Good morning Mr. Zhongtang

Chapter 43

Tong Wanrou only felt numb all over, and turned around to look at the unknown danger and the crowd screaming in panic.

There were a few young eunuchs who were not afraid of snakes. All the court ladies stood on the corridor, but Tong Wanrou couldn't show too much fear because of her duties. She still stood motionless in the middle of the garden and directed everyone to do things.

Jin Rong is also a tough one, even stronger than the little eunuchs in the palace who are not afraid of snakes. I saw her interspersed among various flower pots, and when she encountered a snake, she would immediately grab it by the seven inches, grabbing and shaking it. After the backbone is broken, the snake is basically useless.

With the hard work of the big guys, a total of nine colorful snakes were caught from the yard. The Ministry of Internal Affairs sent people over, brought a lot of realgar wine, and kept pouring them into the yard, but Tong Wanrou held back Disgusted and frightened, he crouched down and poked the dead snakes with branches.

Before seeing any brains, Jin Rong suddenly appeared, grabbed one and opened its mouth, so several in a row, Jin Rong checked all of them one by one, and said to Tong Wanrou:

"All of them had their teeth pulled out. Even if they were bitten, they wouldn't die. But it's true that they would die from fright."

Tong Wanrou admired her fierce behavior very much. Looking at her motionless eyes, Jin Rong seemed to guess what she was thinking, smiled at her, and said:

"My father is a bodyguard teacher. When I was a child, I walked the bodyguard with him. There are these snakes, insects, rats and ants in the wild. It's not surprising."

Tong Wanrou looked at the snakes that had been cleaned up, and sincerely said to Jin Rong: "It's lucky that you are here today."

It was almost certain that this was yet another vicious and frightening incident.The poisonous snake pulled out its fangs and was secretly put into the garden. This was clearly intended to scare the virtuous and noble. It was similar to the evil ghost incident last time.

How did these snakes get into the imperial palace? Even the imperial dining room does not accept snakes in the palace. Unless the master is very good, he will go to pay special income. However, after Tong Wanrou and Jin Rong asked around in the imperial dining room, the imperial dining room Everyone said that there was no master who wanted to eat snake soup recently, so there would be no snakes in their imperial dining room.

The two were walking in the garden, Jin Rong said:
"Give me the jade pendant of the Sanquanzi last time. It's not enough to just bear with the matter in the palace. If you don't find out the real culprit, they will unscrupulously trip you up."

Tong Wanrou looked at her silently for a while, and said: "The jade pendant is at the nobleman's place. I'll tell her when I get back later. It's true that I can't tolerate it anymore."

After returning to the courtyard, Tong Wanrou found that the virtuous man had returned and was sitting on the soft couch drinking the shock soup. After seeing Tong Wanrou, she called her to her body, and after asking about the situation, Tong Wanrou went out of the hall again.

Jin Rong was guarding in the yard, and when she saw Tong Wanrou coming out, she went up to meet her and said:
"Is it coming?"

Tong Wanrou took out a jade pendant from her bosom and handed it to Jin Rong. Jin Rong looked at the thing in her hand and said to Tong Wanrou:

"Leave it to me to check."

After Tong Wanrou nodded, Jin Rong turned and left.Tong Wanrou stood in the yard for a while, looked around, and then went to the small kitchen.

The virtuous man was frightened during the day, so he wanted to eat something lighter at night, and Tong Wanrou went out to do errands in the afternoon, so, as before, let the small kitchen cook it and send it to the virtuous man.

When she entered the door, the dinner had already been prepared and was placed on a plate by the maids and was about to send it to the main hall. Tong Wanrou looked around and asked a maid:
"What's your name? I've never seen you before."

The servant girl lowered her head and whispered softly:
"Back to Auntie, the maidservant originally belonged to Dongyuan, named Yinyuan. Last time, because the nobleman saved his life, he came to Xiyuan to work for the nobleman."

Tong Wanrou nodded: "Oh, so it's you."

Yin Yuan bowed her knees to Tong Wanrou, very respectful: "Yes, it's the servant girl."

Tong Wanrou pointed to the tray in her hand and asked, "What are you carrying?"

"Back to aunt, this is the lily soup that the nobleman ordered." Yin Yuan replied methodically.

Tong Wanrou lifted the lid of the soup cup, stirred the soup a few times with a spoon, ordered someone to replace it with a new spoon, and said to the palace maid:

"Okay, send it quickly. Remember to blow it cold for the nobleman to use."

"Yes."

Looking at the maidservants filing out of the small kitchen, Tong Wanrou walked out of the small kitchen after being silent for a long time.

As night falls and the lights come on, the lights in the palace are always much more than those outside the palace.

Tong Wanrou personally held the lamp and led a few maidservants to light up all the lanterns in Xiyuan. Before turning back, she heard a moderate scream, followed by the sound of dishes falling to the ground.

Tong Wanrou handed the lamp to a maidservant behind her, then hurriedly lifted her skirt and walked towards the source of the sound.

In the main hall, the cups were shattered all over the floor, as if Nanny Gui had knocked them over.The virtuous man was sitting on the main seat, his face was as indifferent as frost, and there was a maid kneeling under the main seat, his face turned pale with fright, and his body trembled unceasingly.

