Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 269 All the possessions (4)
Huiling turned her head to stare at him, and said, "Why are you suffering so much? Why did Miss treat you badly? It's not that Miss didn't let you go, who came back!"

Xu Che quibbled: "Why don't you suffer? I'm with a group of you women all day long, and there's no one to talk to. You think I'm willing to come back. Guarding the young lady is the task given to me by the prince. I won't guard until the young lady becomes famous. Isn't it halfway..."

Seeing that Xianglai and Luo Jinxing had already walked out of the palace, they could only follow quickly.

After leaving the palace, Luo Jinxing wanted to send Xianglai back home. Xianglai felt that Luo Jin had done enough to make a fuss tonight, and was worried that the king of Beiliao would have a problem with him, so he said nothing and asked him to go back to the house to rest. I went, and I, Huiling, and Xu Che went back to the Laixiangju, which was in the Lianfu but independent of the Lianjia.

When she came back, it was already the beginning of the unitary hour, and the maidservants were so sleepy that they had no energy throwing sheep bones, some were dozing off on the table, and some were dryly nibbling melon seeds.

After Xu Che entered, he went into the concierge where he lived. Xianglai and Huiling entered the room, and seeing the maids were all sleepy and listless, they asked, "It's so late, why don't you go to bed?"

The maids replied: "Wait for you to come back, miss. Today is New Year's Eve, so why don't you let the miss come back and see that the house is deserted."

Xianglai smiled and said, "What's the matter, Huiling and Xu Che are still with me."

A maid said: "That's not okay. After all, the lady is the master, and we are maidservants. No matter what, we can't sleep in front of the master. We are not as unruly as Nian Tong."

Xianglai looked around and saw that Nian Tong was not in the crowd, and asked, "What's wrong with Nian Tong, you guys have such a big opinion on her."

The maids said to Zhuang: "Miss, Nian Tong not only ate a piece of lotus seed cake sent by Zhixiang in the young master's room, but also went to bed early, not waiting for Miss to come back."

Xianglai said: "Oh, just go to bed when you sleep, I said earlier, we don't have so many rules here, it's just the lotus seed cake that Zhixiang sent us, we don't have much contact with her..."

As she was talking, she was still thinking, Zhixiang has been back to the mansion for a few days, in order to avoid suspicion, she would walk around and never say hello, why did she suddenly send lotus seed cakes over today?

When she was suspicious, the maids had already brought over the pastry box, opened the lid to show her, and said, "Miss, look, Zhixiang's eight pieces of lotus seed cakes were neatly arranged, but that gluttonous Nian Tong ate too little of them." One piece, it looks so ugly."

Xianglai looked at it, nodded and said: "Well, it looks pretty good. Didn't you say that Zhixiang is delicious and lazy, why is there such a skill?"

The maids said: "Zhixiang said that she learned how to make it during the Chinese New Year. After learning how to make it, she sent it to the lady first. Seeing that it is very gratifying to make it like this, please try it quickly and see how it tastes. "

Said it was something from Zhixiang, just now Niantong ate it again, Xianglai didn't have any more doubts, gently pinched a small piece straight, turned it up and down, and put it in his mouth.

But at this moment, the hall door suddenly closed, Xu Che rushed in from the outside and shouted: "Miss, Nian Tong is dead, he died in the water room!"

Xianglai was frightened by him, and the lotus seed cake in her hand fell back into the box, her hands froze in front of her eyes and said, "What did you say? How could Niantong die?"

Xu Che said: "I don't know either. Just now I went to fetch water from the water room and saw Niantong lying on the edge of the stove with a basin of water beside it. I thought she was asleep and pushed her, but it turned out that she was dead! "

Xianglai stood up and said, "Go, go and have a look."

As he spoke, he ran to the water room without his coat on.

Xu Che followed her. Huiling was a little scared when she heard that Nian Tong had died, but she followed her anyway.

The maidservants were even more frightened, but Nai couldn't help being curious and followed them tremblingly.

When Xianglai entered the water room, Nian Tong's body was still lying there in a prone position. It wasn't long before she died, and Xu Che didn't over-twist her just now, so her posture didn't change much.

In recent years, Xianglai has seen quite a few dead people, and she is not afraid of a body like Niantong who is intact.Coupled with the fact that Nian Tong is a familiar person, the fear is even less.

She boldly stretched out her hand, and slowly raised Nian Tong's face to look at it. Seeing that Nian Tong's death was not terrible, she seemed to be asleep with her eyes closed, but her eye sockets and mouth corners were slightly blue, but there was no bleeding.

When she withdrew her hand, Nian Tong's head turned downward again, and she lay on her stomach as before.

Xiang Lai turned to Xu Che and said, "Why did this happen? Do you think her death was normal?"

Xu Che shook his head and said, "It doesn't seem normal. Although she didn't have any scars on her body, and she didn't see any obvious bleeding, but her complexion is very bad. It doesn't look like she died of pain, but rather like poisoning."

"Poisoned!"

Xianglai said: "But we don't have any poisonous things here, how could she be poisoned?"

Xu Che looked into the room, and said, "She died on the stove, could it be that the smoke from the water boiling stove turned back, she was poisoned by the smoke or something?"

Xianglai said: "But there is no smoke in this room at all."

Xu Che said, "Maybe we came back late, and the smoke has cleared."

Xianglai still didn't believe it, she looked into the stove and said: "It can't be so fast, besides, if there is smoke in the room, she should go out, and still smoke here?"

As the two of them were talking, someone among the maids standing at the door who dared not come over said, "Miss, Miss, Nian Tong should not have boiled water. I knew when she, she came out to fetch water. She was so sleepy that she wanted to go to sleep. We Asked her to wait for Miss, and told her to get some cold water to wash if she was too sleepy, and she never went back after she came out, we thought she went back to her room to sleep, now, she should have died here without fetching water.”

"Sleepy?" Hearing what she said, Xiang Lai looked at Nian Tong again. Judging from her posture, she seemed to be sleeping there, too, and then she just died.

Thinking of this, she asked the maidservants again, "When did she get sleepy? Didn't you find anything different about her?"

The maids recalled and said: "I didn't see anything wrong. After Zhixiang came, we played for a while, and then Niantong kept saying that she was sleepy. We advised her to wait for Miss for a while, and then she disappeared."

Xianglai said: "Did she say that when she is sleepy, is it time to go to sleep?"

The maids said: "It should be about the same, but she also had a good time, so it's okay to go to bed late."

Xianglai thought about it for a long time but didn't understand, sighed and said: "Alas, a man died out of nowhere. We probably don't know the cause of death. Let's let the government investigate tomorrow..." He said to Xu Che: " Don't move Nian Tong's body, and don't move the things in this house, keep them for the government."

(End of this chapter)