Dongli drinks wine after dusk

Chapter 237
"Where do you work? Why do you want to murder the concubine? Why don't you just do it!" In Chen Di's education, there was no rule against hitting women. He was so angry that he kicked the maid.

"My servant, my servant Caihe was originally an errand in the Zhuangzi." Caihe was kicked hard, but he didn't want to confess so easily: "The hairpin on my servant's head belongs to my servant. When I wear it, There are no pearls on it."

"My maidservant's father died early, and it was my mother who brought me up. We don't have to work hard on the village, we can't do farm work, and our family is poor. Maybe it's the maidservant who sold pearls for money in her early years. Maiden Really wronged!" Cai He cried a little pear blossom with rain, shy and timid, I felt pity.

However, what she met was Chen Di who had no love for women at all, so she got kicked hard again: "You cry like a lady in a brothel, why?"

Got it~ It turns out that there is this benefit of being incomprehensible.

"Since you say that, let's ask your mother to come over and confront her." Zhao Dongzhi asked the housekeeper of Prince Ping's mansion, "Her mother is in the village? Call her for questioning."

"Back to Mr. Zhao, her mother also came to the mansion today to help out, and she will help in the back kitchen."

It was a coincidence that a middle-aged woman dressed as a servant was called in without waiting too long. Although she had a bitter look on her face and frost on her temples, she looked very old, but her movements of saluting were natural and standard .

"I don't know if the son of the world called the servants, is there something wrong?"

"Caihe is your daughter?"

"Exactly." Although the servant girl's clothes were clean, they looked very old. In inconspicuous places, two patches were made with the same color fabric. The stitches were so fine that they were hard to detect. It seems that Cai He said that their livelihood was difficult. , this is believable.

"Have you ever had a hairpin inlaid with pearls in your family? This time it was worn by your daughter in the house?" Cai He had already been covered with her mouth and dragged aside, looking at it with slightly aggrieved eyes. My own mother, cry or not.

"There was indeed such a hairpin, but the pearl on it was long gone."

"Where did this hairpin come from? Why isn't the pearl here?"

"The lives of slaves and maidservants are miserable. The couple died early. The orphans and widows are poor. One winter, the family couldn't even afford cotton clothes for the winter. There was no other way, so they sold the pearls for money to save their lives."

Chen Di's expression has slowed down. The mother and daughter were brought in one after the other, and there was no time to confess to each other. Now it has been confirmed back and forth that there is a high probability that it is not a lie.

"Where did your pearl hairpin come from?" Zhao Dongzhi didn't intend to let the mother and daughter go.

"The servant girl used to work in the palace in the early years, and she was released from the palace to marry when she reached her age. The hairpin was given by the master and empress when the servant girl was in the palace."

"Oh? You came out of the palace? Which palace did you work in? Why did you enter Prince Ping's mansion as a slave?"

The maids who are released from the palace at the age of age are all civilians, not slaves, and generally those with living relatives in the family will return to the original family, and they will marry or groom themselves to observe the festival.

What they do in the palace is to serve people, and after finally leaving the palace safely, the last thing they want is to be a servant again.But this one did the opposite?
"Servant, the person whom this servant likes is a servant of Prince Ping's mansion, and this servant voluntarily married him, so he became a slave along with him."

What kind of true love is it that overcomes the temptation of freedom?
Zhao Dongzhang was noncommittal, and continued to ask: "Well, what is your name in the palace? What do you do? Which master and empress gave you the pearl hairpin?" Just now, the maid skipped the question and didn't answer, how could Zhao Dongzhang let her go? .

"The maidservant in the palace is an ordinary emissary who runs errands and spreads messages. Her name is Ling Jiang. She left the palace 20 years ago. The one who rewards the maidservant with pearls and hairpins is the concubine Zhong Taifei who has long since died of illness." Ling Jiang replied sincerely. Without thinking about it, what she doesn't know is that she can answer such a long-term matter without even thinking about it, which itself has problems.

At the same time, she is also very smart. No one records the whereabouts of the maids who left the palace, but only writes on a certain year, month, and day, who was released for some reason.

Jiang Jiuying believes that there must be a palace maid named Ling Jiang who was released from the palace at the same time as the servant in front of her, and even the empress Dowager Zhong once really had such a pearl hairpin.

Pulling dead people as flags, making it impossible for them to verify the authenticity, they seem to have said everything, but in fact they have not provided any useful information, as expected they are from the palace.

It's a pity that she was too calm and answered too quickly.Jiang Jiuying gently shook his head at Jiang Wenyuan.

"Doctor Tang, tell me."

"Returning to the son of the world. The three non-sticks are indeed not only arsenic, but also finely divided pearl powder. Just look at the luster."

Seeing that a pearl was missing from Caihe's head, Jiang Jiuying thought of the way the murderer hid the poison and why he couldn't find the oiled paper bag after searching.

The pearl hairpin on Caihe's head was originally embedded with no pearls at all, but the poison itself coated with a thick layer of pearl powder!When using it, crush it directly without anyone noticing, let alone worrying about leaving evidence for yourself.

Doctor Tang did not find anything wrong with the dish when he inspected it for the first time.

Then the same, the question is coming, who is this mother and daughter, why come to serve at an ordinary banquet, they will wear poisonous hair ornaments next to their bodies, behind them, there must be a secret!

I saw that Caihe's face changed again and again, and her body began to tremble slightly. Instead, Ling Jiang was smiling all the time, as if she didn't hear what Doctor Tang said just now.

"Caihe, please explain."

"Servant, servant" Cai He's legs softened when he was suddenly released, and he knelt down again. The servant stayed for a long time, but he didn't know what to say, so he simply shut his mouth to avoid making too many mistakes.

"Since this pearl originally belonged to you, then Ling Jiang, you can tell me about it."

"Your servant has nothing to say, I did get this pearl hairpin from Concubine Zhong, and I did become it more than ten years ago, because the backing is made of silver, it is not worth much, so I kept it as a souvenir. "

"The servant girl has been helping in the back kitchen. I don't know what happened in the front hall." She pushed [-] without even thinking about defending her daughter, and almost put all the blame on her daughter. go out.

Doesn't your daughter feel pain?Are you sure it's real?
Cai He was also full of disbelief, but remained silent, lowered her head, and stopped talking.

Up to now, they have been interrogating mainly and behaved very mildly. If these two people persist in their wrongdoing, the general trend is to use punishment.

"Call up all the servants who are on duty today, and let them recognize it. Has anyone seen Concubine Zhao and had contact with this mother and daughter?" Jiang Wenyuan rarely stopped before Zhao Dongzhi said the sentence. Huatou.

Zhao Dongzhang didn't object, but only looked at Jiang Jiuying secretly, who gave him a calm look.

(End of this chapter)