Chapter 44: Unexpected

When Qin sent someone to invite Zhang to the small courtyard where Zhao Jiong was confined, she was teaching her grandchildren to read.

Zhao Wei has already opened the Meng, and under the teaching of his father Zhao Zhuo, he has completed three hundred thousand, and has begun to do his homework a little deeper, while Zhao Xiu quickly learned the three-character scripture and the surname of the hundred families, and finally entered the thousand-character text. She is now a little older than a few months ago, she walks much more steadily, her short little fingers can grasp the brush steadily, and the words she writes are finally no longer dog crawles, and she finally has a somewhat upright appearance. Zhang is very satisfied with the progress of both children's studies.

Lu Yunpeng came to the gate of the courtyard every day to pick up Zhao Wei and teach him a few simple boxing techniques, Zhao Xiu encouraged his brother to run around the yard a few times a day, so Zhao Wei's body has been getting better and better, obviously the weather is getting colder and colder day by day, but the number of coughs he has decreased.

As for Zhang Chaoyi, he has his own wife and children, and it is impossible for him to stay in Fengxian for a long time, and he has been back to Songjiang for a while.

Zhang's attitude towards Zhao Jiong's side is to ignore it, as long as Jiang doesn't take the initiative to send it to the door, she doesn't even bother to pay attention to this nominal granddaughter-in-law. She just needs to wait now, waiting for the emperor and the king of Guangping to make decisions for her ancestors and grandchildren, and she doesn't care about the rest. Qin Cha specially sent someone to invite her to Zhao Jiong's side, her first reaction was very surprised, thinking that she had heard it wrong: "Lord Qin Cha really said that?" ”

The person who came nodded: "Yes, please move Mrs. Zhao." ”

Zhang was silent for a moment, and asked lightly: "Zhao Jue's wife Jiang is also there?" "Zhao Jiong is paralyzed and can't move, and there are guards around him, so it is impossible to take the initiative to do anything, but the Jiang family is likely to be restless and stir up trouble in it.

The person who came also gave a positive answer: "Grandma Zhao is indeed there." ”

Zhang sneered, glanced at him, and then instructed the two children in a deep voice: "According to what I just said, after copying these two pages, I will ask Autumn Leaves to bring you snacks." After eating the snack, take a break and then continue to endorse. ”

Zhao Wei didn't hear anything unusual, and obediently agreed, Zhao Xiu vaguely felt that something bad would happen to the Zhang family when he went: "Grandmother, let Autumn Leaves accompany you?" ”

Autumn leaves were also a little worried: "Yes, old lady, I'll go with you, brother and sister are here, and someone else will take care of them." ”

Zhang shook his head: "It's just in the house, a few steps away, and the palace envoy escort, what kind of girl do you want to bring?" You take care of the children here, if anyone dares to trespass while I am away, don't be polite, just call someone to the front to invite Lord Lu. ”

Akiba's face changed, and he hurriedly agreed.

It's not that the Zhang family is too careful, although King Guangping has promised to tell the emperor that he will say to their ancestors and grandchildren, so that Zhao Wei will not be regarded as a thorn in the flesh by Xiao Changfang and other people with a heart because of the title issue, and they want to get rid of it quickly, but the current will has not come down, they still have to be careful. In case something really happened to Zhao Wei, even if the murderer was sentenced to death afterwards, it would be irreparable.

Zhao Xiu also quickly figured out this truth, but she still didn't feel at ease, although her grandmother was only about forty years old, she was a really weak woman, and her health was not very good, so don't suffer any grievances. I don't know why the Lord Qincha invited the Zhang family over for no reason? Or please go to Zhao Jiong's yard. He has become paralyzed, is he still restless? And that sister-in-law Jiang in the lobby, what bad things do you want to do? How can there be such bad people in the world, and others are not in their way, let alone revealing their secrets, but they have to put people to death, and they still look innocent, which makes people disgusted when they see it!

Zhao Xiu was sneering, and suddenly heard someone called Qiu Ye, Qiu Ye went out to see, it turned out to be a mother-in-law who usually sent them things on the orders of Wang Siping.

The woman peeked in from outside the threshold of the hall, looked left and right, and couldn't see Zhang, and heard Akiba say that she was invited away by Lord Qincha, so she stomped her foot and said, "I'm late!" It's all to blame for my old cold legs that can't walk fast. Manager Wang was also called over, and asked me to hurry up and report to the old lady, so as not to fall for the plot, but I didn't expect to catch up! ”

Akiba was a little nervous: "What the hell happened?" Mr. Wang specially called you? ”

"Gao Cheng in front of the eldest master is dead!" The mother-in-law said quickly, "I was poisoned to death, and I ate the porridge that I originally made for the eldest master." The porridge was made by Gao Cheng, but the people in the kitchen said that when Gao Cheng was making porridge, the people in this yard had been to the kitchen and quarreled with Gao Cheng, and then Gao Cheng went out of the kitchen to get firewood, and the people in this yard stayed in the kitchen alone, and it took a while to come out. Therefore, the eldest grandmother cried and asked Lord Qincha to call the shots, and in and out of those words, it was said that the old lady instructed people to poison the porridge, in order to poison the eldest lady! ”

Akiba was furious: "This is ridiculous! The people in our courtyard never eat in the big kitchen, they all make it themselves in the yard, and we say that we quarrel with Gao Cheng in the big kitchen, where do we start? Besides, if our people are really in the kitchen, Gao Cheng is the most careful person on weekdays, how can he leave us alone and run out to get firewood? This is clear nonsense! ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" The mother-in-law sighed, "As soon as our manager Wang heard it, he knew that something was wrong, and he was afraid that the old lady would not know the inside story, and she had fallen into the trap of others, so she asked me to say it, but I didn't expect me to be late!" ”

Autumn leaves calmed down: "It's okay, with such an obvious flaw, the old lady will not be fooled." Just go back and thank you for me. ”

The mother-in-law left, and Akiba returned to the hall with some uncertainty, and looked in the direction of the east courtyard worriedly, but she couldn't leave the two children to inquire, so she had to call the rough mother-in-law in the courtyard and tell her to go to the east courtyard to see the situation.

