The poisonous woman is frivolous, please be gentle with me, Your Highness.

Chapter 143 Who poisoned
"I have seen your Highness. I am a witness to what Fifth Sister has done. Even though I don't want to..."

"What aren't you thinking about?" Bai Qianyi was interrupted halfway through her words.

Bai Qianxi's cold eyes fell on him, and after a pause, she ordered Bai Wangqi, "Take someone to move all the rice in the store out, so that everyone can see whether the rice here is fresh or not."

"Yes."

Bai Wangqi silently led people to do the work, and soon, all the rice in the store was moved out.

"All the rice in our store is here. You can take a look to see if it's fermented rice." Bai Qianxi casually opened a few bags, revealing the crystal clear, white rice inside.

They are all new rice this year, not even any old rice.

"If you don't believe it, you can watch it again."

Bai Qianxi's cold voice rang out, "I did this to tell everyone that if the rice I used for the porridge was fermented rice, how could there be only this amount that this person took out?"

"Moreover, the taste of fermented rice is very different from that of normal rice, and the cooking effect is also different. I would like to ask, everyone who has come to my shop to drink porridge, tell me honestly, have you noticed anything wrong?"

Bai Qianxi glanced at the fat chef indifferently, then looked at everyone else. Her clear eyes were full of determination, without any hesitation or retreat.

When people looked at her like this, they would think of what she said and they all felt that it made sense.

But why do these people who drank the porridge have stomachaches? Judging from their appearance, they don't seem to be faking it.

"Since everyone has seen it, I want to ask you, my dear sister." Bai Qianxi looked at Bai Qianyi and bit the last three words, "Why do you guess that I used fermented rice, but the chef here can still use it."

"Should I suspect it's you..."

"Don't talk nonsense!" Bai Qianyi glared at Bai Qianxi fiercely, her voice even a little sharp, "It's obviously you, don't think I don't know, you hid the free rice and only showed the good rice to others, did you think you could hide what you did by doing this!"

"You think so?"

"That's fine too. If you think there's still distributed rice in my warehouse, you can report it and send soldiers to search it." Bai Qianxi looked calm.

"But what if there is no distribution of rice as you said? What should I do then? You slander my reputation based on your own speculation, and when it gets out..." Bai Qianxi didn't finish her words, but the meaning was self-evident.

"Don't talk nonsense! What slander or no slander? How could I slander you!" Bai Qianyi concealed her panic and thought about this question.

"There is one more thing you may not know." Bai Qianxi stared straight at the person in front of her.

"What?" Bai Qianyi asked subconsciously.

"There was some porridge left in the pot in the kitchen. I just took a look and found that someone had poisoned the porridge."

"Who do you think... did it? What are the effects of those poisons?"

Bai Qianxi pressed the question step by step. Bai Qianyi's face turned visibly pale for a moment, but she quickly reacted, "What are you talking about? I don't understand."

"You don't understand. I can explain to you that these people's stomachaches are not caused by the rice. Someone poisoned them."

"And the person who poisoned——" Bai Qianxi's eyes fell on the fat cook with certainty, "It's you, right?"

"No, no, I didn't! I didn't poison it!"

The fat cook waved his hands subconsciously and didn't even notice when the bag in his hand fell to the ground.

"It wasn't you who put it there? How is that possible? Then why did I feel that there was poison in the pot?" Bai Qianxi smiled faintly, and then I told Bai Wangqi to serve out the remaining porridge in the pot.

"Your Highness, you should come along too, in case someone doesn't believe it." Ye Beiling nodded and went into the house.

Soon, the remaining porridge was served.

"Everyone, please take a look."

Bai Qianxi held the bowl in one hand and took out a silver needle that she carried with her.

The silver needle was only in the bowl for a short while. When it was taken out, the part that was immersed in the porridge had turned black.

“It’s really poisonous!”

"And it looks like it's quite toxic!"

When the onlookers saw this scene, they all stepped back in fear, fearing that they would get involved.

"Now, what else do you have to say? Who instructed you to do this?"

Bai Qianxi looked directly at the fat chef, "It's okay if you don't tell me. I'll send someone to the palace to invite the imperial physician. Once we find out what the poison is in the porridge, we can naturally follow the clues to find the cause..."

"But by then, this matter might even be known to the emperor. If the murderer is found out at that time, what will happen to him?"

Bai Qianxi didn't need to say much, everyone knew how dire the consequences would be just by thinking about it.

"Boss, boss, please, don't call the imperial physician. I say." The fat chef began to feel nervous when he saw Ye Beiling coming.

Coupled with this threat, he could no longer bear it and fell to his knees on the ground.

"Boss, I was just possessed by a ghost for a moment. I didn't mean to hurt anyone. Those medicines were given to me by someone."

"She said that this medicine will only make people weak for a period of time after taking it, and it won't kill people."

"Who could have given you this medicine? Do you recognize the person?"

"Yes! Yes!" The fat chef nodded repeatedly. "That person covered his face with a veil, but I remember his general figure, height, weight, and clothes!"

"Okay, then take a look around to see if there's the person you mentioned among those present. If you can tell who that person is, perhaps he can be exempted from some of his guilt." Bai Qianxi nodded and said.

The fat chef seemed to have grasped the last straw. He looked around at everyone and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"It's her, it's her!" A surprised voice sounded, and the fat cook's hand quickly pointed to the personal maid who followed Bai Qianyi.

"I recognized her. She even wore the same clothes as when we met!" Afraid that others would not believe him, the fat chef quickly gave his reason for recognizing her.

Everyone's eyes followed his finger and moved to the maid. As everyone stared at her, the little maid turned pale and shook her head to deny it.

"It's not me! It's not me! He got the wrong person!"

But everyone looked at her panic and didn't believe her at all. The fat cook also spoke up quickly, "In addition to the clothes she was wearing, there was also the sachet around her waist. The flowers embroidered on it were exactly the same as what I saw before!"

The little maid's face turned even paler, she never expected that she would be exposed so quickly. Bai Qianyi glared at the person next to her fiercely, saying that he really didn't know how to do anything!

"Come here! Arrest all the people involved in the case! We will slowly try them later!" Amid the sound of evidence, Ye Beiling waved his hand and the soldiers rushed into action.

Bai Qianyi was also detained.

(End of this chapter)