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

As for those who had close contacts with the Sun Mansion on a daily basis, Chu Yunxi took stock and wrote down more than a dozen names. She could investigate them one by one tomorrow.

When talking about the carrier pigeons in the mansion, everyone said the same thing. They said that the pigeons were taken care of by a mute servant in the mansion. The servant's name was Sun Liu, and he was a servant of the mansion. He was about 40 years old, and his parents had both passed away. He didn't interact with anyone on weekdays and only listened to Sun Shiche and the two young masters.

After questioning all the servants, Chu Yunxi ordered someone to bring Sun Liu over.

Sun Liu was a short man, only in his forties, but he looked like he was in his fifties. He stood there hunched over, with fear in his eyes, trembling.

"Sun Liu, raise your head."

Sun Liu raised his head tremblingly and whimpered twice. Hei Mu stepped forward and pinched his chin to take a look, then said to Chu Yunxi, "The tongue is gone."

Chu Yunxi guessed that Sun Liu's muteness was not congenital but artificial.

"Sun Liu, can you read?"

Sun Liu whimpered and shook his head.

"Do you know sign language?"

Chu Yunxi continued to shake her head, and her heart sank. He couldn't speak, couldn't read, didn't know sign language, and could only listen. This was someone who could absolutely keep secrets. No wonder Sun Shiche was confident in entrusting such an important task as feeding the pigeons to him.

"Then let me ask you, if it is, you nod, if it is not, you shake your head."

Sun Liu nodded.

"The confidential matters in the Sun Mansion are all transmitted via carrier pigeons, right?"

nod.

"Have you kept any of those letters?"

Shake his head.

"You know where the pigeons fly, don't you?"

nod.

"Which direction do you usually fly in?" Chu Yunxi pointed in a direction and told him east, west, south and north.

Sun Liu thought for a moment and pointed south.

Nan, Chu Yunxi wrote it down, thought about it, and asked again: "Do you know who each letter is for?"

Sun Liu shook his head blankly.

Chu Yunxi remembered that she had seen the Sun family's carrier pigeons. Each one had a number on it. It seemed that each number corresponded to a person or place. Sun Shiche would not tell Sun Liu who the letter was for. He only needed to tell him which number the pigeon was.

It seems that this is all that can be said about Sun Liu. Chu Yunxi asked the jailer to take him away and asked someone to bring Sun Shaochen over.

When Sun Shaochen came in, he had his head hung. In the past two days, he looked much more haggard and his eyes were dull.

He came in and took a look at Chu Yunxi. A hint of understanding flashed in his eyes, and he laughed at himself. "Princess, you have a good plan and courage. You used my little sister to lure our whole family into the game, and you didn't hesitate to risk your life to find out the location of our dungeon. Sun really admires you."

Chu Yunxi curled her lips and smiled, "If you weren't so impatient, it wouldn't have come to this. I originally thought that it would take more effort, but I didn't expect that you would reveal your flaws."

Sun Shaochen was speechless. His eldest brother had always been reckless and this time he had caused a big disaster. However, he was also eager to save his younger sister. How could he blame him?

Chu Yunxi's face darkened. "Sun Shaochen, now that things have come to this, your Sun family is doomed. If you reveal the mastermind behind the scenes and gain merit, I can consider pleading for your Sun family in front of His Majesty. Perhaps, Sun Shaozhen's life can be spared."

Sun Shaochen's heart moved, and he looked at Chu Yunxi, "My little sister, how is she now?"

"She is fine now. I will let you go see her later. I have said that her illness is not difficult to cure, but what your Sun family has done is enough to cause her death."

Sun Shaochen kept silent. He knew that the Sun family was doomed, but there was always a glimmer of hope in his heart.

But Chu Yunxi shattered his last glimmer of hope.

"Do you know whose name your Majesty saw in your dungeon?"

Sun Shaochen frowned, not understanding what Chu Yunxi meant.

Chu Yunxi smiled coldly, "What you saw is my prince's name, what does this mean?"

Sun Shaochen broke out in a cold sweat. He was not stupid. In the Sun family, he was the brainy man. Sometimes Sun Shiche would listen to him. When he heard Chu Yunxi say this, he immediately understood the conspiracy.

Someone deliberately led Your Majesty to the Sun family and the dungeon, and then used the Sun family's formation to frame King Dingbei. The Sun family was an abandoned chess piece in this matter. No matter which prince fell, the Sun family would undoubtedly die.

After realizing this, Sun Shaochen felt his blood run cold. Their Sun family had already lined up and had been working for the prince for so many years. They regarded the prince as their lord, and in order to secure the prince's position, they had worked hard behind the scenes. Even for this formation, they knew it would be a capital crime if discovered, but they set it up without hesitation just because that person said that it could speed up the prince's ascension to the throne.

But in the end, was he just a part of someone else's trap? Was he destined to be a discarded pawn from the beginning?

"Are what you said true?" Sun Shaochen asked with difficulty. In fact, the Minister of Justice was also there, and Chu Yunxi could not have told a lie. But he still asked this question, and he still wanted to confirm it in the end.

"It's absolutely true." Chu Yunxi vowed.

Sun Shaochen fell to the ground, and the glimmer of hope he had was shattered. But then he remembered something, and cold sweat flowed down his forehead. He said with difficulty: "There is no mastermind behind this matter."

Chu Yunxi frowned, "Sun Shaochen, you have all become abandoned, do you still want to protect the person behind the scenes?"

Sun Shaochen shook his head. "Princess, I don't mean to defend the person behind the scenes. It's just that this matter is indeed a long story."

It turned out that two months ago, Sun Shaozhen had been critically ill. At that time, the prince went out of the city to inspect the three armies on behalf of Emperor Sui Ming. Before leaving, the prince came to Sun's house and asked the Minister of Revenue Sun Shiche about military rations. While the two were talking, Sun Shaozhen fell ill. The servant came to report, and Sun Shiche hurried over. The prince also went to see Sun Shaozhen. The situation was very serious at the time, but unexpectedly, after the imperial physician gave him a dose of medicine, Sun Shaozhen was out of danger.

Afterwards, Yunniang went to the temple to pray for Sun Shaozhen's safety. When she came back, she told Sun Shiche that a high monk had advised her that the reason Sun Shaozhen's condition improved was because she was protected by the aura of the Son of Heaven. However, the aura of the Son of Heaven was thin and could only protect her for a while. She also said that if Sun Shaozhen wanted to make up for it, she needed to be with the real Emperor.

Yunniang shed tears at the time and said that the monk had calculated that Sun Shaozhen's life span was originally over, and this time the thin aura of the emperor could protect her from death for three months. After three months, if she could not reach the side of the real emperor, she would surely die.

Sun Shiche was stunned at the time. The monk meant to give Zhen'er to His Majesty as a concubine? But His Majesty was older than himself, and Zhen'er was only fifteen. How could she be His Majesty's concubine?