Dirty color

Chapter 85 Gu Mingxuan's Counterattack
Although Xiaofeng Xiaoxue didn't regard her as her master, she was still very agile in handling things. It only took one night to find out where the bag was hidden and what it was.

Even, I don't know what method was used to make Chef Wang tell Nanny He's order in her sleep, but Chef Wang didn't know anything and thought she didn't reveal this secret.

Planning to use arsenic to poison people during the banquet, and then stir up a confession banquet?Gu Mingxuan listened to Xiaofeng's reply, her face remained calm, but she sneered in her heart. The He family is quite courageous, and she is not afraid that things will make things worse and everyone will look bad.

That being the case, she doesn't need to hold back.

Turning her head, Gu Mingxuan ordered a few words to Xiaofeng. Xiaofeng was surprised when he heard this, but since Gu Mingxuan gave such an order, Xiaofeng would naturally obey. She respectfully said: "Your servant understands, please rest assured, Miss."

Gu Mingxuan glanced at Xiaofeng, it seemed that she had figured out something, since that's the case, let's use it first.

Xiaoxue looked at Xiaofeng who was very respectful to Gu Mingxuan, and she was a little angry. Gu Mingxuan just pretended that she couldn't see, and waved them out.

Xiaofeng went back to her room, and as soon as she sat down, Xiaoxue chased her in and asked, "Sister, what's wrong with you? She looks down on us like that, why do you still listen to her orders, anyway? Master just asked us to protect her, and didn't say..."

Xiaofeng heard the words, glanced at Xiaoxue, and said in a deep voice: "Since the master has given us to the young lady, then we are the young lady's servants. I will do whatever the young lady asks me to do. I will do everything else. have no idea."

Xiaoxue was not convinced, she always wanted to go back to the hidden guards of Prince Yong's Mansion to do errands, and she looked down on Gu Mingxuan, a young lady of the Hou Mansion who was not complete in appearance, let alone serve her as the master and listen to her orders.

Xiaofeng went alone to investigate the affairs of Cook Wang's side, and Xiaoxue didn't bother to do anything at all.

At this moment, hearing what Xiaofeng said, she couldn't help but snorted coldly, and said: "Didn't she say when she first came here that she only asked us to follow when we went out, but now it's good, she really regards herself as our master , dare to order anything, it’s really insatiable, could it be that she will ask my sister to serve tea and water in a few days, and my sister will do it too?"

The point is, why does the master care so much about Miss Gu? She is not as beautiful as the four maids around the master. She admits this, but Miss Gu is obviously disfigured, how can she be eligible to be liked by the master? ?

Xiaofeng frowned. Although she is not good at persuading people, she and Xiaoxue have been together for a long time, so she still persuaded: "You also know the temperament of the master. Since the master gave us to the young lady, we are Miss's servant, if we don't do well, the master will be angry, besides, I think Miss is not bad."

Xiaoxue just felt that Xiaofeng was really unreasonable, so after snorting, she gave up talking to Xiaofeng. Anyway, in her heart, there was only one master, and that was the Lord, and no one else was qualified to be her master.

Seeing this, Xiaofeng also fell silent, forget it, what the lady told me is not difficult to do, Xiaoxue doesn't want to go, so let's not go.

After changing his clothes, Xiaofeng squatted outside Baihe Hall until night, thinking that no one would come again, so he quietly went to Chef Wang's house.

Chef Wang was originally a family-born child, and the husband who married was also a family-born child, so she lived in the place specially repaired by the Gu family for the servants, occupying a small private courtyard.

Xiaofeng sneaked in quietly, secretly got out a little arsenic, and then started to act according to Gu Mingxuan's instructions on the second day.

After finishing the work in the kitchen, Xiaofeng put a little arsenic in the meals for Gu Yuwen and Gu Mingzhi on the way.

Gu Mingxuan is in Rong'an Hall at the moment, Cui Shi is in a good mood today, after Gu Mingxuan acted coquettishly for a while, Cui Shi kept her for dinner, this is what Gu Mingxuan wanted, after all there will be a good show to be staged today, if she doesn't stay in Rong'an Hall, she can't It is logical to follow Cui Shi to see the whole development process of the matter.

