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

"Where is the body?" Chu Yunxi walked inside while wearing a mask and gloves.

Xiao Mubei and Bai Yu followed her in. Xiao Mubei said, "They are all in their respective beds."

Chu Yunxi was very familiar with the layout of Taihetang Pharmacy. After all, she had been there once. She walked through the front hall of the pharmacy, came to the backyard, and went straight to He Yunsen's bedroom.

As expected, He Yunsen and his wife were lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, as if they were still sleeping. However, Chu Yunxi could smell the scent of poison without having to go closer.

"Death from poisoning." Chu Yunxi whispered, then walked to the bedside. Sure enough, the two bodies on the bed had purple lips and pale faces, typical symptoms of poisoning, but their expressions were peaceful, as if they died in their sleep, without any sign of pain.

Xiao Mubei had seen Chu Yunxi being able to smell poison, so he was not surprised at all that she could determine that the death was from poisoning without even seeing the body. But what he didn't understand was who poisoned her?

"The Purple Guards have been monitoring nearby. We can be sure that no one can sneak in and poison us."

Chu Yunxi lifted the quilt and touched the body. It was still warm. Considering that the body was still covered with a quilt, the body temperature would drop slowly. She looked at the degree of rigor mortis and said, "The time of death is no more than two hours."

It was just midnight, which meant that the time of death was around the hour of Xu. Chu Yunxi looked up, "Your Highness, where is the purple guard who is responsible for monitoring He Yunsen? I want to ask her a few questions."

"Outside, I'll let her in."

"No, I'll go out and ask later." Chu Yunxi continued to lower her head to examine the body. "No other scars have been found on the surface of the body. Of course, we need to go back for further inspection. If we want to find out how the poisoning occurred, we need to go back and dissect the body."

"Anatomy?"

Bai Yu smelled a bad omen. Could it be that he would have to face this scene?

Chu Yunxi didn't know what Bai Yu was thinking, she nodded, "Yes, we need to cut open their stomachs and see if the food residue inside is poisonous, then we can know if the murderer put poison in the food."

Chu Yunxi said it as a matter of course. Xiao Mubei and Bai Yu imagined that scene and felt their stomachs churning. Fortunately, they didn't eat much today. Xiao Mubei suppressed the discomfort and pretended to be calm. "Okay, when we're done here, I'll have someone transport the body back to Dali Temple."

Chu Yunxi tidied up the clothes on the body and said, "There is a secret room in He Yunsen's bedroom. It contains various poisons. Your Majesty, I want to go in and take a look."

"Okay, Bai Yu, open the door." After Xiao Mubei gave the order, there was no movement behind him. Turning back, he saw Bai Yu, who was wondering what he was thinking, with a look of despair on his face.

"Bai Yu?"

Bai Yu finally came back to his senses, "Ah? Your Highness, what did you say?"

Xiao Mubei frowned, "What are you thinking about? I asked you to open the door of the secret room."

The last time Chu Yunxi went back, she had already told Xiao Mubei and the others in detail the location of the mechanism in the secret room in He Yunsen's bedroom, so Bai Yu also knew it. He walked to the bookshelf, fumbled for a few times, and then opened the door of the secret room.

Chu Yunxi took the lead and walked in, followed by Xiao Mubei and Bai Yu. There was no change inside from the last time Chu Yunxi came.

Chu Yunxi walked around slowly and carefully looked around the room before she started picking up the medicine bottles on the shelf and opening them one by one to smell them.

After smelling almost all the medicines on the shelf, Chu Yunxi finally held up a pitch-black bottle and said, "Found it."

This was taken out from the bottom corner and placed in an extremely inconspicuous place. If Chu Yunxi hadn't smelled them one by one indiscriminately, it would have been easily overlooked.

"Is this... the poison that killed He Yunsen?" Xiao Mubei looked at Chu Yunxi uncertainly, "Why is it in He Yunsen's secret room?"

Chu Yunxi said word by word: "If my guess is correct, He Yunsen committed suicide and killed He and his clerk Mo Yan in the process."

"Suicide? Could it be that he already knew he was exposed?"

"I'm not sure about this. I need to ask the Purple Guards outside later. I'm just guessing because this poison will kill you unconsciously. I think if He Yunsen knew he had to die, he would choose a painless death. He Yunsen is an expert in developing poisons, so this is not difficult for him."

Chu Yunxi paused, "Of course, speculation requires evidence. Once we go back and dissect the body, we will naturally know whether the speculation is right or wrong."

When he heard about autopsy, Bai Yu's face turned even paler.

Chu Yunxi went to the waiter Mo Yan's room again, and found that his death was exactly the same as He Yunsen and his wife, and he died from the same poison.

Li Jinghong hurried in and said to Xiao Mubei, "I asked the neighbors, and no one noticed anything wrong with He Yunsen these days. He opens the shop on time every day to welcome customers, and closes the shop at 10:00 p.m. every night as usual."

"Okay, let's expand the scope and look for people who have come to the pharmacy to buy medicine in the past few days to see if there is anything suspicious." Xiao Mubei ordered.

Li Jinghong agreed and hurried out again. It must be said that Li Shaoqing was very capable. Ever since the case of Widow Liu was solved within one day, Li Jinghong never questioned Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi again. Every time he was asked to do something, he would do it perfectly.

Bai Yu arranged for people to bring the three bodies back to the Dali Temple. After Chu Yunxi washed her hands, she met the purple-robed guard who had been responsible for keeping an eye on He Yunsen recently.

Bai Yu said: "Zi Xuan and Zi Chen are the best in Qinggong among the Purple Guards. They have never been discovered while stalking, so it is unlikely that He Yunsen discovered that he was exposed."

Chu Yunxi nodded, looked at the two twenty-something women in purple veils in front of her, and asked, "Has He Yunsen done anything wrong in the past few days?"

The two looked at each other, thought for a long time, and finally shook their heads together, "No, everything is normal."

"Didn't see anyone?"

"No, I didn't see anyone suspicious except the guests."

"Have you been out?"

"No. When there are no guests, he is organizing medicinal herbs in the front hall or drying them in the backyard." The speaker was Zixuan.

"Who buys food for his family?"

Zi Chen replied, "They were all bought by He's. She goes out to buy things every two days. My subordinates follow her, and we didn't find her in contact with outsiders."

"Oh, right, someone delivered a batch of medicinal herbs today, and it was Mo Yan who received them. At that time, He Yunsen had guests, so he didn't come in, and asked Mo Yan to bring people in to put the herbs in the woodshed." Zi Xuan thought for a while, and said, "I didn't find anything suspicious."

Not discovering anything doesn’t mean there’s nothing fishy. Of course, everything is just a suspicion now.