Chapter 38: Serial Conspiracy
Lan'er walked into the room quickly, put the basin on the table in a panic, and then nervously swept the door left and right, and closed the door with a bang after confirming that no one was there.
"Niangniang, something is wrong!" She ran to the bed and pulled Lu Xiaohan's sleeve.
"What's wrong, what's wrong! What could be worse than my neck? "She was tormented by the pain and was extremely impatient.
Lan'er saw that she didn't take care of herself seriously, so she was so anxious that she stomped her feet. It came to pass that she went downstairs to fetch water, and when she passed by the kitchen, she heard a noisy conversation coming from inside, and she stopped and listened outside the door in curiosity. This is not listened to, it is not tight, when I hear it, I almost scared my legs weak, and several soldiers inside are interrogating the guys in the kitchen for cooking ginger soup last night, it turns out that after the soldiers drank ginger soup last night, they have been poisoned.
One of the generals shouted sternly: "You and explain to me the details of the ginger soup last night, especially some suspicious people or things, all of them will be recalled to me clearly, if anyone's confession is not right, it must be the most suspicious object!" β
The four men were so frightened that they fell to their knees, crying and shouting that they were wronged, because everyone knew that this matter was serious, not only human lives, but also the lives of thousands of soldiers who went to protect their homes and defend the country, and if anyone really poisoned the barracks, I am afraid that a hundred heads would not be enough to cut off.
The military master said: "You don't have to cry, the clear is self-purifying, the prince is discerning, and he will never wronged a person, but if the murderer is really among you, the official will persuade him to turn himself in quickly, so that at least he will be refreshed, if we find out......" The military master snorted twice, still feeling that intimidating Cheng DΓΉ was not in place, so he continued: "You must know that our prince has just spoken, and even the princess can't get out of this matter. So, ah, you ......."
When Lan'er heard this, her heart tightened, and she immediately ran upstairs with her legs, and this was the scene where she recklessly stumbled into the door just now. Xiao Han held his breath and listened to her say this, and suddenly became nervous, mother, collective poisoning is a big crime that endangers public safety, and this must not squat through the bottom of the prison!
In a hurry, she began to pack up her clothes with Lan'er.
"Wait, that's not right!" Xiao Han suddenly came back to his senses, "Is the poisoning necessarily a problem with my ginger soup?" β
Lan'er hurriedly collected her things, and replied absentmindedly: "Naturally, it's the ginger soup, just now the military master said that the soldiers didn't eat other suspicious things." β
Xiao Han was completely awake at this moment, so he shook the clothes in his hand and said indignantly: "But poisoning is also divided into many situations, in addition to food poisoning, there is also odor poisoning, just like yesterday they inhaled too much charcoal fire; In addition, there are skin allergies, poisoning, water and soil adaptation and many other conditions. Besides, even if it is true that there is a problem with the ginger soup, it doesn't mean that it must be my poison! Otherwise, why go to the kitchen and interrogate the four guys first? β
Lan'er heard that what her master said was quite reasonable, so she gradually stopped her movements, but she was still worried: "But ......"
"Don't be, the pure ones are self-purifying, we know in our hearts that we have not done bad things, there is nothing to fear, only 'fear of sin' will abscond."
Lan'er was originally a person who had no opinions, and when she heard Xiaohan say it so sonorously and powerfully, she had to give up for the time being, but she still cautiously persuaded: "Niangniang, the world is complicated, not everything will fall into place, otherwise how could there be so many unjust, false and wrongful cases in the court?" β
Xiao Han nodded, "What you said also makes sense, so let's go down and take a look now, and it's good to understand some of the situation." β
So, the two cats went downstairs and dodged all the way to the barracks. In the center of the dam, several generals were reporting the situation to Xiaoyu.
"Back to the prince, the last general has carefully interrogated a few guys in the kitchen, their confessions are the same, there is no suspicion, and they are mostly doing some work to scrape ginger slices yesterday, and they are not also in charge of the boiling process."
Xiao Yu nodded, his expression gradually became heavy, obviously, after the elimination, the scope of the murderer has been greatly reduced, and now it seems that it can only be determined by further confirmation......
Lan'er tugged at Xiaohan's cuffs, and said with a bitter face: "What about Niangniang!" β
Xiao Han was also a little upset at the moment, she shook off Lan'er's hand and continued to listen to the conversation in front of her.
"Zihe, how is the ginger soup checked? Is this really wrong? β
Back to the prince, Fang Cai Zihe fed the remaining little residual soup to the chickens at the post station to eat, and in less than half a moment, the chickens were strictly diarrheal and paralyzed to the ground. This time, there is no doubt that it is ginger soup. β
After listening to this, he paced back and forth for a few steps, and then stood still, "The ginger soup was boiled by the princess herself?" β
As soon as this question came out, there was silence for a moment, and no one dared to respond, but the answer was clear in this Qi Qi silence.
At this time, Lan'er was completely frightened, her legs were weak and she took several steps back, even Xiaohan gasped, she turned around and leaned against the tent, panting heavily, her mind was blank.
It was Lan'er who came back to her senses first, and hurriedly grabbed her and ran out. Xiao Han still crooked her neck all the way, but no matter how big the shock was at the moment, she didn't feel pain, only felt a twitch in her heart. Finally, the two of them could no longer run under a tree at the foot of the mountain, and both sat down on the ground.
"Wang, Princess," Lan'er gasped, "we, let's ...... Next, what should I do? β
"What should I do......" Xiao Han repeated Lan'er's words like a dream, she was still in the warm post station sheltered from the wind and rain, but in the blink of an eye, she was already in the wilderness and mountains, and the sudden change in the surrounding scene made her a little trance. Oh, that's a big joke!
At this time, the Jinluan Hall of the Beiyu Palace was not calm, and the ministers were fiercely discussing and arguing.
"This Northern Desert people are really too disagreeable, they used to respect them for three points of thin face, but it was just for the sake of their willingness to bow down to their subordinates, I didn't expect them to dare to take revenge!"
"That is, the emperor took care of the overall situation before, and the petty fights they provoked at the border did not care about them, and only let the third master lead a mere 10,000 soldiers and horses to negotiate, which is good, the gentleman treats each other politely, but the villain has to take advantage of the danger of others!"
"Hey, Lord Lu, you can't say that." The prince took over the conversation on the side, "It is precisely because the people of the Northern Desert have always been like wolves and tigers and ruthless, that this king asked his father for his life before, and was willing to lead a large army to fight against Pingding, but the third brother was arrogant, and he wanted to gamble with the king on national affairs, and hastily took 10,000 people to the tiger's den......" He sneered twice, "Therefore, we can't blame others for such a result, we can only blame ourselves!" β
"Alright, alright." The emperor was upset by them on the high platform, "The matter has come to this point, it is useless to talk more, let's discuss together now how to send troops to reinforce." β
Everyone agreed, but no one noticed that the corners of the prince's mouth were hanging with an imperceptible smirk at the moment. It turned out that the panic in the court today was brewed by him, and it was he who sent a message to the emperor, saying that the Northern Desert spies had reported that the Rongfan and Yuelang clans had joined forces to prepare to send troops to attack the march of Yuyu, in addition, the people of the Northern Desert also used insidious means to poison the army, and now Yuyu and his party are paralyzed halfway. For this reason, the court shook and made a mess.