"If this happens, sister, we can be more or less stable."

It's night.

Tai Chi Palace.

Inside the Rizheng Palace.

Wen Niang helped Mei Niang, who was carrying a somewhat oversized belly with difficulty, and walked back and forth in the hall, while whispering.

Mei Niang nodded:

"Not really......

It's more or less stable......

It's just that how long this stability can last is another matter! ”

Wen Niang looked at Mei Niang and carefully helped her walk through a small threshold:

"What does my sister mean......

Then Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu, most likely won't give up so easily? ”

"It's not just them, it's the other women in the harem, how can they stop?"

Mei Niang sighed:

"It's just......

I don't know how they're going to toss......

I hope, just hopefully, that before this child is born, there will be no more major incidents......

If I want to come, at least I have to wait until this child is born, and I can analyze and deal with it properly.

Otherwise, I'm afraid that by then, I won't be able to take care of myself! ”

…… It's a pity that Mei Niang's prayer didn't come true after all.

The first day of September in the second year of Yonghui.

Tai Chi Palace.

Early in the morning, in the back garden, there was a lot of trouble.

And the first one to be alarmed was the queen Wang's family-

She was alarmed by the cries of King Chen and Li Zhong.

……

Half an hour later.

Inside the Rizheng Palace.

Mei Niang hadn't gotten up yet, and she was asleep deeply, so only Wen Niang, Rui'an, Liu'er, and Yuru listened to Yuming's return.

"What do you say?!

Liu Gongshou was ......

She was ......"

Hearing such news, the first person who changed his face was Yuru.

Ryan was still calm, but he turned his head to Liu'er and said:

"Go to the Taiji Palace, ask my brother, and see how this matter is!"

Liu'er left in response, and Yu Wenniang stepped forward, took Yuming's hand with Yuru, went to the side and poured a glass of water to drink with her, and asked:

"Don't be in a hurry, say slowly, what's going on?

It's good, how can people say that if there is none, it will be gone? ”

Yuming trotted all the way back, and he was really thirsty, so he drank half a cup of water, and then wiped the corners of his lips and said:

"Didn't you say that?

Just now I followed my sister's words, to find the inner division to get some new kind of silk, thinking about cutting a small package for the little prince, who knows, I heard that there is a commotion, Wanchun Palace's red silk is busy with the inner division elements of white hemp filial piety (that is, referring to filial piety's clothing).

As soon as I heard it, I was wrong, I smoked, and I hid on the side to listen carefully, only to know that last night, the Liu palace attendant suddenly died! ”

Yuru hurriedly said:

"How did you die?"

"He said he was hungry and ate something he shouldn't eat, and he died of poisoning.

She has been favored by the young lord over the years, and it is the queen who has deliberately excluded and isolated, and she was also robbed because of her only child, and her heart is also depressed, and those people in the palace who have high eyes and low eyes do not take her seriously.

In the past, she often lacked food and clothing in the palace, and these days, it has been even more difficult.

I heard that a few days ago, her money was deducted several times for no reason. ”

Yuming Road.

Wen Niang immediately gasped:

"How many times have you deducted?!

But her money is only ten times!

This......

How is this going to live?!

Why didn't she come to our sister?! ”

Yuming sighed:

"How else to say that she hasn't had a good life these days?

I heard that all the money she was deducted was privately divided by several palace attendants and maids under His Royal Highness Wan Chun.

Liu Gong's attendant didn't care at all, and even asked someone to exchange the remaining few pieces of money for a few pieces of material that His Royal Highness King Chen liked, made clothes, and secretly sent them to him......

If it weren't for the fact that one of these materials was too small in size, His Royal Highness King Chen would just take advantage of this reason to see her, thinking that the mother and son would say a few words when they met, but I was afraid that the remains of Liu Gongshou would turn into white bones, and no one would find out! ”

When Yuru heard this, she was also worried:

"Pity Liu Gong's servant......

thought that she was also a good woman back then, but she ended up in such a situation......

But Sister Wen Niang asked too, she has always been friends with our lady, why don't you ask our sister for help? ”

Yuming shook his head and said:

"I don't know that......

It's just that sister, Sister Wen Niang, judging from Yuming, I'm afraid that the death of this Liu Gongshou will have another inside story! ”

Wen Niang was stunned, thought for a while, and said:

"What do you mean......"

"Most of the time someone is taking advantage of the opportunity.

I'm afraid that the murderer can't leave the threshold of the Wanchun Palace. ”

Yuming said straight.

Yuru immediately frowned:

"Although there are no good people in the Wanchun Palace, it is also the Middle Palace in the end.

If there is no evidence, let's not jump to conclusions.

After all, the lord is busy subduing the ministers in the front court, and the lady is pregnant, and she is about to give birth in less than a month or two......

If you don't have any evidence for the final term, don't talk nonsense and make the lady feel upset. ”

Yuming said:

"I'm afraid it's really not Yuming's nonsense!

