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

Early the next morning, Chu Yunxi was woken up by Xiao Mubei.

Chu Yunxi opened her eyes with great effort. She felt like she needed to hold her eyelids propped up with a matchstick. She looked out the window at the sky which had just brightened a little, then closed her eyes again and said, "Your Majesty, it's too early. Let me sleep a little longer."

"Yunxi, get up, another murder has happened." Xiao Mubei picked up his bed from the ground while calling Chu Yunxi. He slept on the floor in the wing of Prince Changning's mansion last night. Prince Changning would never have thought that he had arranged a room for Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi, but Xiao Mubei actually slept on the floor in his mansion.

Chu Yunxi jumped up, her mind cleared instantly, and she was no longer sleepy. "Where is the murder case happening again?"

"Just now, the Purple Guards reported that the Dali Temple's detectives found the palace and said that a male body was found on Hualou Street. His throat was also cut. It looked very similar to the throat-cutting case last night."

"Hualou Street, is it in the south of the city?" Chu Yunxi asked as she quickly put on her clothes.

Xiao Mubei had already cleaned up the floor, washed his face briefly and said, "Yes, it's Hualou Street in the south of the city."

"Okay, then let's go over and take a look." Chu Yunxi also wiped her face, and the two of them immediately went to say goodbye to Xiao Zili and Hasna.

Hasna had already arranged for the servants to prepare breakfast in the kitchen. When she heard that Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi were leaving, she hurried out of the kitchen and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry? Eat breakfast first and then get busy."

"Sixth sister-in-law, there is a murder case. Yunxi and I are going to go over and take a look. We will come back to bother you next time." Xiao Mubei did not dare to delay. After saying goodbye in a hurry, the two of them got on the carriage and headed straight for Hualou Street.

When they arrived at Hualou Street, it was just dawn. Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi got off the carriage and entered the cordoned off area of ​​the Dali Temple. They saw Li Jinghong already checking the dead body. When Chu Yunxi stepped forward, he immediately stood up and gave his seat to Chu Yunxi.

Xiao Mubei asked: "Did you see anything?"

Li Jinghong nodded, "It should be the same murderer as last night's case. The deceased also covered his neck with both hands, blood splattered in front of him, and died with his eyes open. Because the princess hasn't come yet, I didn't take his hands away, and I didn't see if the wound was the same as Ma Mingxuan's."

"It's the same." Chu Yunxi had already taken the dead man's hand away and said, "The dead man died about an hour ago, and rigor mortis hasn't set in yet. He was killed this morning. The wound is the same as Ma Mingxuan's, and the murder weapon is the same thin blade. The method is the same. I guess he was standing here, and when the dead man passed by him, he suddenly attacked, cut the dead man's carotid artery, and left immediately. The method was also very quick, and the blood probably didn't splash on the murderer's body."

Li Jinghong gritted his teeth and said, "What on earth does this man want to do? He kills people every night."

Chu Yunxi's face was serious. "Li Shaoqing, if it's really as you said, then it's troublesome. If he really kills people every night, then if we don't solve the case, won't one person die every day?"

If this is true, it would be horrible and the Dali Temple would face unprecedented pressure.

"Have you found the source of the corpse?" Chu Yunxi stood up. She had already checked it once. Apart from the severed carotid artery, the deceased had no other wounds on his body. This was the only fatal wound, which was exactly the same as Ma Mingxuan's throat-cutting case. They could be handled together.

Li Jinghong shook his head. "No, we just arrived. The lady upstairs saw the body when she opened the window this morning. She immediately asked her husband to come down to check. As a result, he found that the person was already dead. Her husband immediately went to the Dali Temple to report the case."

As he was talking, the door of a house in front opened, and a woman was about to come out, but was stopped by the Dali Temple constable, "A murder has occurred, you are not allowed to come out for the time being."

"Murder?" The woman stretched her neck to look over. Suddenly, her eyes widened. After a moment's pause, she suddenly pushed the constable aside and ran over like crazy. She fell beside the corpse and shouted in disbelief: "Changlin, Changlin, what's wrong with you? Wake up, don't scare me, get up quickly..."

Chu Yunxi and Xiao Mubei looked at each other, and Chu Yunxi stepped forward to pull the woman, "Madam, please get up first. The dead cannot be resurrected, so you should mourn."

The woman was crying and screaming, and was extremely emotional. Chu Yunxi tried to pull her up from the ground several times but failed. Others were reluctant to take action, and the situation was at a stalemate for a while.

Chu Yunxi was helpless and could only wait for her to finish crying. Fortunately, there were two constables guarding the body and prevented her from falling on the body. However, Chu Yunxi was also sure of one thing, that this person also died at his doorstep.

After a while, the woman's crying finally subsided. Chu Yunxi helped her stand up, sat down on the stone platform nearby, and asked, "Madam, is the deceased your husband?"

The woman nodded and cried, "Yes, it's my husband."

"What's your husband's name and where does he work? Do you know why he didn't get home until this morning?"

"My husband's name is Li Changlin. He is the chef of Tongfulou. Although he gets off work late on weekdays, he usually goes home around midnight. Last night, he asked someone to send me a message saying that a big customer came to the restaurant and he needed to be on call at all times, so he didn't come back last night. But who knew..."

The woman started crying again, "If I had known that he would get into trouble this morning, I would not have scolded him, nor would I have let him rush home so early in the morning. Otherwise, he would have escaped this disaster."

"Why did you ask him to come back so early in the morning?" Chu Yunxi felt a little strange.

The woman cried, "He is a cook and needs to change his clothes every day. He only has these two sets of clothes. Tongfulou is not far from home, so I asked him to come back in the morning to change into clean clothes."

"Is that all?" Chu Yunxi was a little skeptical. If he really just wanted to come back to change clothes, he could have just left the clothes he brought with him at the restaurant in case the situation happened. Why would he have to rush home so early in the morning?

Seeing the woman hesitant and unwilling to speak, Chu Yunxi became angry, "Now your husband has been killed, we are here to help him find the murderer so that he can be vindicated and buried in peace as soon as possible. Is there something you are hiding from us? Didn't you see that your husband died with his eyes open?"

Chu Yunxi's voice became louder and louder. When she said the last sentence, the woman was obviously shocked. She forgot to shed tears and just stared at Chu Yunxi in a daze.

Chu Yunxi stepped aside. She was originally afraid that the woman would be upset by seeing the corpse on the ground, but seeing that she was still hiding something, Chu Yunxi didn't care about her and stepped aside, letting her see her husband's face with his eyes open and terrified.