After eating, she accompanied Cui Shi for a few words. Gu Mingxuan reckoned that the time was almost up. Sure enough, she saw Cuijiao hurried in and said in a hurry: "Old Madam, Fourth Miss and Miss Wen suddenly passed out, and now they are vomiting. White foam..."

Mrs. Cui was startled, and Mrs. Sun was also startled. Aunt Cui knew that Mrs. He was about to have a moth, so she was not that panicked. Aunt Cui also pretended to be panicked and surprised.

"What's going on?" Cui's face darkened and asked.

Cuijiao stabilized her mind, and said: "The servant has asked, Miss Si and Miss Wen suddenly fainted on the ground when they were eating, and then foamed at the mouth, I am afraid that something has been eaten, the servant has just eaten Send someone to invite Doctor Qian."

Cui's face was gloomy, she had eaten something bad, so she was obviously poisoned!
Cui was extremely furious, and at this moment, Aunt Cui, who thought she knew something, was really surprised—what's going on, could it be that He used her own daughter as a raft in order to make a noise and criticize herself?

Normally, she treats Gu Mingzhi like...doting...love her eyes, but now she actually does this. Tiger poison doesn't even eat children, He's like this, it's really terrible.

Mrs. Sun and Aunt Cui took Madam Cui to visit Gu Yuwen in Haitangwu, and Mrs. Cui took Madam Qi to Juxiang Xiaozhu. Gu Mingxuan and Gu Minghe naturally followed Mrs. Cui. Seeing that Dongyun was staring at the food on the table, not letting anyone move, fearing that if the evidence was gone, they would be blamed by the servants, while Dongqing stood by Gu Mingzhi's side, her eyes were red and swollen from crying.

Of course, Dongqing didn't wait, but hugged Gu Mingzhi with the other two little maids, let her lie on her stomach, stretched her fingers into Gu Mingzhi's mouth to pick her throat, and Gu Mingzhi spit out a lot of nasty things in disgust. things.

"Where is Doctor Qian, why hasn't he come yet?" Seeing this, Mrs. Cui couldn't help feeling depressed for a while. Recently, Mrs. He in the Hou Mansion has been jumping up and down non-stop, which made her very angry. When Mrs. He was imprisoned, Her ears were quiet for a few days, and then came out again.

Good Miss Qianjin, she was poisoned at home. If it gets out, how will the Marquis of Shun'an gain a foothold in the capital?Taking a step back, since someone will boldly poison the daughter of the Hou Mansion, will the old woman be poisoned to death next?
Cui felt her temples throbbing.

Both Gu Mingxuan and Gu Minghe had winks, and they hurriedly helped Cui to sit down. Not long after, Doctor Qian came running in, looking out of breath, and didn't care about saluting Cui, and didn't care about the defense of men and women. He first went in and gave Gu Mingzhi a regular detoxification pill, and then began diagnosis and treatment.

Not long after, Doctor Qian let go of Gu Mingzhi's wrist, his expression relaxed, and he said to Cui Shi who was waiting at the side: "Fortunately, the dose I took was not too large, otherwise, I would not be able to save Miss Fourth."

While talking, Dr. Qian wrote a prescription, and said to Cui Shi: "Miss Si's medicine is ordinary arsenic. Fortunately, I don't eat much, and I can induce vomiting in time. It's not a serious problem. I just need to rest. This prescription first Take it for seven days, and after seven days, I will come back for a follow-up visit and decide whether to change the prescription according to the situation."

"There's a doctor who's going to work." Hearing this, Cui Shi breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it's okay, it's fine if it's okay, if something goes wrong, it's not good.

Although it is a family scandal that cannot be publicized, in order to find out the truth, Cui asked Dr. Qian to read all the dishes.

As a result, Doctor Qian discovered that there was poison in the red bean cake, which happened to be arsenic, and at the moment where Gu Mingzhi was sitting, half a piece of red bean cake and a bowl of japonica rice porridge that had not been touched much were also lying on the ground.

