Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 270 All the possessions (5)
Xu Che said: "Okay, I will go to the Yamen to report the case at dawn."

Talking about everyone retreating to the yard, Xianglai looked back into the water room while walking, always feeling that something was wrong, and asked what Nian Tong had been doing all day while walking into the house, and if anything strange happened.

But the questions are the same as before, there is nothing particularly suspicious, until back in the house to sit down, Xiang Lai glanced at the lotus seed cake on the table, suddenly slammed the table and stood up, panicked Looking at the lotus seed cake, he said: "You, you said that Nian Ke ate this lotus seed cake before he died?!"

A maid replied: "Yeah, we all said we wouldn't let her eat it, but she just ate it anyway, so why don't you try it for Miss..."

Speaking of this, the maids were also stunned, and said: "Miss, you mean this lotus seed cake is poisonous?!"

Xianglai was not sure for the time being, and slowly reached into the box, wanting to take another piece of lotus seed cake.

Xu Che, who entered the hall with them, stopped Xianglai when he saw this, and pulled the box aside, but he pinched a piece and looked at it carefully.

It seemed that there was nothing special about the color, so he put the lotus seed cake under his nose and smelled it again.

Just now, as soon as Xianglai said that Huiling believed that the lotus seed cake was poisonous, she became worried when she saw him put it to her mouth, and called softly: "Xu Che..."

Xu Che didn't smell any strange smell after smelling it, and said, "No, I can't tell, it's best to try something."

A servant girl thought for a while and said, "There is still a live chicken in the kitchen, do you want to bring it?"

Xu Che said: "It's great to have a living thing, hurry up and get it."

The servant girl didn't dare to go out by herself, so she dragged the others to join her, and went to the kitchen to bring the chicken.

Xu Che took it in his hand, crushed a piece of lotus seed cake, fed it to the chicken bit by bit, and then put Nan on the ground to watch.

At first the cat was quite energetic, but after a while, its eyelids became heavy and drooped a little bit, but it was just sleepy and didn't really sleep.

Xiang Lai and everyone watched patiently. After a long time, the chicken's eyes finally closed, but it didn't die immediately. Xu Che kicked it a few times, but the chicken still responded. The fourth time, the chicken really didn't move.

Xu Che knelt down to feel it, and said, "It seems to be getting cold, so he must be really dead."

Xianglai sat at the table, looked at the box in front of her, and couldn't help feeling a little scared when she thought of the scene where she brought the pastry to her mouth just now.

When Luo Jinxing was in the palace before, he reminded himself to be careful, but he didn't expect that someone at home had already done something.

It's just that the cake was sent by Zhixiang. I don't know whether it is Zhixiang or someone else who wants to kill him.

After confirming that there was poison in the pastry, Huiling became anxious immediately, and said, "Miss, Zhixiang dared to give you poisonous pastries, let's arrest her and ask for clarification!"

Xianglai didn't want to say too much in front of the maids, so she sat there thinking for a while, and said: "You have to ask, but you can't catch them. We are not official servants. We should wait until tomorrow to report to the official normally..."

He said to the maids, saying: "Go to sleep before dawn, otherwise the official will come after dawn and ask you about Zhixiang, and there will be no time to sleep any more."

The maids were frightened and dared not to sleep, but the young lady dared not disobey her orders, so she left the main hall and returned to their residence.

After the maids left, only Xiang Lai, Xu Che, and Hui Ling were left in the room.

Huiling said: "Miss, do you think that Zhixiang would murder Miss because she was worried that Miss would reveal her identity?"

Xiang Lai said: "Her identity is not a big secret, not only we know, but even Gong Liang knows that she is not from a good family. It seems that there is no need for her to hit me so hard."

Huiling said, "But why did she poison Miss to death?"

Xiang Lai said: "Although she sent this pastry, it's hard to say whether the poison was poisoned by her. If she poisoned it, she shouldn't dare to send it in such a blatant manner, right?"

Xu Che said: "Miss, do you mean that she was ordered by someone?"

Xianglai shook her head and said: "It seems impossible to instigate, she dares to attack others, but she may not have the courage to attack me, so I think she may be used by others... How about it, Xu Che, you should find a way now Avoiding the eyes and ears of everyone, go over and ask Zhixiang, see what she says, if she really has something hidden in sending the poison, then tell her and let her not leak anything about us."

Xu Che nodded and said, "Okay, I'll try."

Although it was almost dawn at this time, everyone in Dali slept late, and it was quiet and no one was around.

In order to prevent someone from hiding in the dark and spying, Xu Che purposely went out from the back of the yard over the wall, and walked around from the big garden of Lianfu to Zhixiang's yard little by little.

After confirming that there was no one in the front, back, left, or right, he climbed into the yard from the side wall again.

Zhixiang was fine and had already slept peacefully. Xu Che didn't dare to say hello, so he took out a dagger and gently pulled the door latch. Without caring too much, he went directly into the room and pushed Zhixiang who was sleeping soundly.

Just as he was falling asleep, a large living person suddenly appeared in the dark room, even a brave person would be startled, let alone a woman named Zhixiang.

When she opened her eyes and saw Xu Che, she subconsciously wanted to scream, but Xu Che covered her mouth.

Xu Che put his finger in front of his mouth to signal her to keep silent, and said, "I belong to Miss Xianglai, you have seen me before, don't be afraid."

Zhixiang seemed to hear his voice and nodded in horror, then Xu Che let go of his hand, and said in a low voice: "Miss Xianglai asked me to come, she asked me to ask you something."

Zhixiang said, "What's the matter?"

Xu Che said: "She wants to ask why you went to Laixiangju today, and if there is something wrong."

As soon as Zhixiang heard about it, she said: "It's nothing, I just wanted to thank Miss Xianglai for helping me come to Lian Gongliang's side, and wanted to thank her, so I made some snacks for her."

At this time, she was still thinking about taking credit for making dim sum.

Xu Che said, "Did you make the dim sum yourself?"

Zhixiang nodded and said, "Ah, yes, I learned it after a lot of effort."

Xu Che looked at her suspiciously, and said, "Since you want Miss Xie, why did you poison it?"

"Poisoned?!"

Zhixiang immediately lost his composure, raised his voice, and said, "What poison? How could I poison?!"

Xu Che hurriedly motioned her to lower his voice again, and said, "You said that you made the dim sum yourself, but the lady's maid died after eating it, and we fed that dim sum to a chicken, which was also poisoned to death." , Who did you say that you did not poison the poison?"

"what!"

Zhixiang took a breath, and quickly waved his hands and said, "No, no, I didn't make the cake, it was given to me by Mrs. Lin. They said they wanted to send the cake to Miss but they were embarrassed. I thought I could give it as a favor. I took it to the lady, but I never dreamed that there would be poison in the pastry!"

(End of this chapter)