boudoir

Chapter 128 Set fire to the upper body
So He Xiuyuan took the lead, Liuli Yu, Wu Yinzhong and others followed, and went to Mincui's bedroom together.

Chunxiang pushed the door open and entered the room, seeing Mincui on the bed shed tears again, stepped forward and covered her head and face with a sheet, then looked back at the crowd, walked to the cabinet under the curtain, opened the door, took out a A large pile of paper bags and jars were placed on the table, and they went into the back room to carry them.

Wu Yinzhong opened the paper bags and jars one by one. They were all daily edible things, such as dried fruit and tea.When Chunxiang brought another pile, some warming herbs and desserts, Liuli watched from the side, and some of them were brought from the old lady's house, and she recognized them because they were held by her hands.

Mrs. Yu glanced at those things, and said, "Mr. Wu, please check carefully, this is two lives!"

Wu Yinzhong nodded: "I will live up to the entrustment of the eldest lady and the fourth master."

After a while Chunxiang turned around and said, "All the food in the house is here, please check it, Dr. Wu."

Wu Yinzhong nodded, and picked up one of the points to examine carefully.Liuli stood beside her, paying attention to Aunt Feng.This is indeed a poor woman, but if she intends to harm others, she will become an unforgivable person like Aunt Su. Min Cui's body has been poisoned for several months. It cannot be that the murderer came to release the medicine every day. There were one or two things that Min Cui had to take frequently, and the murderer poisoned them, and then Min Cui was gradually poisoned without knowing it.As long as it is found out that the poisonous thing came from Aunt Feng's hands, then this woman will be finished.

Liuli stood by silently, seeing that Wu Yinzhong had ruled out one thing after another.Finally, when he reached the pile of warming and tonic medicinal materials, Chunxiang hesitated and said, "These are sent by the old lady. You have to examine them carefully, Doctor Wu." The things sent from the main courtyard are not tolerated at all. Doubtful, if Wu Yinzhong is negligent, it will definitely implicate the people in Mincuifang.

Wu Yinzhong nodded, picked up a pinch of lotus root powder from the dessert with his fingers, put it into a glass of clean water, and tried it with a silver needle, the silver needle was no different.Another pack of winter jujube and snow fungus was opened, and it was the same.These things were all packaged and delivered by Liuli himself not long ago, so she knew it well.In the end, there was still a pack of bird's nest left, but Wu Yinzhong was in trouble, "This thing needs to be boiled on a low fire to be observed, and it will take some time."

When Chunxiang heard about it, she hurriedly said: "That's a coincidence, I was cooking bird's nest for my aunt when the fifth girl came, and it's still on the stove, I'll go and bring it over."

Wu Yinzhong said: "It's good to dare!"

Chunxiang quickly brought the bird's nest.Because it was used to honor the old lady and eat it every day, the bird's nest is very white, fragrant and soft. Wu Yinzhong inserted a silver needle into the bird's nest as usual. There was no result, and everyone couldn't help but feel a little anxious.At this time, Wu Yinzhong suddenly heard a gasp, saying: "There is a problem with this!"

Liu Li looked up and saw that the two silver needles inserted in the bird's nest had turned black, Wu Yinzhong immediately pulled out two more silver needles and inserted them again, within a short while, these two silver needles were also completely black!
The bird's nest taken out of the old lady's house is actually poisonous!
Liuli opened her eyes wide and looked at the four black silver needles placed side by side on the table, and then looked at He Xiuyuan opposite, her eyebrows twitched suddenly.Chunxiang lost her voice: "How is this possible? How is this possible?" He Xiuyuan pulled her away and stared at Liuli: "You sent this bird's nest, didn't you?"

Faced with such a result, Liuli could hardly even breathe!This bird's nest was chosen by her from the old lady's cupboard, that is to say, this is what the old lady eats every day. How could something go wrong?It looks exactly like the bird's nest taken out of the old lady's house, how could it be poisonous?

"The facts are already in front of you. You are in charge of the old lady's affairs now. What else do you have to say?"

Yu Shi glanced at her, picked up a bowl of tea at hand, and said leisurely.

Liuli held her breath for a long time, but did not answer He Xiuyuan, but called Hongmei over: "Go back and bring half of the old lady's daily bird's nest, don't disturb anyone."

Hongmei also felt the seriousness of the matter, so she hummed and hurried back to the main courtyard.

Everyone in the room was looking at Liuli, and she suddenly felt dizzy at this moment, which was something she never expected.She originally thought that Aunt Feng was the most likely murderer, but she insisted on investigating because she was determined to find the murderer for Min Cui, but she never expected that the suspicion would fall on the most innocent looking self !
How can it be poisonous?She took this bird's nest out of the old lady's cupboard and handed it to Mincui herself. How did the poison come from? Did someone poison the bird's nest, or was it the bird's nest that the old lady ate every day? Was it originally arsenic? !
The old lady's health is going from bad to worse, does that have anything to do with it?