Seeing this, Dong Yun, who guarded the food so that no one would touch it, hurriedly knelt down and said, "Reporting to the old lady, the lady suddenly had a seizure while eating the red bean cake."

Mrs. Cui snorted coldly, leaving Nanny Qi to stay here. The group arrived at Haitangwu, and one of Dr. Qian's disciples was also there. He had given Gu Yuwen the antidote, but Gu Yuwen had never been induced to vomit, so The poisoning situation was much worse than that of Gu Mingzhi.

Dr. Qian hurriedly gave Gu Yuwen an injection, and then hurriedly fed two more detoxification pills. Then he felt relieved, and re-wrote the prescription for Cui Shi to read, and said: "Although the poison is the same, after all, the severity is different. Naturally, the doses of the medicines are also different, the old lady has to worry too much."

Mrs. Cui asked people to grab the medicine and boil it, and then asked Dr. Qian to look at the rest of the food. This time, arsenic was also found in a plate of red bean cake.

From this, it can be proved that the person who poisoned must have been in contact with this plate of red bean cake.

The inner house is private, so naturally it is not easy for Dr. Qian to see it. Cui Shi gave Dr. Qian a generous consultation fee. Although he didn't say it clearly, Dr. Qian also knew that he meant to shut him up.

When Dr. Qian left, Mrs. Cui acted vigorously and arrested all the people in the kitchen for interrogation. Only then did she realize that the red bean cake was originally prepared for Gu Mingxuan and Nanny Zhuang. Like to eat, the kitchen often prepares this.

Could it be that someone wants to harm the big girl?Cui continued to interrogate calmly: "Since it was for Nanny Zhuang and the Eldest Miss, why did it end up at the table of the Fourth Miss and Miss Wen?"

"Back... back to the old lady's words..." The same two kitchen maids were in charge of delivering meals to Juxiang Xiaozhu's Erhaitangwu. At that time, I found that the peach blossom barbecued pork that Miss Si wanted had a little plant ash on it. Naturally, such a thing cannot be eaten by Miss Si. It just so happened that the eldest lady accompanied the old lady for dinner today, and the regular dishes were not moved, so... so I used this The plate of red bean cake was replaced by peach blossom pork... Then, the servants will deliver it to Miss Fourth first, and then drop by to deliver it to Miss Wen."

"What about Miss Wen's dim sum? Why is it also red bean cake?"

"Miss Wen's dishes are the same as Miss Fourth's." It means that the ones prepared for Gu Yuwen were also peach blossom barbecued pork.

When Cui heard the words, she frowned slightly. She knew that this was entirely possible—when the princess was alive, Gu Yuwen was naturally considered more honorable. Now that the princess has gone, Gu Yuwen is not liked by He Shi. She picks and chooses her portions, so she eats what others leave.

Cui Shi can completely understand this matter.

So, the facts are like this - today, the red bean cake was originally served by Nanny Zhuang and the big girl, but the big girl ate it with her in Rong'an Hall, and Nanny Zhuang went out early in the morning to see the county. The Lord went to the dowry shop, and said that it had been a long time since he had eaten the first-class fish porridge in the Millennium Building, so he did not have breakfast early.

That's why it happened that the red bean cakes of the big girl and Madam Zhuang were exchanged for girls Wen and Zhi'er.

It can be seen from this that today's matter may be aimed at the big girl.

Cui's heart was full of anger, and she stared at the faces of the crowd. After that, she asked people to take them all out, and ordered Madam Cui to watch them and not allow anyone to talk to each other. Then, starting from the kitchen manager, Submitted separately for interrogation.

In the end, three or four little girls confessed, which made Cui Shi suspicious.

One of them is A Xing, whose name is elegant, but she is actually a silly fat girl with a strong personality. She is usually the one who chops firewood and carries water in the kitchen, but today when she was carrying water, Mrs. Wang passed by and met her accidentally. There was a bump, which sprained her ankle, so she had to go back to rest.

