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

After leaving the coffin shop, Xiao Mubei gave Chu Yunxi a thumbs up, "I didn't expect that coroner Chu would also use intimidation."

"I'm just a bunch of bad people," Chu Yunxi said without any guilt, "The reputation of the Dali Temple is like that anyway."

Xiao Mubei held his forehead with his hand, well, the Dali Temple’s reputation as a vicious and evil group could never be washed away.

"How do you know there's something wrong with the coffin shop owner?"

"I guessed it," Chu Yunxi waved and said hello to Liang Mao from a distance, indicating that she would leave first, and then said, "If there is nothing wrong with Luo and those people who attended the funeral, then who would know the news of Lou San's death so quickly? It should be only the coffin shop, so I came to trick him, and sure enough, there was a problem."

"But what if the landlord really asked him to report it just to understand the business situation?"

"It's unlikely, but not impossible, so I asked for his roster to verify further."

Chu Zhongxi had been listening without interrupting. When Xiao Mubei stopped asking questions, he didn't know how to verify it. His curiosity was overflowing, so he couldn't help but ask, "How to verify it?"

Chu Yunxi turned around and smiled sweetly at her second brother, "Dig the grave and open the coffin."

Chu Zhongxi got goose bumps all over his body.

After returning to Dali Temple, Baiyu, Heimu and Li Jinghong all came back one after another. The news they brought back was normal. No one in the surrounding area saw anyone suspicious last night. The people who came to help went home after leaving Lou San's house last night. The family members could testify to this.

On the way back, Chu Yunxi went to Ruyun Building again. As expected, Wen Rulan had found a few more people to help with the decoration. When asked where he found Lou San, he said that he came to the door on his own and asked for very low wages, for fear that Wen Rulan would not want him.

Originally, Wen Rulan didn't want to employ him because he looked unhealthy. However, Lou San begged hard, saying that he only wanted half the salary of others and that he only needed three meals a day. Wen Rulan felt sorry for him and finally kept him. Unexpectedly, she got herself into big trouble.

As expected, petty gains lead to great losses.

It seems that Lou San has really reached the end of his rope. The Luo family is unwilling to take care of him anymore, so he can only find a job to make a living on his own.

Chu Yunxi looked at the sky which had already darkened and said, "Since there are doubts, we have to check them one by one. Now that it's dark, we can do one thing while the moon is dark and the wind is high."

"What?" Everyone looked at Chu Yunxi.

Chu Yunxi chuckled, making everyone break out in cold sweats.

It was a pitch-black night, and you couldn't see your hand in front of you. In front of a cemetery, stood a group of burly men, each holding a shovel. In the middle stood a woman, holding a night-shining pearl. She looked at the name in the list in her hand, then at the name on the tombstone, and then looked at the soil in the cemetery. After confirming that it was a new grave, she finally said, "This, dig it."

A group of coolies went forward to work silently. As expected, whenever Coroner Chu gave a sinister smile, they would have no good days.

Chu Zhongxi approached Chu Yunxi and lowered his voice, "Little sister, are you really not going to tell the family members?"

Chu Yunxi's voice was also low. "Do we have evidence now? How do we tell the family? What if they don't agree? Should we continue digging or investigating?"

Chu Yunxi patted her second brother on the back, "Don't worry, second brother. We are also trying to help them. If their hearts are not dug out, that would be great. I will bring more paper money to burn for them tomorrow and recite the Rebirth Sutra for them a hundred times. But what if their hearts are dug out? Can they rest in peace? I am afraid that they will be filled with resentment and have difficulty entering the cycle of reincarnation. We are doing good things."

She spoke so convincingly and logically that Chu Zhongxi found himself unable to refute her.

Xiao Mubei chimed in, "Zhongxi, Yunxi always does things with reason and evidence. Everyone in Dali Temple listens to her."

Chu Zhongxi couldn't help laughing, "Including you, the prince?"

Xiao Mubei nodded seriously, "Including me."

Chu Yunxi looked up at Chu Zhongxi proudly and said, “I, your sister, am very powerful.”

The detectives who were working had already dug out the coffin. There is strength in numbers. This was a person who had been buried just five days ago. He was a scholar who died of a sudden illness. He was in his thirties. He was not very old, but it was a pity.

Chu Yunxi walked to the edge of the pit and whispered, "Open the coffin."

Two constables pried open the nails, and several people worked together to lift the coffin lid. The night pearl in Chu Yunxi's hand emitted a faint light, illuminating the small space in the coffin.

Everyone gasped in unison.

There was also a big hole on the chest of the corpse in the coffin, and it was empty inside!

Chu Yunxi's face became solemn. She signaled the detectives to close the coffin lid and restore the new grave to its original state. She then started searching again.

The tombs in the capital are mostly concentrated on the east and west mountains. Now they are located in Jinping Mountain in the eastern suburbs of the capital.

Soon, Chu Yunxi found a new grave that had been buried only three days ago. The detectives immediately repaired that grave and came to dig this one. The result of the digging was that the heart was still missing!

In one night, Chu Yunxi and the detectives dug up seven graves. All of them were people who had died recently, both young and old. Five of them were under 50 years old, and all of them had big holes in their chests and their hearts had been stolen. Only two of them were people in their 70s, and there was nothing unusual about them.

Chu Yunxi concluded that the murderer only wanted a young heart.

When they returned to the Dali Temple, it was almost dawn and the detectives were so tired that they could hardly walk. Chu Yunxi said to Xiao Mubei, "Your Majesty, you must reward the brothers well tonight. You must give them overtime pay and rewards."

Xiao Mubei nodded, "No problem, everyone's salary will be doubled this month, and when the case is solved, I will treat everyone to a good meal."

The detectives cheered together, feeling that the exhaustion of the night was worth it.

Everyone went back to rest. Chu Zhongxi had been following them for a whole day and night and felt that the work at the Dali Temple was even more tiring than being on the battlefield. The combination of physical and mental labor was too much for him to handle.

Everyone slept until noon. After they woke up, Butler Ling came to report that the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's mansion had been cleaned up and the Ministry of Revenue would return the confiscated property soon.

Xiao Mubei informed Chu Zhongxi and asked him to go back to the Mansion of the Loyal and Brave Marquis to count the things first. Seeing that Chu Yunxi was still sleeping, Chu Zhongxi did not disturb him and went back to the Mansion of the Loyal and Brave Marquis first.

After Chu Yunxi got up, Xiao Mubei was already waiting for her in the study. As usual, they discussed while eating. Chu Yunxi said, "Now it is basically certain that there is such a person, or a gang, who is stealing the hearts of the newly deceased. Because of the customs in the capital, the coffin must be closed and covered on the day of death, which means that the deceased can rest in peace. This gave these people an opportunity to steal the heart and cover the coffin without anyone noticing. After that, the body was buried and buried. No one knew that the person in the coffin no longer had a heart, and his soul could not rest in peace!"