"Please Lord Jiang, Mrs. Chen, and the third prince." Liu Mengyan Fuli said.

Master Jiang was worried about his mother's situation, and said to Liu Mengyan: "If the county lord has anything to say, just say it directly." ”

Liu Mengyan didn't say what she meant, but asked Master Jiang: "I don't know how the old lady's situation is?" ”

"I don't know the situation yet, but the doctors in the house will try their best to heal, and I don't know what kind of poison is in my mother."

Liu Mengyan then asked, "Then when is Master Jiang going to lock up our group?" If we don't go home after dark, I'm afraid that Liufu will report to the official at that time, not only that, but the other female dependents who are under the control of Lord Jiang, their families will also come back to the Jiang family to ask for right and wrong. Master Jiang didn't want to see this kind of scene. ”

I have to say that this statement is still very pertinent. The ladies and ladies who came to attend Mrs. Jiang's 80th birthday banquet today are all the daughters of the official eunuchs of the court, and their identities are very noble.

If it continues like this and offends others, although the Jiang family is a relative of the emperor, it will not look good.

Moreover, Master Jiang still has some scruples about Liu Mengyan, after all, she has been assigned to marry the sixth prince, she is the concubine of the sixth prince, and she will get married in three months, plus Liu Mengyan is still a county lord, and the emperor is personally sealed.

Thinking of this, Master Jiang was a little polite to Liu Mengyan, arched his hand at her and said, "Don't worry, the county lord is still checking now, as long as this matter has nothing to do with the county lord and Ling Tang Lingmei, then our mansion will naturally send the county lord and others back." ”

After hearing his words, Liu Mengyan sneered, "In fact, in addition to the fact that the guests can contact the old lady, aren't the subordinates who serve by the old lady's side more suspicious?" ”

"What does the county lord mean by this?" The three princes Tuoba Ye Huandao.

"There are only two cases of poisoning, one is that something is eaten from the mouth, and the other is something smelled from the nose, so it is better to check what Mrs. Jiang ate before she fainted."

At this time, Chen stood up and said, "The county lord's words are reasonable, and we have all thought of it. I have already sent someone to check what the old lady has eaten, and I believe that the results will come out soon, so I will trouble the county lord to accompany us here and wait. It's just that the old lady didn't touch the things at the banquet, and she was too old to eat too many things, and she couldn't eat these greasy things, so the range that could be checked was smaller. ”

Chen's words made Liu Mengyan's heart happy, and what she said was similar to what she knew.

Then, Liu Mengyan said as if unintentionally: "When Ruoyan went into the inner room with her mother and sister to greet the old lady for her birthday, she seemed to see the old lady eating sour jujube cake." Could it be that there is something wrong with that sour jujube cake? ”

As soon as Liu Mengyan said this, a glimmer of light flashed in the eyes of the third prince who had been sitting silently next to him, but he was quickly suppressed by him.

Chen said suspiciously, "Sour jujube cake? When did the old lady eat sour jujube cake, I didn't let anyone send this kind of thing to the old lady at all. ”

Master Jiang listened to Chen's words, glared at her and said, "Why don't you go and call the people who are waiting for the old lady out and ask?" ”

Chen received the order, hurriedly turned around and left.

At this time, the third prince looked at Liu Mengyan with an uncertain face and said, "This palace really hasn't seen it." I didn't expect that although the county lord was just a woman, he seemed to be very calm and calm when he encountered something. ”

Liu Mengyan secretly thought that in her last life, she had been a virtuous princess for eight years, and she had never messed up when she encountered things that were a hundred times more fierce than now.

It's just that of course it is impossible to say this, so he smiled at the third prince and said, "Old Madam Jiang is a loving old man. Such a good person was killed, and the murderer was really intolerable by heaven and law. ”

Listening to Liu Mengyan's words, a trace of embarrassment flashed on the third prince's face, but soon, he said calmly, "As the county lord said, the murderer is extremely evil, so he will definitely be able to bring the murderer to justice." ”

At this moment, Chen led a maid in, and she said to Master Jiang, "This is the maid who is responsible for eating next to my mother-in-law, called Chunping, what my mother-in-law ate, Chunping knows very clearly." ”

"Chunping, to be honest, the old lady has eaten sour jujube cake indoors today?" Master Jiang asked at Chunping.

Chunping thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Master, I remembered what you said, but there is such a thing, today, the second lady sent someone to send the old lady sour jujube cake, saying that the old lady loves to eat, and the slave didn't think much about it at that time, so she put the plate of sour jujube cake in front of the old lady, thinking that the old lady could eat a few." ”

As soon as Chunping's words fell, Liu Mengyan then asked, "Chunping, in that case, is there any sour jujube cake that your old lady eats?" ”

"Yes, yes." Chunping nodded and said.