Xiao Zhu, a fire girl in the kitchen, said tremblingly: "Usually, the servants should stay in the kitchen with Xiaoye to watch the fire, but today A Xing sprained her feet, and Mother Wang asked the servants and Xiaoye to carry some water, and the servants went out with Xiaoye to carry water." Before the servant went out, there was Aunt Yuan in the kitchen. When the servant came back, she saw Aunt Yuan collecting firewood outside. This should have been the servant’s work, so the servant and Xiaoye hurriedly poured water into the urn, because they were in a hurry, I accidentally spilled some water, and was scolded by Mama Wang..."

Xiaoye's confession is similar to Xiaozhu's.

Aunt Yuan said this: "The servant girl is specialized in making noodles. The old lady also knows that Lord Hou likes to eat beef noodles. He didn't eat this two days ago. The servant girl guessed that Master Hou would eat it today, so I rushed to eat it early. When you go to the kitchen to make noodles, you know that if the noodles are to be delicious, you have to spare a while to knead them, and then the servant finds that there is no firewood in the kitchen, and Xiaozhu and Xiaoye are not there, so I have to bring some firewood in by myself..."

Therefore, after so many people's confessions, at least three of them were present, except for Cook Wang, who stayed alone in the kitchen for a long time, so she had time to do this kind of thing!
Moreover, combining the narratives of the previous four people, it is that Mrs. Wang first made the water-carrying girl A Xing sprained her feet and could no longer carry water, and then sent Xiaozhu and Xiaoye away under the pretext of carrying water. As for Aunt Yuan, she left by herself. In the kitchen, however, no matter how I think about it, I feel that Chef Wang is very suspicious of this matter.

"Then when you took the red bean cake, didn't Mrs. Wang stop you?" Mrs. Cui asked, bringing in the two girls who delivered meals to Gu Yuwen and Gu Mingzhi.

The two maids thought for a while before they said: "At that time, Mama Wang was not there. It seemed that there were only two Mrs. Yuan, Mama Zhang and the two burning girls. Mama Zhang said that Mama Wang's son was sick, so she went back to take care of it first. It was also Zhang's mother who saw that the dishes for Miss Fourth and Miss Wen were missing, so she asked the servants to take the red bean cake directly."

Zhang's mother was brought in alone, and when asked about this, she said: "Miss Si still likes sweet cakes very much, and the red bean cake is sweet but not greasy, Miss Si also likes it, and if you want to make a new peach blossom barbecue immediately, I couldn't do it anymore, so the servant had no choice but to top the peach blossom pork with red bean cake..."

This is sure, now Miss Si can't be like before, if she wants stars and moons, the He family will let people pick them off. In short, Gu Mingzhi is out of power now, even if it is not for her liking, she can make trouble if she wants Can't get up.

Cui Shi was a little annoyed, Gu Mingzhi was her own granddaughter after all, yet she was neglected by servants like this!

This kitchen looks like it needs to be tidied up.

Cui continued to ask Mama Zhang, "Isn't Mama Wang in charge? Where was she at that time?"

"Mother Wang? She said that Xiao Guizi is not feeling well, so she should go back and have a look first." Mother Zhang sensed the anger in Cui's words, and thought Cui was angry at Cook Wang for leaving her post without authorization, so she couldn't help being a little happy. Being liked by Madam, she has been dominating her all the time. If Mrs. Wang collapses, will she be able to be in charge soon?
Therefore, Zhang's mother put eye drops on Cook Wang without hesitation.

When Cui heard the words, she nodded silently.

For the previous incident, it was almost certain that Mama Wang was causing trouble again, but when she took the opportunity to hide out, she didn't expect the following incident to happen, so that she failed to kill the big girl, but instead killed Wen girl and Zhi'er.

Suo Xingwen and Zhi'er don't like to eat red bean cake like Zhuangmao and Zhuangmao, both of them only ate half a piece, so the poisoning is not deep, and it didn't cause a catastrophe - if it is the big girl and Zhuangmao , no one has to eat at least three yuan, so it is rescued... It is not very useful...

Cui only felt pain in her forehead, but she was still brought in by Mrs. Wang to be interrogated alone.

Chef Wang always felt that something was wrong today, why did Fourth Miss and Miss Wen get poisoned?

