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

Chen Tianzhi curled his lips, glanced at Zhang the Butcher, and said, "Girl, you don't know how skilled my master is, right? I feel that even if I devote my entire life to it, it would be difficult for me to learn his knife skills."

"Don't underestimate yourself. I believe you can do it." Chu Yunxi encouraged Chen Tianzhi as they walked.

There is a well in the middle of the yard. The area around the well is still wet, mixed with blood. There are a few pieces of unwashed pork piled on the ground. It seems that Chen Tianzhi was washing the meat here just now. Across the yard, there are two rooms. One is Zhang the butcher's bedroom, and the other is a place to store sundries. There are also two cages next to the room, which are used to temporarily store live pigs.

Chu Yunxi went directly to Zhang the Butcher's bedroom. She frowned slightly as soon as she entered the room. The room was indeed very messy. Clothes were thrown carelessly and scattered all over the floor. Zhang the Butcher picked up the clothes with some embarrassment and said, "No one comes here usually, so I don't clean it up. It's mainly because I get very tired at night and just want to sleep."

Chu Yunxi smiled, "You don't need to explain this to me. Just live in a comfortable way."

Everyone's living habits are different. There is no need to impose your own habits on others. Just like some people like to eat apples and some people like to eat bananas, they just have different tastes.

Butcher Zhang was busy cleaning the house, while Chu Yunxi and Xiao Mubei were looking around the house separately. Chu Yunxi walked slowly around the small room, looking at the furnishings in the house, occasionally picking up something to flip through.

Butcher Zhang was busy picking up clothes thrown on the ground. He was holding a pile of clothes in his arms. He walked quickly to the wardrobe next to the bed and wanted to stuff all the clothes in there first. At this time, a package of something fell out from the clothes he was holding. He didn't see it and stuffed all the clothes into the wardrobe.

Chen Tianzhi had nothing to do, so he just kept watching the three people. When he saw something fall out of Butcher Zhang's arms, he picked it up and handed it to Butcher Zhang, "Master, your things fell."

Butcher Zhang took it with a puzzled look, muttering, "What is this? How come I have never seen it before?"

Chu Yunxi turned around and saw that he was holding something wrapped in a long oil paper. She shouted, "Wait, bring it over to me and let me see it."

Butcher Zhang handed it over without knowing what it meant. Chu Yunxi took it in her hand and felt what was inside. She suddenly felt excited. She carefully opened the oil paper package, and two incense sticks appeared in front of her. Chu Yunxi picked up one and smelled it. Sure enough, it was the same as the incense ash found in the fire scene!

Chu Yunxi glanced at Xiao Mubei, who immediately knew the problem. He slowly moved to the door and guarded it. Chu Yunxi raised the incense in her hand and asked Zhang the Butcher, "What is this?"

Butcher Zhang scratched his head and looked at the incense in Chu Yunxi's hand in confusion, "I don't know, this thing is not mine."

"Nonsense! You're the only one living here. If it's not yours, who else could it belong to?" Chu Yunxi's voice suddenly became stern.

Butcher Zhang was a little panicked. "It's really not mine. I have never bought incense, and I have never seen this thing before. I don't know why it appeared in my room."

"You mean to say that this incense came into your room and got wrapped in your clothes for no reason?"

Butcher Zhang nodded hurriedly, "Indeed, this is the first time I've seen this. May I ask, young lady, what's wrong with this incense? Is there something wrong with it?"

What's wrong? If the murderer is really Zhang the Butcher, Chu Yunxi can't help but admire his acting skills.

She took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Butcher Zhang, you are now suspected of arson and killing Li Jinze's family. Come back to the Dali Temple with us."

"What?" Butcher Zhang was shocked. "Why? Are you convicting me based on these two sticks of incense? I don't even know how these sticks got to me. This must be a frame-up."

"Frame-up?" Chu Yunxi sneered, "Just now you said that you were sleeping at home from 11:00 to 11:00 last night. Who could frame you?"

Butcher Zhang suddenly glanced at Chen Tianzhi. Apart from himself, the only one who could enter and leave his room freely was Chen Tianzhi, his apprentice who never put himself on guard.

Chen Tianzhi seemed to be dumbfounded. He did not notice Zhang the Butcher's inquiring eyes, but hurried to explain to Chu Yunxi, "Miss, are you mistaken? My master can't set fire and kill people. He is a very kind person on weekdays. He has a good relationship with the neighbors and takes good care of me. How could he kill people?"

Chu Yunxi sighed, "Tianzhi, I also hope he is not the one, but now all the signs show that he is the most suspicious, so he must go back to the Dali Temple with us for investigation. If he is not the real murderer, we will definitely not wrongly accuse him and will let him return safely, but if he really did it, then there is nothing we can do."

Chen Tianzhi was so anxious that he almost cried. He turned around and stood in front of Zhang the Butcher, "Girl, please, my master really can't be the murderer. Please don't take him away."

Butcher Zhang said, "I'll go with you. I believe that those who are innocent will be innocent. It wasn't me who did it, so you can't put the blame on me. Tianzhi, you sell today's meat, then close the shop first, and reopen it when I come back."

Chen Tianzhi choked up and responded. Butcher Zhang strode to Xiao Mubei and said, "Please make way. I will go to the Dali Temple to cooperate with the investigation."

His attitude made Chu Yunxi a little unsure. Could it really not be him? But he was the only one who matched the number. It was also possible that he was pretending to be so as to disrupt their investigation direction. This was also unknown.

In any case, Butcher Zhang will definitely investigate.

Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi brought Butcher Zhang back to the fire scene and handed him over to Li Jinghong for the time being, ordering him to have Butcher Zhang taken back to the Dali Temple and locked up. After they left, Chu Yunxi asked, "Your Highness, do you think Butcher Zhang is the murderer?"

Xiao Mubei shook his head. "I don't know. It feels like it and not like it. If it is true as he said, someone framed him, then who could that person be?"

Chu Yunxi also frowned. An idea came to her mind, but she immediately denied it. It couldn't be like this. The murderer must be Zhang the Butcher without a doubt. She believed in her judgment.

However, to be on the safe side, Chu Yunxi still sent constables to check the remaining three key suspects again. One of them found an alibi, and although the other two had quarreled with Li's eldest sister-in-law, they were all trivial matters and were not enough to kill the whole family. Therefore, they could only be regarded as suspects for the time being. The key suspect was only Zhang the Butcher.