Chapter 57 Conspiracy - a wave of first and second folds
Wang Xi complained: "Not yet. It's true in the dining hall today. I sent someone to the dining hall a quarter of an hour ago to tell them that the food has been cooked, but it hasn't been delivered yet. What happened?"
Wang Jin said: "I heard that Wenyuan Pavilion also asked for a lot of food. It seems that Concubine Lu arranged a good meal for the servants in Wenyuan Pavilion today."
After hearing this, Wang Xi smiled and said: "So that's the case. But it's useless no matter what she does now. As the saying goes, people go to higher places and water flows to lower places. The Second Highness and the maids and eunuchs under Lu Concubine, except the closest
Of those few, the others will come to join our Royal Highness." Everyone also agreed.
At this time, Wang Gong suddenly said: "What does this smell like?"
"What does it smell like?" Wang Jin asked doubtfully.
Wang Gong continued: "I smelled a smell that I had never smelled in His Highness's bedroom before; as I said before, my nose is very good."
Wang Jin suddenly became nervous and asked, "Why can't I smell anything special? If you smell it again, where does the smell come from?"
Wang Gong hurriedly sniffed everywhere, but no one dared to move. They stayed where they were and waited. Wang Gong found Wang Gong from the inside of the dormitory to the outside of the dormitory, then back to the dormitory. After a while, he pointed to an incense burner outside the door.
Said: "This is it, that smell I have never smelled before came from here!"
Wang Bu immediately ordered the young eunuch: "Move that incense burner out."
After the incense burner was moved out, Wang Jin immediately found the only eunuch in Dongnuan Pavilion who knew something about spices and asked him to identify whether there was anything wrong with the spices.
The eunuch smelled it, took it out and looked at it carefully for a while, and said to Yunxi: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's really strange that the spices are still right even this morning. There is a kind of incense in this incense burner that Dongnuan Pavilion has never used before.
Judging from the smell and the appearance of the ashes, it definitely conflicts with the spices commonly used by His Highness. Whether it is harmful to His Highness and what the disadvantages are needs to be seen by Eunuch Hu, the Queen's Supervisor."
Wang Jin said: "First mix the spices commonly used by His Highness, and then keep the ashes of the spices. I'll let you." After saying that, he turned his eyes around and said to Wang Gong: "Go to the imperial prison and ask Eunuch Hu.
"Wang Gong promised.
Wang Jin mainly felt that Eunuch Hu was also a high-ranking eunuch in the palace, one of the twenty-four eunuchs in charge of the inner yamen, and was not an ordinary eunuch, so he asked Wang Gong, who also had a high rank, to invite him to show his respect.
Eunuch Liu, who knew spices, hurriedly went to prepare the spices again. The others hurriedly left Yunxi's dormitory and came to another room. Wang Jin said: "Just in case, your highness, please sleep here tonight. I will ask the people below immediately."
People light up the stove."
Yunxi always found these matters troublesome, so he always pushed them to Wang Jin and the others, saying, "You can make arrangements."
Wang Xi saw that nothing was wrong at this time and said: "Could this be Concubine Lu's strategy? If that is the case, then it is too simple."
Wang Jin said: "It's not as simple as you said. Didn't Eunuch Liu say that there were normal spices in the morning? It seems that someone put them in when His Highness came back. His Highness doesn't like the smell of spices.
I put the incense burner at the door to drive away the bad smell, but I didn’t expect that this would give others an opportunity to take advantage of it.”
Wang Xi also said: "Yes, during the period when His Highness came back, Dongnuan Pavilion was coming in and out, and some eunuchs and eunuchs could also come in and out of the palace. The incense burner was placed at the door, so it was really difficult to guard against it."
Wang Jin said: "In the future, we should put the incense burner in the bedroom and install a door in the bedroom to isolate the smell of spices."
They talked with each other as you said something.
