boudoir

Chapter 139
In the flower hall in the back room separated by a wall, the old lady was sitting with Wu Yinzhong holding ginseng tea, listening to the movement outside together.While beating the old lady's leg, Qingshang showed some admiration.But Biyun's eyes were a little anxious, and he was quite uneasy.

The old lady sighed suddenly, put down the teacup, and said: "As expected, I saw her right, she is alert."

Wu Yinzhong withdrew his eyes from the screen, stroked his beard and said, "Since the old lady wants to protect Jiu girl, why don't she come forward to rescue her?"

The old lady squinted at him, and snorted softly: "If she can't even save herself, what's the use of me helping her out? She will have to live by herself in the future, and I won't be able to protect her for long."

Hearing this, Wu Yinzhong couldn't help but fell silent.

But there are few women and girls in the deep house who are simple-minded, and the higher the status, the more so.The old lady in front of her has been groping in the compound of He Mansion for decades, how can she not see through people's hearts?She must have known the key to this, but even if she woke up now and wanted to protect Liuli, it was too late.Sending her to the government was a decision unanimously passed by everyone, and even the elder could not object. The old lady is now terminally ill, who will listen to her?Even if he insists on coming out to protect her, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the wives, who will think that she is partial to her. Not only will this not save Jiu Miss, but it will be disadvantageous to her.Now it is like this, but it is the most convincing for her to solve this dilemma by herself.

Thinking about it this way, he couldn't help admiring the old woman in front of him.

Sitting here quietly, suddenly there was a commotion in the front hall again, it turned out that the handover book had been brought, and Aunt Su and the others had also searched the long room and returned.

The old lady sat up, leaned on her crutches and let Qingshang support her, and walked towards the passage.

In the front hall, Aunt Su held up a bag of bird's nest in the middle of the room, and said to the old man, "This is the bird's nest found in the bedroom of Mrs. Yu, the eldest house. As for whether it is poisonous or not, Heng Wei has already gone to get the stove and earthen jar , as long as you cook and test it, you will know."

Just as she was talking, Heng Wei had someone bring in a small stove with a high fire and a pot of boiling water.Hengwei took out the silver hairpin on her head and poked it down to make sure that the water was non-toxic. Then she took out a piece of bird's nest from a package and threw it in. After a while, the bird's nest became soft, and then inserted the silver hairpin. It has turned black!
"You let it go! You must have let it go!"

Yushi stared at Liuli, his eyes wide open like copper bells, as if he wanted to swallow her in one gulp!

"You bitch!"

She cursed angrily, and wanted to rush over to beat her again, but this time it didn't go so smoothly, Yuegui and Haitang appeared out of nowhere, one left and one right clamped her.Seeing the two of them, Yu struggled angrily, but Yuegui couldn't let her resist, her face remained calm, and her subordinates secretly exerted force, until she was pinched and unable to move.

"Not only poisonous bird's nest but also arsenic were found in your house. Doesn't it prove that you are the murderer?! If you want to be sentenced, then everyone will be sentenced together!"

She roared at the top of her voice, completely losing the respect of Mrs. Gao Ming in the past.

"Who said the bird's nest found in my house is poisonous? Hongmei brought in a jar of water."

Liu Li suddenly stepped on the end of Yu's words and said.This time not only everyone was surprised, even Aunt Su was also surprised.

Hongmei quickly came in with a can of boiling water, Liuli raised her lips slightly and nodded, then smiled at the stunned Yu Shi, and said: "Maybe Da Furen feels wronged, let's try it right now."

As she said that, she walked up to Mrs. Nie: "Fourth Madam, please borrow a hairpin." Nie was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly pulled out a silver hairpin and gave it to her.Liuli took it in his hand and thanked him, tested the boiling water to be non-toxic, then walked to the arsenic and bird's nest that Mrs Yu had found from Yishou Garden earlier, said "forgive me" to the old man, then picked up the arsenic with one hand, Picking up a piece of bird's nest in one hand, he said: "It's troublesome to try everything, why don't we boil this arsenic and bird's nest in a pot to see if it's poisonous."

As she spoke, she threw both of them in.

Arsenic is a highly poisonous substance, so the bird's nest is not poisonous, is it also poisoned by her cooking?Everyone couldn't help being in an uproar, but then everyone gradually became suspicious. Seeing the bird's nest being boiled in boiling water, the silver hairpin didn't change color at all!A quarter of an hour and a quarter of an hour passed, and the silver hairpin in Liuli's hand was still as bright as before!
"In this way, maybe Da Furen will not give up, anyway, let me try it myself!"

As she spoke, Liuli took a clean tea bowl from the table, carefully scooped out half a bowl of soup from the earthen pot, blew it cool, and brought it to her lips.

"Girl!"

The old man and the others couldn't help standing up, and the maids beside them also opened their eyes wide and covered their mouths and screamed!He Xiuyuan and He Yuli rushed over to snatch the teacup in her hand, and blurted out: "Hurry up and spit it out! Fourth Uncle blamed you!" Guo Xia and Aunt Su also rushed over, but it was already too late. In the meantime, Liuli had already drank the small half bowl of soup.

