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

“Except for the third young lady of Prime Minister Wei’s family, the other six victims are also ladies from prominent families?” Chu Yunxi held a steamed bun in her hand but forgot to put it in her mouth.

Li Jinghong nodded, "Yes, they are all daughters from wealthy families. Most of these families have guards or secret guards, but no one has ever discovered the flower thief. They only found their daughters dead in the room in the morning. Now, families with daughters in the capital are in danger. They are extremely alert at night and dare not sleep."

“Seven cases in half a month will indeed make the people panic, and the nature of this case is too bad. They are all in their prime, how could this devil have the heart to do this to them.” Chu Yunxi punched the small table in front of her in anger, and the food basket jumped.

Xiao Mubei hurriedly held the food basket, fearing that the porridge inside would spill out and scald Chu Yunxi.

Li Jinghong sighed and said, "Maybe the Dali Temple has been investigating strictly these days, so there are no more cases. But it is not easy to find the murderer. It is unknown whether the murderer is still in the capital."

Chu Yunxi pondered for a while and asked, "Where are these seven bodies?"

"The first six bodies have been returned to their families after the coroner's autopsy. They should have been buried. Only the body of the third daughter of the Wei family is still in the Dali Temple. It was originally agreed that someone from the Wei Xiang Mansion would come to take her back today."

"Then let's go to Dali Temple quickly. I want to see the body." Chu Yunxi urged the driver to go faster, then stuffed the whole bun into her mouth and ate it.

The morgue of Dali Temple.

Chu Yunxi first walked around the body of Wei Zhishan, the third daughter of the Wei family. Li Jinghong said, "According to the examination by Li, the deceased Wei Zhishan died of asphyxiation caused by strangulation. There were no other scars on her body. She was violated before her death, just like the other people."

Chu Yunxi looked at Wei Zhishan's body. Her face was blue and purple, with the tip of her tongue slightly sticking out of her lips. Marks of strangulation could be seen on her neck, and there were crescent-shaped scars behind both ears, which were caused by the murderer's nails digging into the flesh when strangling her. Her long hair was scattered on the side, and a bougainvillea was inserted in her temples. The flower was very beautiful, with pink on the upper part and green and white on the lower part.

"This flower doesn't seem to be the variety from our Dasui, right?" Chu Yunxi took the bougainvillea, looked at it carefully, and then put it to her nose to smell it. The scent was so light that it was almost negligible.

Li Jinghong nodded. "This flower is called green cherry. It likes warmth and grows mostly in southern Xinjiang."

"Southern Xinjiang? Why didn't I see him this time?"

"Now is not the flowering season for the green cherry. It should bloom next month. What the princess is holding in her hand now was picked and dried, so it is well preserved." Li Jinghong already has a thorough understanding of the bougainvillea green cherry.

Chu Yunxi nodded, put down the flowers in her hand, and asked Xiao Mubei and Li Jinghong to go out first. She took off Wei Zhishan's clothes one by one and checked them carefully.

There were bleeding spots under the skin of Wei Zhishan's body, but no other injuries of resistance, which means that she was in a coma when she was strangled. Her lower body was red, swollen and torn, and she had been violated before her death. There was no problem with these.

Chu Yunxi looked at Wei Zhishan's face carefully again, and suddenly found faint finger marks on her face. Chu Yunxi gestured the shape of the finger marks, it seemed that her face was pinched to force her to open her mouth. Chu Yunxi didn't see it before because of the bruises on her face, but now she leaned over and was closer, so she saw it.

She immediately opened the mouth of the corpse and examined it carefully. The light was not enough, so she took the oil lamp and looked carefully. She found that there were slight tears at the corners of Wei Zhishan's mouth and some white objects on the inner wall of the mouth.

Chu Yunxi carefully scraped out the white object, put it to her nose and smelled it, and she had a rough idea in her mind.

She turned the body over and examined it carefully, and some new ideas came to her mind.

Xiao Mubei, Li Jinghong and others were outside the morgue. When they heard the door open, they turned around at the same time and saw that Chu Yunxi had already finished the autopsy and the body was dressed.

Xiao Mubei went forward and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Chu Yunxi nodded, "I think there is more than one murderer."

Li Jinghong was shocked, "How did the princess know that?"

Chu Yunxi went to the well to fetch water to wash her hands. After washing, she took the towel handed over by Xiao Mubei, wiped it clean and said, "The deceased did not experience a single assault. Did Li Shaoqing know that?"

Li Jinghong nodded, "I know. The deceased was violated once normally and then violated once abnormally from behind."

"More than twice," Chu Yunxi interjected.

"What?" Li Jinghong felt himself sweating. Was this what Coroner Li said to him?

Chu Yunxi said: "Oral, one more time."

"Oh my god!" Li Jinghong was sweating this time, "Is this still a human?"

"Li Shaoqing, do you think this was done by one person?" Chu Yunxi asked.

Li Jinghong thought for a moment, "When I first saw the two assaults, I thought it was done by one person, but if what the princess said is true, it is unlikely that the murderer was one person, but it is not absolute either."

"That's right. Just looking at the murderer's three assaults on the deceased, it's not certain if the murderer was one person. But I found finger marks on the corpse's cheek. I compared the strangulation marks on the corpse's neck and found that the widths of the two finger marks were different, indicating that the two marks were left by two people. So based on this, I judge that there are at least two murderers, or even three."

"Princess, you are amazing!" Li Jinghong sincerely admired Chu Yunxi's professionalism in the autopsy.

"Your Majesty," Chu Yunxi turned to ask Xiao Mubei, "If I let you sneak into the mansions of these wealthy families at night, can you avoid the guards and secret guards?"

"It should be fine." Xiao Mubei was still confident in his lightness skills.

"So as long as you have good Qinggong skills, it's basically not difficult to enter these wealthy families, right?"

Xiao Mubei nodded in agreement, and Li Jinghong also agreed. The murderer must have good martial arts skills, which is why he was able to evade so many guards and commit crimes frequently under the emperor's feet.

"Li Shaoqing, have you found any remnants of the incense used by the murderer?"

"Yes, Princess, please follow me." Li Jinghong brought Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi to his study, where the case files and evidence of the serial rape and murder case were kept.

Li Jinghong took out the remnants of the incense he had collected each time and gave them to Chu Yunxi, saying, "I've asked someone to look at this incense. It's called Wutouxiang and it has a long-lasting and strong effect. Once a person inhales a small amount, they can be unconscious for at least five or six hours."

Chu Yunxi wanted to pick it up and smell it, but Xiao Mubei quickly held her hand down. The effect of the incense was so strong that it would be troublesome if she got poisoned.

Chu Yunxi understood Xiao Mubei's worries, so she gave up. She asked, "Are there many kinds of Aconitum incense on the market?"

"Not many," Li Jinghong shook his head. "It is said that this was previously used by the Nandi royal family, and later spread to Southern Xinjiang. It is very rare in the capital."