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

It was raining heavily outside, and dull thunder rumbled from the sky. Chu Yunxi couldn't sleep. She was not afraid of thunder and lightning before, but ever since that incident, whenever she suddenly heard a loud noise or saw a sudden light, she would feel fear from the bottom of her heart!

It seemed to be the sequelae of stress-induced trauma. Chu Yunxi looked at the light of the oil lamp with a wry smile. Qingxi wanted to help her turn off the light just now, but she refused. There was still lightning outside, and she didn't want to see the flickering light, which would make her feel uncomfortable.

There are no psychologists in this era, and there is no place to seek medical treatment if you want to. You can only take care of yourself. Chu Yunxi is very clear about her problems, but it is useless to understand, she can't cure it!

Tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, she simply gave up and got up to look at the file of the Loyal and Brave Marquis's Mansion. Xiao Mubei had made a copy of the file, and they both carried it with them. They had been too busy in the past few days and had not had time to take a closer look. At this moment, Chu Yunxi took the file out of the Liyue bracelet, spread it on the table and looked at it carefully.

As she read, Chu Yunxi's brows furrowed deeply. Under the candlelight, she was seen concentrating deeply, thinking with a frown, tapping the table with her hands from time to time, or taking out a pen to make notes on the file.

Time passed by little by little, the sky turned pale, and a new day began.

Early in the morning, two people who had both been awake for half the night opened the door together, looked at the dark circles under each other's eyes, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Let's go and have some breakfast. We will go find Chen Shining and his wife Gao later. The Gao family's affairs have not been investigated clearly yet." Xiao Mubei waved to Chu Yunxi, and the two went to the front hall together.

Uncle Li's cooking skills were indeed impeccable. In the morning, he prepared steamed dumplings, silver thread rolls, osmanthus cakes, six plates of exquisite side dishes, and barley soup for Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi, which made Chu Yunxi very satisfied.

However, after one night and one morning, Chu Yunxi, Qingxi and Li Bo had become very familiar with each other. Li Bo was a kind-looking old servant. According to Xiao Mubei, he was also an old man in Dingbei Palace, and his status in the palace was equal to that of Butler Ling. However, he liked quietness, and since the villa was built, he asked Qingxi to take care of it. On weekdays, when Xiao Mubei was not here, he would take care of the flowers and plants and raise poultry, and cook for Xiao Mubei when he came.

Chu Yunxi is an easy-going person, not bound by so many rules. When it was time to eat, she asked Qingxi and Li Bo to sit down and eat together. The two were afraid at first, but sat down after getting Xiao Mubei's approval. Chu Yunxi was cheerful, and Qingxi and Li Bo were used to freedom, so the three of them hit it off and had a very pleasant chat.

On the contrary, Xiao Mubei and Baiyu Heimu were unable to get a word in and became bystanders.

After a meal that was finally enjoyed by both hosts and guests, Chu Yunxi also agreed with Qingxi Li Bo to come often in the future. Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi finally set out on their return journey.

It was getting late, so the two decided not to go back to the Dali Temple and went directly to the home of Chen Shining, the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Rites, to question him.

Because the matter involved Chen Shining's wife, the questioning was done by a woman in the inner house, which showed the benefits of having a female detective. Xiao Mubei and Bai Yu Heimu were both men, so when they arrived at the Chen Mansion, they could only talk to Chen Shining and could not enter the inner courtyard. However, there was no problem with Chu Yunxi, so Chen Shining sent a maid to take Chu Yunxi to the inner house.

Chen Shining had just been promoted to the position of Deputy Minister of Rites. His mansion was not very big, but it was decorated very elegantly. Walking along the way, there were winding paths and the fragrance of flowers. Although it was summer, the courtyard was cool and refreshing.

The maid took Chu Yunxi to a side room and served her tea, saying, "Wait a moment, young lady. My wife has fallen ill recently due to excessive grief. She is resting now. I will go and report to her right away."

Chu Yunxi nodded and said, "Thank you."

The maid left, and Chu Yunxi looked around the room. The calligraphy and paintings in the room were not expensive, and the furniture was made of ordinary pear wood. It was obvious that the owner was not rich, but a lot of thought was put into the layout. The exquisite but not expensive tassel curtains and various cute little gadgets all pointed out one fact: the hostess of this house was a clever, gentle and virtuous person.

She spends most of her time on her family, which shows that she values ​​this family very much.

Chu Yunxi couldn't help but think of the Gao family, which had a lot in common with the Chen family. What did this mean? It meant that Chen Shining's wife Gao's gentleness was inherited from her mother's family.

Gao Qinghe and Yuan Shi, a couple who held hands before dying together, clearly showed their deep love for each other.

So the question is, for a couple who love each other so much until old age, would the husband take the wife by force just because he is drunk?

Just as she was thinking about it, Gao came in slowly with the help of her maid. On the day when the Gao family was massacred, Chu Yunxi had seen Gao from afar. When she saw her today, she found that Gao had lost a lot of weight in just a few days.

"I've met my lord."

Gao weakly bowed to Chu Yunxi. In her heart, although Chu Yunxi was a woman, she was a member of the Dali Temple after all and should not be neglected.

Chu Yunxi stood up and gave Gao a false support, saying, "Madam Chen, there's no need to be so polite. I'm not an adult. I'm just following the prince to investigate a case. Just call me Yunxi."

"Miss Yunxi," Gao sat down, holding onto the corner of the table. She was a little out of breath after just a few steps. It was obvious that she was seriously ill, but she said anxiously, "But is there any progress in the Gao family's case?"

Chu Yunxi nodded, "The murderer has been captured, and he admitted that he was the one who did the Gao family's crime. However, there are still doubts about his motive. We still need to ask Madam Chen some questions."

"Who is it?" When Gao heard that the murderer had been caught, she suddenly exerted force on the corner of the table and leaned forward, as if she wanted to grab Chu Yunxi's hand to ask her about it, but she held back. However, her body was already shaking uncontrollably.

Chu Yunxi hesitated for a moment and said, "The murderer's name is Yue Haoran, does Madam Chen know him?"

"Yue...Haoran, Yue Haoran?" Gao was bewildered. After thinking for a while, she shook her head. "I don't know him. Why did he kill my whole family?" Gao started crying again. "My parents are already very old, and my youngest brother just had a child. Why did he...why did he do that?"

Chu Yunxi saw that Gao was about thirty-five or thirty-six years old, so fifteen years ago, she was in her early twenties. In that era, women married early, and there were only a handful of women who were still unmarried at the age of twenty. Gao didn't know Yue Haoran, which meant that when the Yue family came to Gao's house, Gao was already married. Perhaps this was the reason why Yue Haoran let Gao go this time.

"The reason why Yue Haoran wiped out the entire Gao family was because Master Gao raped his mother fifteen years ago," Chu Yunxi paused, and finally said it out, "causing his mother to commit suicide, his younger sister to become mentally retarded, and the whole family to fall into an irreparable situation."