Everyone was stunned to see Yi Hui suddenly spit out the soup, and Cai Wei hurriedly said, "But doesn't this soup taste right?" ”

Yi Hui made a bitter face, tears were about to come out, and said: "It's not just that the taste is wrong, it's just too wrong!" Although this soup doesn't taste very good with some herbs, I've never tasted this kind of taste in this soup! ”

She looked at Xia Lan and said: "Xia Lan, you go to the kitchen and ask Aunt Wang, how did she cook my soup, don't put pepper as plum candy in this soup for me, it almost didn't spicy me, it tasted weird!" ”

When Xia Lan heard this, she was puzzled: "But girl, I was standing on the side with a good eye at the time, and I saw with my own eyes that Aunt Wang didn't add anything else except for adding water to the casserole she sent to us a few times." ”

Cai Wei also said: "I'm afraid this matter has nothing to do with Aunt Wang!" ”

Yi Hui said angrily: "Who is so bored that he deliberately put pepper in my soup and deliberately made such a narrow joke with me to trick me?" ”

"It's not that someone is trying to joke with you, it's that someone is trying to hurt you!" Suddenly, a voice came from outside the door, and then I saw the second wife walk in through the curtain.

"Mother!" As soon as Yihui saw her mother coming, she hurriedly rushed up and grabbed the second wife's arm, "Mother, you're back, it's raining so hard outside, but have you ever been drenched?" ”

The second wife smiled and shook her head, and asked Cai Wei and Yifen, who were saluting her, to get up, "Let's all sit down and talk!" ”

Yihui saw that her mother was still wearing the clothes she was wearing, so she said, "Mother, why did you come to your daughter without changing your clothes?" ”

The second wife said: "As soon as I entered the yard, I heard the girls say that you and Sister Fen have fallen, I can't rest assured, so I came over to take a look." The second wife said, and looked at Yifen.

Yi Hui saw that Yi Fen was trembling and shrinking in fright, and hurriedly said: "Mother, my daughter didn't fall anywhere, she just soiled her clothes." However, the mother ordered someone to boil this tonic soup for her daughter, and I don't know who gave me pepper in it, so I can't drink it at all! ”

The second wife smiled coldly and said, "Really? I have to check it out today, who would dare to put something into my daughter's tonic soup the day before her big day, and want to harm someone? ”

Yi Hui saw that her mother said this matter so strictly, and her face was gloomy and terrifying, and she was also a little uneasy in her heart, so she said: "Mother, I think no one wants to harm my daughter, I'm afraid that the people in the kitchen accidentally put the wrong thing." ”

"Misplaced something? Fortunately, it was pepper that was put into this soup, but what if it was croton flour or something? ”

"Ahh Croton flour, what's that? Yi Hui was at a loss, why did her mother suddenly say such a bean.

She didn't know what it was, but Yifen clearly knew what kind of "bean" the croton was, she saw that the second wife actually said the three words "croton powder", and her heart was so frightened that she almost didn't fly out of her throat.

The second wife had already begun to ask Xia Lan, "This soup was you staring at in the kitchen, have you been away for a while, but is there anything wrong?" ”

"Back to the wife, the slave and maid have been guarding the side, and have not left for half a step, and when the slave and maid are finished, they will be brought directly back to the girl's room, and put it in the lid cup and serve it to the girl.

The second wife nodded, "I couldn't be more relieved that you have been by Sister Hui'er since you were a child and grew up with her." It can be seen that the contents of this soup were not put in during this time. ”

Yi Hui was puzzled: "If Mother said that this thing was not put in before the soup was brought into this room, then when could it be put in." This soup has been in this room since it entered, and we have so many pairs of eyes staring, where can we put anything in it? ”

Cai Wei said softly on the side: "Third sister, we were not in this house for a while, and the fourth cousin pulled us outside to enjoy the rain, and the three of us took the maids out." ”

"But it was Xia He who followed me out, and I left Xia Lan in this house." Yi Hui Road.

"Sister Xia Lan was originally guarding the house, who would have thought that later the two cousins slipped and fell, and the fourth cousin's maid Si'er called Sister Xia Lan out of the house." Cai Wei said lightly, she believed that with the shrewdness of the second wife, she only needed to say a few words, and she would definitely be able to see the trick.

Sure enough, I heard the second wife ask: "Si'er, you went to the house and called Xia Lan out, and then you, did you follow Xia Lan out of the house, or did you stay in this house and do something?" ”

Si'er pursed his lips and said for a long time: "Slaves, slaves and maids naturally followed Sister Xia Lan out." ”

"No, you're lying, madam, Si'er didn't tell the truth, I remember that after I ran out, I said a few words to the third girl under the porch, and when I returned to the door, she just came out of it, stood on the side, and helped me open the curtain, so it can be seen that this girl didn't follow me out of the house as she said."

