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

But Chu Yunxi is not someone who retreats when faced with difficulties. The more difficult it is, the more she is willing to challenge it. She took out Dou Anyu's portrait and started asking the owners of shops along the street.

Unfortunately, there were too many people that day, and the bosses were all busy doing business. Dou Anyu's appearance was nothing special, so no one noticed her.

Chu Yunxi thought about it, and then went along the river bank to look for the boatmen who ferried people across the Qianlong River. She asked each of them one by one, hoping to try her luck and see if anyone happened to have walked under the bridge at that time.

Hard work pays off. When Chu Yunxi had almost asked all the boatmen on Qianlong River, one of them finally said, "When I was ferrying under the bridge that day, I seemed to hear a woman's voice on the bridge. I looked up and it seemed that a lecher was harassing the woman. I only saw that they were both wearing white clothes and the man seemed to be a head taller than the woman. I didn't see anything else."

Both wearing white clothes? Chu Yunxi hurriedly checked with the boatman again, "Are you sure they are both wearing white clothes?"

The boatman nodded, "OK."

After saying goodbye to the boatman, Xiao Mubei said, "Just now, the Purple Guards reported that they have verified the colors of the clothes worn by the seven deceased on the day of their departure. Ma Xiyan was indeed wearing an emerald green dress on the night of the Lantern Festival, Dou Anyu was wearing white, Lai Yanru was wearing pink, and Wei Zhishan was also wearing pink."

"Pink, green and white," Chu Yunxi murmured, "Prince, do you still remember the color of that bougainvillea?"

Xiao Mubei thought for a moment, "The upper part is pink, and the lower part is green and white."

"Yes, they are also pink, green and white. The clothes those three people wore were pink, green and white. And now the seven victims were also wearing clothes of these three colors when they went out. Isn't this too coincidental?"

"It's a coincidence indeed."

Chu Yunxi added: "According to the witnesses, the man in green is a head shorter than you, and the man in white is a head taller than Dou Anyu. We have all seen those three men, and the heights of those two men are almost the same as what the witnesses said, so I suspect that the murderer is the Three Heroes of Merlin!"

"Okay, then I'll arrange for someone to arrest him immediately." Xiao Mubei said without hesitation.

At this moment, a constable from the Dali Temple ran over quickly, panting and saying, "My Lord and Princess, Li Shaoqing asked his subordinates to tell you that the murderer has been caught."

"What?" Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi exclaimed at the same time. They had just confirmed that the Merlin Three were the murderers, and the murderer was caught over there. Was it so fast?

"Are they the Three Heroes of Merlin?" Chu Yunxi asked hurriedly.

The detective asked in confusion: "Who are the Three Merlins? Aren't there two murderers?"

"Two people?" Chu Yunxi was also confused. "How did you catch them?"

"They went to the Jingzhao prefect's house to commit a crime last night and were caught by the secret guards. They found incense and bougainvillea on them. The prefect knew that the Dali Temple had been investigating this serial flower-stealing case recently, so he sent the people here."

"He went to the Jingzhao Prefecture Governor's house to commit the crime last night?" Chu Yunxi felt even more confused. The three people also went to Jingzhao Prefecture in the morning. The murderer went to the Jingzhao Prefecture Governor's house to commit the crime last night. But the murderer who was not caught in the Prime Minister's Mansion was caught in the Jingzhao Prefecture Governor's house. Isn't this a bit too much of a coincidence?

"Do you believe it?" Chu Yunxi looked at Xiao Mubei.

Xiao Mubei shook his head. If he had not sent people to follow the three people and saw them enter Jingzhao Prefecture, he might still be skeptical. But now, he didn't believe it at all and was afraid that there was another story behind it.

"Let's go. Believe it or not, the murderer is here, we have to go meet him." Chu Yunxi put away all the portraits and went back to the Dali Temple with Xiao Mubei.

The prisoners were locked up in the prison. Li Jinghong took Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi over there and said as they walked: "Just now, Lord Zhao, the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, sent someone to deliver it. He said that there are all the witnesses and evidences. The two men also confessed and admitted that they were the ones who killed the seven people before."

"What is the motive for murder?" Chu Yunxi asked.

"He suddenly had an idea because he saw that the girl was pretty, so he sneaked into the girl's house in the middle of the night, first used drugs to knock the girl and everyone in the room unconscious, and then raped the girl."

"Did you torture him?" Chu Yunxi suddenly asked.

Li Jinghong was stunned for a moment and shook his head. "No, I just questioned them normally. They confessed everything, so I ordered someone to inform the prince and princess, and they were thrown into prison."

"You confessed so readily?" Chu Yunxi found it incredible. "My Lord, if it were you, knowing that you would be sentenced to death, would you still confess readily without being tortured?"

"No, I will hold on until it is absolutely necessary." Xiao Mubei said without hesitation.

Chu Yunxi nodded and turned to ask Li Jinghong, "What about Li Shaoqing? If you killed seven people and the government didn't find any evidence, would you admit it readily if they arrested you?"

"No." Li Jinghong put himself in the role and shook his head again, "I definitely won't confess. I hope I can find fewer cases, so that I can get a lighter sentence."

"so…"

"So, what the princess means is that these two are not the murderers?" Li Jinghong already understood what Chu Yunxi meant.

Chu Yunxi nodded, "I suspect that these two people are scapegoats. The real murderer is someone else."

Li Jinghong also found it a little unbelievable. "This is a capital crime, and someone is taking the blame?"

"There are all kinds of strange things in this world, but we haven't found out yet. Everything is just speculation. We will know once we meet these two people."

As they were talking, they had already arrived at the cell where the two murderers were imprisoned. Chu Yunxi saw two men in night clothes, who were imprisoned separately. At this moment, they were sitting on the straw mats in the cell with their heads down, not saying a word.

"Cao Dong, come out." Li Jinghong called one of the men out and took him to the interrogation room. This was also Chu Yunxi's idea, to try the two men separately.

The man named Cao Dong was not tall and was rather thin. He looked like he could be blown away by a gust of wind. Chu Yunxi walked behind him, carefully sizing up his back.

She remembered that the old man selling candy figures said that the man in green clothes could be described as elegant from the back, but when she looked at Cao Dong from behind, the word elegant was not something he could relate to.

On the contrary, the man in green among the three heroes of Merlin was the best looking and had the best body proportions. She remembered that the man in white had a common look and was easily overlooked in the crowd, while the man in pink had a greasy look, with oily hair and powdered face. In any case, they were not like Cao Dong in front of her, who was skinny and did not look like a man with outstanding martial arts skills at all.