Liu Mengyan continued to ask Chunping, "Then what else did your old lady eat today besides eating this sour jujube cake?" ”

"The old lady's appetite has never been very good, so I ate a bowl of porridge this morning, but the old lady likes sour, so the sour jujube cake was sent by the second lady, and it happened that the old lady also liked it, and the slave maid let the old lady eat a few sour jujube cakes."

Chunping's words made the people present stunned, it seems that the sour jujube cake is really the most critical thing, if it wasn't for Liu Mengyan to say it, such an important clue might be ignored by everyone.

Liu Mengyan said to Master Jiang, "Chunping's words, Lord Jiang has also heard it, and I have to trouble you to bring that plate of sour jujube cake to someone to check and check to see if there is a problem with that plate of sour jujube cake." ”

Master Jiang glanced at Chunping, Chunping hurriedly responded, and after a while, she walked down, intending to bring the plate of sour jujube cakes.

"Uncle Zu, county lord, madam, although this sour jujube cake is also suspicious, but the old lady didn't just eat the sour jujube cake today, according to the palace, the porridge that the old lady ate in the morning should be properly inspected." The third prince said suddenly.

"Third prince, the old lady drank the porridge this morning, and it has been three hours since now, if there is really anything wrong with the porridge, the old lady would have been poisoned and fainted." Liu Mengyan looked at the three princes and said.

Master Jiang listened to Liu Mengyan's words and nodded, "The county lord is right, if it is the problem of porridge, where can the old lady eat so many sour jujube cakes." ”

Liu Mengyan felt that the behavior of the third prince just now was a little strange, he seemed to want people to check the plate of sour jujube cake, and tried his best to push the responsibility of the old lady's poisoning on the porridge.

But it's not strange to think about it, the sour jujube cake was sent by the second lady, and the second lady is the wife of the second master of Jiang Mansion, the mother of Concubine Xuan in the palace, and the grandmother of the third prince.

Liu Mengyan also figured it out, the third prince maintained this plate of sour jujube cake, probably because he didn't want everyone to suspect the second wife of Jiang's Zeng.

After all, if it is really the reason for the sour jujube cake, then the Zeng family is not so innocent, and he, the third prince, is not very good-looking.

At that time, everyone will still think that it is not because of his dissatisfaction as a great-grandson, so his grandmother will do such a thing to her mother-in-law.

Of course, seeing the thoughtful looks of Master Jiang and the Chen family falling on the three princes, she knew that she was not the only one who thought so.

Chunping walked in with a plate, and there were only a few sour jujube cakes left in the plate.

Before Liu Mengyan could speak, Master Jiang said to Chen, "Hurry up and bring this plate of sour jujube cake to the house doctor to see if there is any poison in it." ”

In the Jiang family, the second master Jiang passed away very early, and the Zeng family only left a son and a daughter, and the daughter later entered the palace and became the emperor's concubine, and later became a concubine.

As for the son, he is also stained with his daughter's light, and now he is the commander of the army, but now he is in the field, so he did not come back to the old lady's birthday banquet this time.

It can be said that in addition to the widow, Zeng's children are extremely promising.

Master Jiang himself is also the uncle of Concubine Xuan, serving as the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Although the children of the Jiang family's big house are not as promising as the two children from the Jiang family's second room, Uncle Jiang is still the backbone of the Jiang family.

Although the children in the second room are noble, the second master Jiang is no longer there after all, and the children in the second room are not at home, and there is only one woman like the Zeng family in the entire second room, and the second room is naturally not as good as the big room.

Listening to Master Jiang asking people to take the sour jujube cake for inspection, isn't this obviously suspicious of his own grandmother?

Thinking of this, the third prince stood up. "Slow." ”

He looked at Master Jiang and continued, "Uncle's grandfather's approach has made the palace a little incomprehensible, what do you mean?" Do you suspect that my maternal grandmother, the second lady of the Jiang family, harmed my great-grandmother? ”

At this moment, a woman about the same age as the Chen family came in from outside the door, and that woman was the grandmother of the third prince, Zeng.

As soon as she walked in, she walked straight to Uncle Jiang and said, "Brother, my brother-in-law already knows about my mother-in-law's poisoned concubine." My brother and daughter-in-law are just a piece of filial piety, and I want to honor the old lady on the day of the birthday banquet, so I took the initiative to send her some sour jujube cake to the old lady, why is it because of this, the eldest brother suspects that I poisoned the old lady? ”

Master Jiang was also questioned by the Zeng family, and his face was a little unbearable, not to mention that there was a third prince watching on the side, and the Zeng family was the grandmother of the third prince after all.

Chen stood up at this time and said, "What are the younger brothers and sisters talking about, your eldest brother and I are not suspicious of you, it's just that something happened to the old lady, and we need to check anything that the old lady has touched, it's not that we suspect that the younger brother and sister have poisoned the old lady, and the younger brother and sister think too much." ”