After the divorce, the queen mother was pampered by powerful ministers

Chapter 276 Birthday Banquet ([-])
"Slave..." Xilu's eyes flickered, erratically.She really wanted to quibble again, but she was caught by someone, and she couldn't quibble with the certainty of the facts.

How could it be such a coincidence that she was discovered just as she took out the paper and put it in the pit to start burying it?He must have been targeted long ago, but he didn't realize it.

The other party waited for him to show his feet and catch him.

But when was he being targeted?Xilu Xisi was terrified, if they had been targeting him since he poisoned him, then they would have waited until he had dealt with the paper wrapping the poison before making a move.

Fortunately, during this period, I didn't take the initiative to find the eldest lady, otherwise, everything would be exposed.

Chu Muchen glanced coldly at Xi Lu, "Pull it down, my people, there are countless ways to make her tell the truth."

"Don't... slave... slave recruited..." Xilu was most afraid of pain, and when he heard that he was about to be tortured, he lost half of his soul in fright.

Zhang Zhilan's heart suddenly tightened, and he tightened the handkerchief in his hand.

"It's a servant girl. The servant girl made her own decision and wanted to poison the eldest lady to death." Xilu knelt down on the ground.

The restless Zhang Zhilan and the wrinkled Nanny Jiang looked at each other.

"Reason." Chu Muchen's beautiful peach blossom eyes were as piercing as a knife, and the coldness was pressing, and he spat out two words coldly between his lips and teeth.

Xilu didn't dare to look directly at Chu Muchen, but just listening to the voice, he felt chills to his bones, his back felt chilly, and his shoulders shook like sifting chaff, "My servant, I feel sorry for the second lady."

"Since the second lady came back from the general last time, she has been depressed. She has always admired General Chu, but General Chu is already the second lady's brother-in-law. The rumors and gossips have made the second lady breathless."

"Second Miss has the best reputation and talent since she was a child. The gossip outside is like sharp knives after another, cutting on Second Miss' heart one after another. Second Miss refuses to eat, and her body is getting thinner and thinner day by day."

"She even gave up her life for the sake of General Chu. The maidservant looks at the second lady in such pain, and her heart aches."

"As long as...as long as the eldest lady dies, then the second lady can marry General Chu, so..."

But Chu Muchen, amidst a bunch of nonsense, got to the point, "Where did your poison come from?"

"This kind of secretive and profound chronic poison should be extremely rare."

"Poison..." Xilu lowered his head, his eyes wandering, "I bought the poison from a Taoist priest."

"What kind of Taoist priest? When and where?" Chu Muchen asked Xilu repeatedly without giving Xilu a chance to think.

"A few days ago... on the street, with a white beard and a Chinese character face, uh, after selling the medicine, the servant has never seen him again." Xilu faltered and answered.

"Bring back the poison, have you ever tried?"

"Tried..."

"How did you try it? Who did you ask for it? Where is that person at the moment?"

"This..." Xilu was forced to ask and didn't know how to make it up.

"You are lying. You must explain the origin of this poison clearly." Chu Muchen said firmly.

"Chu Li, pull her down, no matter what method you use, let her tell the truth about the origin of the poison."

"Here!" Chu Li waved his hand, and the two guards grabbed Xilu's arms, half dragged and half pressed, and left everyone's sight.

"No! Don't! The servant did not lie..."

Zhang Zhilan kept twisting the brocade handkerchief in her hand with her index finger, and gave Jiang Nanny a wink, and Jiang Nanny quietly left the room.

Bi Ying also quietly exited the room and followed.

Shen Pingkai's tone was gentle, and he turned his head to Chu Muchen and said, "Now that it's been found out, it's a rare deer poisoning. Guests in the front hall, can you let them go home?"

Later, Shen Pingjin made amends to the guests and sent the dignitaries out of the mansion.Because General Chu did not say much in order to find out who poisoned Shen Shengge.

As soon as the guests were sent off, there was news that Xilu committed suicide in fear of crime.

Chu Li lowered his head and explained: "Without a few sets of punishments, she bit her tongue and committed suicide."

"It was my subordinate's negligence. Seeing her timid and afraid of death, I thought she couldn't bear a few tortures, and they would come one by one. Who knows, she bit her tongue and killed herself while no one was paying attention."

"Check, has she come into contact with any suspicious people recently?"

Shen Pingjin turned his head and repeated this sentence to the old housekeeper.

"Here." The old butler bowed his body and exited the room.

"Since you want to investigate, then continue to investigate. The housekeeper is at your command." Shen Pingxi stretched out his hand and squeezed the space between his brows, "I'm tired today too, if there is any result, it's not too late to tell me tomorrow."

"Tonight, don't bother me anymore." After finishing speaking, she reached out her hand to signal Zhang Zhilan to help him back to the room.

Zhang Zhilan hurriedly stepped forward to hold his hand, "I'll help the master go back to his room to rest, he must be very tired after tossing around from morning to midnight today."

The two left the room with their arms in this way. When Shen Pingxi left, he still looked impatient, and didn't care about Shen Shengge's life or death at all.

Not far after leaving the room, he blamed: "It's a disaster, even if I come back, I will definitely make Shen's house restless."

"It's a good birthday banquet. She and Chu Muchen made such a fuss, which almost made me unable to come down."

"Fortunately, the guests were reasonable and didn't complain too much. Otherwise, where would I put my old face?"

"In the future, how will you gain a foothold in the court?"

"Master, don't be angry. I'm also blaming me. I've spoiled her too much on weekdays, but I actually hurt her."

"You, it's just that you are so kind-hearted and feel sorry for her that she lost her mother since she was a child, and you didn't mean to indulge her on purpose. It's because Shengge doesn't know what's good or bad." Shen Pingjin put his hand on the back of Zhang Zhilan's.

"It's still my fault. I thought she was married, and it was rare to come back and made her favorite sweet-scented osmanthus cake. That lowly maid took the opportunity to borrow the sweet-scented osmanthus cake I made to poison Shengge. If I hadn't made the sweet-scented osmanthus cake , maybe, there is no such thing.”

"It won't disturb the master's birthday banquet and embarrass the master..." Zhang Zhilan blamed himself.

"What does this matter have to do with you? It's that lowly servant girl who has a vicious mind and used your sweet-scented osmanthus cake. Even if you don't make sweet-scented osmanthus cake, she will find other ways to harm Shengge."

"Okay, okay, don't talk about these bad things anymore, let's go back to the room and rest." Now hearing the name Shen Shengge, he was annoyed.

In the room, after Chu Muchen walked out of the room, Shen Pingjin and Zhang Zhilan could hear the conversation clearly, and held Su Wunian's hand who was unconscious on the bed, his eyes filled with distress.

Seeing that Shen Shengge's biological father had left, Mr. Fan decided that he had no reason to stay here anymore, so he also left.Doctor Zhang also left.

In the end, only Wang Yanyi, Zhu Jian, and Chu Muchen were left behind.

"Sure enough, this kind of father who doesn't care about his children is not uncommon." Chu Muchen read to the unconscious Su Wu.

Wang Yanyi also said regretfully: "It is said that Shen Youxiang doesn't like his cousin at all. When I saw her today, it's true."

"I don't care about my cousin's life at all, and even ask people not to disturb his sleep in the middle of the night. After all, the safety of my cousin is not as important as his sleep."

(End of this chapter)