Zhao Wei and Zhao Xiu brothers and sisters just heard what the mother-in-law who delivered the news said, and they knew in their hearts that someone wanted to harm their grandmother, and they were very worried. Zhao Wei asked Zhao Xiu in a low voice: "Sister, I also want to go to see my grandmother, can you copy books here alone first?" ”

"Not good." Zhao Xiu firmly vetoed his suggestion, "Let's go together!" ”

Zhao Wei's originally drooping little face suddenly became full of energy: "Okay, let's go together!" ”

Qiu Ye was startled and hurriedly stopped them: "I can't help it, little ancestors, the old lady instructed you to stay and copy books, if you know that you are disobedient, you will definitely be angry." ”

Zhao Wei hesitated, and Zhao Xiu asked Qiu Ye: "Isn't my sister worried about grandmother?" If you ask someone to inquire, you might as well see it with your own eyes, if it weren't for the sake of taking care of us, you would have gone a long time ago, right? If we go with you, you don't have to worry about it. ”

Qiu Ye couldn't make up her mind, Zhao Xiu simply gave Zhao Wei a look, and deliberately "cried": "I want grandmother!" I'm looking for my grandmother! Where's Grandmother?! He was still sitting in a chair and twisting his small body, making a crying posture.

Zhao Wei actually opened his mind and quickly understood his sister's intentions: "Sister Qiuye, my sister suddenly made a fuss about finding her grandmother, and she cried so much, let's take her to find her grandmother, right?" Otherwise, if she cries like this, she will get sick. ”

Akiba: "......"

When Zhang arrived at the place, he saw everyone standing in the courtyard, the double doors of the house were wide open, Zhao Jiong was lying in the house, and from the courtyard he could see his eyes rolling non-stop, and Jiang took her girl Hongyan to stand outside the door and sobbed quietly. Qin Cha sat on a chair under the eaves, with a row of guards standing behind him, and a few people kneeling in front of him, Wang Siping standing with his hands hanging to the side.

In the courtyard, there was a person lying with a white cloth covering his head, looking at his figure and the clothes he was wearing, Zhang quickly judged that he should be Gao Cheng. Gao Cheng is dead? What's going on?

Qin Cha respectfully stepped forward and saluted the Zhang family: "I have seen Old Madam Zhao, it is really a sin to alarm your old man. ”

Zhang returned the salute very politely: "I don't dare to be, I don't know if the palace envoy specially invited the old man to come, what is the noble matter?" Ignoring Zhao Jiong and Jiang's meaning at all, Jiang's cry suddenly became louder.

But no one paid attention to her, so Qin Cha told Gao Cheng about his poisoning and death one by one, and then said: "Our family has already asked people to check it, and the poison in Gao Cheng should be 'Little Pink'." This poison is also seeping into the porridge. ”

Zhang squinted: "'Little Pink'? This is supposed to be a chronic poison, right? ”

"Exactly." Qin Cha was pleasantly surprised that the Duchess of the county was actually an insider, and handed over a knowing look, "It stands to reason that this kind of poison is in the porridge, and with this amount of money, even if the sinner Zhao Jiong eats it for four or five days, he may not lose his life." But the strange thing is that this Gao Chengcai ate two bites, and he bled to death in seven orifices. Judging from the corpse, he has been poisoned for three days, and it was poison on top of poison that he lost his life on the spot. ”

Zhang sneered: "Since it was poisoned three days ago, you only need to look at what Gao Cheng ate three days ago and who he was with, so you can know the truth, right?" ”

Qin Cha nodded slowly: "Exactly, our family has already ordered someone to ask the noble servant for questioning, and I also asked Old Madam Zhao to give it a convenience." ”

Zhang looked at Wang Siping, and Wang Siping hurriedly said: "Don't worry, old lady, the little ones have been ordered, no matter what the palace envoy asks, they must answer truthfully." He paused, "Someone in the kitchen claimed that when Gao Cheng was making porridge in the kitchen today, the mother-in-law in the old lady's yard came to the kitchen to cook, and the two sides quarreled a few words, and when Gao Cheng left, the mother-in-law stayed alone in the kitchen for a while, not knowing what to do. This is completely nonsense, the little one has already explained to Lord Qincha, the food in the old lady's courtyard has always been made in the small kitchen, and the people in your courtyard never go to the big kitchen, and when Gao Cheng cooks on weekdays, idle people are not allowed to approach, nor are they allowed to talk to him at will. This was ordered by His Royal Highness the King of Guangping at the beginning, and no one in the old mansion dared to disobey the order. ”

Zhang looked at Qin Cha, and Qin Cha smiled: "Yes, your chief manager has already explained, and our family has also asked other servants, and this is indeed the case." ”

Zhang raised his eyebrows: "What's the matter with that nonsense guy in the kitchen?" Why did she tell this lie? ”

Jiang had already stopped sobbing and watched the question and answer of the three of them with some dumbfounded. How did things not turn out to be what she expected?

A guard hurried from outside the courtyard with a mother-in-law and returned to Qincha: "Father-in-law, this mother-in-law said that Gao Cheng had left the small courtyard due to illness three days ago and returned to his residence to recuperate, but he secretly left with someone at night. ”

Jiang's face suddenly turned white.

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