"Come on, call me if you need anything." Now it was almost time for lunch, and the imperial dining room was very busy. He really didn't have time to stay longer. In just a few words, several people had already come to ask questions.
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Just halfway through, An Lu suddenly turned around and said thoughtfully: "By the way, little Dengzi, do you know the maid next to Concubine Hui, named Fangqiao?"
Xiao Dengzi's hand shook and he almost dropped the stew pot in his hand. After he stabilized himself, he smiled reluctantly and said, "I didn't pay attention to this. I wonder why Mr. An suddenly asked this?"
"Oh, it's nothing. Our family just feels that you are somewhat similar to Fangqiao, who is beside Concubine Hui. If you stand together, someone will definitely recognize you two as siblings. Hehe, you didn't know that that night
What happened here is so exciting." Just as he was talking, someone came to urge him again, so An Lu had to say: "That's it, let's go to work first, and I'll tell you later."
Seeing An Lu walk away, Xiao Dengzi secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After putting the red dates and water on the pot, he opened the cabinet again while no one was paying attention. In the innermost row of stew pots, there was a painted
Orioles sing in the stew pot of willows, and under the cover of the cabinet, Xiao Deng
He skillfully pulled out the bottom of the stew pot, and he pulled out the thin porcelain slices immediately. Then a few slices of red ginseng that had been cooked and turned white fell out. As Xiao Dengzi turned the stew pot over, you could see that the stew was stewed.
There is actually a mezzanine on the side wall of the cup, and the mezzanine is stuffed with red ginseng.
Xiao Dengzi took out the red ginseng one by one, then shook his sleeves, put the freshly cut red ginseng slices hidden in the sleeves into the stew pot, and then fastened the porcelain slices together again, leaving no trace at all, if not
Knowing this in advance, no one could have imagined that there was something more mysterious in the seemingly simple stew pot.
Xiao Dengzi thought he had done too much in this matter. He moved very quickly, from taking it off to re-inserting it, it was just a blink of an eye. If Caiyan hadn't been staring at it without blinking, it would have been easy to miss it.
Seeing this, Caiyan finally understood where the missing red ginseng in the warehouse had gone. It was all in this stew pot. If she guessed correctly, this stew pot should be the one that Wen Guiren brought from the Queen.
, but she believed that the person using the stew pot should be Qian Guiren, but she didn't know what method Wen Guiren used to make Qian Guiren use the problematic stew pot.
No wonder I have been hearing that Qian Gui's body is hot and uneasy recently. I believe this is the problem. Even she knows that red ginseng is very harmful to pregnant women.
And she also understood why Xiao Dengzi chose such a time to come over. Only when the imperial kitchen was busy preparing lunches for various palaces and courtyards, could he put the red ginseng in without anyone noticing.
Not only did Wen Guiren add safflower to Qian Guiren's anti-fetal medicine through gauze, but he also added red ginseng to his ginseng soup in a stew pot, which caused Qian Guiren to have uneasy fetal movement and body heat.
After thinking about these things, Caiyan quietly returned to Yanxi Palace before Xiao Dengzi came out. As soon as she returned to the palace, she immediately returned to her room and wrote down what she saw and heard on paper. She couldn't help but
She was so excited that as long as she sent this letter out, most of what Concubine Xi had told her to do would be completed. I believe that once Wen Guiren falls, Concubine Xi would transfer herself back to serve her. Who knows what will happen then?
Reward yourself.
Originally, it was not appropriate to send a letter at this time. After all, there were so many pairs of eyes staring at it in the clear day. However, Caiyan hid the letter close to her body and went out of the room. She found that the palace servant who was playing shuttlecock in the courtyard had gone somewhere.
It was quiet in Guiren Wen's house, and there was no one around. It seemed that he had gone outside with Guiren Wen.
Great, even God helped her! Caiyan couldn't hide her excitement and ran out of the Yanxi Palace quickly, pressing the letter with body temperature under the third flowerpot from the left at the entrance of the Yanxi Palace, and then
Walked back softly.
When she returned to the courtyard, something unexpected happened to her. The palace servant she had not seen before suddenly appeared, and Wen Ruqing sat in a chair and drank tea calmly.
Caiyan was stunned for a moment, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, but she still cheered up and walked over, smiling and saying: "Master, where have you been? It's easy for me to find you."
Wen Ruqing smiled slightly, with a charming look on her lips, and she said: "I haven't gone anywhere, I'm just staying here. Caiyan, where have you been? I can't find you anywhere."
"Slave..." Caiyan hurriedly thought about the answer, and it took her a while to think of a place to go. "Slave, I just went to the warehouse. I want to count the things in it and make a book for the master to read."
Wen Ruqing licked her tongue, and poured a drop of tea from the corner of her mouth into her mouth, "Oh? You are so attentive, and it is not in vain that I value you so much. Caiyan, do you know why there were so many people in the palace, and I was the only one chosen?
Got you?"
The uneasiness in Caiyan's heart became more and more intense. She lowered her head and said, "I think it's because this slave just fell in love with the master."
Wen Ruqing nodded slightly and said: "Maybe, but it's also because of your cleverness. When I dropped my earrings, you were the first to react and pick them up for me. Caiyan, I really like what you do.
You are clever, so after you came to my side, I relied on you more and more day by day, but I never imagined that you would dare to play tricks under my nose."
Caiyan said in a panic: "I don't understand what the master means. I really went to the warehouse just now, otherwise I would have to recite the contents of the warehouse to my master at this moment."
Wen Ruqing raised her hand and said: "No need, I know you have a good memory. I just asked you to count the warehouse a few days ago, and you can always recite everything you have seen."
Just when Caiyan didn't know what to say, Wen Ruqing stood up holding on to the armrest, and a pair of gold-plated earrings made of a Jade Rabbit worshiping the moon followed her steps and moved lightly on her cheeks.
Wen Ruqing walked up to Caiyan step by step, stretched out her hand to lift her chin, and said word by word: "You said you went to the warehouse, but why did I see you secretly following Xiao Dengzi out? If it hadn't been for you
You lied, because there is something wrong with my eyes." At this point, his tone suddenly became sharp, and he shouted: "Tell me, what did you see?"
What a shame, she discovered it. What a misfortune. What should I do?
Caiyan was so panicked that she was speechless. She never thought that Wen Ruqing would find out. This was really troublesome. "I didn't see anything. I just..."
"Still lying!" Wen Ruqing's beautiful face suddenly turned ferocious and terrifying, like a vicious wolf. At the same time, she grabbed Caiyan's hair and pulled hard, forcing her to raise her head and look at her.
, "You dare to betray me, you little bastard, let's see how I deal with you."