Li Zi'an was about to go out, but Shen Tianshu suddenly remembered, asked for a pen and paper, wrote a few medicines and handed them to Prince Rui and said: "Although the banquet has just started, everyone hasn't eaten a few mouthfuls of food, but in case you meet a frail person, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not cause problems. ”

"This is important, thank you Miss Shen." Princess Rui took the recipe and handed it to the maid behind her, "Hurry up and do it." ”

Li Zi'an took Shen Tianshu out of the back door and came all the way to the back kitchen.

At this point, everyone in the back kitchen has been controlled, and everything in the back kitchen is left in its place.

The meals that had been taken down during the banquet were also placed on the next few rows of wooden planks in the east wing.

Fan Yuru was already waiting in the room.

When he saw Li Zi'an enter the door, he saluted and asked anxiously: "Lord Shizi, the princess and the guests are fine, right?" ”

"Fortunately, Miss Shen found out early, otherwise something would really have happened." After coming out of the concubine palace, Li Zi'an had a straight face, and his whole body exuded low pressure.

"Miss Shen, please here." Fan Yuru arched his hand at Shen Tianshu.

Shen Tianshu became more and more strange in his heart, the palace clearly had Liu Xukun in charge, and when such a thing happened, why didn't anyone think about looking for him?

However, she still stepped forward to check the dishes on the table one by one, and said: "There is no problem with the other dishes, only the fresh mushroom tofu pot and the fungus in this cold dish are poisonous fungus, have you eaten the autumn fungus purchased by the palace this year?" Or is it the first time I've eaten today's feast? ”

"My mother doesn't eat mushrooms, and the kitchen at home does very little, and I don't remember whether I have made it or not." The more Li Zi'an said, the more depressed he became.

"Can you go to the kitchen where the dry goods are placed?" Shen Tianshu asked.

Li Zi'an immediately asked someone to lead the way, and the three of them went to the storage room in the back kitchen to check the dried fungus.

As soon as the box where the dried fungus was placed opened, Shen Tianshu reached in and looked at it, and frowned: "There is no problem with these fungus, so where did the fungus used for today's banquet come from?" ”

Li Zi'an didn't believe that this incident was an accident, so he was not surprised at all when he heard Shen Tianshu's conclusion at this time, but he was also very angry in his heart, and the person who could do such a thing was almost certainly someone from the house.

It is not a secret that Princess Rui does not eat mushrooms, and the people in the palace know it, and it is not difficult for people outside to know if they have a heart.

But the person who can enter the back kitchen and replace the ingredients needed for today's banquet must be in the palace, and outsiders can't do it at all.

There was a problem with these two dishes today, and the people who did it made it clear that they were targeting the guests that the palace was entertaining today.

If the poisonous fungus hadn't been discovered by Shen Tianshu, Prince Rui would have been safe and sound, but the guests would have been poisoned by the luncheon, and the table was full of dishes that should have been eaten, and the rest was probably poured into the swill bucket long ago, but it was really a basin of sewage splashed on the body, and I didn't know where to start washing.

Thinking of this, Li Zi'an couldn't help but quietly look at Shen Tianshu.

Today's matter is really thanks to her, otherwise my father's illness has not improved, and the palace will be in new trouble.

And when he looked at Shen Tianshu, he found another eager gaze that could not be ignored, and it also kept falling on Shen Tianshu.

After Shen Tianshu checked the dried fungus, he got up and said, "Let's go to the back kitchen and take a look, and see if there are any bubbles but it's useless." ”

When Fan Yuru saw her get up, she immediately withdrew her gaze, and when she looked up, she happened to meet Li Zi'an's eyes.

Li Zi'an skimmed a burst of displeasure in his heart and glared at Fan Yuru.

Then I felt that there seemed to be something wrong, why should I be displeased?

However, he soon thought that there was such a big thing in the palace, and this kid didn't pay attention to find out the problem quickly, and he still had the leisure to watch the girl's house, which was really unprofessional.

Thinking of this, he immediately instructed Fan Yuru: "You go and call out the chef, the second chef, the assistant chef, and the handyman who made these two dishes to interrogate carefully, and be sure to find out where the poisonous fungus in today's dish came from." ”

Seeing that Fan Yuru was ordered to go down to do things, Li Zi'an followed Shen Tianshu into the back kitchen.

Shen Tianshu walked around the back kitchen, and sure enough, he found a small pot of fungus still soaked in water, which must have not been used up for cooking today.

"The pots are soaked with poisonous fungus." Shen Tianshu carefully checked the aisle, "It seems that as the prince said, this incident should not be an accident, it is indeed someone who deliberately used poisonous fungus to pretend to be ordinary fungus." ”

Li Zi'an said with a calm face: "Then let's go over and listen to what those people have to say." ”

The back kitchen of the palace is like a shrunken imperial dining room, with a clear division of labor from the chef, the second kitchen, the assistant chef to the handyman.

The chef is responsible for cooking and seasoning, the second chef is responsible for preparing ingredients and changing knives, the assistant kitchen is responsible for handling ingredients, and the handyman is responsible for cleaning and cleaning up and other chores.

The keys to the back kitchen warehouse are only in the hands of the chief steward and the four second stewards of the back kitchen.

The second steward in charge of dry goods knelt on the ground, and swore an oath: "Yesterday was a small warehouse opened by himself, and the fungus weighed from the box was handed over to the assistant chef Zhou Ying."

When the little one locked the door of the warehouse and went back, he passed by the door of the back kitchen and saw Zhou Ying cleaning the dust on the fungus inside and soaking it in a large wooden basin.

"Lord Shizi, what the little one said is true, I hope you will see it!"

"Zhou Ying?" Hearing this, Li Zi'an turned his head to look at the chief steward in the back kitchen.

The chief steward wiped the sweat on his head and said: "If you go back to the world, Zhou Ying just stole a bowl of fresh mushroom tofu pot, and at this moment his head and face are swollen like a pig's head, and he rolls on the ground in pain!" ”

Li Zi'an exchanged glances with Fan Yuru when he heard this, although Zhou Ying himself was also poisoned, but Shen Tianshu also said that this poisonous fungus is not well-known, but the head and face are painful and swollen, and he has suffered some crimes.

So although Zhou Ying himself was poisoned, he couldn't clear his suspicion because of this.

Just when Li Zi'an wanted to ask another question, a guard in charge of guarding the kitchen staff walked into the room quickly, and whispered in his ear: "Lord Shizi, the chef Zhou Ying who was poisoned just now died." ”

When Li Zi'an heard this, his eyes widened instantly.

At this juncture, the man actually died?

He stretched out his hand to pull Shen Tianshu aside and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure this poisonous fungus won't kill people?" ”

Shen Tianshu was stunned by the question, but still replied cautiously: "Under normal circumstances, it will not cause death, even if you don't seek medical treatment, you will slowly recover in a few days." However, if you eat too much, or if you eat it with other things, or if the poisoned person is weak, you may also die! ”

After she finished speaking, she reacted, looked up at Li Zi'an, didn't make a sound, and asked with her mouth: "That person is dead?" ”

Li Zi'an's face became even more ugly, and he nodded slowly.