When Tian Chu heard this, he immediately perked up and said, "Are you sure that after that night, you also saw the eldest lady out of her room?" It was so dark, how could you be sure it was the eldest lady? ”

Xiaomei said: "It's really the eldest lady, we still walked face to face, after I blessed her, I asked her where she was going, if she wanted me to accompany her, she thought it was very anxious, said no, to go out of Gong." I saw that she said no, so I left. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Isn't there a toilet in every room at night?" ”

Xiaomei said: "The eldest lady's room has a Buddhist hall, and the eldest lady said that it is disrespectful to put a toilet in the room, so she has to get up to go to the toilet at night." ”

Meng Tianchu asked, "Where is the latrine?" ”

Xiaomei said: "It's not far behind the Fourth Lady's Building." ”

Meng Tianchu thought, if it was really the two children killed by the eldest lady that night, then the time should be right, he thought that he would have to advance the time a little earlier, probably because something went wrong and he was negligent, but this clue is extremely important.

Meng Tianchu looked at Xiaohong and said, "Do you have anything else to tell me?" ”

Xiaohong quickly shook her head, thinking that this timid maid couldn't wait to go back.

Meng Tianchu said: "You said that you have been with the third lady for a period of time in the past, have you ever seen the third lady eat it because of her poor health?" ”

Xiaohong thought for a while and said, "I haven't been with the third lady for a long time. In less than a month, I went to the eldest lady, but the eldest lady often wanted to eat because she couldn't sleep at night. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Is the cabinet in the eldest lady's room prepared by herself?" ”

Xiaohong said: "I don't know about this, the eldest lady is to make her hair in addition to chanting the scriptures a day, if anyone in the family is uncomfortable, the eldest lady can eat it well, the eldest lady is very powerful." ”

Meng Tianchu thought for a while and said, "The day the second lady had an accident. Have you ever seen the eldest lady leave her room? ”

Xiaohong said: "I happened to be not by the eldest lady's side that night, I don't know. ”

Meng Tianchu was very strange, so he asked, "You have always served closely, why weren't you by her side that night?" ”

Xiaohong said: "That day, my mother gave birth to a younger brother for me, and my father asked me to take the words to go back and see, I didn't dare to ask the eldest lady for leave, so I secretly told the third lady that she agreed." I said that I would be given a day off, so that I would come back the next day no matter what, I left after serving the eldest lady after breakfast, and after coming back the next day, the eldest lady did not say anything to me, thinking that the third lady had already told her. ”

Meng Tianchu thought, then the maid who was serving her beside the eldest lady that day didn't know who it was, and she didn't expect such a show.

Xiaomei said: "There was no maid to serve the eldest lady that day. ”

Meng Tianchu saw Xiaomei say this, and said, "How do you know?" ”

Xiaomei smiled slightly, and there was a pair of small dimples at the corner of her mouth. It looks very cute and playful.

Xiaomei said: "I have been a maid in the Miao family for a long time, so my sister is willing to tell me anything in private, we live together, except for the maid who is close to Mrs. Sifang who does not live with us, and we all live in the same room for other maids, so I know." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Then you know that there must be a lot of things." ”

Xiaomei smiled shyly. said: "Sisters talk, I naturally know something, so I know that there was no personal maid around the eldest lady that day, and I also knew it." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "That eldest lady has no one to serve her, it doesn't seem normal." ”

Xiaomei said: "I also heard from other sisters that the third lady wanted to find a temporary place for the eldest lady, but the eldest lady said that it was not necessary, and she was not used to other maids." That's probably it. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Then what do you think of the eldest lady to the third lady?" ”

Xiaomei said: "I don't know about this, but I suddenly handed over the house to the third lady, and we subordinates and maids still talked about it behind our backs, I don't know what the eldest lady is thinking." ”

Xiaohong said: "I don't know either. ”

Meng Tianchu looked at Xiaohong. I think this maid wants to be afraid of something, probably always by the eldest lady's side, knowing the eldest lady's personality, worried that the eldest lady will embarrass her after she goes out, so she still has great reservations when she speaks, Meng Tianchu also knows that these children from poor families sometimes have to support the family alone

I don't want to force it.