Liuli didn't dare to think about it, this incident was too serious!
She raised her eyes and looked around, He Xiuyuan was sitting by the table with her fists clenched tightly, as if she was just waiting for Hongmei to confirm that the bird's nest was inspected, and then she was going to kill her with one punch, while Yu was holding tea and sitting On the side, the corners of his lips were slightly raised, and he squinted over here.Chunxiang didn't expect such a result in the end, she stared blankly at Liuli, as if wondering whether this backer was reliable or not.

Liuli turned her head away, unavoidably upset for a moment.

When the door curtain moved, Hongmei had already returned with the bird's nest, glanced at Liuli, and handed her over to Chunxiang who came up to her.Liuli stood up and took the bird's nest, and after careful inspection, she confirmed that it was the same as what was hidden in the old lady's cabinet, and then said: "Chunxiang, you put down the bird's nest, bring in the stove, and stew it in this room."

Chunxiang glanced at He Xiuyuan, nodded, went out and brought the stove in.She took another earthen jar and filled it with water, put it on the stove, Liuli took two silver needles from Wu Yinzhong and walked over to test the water before throwing the bird's nest into it to cook.

Everyone in the room was paying attention to the stove, except for the water in the crock gradually bubbling and boiling, there was no other sound.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and gradually the heat from the stove had filled the entire hall, Liuli felt that the sweat on the clothes on her back was sticking to her skin, and Yu Shi who was at the side also started to fan the wind with a silk Only then did Wu Yinzhong stand up slowly, took a branch of silver chopsticks and poked into the crock.

The water vapor quickly submerged the silver chopsticks, and after a while, the color of the chopstick head gradually became darker, and soon, the silver chopsticks turned black!
"How do you explain that!"

He Xiuyuan stood up abruptly, and pointed to the tip of Liuli's nose.Liuli also stood up, her lips were already turning white.

She didn't know how to face such a result. She was sure that the bird's nest brought by Hongmei was taken from the old lady's cabinet. Including the ones she took are poisonous!The old lady's health has been deteriorating over the years, and the symptoms of nausea and heartache have become more and more obvious in recent years. This is exactly the same as the symptoms of chronic arsenic poisoning mentioned by Wu Yinzhong just now, but no one would have thought that the bird's nest that the old lady took was poisonous. It is inevitable that some geriatric diseases will occur, of course Wu Yinzhong will not think about it!
What's happening now is not as simple as the death of a pregnant concubine, but in this mansion, when the old lady seems to be the No. 1 head of the family on the surface, someone is secretly murdering her!I can't wait for her to die early!is that so?

This discovery made Liuli's hands and feet tremble, but no one has touched this crisis like her. The people in this room only regard her as the murderer who poisoned the bird's nest!

He Xiuyuan's fist was already rattling, maybe in the blink of an eye, this fist could punch a hole in her head!Nie Shi and Yanhua are his wife and daughter, even if he can disregard their lives, Liuli can guarantee that if he makes a move, he will definitely kill himself!

No, she can't take the blame!

"Fourth Uncle!" She took a deep breath, and said as calmly as possible: "I just ask you, why do you think I poisoned Min Cui?"

He Xiuyuan gritted his teeth and said, "I don't need to know why! I just need to know that you brought this poisonous bird's nest!"

"But I have no enmity with Min Cui, if I know that this bird's nest is poisonous, I won't be able to use it to harm her!" Liu Li tried to reason with him.

At this moment, Yu stood up and said with a downcast face, "Of course you wouldn't use it to harm her on purpose. The person you want to harm is the old lady!"

As soon as this remark came out, it was like a thunderbolt exploding in the court.Mrs. Yu stared at Liu Li coldly: "This ambitious bitch hoof, the old lady only snubbed her twice when she entered the mansion, and she secretly kept an ulterior motive. You said she deliberately stayed by the old lady's side." Why? Is it really for the sake of filial piety? Who in the world would leave a good girl instead of being a maidservant to serve tea and pour water?! Since she arrived in the main courtyard, the old lady’s body has been weakened for a day It's not as good as one day, it turns out that she secretly tampered with food, so that the old lady is now not as good as half of her original body!"

These words are a bit far-fetched, even though Yu Shi is usually strong, she has never been so unreasonable, Liu Li's heart trembled, and she said: "You can eat food, but you can't talk nonsense. When I went to the main courtyard to serve the old lady, That is what the old lady left me to punish me, but now it is my intention to do it, I don't know what is the purpose of Da Furen's words?"

Yu said: "Of course I know that the old lady kept you, but did she say that she wanted you to serve her for the rest of her life? Even if I don't have any evidence for this, then now the old lady's food and drink are all managed by you, even Biyunqing Both of Chang and the others have never touched their hands, if it wasn't you who poisoned them, who else would it be?! Do you want to say that the old lady poisoned herself and wronged you in turn?!"

Even though Liuli was aware of deceit at this moment, she couldn't find any evidence, and couldn't think of any words to refute for a moment, so she could only stare at her fiercely, trying her best to keep calm.

(End of this chapter)