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

The crime scene was in an alley. When Chu Yunxi arrived, a group of early risers had already gathered at the entrance of the alley. They were pointing at the alley and looking inside through the gaps blocked by the constables.

Li Jinghong was waiting for Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi at the scene. When he saw them coming, he came over and said, "The deceased is a woman, about 20 years old. She was found by a breakfast vendor. He would cross this alley every morning at 12:00 to sell breakfast on the main road in front. Today was no exception. When he passed by here with his breakfast basket, it was still dark. He didn't see a person lying on the ground until he got closer. He thought it was a drunkard, so he wanted to wake him up and let him go home to sleep. Who knew that when he got closer, he found that it was a woman with blood all over her face. He was so scared that he knocked over his breakfast basket and ran all the way to the Dali Temple to report the case."

Chu Yunxi came to the corpse and saw a lot of porridge, buns and other things scattered on the ground.

Chu Yunxi squatted down. The female corpse was lying on the ground with disheveled hair. She was wearing a thin undershirt. The front of the shirt was dotted with blood. The face of the female corpse was covered with blood. It looked very scary.

Chu Yunxi first checked her body surface and did not see any other fatal injuries. There was a bruise on her right ankle, as if it was sprained. Chu Yunxi gently parted her hair and wiped the blood off her face with a handkerchief.

Xiao Mubei suddenly said "Huh!", and Chu Yunxi was also shocked at the same time. She looked up at Xiao Mubei and asked, "Does your Highness think she looks familiar?"

Xiao Mubei shook his head and said, "She doesn't look familiar. She went to the palace last night."

"Last night?" Chu Yunxi recalled the noise she heard in the middle of the night. "Your Highness, were you out at that time?"

Xiao Mubei nodded and said, "She ran to the palace gate in dishevel and was stopped. Later, I went out when I heard her. She kept saying that the man wanted to kill her and begged me to save her. I saw that she seemed to be unconscious, so I asked her who wanted to kill her, but she didn't say anything. She just kept saying that the man wanted to kill her. Later, her husband came. Oh, she was the woman who fell into the water when we went outing that day. After her husband came, he kept apologizing to me, saying that his wife had hysteria recently and always felt that someone wanted to kill her. After she fell into the water and was rescued that day, she might have remembered me, so she ran to the palace secretly and asked me not to blame her. How could I have the same opinion as a woman? I let her husband take her away, but I didn't expect that she would really die."

No wonder she looked familiar. It turned out to be the woman who fell into the water that day. Chu Yunxi suddenly realized that Xiao Mubei's voice was somewhat self-blaming. She knew that he was blaming her for not keeping the woman last night and asking her clearly. So she said, "It's not your fault. Her husband is here, and she didn't say who wanted to kill her. Anyone would definitely choose to believe her husband."

"Alas, if I had been more alert, perhaps she would not have died." Xiao Mubei regretted that such a vibrant life had passed away.

Chu Yunxi patted Xiao Mubei's shoulder, not knowing what to say, so she continued to examine the woman's body. She looked at the wound on her forehead carefully. There was a big hole on it, so a lot of blood had flowed out, and her entire forehead was swollen. It could be seen that the impact was very serious and the skull should be fractured. If she really hit it herself, it can be seen that she was determined to die.

She took the body temperature again, lifted the deceased's clothes to check the formation of corpse spots, and then said: "The time of death was probably between the Chou and Yin hours last night."

Xiao Mubei thought for a moment, "In other words, she died less than an hour after she left Dingbei Palace. Was it because I didn't help her that she became hopeless and chose to commit suicide?"

Chu Yunxi shook her head and said, "If she really wanted to die, why did she run to Dingbei Palace in the middle of the night to ask for help? Asking for help means she wants to live, but committing suicide means she wants to die. These are two completely contradictory mentalities. So, she can't say that she is seeking death because you didn't save her, then her behavior of looking for you is inexplicable."

Xiao Mubei thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case.

"Where is her husband?" Chu Yunxi asked.

"I haven't seen him yet," Li Jinghong, who was standing nearby, replied hurriedly, "Because we haven't figured out the identity of the deceased, we haven't notified the family yet."

That's right. Although they knew the deceased, they didn't know who the deceased was or where he lived. Even if they wanted to notify him, they couldn't. Xiao Mubei was about to arrange someone to check when suddenly a shocking cry came, "My wife, my wife, why are you so depressed..."

Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi turned around together and saw that it was indeed the woman's husband. He was stopped outside by the police and couldn't come in. He was crying bitterly, with one hand stretched out, and he looked very anxious.

Xiao Mubei said: "Let him in."

The two constables who were responsible for stopping him finally let go, and the man immediately stumbled in, knelt down beside the woman, and stretched out his hand as if he wanted to touch the woman's face, but he didn't dare to touch her. He just cried and his body trembled.

"My dear, why are you so depressed? How can you leave me alone? How can I live if you leave? My dear, wake up, get up and look at me..."

Chu Yunxi patted his shoulder and said, "Well, I'm sorry. We have some questions for you."

The man sobbed and raised his head, as if he had just seen Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi. He turned around, knelt down and kowtowed, crying, "Greetings, Prince, Princess...my wife...why is her life so miserable?"

When he calmed down a little, Chu Yunxi asked, "Didn't you and your wife go home together last night?"

The man wiped his tears, sniffed, and then said, "I took my wife home after leaving Dingbei Palace. After returning home, she became much quieter and went to bed with me. I didn't get much sleep these past few days because of her. As soon as I touched the pillow, I fell asleep. I didn't even know when she got up and went out. I deserved it."

As he said this, he slapped himself in the face and started crying again.

What an infatuated man!

But Chu Yunxi always felt something was wrong, so she asked, "When you came just now, you said that your wife was depressed. How can you be so sure that she committed suicide? Didn't she suspect someone was trying to kill her last night? Could it be that she was killed by someone else?"

The man was dumbfounded, and after a long while he asked, "Princess, didn't my wife commit suicide? Was she killed by someone else?"

"We need to take her back to the Dali Temple for a detailed autopsy before we can get the answer." Chu Yunxi still didn't know whether the woman committed suicide or was murdered, but she always felt that the whole thing was weird and it didn't seem that simple.