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

The bodies had all been fished out, and the people from the Dali Temple cleaned up the scene. The last two bodies were also taken away. Li Jinghong recorded the statements of the two people who reported the case, Erpang and Xiaoyu, and told them not to go too far away from home recently, as they might be questioned at any time.

After Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi had carried away all the bodies at the scene, Chu Yunxi chatted with the corpse fishers. They were a father and son, both of whom were not tall, and were currently wringing water out of their clothes.

"The perpetrators were so vicious that they tied huge stones to the feet of each corpse," said Zheng Yuan, the son in his twenties, gesturing to measure the size. "They wanted the bodies to sink to the bottom of the river forever and never see the light of day."

The father, Zheng Chengfeng, who was in his fifties, didn't seem to talk much. At this moment, he said four words, "God has eyes."

Chu Yunxi looked at the father and son. It was said that the business of corpse retriever had always been passed down from father to son and from son to grandson, from generation to generation. They believed that this was a good deed, so they could continue to do it.

Corpse lifters usually only deal with two types of people: government officials and the victims' families.

Dali Temple has been cooperating with them for a long time. Although it was the first time they dealt with Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi, the father and son were already used to it.

Chu Yunxi said, "That's right. The law is long and wide, and nothing can escape it. They will eventually wait for the day when their injustice is redressed. I wonder if you two have discovered anything else down there?"

Zheng Yuan spoke frankly, "What could we find? The body was soaked like that, and the jewelry he was wearing had been washed away to who knows where."

Zheng Chengfeng glared at his son and said, "Your Majesty, I do have a little doubt."

Xiao Mubei immediately asked: "What doubts?"

"Just now, when my son and I were removing stones from the body underwater, I found that the stones were very large, with smooth edges and dark colors. There are no such stones on our shore. These stones seem to be..." He paused, frowning as if thinking about what to say, and after a while he said, "They seem to be the kind of landscaping stones used by wealthy families."

Landscape rocks? That's an important clue.

As soon as Zheng Chengfeng said this, Zheng Yuan also remembered, "Yes, yes, I wouldn't have noticed it if my father hadn't said it. Now that you mention it, it's indeed the case. No wonder I always felt something was wrong at the time."

Chu Yunxi's eyes lit up, and she immediately said, "Then could you two go down into the water again and fish out that stone?"

"No problem." Zheng Chengfeng agreed readily and pulled his son into the water again with a "splash".

Chu Yunxi and Xiao Mubei got on the boat and waited in the middle of the river. After a cup of tea, the water surface parted with a splash, and the father and son emerged from the water carrying a large stone.

Chu Yunxi hurriedly asked the boatman to pull the boat over. Xiao Mubei first took the stone up, then pulled both the father and son up, and rowed the boat towards the shore.

Chu Yunxi looked at the stone carefully. The stone was very big. It was difficult for an adult man to lift it. It would be better if two people lifted it. If such a big stone was tied to a person's feet, he would sink and there would be no way he could float up.

Just as Zheng Chengfeng said, this stone looked like a landscape stone of some wealthy family. It was not a stone that could be found casually outside. Moreover, the stone was smooth and flat, and it was clearly polished.

Xiao Mubei thanked the Zheng father and son, ordered Li Jinghong to pay them more silver, and arranged for people to move the stone back to the Dali Temple.

After Chu Yunxi came back, she went straight to the morgue. There were six bodies and it would take another night.

Bai Yu was very determined this time and followed Chu Yunxi to do the autopsy. Although he vomited twice in the middle, he finally did not back down.

Xiao Mubei arranged a group of people to go to various departments in the capital and Shuntian Prefecture and other government offices to search for missing persons cases in the past two months. He also arranged a group of people to go to the vendors selling landscape stones to find out how many wealthy families in the capital have used this kind of landscape stone in the past five years.

At night, news began to come back one after another.

There have been no girls in their twenties among the missing cases in the past two months.

In the past five years, a total of 118 households have purchased this kind of stone for landscape decoration. Thirty-seven households have purchased in relatively large quantities, all of whom are dignitaries. Because the price of this stone is not low, those who can buy it in large quantities are either rich or noble.

In the early morning, when the sky was just beginning to show a hint of paleness, Chu Yunxi sewed the last stitch.

Although there was enough ice in the room, Chu Yunxi still broke out in a sweat. After putting down the needle, she felt that she couldn't even straighten her neck.

I vomited all over yesterday, and after I came back I didn’t even have time to eat and was busy all night. Chu Yunxi felt like she was about to become an immortal.

Pressing her neck, Chu Yunxi said to Bai Yu tiredly, "Give the autopsy report to the prince, I'm going to take a nap."

Seeing that Chu Yunxi looked really bad, Bai Yu hurriedly opened the door and sent her out. However, when he opened the door, Xiao Mubei was standing there.

Chu Yunxi walked out with a shaky step, waved her hand and said, "Your Majesty, I can't report to you right now. Let me get some sleep first."

Xiao Mubei looked at Chu Yunxi with heartache, thinking that she seemed to have lost weight again. He had to ask Hongyu to get some good nourishment for her recently, otherwise it would be a problem for her to have children in the future.

Xiao Mubei was suddenly stunned. Why did he think of having a baby? What happened to him?

"Let's go. I just need to go back to the study." Xiao Mubei walked back with her. "I asked the kitchen to make some rock sugar bird's nest soup. Drink a bowl of it before going to bed."

It would have been fine if he hadn't said it. As soon as he said it, Chu Yunxi immediately felt extremely hungry. But after she smelled herself, she decided to take a shower before she could eat.

After returning to the courtyard, Chu Yunxi took a bath as quickly as possible, ate something, and then fell asleep on the bed.

Xiao Mubei was reading the autopsy report in the study. As he read, his expression became more and more serious.

Chu Yunxi said in the autopsy report that the six women were indeed around 20 years old. Although the faces of four of them could not be identified, their ages could still be easily determined through their bone age.

All six people died of mechanical asphyxiation, that is, they were strangled to death, especially the last two women who had been dead for less than two days. The thick marks on their necks could be clearly seen. Chu Yunxi predicted that the murderer used a weapon similar to a whip. Unlike Xiao Mubei's soft whip, this whip was hard and thick, like the common horse whip on the market.

Judging from the clothes the six women were wearing, they all had good figures. Because of the gigantism phenomenon, the clothes of several of them were torn, but when they were put together, their sizes could still be seen.

In addition, Chu Yunxi examined the bodies of these women and found that they had all had sex and were no longer young girls. Moreover, from the bodies of one of the women who had died not long ago, it was discovered that the woman had suffered from syphilis before her death.