Wang Laohu carefully opened the cloth wrapped outside, and a complete osmanthus cake appeared in front of Wang Laohu.

"Lord Cao, I found a piece of osmanthus cake." Wang Laohu summoned Lord Cao over.

"Isn't it just a piece of osmanthus cake? Didn't we try it last time, and there was no problem with this osmanthus cake. ”

"Master Cao, do you remember what Miss Mingyue said in our Jinyiwei prison? Concubine Hui once rewarded her with a piece of osmanthus cake, but she was reluctant to eat it, so she put it aside. ”

"Are you saying that this osmanthus cake is the piece that Concubine Hui gave to Mingyue Maid?"

"It should be this one, we forgot about it a while ago."

"Isn't this osmanthus cake the same as those on the table?" Master Cao asked puzzled.

"Lord Cao, have you forgotten that someone came in last night, can we guarantee that he didn't enter Concubine Hui's room before?"

"What does Wang Gongzi mean, the osmanthus cake on the table has been dropped?"

"I'm just guessing if there's a problem with this cake, we just need to do the test to know." Wang Laohu said.

Wang Laohu took out the silver needle, carefully inserted it into the osmanthus cake, and after a while, took out the silver needle, and the silver needle did not change color. Could it be that Wang Laohu's judgment was wrong?

"Rong Yu, fetch the chicken." As before, Wang Laohu broke half of the osmanthus cake and threw it on the ground. The chicken saw that there was food and ate it quickly. After a while, the osmanthus cake on the ground was eaten.

Wang Laohu, Master Cao, Rong Yu, and Pan Tai looked nervously at the chicken in front of them.

The chicken was fine, it paced its vigorous steps, walking around. The scene that Wang Laohu hoped to see did not appear, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

Just when he was disappointed, Rong Yu said: "Childe, look, there is something wrong with this chicken." Wang Laohu looked around, the chicken swayed, it kept bumping, its eyes seemed to be unable to see clearly, it hit the table for a while, hit the wall for a while, it ran over and over from this side, it looked very excited.

After a few tosses and turns, the chicken fell to the ground, twitching on the ground as if its muscles were twitching, and in less than a quarter of an hour the chicken stopped moving.

Wang Laohu and Master Cao sighed at each other, it turned out that the real cause of death of Concubine Hui was this osmanthus cake.

With a new direction of investigation, the next thing to do is the origin of this osmanthus cake, listening to Mingyue said, this osmanthus cake was brought by a maid named Qiu Neng.

Temporary accommodation.

Qiu Neng knelt on the ground, Lord Cao sat in the hall, and Wang Laohu, Rong Yu and Pan Tai stood beside them.

"Chinese New Year's Eve, you gave the osmanthus cake over there from Concubine Hui, right?" Master Cao asked.

Qiu Neng said a little timidly: "Yes...... Be...... Sent by slaves. ”

"Who asked you to give this osmanthus cake?"

"It's the West Guifei Niangniang who makes the slave maid...... For Concubine Hui's mother. ”

"Why did she send osmanthus cake to Concubine Hui."

"Concubine Xi said that Concubine Hui has a dragon heir, and she will be hungry when she wakes up from sleep at night, so let me send some osmanthus cake."

"Did you get this osmanthus cake directly to Concubine Hui? Did anything happen in between? ”

"I brought the dim sum from the imperial kitchen, and I went directly to Concubine Hui's mother, without stopping halfway."

"Are you sure there aren't any problems in between?" Master Cao asked again.

Qiu Neng thought for a moment and said, "I really didn't stay in the middle, so I went directly to Concubine Hui's mother." ”

There was no problem with Qiu Neng's reply.

This Qiu Neng girl is now the key figure in the violent death of Concubine Hui, where is the problem with this osmanthus cake? Is it Concubine Xiniang? It was the osmanthus cake made by Concubine Xi's mother, and her suspicion could not be ruled out. Or autumn energy? In the process of taking the osmanthus cake, Qiu Neng has to do her hands and feet too simply, she only needs to find a secluded place on the road, and sprinkle (or pour) the poison prepared in advance on the osmanthus cake, without knowing it.

But what is the motivation of Qiu Neng girl? Does she have such courage as a little girl? Could it be that she was at the behest of whom, and if so, who was behind her?