Tong Wanrou walked over, and the virtuous man pointed to her kneeling servant girl and said:

"You came just in time. How dare this maidservant poison this palace."

Tong Wanrou turned her eyes, and under the guidance of Nanny Gui, she came to the poisonous lily soup. There was a silver needle next to it, and the tip of the silver needle was pitch black.

She took the silver needle and asked the crying maid: "Yin Yuan, what's going on?"

This palace maid is the one who made a mistake in Dongyuan and was understood by the virtuous person in Xiyuan. Tong Wanrou also talked to her in the small kitchen earlier.

Yin Yuan's eyes were red from crying, she couldn't help shaking her head, and said, "It's not me, it's not me! I didn't poison you. I really didn't poison you."

As soon as the words fell, Nanny Gui at the side gave her a big mouth and said:

"You didn't poison. You handled this lily soup from the beginning to the end. If you don't poison, who will harm you?"

Yin Yuan was so anxious that his face faded, he knelt on the ground and climbed up to the virtuous man, hugged the virtuous man's ankle and said:

"The nobleman has clearly observed that it was really not the servant who did it. The servant did not poison, and the servant has absolutely no intention of harming you."

Tong Wanrou pulled Yin Yuan away from the virtuous person, at this moment, the eunuch's loud singing came from outside:

"The Emperor is here—"

The maidservant's face changed again and again, and finally she was so frightened that she didn't know what to do, so she fell down on the ground and cried.

Everyone greeted the Lord Long Live, and the virtuous person also stood up from the main seat and gave up the position to the emperor. When the Lord Long Live came, he yelled loudly:

"It's really going to turn the world upside down! Someone dares to poison a dignified nobleman, and such a scandal happened in the harem, so bring that lowly maid to me!"

Long Yan was furious, Li Dequan hurriedly waved his whisk and asked someone to bring the crying maid up, before he could speak, the maid shouted for mercy as if he had grabbed the last piece of driftwood:

"Long live God, please forgive me! I really didn't poison you, I dare to swear to the sky, if the poison in the cup was given by my servant, I will be beaten by the sky and die!"

The stern cry made the emperor frowned, and he raised his hand to Li Dequan, who saw Li Dequan go into battle in person, came to the maidservant in front of the palace, bowed left and right, and slapped a dozen ears.

"How dare you disturb Sheng Jia, you stupid bastard!"

Yin Yuan was stunned by the beating, and immediately shrank back, not daring to speak any more.

The emperor asked the virtuous person: "You say she poisoned you, do you have evidence?"

The virtuous man glanced at Tong Wanrou, only to see that the latter calmly knelt in front of the driver, buried his head in a steady narrative:

"My Majesty, poisoning is not the only evil of this palace servant. Today, nine poisonous snakes appeared in the Xiyuan. It was the nobleman who sprang out for no reason when he was admiring flowers in the garden. After the servant went to investigate, he found that these poisonous snakes were caused by a The theatrical troupe was brought into the palace, the troupe was invited into the palace, and one of the performances was snake control, no more, no less, exactly nine pieces, and after the incident, the snakes in the troupe had indeed disappeared, and then the servants went I searched around Xiyuan and found this snake bag, there was a woman's rouge left on the knot at the mouth of the bag, it must have been torn open with her teeth in a hurry."

As Tong Wanrou said, she presented the snake bag to Li Dequan, Yin Yuan looked at the snake bag, her face turned ashen, she didn't even dare to cry, her expression suddenly became flustered.

Li Dequan checked the snake bag, nodded to the emperor, confirmed that there was indeed residual rouge on the mouth of the bag, and then asked Tong Wanrou:

"However, there are many maidservants wearing rouge in this palace, how can we be sure that it is her?"

Tong Wanrou seemed to have guessed that Li Dequan was going to ask this question, and calmly took out a small pearl earring from her sleeve, looked very ordinary, and said:

"This is also found at the place where the snake bag was found. These pearl earrings are originally a pair, and where is the other one? The manager will find out after a search."

Hearing what Tong Wanrou said, Li Dequan glanced at the maid. After looking at each other for a while, the maid kowtowed frantically in fright. At the same time as there was a bang bang, her forehead was quickly broken. , Bleeding out, looking very oozing.

"Slave, I know I'm wrong! I know I'm wrong! I beg the Lord Long Live, I beg you to be merciful. I know I'm wrong!"

Yin Yuan's statement directly proved his guilt, and Wan Sui was rarely furious: "Assault on the court and murder nobles, you are quite courageous! Come on, drag it out and chop it up!"

Yin Yuan's eyes widened, she broke free from the shackles behind her, and crawled to the emperor and the virtuous person, her heart was filled with fear, she couldn't help crying:

"I beg the emperor to forgive my sins, please, I beg your nobles to forgive my sins, my servants, my servants don't even think about it, my servants are ordered by others, and are ordered by others. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

The emperor pointed at her majestically and said angrily:

"Tell me. Who ordered you to murder the nobleman!"

Yin Yuan held his body tremblingly, looked around in a panic, and finally, in the fear of being decapitated, slowly spit out two words:

"Concubine Rou..."

(End of this chapter)