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

They stayed at Tie Niu's house that night. Xiao Huan returned to her own home. Tie Niu slept on the floor in his mother's room and gave his room to Chu Yunxi and Xiao Mubei. Wen Rulan and Wan Ruwei slept in the luxurious carriage.

Tie Niu took out a new quilt and changed it, saying, "This is the quilt my mother made for Xiao Huan and me for our wedding. It's brand new. Brother Xiao and Sister Chu, you can use it first."

Chu Yunxi hurriedly said, "How can that be? You haven't gotten married yet, how can we use this bedding? No, no, we can just use the old one." As she spoke, she was about to change the bedding.

Tie Niu hurriedly stopped her and whispered, "Sister Chu, I actually have some selfish motives. My mother made several new quilts for me. I asked her to use one, but she refused to use it. She said that she likes to light some calming incense at night. Her quilt has the scent of calming incense, so she can sleep better. But her quilt has been used for many years. I know she is reluctant to use new ones, so she said that on purpose. After tonight, I will have an excuse to give this quilt to my mother for her to use. So sister, don't be polite to me. Just think of it as helping me."

Since Tie Niu said so, Chu Yunxi didn't insist. She asked casually, "Auntie, are you having trouble sleeping at night?"

Tie Niu sighed and said, "Since my father died, my mother couldn't sleep at night. Later, I heard that calming incense can help sleep, so I went to buy her some. But my mother was always reluctant to use it. She only used a little bit every day, saying that it would last longer. Over the years, I have never asked her to stop using the calming incense, but she didn't use it much either."

Calming incense is relatively expensive, and generally wealthy families will light it at night. However, poor families, unless they really suffer from severe insomnia, probably will not use it. In this sense, Tie Niu is indeed a filial child.

Early the next morning, Tie Niu went to Dahuai Mountain. Xiao Mubei said the night before that he wanted to go with him, but he refused, saying that he would get up very early and did not want to disturb Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi's sleep. He also went to Dahuai Mountain often and was familiar with the road, so Xiao Mubei could rest assured.

Xiao Mubei was indeed worried that something might happen to Chu Yunxi at night, so he agreed. Sure enough, when he woke up in the morning, Tie Niu had already left.

When Chu Yunxi came to Tie Niu's mother's room, she really smelled a faint scent of soothing fragrance. The smell was very light, which meant that there was not much. She could only smell a little in the morning. Once the door was opened during the day, the smell would quickly dissipate. No wonder Chu Yunxi didn't smell it when she came last night. She gave Tie Niu's mother a pill and asked her to take it. This poison was something Chu Yunxi had never seen before, but her detoxification pill could detoxify all poisons, so it should be effective for Tie Niu's mother as well.

Wen Rulan and Wan Ruwei took on the task of cooking again. The main reason was that Tie Niu's mother was too weak and could not even stand for a while after getting up. There was not much food at Tie Niu's house. Wen Rulan searched for a long time but could not get the ingredients for two dishes. Fortunately, Xiaohuan came soon. This girl was smart and brought a lot of vegetables grown by herself. Wen Rulan finally cooked two dishes.

After dinner, Xiaohuan rushed to clean up the dishes. Chu Yunxi was talking to Tieniu Niang. After a while, Xiaohuan came to Chu Yunxi and said hesitantly, "Sister Chu, there is something I have been thinking about all night, and I think I should tell you."

She looked embarrassed, as if something big had happened. Chu Yunxi asked curiously, "What is it?"

Xiao Huan looked at Tie Niu's mother, her face turned red, and she said in a voice as soft as a mosquito: "Sister Chu, can you come out and talk to me?"

Tie Niu's mother laughed and said, "Girl, why are you still embarrassed? Is there anything you don't want me to know?"

Xiao Huan's face turned even redder. Seeing that she really couldn't say it, Chu Yunxi stood up and said, "Then let's go out and talk, ma'am. The girl is shy. It must be about her marriage with Tie Niu. I'll go out and talk to her."

The two of them came outside. Xiaohuan looked around and said, "Sister Chu, didn't Auntie say yesterday that Auntie Li next door gave her a basket of dragon scale vegetables? Auntie Li's son Dali, he...he has been pestering me recently, but Brother Tieniu and Auntie don't know about it, and I didn't dare tell them. After all, they have been neighbors with Auntie Li's family for decades, and I'm afraid it will affect them. But I have already told Dali to stop pestering me."

Chu Yunxi frowned. If that were the case, Aunt Li had a motive for poisoning. Could it be that she poisoned Tie Niu Niang in order to fulfill her son's wish? But she had confirmed again and again yesterday that the dragon scale vegetable was indeed not poisonous. Any villagers here who went to Dahuai Mountain would pick it and eat it. Over the years, she had never heard of anyone being poisoned by eating dragon scale vegetables.

So Chu Yunxi said to Xiaohuan: "Okay, I know about this matter. It's not necessarily that Aunt Li and the others poisoned it. I will find out."

Xiao Huan nodded, "I hope it wasn't Aunt Li and Dali who poisoned me, otherwise I would really be sorry to Brother Tie Niu and Auntie."

Chu Yunxi comforted him, "Even if they poisoned you, this matter has nothing to do with you. Don't take everything on yourself, okay?"

Xiaohuan nodded, but still felt a little uneasy. Chu Yunxi comforted her for a while before returning to the house.

Near noon, Tie Niu finally came back with a large basket of dragon scale vegetables. Chu Yunxi took a dragon scale vegetable and found that it was indeed shaped like dragon scales, with long leaves covered with scale-like patterns. She picked it up and put it to her nose and sniffed it gently. There was no special smell and it was not poisonous.

Just when she was about to smell it carefully, she suddenly felt dizzy and her body went limp. Fortunately, Xiao Mubei quickly supported her and asked nervously, "How are you?"

Chu Yunxi shook her head, thought for a moment, and handed the dragon scale vegetable to Xiao Mubei, saying, "Smell it and see if you feel dizzy."

Xiao Mubei picked it up and smelled it, then shook his head and said, "There's nothing unusual."

Chu Yunxi gave it to Wen Rulan and Wan Ruwei. After they smelled it, they didn't find anything unusual. Chu Yunxi was a little suspicious again. Could it really have nothing to do with the dragon scale vegetable? At this moment, she saw Tie Niu sitting in the yard, and his face seemed a little wrong.

She walked over and asked, "Tie Niu, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

Tie Niu smiled and said, "It's okay. Maybe I got up too early this morning and I feel a little dizzy. I'll be fine after a rest."

He was dizzy too? Chu Yunxi suddenly seemed to understand something and asked, "Tie Niu, did you start feeling dizzy when you were picking dragon scale vegetables?"

Tie Niu asked curiously: "How do you know?"

Chu Yunxi murmured, "I finally understand."

The others didn't know what she understood, and they all looked at her. Chu Yunxi suddenly curled her lips and smiled, saying, "Tie Niu, it's rude not to reciprocate. You picked so many dragon scale vegetables, why don't you send some to Aunt Li?"