have hallucinations, and feel like they are in heaven..."

Chu Yunxi didn't know what the ancient drugs were called, she could only describe them, and guessed that someone here might know them. When she was performing the autopsy just now, she saw that Lou San looked emaciated and unnatural, like a drug addict. So she secretly took his blood and tested the drug content in the Liyue bracelet, and sure enough, she found hallucinogenic ingredients such as Datura extract.

As soon as she said that, Xiao Mubei immediately said, "Five Stone Powder!"

"Yes, it is the Five Stones Powder." Chu Yunxi said with certainty, "Lou San took the Five Stones Powder before he died, and he had been taking it for quite some time, otherwise he wouldn't have squandered all his family wealth and become so skinny, it's clear that he was deeply poisoned."

Xiao Mubei said: "I remember Mrs. Luo once said that he went to Zui Chunfeng every day. She thought he went to meet those prostitutes, but now it seems that this is not the case."

"That's right," Chu Yunxi drank a small bowl of Tremella and Lotus Seed Soup in one breath before saying, "I'm afraid there's some unspeakable deal going on in Zui Chun Feng. By the way, what did Luo and those people who were attending the funeral say?"

"They said they didn't notice anything unusual yesterday. The funeral procession left after Lou San's coffin was placed in the grave. Luo also went back to take care of the child. There was no one in the mourning hall, and she didn't hear any unusual noises. But she said that when she was coaxing the child to sleep, she accidentally fell asleep for a while. When she woke up, she saw that the child was already asleep, so she packed up and went to the mourning hall, burned paper money for Lou San, and talked for a while until dawn."

"So, the murderer most likely sneaked in when Luo was away, in the first half of the night, which also matches the time of the autopsy. But, how did the murderer know that no one was in the funeral hall at that time? Or was he lurking in the dark, looking for an opportunity?"

These are still unknown mysteries. Xiao Mubei said, "Li Jinghong has already led people to Lou San's home to check the mourning hall. We will go there after dinner. The most urgent task is to find Lou San's heart so that he can be buried intact. As for Wushisan and Zui Chunfeng, we can wait a little longer."