It is impossible to punish adults

Chapter 238
When Qiniang talked about her sadness, she started a new round of "chattering", which caused Mrs. Wu to stare blankly.

Fortunately, the cook left and came back quickly, probably because she was anxious to prove her innocence, so she didn't leave much time for Qiniang to "beep" for Mu Liuyun's ears. Also suffered a little less.

"My lord, even this thing, I didn't dare to keep more. I was afraid that Qiniang would find out and tell me. It's just this little thing, and I brought it to you!" In that position, tremblingly stretched out a somewhat yellowed paper bag and handed it to Mu Liuyun.

Mu Liuyun reached out to pick up the paper bag, opened it and saw three pieces of dry yellow-yellow things inside, touched the hard ones with his hands, the edges were more yellowish, and the middle was a bit whitish, not smooth to the touch. Slightly rough.

As for the ginseng slices, Mu Liuyun had seen them before, and they seemed to be a little different from what she was holding in her hand now.First of all, the ginseng slices are not so big, and the shape should be more rounded, and the cut surface is much more delicate.

However, the colors do look somewhat similar, especially after drying. At first glance, there are five or six points of similarity. For those who know medicinal materials, they can tell at a glance that something is wrong. It is not easy to fool ordinary people. of.

Mu Liuyun twisted the thing up, put it in front of his nose and smelled it carefully, it did have such a faint smell of ginseng, but it was not strong, and he could detect some other strange smells mixed in it after smelling it again .

This is not ginseng!If Mu Liuyun was hesitant just now, she is sure now!
The smell of ginseng is much stronger than this, and it doesn't seem to have a vague fishy smell.

Mu Liuyun looked at the paper bag again, and inside the paper bag she could also see some white pulp that had dried up on it. She leaned closer and smelled it, and the faint smell was very similar to "ginseng slices", so she didn't think much about it. , Scraped a little off with your nails, and licked it with the tip of your tongue.

At first, there was no special taste, and then a strong bitter taste was felt on the back of the tongue and in the eyes of the throat.

Mu Liuyun frowned in pain, and was about to turn around to find water when Yuan Mu had already poured it for her and handed it over.

"Rinse your mouth well, spit it all out, don't swallow it." He reminded Mu Liuyun.

Mu Liuyun nodded hastily. Of course, she didn't have the ability of Shennong to taste herbs. It was all because of the fact that Wu Rongzhi survived until midnight before he died. It is expected that the person who killed Wu Rongzhi must not use some kind of drama. poison.

And the kind of poison that takes effect slowly also has a characteristic, that is, it needs to be accumulated in a certain amount. there is none left.

"Is this what you secretly left behind that day?" Mu Liuyun rinsed off the bitter taste in his mouth, felt that he was not wearing a handkerchief, and casually wiped the remaining water stains on his lips with the back of his hand, turned around and continued. Ask the cook.

"Returning to my lord, that's it, I don't dare to keep too much. After thinking about it, I say that ginseng is a great tonic, and I can't eat more if I'm poor. Even if I take these three slices back home, I dare not give them to my in-laws all at once. If they eat it, they are afraid that their bodies will not be able to withstand it and something will happen.

Anyway, it's useless to steal so much, and it's easy to be discovered by the owner, so I didn't keep that much.Then I thought that if it was fresh, I couldn’t keep it, so I dried it and wrapped it back. It turned out that before I went home after a break, several adults came to the door, so they were all here, not even a little bit of it. I didn't even dare to hide it and not take it out! ’ answered the cook.

While listening to what she said, Mu Liuyun also quietly paid attention to Qiniang's reaction at the side, and found that she was just looking at the cook with some hatred. The fact that the thing was the herbal tea she gave to the cook to make the herbal tea seemed to be There is nothing to refute.

She didn't have anything to refute, but Mu Liuyun felt a little curious, and after the cook finished speaking, he asked her, "Then let me ask you, when you helped prepare dinner for the evening, didn't you also prepare ginseng and turtle for Wu Rongzhi's banquet?" Soup?

At that time, why didn't you just secretly save some from the ginseng and turtle soup, and insisted on detaining Qiniang? "

"My lord, when I was preparing dinner in the afternoon, I did have ginseng used to stew the soft-shelled turtle, but the ginseng was all whole, and it was recorded at the second lady's side, so it was counted, let alone missing one." Half a beard, even if I lost a beard, I wouldn't be able to explain it, so I didn't dare to have such thoughts at that time.

In the evening, when Qiniang went to look for me in the kitchen, I saw that it was a piece of cake, so I was moved. "

"That's it again," Mu Liuyun nodded after hearing what the cook said, and then turned to Qiniang's side, "Don't just cry, talk about it first. You have already eaten ginseng and soft-shelled turtle soup, and you said that Wu Rongzhi did not eat less, so why do you ask the cook to make some ginseng herbal tea for him? Are you not afraid that Wu Rongzhi will not be able to bear it?"

Qiniang was dumbfounded, she couldn't answer the question for a while, she thought about it and felt that it was unreasonable no matter how she listened to it, but she really did it like this, no wonder she was judged by the official. ask.

"I... I didn't think about it that much, I just thought about people telling me that drinking that herbal tea would help me conceive and give birth. I was anxious, and I was afraid that after today, the master's thoughts would be hooked by other little fairies again. Go, that's why I'm in a hurry..." She answered pitifully with a crying voice, "My master is usually in good health, how could something happen if he drank more ginseng tea..."

"It's true that something will happen if you drink a few more mouthfuls of ginseng tea."

Mu Liuyun heard Yuan Mu speak, and turned to look at him quickly, only to see him sitting aside, holding a piece of dried "ginseng slice" in his hand, looking at it carefully, and rubbing his slender fingers carefully.

"Because it's not ginseng slices at all." He casually threw the thing back into the paper bag on the tea table, took out a handkerchief and wiped off the powder debris left on his fingers, "This thing is called chalcedony, It is not able to help conception, but it can abort the fetus.”

"What?!" Upon hearing Yuan Mu's words, Qiniang was the first to be taken aback, and Qiniang was the one who reacted the most. She was crooked and half lying on the ground, looking overly sad and unable to keep up her spirits. But now when he heard Yuan Mu's words, he straightened up on his knees and widened his eyes, "How is this possible!"

(End of this chapter)