Meng Tianchu said: "Okay, then I'll send you back now." I'll have some food for you sisters later. ”

When the two maids heard this, they happily thanked Meng Tianchu again and again.

After Meng Tianchu instructed Wang Yi to send the two maids back to their cells, he took Murong and Zhu Hao to the door of the eldest lady's cell, the eldest lady was coiled on the bed, her eyes were slightly closed, and she was holding the string of jade Buddha beads in her hand, and she was chanting words in her mouth.

Murong Yuxue looked at the eldest lady with disdain, and whispered that she didn't know what she was muttering, Meng Tianchu motioned to the jailer to open the door, and the eldest lady heard the sound and opened her eyes, and when she saw that it was Meng Tianchu and them, she closed her eyes again.

Meng Tianchu said: "The eldest lady is really a self-cultivation person, and it is really not easy to be able to devote herself to the Buddha in this environment. ”

The eldest lady snorted through her nose and did not answer.

Meng Tianchu said: "On such a cold day, do you need me to say to the jailer and bring a brazier to the eldest lady to warm up?" ”

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The eldest lady still seemed to be unable to hear anyone talking, and did whatever she had to do, without opening her eyes.

Meng Tianchu didn't care, sat down on the only bench in the cell, and continued: "The eldest lady has been in the Miao family since she was a child, and her research on medical skills is naturally comparable to that of the Miao family, so she is in your room..."

Before Meng Tianchu finished speaking, the eldest lady suddenly opened her eyes, looked at Meng Tianchu with a hideous expression and said, "You go to my room?" What else did you do? ”

Meng Tianchu smiled and thought to himself, I have seen countless people like you, and it is not easy for you to speak.

Meng Tianchu said: "Since I entered your room, I naturally saw everything, it is really dazzling, Meng Mou is really knowledgeable." ”

The eldest lady threw herself from the bed to Meng Tianchu, and Zhu Hao stepped forward and flicked the sleeves of his robe and shook the eldest lady back to the bed.

Meng Tianchu was still sitting there, not moving half a step.

The eldest lady said angrily: "So what, that can't explain anything, my Miao family has sold herbs for three generations, and there are herbs in the family, which is a normal thing." ”

Meng Tianchu nodded and said, "I didn't say anything abnormal. ”

After speaking, he stood up and walked back and forth beside the eldest lady, dazzling the eldest lady's eyes.

The eldest lady said, "Can you not dangle in front of me, you have swoken my ground." If you have something to say, you will speak, and if you have no words, you will leave. "I think the big lady has run out of patience.

Meng Tianchu thought to himself, what I want is to make you angry, what I want is to make you impatient, he knows that when people are impatient, they often don't have time to think about what they say, whether they should say it, in other words, what a person who is losing his temper often doesn't think through his brain, so there is an advantage, that is, he can say everything in his heart.

Meng Tianchu said coldly: "How many bottles are poisonous in that cabinet of yours?" ”

The eldest lady didn't react for a moment, was stunned for a moment, and rushed out: "There are not a few bottles." After saying that, the eldest lady knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she quickly covered her mouth with her hand.

Meng Tianchu walked to the eldest lady's side with a smile and said: "Then it seems that the eldest lady's inventory is still a lot, arsenic can poison all the people in your Miao family, you actually said that you don't have a few bottles, your inventory can probably poison the people in our Renhe County, it's not a problem." ”

The eldest lady settled down, thinking that she wanted to calm down first, and then said: "You are playing a trick on me, let me tell you, I have seen a lot of people like you, my Miao family has been in the business of herbs for three generations, and there is nothing in the family, I am not afraid to talk to you about this wherever I go." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "The herbs you sell, naturally you also know that according to my Ming law, a medical hall is not allowed to collect how much arsenic at a time, if it exceeds that amount, I am afraid that you really dare not tell me any reason, not to mention that your collection is not just arsenic and other poisons." When Madam saw Meng Tianchu say this, she immediately shut up and stopped talking.

Meng Tianchu said: "And in the murder case that happened in your Miao family, at least one thing we can be sure of now, that the second lady died of poisoning by others." It's normal for you to swear by it, so in addition to excluding outsiders from entering your Miao house to poison the second lady, is it only your eldest lady who is the most likely? ”