Cui Keyin returned to Xinglin Hutong when it was Shen Shi. Jiang Shi greeted her, took her hand inside, and asked her to bring warm water to let her clean her face and wash her hands, and said, "The queen mother and queen have gone?" She has a big face. ”

Cui Keyin was surprised: "No." None of the ladies in the palace went over, only a few handkerchiefs when she was a girl, and I heard that she didn't even eat lunch, so she dispersed. ”

Jiang Shi was stunned and muttered, "What do you say?" ”

Cui Keyin said: "I went without saying a word, and was called to Yongxin Palace by the queen." After lunch in Yongxin Palace, Concubine De was invited to Yongle Palace, talked all afternoon, and did not leave the palace until it was almost dark. ”

Shen Mingzhu came to Yongxin Palace, Queen Yuming took her to Yongle Palace, and she was so intimate that she couldn't do it, Cui Keyin said goodbye several times, but she was kept on the grounds that it was too early, and seeing that the palace door was about to be locked, she was reluctant to let her out.

Jiang was stunned for a long time, and told the Queen Mother about the vegetables and goat milk and mutton sent over in the afternoon.

"Why did the Queen Mother send these things over, what did she say?"

Cui Keyin said resolutely: "It wasn't sent by the Queen Mother, and it can't be sent by the Queen Mother." There must be something wrong with these things. ”

Jiang asked people to carry things to the banquet room of Chunshan Residence, and let Cui Keyin see: "Oh, the meat and vegetables look fresh." ”

Freshness doesn't have to be a problem.

Cui Keyin thought for a while and said, "Let's put it first, don't eat it, and hand the sign into the palace tomorrow to ask clearly." ”

Although the Cui family is rich, they have no habit of wasting, if these things are clean, they will either reward others or eat themselves. There can be no waste. And things with unknown origins, no matter how good they are, they can't be put into their mouths.

Jiang asked people to carry the things back and put them away, especially to explain to the kitchen, not to use these things for cooking.

In the evening, Zhou Heng came over and said, "You entered the palace today?" ”

Cui Keyin briefly said what happened in the palace, and also said about the Queen Mother's delivery of meat and vegetables.

Zhou Heng said categorically: "It can't be sent by the Queen Mother." With the queen mother's temperament, she will definitely not send these. ”

Because he didn't want to alarm Cui Zhenyi and Jiang, Zhou Heng came in over the wall, and everyone stayed outside the wall of Xinglin Hutong.

Zhou Heng said: "I'll send someone to investigate." ”

Tea is too late to drink. Hurriedly went out over the wall.

About half an hour passed. There was a commotion outside, and the little maid opened the door and ran out to look, and soon came back and said, "Miss, it's not good." Mama An drank the goat's milk sent from the palace. Bleeding from the mouth and nose. I'm dying. ”

"What?" Cui Keyin was shocked, jumped off the pit and walked out with his shoes on his feet.

Lu Ying hurriedly took her cloak and trotted to follow: "Miss, it's cold outside." ”

When a doctor who asked for a nearby entrance to the door. Mama An had died of anger, her face was blue and black, and her seven orifices were bleeding. When the imperial doctor was invited, it could only be confirmed that he had eaten arsenic and died.

Jiang Shi's eyes were red from crying, and he couldn't speak. This is the maid who grew up together since childhood, and it is her marriage, the little housekeeper she promised to the Cui family, and the person who has served her for decades, why don't you say that it is gone.

Mama An's two sons also cried to death, and kept begging Cui Zhenyi to make decisions for them.

Because he ate the goat's milk sent by the palace, the people of Xinglin Hutong were panicked.

The Jiang family was in a state of confusion and couldn't be a director, so Cui Keyin summoned his subordinates to the courtyard and said, "Someone sent some things in the name of the Queen Mother, and the master is tracking down the origin of these things." Madame also said earlier that these things cannot be moved, and they are indeed unclean things. Now carry these things to the firewood room, and do not touch them at all, so that when you catch the poisoner, you may be able to use them as evidence. ”

I heard that it was not the Queen Mother who wanted to kill the Cui family, and the hearts of the people who were hanging were finally put back in their stomachs.

