Butler Zhao narrowed his eyes after hearing the answer: "Then has anyone approached the dining table?"
"No, no..." The maid thought about it carefully and shook her head.
Butler Zhao walked up to another maid: "You are the one serving the meal tonight, right?"
The maidservant was so frightened that her face was filled with tears and she nodded hurriedly.
"Have you met any suspicious people on the road?" Butler Zhao's voice was indifferent.
"No..." She shook her head.
Then, in front of the messy place, Butler Zhao pointed to one of the dishes whose original shape could still be seen and asked: "Who served this dish today? Who made it?"
Everyone quietly raised their eyes and looked at the leftover soup at Butler Zhao's feet. They all shrank and kept silent, but they all looked at a maid and a cook at the same time in an unusually orderly manner.
At a critical moment of life, the selfishness of human nature is fully exposed. In order to save one's life, one must find the sinner. It is better to die alone than to be buried with everyone.
When the maid in red saw everyone looking at her, she was so frightened that she cried "Wow" and said tremblingly: "It's not me, Butler Zhao, it's really not me, I don't know, I don't know, I
After serving the dishes, I just put the lid on and didn’t do anything. It’s really not me..."
Before Butler Zhao asked anything, the maid in red started crying like this, which immediately made Butler Zhao feel upset: "Okay! Stop crying! Can we find out through investigation? If you are wronged,
I, Zhao Changkuan, will not frame you!"
"I hope Housekeeper Zhao is aware of this..." The maid in red kowtowed.
Butler Zhao waved his hand: "Take her down first!"
"Yes!" The guard quickly dragged the maid in red and disappeared into the dining room.
Then, Butler Zhao came to the trembling cook: "Did you cook this dish?"
"Go back to Butler Zhao. Yes, it was made by a villain." The cook's voice also had a hint of crying. He was really unjust. He didn't know anything.
"Did you know that this dish was poisoned?" Butler Zhao's voice was cold and majestic.
"You villain, you villain don't know!" The cook also cried out for injustice.
"Is there anything strange when you are cooking?" These cooks have been in the house for many years and have their own sense of propriety in doing things. Therefore, Butler Zhao does not believe that they would commit such a serious crime of beheading.
"No, no..." The man shook his head, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind. As if he thought of something, he nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, yes, the dining room is indeed a little different today."
"Say!" Butler Zhao heard that there was a clue and immediately looked at him with a serious face.
The cook pointed to the big man who brought Qingtao into the dining room earlier and said, "While making dinner, Shanzi brought a girl into the dining room."
Shanzi panicked when he heard his name was called, and stammered quickly: "She, she, is just a maid. She said she wanted to see how to cook, so, so..."
Butler Zhao walked up to Shan Zi, looked at him with squinted eyes, and asked seriously: "What's going on? I'll recruit you from the truth, or I'll treat you as an accomplice!"
When Shanzi heard that he was going to be regarded as an accomplice, he was even more panicked. He would definitely not dare anyone to get involved in this matter. Anyone who got involved in this matter would die badly. Losing his own life is a small thing, and one person can't do it.
It would also cost the lives of a whole family! Although the Hedong lion in his Shanzi family was a bit fierce, he was also very kind to him and raised three sons for him. The youngest was just born this year. If he died like this
, how can he be worthy of a family?
So, he explained everything clearly from beginning to end: "Today at midnight, the girl named Qingtao from Miss Leng's room came to the prince's dining room, lay down outside the window and peeped at the cooks cooking. I originally wanted to tell the story
She drove away, but she begged me, saying that the Miss Leng family tasted the banquet given by the prince last time and praised our cooking. She has never forgotten it. But the banquet given by the prince is not something that can be eaten casually, so this is why
I came to the prince's dining room to learn from my master. I wanted to learn a few tricks and give Miss Leng a change of taste. So I agreed to let her lie down at the window and take a look. Who knows, she was not satisfied and said it was a window
I couldn't see clearly and hoped to enter the dining room. The villain saw that she really didn't look like a bad person and was so sincere, so he let her enter the dining room and stood in a remote corner to watch."
"Miss Leng's maid Qingtao?" Butler Zhao narrowed his eyes. He knew this. Qingtao was an ugly girl personally selected by Prince Xi. At first, he and Uncle Li were wondering why the prince would give such an ugly girl to him.
Leng Changxi became a maid, but King Xi said it was because he wanted Leng Changxi to recognize her identity and was a little self-aware.
"Yes, she said she was Qingtao, Miss Leng's maid. When she came in, she stood in the corner obediently, motionless, just watching the cooks cooking. They all saw it!" Shanzi was very anxious.
His brain was sweating, and he pointed at everyone casually.
Butler Zhao moved to another person: "Seriously?"
"Yes, that girl has been standing quietly in the corner." The cook who was named also hurriedly spoke out.
Just as Butler Zhao squinted his eyes and thought secretly in his heart, suddenly a small voice came softly: "Butler Zhao, that, I, I saw Qing Tao, she, she seemed, as if, no, no
Keep standing in place..."
"What do you mean?" Butler Zhao's tone became a bit cold when he heard what he said.
The man kept thinking that as long as the real culprit was caught, it would have nothing to do with them, so he had the courage to tell what he saw: "I was lighting the fire at the time, and when I looked up, I found Qingtao standing there doing something.
Next to the good dishes, I didn’t pay much attention at the time. After a while, I looked again and she returned to the same place. I just thought she wanted to see what the cooked dishes looked like, so I didn’t pay much attention..."
The man's words became smaller and smaller. After hearing what he said, Butler Zhao immediately made a judgment in his heart, so he shouted angrily: "Someone, please bring Qingtao to me!"
Looking at the trembling servants kneeling on the ground, Butler Zhao also asked people to lead them out. Although most of them had been cleared of suspicion, Butler Zhao still had an extra thought towards these people before the truth came to light.
, everyone looked at it.
In the west wing room, Leng Changxi, who still didn't know what had happened, was happily eating the food on the table, secretly counting the time, waiting for the signal from Chen Shaoxuan to rescue him.
Suddenly hearing the noise outside the hospital, Leng Changxi looked up at Qingtao in confusion: "What's going on?"
"I don't know. How about I go and have a look." Qing Tao said with a low eyebrow.
"Well, let's go and have a look." Leng Changxi nodded, thinking in her heart that the medicine might have taken effect, and she was about to go find the doctor. Just in time, after she sent Qing Tao away, she could sneak away with her backpack on her back.