Liu Yingyi nodded and said to Shui Qingxiang: "Now the Jade Qilin Fragment is a clue, fortunately, there are not many people who usually come into contact with the master, and the person who poisoned him must be among these people." I've already asked just now, and most of the people who can be poisoned are among those five people, and when the time comes, we will try to ask one by one, and we will definitely be able to ask for some clues. ”

Finding clues in the secret room, the case seems to have reached a dead end, and there is only another way.

Shui Qingxiang remembered the process of asking the prisoner in her previous life, as well as some methods of inducing confessions in film and television dramas, she couldn't help but follow her thoughts, the corners of her mouth curled, and she proposed to Liu Yingyi: "I have a good idea, but I just need help from the people in the Yancheng Yamen." ”

"Oh? What's a good idea? ”

……

Outside the study of the Yuan Mansion, there were several men and women with nervous faces, who were the servants and maids of the Yuan Mansion.

I heard that the county commander was going to ask questions, which made several servants who had never seen the world a little nervous.

Everyone knows that the master in the family was poisoned, although the news was gagagged by the Yuan brothers, it was not allowed to be leaked. However, these servants of the Yuan family all know clearly, yesterday Master Yuan's coffin was stopped back, and today the county magistrate will be questioned one by one, and every servant who works in the Yuan family is beating a drum in his heart.

The first person who was brought in for questioning was Xiao Hong, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl who looked like a tiger, wearing a red jacket, and some oil on her clothes, kneeling in the study with some crampedness.

Liu Yingyi and Yancheng County Ling sat in the study, and Shui Qingxiang stood behind Liu Yingyi.

Liu Yingyi asked first: "Are you Xiaohong, who works in the Yuan Mansion?" ”

"Back to the adult, it's small."

"What are you doing in the Yuan Mansion?"

"The little one is the helper in the kitchen, who helps Wu's mother cook."

"Usually Master Yuan's meals are prepared by you?" Liu Yingyi's voice subconsciously raised, causing Xiaohong's body kneeling below to shake suddenly.

"No, not exactly." Xiaohong suddenly stammered, "My lord, it's really none of my business, usually those meals are made by Wu's mother, I ...... I'm just going to help out. I didn't do anything bad, at best...... At most, it's just stealing food in the kitchen. ”

Liu Yingyi and Yancheng County Ling glanced at each other, and they both felt that this Yahuan Xiaohong did not look like a person who could poison Yuan Gong for a long time.

The county officials and many doctors in Yancheng have reached a consensus: this poison is a chronic poison, and it must be poisoned for at least three months before the other party can slowly decline in physical function and die slowly unconsciously.

This person who has been poisoned for a long time must be a bold and careful, very treacherous, and very trusting person of Yuan Gong, that person may be good at disguise, so that he will not be like Yahuan Xiaohong, who told him about stealing food without saying a few words.

"You go out first and wake up Mama Wu." The county order commanded, and Xiaohong trotted out of the study like an amnesty.

Mother Wu is a woman in her forties, slightly fat, with her hair coiled behind her head, and she knelt on the ground as soon as she came in: "Two adults, don't listen to Xiaohong's nonsense, I have never poisoned my lord's food." The lord is my great benefactor, when my man died, thanks to the lord who took me in, let me be a cook in this kitchen, in order to raise my two sons, now they are all grown up, one was admitted to Xiucai, the other is on an errand in the dart game, why do I want to do such a thing. ”

"Let me ask you, do you usually cook Master Yuan's meals?" Yancheng County asked.

"I made it by my wife. Master Yuan is kind and kind, and he used to eat like the big guys, but in the last two months, his appetite has not been good, and the eldest prince asked me to prepare porridge for him every day. ”

"You made this porridge specially?"

Wu's mother's face sank slightly, "It's not special, it's just making some rice porridge and side dishes." In the morning, it is glutinous rice porridge, at noon it is red bean porridge and red date porridge, and in the evening it is some white porridge. It's all some ordinary food, and the old woman definitely doesn't dare to poison it. ”

"Then did you personally send these things to Yuan Gongfang?" Yoo Young-yi asked.

"The old woman usually only works in the kitchen, except for the domestic servants, everyone's three meals a day are made by me, and when there is time to send them to the room, they are all delivered by Xiao Guizi and Kong Hao."

"Who are Xiao Guizi and Kong Hao?" Liu Yingyi remembered that when he stayed in Yuan's mansion before, there were no such people in the house, and it seemed that they were all invited after he left.

"Xiao Guizi and Kong Hao are a pair of cousins, they were recruited to the mansion by the eldest prince two years ago to be a housekeeper, and they usually serve in the eldest prince's mansion, because Master Yuan returned to the house, and the eldest prince sent them to serve Master Yuan. However, Master Yuan didn't seem to like them, and told the eldest prince several times that he wanted to dismiss them. This Mother Wu really knew a lot of inside stories about the Yuan Mansion, and her words immediately aroused the interest of Shui Qingxiang and Liu Yingyi.

"Why doesn't Master Yuan like them?"

"This ...... It's like they're a gambler. ”

"Then why didn't the eldest prince fire them again?"

Mother Wu hesitated slightly, but still said: "It seems that the little Guizi and the eldest prince are quite familiar, and he usually takes the eldest prince to the gambling house." ”

"If you didn't poison Master Yuan, then who do you think is the most likely person to be poisoned?" The Yancheng County Commander seems to be very good at deception.

Shui Qingxiang couldn't help snickering in her heart, she just proposed it to Liu Yingyi just now, but she didn't expect to get Liu Yingyi's approval soon, and Yancheng County, as one of the participants, understood it even more, and immediately understood the essence of the deception.

Sure enough, when Mother Wu heard the county magistrate ask this, her face immediately showed a panicked look.

"My lord, don't talk nonsense about this. I have been working in the kitchen for half my life, and I am good at cooking, but I really don't know how to solve the case. ”

"Hmph, I advise you to tell everything you know, you keep it a secret for others, but others say everything. Yuan Gong is a big man in Yancheng who was given by the first emperor, and once the news of his death is sent to the imperial court, the imperial court will ask about it, and it will be all over the place. ”

Mother Wu was so frightened by the county magistrate that she immediately kowtowed like a chicken: "My lord, the old woman doesn't dare, the old woman doesn't dare to ......"

"If you really want the old woman to come to me, then Xiao Guizi and Kong Hao, as well as Xiao Hong in my kitchen, are suspicious. Those two people brought me food to the old man's room every day, and they must be the most suspicious. And that Xiaohong, who is lazy all day long, usually caught me stealing food, and is full of lies, if I hadn't read that she was the child of my dead cousin, I wouldn't have kept her in the house. ”

This Wu Ma must have thought that Xiaohong had said bad things about herself before, so she didn't cover her up and told her all the things she usually stole to eat.

Shui Qingxiang couldn't help but feel funny, the plan she had thought of before had taken effect.