Empress has purpose

Chapter 6 Investigation
Just as Mrs. Meng was about to defend herself, she saw Mrs. Gu, who had been out of the hospital for a long time, come in with the help of her second concubine, Mrs. Wang, followed by the elder girl and the second girl. As soon as they entered the door, they heard Gu Yunxi's maid, Lu Wu, screaming. Said: "Cassava flour?! How could it be cassava flour?! The girl is allergic to cassava flour, and if she eats too much, she will have shortness of breath. I definitely don't put cassava flour in my daily food." She said without caring whether she was Complimenting the etiquette, he glared at Meng Shi angrily.

"Presumptuous! You, a servant girl, dare to yell in front of the mistress. If you are so presumptuous, there are no rules!" Mrs. Gu reprimanded with a heavy cane.

Hearing this, Luwu also felt that she had overstepped the rules, so she hurriedly knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Old madam, my servant is too worried about the third girl, so I lost my sense of proportion, please forgive me, old madam."

Mrs. Gu walked to the main seat and sat down, and everyone followed her to sit down. The old lady nodded and said to Lvwu: "Okay, get up. I think you are also dedicated to protecting the Lord. I will forgive you this time. In the future, you must not be so ignorant of the rules, and still yelling in front of the guests. "After finishing speaking, he said to Mammy Wei who was standing next to Gu Yunxi: "I made Mammy laugh, please sit down, Mammy. "

Wei Nanny snorted heavily and said, "I dare not sit down, but I really saw it when I laughed so hard, but it's not for this little maid who is loyal to protect the lord, but for someone in the prime minister's mansion who dares to deliberately murder Rong." County Lord Hua!"

The old lady also saw Gu Yunxi who was sitting on the chair next to Madam Wei with a pale face, and asked softly, "Yunxi, what's wrong with you?"

Madam Wei just took the detoxification pill for her, and she also ate cassava flour, and her body was very weak. Gu Yunxi wanted to stand up, but Madam Gu beckoned to stop her and said, "Sit down, child."

Gu Yunxi still blessed her body, and said: "Grandma, Yunxi is rude."

"What are you talking about? Now you still care about what these vain rituals are doing. Sit down quickly. I just heard what this little maid said about cassava flour. What's going on?" His eyes turned to Meng Shi.

Mrs. Meng seemed to have recovered from the shock, and said with a sigh of relief: "Mother, the third girl was poisoned. Madam Wei said she ate cassava flour. I know that the third girl is allergic to cassava flour, and I usually take care of it. I told you that nothing related to cassava flour is allowed in the mansion, but here, how could Yunxi eat the cassava flour by mistake?" As she spoke, she yelled angrily: "Come here! Bring the kitchen steward Mrs. Zhang Call me!" The servant girl hurriedly took orders.

Mrs. Gu nodded and said: "I knew about this when Yunxi's mother was alive. At that time, she ordered people not to allow cassava flour in the kitchen. You also ordered it after you entered the mansion, and I also know it. Why now? Also poisoned by cassava flour?"

"The old lady doesn't know that the county magistrate not only ate cassava flour by mistake, but the real cause of the poisoning was the styrax that was burned in this hall just now. The herb called Sui Fangcao, I just checked the censer, and the styrax should be off-white after being burned to ashes, but it turns black when it is added with Sui Fangcao. Mixing Sui Fangcao and tapioca flour will not only make people dizzy and nauseous , in a trance, and in severe cases, it will cause people to go crazy and demented. Fortunately, the county owner developed symptoms early because he was allergic to cassava flour, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous. It is obvious that someone deliberately murdered the county owner Ronghua, Mrs. Gu, Should you give an explanation to the county lord and the eldest princess?" Madam Wei said seriously.

"It's natural. How can there be such things as old grass in the good Su Hexiang? Meng's family?" Now Madam Gu was also furious. As the prime minister, her son Gu Zhengyao, there are so many people who come to the mansion to see him every day. , there are many noble children among them, such dangerous things will appear in the mansion, and it is also the front hall for receiving guests. Even if the government has a mouth, it can't tell.

Meng Shi was also sweating profusely at this time, she couldn't help turning her head to look at Nanny Qian who was beside her, when Nanny Qian saw her young lady looking at her like this, she was taken aback for a moment, then reacted and shook her head hastily.

