famous concubine

Chapter 508 The Chain Meter (3)
"Is that so?" Madam looked at him anxiously, and then said, "Master, thank you; oh, I'm so rude, I don't know what the name of the master is?"

"Poor Monk Ming Kong." The simple-looking monk bowed his head slightly, humbly proclaimed Buddha again, and then said: "Madam, you don't have to be polite, it's urgent to arrange for all the donors; the poor monk will go out to grab medicine."

Madam sent Ming Kong away and expressed her gratitude to the monks who came to put out the fire; then she gathered all the female relatives of Dongfang Mansion; she found that Dongfang Ni, Ji Sulian and others who caught fire in the same room were safe and sound, Xiaoman, who was serving personally in Geng Yan's conservatory, also went to the toilet, and was safe as before. The only one who had an accident in this fire was Geng Yannuan.

After Geng Yannuan settled down, the madam sullenly called Miaoer and Xiaoman to her.

If it was just a fire, Madam would still believe it was an accident, but Geng Yannuan's immediate critical situation was not because of a fire, but because of being stung by a scorpion on his hand.

This scorpion, during the day, Dongfang Ni and Ji Sulian had a dispute over the box of ointment mixed with harmful things. If someone told her that this was just a pure accident, she Absolutely impossible to believe.

"Xiaoman, let me ask you, when did you leave the room to go to the bathroom?"

Xiaoman lowered her head sadly, sobbed softly, and replied: "Go back to madam, the servant girl left the room about a quarter of an hour before the fire started; when the servant girl left, she even told Miaoer to take care of the young mistress Yes, I didn't expect..."

"Then when you left, did you notice anything unusual around you?"

"Unusual?" Xiaoman raised her head in a daze, blinked her eyes, thought for a while, then shook her head sadly, and said: "I didn't find anything unusual. At this time, everyone is sleeping in the room, and the surroundings are quiet. At that time, the slave girl was walking alone on the way to the latrine, and she was quite scared in her heart."

Madam raised her hand, and interrupted her in a deep voice, "Well, go down and take care of Yan Nuan first."

Xiaoman didn't know why, so when she heard the words, she nodded obediently and retreated.

"Miao'er." Madam looked at the maid who was kneeling on the ground, trembling all over, her voice was filled with a frightening chill, and her eyes were even more sinister, fixedly staring at her, and said: "You are now Let me tell you, what were you doing when the house was on fire? Why didn't you discover the fire in time, and why didn't you call the young lady out in time? "

Miao'er lowered her head, bit her lip, muttered for a while, but couldn't say a word.

How could she tell Madam the truth at that time; in fact, she was the one who set the fire.

Xiaoman would get up to go to the toilet in the middle of the night because Geng Yannuan asked Xiaoman to take laxatives secretly; The two of them, Ji Sulian and Ji Sulian, sprinkled kerosene on the front and back of the windows, and quietly lit a fire when the wind was blowing...

And Geng Yannuan's room suddenly caught fire because she accidentally spilled some kerosene in front of the door in a panic, and the wind was strong at that time, and the flames burst into flames at once. Will forget Geng Yannuan...

But she didn't know why Geng Yannuan stayed in the room; because when the fire started, Geng Yannuan obviously had a chance to escape; she didn't know why scorpions suddenly appeared in Geng Yan's conservatory.

But even if Miao Er was beaten to death, she would not dare to say these things to Madam.

She bowed her head in silence for a while, still unable to think of how to respond to Madam's cross-examination.

Seeing this, the madam immediately raised her eyelids impatiently, and stared at her with cold eyes, "Huh? Why, you don't want to tell me that you were so scared that you forgot what you were doing at that time, right?"

"No... no, madam, you misunderstood."

"My servant, my servant was just frightened for a moment, and my mind was dazed. I remembered that at that time... At that time, after Xiaoman went to the toilet, my servant suddenly felt sick to my stomach, so I also wanted to find a toilet, but my servant waited and waited. Waiting for Xiaoman to come back, I was in a hurry and couldn't help but want to go to find her, so I left the room, but when I went halfway, I suddenly saw the house on fire, and when the slaves rushed back , and suddenly heard the eldest young mistress let out a scream..."

"Huh? What a coincidence? You left too? So, Yan Nuan slept in the room alone when the fire broke out?" Madam leaned slightly, staring at the trembling Miao'er with her cold eyes oppressively. , the tone is eerie.

"Your servant, your servant is telling the truth; if your servant knew that there would be a fire, I would not have left without authorization anyway, leaving the eldest young mistress alone in the room..."

"Is that so?" Madam looked down at her for a while, and found that Miao'er's eyes were flickering and did not dare to look at her in addition to fear. She inevitably had doubts in her heart, but she looked at Miao'er, pondered for a while, and then Waving Miao'er back away.

When Madam was interrogating the two maids, Xiaoman and Miaoer, Dongfangyu also asked Xia Xue to quietly go to the place that had been burned and inspect it carefully.

"Miss Yu, traces of kerosene were found on the front and back of the doors and windows of Dongfangni and Ji Sulian. In addition, I also saw traces of kerosene in the room where Geng Yannuan lived."

"So, this fire incident was caused by someone deliberately setting fire." Dongfang Yu lowered his eyes slightly, and there was a hint of coolness in his faint smile. "However, the burning of the fire is a bit strange. The arsonist...couldn't be the one who harmed others instead of harming others!"

When Xia Xue heard this, there was a hint of astonishment in her eyes. She quickly glanced at the madam, and said in a low voice, "Do you mean that the person who set the fire was actually..."

The girl smiled and nodded affirmatively, and said: "Look at that Miao'er's expression, she is clearly extremely panicked and frightened, and her confession obviously has a lot of loopholes."

"I think that person originally wanted to create the illusion that Dongfang Ni and Ji Sulian retaliated against each other, and then died accidentally, but he never thought that there are praying mantises catching cicadas, and there are orioles waiting behind."

"Fire can't burn someone else, but it's playing with fire and self-immolation!" The girl's bright eyes showed a trace of regret and sigh. She said, shaking her head slightly, and sighed: "Oh, it's so sad!"

"Miss Yu, what are you referring to the oriole?" Xia Xue kept watching the situation on the lady's side from the corner of her eyes, but couldn't help but want to know more inside information.

"Xia Xue, don't you think it's strange? The fire first started in the room of Dongfang Ni and Ji Sulian, but you see, everyone in their room is fine."

Xia Xue raised her eyebrows, with obvious surprise in her eyes, and said, "Hearing you mention it this way, this matter is really evil."

(End of this chapter)