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

The man sobbed and said, "My wife has been in a trance recently. She always says that someone wants to kill her. No matter how I try to persuade her, it's useless. Before today, she had committed suicide twice, and I saved her both times. She must have been under too much mental pressure, so she ran out last night when I was not paying attention and committed suicide again. Princess, my wife's life is too hard. Now that she is free, let her rest in peace and don't torment her."

This meant that they didn't want Chu Yunxi to take the body back for an autopsy. Chu Yunxi frowned and looked at Xiao Mubei. Xiao Mubei understood and said, "Since the murder case has been reported to the Dali Temple, the body must be taken back to the Dali Temple for examination. If it is confirmed to be suicide, it will be returned to the family. You can leave your name and address and go home and wait. When there is a result, someone will notify you."

The man wanted to say something, but Li Jinghong came over and pulled him up, "Come here and register your name and address, and your wife's name."

The man had no choice but to look back at the corpse on the ground every few steps before being pulled away by Li Jinghong.

Chu Yunxi arranged for the constable to take the body back to the Dali Temple. She whispered to Xiao Mubei, "Your Majesty, do you find this matter strange?"

"It is a little strange. Let's go back and do a thorough autopsy to see if we can find any clues."

After returning to the Dali Temple, Li Jinghong followed closely. Bai Yu prepared breakfast, and the three of them ate together while talking about the case. Li Jinghong drank a mouthful of porridge, warmed up his body, and then said: "According to the deceased's husband, the deceased's name is Liu Guizhi. Her family is in the cloth business. They have been married for half a year. The husband is named Dou Yian, a scholar, and he opened a calligraphy and painting shop."

"What's their family background like?" Chu Yunxi asked.

Li Jinghong shook his head. "It's not clear yet. We haven't investigated. In cases like this, we usually need to do an autopsy to confirm the cause of death. If it's suicide, we don't need to investigate the family background, etc. If it's homicide, we need to collect evidence and investigate."

Chu Yunxi nodded. It was indeed the right thing to do. So she quickly finished her bowl of porridge, put the bowl down and stood up. "I'll go do the autopsy now."

Liu Guizhi's body had been sent to the morgue. This time, Hei Mu followed in to record. Now they had been fully trained by Chu Yunxi, and they could see the corpse without blushing or getting nervous.

Chu Yunxi prepared the tools and began to perform a careful autopsy. She first took off the clothes of the deceased and examined the body surface. This examination did find some problems. There were many tiny pinholes on the body of the deceased. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see them at all. She couldn't help but think of the ancient palaces, where sometimes maids would secretly oppress the palace maids and use this method. It was very painful for people, but no injuries could be found, so the palace maids could only suffer in silence.

Why did Liu Guizhi have these pinholes on her body? Who was abusing her?

Chu Yunxi didn't have time to think about these things. She checked carefully again. There were bruises on the outside of Liu Guizhi's right ankle and cuts on her right wrist. Combined with what Dou Yian said, she had attempted suicide twice before. Chu Yunxi couldn't help but look carefully at the wound on her wrist, then looked at her palm, and had an idea in her mind.

Checking Liu Guizhi's head again, this was where the fatal injury was. Due to the severe impact, her forehead was already bloody. Chu Yunxi checked her scalp bit by bit. Suddenly, her hand stopped. The scalp behind Liu Guizhi's head was red and swollen, and a clump of hair had fallen out.

Hei Mu recorded all these in detail. Chu Yunxi then picked up the scalpel and cut open the chest of the deceased. There was almost no food residue in her stomach. It seemed that she had not eaten for a long time. However, Chu Yunxi smelled a strange smell in her stomach. She carefully identified it and found a little bit of residue in the stomach contents of the corpse. She put it into the Liyue bracelet for a component analysis. The conclusion surprised her. Liu Guizhi's body actually contained the ingredients of hallucinogenic drugs!

Liu Guizhi’s death was indeed not simple!

After the autopsy, Chu Yunxi sewed up the body completely, put on clothes, and then walked out. Xiao Mubei and Li Jinghong were waiting in the study. As soon as Chu Yunxi entered the room, she said, "Your Majesty, Liu Guizhi was murdered, not committed suicide."

Xiao Mubei sat up straight at once, "What did you say?"

Chu Yunxi took the autopsy report and handed it to Xiao Mubei, "Your Highness, please take a look. I have a lot of reasons to say this. Now I will tell you one by one."

Xiao Mubei read the autopsy report, handed it to Li Jinghong, and then said, "You tell me."

Chu Yunxi drank a cup of tea, moistened her throat, and then said, "First of all, let's talk about the fatal injury. Liu Guizhi did die by hitting her head against the wall, but she didn't do it herself. Someone grabbed her hair and hit her hard. That's why her scalp was red and swollen, and she even lost a tuft of hair. This can be seen from her condition after death. When we found Liu Guizhi, her face was covered in blood. If she died by hitting her head against the wall, she should have fallen on her back immediately. At this time, the blood would flow from her forehead to the temples on both sides, instead of flowing down and all over her face. Unless someone grabbed her hair and hit her many times before making her fall, it would cause this state."

Xiao Mubei and Li Jinghong nodded together, this was indeed the truth.

Chu Yunxi continued, "Secondly, her husband said that she had attempted suicide twice before. I did see marks of cutting her wrists, but her scars were on her right wrist."

Li Jinghong asked in confusion: "Is there anything wrong with this?"

Chu Yunxi nodded, "I checked her hands. Liu Guizhi is not left-handed. There are no calluses on her left hand. On the contrary, there are many calluses on her right hand, such as on the palm and fingertips. This shows that Liu Guizhi is a right-handed person. If a right-handed person cuts his wrist, will he use his left hand to hold the knife and cut his right wrist?"

Li Jinghong gestured with his hands and suddenly realized, "That's right, absolutely not."

"And even if Liu Guizhi really used her left hand to hold the knife to cut her wrist," Chu Yunxi gestured on her right wrist with her left hand, "her scratches should be from the outside to the inside, but now, the scratches on her wrist are from the inside to the outside. What does this mean? It means that someone cut her wrist, and there is only one wound, which means that the person who cut her wrist was very cruel and cut very deep. I don't know if you have really seen people die from cutting their wrists. I have seen it. They usually don't just cut once, because they will try it first. This is because people are afraid. So usually such corpses will have several parallel wounds on the wrist."