Working part-time as a wife is too busy

Chapter 94 Suspicious Criminal (1)
The Qingshi platform is very wide, and it is specially used as a stage for the talent competition later. Before the banquet started, Mingxu and Wang Xu’s people had already arranged it. There is no shortage of paint brushes and paper.

Gu Xiaoya, Sun Wan'er, and a few family members of officials they just met were sitting at the same table. The servants of Mingxu Palace had already set out melons, fruits, snacks and tea. Just the colorful flowers, but first to compare their talents.

"Sister Wan'er, do you know why the order of the flower viewing party has been changed this year?" Sitting on Sun Wan'er's right is Jiang Shi, the second young lady of Weiyuanbo's mansion. Before leaving the cabinet, they would often get together to chat when attending banquets, and gradually became familiar with each other because of their similar temperaments.

"Qingyun, did you hear something?" Sun Wan'er looked at her with a smile and asked, Qingyun was Jiang's boudoir name.

"It's not a rumor. It was my mother-in-law who revealed it to me. She said that the Empress Dowager also had the idea of ​​giving a marriage to someone during this flower viewing banquet. Didn't you see that all the maids around the Empress Dowager came." Jiang raised her eyes and said nuzui to an old woman in palace clothes next to Princess Mingxu.

"I really don't know about this, but my mother-in-law told Jiayao not to cause trouble at the banquet today, just keep quiet."

Sun Wan'er went so far. Although she has a good relationship with the Jiang family, they are just friends and not caring. Guan Jiayao is her sister-in-law and has reached the age of marriage. It is only because of her violent temper that no one dares to marry her. door-to-door.

"My mother-in-law told my sisters-in-law to behave well, and no matter what, they must take a leader back." Jiang smiled meaningfully. Her husband has no possibility of seizing the title, so she mostly turns a blind eye to the battles in the uncle's mansion. Close one eye.

The old lady of the uncle's house wanted to send the girls in the family to the palace, but now it is not the year of the draft, and a month ago, her father-in-law heard the news that the queen mother was going to choose some princes at the flower viewing banquet. Those who serve must also bestow marriages themselves.

Those who came to the banquet were all young ladies. If the leader could catch the eyes of the Queen Mother, then the glory and wealth would be endless.

"If you can win the leader, you may not be given a marriage. Even if you are given a marriage, you may not be a wishful man!" Sitting beside Jiang was Chen Ru, the third young lady of the household servant's family. She looked at the people who were eager to try. Said with some sarcasm.

This is also a strange and interesting person. Instead of sitting with her own sister-in-law and sister-in-law, she chose to sit at the table of Gu Xiaoya and Sun Wan'er.

At this moment, Princess Mingxu stood up and spoke. She told everyone with a smile that today all women and single men who have not left the cabinet and have no marriage contract can compete on the stage, and the winner will be rewarded by the Queen Mother.

This "heavy reward" is heard differently by everyone. The news that the Empress Dowager will choose a candidate for the prince at the flower viewing banquet, but many people have heard the news, and they all told their children to be upright, even if they can't marry the prince, It's not bad to be able to catch the eyes of the queen mother.

Gu Xiaoya is a married person, so when she knew that this was just a talent competition between a single man and a woman, she was relieved. She is not very good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

However, no one expected that Liu Feier, the third lady of Weiyuanbo Mansion who was the first to perform on stage, suddenly opened her eyes wide and bled to death before finishing a piece.

"Ah - dead!" Ziwei Garden suddenly became chaotic.

When everyone was running away in fright, Gu Xiaoya rushed up to the Qingshi platform and quickly walked to Liu Fei'er's body.

"Mrs. Rong Shao, what are you doing?" Princess Mingxu was also terrified. Although she is a woman in the back house, she is a woman who is used to seeing big scenes, and she calmed down quickly.

"The mouth and eyes of the corpse are open, the face is blue, the lips are cracked, the gums and fingernails are blue-black, and the seven orifices are bleeding. These are the symptoms of death from poisoning." Liu Fei'er was already out of breath, and Gu Xiaoya carefully inspected her body again. And found a kind of pastry powder on the coating of her mouth and tongue.

"Sister-in-law, can you find out what kind of poison it is?" Yi and Tang Li also came to the banquet, and when they saw Gu Xiaoya rushing to the stage, they also leaned forward. At this time, someone had already informed the prison department people.

"It looks a bit like sagebrush or insect poison, my concubine, please don't let anyone leave here." Maybe the murderer hasn't left here yet, and she can't stand idly by when this kind of thing happens.

Gu Xiaoya's voice was inexplicably convincing, and Princess Mingxu quickly ordered and comforted everyone. At this time, Zhang Xiao had already led people to surround Ziwei Garden, and Leng Yan, who was in charge of investigating the case, also came to the scene of the crime.

Seeing that Gu Xiaoya was examining the corpse, he breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably. As long as Gu Xiaoya was around, the case would be considered a big help, and he believed that the murderer would be found soon. So much confidence.

Yan Motian, Yan Bing, An Yu, Shangguan Chengxuan, Shangguan Honglian and others were also present at the scene. They were all watching Gu Xiaoya with a serious face at the moment. Unexpectedly, she was not afraid when she saw the dead body, and even started doing tricks things.

"Young Madam, what did you find?" Leng Yan didn't check Liu Fei'er's body first, but asked Gu Xiaoya first.

"He died from poisoning, and his tongue coating is also black and blue. He must have eaten poisonous cakes." Gu Xiaoya got up and said to him.

Leng Yan already knew that the deceased was Liu Feier, the third lady of the Weiyuanbo Mansion, and when Gu Xiaoya said that she had eaten poisoned cakes, she called the two maids who followed Liu Feier to her.

The two servant girls were so frightened that they couldn't stop crying.

"What did you eat and drink before your lady performed on stage?" Leng Yan looked at the two and asked sternly.

"Miss...Miss said that she...is a little nervous. Usually when she is nervous, she likes to eat...two pieces of cakes, servant girl...so I asked for a small plate of snacks from a sister in Ziwei Garden, and then gave it to the lady. After eating, how could...how could...Miss...wuwuwu..." One of the maids finally explained the matter clearly intermittently.

This Liu Fei'er has had a habit since she was a child, she likes to eat to relieve her nervousness.Gu Xiaoya and Leng Yan thought at the same time that the murderer who wanted to kill Liu Fei'er must have known about her habit.

(End of this chapter)