Thinking of the pack of arsenic hidden in her home, Chef Wang felt anxious, like ants on a hot pot, but now she couldn't move, and later, when Gu Ping carried her away, Wang The cook even had a bad premonition in her heart.

Although it is true that she did not do what happened today, there is indeed a pack of arsenic hidden in her home, which is completely indisputable.

Faced with Cui's persecution, Chef Wang burst into tears and insisted that she had not poisoned her, absolutely not, and if she really did poison her, she would be hit by lightning and the whole family would die.

Faced with such a poisonous oath by Mrs. Wang, the Cui family was also a little shaken, but Nanny Cui suggested that it is better to search the house of Mrs. Wang. The cook returned home halfway, either because she was lazy, or because she had to deal with poison.

Hearing Nanny Cui's suggestion, Chef Wang's face turned so pale that there was no trace of blood, and she fell to the ground, unable to get up.

Seeing Mrs. Wang's behavior like this, Mrs. Cui immediately reprimanded: "You lowly maidservant, you haven't recruited her honestly."

While yelling at her, she asked Madam Cui to take someone to find Mrs. Wang's house.

Chef Wang shouted loudly: "There is arsenic in my maidservant's house, it is...that is..." Chef Wang suddenly had an idea, and she shouted: "It's almost summer, and there are more mice, and this servant girl bought it. Arsenic poisons rats..."

Cui sneered, this mother Wang refused to admit it before, and now she said so, in Cui's view, this is completely sophistry!
Mrs. Cui asked someone to silence Cook Wang so that she would not keep shouting. When Madam Cui came back with someone, she wrapped a paper bag in three brocade handkerchiefs and presented it in front of Mrs. Cui, saying firmly, "Madam, This was found from the hidden compartment at the bottom of Wang Mama's closet, along with these jewelry and silver taels..."

Cui Tong opened a wooden box without Madam Cui's signal, and presented it in front of Cui Shi.

Two red gold hairpins inlaid with jewels, one inlaid with a circle of fine rubies, and the other inlaid with a piece of fine sapphire, both are exquisite and valuable. In addition, there are some silver bracelets, silver rings, and silver earrings. There were several pieces of silver ingots, all of which weighed twelve taels, and there were also scattered silver coins, a few gold beads and golden melon seeds...

Choi was shocked!
Aunt Cui was also a little shocked!
All of this added up, I'm afraid there will be three or four hundred taels.

Aunt Cui couldn't help but whispered in Cui's ear: "Back when I entered the mansion, my parents sold a lot of things from the house to make clothes and jewelry for me in order not to lose face for the old lady. Forget it, if the old lady hadn't helped my parents to redeem the sold land later, my parents' life would have been difficult. From this point of view, the life of Mama Wang's family is worse than that of a daughter of a squire's family like me. Much better."

When Cui heard this, her face became even more ugly.

Where can a servant afford such an expensive thing?

Moreover, the golden hairpin inlaid with fine red treasures looked very familiar to her, so she asked Nanny Cui.

Cui Nanny thought about it carefully, and then said: "This... I remember that this was given to Ruyan by the princess back then, that girl Ruyan is pretty, she seems to like something, she wears it on her head every day. "

When Madam Cui said this, Cui also remembered. Sure enough, this golden hairpin was the big girl next to the daughter-in-law of the unlucky princess, because she often accompanied the princess to pay her respects. So she has some impressions.

Cui's eyes slowly narrowed.

The girl Ruyan has a bad life. When the princess met the robbers more than ten years ago, she was disfigured and disfigured. Fortunately, the husband's family she had betrothed at that time did not dislike her, so she married her.

Later, that family was going to move back to their original place, and Ruyan followed her away, so how could Ruyan's golden hairpin be in the hands of Cook Wang at this moment?

At this moment, Gu Wenqian who received the news also hurried back. Cui Shi suddenly felt that this matter was really not that simple, and he was really not in the mood for interrogation, so he handed it over to Gu Wenqian.

Gu Wenqian already knew the previous conclusion under Cui Mama's narration, so he asked Gu Ping to bring Cook Wang to the outer courtyard.

(End of this chapter)