Ding Dashan ordered two people, took old clothes and wrapped them around his hands, and carried the things to the firewood room. Everyone knows that these things have arsenic, for fear of splashing a little bit, where do you dare to touch it?

The little maid waiting for Mama An was so frightened that her face was colorless, and when she was called by Cui Keyin for questioning, she was still fiddling.

Cui Keyin asked her to pour a cup of hot water for her, and said softly: "How could Mama An eat these goat milks?" You speak slowly. ”

The little maid said with a crying voice: "Mama went down from the lady's side, said that she was a little hungry, and asked the slave maid to go to the kitchen to see if there were any snacks." As soon as the slave maid walked to the door, the grandmother said again, I don't know if the goat milk sent in the palace will be different from the outside, the goat milk will be bad if it is not released, and if you don't eat it, let the slave and maid warm a cup of goat milk and take two plates of snacks.

The slave maid sent the goat's milk and snacks to the grandmother's room, and the goat's milk that the grandmother ate first said that it was not necessarily better than the outside. Just about to eat a snack, he had a seizure, shouted that his stomach hurt, rolled all over the ground, and frightened the slave and maid did not know what to do, so he had to go to report to his wife. ”

The little maid said, remembering the scene at that time, the whole person shrunk into a ball, and her hands tightly hugged her legs.

There are grandmothers and maids in the house who have heads and faces, not only have little maids to serve, but the kitchen people also ask them, what dishes to eat, it is common for the kitchen to do it tightly. As the saying goes, if people are clear, there are no fish, Jiang's presiding over the feed, as long as it is not too excessive, always turn a blind eye. Unexpectedly, Mama An relied on being Jiang's companion and confidant, and died in order to taste the food sent by the "palace".

Cui Keyin said: "Mama An didn't eat snacks? ”

"No, no." The little maid shook her head and said, "The snack was in her hand, but it hadn't been delivered to her mouth, and it fell to the ground after the attack." It's still on the ground. ”

Cui Keyin nodded and asked Lu Ying to take the little maid down: "She was frightened, so she comforted her." Also called Ding Dashan: "Manager Ding, please ask someone to find two stray dogs to try whether this meat dish is poisonous." ”

Ding Dashan answered, ordered to go down, and soon the little maid brought two stray dogs and fed them meat and vegetables respectively.

The two dogs ate meat and vegetables, and after half an hour, they were still very energetic.

To be sure, the poison is in the goat's milk.

Cui Keyin went back to Jiang's.

Jiang cried: "Why is she so unlucky, she doesn't eat anything else, but eats poisonous goat milk!" ”

Cui Keyin was silent, if it weren't for the palace delivery, Mama An would definitely not eat it. Goat milk is not a rare thing in Xinglin Hutong, but it is the special person who gave it that makes these ordinary things have a different value.

After such a toss, the day is almost dawn.

After sending the imperial doctor away, Cui Zhenyi locked himself in the study to reflect, and for a while blamed himself for not governing his family strictly, and married the royal family, which caused this disaster; After a while, he felt that the Jiang family was too tolerant of his subordinates, so it would cause this disaster.

Cui Keyin came over and asked him to go back to the room: "Mama An is gone, and the eldest aunt is very sad, and she asked the eldest uncle to talk to her." He also told the suspicion that someone was sending things in the name of the Queen Mother, and that only goat's milk was poisonous.

"In the name of the Queen Mother?" Cui Zhenyi's resentment disappeared at once, and he said, "Who is so bold?" ”

Cui Keyin couldn't say that Zhou Heng was investigating, so she only said: "After dawn, I handed a sign into the palace to ask to see and probe the queen mother's tone." Since it is in the name of the Queen Mother, why don't you ask King Jin to help you check it? (To be continued......)