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

When they returned to Dali Temple, it was already dark. Chu Yunxi had been investigating on Qilou Street for a whole day, almost all the time walking. She felt like her legs were no longer her own.

Just as she sat down and took a sip of hot tea, a waiter from Ruyunlou hurried over. After reporting, he saw Chu Yunxi and started with the bad news, "Princess, the burned person could not be saved and died."

Chu Yunxi's heart sank. Although it was expected, she still felt uncomfortable when she heard it. But life and death are determined by fate, so she could only digest it slowly.

"Okay, go back and tell my senior brother to send the body to the Dali Temple. I want to perform an autopsy."

The clerk agreed and went back to report. Xiao Mubei saw that she was in a low mood and comforted her, "This is Li Jinze's fate. You have done your best."

"I know, but I am a little unwilling that I didn't save him in the end. However, this way I can better examine the wound on his foot and analyze the murder weapon. Then we can go to Butcher Zhang's house to look for it. We must have solid evidence so that he can't deny it."

Xiao Mubei knew that the bodies in the fire scene were burned so badly that many of the scars on their bodies had been destroyed. Although they could be examined, they would not be as clear as intact bodies.

After Chu Yunxi finished speaking, she stood up and walked towards the autopsy room, "I'll go take a look at those bodies and see if there's anything else I can find."

Xiao Mubei said: "Then I will go and interrogate Butcher Zhang and see what he says."

"it is good."

The two went their separate ways. Chu Yunxi brought Bai Yu to the autopsy room, where four charred bodies were placed side by side, all completely black. Chu Yunxi separated the bodies of the old couple of the Li family and put them together, and then put the bodies of the eldest brother and sister-in-law of the Li family together. After thinking about it, the eldest brother of the Li family might not want to be so close to his wife, so she separated the two bodies a little more.

Then Chu Yunxi began to perform a careful autopsy. She first examined the body of Li's eldest sister-in-law. It was said that the root of all the problems lay with this woman. Chu Yunxi couldn't help but think that the murderer must have hated her the most. The other people all died innocently because of her involvement, so there should be more clues on the body of Li's eldest sister-in-law.

Chu Yunxi cut open the chest of the eldest sister-in-law of the Li family and began to examine her. She found bleeding in the heart, myocardial damage accompanied by blood spots, and extensive necrosis of the subendocardial contraction band of the left ventricular free wall. It turned out that the eldest sister-in-law of the Li family was frightened to death!

Chu Yunxi found it a little unbelievable. Although there are other causes of death when facing death in a fire, such as mechanical damage caused by falling objects from high altitude, sudden death caused by other diseases triggered by extreme fear, it cannot be said that there are no people who are frightened to death, but they are indeed very rare. The eldest sister-in-law of the Li family is so fierce and should not be too timid. What was the reason that she was frightened to death before being suffocated to death by smoke or carbon monoxide poisoning?

Chu Yunxi cut open her respiratory tract again and found that although there was ash and charcoal deposits, they were not particularly large. This also meant that not long after the fire started, the eldest sister-in-law of the Li family died from excessive fright.

Chu Yunxi checked her stomach contents again and found some undigested drug residues. Chu Yunxi smelled them and found that they were hallucinogenic drugs.

There was another hidden story behind the death of Li's eldest sister-in-law. It was not what she had previously judged, that she was burned to death. Chu Yunxi asked Bai Yu to record all these circumstances. Then she sewed up Li's eldest sister-in-law's body and began to examine Li's eldest brother's body.

There was no doubt about the bodies of the eldest brother of the Li family and the bodies of the old couple of the Li family, they were all burned to death. It seemed that only the eldest sister-in-law of the Li family was special. In addition, if you look closely at the ankles of these people, you can indeed see wounds. The wounds show signs of life, which means they were injuries sustained before death. Chu Yunxi sutured several bodies. After all the busy work, it was already late at night.

Chu Yunxi shook her neck and stretched. She felt her waist ache because she had been bending over to work for too long. She opened the door and saw Xiao Mubei standing at the door waiting for her.

Chu Yunxi smiled, "Have you finished the interrogation? Why so fast today?"

Xiao Mubei put a red cape on her and said, "It's cold at night, be careful not to get cold. I went to interrogate Butcher Zhang, he has always denied that he set the fire, nor that the incense was his. He kept saying that he was wronged and that someone was trying to frame him. He begged us to investigate thoroughly and not to wrongly accuse a good person. No matter how I threatened or bribed him, he kept saying that it was not him. Seeing that he was so stubborn, I thought I would ask you if you have any new findings."

Chu Yunxi went to the well to wash her hands, and then went back to the room with Xiao Mubei, saying as they walked: "I have some new discoveries here. I found that Li's eldest sister-in-law was not burned to death, but was frightened to death, and there were hallucinogenic drugs in her body. I suspect that the murderer tricked her into taking hallucinogenic drugs before setting the fire, and then used a small amount of incense to make her unconscious, and then cut the tendons of the person's legs, waited for the person to wake up, set the fire, and admired his masterpiece. Seeing Li's eldest sister-in-law frightened to death because of the drugs, and others unable to escape the fire, he left with satisfaction."

"So, the murderer's first target was indeed Li's eldest sister-in-law, but how did he trick her into taking the hallucinogenic drug?" Xiao Mubei was puzzled. "Everyone should be very cautious about what they take. The problem is that only Li's eldest sister-in-law took the drug, and no one else took it. It seems that the murderer is not satisfied with burning Li's eldest sister-in-law to death. He may want her to pay the price for what he has done."

"Pay the price?" Something seemed to appear in Chu Yunxi's mind, but it was very vague. She couldn't grasp it and see it clearly. After thinking for a long time without any result, she asked: "Prince, do you think Butcher Zhang is the murderer?"

Xiao Mubei looked embarrassed. "From the interrogation just now, he doesn't seem to be pretending, but the evidence all points to him. If it's not him, then who could it be?"

Chu Yunxi couldn't figure it out either, so she said, "Let's wait until I examine Li Jinze's body tomorrow and then we'll see. By the way, did the detectives find any witnesses today? Did anyone see the murderer?"

"No, everyone said they came out after hearing someone shouting there was a fire. At that time, most people were asleep. There were no pedestrians on the road, and no one saw what the murderer looked like."

This was difficult. Almost all the suspects that had been screened out had been ruled out. Butcher Zhang, the only one who looked most like the murderer, refused to admit his identity. Could it be that some clues had been missed, resulting in the murderer not being included in the suspect list? Chu Yunxi frowned and began to think again.