Si'er hurriedly said: "Madam, madam, you believe me, I didn't stay in the house, I went out late, yes, it was because I accidentally fell in the house, so I was delayed for a while, I, I really didn't put anything in the soup of the third girl, madam!" ”

"Si'er," the second lady looked at her calmly and said, "You said you were wronged, you didn't do anything." As long as you can show evidence, I will believe you, can you show it? ”

"This, this, I was the only one in the house at that time, and no one saw me fall, but what the slave said was true, madam, the slave would never dare to deceive you in front of the wife!" Si'er knelt down with a "plop" and said.

"Who's to say that no one can testify for you, can't you? Come on, search this girl's body for me, as long as I don't find any pepper wrapped in paper sachets or anything like that," the second wife looked at Si'er again and said, "I will believe what you say, and give you a clean slate!" ”

Si'er suddenly sat down on the ground, she really hadn't had time to throw out the paper bag containing the medicine powder, she was stuffing it in her sleeve, and it was searched out by the two grandmothers next to the second wife within two clicks, and when she sniffed the smell of the paper bag, it was indeed filled with pepper.

"Now, what else do you have to say?" The second wife looked at Si'er coldly and said, "Why don't you tell me who gave you this packet of pepper and ordered you to put it in the soup of the third girl?" ”

"I ...... Belch...... No one instructed me, I did it myself, it was me, I saw that my wife only cared about the third girl, and stewed this and that tonic soup for her every day, and our four girls had nothing, and I couldn't think about it for a while, so I wanted to put some pepper in the soup of the third girl, so as to tease her, but the slave didn't have any harmful intentions, otherwise, why didn't the pepper put in it be something else? ”

Although Si'er didn't know what was in the paper bag, she also knew that it should not be pepper, but some other medicinal powder, otherwise Aunt Hu wouldn't say anything when she gave her this package of medicinal powder, as long as she did this and poured the medicinal powder into the third girl's soup, the fourth girl would be able to get an excellent family business, and promised to promote her to the fourth young master as an aunt in the future. It's just that of course she can't say this in front of the second wife, her deed is in the hands of the fourth girl's own brother, the fourth young master, no matter what, she has to protect the fourth girl first.

The second wife sneered: "Just now you said that this thing was not put in the soup of the third girl, and the result was made by you." Seeing that the evidence was turned out, you couldn't deny it, and said that you just wanted to make fun of the three girls, and you didn't want to hurt anyone? Who knows if you're saying it or not? On the day you sold your body to bury your father, it was Brother Cheng who bought you back from outside and gave it to Sister Fen'er, and your deed of identity was in the hands of his brother and sister, so naturally he was of the same mind as them, and he had to bear some sins for them whether he wanted to or not. ”

When Yifen heard this, she said boldly: "What does the mother mean by this, is she suspicious that her daughter ordered Si'er to do this?" If the mother really has this heart, the daughter is really unjustly dead! Si'er, this girl, relied on her to be given to me by my brother, and she didn't listen to me much on weekdays, she wanted to do something behind my back, how could I know. If I knew, how could I not stop her or tell my mother and sister that I knew? ”

"Since I arrived in this house, because I fell in love with my sister and was favored by my mother, my daughter was not only grateful, but still grateful, just thinking about waiting for her mother and sister to repay one or two, and she didn't dare to have anything else in mind. Even if others don't believe me, third sister, don't you believe me either? We've been sisters for three years, with such a deep affection, can't my sister trust me like this? ”

Yi Hui was looked at by her with tears in her eyes, and couldn't help but soften her heart, and said to the second wife: "Mother, I think it's probably Si'er, this girl is doing trouble, and she doesn't do anything with Sister Fen, she and I have always been very good!" ”

The second wife smiled faintly, "Hui'er, my mother has taught you everything she can teach you these days, and tomorrow you will marry a wife, and my mother will give you this last lesson the day before you leave the cabinet, and teach you to see clearly whether this so-called deep sisterhood will give birth to harmful thoughts?" ”

Cai Wei saw that the second wife seemed to be trying to interrogate this * matter in her second courtyard, so she hurriedly said: "Second aunt, niece should also go back to accompany the old lady, I have to say goodbye to my aunt first!" ”

I don't want the second wife to leave her and say: "Wei'er, don't leave yet, just stay here and listen, all the benefits you have been treating Sister Hui these days, my aunt has remembered it in my heart, and I will teach you today. ”

Seeing that the second wife said this, Cai Wei had to sit back again.

The second wife took out a forehead wipe from her sleeve and said: "Si'er, let me ask you again, whether you were instructed by others or for others, tell me clearly, I have long been clear about the ins and outs of this matter, and I just want you to tell you to the two girls?" If you refuse to tell the truth again, then you are the only one to carry this black cauldron, think about it, if your parents are still alive, how can she watch her biological daughter make a big mistake like this, and never be filial piety in front of her again, and support her relatives? ”

As soon as the second wife took out the forehead, Si'er's face was already pale, she had only one thought in her heart, even the fourth young master didn't know her secret, how could the second wife know and take this forehead out?