At this time, the food was delivered from the dining hall, and the person in charge of delivering the food kept apologizing: "It's really that the dining room is too busy today, and Wenyuan Pavilion has already agreed, so we really can't do it later."
push,……"
Wang Jin comforted them with kind words for a while, rewarded each of them with some money, and let them go.
Yunxi was already very hungry at this time and planned to eat immediately.
Wang Jin and Wang Xi ate with him as usual. Before eating, Wang Xi complained again: "It's only now that the food is brought."
Wang Jin said: "Eat, the fragrant rice can't stop your mouth."
Just as they were about to eat, they suddenly heard a deep voice coming from outside the house saying: "I am Li Ya, the chef of the Wenhua Palace Dining Hall. I have something important to report to His Highness. Please get out of the way."
Yun He and the others couldn't help but stop their chopsticks because they heard the sound outside very clearly. After all, Li Ya's voice was really too loud, and he must have used all his strength to shout.
Although Yunxi felt strange: What could a cook have to say to him? But he still told the eunuch outside the house to let him in.
At this moment, they heard the sound of hurried footsteps again, and the door was opened with a "clatter", and they saw Wang Bu walking in, breathing loudly. When he saw the food on the table, he immediately said: "Your Highness.
Don’t eat it, the food is poisonous!”
Yunxi was startled and threw his chopsticks on the table; Wang Xi said: "What the hell is going on!"
Wang Buzheng was breathing heavily when he saw Li Ya striding in. He didn't have time to salute and said, "Your Highness, you don't want any food!"
Yunxi asked Wang Bu to take a rest first and said to Li Ya: "What is going on? Why is the food poisonous? I know you are Li Ya, the imperial chef of the Wenhua Palace kitchen, but who do you belong to and why do you come to remind me?
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Li Ya knelt down, lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, the Emperor's Grandson, I was assigned to the Wenhua Palace by Princess Xianyiwen back then. Over the years, I was lucky enough not to be discovered, and I have been working in the Wenhua Palace until today."
A few days ago, I felt that something was wrong with Li Zhibin, the chef of Wenhua Palace; he belongs to Concubine Lu, and whenever something happened to him, I felt that Concubine Lu was going to do something with His Highness's meals."
"Today, Concubine Lu arranged meals for the maids and eunuchs of Wenyuan Pavilion abnormally. Then a person from Concubine Lu's palace who did not seem to be her confidant came to the dining room and said a few words to Chef Li.
But it happened that I knew that person was Concubine Lu's secret confidant, so I paid special attention to Li Zhibin's movements. Then I noticed that he secretly put something into the jar of salt from the palm of his hand."
"There are very few crumb-like things. It's normal to reach for the condiments. If I hadn't watched him very carefully, I wouldn't have noticed his movements at all."
"Then I saw him scooping out salt from the salt shaker and putting it into the dishes when he was frying the dishes to be delivered to His Highness. I knew that he had poisoned Your Highness."
"I wanted to be responsible for delivering the food so that I could take the opportunity to remind His Highness, but the dining room was really busy and Li Zhibin didn't allow me to deliver it. I also thought of other ways to come to Dongnuan Pavilion without attracting attention, but it didn't work.
success."
"In the end, I could only say that I was anxious, so I came out and ran to Dongnuan Pavilion to remind His Highness."
Before Yunxi could react, Wang was surprised and said: "So that's it, Concubine Lu is really sinister!"
Yunxi and Wang Jin turned around. At this time, Wang Xi was actually helping Wang Bu calm down. He couldn't hear clearly what Li Ya said here, so why did he scream in surprise?
Wang Jin asked: "Wang Xi, what is your name?"
Wang Xi turned around and said, "Wang Bu just said that Concubine Lu bought poison from all the way from Yunnan to harm His Highness!"
Yunxi was surprised, where did Wang Bu get this news? He asked Li Ya to get up first, and then said to Wang Bu: "How did you know that Concubine Lu wanted to poison me? And how did you know that she bought the poison from Yunnan? ?”
Wang Bu stood up and said, "Your Highness, it's like this. It was Boss Tang of Shandong Noodle House who reminded me."
