The Virtuous Concubine of the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 60 Thorough Investigation (3)

Hearing this, the emperor laughed angrily. He looked at Liang Jiugong for a few seconds, and said softly, "Liang Jiugong, you are getting better at running errands."

Liang Jiugong looked at the emperor without knowing why, the emperor knocked on the table with the fan in his hand, and raised his eyebrows: "The poisoning of the concubine's diet is such an important matter, you let me entrust it to a court lady to find out? You Are you taking that little girl too seriously or not taking me too seriously?"

Hearing this, Liang Jiugong's pupils trembled slightly, and he hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, this is not the meaning of a slave..."

"Okay, let the subordinates be more efficient. This kind of thing happened to Concubine Yi just after entering the palace. If I don't handle it properly, my uncle will come to me tomorrow, and I will have to try my best to explain it. If you want to rest, you can't rest." The emperor's face was dark and calm, but the words in his mouth were clear and powerful.

This country uncle is talking about Tong Guowei, the younger brother of the emperor's biological mother, Empress Xiaokangzhang, and the first-rank minister, who is also the father of Concubine Yi.Now that Tong Jia's family has a high position in the court and is the emperor's mother clan, it is natural to give enough face, but if anything happens to Concubine Yi in the palace, the emperor will spend his time trying to appease Tong Jia's family.

Early the next morning, Fulu came to Chengqian Palace, but he did not find Jiaorong when he arrived at the main hall, but Yizhu was serving Concubine Yi for dinner.With yesterday's lessons learned, Concubine Yi was a little panicked when she saw the dishes on the table today, and ordered her servants to try the poison many times. The dishes were almost cold, so Concubine Yi was willing to eat some.

When seeing the blessing shoes, Concubine Yi and Yi Zhu were both stunned for a moment, Concubine Yi asked softly in doubt, "Who are you?"

Fulu looked around, and after confirming that Jiao Rong was not there, he bowed his hands and said heartily, "Greetings to Concubine Yi, this servant is Fulu, the imperial cook of the imperial dining room, who came here yesterday."

Hearing this, Concubine Yi paused holding the chopsticks, her face turned pale, and she asked in a very weak voice: "Yes... Did you find out about yesterday's poison?"

"Yes, empress." Fulu responded directly, turned to look outside the hall, said "uh", and asked Concubine Yi: "Excuse me... is sister Jiaorong here?"

Concubine Yi supported Yizhu's hand in shock, her breathing was a little short, she forced herself to calm down, swallowed her saliva and replied, "Jiao Rong is watering flowers in the side hall."

"Okay." Fulu subconsciously wanted to leave, and only after taking a step did he remember etiquette, stopped immediately, turned around again, and bowed naively to Concubine Yi: "Msg Concubine Yi, slave I'm going to find Sister Jiaorong, and I'll take my leave first."

Immediately, before Concubine Yi could react, Fulu had already left the main hall quickly.Soon, Fulu hurried into the side hall, and really saw Jiaorong watering the flowers. At this time, Jiaorong was facing him, Fulu smiled, and suddenly had bad thoughts.

He stretched out his hands to cover Jiaorong's eyes from behind, and then said in a strange voice, "Oh, what kind of young lady is this handsome?"

Jiao Rong's hand subconsciously loosened, and the watering pot fell into the flower pot. Following the inertia, she leaned back, took two steps back to stabilize her body, and frowned slightly.Before Fu Lu could make another move, Jiao Rong used her nails to dig into the flesh of Fu Lu's hands, then lifted her foot vigorously, and stepped on Fu Lu's feet hard.

In the next second, Fu Lu howled with an "ah", which made the maids outside the hall couldn't help but look at the side hall, and stopped for a while with some doubts.

"Jiaorong! Auntie, I was wrong! It was me! Ah! It hurts!" Fulu hurriedly let go of his hand, but Jiaorong's foot was still firmly on his foot. Fulu yelled for a long time, Jiaorong Only then was he willing to move his feet away.

Afterwards, Jiaorong picked up the water bottle in the flowerpot, turned around and looked at Fulu, with a very cold expression on his face, but looking back at Fulu, he danced on one leg for a long time, covering his feet, before standing back to the original place.He looked into Jiao Rong's eyes with grievances, and said pitifully: "What are you doing, I'm just kidding you? You almost stepped on your feet."

Jiao Rong looked at Fu Lu and raised her eyebrows, and then asked a more ruthless sentence: "Are you kidding? Are we familiar?"

Hearing this, Fu Lu nodded speechlessly, turned his eyes to one side, and said in a broken jar, "Okay, I'm not familiar, very unfamiliar."

Jiao Rong didn't want to talk to him anymore, so she walked to the table and put down the kettle, and asked coldly, "Did you find anything at Jingyang Palace?"

"I didn't find out why I came to you?" Fulu looked sad, probably because his feet were really hurt from being trampled on, he limped a little to the table and sat on the round oak stool.

Who knew that just as Fu Lu was about to speak, Jiao Rong said coldly, "Get up."

"Ah?" Fulu frowned and looked at Jiaorong. He didn't react for a while, but Jiaorong's eyes were fixed on the position of his buttocks, and that expression was really scary.

Fulu swallowed slightly, and although he didn't want to, he still raised his butt silently, "I'll just... sit... sit down..."

Jiao Rong didn't want to waste any more time with him, so she said with a calm face, "Tell me, and leave as soon as you finish, I still have work to do."

"Okay." Fulu curled his lips, pursed his lips and said, "The person who poisoned him is probably Li Guiren."

Hearing this, Jiao Rong's eyes were rarely brightened, she blinked her eyelashes, and asked, "Did the eunuch who delivered breakfast recruit?"

Fulu sighed, and shook his head helplessly: "No way, Wang Dawei and his group are smart, but I squatted at the gate of Jingyang Palace for a while when I came here today. There is an extra bag, probably for silver."

Jiaorong didn't directly believe this, she thought for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Poisoning Concubine Yi is not a trivial matter, if Li Guiren dares to do it, he must make sure that the people she sends will not confess her. It is to reward the eunuch with silver, I am afraid it is not enough."

Fulu nodded, his expression unchanged, he took two steps towards Jiaorong, but soon he remembered that Jiaorong stepped on him just now, and immediately looked at Jiaorong's feet, keeping a distance of three feet.

"Wang Dawei has a maid in the palace who has been with each other for many years. She is the aunt of Jingyang Palace. Difficult." Fulu said unhurriedly, with a very steady tone.

"I see." Jiaorong lowered her eyes slightly. After a long silence, Jiaorong raised her head again and looked at Fulu with some doubts. How much gossip?"

Hearing this, Fu Lu let out a "squeak" and waved his hands: "You don't know, this imperial dining room is the place with the most gossip, those imperial chefs are very free when they are not cooking, of course they have to chat Some of them have no taste."

(End of this chapter)