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

"Your Majesty, I don't want my entire family to be executed, but I can't watch Tingyu being beheaded. He did all these things for me. If I am afraid of death and ignore him, then am I still a qualified father?"

Zhao Yuzhi looked at Xiao Mubei, standing still, and continued: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the princess is now in a very safe place, and there are people guarding her. She won't be in any danger. I told that person to wait until dawn. If I don't go back, he will know that my negotiation with Your Majesty has failed, and he will kill the princess and end it all."

"You..." Xiao Mubei clenched his fists in anger. He gritted his teeth and asked Bai Yu beside him, "How many hours are left until dawn?"

Bai Yu whispered, "Your Majesty, it will be dawn in less than three hours."

Three hours!

Xiao Mubei gritted his teeth and said, "Go back and bring Zhao Tingyu here."

"But Your Majesty..." Li Jinghong wanted to stop him. His Majesty ordered the Dali Temple to solve the case within half a month. Now the deadline is approaching. If the suspect is handed over at this time, it would be disobeying the order and is also a capital crime.

Xiao Mubei said in a deep voice: "I would rather die than let Yunxi get into trouble."

Li Jinghong was speechless, and Bai Yu took the order and left.

Xiao Mubei was still trying to negotiate with Zhao Yuzhi, "Master Zhao, you are doing this, risking the lives of your entire family just to save Zhao Tingyu. Is it really worth it? Stop it. In view of your diligence for Dasui over the years, I can forgive you for what happened today. Zhao Tingyu committed a capital crime, and I can't make the decision, but at least the Zhao family can be saved, and your life can be saved. You still have a daughter, a wife, and maybe a son in the future. Do you really want to make mistakes?"

The Moon-Watching Pavilion is located on a high slope. Due to its high terrain and lack of obstructions, one can clearly see the bright moon in the sky from here, hence the name Moon-Watching Pavilion.

Zhao Yuzhi stood by the pavilion, his sleeves fluttering. He put his hands behind his back, exuding a desperate aura. He said slowly, "Prince, you don't need to persuade me anymore. I have considered all the interests. I also said that Tingyu did the wrong thing because of me. As his father, I will never give up on him. Even if I die, I will accept it. Prince, to be honest with you, my wife and daughter have already left the capital. The Zhao Mansion is now deserted. I have no intention of going back this time. If I can survive, then my father and son will reunite with them mother and daughter. If I can't survive, then I will accompany Tingyu and won't let him go alone."

No one expected that Zhao Yuzhi would be so thorough and quick. In just one day, he had arranged everything and the escape route. Speed ​​is of the essence in war. This move of his really caught Xiao Mubei off guard.

Xiao Mubei asked Hei Mu beside him, "Has there been no news from Senior Brother Wen yet?"

Kuroki whispered, "Not yet."

Xiao Mubei was about to bite off his teeth, but at the moment he had no way to deal with Zhao Yuzhi. Now Chu Yunxi's life was in his hands, and Xiao Mubei could only try his best to deal with him.

"Zhao Yuzhi, I have already ordered people to go to the Dali Temple to pick up Zhao Tingyu. Now that things have come to this, I don't want to say too much. I only have one question for you. How much of the serial rape and murder case did you participate in?"

Zhao Yuzhi laughed loudly, "Your Majesty, I really underestimated you before. Even at this time, you are still concerned about the case. I admire you."

"Don't talk nonsense and answer my question." Xiao Mubei had a blank expression on his face.

Zhao Yuzhi stopped beating around the bush and replied, "In fact, I knew about this case since Tingyu and the others started planning it. I thought about stopping it, but I hoped that the disease could be cured. I was still young, and I couldn't bear to die like this. So, I chose to play dumb and pretend that I didn't know about it, and let them commit the crime. But I didn't expect that they would offend Wei Xiang. I knew that this time I was in trouble, so I let them hide at home and discussed with them to find someone to take the blame. I didn't expect that they actually had a target to take the blame, so they went there by themselves. I just helped send the person to the Dali Temple."

Xiao Mubei gritted his teeth and said, "You are still young, but those women are even younger. Why were they killed?"

"That can't be helped. There aren't so many whys in this world," Zhao Yuzhi shrugged. "We can only say that they are unlucky and have such a calamity in their lives."

Xiao Mubei was really speechless. After calming down for a while, he said, "Master Zhao, who kidnapped the princess just now in the Dali Temple?"

"I'm sorry I can't tell His Majesty about this for now. After all, with His Majesty's intelligence, if I tell His Majesty this person's name, He might find him. I'm stupid, so I can only avoid taking risks."

Xiao Mubei was really pissed off by Zhao Yuzhi, but he couldn't do anything to him. He could only remain in a stalemate with him and watch time slip away bit by bit.

Seeing that Xiao Mubei stopped talking, Zhao Yuzhi also stopped talking. The world became quiet in an instant, with only the sound of the wind blowing past his ears.

Chu Yunxi didn't know how long she had been unconscious. When she woke up and opened her eyes, it was pitch black in front of her and she couldn't see her hand in front of her.

She stretched out her hand and waved it in front of her eyes, but still could not see anything. She felt a little panicked. Was she locked in a dark place, or was she blind? She was not sure.

She reached out her hand and felt around. She found that she was still sleeping on the bed. It was soft and comfortable. She touched the edge of the bed, but it was empty and there was nothing. Everything around her was silent, without any sound.

She groped her way out of the bed, stretched out her arms and walked forward bit by bit. There was still nothing in front of her and she did not encounter any obstacles. After walking about twenty steps, she finally touched something. She felt it up and down and left and right. It was a little damp and seemed to be a stone wall.

She walked to the side along the stone wall for about twenty steps, and suddenly her hands were empty. She stretched out her hand and waved, and there seemed to be no stone wall in front of her. A slight breeze blew her hair.

Are we outside? Chu Yunxi thought to herself. Just as she was about to continue walking, an old voice came lazily, "If you go any further, you will fall off the cliff."

The voice sounded very suddenly, about three or four meters away from Chu Yunxi. Chu Yunxi was not mentally prepared at all, and was frightened by the voice and staggered. She hurriedly reached out to hold the stone wall next to her, but she failed to hold on. Her body tilted, her feet were empty, and she fell down.

She couldn't help but let out a scream, thinking that this was the end, she had really fallen off the cliff, and she would be smashed to pieces. She closed her eyes in despair.