Or has it been poisoned when making osmanthus cake?

"Qiu Neng, do you know the purpose of coming to you today?" Wang Laohu said.

"The slave knows."

"Now that you know what's at stake, you should figure out the ins and outs of this matter, and you shouldn't hide it. Do you know why Jinyiwei didn't come to you? Someone didn't expose you. If you are found by Jinyiwei, you know your final consequences. So, please think clearly, what unusual things happened when you took out the osmanthus cake to Concubine Hui's bedroom? Wang Laohu said sharply.

"My lord, I have already said everything I want to say, and I really don't have ...... Something happened. ”

"Okay, since you said that nothing happened, now the evidence is very conclusive, you are the murderer of Concubine Hui." Wang Laohu said loudly.

"No...... It's not me, I'm wronged. "Qiu Neng is aggrieved

"Wronged, you said you were wronged, this matter couldn't be clearer. You take out the pastries from the imperial dining room, then poison them in a secluded place, and then poison Concubine Hui to death, yes and no! Wang Laohu threatened again.

"No, no, sir, it's not like that. My lord, I was really wronged, I didn't do it. Qiu Neng felt very helpless.

"Qiu Neng, let me ask you again, what happened on the way you took out the pastries from the imperial dining room to the time you sent them to Concubine Hui's bedroom?" Wang Laohu said.

"I ...... I ...... "Qiu Neng is still a little stumbling."

"You're not telling the truth." Wang Laohu said loudly again.

"I ...... I was on my way to deliver pastries when I saw ...... Spirit Fox. ”

"You mean, you also saw the spirit fox?"

"Yes, the spirit fox flashed past me, it was night, it was a little dark, I was a little scared, so I was startled, the plate fell over, and the osmanthus cake also fell to the ground."

"Why didn't you just say something so important?"

"I think it's better to have more than one thing, so I didn't say it."

"Okay, think about it, what else haven't you told us?"

"Also, when the osmanthus cake fell, there was a girl who helped me pick up the osmanthus cake together."

"Who's that girl?"

"She is the queen's personal slave Po Zhu."

"It's the osmanthus cake that Na Pozhu picked up for you, did she say anything to you?"

"I didn't speak to her, just nodded to each other."

"Is the place where the osmanthus cake fell close to the queen's bedroom?"

"Not close."

"Since it's not close, why does the queen's personal slave appear nearby?"

"This slave doesn't know."

Now the situation is getting more complicated, and anyone who has come into contact with osmanthus cake is a suspect. Po Zhu, Qiu Neng, the imperial chef making pastries, as well as the West Concubine and the Queen Mother may not be able to get rid of each other, and of course, Linghu.

A spirit fox appeared on the way to deliver the pastries, and Mingyue also saw the spirit fox on the night of Concubine Hui's accident, and the appearance of this spirit fox did not seem to be so simple.

The pastry chef of the imperial kitchen is also a suspect, and of course Wang Laohu will not let it go.

"On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, you made this Guifei Niangniang's osmanthus cake?" Wang Laohu asked.

"Back to my lord, it was the slave who did it. During the day, Concubine Xi came over and asked us to make osmanthus cake for Concubine Hui, saying that she wanted to eat it at night with Concubine Hui. So the minions started early in the afternoon. ”

"You made this osmanthus cake alone? Is there someone in the middle to help. ”

"The osmanthus cakes in the palace are all made by me."

In other words, no one else has ever touched this osmanthus cake. If there is a problem with the source, either the pastry chef has done something wrong, or there is a problem with the source material of the food.

"Do you know that after Concubine Hui ate this osmanthus cake, she suddenly died."

"I've heard about it, so I'm scared for the past few days, for fear that someone will come to the door. I knew I couldn't run. After all, I made this pastry. ”

"If you clear your suspicions, there is only one possibility, and that is that you have a sample of the day's food."

"Sample?" Master Cao and the imperial chef said at the same time.

"You still have the osmanthus cake you made for Concubine Hui in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve."

"It's been so long, how can he still have this osmanthus cake." Cao Daren.

"There are ......," I didn't expect the pastry chef to say softly. In this day and age, are there any chefs who still have the habit of keeping samples?