Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 271 Poison Cake (1)
Xu Che secretly despised it in his heart, and said, "Then you still said you gave it to me. If I hadn't asked you behind your back, you would have been convicted of murder!"

Zhixiang said: "Then what should we do now, Miss, can you suppress this matter, or else, won't I still sue for my life?!"

Xu Che said: "Miss said, after all, someone was killed, so we can't just let it go, we will report to the police at dawn, she told you to be sure, just say where this thing came from, Don't let go, or your life will be gone."

Zhixiang said: "But what if those people beat me?"

Xu Che said: "You can't change your words even if you hit you. The lady told you to bear with it as much as possible. Even the family is about to die. As long as you don't recognize her on the spot, the lady will rescue you in the future."

Zhi Xiangdun languished on the bed, and said: "What do you mean, how can you be greedy for human life!"

Xu Che said in a low voice: "Who told you not to grow your brains, and only think about being greedy for money and taking advantage of it? You deserve it. This is a lesson..."

After speaking, he quietly left Zhixiang's room, and then went back to Laixianglaiju after making a detour.

Xianglai and Huiling were still waiting for him. Seeing him come back, Xianglai asked, "How is it? Let me ask you clearly, who gave the medicine?"

Xu Che said: "Ask clearly, she said that she didn't make the pastry, it was given by Mrs. Lin."

Xianglai doubted: "Lin? I have no grudges with her in the past, and I have no grudges in the present. She has no reason to harm me..."

Huiling asked Xu Che again: "Is what she said believable? Could it be that she lied to you?"

Xu Che said: "No, when I went, she slept like a pig. If she wanted to hurt Miss, she wouldn't be in the mood to sleep, and she would have to stare and listen to what's going on here."

Xianglai also said: "The one who really hurt me must not be Zhixiang or Lin, I think it should be Zhu or Lianxiu, I heard that Lianxiu came back from Songning today, he must have found something wrong, so first Started on me."

Xu Che said: "Then what should we do? Zhixiang didn't intend to harm anyone, and Nian Tong didn't intend to die. How about we suppress this matter?"

Xianglai said: "No matter how someone dies, you can't suppress it in vain. You have to give an explanation to the family. It can't be like my adoptive father back then. The family can't even find a place to complain."

Huiling agreed with her words the most, and said: "Miss is right, I don't think that Zhixiang is a good person, he followed my father and son, and now he is greedy even for such a small bargain as a gift of snacks, and suffers a little bit." It's not too much to be frightened, not to mention that the young lady wants to keep her safe, so she should report to the police."

It was already dawn while talking, Xianglai said: "Well, it's decided like this, Xu Che, you go to the Yamen to see if there are any servants, if so, report to the official, and I will send someone to Niantong's home to deliver a letter , bring some pension money over there."

Xu Che said: "Okay, I'll go right away, even if there is no one in the yamen, I will dig it out."

Don't talk about them, let's talk about Lianxiu and Zhu Shi.

Mrs. Zhu waited for the news after making the business with Mrs. Lin, but it was not until the reunion dinner that she got the news from Mrs. Lin, saying that Zhixiang was sent there, but Xianglai went to the palace for the palace banquet and was not in the mansion. Know if you will eat it when you come back.

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhu asked people to go to the Laixianglai courtyard to check the movement and see when Xianglai would come back.

As a result, we waited until midnight.

No one noticed when Niantong died, and there was no movement until Xianglai came back, but the people sent by the Zhu family were afraid of Xu Che, and they only dared to see from a distance without approaching, so although they saw Xianglai and others coming in and out out, not knowing what happened.

Zhu Shi and Lian Xiu heard that Xianglai came back well and were very depressed. They stayed up all night and were sleepy and tired, so they lay down to rest, and they didn't even think about the whereabouts of the box of poison spots.

It wasn't until after dawn that Lian Xiu and Zhu Shi were awakened by the servant's hasty knock on the door.

Lian Xiu asked angrily, "Who knocked on the door so urgently!"

The people outside replied: "Master, I'm Jing Sheng, we, our mansion came from an official, and said they want to ask the young lady for questioning."

"Young Madam?!"

Mrs. Zhu was more vigilant than Lianxiu, she sat up from the bed as soon as she heard it, and asked: "Where did the official come from, dare to come to our house to ask questions, and they can see the young lady!"

Jing Sheng replied outside the door: "Ma'am, the official from the Daxing government office came here, saying, saying that the young lady is related to the murder case in Miss Xianglai's courtyard, let the young lady go and confirm it."

Hearing that Mrs. Zhu and Lian Xiu looked at each other, Lian Xiu asked in a low voice, "How did you tell Mu Qin, and how did you find him so quickly?"

Zhu was a little anxious, and said: "I told her to be good, let her find a way to get Zhixiang to take the blame, and don't involve her, but who knew that people would find out so soon."

Mrs. Zhu got up and dressed while being annoyed, Lian Xiu could only get up, and asked loudly: "What is the murder case at Miss Xianglai's side, and who died?"

Jing Sheng replied outside: "The one who died was a servant girl. It is said that she died after eating the pastries sent by Zhixiang. The official asked Zhixiang, and Zhixiang said that she was sent by the order of Mrs. Shao..."

Jing Sheng was talking outside, and Lian Xiu complained about Mrs. Zhu in the room, saying: "Look, death is death, but it turned out that the person who died was not the right one. This is troublesome. Lian Xianglai found out that someone wanted her life. She must Will hold on to it!"

After hearing Jing Sheng's words, Mrs. Zhu felt relieved, and said, "How could it be possible to bite Mu Qin in with just Zhixiang opening his mouth? As long as Mu Qin is fine, we will be fine."

Lian Xiudao: "It's nothing if a servant girl dies, even if she knows it's our envoy, it's okay, the key is to startle the snake..."

The two said that they had already put on their clothes in a hurry, and Lian Xiu ordered outside: "Go and take the official to the side hall and wait, I will see you."

Jing Sheng left in response, and Zhu's maids also went in to wait for Lian Xiu and Zhu to wash up.

After tidying up, Lian Xiu went to the study to meet the official, and Mrs. Zhu came to Mrs. Lin's place in a hurry.

When she came, Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Dong were in a panic. They wanted to go out to see Mrs. Zhu but were afraid of being met by an official.

Lin's mind was restless after letting Zhixiang deliver the poison yesterday, and she didn't sleep peacefully all night. Early this morning, she heard a report from the maid that an official came from Xianglai, and she had already taken Zhixiang away for questioning.

Immediately, Lin's heart arose, and she called Dong to talk about it, and the official came after the two of them had spoken a few words.

However, because she is the young wife of the Lian family, she was very polite to her, so she didn't dare to enter the yard, and only said to the maids outside that she would invite her Mrs. Dong to come over and ask a few words.

Feeling guilty, Lin and Dong didn't dare to go, so they asked the maids to deliver letters to Zhu and Lianxiu. They waited in the courtyard, and when they were bewildered, Zhu came.

Mrs. Zhu sent all the servants out and asked, "What's the matter? Why didn't the medicine die? Even Xianglai just killed a servant girl with medicine."

(End of this chapter)