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

Xiao Mubei nodded, "Yes, when I came up, Taoist Qingfeng was indeed not there. I asked a young Taoist from the West Queen Mother Temple to call him. When he came over, he indeed looked like he had just gotten up."

But this doesn't prove that he didn't go out at 3:30 pm. Chu Yunxi thought for a moment and said, "Master Qingfeng, where is your discomfort? Is it better now? I know a little bit about medicine, why don't I take your pulse?"

Qing Feng bowed his head and said, "Thank you for your concern, young lady. I am much better now, so I won't bother you any more."

Seeing that there was nothing abnormal on his face, Chu Yunxi did not insist and arranged for someone to take these twenty or so people to search their house.

After everyone left, Xiao Mubei asked, "If the murderer is not in this Bodhi Temple at the moment, what should we do next?"

Chu Yunxi looked at Wen Rulan who was walking over and asked, "Brother, what do you think?"

Wen Rulan stood beside the two of them and said, "I think the murderer is most likely the Taoist priest from this Bodhi Temple."

"Is there any evidence to prove it?" Chu Yunxi asked.

Wen Rulan thought for a moment and said, "There is no evidence for now, but I have three inferences. First, if it was a pilgrim, wouldn't it be easier to just leave after killing someone? The mountains are high and the sea is vast. Once he leaves, it will be extremely difficult to find him. Why did he come back to this Bodhi Temple? Second, if it was a pilgrim like Tie Niu, who came back for his companions and to avoid arousing suspicion, then why didn't he let his companions go down the mountain first? Why did he leave his companions on the mountain and wait? You have to know that once a murder occurs on the mountainside, the people on the mountain will definitely not be able to leave. Isn't this almost like walking into a trap? Third, and most importantly, when you were talking to Qingfeng just now, I had already walked around among those pilgrims and checked their martial arts at close range. None of them has the ability to fight one against many and kill so many people quickly."

Chu Yunxi frowned and said, "You mean, the Taoists in Bodhi Temple all have martial arts skills and can fight against many enemies at once, right?"

Wen Rulan said: "I didn't test those Taoists, so I'm not sure who has better martial arts and who has worse martial arts. But thinking about that little Taoist nun, I'm afraid the masters in this Bodhi Temple are beyond our imagination."

Chu Yunxi nodded, sat down on the stone bench next to the open space, and said, "I thought about it carefully. The murderer should not have killed in passion, but premeditated murder."

Xiao Mubei asked in surprise: "How did you know that?"

Chu Yunxi took a stone and drew a simple diagram of the scene on the stone table. She used a line to represent each body. After drawing the lines in all directions, she threw the stone away and asked, "Did you see anything?"

Xiao Mubei and Wen Rulan exclaimed at the same time: "This placement looks like the word 'wang'."

"That's right, the word 'wang' means wishful thinking." Chu Yunxi clapped her hands. "In such a short time, he killed people and made them fall to the ground in the posture he wanted. The murderer is stronger than we thought. Moreover, why did he make the bodies fall into the shape of this word? The bodies at the scene had not been moved, so I overlooked this clue at first. Perhaps, we need to understand the real intention of the four young masters of Qingcheng coming to the Bodhi Temple."

After saying so much, Wu Lingqi came back with the palace guards and Qingfeng. They had just gone to search the rooms of those pilgrims and Taoists who had no time to witness. If there was nothing suspicious, they would just leave them in the room to rest. Qingfeng followed and asked what to do next.

Wu Lingqi also sat down on the stone bench opposite Chu Yunxi and said, "I didn't find anything suspicious."

As expected, this further confirmed that the murderer did not kill in passion, but had already thought about it and even prepared to kill these people.

Chu Yunxi wiped off the pattern on the stone table calmly and said, "Everyone has worked hard today. It's getting late. I have to trouble Taoist Qingfeng to arrange a place for us guards to rest. We will check again tomorrow morning."

Qing Feng said, "Okay, but the guest rooms at Bodhi Temple are really limited. There are not many left. I'd like to ask you officials to squeeze in first."

Wu Lingqi said: "When we go out to handle a case, no one cares about anything. As long as we have a place to sleep, it's fine. I'll go sleep with my brothers."

The guards immediately said, "No, no, you are the prince, we can squeeze in, but how can we wrong you?"

Wu Lingqi glared, "Your Highness is not a human being? What's wrong with that? There are suddenly so many people in Bodhi Temple tonight. It's already very good that Taoist Qingfeng can find us a roof over our heads. What else is there to be said? Let's go."

The guards couldn't persuade him, so they followed him. Chu Yunxi smiled and said, "This kid has grown up very quickly recently. Now he knows how to share the joys and sorrows with the guards. These guards will definitely be willing to listen to him in the future."

"Let's go, let's go back and rest." Xiao Mubei saw that everyone had left, and felt sorry for Chu Yunxi, so he wanted to take her back to rest.

Chu Yunxi held him back and said, "Wait a moment, I want to talk to my senior brother."

So she leaned over to Wen Rulan's ear and whispered something. Wen Rulan nodded, and Chu Yunxi then pulled Xiao Mubei and said with a smile: "Let's go back to sleep."

Xiao Mubei asked curiously: "What did you say that you can't let me know?"

Chu Yunxi dragged him, "Let's go, this is a secret, you will know it when you need to know it."

Xiao Mubei shook his head lovingly and turned to look at Wen Rulan. Wen Rulan also smiled and said to him, "Go back quickly. There should be nothing to do tonight."

What on earth are these two people talking about? Xiao Mubei couldn't figure it out, so he simply gave up thinking about it. Anyway, just like Chu Yunxi said, when he should know, he will know it naturally. It's nothing more than related to the case.

So he and Chu Yunxi went back to the room Qingfeng had prepared for them to rest with peace of mind.

When Wen Rulan returned to the room, Wan Ruwei had already fallen asleep with her clothes on. She was tired today and had wanted to wait for Wen Rulan, but she didn't expect to fall asleep while waiting. Wen Rulan was afraid that she would be anxious, so she came back to check on her first. Seeing that she was asleep, she felt relieved. She helped her take off her shoes, covered her with a thin blanket, and then disappeared into the night.

The night passed in a flash. Chu Yunxi felt that she had just fallen asleep when the day had already dawned. The morning bell of Bodhi Temple woke her up. She opened her eyes and said, "Is Bodhi Temple going to have morning classes?"

Xiao Mubei also woke up, looked at the time, and said, "It was just Mao time, it should be morning class, you should sleep a little longer."

Chu Yunxi turned over and muttered, "Then I'll sleep for another hour. Remember to call me, I have something important to tell you." As soon as she finished speaking, she fell asleep again.