As soon as he finished speaking, a panicked voice came in his ears, "Eunuch Nan, I'm so sorry, I... I didn't mean to do it. Where did it hurt you?"
The voice sounded familiar to Xiao Nanzi. He raised his head and took a look. He recognized Qi Jia's family and said in surprise: "Old lady, why are you here?"
Qi Jia gritted her silver teeth slightly and forced out a smile, "I'm really sorry for Eunuch Nan. I was in a hurry to do the things assigned by the money manager just now and didn't notice Eunuch Nan. Are you okay? Does it matter?"
Seeing her polite words, Xiao Nanzi didn't have an attack. He patted the dust on his body and said, "Be careful when you walk back. Don't rush around like this. It's okay if you hit me. But if you hit the master or some noble person, it's not okay."
It can be solved in a few words."
"I know, I was really careless this time. Fortunately, my father-in-law, you don't care about me, otherwise I would have suffered a lot." Xiao Nanzi was very impressed by what Qi Jia said and waved his hand: "Okay.
Okay, okay, I still have to deliver food, anyway, I’ll look at the road more in the future.”
"Thank you so much, Eunuch." Qi Jia said her thanks, picked up the food box that had been thrown aside, and with Xiao Nanzi on her back, re-covered some of the food covers that had fallen open, and then handed it to Xiao Nanzi with both hands, "Don't worry, Eunuch Nan.
Although it fell a bit, the cover inside is still secure, but some spilled out."
"That's good, otherwise you have to go to the imperial kitchen to prepare a new one." Xiao Nanzi said as he took the meal and walked to Yongshou Palace. Looking at his leaving back, Qi Jia showed a ferocious smile,
This idiot really had no suspicion at all. Haha, next, she was waiting to hear the good news of Liu's sudden death. She was really excited just thinking about it.
Xiao Nanzi didn't know that Qi Jia had tampered with the food box. As usual, he handed the food box to Haitang and she took it in to Liu, and then left Yongshou Palace.
After Haitang took out the food from the food box and put it on the table one by one, he turned around and went to the Buddhist hall to invite Mrs. Liu. After seeing Hongzhan last time, Mrs. Liu had not done anything. She just chanted sutras and chanted Buddha's name all day long.
However, this does not mean that she is devoted to the Buddha. On the contrary, she chants sutras just to cover up the darkness in her heart; she chants sutras just to cover up the smell of blood on her body with sandalwood.
"Master, it's time for dinner." Faced with Haitang's words, Mrs. Liu turned a deaf ear. It wasn't until she finished reciting the last verse that she supported Jin Gu's hand and stood up, turned around and said, "We're running out of sandalwood. You can go to the house in the afternoon."
If the government wants more, if they refuse to give it, I will exchange it for this summer’s materials, I believe they will be very happy.”
"Yes, I know this." Haitang knew in her heart that for the current master, no matter how good the material was, it was useless because no one would appreciate it.
When they came to the hall, Jin Gu saw the meal on the table and chuckled: "Today is quite good. There is also the Jiusi soup that you like to drink. I will serve you a bowl."
The so-called nine silk soup is a soup made of shredded ham, shredded bamboo shoots, shredded whitebait, shredded fungus, shredded bean curd skin, shredded seaweed, shredded egg skin, shredded bird's nest, fresh fish and fresh soup. It is extremely delicious.
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Just when Jin Gu took the silver spoon to ladle the soup, the silver spoon that had just been shiny suddenly turned pitch black. Jin Gu was so frightened that she changed her color. She quickly threw away the silver spoon in her hand, and when the silver spoon fell into the
After being put into the soup, the entire spoon turned black in an instant, and there was no trace of silvery color.
"Master, this soup... is poisonous!" Even if Jin Gu didn't say anything, Mrs. Liu could tell. With a sullen face, she picked up the silver chopsticks in her hand and inserted them into several other dishes. Among the four dishes, one of them was poisonous.
Haitang was frightened and said incoherently: "What... what is going on? It's poisonous, the food is poisonous!"
Ms. Liu looked at the two poisonous vegetables without saying a word. When she was forced to move out of the main hall of Yongshou Palace, she only brought a set of silverware with her, apart from a change of clothes.
Not expensive, the only advantage is that it will turn black when exposed to poison.
She knew that she had made many enemies in the palace, and she had been plotted against her brother when she was pregnant with Hongzhan, so in the past two years, she had been very careful, and she had to use silverware whenever she ate, without exception. In the past two years, she had been
It's been peaceful, but I didn't expect something would happen today.
Mrs. Liu put down her chopsticks and said coldly: "Begonia, who brought today's lunch?"
Haitang hurriedly said: "When I return to the master, as usual, it was sent by Xiao Nanzi from the imperial kitchen."
"Master, was that Xiao Nanzi ordered by someone to add medicine to the meal?" As soon as Jin Gu finished her words, Haitang came up and said, "Master, could it be Concubine Jin? The most unwilling person in this palace is
I'm afraid she is the one who has the master alive."
Mrs. Liu didn't say anything. She got up and walked around the room before saying: "I couldn't guess it for a while, but it stands to reason that even if Concubine Jin hates me, she won't poison the food."
, because if I die due to poisoning, the emperor will be alerted, and when the time comes to investigate, it will be difficult for her to get rid of the suspicion. "
Haitang frowned and said, "But if it's not Concubine Jin, who else could it be, Concubine Xi?"
Jingu thought for a moment and said: "No, there is another one who hates the master even more than Concubine Xi."
Ms. Liu was startled for a moment, but she soon understood, "You mean the Qi Jia family?"
"Yes, she has always had a deep grudge with her master. She was demoted to an official girl because of her master. When I went to the House of Internal Affairs, I saw that she was having a bad life there, so I felt that she was the best.
Someone who might be poisoned."
Mrs. Liu glanced at the dishes on the table and sneered: "Ms. Qi Jia has really made no progress at all. She is so stupid that even I can't stand her. Since she insists on committing suicide, there is no reason why I can't help her."
Saying this, she said: "Put the things back into the food box and let's go see the Queen."
Just when Mrs. Liu was taking Jin Gu and the two to Kunning Palace, Cai Die was telling Ling Ruo what she had seen in detail, and what she was talking about was surprisingly Qi Jia's collision with Xiao Nanzi.
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Ever since Qi Jia was demoted to an official daughter, Ling Ruo had been sending Cai Die to secretly keep an eye on Qi Jia. She was very aware of her every move, including her visits to the imperial pharmacy and her repeated visits to the imperial kitchen.
Peeping outside.
After telling what she saw, Caidi said curiously: "Master, what exactly is the Qi Jia clan doing? Why can't I understand this?" Although she followed the Qi Jia clan, she did not dare to follow in order to avoid being discovered.
It was too close, so I didn't know what Qi Jia was doing, let alone that she had stolen arsenic from the Imperial Pharmacy.
Ling Ruo didn't say anything, walked slowly to the courtyard, looked at the colorful flowers in the courtyard, but what she was thinking about was the piecemeal information about the Qijia family that Cai Die reported to her. After stringing them together one by one,
, Ling Ruo vaguely guessed what Qi Jia was going to do.