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

Chapter 521 Wan Mansion

Chu Yunxi sat down next to Xiao Mubei and said with a smile: "Why bully Hei Mu? He is so honest."

Xiao Mubei handed her a piece of cake and said, "You left me alone in the palace. I can only bully him. Life will be so boring."

Chu Yunxi heard a hint of resentment in these words, and laughed in her heart. She ate the cake in one bite, stood up and said, "I'm going to take a shower. I have to go to the Wan Mansion tomorrow. Your Majesty, go and warm the bed first."

The ambiguity of these words instantly dissipated the little resentment in Xiao Mubei's heart. He responded loudly and went back to his room.

Nothing happened that night. On the morning of the next day, Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi brought Li Jinghong and several constables to Wan Mansion.

The Wan family's door was now closed. Li Jinghong knocked for a long time before someone came out to open the door. Seeing that it was someone from the Dali Temple, he ran to report. After a while, Wan Jinghao, the current head of the Wan family, came out quickly to greet him. As soon as he came out, he bowed and saluted, "Your Highness, please forgive me. Because a murder happened in the mansion, I have been following the instructions of the Dali Temple and closed the door to visitors these days. I am really sorry for neglecting Your Highness."

Xiao Mubei said, "Master Wan, you don't have to be polite. You are following the instructions of the Dali Temple. What's wrong with that? Let's go and take the prince and the princess to see the crime scene."

"Please, my Lord and my Princess."

Wan Jinghao led the way and walked into the mansion, saying as he walked, "Because there are so many people, we have set up tables in the front hall and the backyard. The table where Lord Li was sitting was in the backyard. Your Majesty and Princess, please follow me."

Xiao Mubei didn't dare to walk too fast, Chu Yunxi supported him, Wan Jinghao naturally didn't dare to urge him, so he could only walk slowly in front. Chu Yunxi said: "Master Wan, please tell me about the layout of the venue at that time."

So as they walked, Wan Jinghao pointed and introduced, and Chu Yunxi also had a general understanding of the arrangements for the wedding day.

The Wan family is a family of military generals. Their mansion is not very big, but now they have three generations living under the same roof. General Wan is over 80 years old this year. He used to be brave and good at fighting, and won honors on horseback. He has two sons, the eldest son is Wan Jinghao, and the second son is Wan Jingjie. Now Wan Jinghao is the head of the family. Wan Jinghao has a son and a daughter. The son is the young general Wan Zisheng who is getting married this time. He is also gaining experience in the army. He should have inherited his grandfather's genes and has made great achievements in the army. Although he is not very old, he is already a general who dominates one side. His daughter Wan Zijiao is only thirteen years old this year and is being raised in the boudoir.

The second branch of the Wan family, that is, Wan Jingjie's branch, now has only one son, named Wan Zirui, who is the youngest child in the family. He is only nine years old, which is the right age to go to private school.

Apart from these, the Wan family only had a housekeeper and servants. Because of General Wan's prestige in the court and the weight of Lord Qin, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, almost most of the ministers in the court came to congratulate the two families on their marriage, and there was no shortage of people from the Hanlin Academy. Together with the relatives and friends of both sides, there were so many guests.

Chu Yunxi learned all this from Li Jinghong in the carriage before coming to the Wan Mansion. To investigate a case, one must first clarify the relationships between the characters so that the case can be better sorted out. This is Chu Yunxi's usual habit. Now that she has listened to Wan Jinghao's introduction, she can understand it more clearly.

On the wedding day, the Wan family set up a total of 17 tables, nine in the front yard and eight in the back yard. The ceremony was held in the front hall. After the ceremony, the bride was sent back to the wedding room at the back, while Wan Zisheng stayed in the front to toast the guests.

When they arrived at the backyard, Wan Zisheng was already waiting there. Wan Jinghao introduced Wan Zisheng to Xiao Mubei and the others. He immediately bowed and said, "Wan Zisheng greets the prince and princess."

Wan Jinghao explained, "Because when the incident happened, my son was at the scene and witnessed the whole thing, so I asked him to wait here, thinking that the prince and princess would want to ask him questions."

Xiao Mubei nodded, "Lord Wan is very thoughtful." Witnesses are indeed the most important in the entire case.

So Chu Yunxi said, "General Wan, please tell me what happened that day again."

Although he had already made a confession to the Dali Temple, Wan Zisheng knew that as long as the case was not solved, he would need to fully cooperate with the Dali Temple's investigation, so he immediately cooperated and recounted the situation again.

After the ceremony, he stayed to toast the guests. After the nine tables in the front hall were toasted, nothing unusual happened. Chu Yunxi remembered that according to the colleagues from the Hanlin Academy who sat at the table where Li Ruixian was, after the ceremony, Li Ruixian returned to his seat with everyone else. He kept his head down and did not speak. Everyone was busy drinking and eating. They called him several times but he did not respond. They thought he was afraid of drinking and teased him a few times, but then they didn't care. Only Lord Lin, the editor of the Hanlin Academy who came with him, asked him what was wrong, but he did not respond. Lord Lin pushed him at that time, and he looked up at Lord Lin and lowered his head again. Lin Shize saw that he was fine, so he did not ask any more questions.

Later, Wan Zisheng came over to toast, and when it was their table's turn, everyone stood up, including Li Ruixian. Just as everyone was raising their glasses to drink, he took out a dagger and started stabbing himself, over and over again, shocking everyone.

At that time, Wan Zisheng was the first to come to his senses. He stepped forward and tried to grab the dagger, but Li Ruixian was a scholar and was surprisingly strong. He held the dagger tightly and stabbed himself mechanically. Wan Zisheng wanted to grab the dagger, but he did not block it and stabbed Wan Zisheng's hand directly. Wan Zisheng barely dodged it and prevented his hand from being injured. As a result of this delay, Li Ruixian had already stabbed him many times.

Later everyone reacted. The brave ones came up and pulled Li Ruixian's arm. Lin Shize was also shouting anxiously, "Brother Ruixian, what's wrong with you? Stop it."

Finally, someone held Li Ruixian's arm, but he used a lot of strength and stubbornly stabbed the dagger into his chest. So many people failed to hold him back, so he slowly inserted the dagger into his heart and killed himself.

The scene at that time emerged in Chu Yunxi's mind. A group of people pulled his arms, but he used all his strength to stab himself. His eyes were dull and his body was stiff.

"I checked Li Ruixian's body. There were 17 stab wounds on his body, 16 of which were not fatal. The fatal one was the last one that stabbed his heart. This shows that the murderer was just playing around at first, and then he saw the situation and thought that if he didn't kill him, he would be stopped by others, so he issued the last order. This shows that the murderer should have been at the scene and had a clear view of the situation."