Hearing what was going on, Wei Xiuyan said to Yan, "I just spilled a bowl of medicine. Just fry another bowl. It's nothing."
"But..." the man said with a fearful expression: "Dabai died next to the spilled medicine, and there were traces of licking the medicine on his mouth." As he spoke, he pointed under the table tremblingly, and sure enough he saw
A cat lay there motionless. It had been dead for a long time, and its body was covered with spilled concoction.
Seeing this scene, Wei Xiuyan's expression changed drastically and she shouted: "Fan Jin, how on earth could this happen?"
The servant named Fan Jin kowtowed with a mournful face and said, "I really don't know anything, please master."
Mammy whispered in Wei Xiuyan's ear: "Madam, it's very strange that the cat died. Why don't you ask a doctor to check it carefully."
Wei Xiuyan also had this intention, and immediately ordered someone to invite the doctor who was responsible for taking care of her unborn baby. She thought it was because of the difficulty of walking in the snowy weather, so she waited for more than an hour before seeing him come in. After seeing Dabai and the scattered
After applying the concoction, he said solemnly: "This cat... was poisoned to death."
Although everyone had already guessed it, they were still shocked when they heard it with their own ears. Then they all focused on the bowl of spilled concoction. Wei Xiuyan was no exception, and said tentatively: "Then this
poison……"
While she was speaking, the doctor had already taken out a silver needle and inserted it into the concoction. When he took it out, it had turned pitch black. Seeing this, everyone in the kitchen gasped. Sure enough,
The concoction was poisonous. If the medicine had not been knocked over by Dabai, it would have entered Wei Xiuyan's mouth, and the one who died... would have been Wei Xiuyan.
Wei Xiuyan stared at the concoction with pale cheeks, realizing that she had just gone around the gate of hell!
Thinking of this, she glanced at everyone in the kitchen with cold eyes, and said sternly: "Tell me, who poisoned the medicine?"
The servants were so frightened that they hurriedly knelt down and swore that they had nothing to do with it. The one who was most afraid was Fan Jin, who was the one who cooked the medicine. He knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing. For a moment, the whole kitchen was filled with panic.
It was a mess, with all kinds of sounds!
Wei Xiuyan felt upset and shouted: "Shut up!"
After she drank like this, the kitchen became quiet, but she herself felt a hardness in her abdomen, as if a hand was pulling hard inside, making her bow involuntarily. The doctor noticed this strangeness in her and quickly said
: "Madam, please take a breath and meditate quickly to avoid fetal movement."
Wei Xiuyan took a few deep breaths according to his words and finally relieved the abdominal discomfort. The doctor breathed a sigh of relief and said: "My wife is almost nine months pregnant now. You must remember not to get angry or get too excited, otherwise you may get pregnant at any time."
Causes premature birth."
"Thank you, doctor, for worrying me." She said, "Does the doctor know what kind of poison is in this medicine?"
The doctor carefully observed the silver needle, then looked at Dabai's body, and said: "Initially, it seems that it is arsenic poison."
Wei Xiuyan said with an ugly face: "How come there are poisons like arsenic in the garden?"
While Wei Xiuyan was asking questions, Grandma Jin saw with sharp eyes a middle-aged man kneeling at the front who shivered. She recognized this person, he was the steward in the kitchen, his surname was Du, and she immediately said: "Steward Du, you are
what do you know?"
Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, Manager Du waved his hands hurriedly: "I don't know, I don't know anything."
Aunt Jin and Du Cheng, who were responsible for taking care of Wei Xiuyan's daily life, were specially sent by He Kun from his residence. Aunt Jin had been with He Kun for more than ten years. How could she easily believe in the power struggles and intrigues of wealthy families?
He said in a forced voice: "If that's the case, why did you look panicked when you heard the word arsenic?"
"I...I didn't!" Steward Du swallowed and said to Wei Xiuyan: "Madam Qi, I don't know what happened a while ago. Dabai caught mice in the kitchen every three days, and the servant discovered that there were mice in the kitchen.
Things often have traces of being bitten by mice. In the past, you might not see one even a month. The servant tried many ways, but could not get rid of these mice. Fan Jin told the servant to grab some arsenic and mix it with the mice.
My slave thought it would be a good idea to poison them in their favorite food, so I went out to the garden a while ago and grabbed some arsenic."
Wei Xiuyan said coldly: "You think poisoning rats is not enough, so you poisoned me on the head?"
Manager Du broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, and kowtowed repeatedly: "You are wronged! I never dare to do anything to hurt my wife. I really don't know why this arsenic... will appear in my wife's anti-fetal medicine!" After a pause
After a pause, he said anxiously: "By the way, all the food slaves who have been drugged have told the people working in the kitchen that they will never touch them."
All the servants nodded, indicating that what Steward Du said was true. Fan Jin even said: "Madam, Steward Du is always careful in his work and is extremely loyal to Madam. I can guarantee that this matter has nothing to do with him."
Wei Xiuyan softened her tone slightly and said, "How much arsenic was caught and how much was used?"
Manager Du quickly said: "I caught two taels, I only used a few, the others are all there."
"Yes, I saw it two days ago, at least one or two. If you don't believe me, you can send someone to search for it."
While Fan Jin was testifying for him, Manager Du remembered something and said, "By the way, the mice haven't appeared in the past two days. The food coated with arsenic is still there, together with the ones in the slave's room."
Together, almost exactly two taels."
Following his words, the servant took out six items of food from the corner of the kitchen, including pies and meat rolls, all of which had white powder inside.
Wei Xiuyan glanced at Aunt Jin, who nodded knowingly and took a servant to Steward Du's residence. Seeing the two of them leaving, Fan Jin whispered: "Don't worry, Steward, it won't happen."
Something happened."
Manager Du nodded gratefully. After waiting for an unknown amount of time, he finally saw Grandma Jin coming in. The latter was holding a small paper bag in her hand, which contained the same white powder as what she had seen just now.
Words, arsenic taken out of his cabinet.
Wei Xiuyan caressed her bulging belly and did not dare to get closer. She said to the doctor on the side: "You are used to holding medicinal materials. How much arsenic is there in that paper bag?"
The doctor responded, took the paper package from Grandma Jin's hand, weighed it carefully and said, "It should be... less than one tael."
As soon as these words came out, Steward Du's expression changed immediately, and he said anxiously: "This is impossible. I only took a little bit, not more than one tael. You must have weighed it wrong." There was less than one tael of arsenic left, so he took it.
This meant that the missing items were probably in Wei Xiuyan's anti-fetal medicine, so how could he not be nervous and scared.