No wonder there was no record in the record that the two maids ate tea cakes. Mrs. Wang in the kitchen thought she had eaten them too, so there shouldn't be any problems, and she didn't dare to tell anyone about stealing the master's things.
"This Mrs. Wang has missed a big deal," the manager said angrily.
Bai Banxia sighed, if Mrs. Wang in the kitchen had not agreed to the request of the two little maids, maybe they would not have died.
But who can say for sure? The little maid may have used other methods to make tea cakes, but she still couldn't escape the bad luck.
So the most disgusting thing is the murderer behind it. I don’t know if he only targeted the Wu family or other families. I just hope that the truth will be found out soon so that fewer innocent people will suffer.
"Find someone to test the poison?" Xie Guanglin asked.
"Here I come!" The manager of the Wu Mansion stood up, "I am responsible for purchasing the tea. I didn't expect so many people to be killed. Let me test the poison. I feel better."
Mr. Wu patted him on the shoulder and said, "You don't have to blame yourself too much. This thing is also impossible to guard against."
"Just catch a chicken and test the poison." Bai Banxia refused the manager to test the poison.
I think it takes time for the poison to develop. It's getting late now, and I'm afraid I won't be able to go back today.
"Mr. Wu, could you please send someone to deliver a message to my house? My family didn't know that we came out in a hurry, so as not to worry them." Bai Banxia said to Mr. Wu.
Sun Ci looked ashamed, "I was too anxious to ask you for help. It's all thanks to old man Xie who kept urging me."
Xie Guanglin wanted to fight back, but he opened his mouth and felt that he was wrong. It was indeed him who had been urging him.
"Okay, you can write a handwritten letter, and I will arrange for someone to ride on horseback to deliver it." Master Wu found out the details of the matter when he saw the two young men arriving, and was extremely polite to them.
The servants brought paper and pen, and Bai Banxia simply wrote a letter saying that he was helping people see a doctor in Ping'an Town and would have to go back a day or two late.
"It must be delivered to Bai Tian of the Bai family in Baoshan Village. Just say that I am seeing a doctor in the Wu Mansion and don't say much else." Bai Banxia explained again.
"Yes, yes." Mr. Wu particularly agreed. He didn't want the affairs in the house to spread.
After the messenger left, the live chickens were also caught and placed in a cage for some fluttering.
Bai Banxia took two small pieces of tea leaves and soaked them in water, then mixed the tea leaves into the chicken food and watched the chickens eat it.
"You don't have to keep staring, I won't react so quickly," she said.
After working for a long time, the sky also darkened. Mr. Wu hurriedly arranged for someone to watch the chickens and invited Bai Banxia and others to have dinner in the front hall.
After all, the Wu family is a big family, and the food is very rich. Mr. Wu stayed with them for a while, then said that there was something at home and left in advance, so that they could eat slowly.
After he left, the atmosphere became much more relaxed.
"Does the Wu family have any enemies?" Sun Ci asked in a low voice.
"How do I know?" Xie Guanglin glanced at him sideways, "I heard that the eldest lady of the Wu family is discussing marriage to a very prestigious family in Beijing."
"Beijing, that's a marriage far away." Sun Ci curled his lips, "I don't want to marry my daughter that far away, no matter how good the family is."
Xie Guanglin showed a look of disdain, "You have a bastard daughter, why are you bragging?"
"Are you looking for trouble?" Sun Ci stared, and the two old men started arguing again.
Bai Banxia and Qi Zhen continued to eat. The food tasted good. They even served each other food, treating the two old children as if they were nothing.
"There's pepper in this, it's a bit pungent to the nose." Qi Zhen reminded.
"Fortunately, it tastes good." Bai Banxia smiled. She once drank soup with too much pepper and choked to tears. Qi Zhen made a note of it.
Sun Ci was tired from the quarrel, so he took a sip of soup to moisten his throat, and looked at the two of them angrily, "You don't know how to persuade me?"
Bai Banxia raised her eyes and said, "You are usually persuaded a lot, right?"
"Then you just watch us quarreling and ignore it?" Sun Ci felt a little aggrieved, "Why do you say we got to know each other first and you didn't help me?"
"If we help you, wouldn't it mean that there are too many people to bully the few?" Bai Banxia laughed, "Besides, is our advice useful? You go on and ignore us."
Sun Ci and Xie Guanglin looked at me and I looked at you, they were both a little worried. They were so old, and the younger people in the family respected them very much. How could they ignore their quarrels?
These two heartless people, forget it, they don't want to quarrel anymore.
After eating, Xie Guanglin wanted to continue studying the corpse to see if he could make any new discoveries.
He asked Bai Banxia: "Girl, do you want to go?"
Bai Banxia couldn't hold it back anymore and gave him a big eye roll and said, "I just finished eating and I don't want to feel nauseated yet. You can go ahead by yourself."
"You can go alone, none of us are interested," Sun Ci said with a smile.
After Xie Guanglin left, Bai Banxia and Qi Zhen said they would go around to eat and drink. Sun Ci thought for a while but didn't follow. He had a backache after a long day of exhaustion.
And as soon as he opened his mouth, he found that brat looking at him coldly, with a look that was obviously unwelcoming.
Bai Banxia and Qi Zhen took a casual walk in the Wu family's backyard, mainly to see a few places where the incident occurred.
"The rockery isn't too high, so why did you just break your neck?" She muttered next to the rockery.
"Maybe it has something to do with being too excited." Qi Zhen easily grabbed her waist and led her to jump to the rockery.
"At least remind me, do you want to scare me to death?" Bai Banxia said speechlessly.
Qi Zhen's arms tightened, "If you're afraid, just hug me tightly and you won't fall."
"I'm so scared. I suddenly flew up without any mental preparation." Bai Banxia said angrily.
Qi Zhen chuckled, "I'll remind you next time."
Bai Banxia looked around, but she still had doubts in her heart, "Why do you think no one has escaped serious injury after eating mandola beads? Why do they always die accidentally?"
"If it wasn't for everyone's bad luck, the poison would have been fatal," Qi Zhen said.
"But the ancient books record that mando beads only make people excited and hallucinate, but they don't say they can cause death?" Bai Banxia was confused.
Qi Zhen thought for a while and said: "Maybe the records in the book are not entirely correct, or maybe the mandola beads have been made more toxic."
Bai Banxia nodded, "We'll see how the chicken reacts later."
The two were about to jump off the rockery and didn't want to see two figures approaching in the distance.
"Dad, I want to go to Beijing, but I don't want to marry into the Lin family." The girl said emotionally.
"The Lin family already has a good marriage that is hard to find even if it is a lantern. What are you dissatisfied with?" Mr. Wu asked angrily, "Why can't you let dad save the trouble?"
Bai Banxia couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw the girl's appearance clearly. Wasn't this the woman who knew how to drink that he had just met at Du Hui's banquet?
The women Du Hui invited to the banquet were all famous ladies from nearby towns, but he didn't expect that the woman who knew how to drink was the eldest daughter of the Wu family who was discussing marriage.
But according to her opinion, she is not satisfied with the marriage under discussion?