Seeing this, Mrs. Meng breathed a sigh of relief, and just about to speak, she listened to the second concubine Mrs. Wang who had been silent since entering the house, and said, "If you say that the mansion is in charge of offering incense, it should be from Zhou Shun's family, right?"

Everyone raised their heads to look at her when they heard the words, Meng Shi and Qian Momo were also stunned, the Zhou Shun's family that Second Aunt mentioned was Qian Momo's youngest daughter-in-law Jiang Shi, thinking of this, Qian Momo couldn't help but ooze cold sweat from behind.

The second aunt looked at everyone's reactions, and continued: "And I also heard that Zhou Shun's family is a well-known incense maker in the mansion." Speaking of which, I won't say more.

But everyone, including the maids in the mansion, understood the meaning of this. If they know how to make incense, they naturally understand medical science. Then it makes sense to know that cassava flour and old grass are mutually restraining. When making incense, it could not be easier to put the old fragrant grass without being discovered.

Seeing this, Mrs. Meng gave Second Aunt a hard look, but she still looked calm, and said to a maid beside her, "Go, tie me up with Zhou Shun's family, and I want to see who dares to treat this girl." The daughter-in-law of the prime minister's mansion is so ruthless." With these words, Jiang was convicted, and she also showed everyone that it was not that she, the mistress, wanted to harm Gu Yunxi, but that someone under her hand was bribed. Did not notice.

Qian Momo took a look at Mrs. Meng, and lowered her head deeply. She knew that her youngest daughter-in-law might not survive this time, and daring to assassinate the Dali county magistrate would be a death penalty.But she couldn't blame Mengshi, and she didn't dare to blame Mengshi. She even thought that maybe her little daughter-in-law was bribed to do such things behind their backs, because she and Mengshi really didn't know How did this old grass come out?They haven't done it.

Not long after, Zhou Shun's family was escorted in by the housekeeper Gu Tao. Gu Tao first bowed to everyone and replied: "Old lady, madam, ladies, the slaves have brought Zhou Shun's family here. .” Then he stepped back and stood aside.

When Zhou Shun's family saw Mrs. Gu, they knelt down abruptly, kowtowed and said, "I beg your life, my servant, I know I made a mistake, and my servant was fooled by lard for a while, so I did such a wrong thing, but These are all explained by Madam, I dare not disobey." As he spoke, he kowtowed heavily one after another, until the forehead was bleeding and he continued to kowtow.

Seeing this, Mrs. Meng yelled angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about, you dog slave?" Then she got up and kicked Mrs. Jiang heavily in the heart. Mrs. Jiang spit out a mouthful of blood and passed out.

The chief housekeeper, Gu Tao, stepped forward and stretched out two fingers to touch Jiang Shi's nose, then he was startled, and hurriedly bowed and said: "Old Madam, Jiang Shi, she was beaten to death by Madam."

Mrs. Gu was furious when she heard the words: "Mr. Meng, you did a good deed!"

"Madam Prime Minister, what are you doing? Do you want to kill people to silence your story?" Wei Mama said quietly.

"Nurse Wei, what does this mean? Zhou Shun's family dared to frame the mistress, and I just kicked her in a moment of anger." Meng Shi was a little lucky at this time, so that no one could prove Jiang Shi's words Whether it is true or not, but she forgot that the words of the dead are often more easily believed.

"But ma'am, Zhou Shun's family is dead now." Second Aunt Wang said.

Gu Yunxi looked at the crowd, stood up with the support of her maid, Luwu, walked to the middle, bowed to Mrs. Gu, and said softly: "Grandmother, Yunxi believes that mother will not send someone to poison her. There must be some misunderstanding. Besides, the matter of cassava flour hasn’t been clarified yet? Maybe someone deliberately tried to use me to frame my mother.”

After hearing this, Second Aunt laughed and said, "Third Miss is just so kind."

"It's not that Xi'er is kind. I just want to find out what's going on. I can't just convict my mother just because of Zhou Shun's family's one-sided remarks." Many people will be dissatisfied with it.

Gu Yunxi paused and continued: "Besides, if my mother really wants to harm me, she knows that I will be allergic to too much tapioca flour, so how could she be so careless and let me get sick now? After all, let me slowly Wouldn’t it be better to be insane, crazy and stupid? So I think the person who poisoned me should not know that I am allergic to cassava flour, so he will take a large amount of it, so I think that the person who poisoned him must have something else. Others."

(End of this chapter)