This is a half-grown child who is only 11 years old. Even if she comes from a bad background, how can she be forced to death?With so much evidence and inferences, who would believe that the poison in the bird's nest was poisoned by her at this time?People's hearts are fleshy, and when most of the resentment in their hearts has been transferred to Yu Shi, who would watch this child being forced to death without doing anything? !

"Girl!"

The old man sat down on the stool, tears welling up in his eyes again.

Guo Xia hugged Liuli and choked up with sobs: "You silly boy! If you die, how can I explain to him—"

Liuli had never seen her so impeccable in appearance, so she couldn't help but wonder: "Who do you want to explain to, sir?"

Guo Xia raised her head, saw that she was safe and sound, and she didn't seem to be poisoned at all, so she couldn't help being stunned.

Liuli smiled, supported her arm and stood up and said: "Don't worry, sir, I'm fine. Didn't the eldest lady say that the arsenic and poisonous bird's nest were found in my house? I poured out more than half of the bottle of arsenic and put it down. It must be three years old." A tiger can be poisoned to death, but I'm still alive and kicking after drinking half a bowl of soup, I don't know how the lady will explain it?"

The old man stopped his tears and looked at her, He Xiuyuan and Aunt Su also looked at each other in blank dismay.Mrs. Yu, on the other hand, was already too stunned to speak. Hearing her words, she couldn't help but muttered to herself: "Impossible, impossible, it's clearly——no! You evildoer! That's obviously arsenic! It’s poisonous bird’s nest! Why didn’t it poison you to death!”

"Shut up for me!"

He Yuli grabbed her skirt and slapped her again, causing her to retreat a few steps. "You poisonous woman, I don't care about you when you do those things on weekdays, but now you have the courage to poison my mother! I think the person who is going to be escorted to the government is not someone else, but you!"

Shocked by his roar, Yu retreated to the door, and Yuegui Haitang pushed her in rudely after her.

Liuli twitched the corners of her mouth, and said leisurely: "Maybe Da Furen is still not convinced, so let's take a look at this notebook again." She took the two handover notebooks in her hand and put them on the table in front of the old man, " There are a total of 310 second batches of bird’s nests sent by Yanzhuang, and the handover book in the main courtyard happens to be the 310 second batch. Please come and see the old man and his wife. The date of receiving bird’s nests in each of the main courtyards is listed here. It has been postponed by at least three days from the date that Mrs. Bi received Yanzhuang bird's nest."

She pushed the notebook to the brothers He Yuli, the Liang family and the Qi family, and then said: "It is true that there are a lot of people in the mansion, and the things found in the house really cannot be used as solid evidence of the murder, but the second batch of bird's nests from 310 you How do you explain it? Even if there are occasional delays and you fail to deliver them in time, you can’t always be delayed by 310. Now that you have the time and physical evidence to commit the crime, how can you deny it, Madam?”

"This is all fabricated by you!"

With bloodshot eyes, Yu pointed at her and yelled, "This is a fabrication, a fabrication!"

Liuli raised her head and sneered.The old man threw the notebook in his hand to Yu's face: "It's all written by you yourself, where did you fabricate it!"

Yu stayed on the ground blankly, his eyes were as loose as if he was dying.

"You don't cry when you don't see the coffin. I'd like to ask someone to come out and say a few words."

At this time, the old lady's slow voice suddenly came from under the curtain leading to the back room. Everyone looked over and saw the old lady walking out with the help of Qingshang leaning on a cane, and behind her was Wu Yinzhong who came in at some time.Liang's and Qi's quickly stepped forward to help her sit down on the chair. The old lady pointed to Wu Yinzhong:
"Doctor Wu, tell the old man and the gentlemen what you just told me."

Wu Yinzhong answered yes, took a look at Mrs. Yu, turned around and said in the direction of the old man and the others: "About two years ago, when the old man encountered a little crisis the year before, and the old lady fell ill due to anxiety, One day, the lady asked me to borrow a book about poison, and I didn’t doubt that I had it, so I lent it to the lady. Now that I think about it, that book happened to record how to use arsenic to soak red dates and bird’s nests to injure poison. In addition, I also remembered that I lost a bottle of arsenic on the day the lady returned the book to me."

The old man stood up in surprise: "Then do you remember the size and shape of the bottle of arsenic?"

Wu Yinzhong nodded: "I remember, it was a small porcelain bottle about two inches high, the whole body was lake blue, with a network of cracks, the bottle mouth was a cork, wrapped in red cloth. When the red cloth was torn off, there was still an inscription on the bottom of the cork. Bad name."

Everyone was shocked, and they all looked at the arsenic bottle in Liuli's hand.At this time, Liuli was also fascinated, and seeing the uproar of the crowd, she quickly looked at her hand, but it was just an ordinary small porcelain bottle, white without any traces, and the cork was just a small cloth bag, it was not what Wu Yinzhong said at all. the one.

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