My sister didn't know, when Fang Cai Yuming came back all the way, she paid attention to inquiring, and then she found out that the things that Liu Gongshou ate yesterday were not found by herself, but others said no in front of her, so she gave birth to her. ”

Yu Ruyi was stunned:

"Someone else didn't want it for her?

I'm afraid it's not a suspicious person, is it?

Liu Gongshou has always acted cautiously, if she is not very sure, I am afraid that if that person is under the banner of our lady, she will not easily accept the food.

Or......

Isn't she really ......

Is it really unbearable?

Alas! Left and right are inhuman things doing evil!

Anyway, I have to find an opportunity to sue the Lord, so that these unconscionable people can accompany Liu Gong's servants to suffer one by one!! ”

Yuru said hatefully, and Wen Niang also nodded:

"Probably so?"

Yuming responded:

"That's right, I heard that the one who gave her something was an honest little palace maid, and she has always been a character who has never quarreled with others, up and down, because she is honest and hardworking, and she has no thoughts, and she loves her very much.

Therefore, in all palaces and halls, she has not been rewarded with some rough and simple food......

It is said that this time she was rewarded by a small palace attendant under His Royal Highness Wanchun, saying that it was a box of ice cream prepared for the queen (a kind of cake in the court in the Tang Dynasty, characterized by soft as silk, transparent as ice, warm in the mouth, but once it melts, there will be a kind of cool and refreshing feeling similar to today's mint, sweet but not greasy, silky slippery, so it is called ice cake), as a result, because of the cold, the queen didn't want to eat anymore and rewarded the little palace attendant, and the small palace attendant has never been able to eat this thing, so it was transferred to the Liu palace attendant. ”

Wen Niang was anxious when she heard what Yuming said, and she was a little vague, so she immediately stopped her, and first sorted it out in her heart, and then said:

"Sister Yuming, what do you mean......

The little palace maid who gave the pastries and Liu Gongshou got the pastries from a small palace attendant of His Royal Highness Wanchun? ”

"Exactly."

Yuming also knew that he was in a hurry, so he said again carefully:

"That little palace maid is a rough palace maid in the Huanyi House, but she is honest and hardworking, and all palaces and palaces like her, so there are many palace attendants who are good friends with her looking for opportunities and will always give her some good things.

Compared with this, Queen Wang usually likes to eat this ice cream the most, but I made it yesterday but I don't know why it didn't taste good, but it was cold.

Sister Wen Niang, you also know that if the ice cream is not eaten while it is hot, many people will not be able to stand the ice feeling.

So the queen said that she was taking warm medicine and couldn't eat such cold things, and called for a reward for a small palace attendant of her Royal Highness who was good friends with this rough palace maid.

The little palace attendant is also doing red things, and she can't eat this thing, and things like snacks are the most unbearable, and the more she puts them, the cooler and harder they are, and she can no longer eat them, so she generously rewarded the rough palace maid.

The rough palace maid was kind-hearted, and secondly, she was in the same situation as the little palace attendant, and she was also coincidental and couldn't eat cold, knowing that this Liu palace maid had been tearing cloth and making clothes for His Royal Highness King Chen in order to save money, and the water and rice had not touched his teeth for two or three days, so he gave this thing to the Liu palace attendant......

Outcome......

Results ......"

Yuming glanced at Wen Niang, and said meaningfully:

"The result is so coincidental, it is the powder used in the ice cream cake on this day, today it has been replaced by thick-based flour that will be extra appetizing once it is cold (similar to today's potato flour, starch that is more difficult to digest and stomach-depressing, and something called thin-based flour such as lotus root flour, which is very easy to digest. Because of the need to ensure its soft and fluffy characteristics, according to some folk recipes that are said to be in the Tang Dynasty, this court pastry that has only become popular among the people since the Tang Dynasty is mainly made of lotus root flour, and of course, there are occasional people who like to use potato flour or water chestnut flour to make thick ice cream cakes...... For example, in the biography of Wu Cao, it is said that Wu Zetian is a ...... ）。

Sister Wen Niang, and sister, you are also very good at cooking, and you know that this pastry made of thick-based flour is indeed very good at wrapping the stomach, but there is one thing, once it cools down, it must be well heated before you can eat a lot of it, otherwise it will only teach people to fall into the stomach.

But the palace attendant Liu didn't know, thinking that this ice cream was made of lotus root flour, so it didn't hurt to eat more......

Wen Niang immediately understood, gasped and said:

She hasn't eaten for a few days, so she is naturally hungry, and once she encounters food, she will overeat, and it will inevitably be difficult to control.

Once you eat the ice cream made of thick-bottomed flour, it is non-toxic, but I am afraid that it is difficult to withstand the kind of gold (that is, swallowing gold nuggets, needless to say, the richest method of suicide in ancient times...... The pain of falling abdomen will teach her that it is not impossible that her stomach will be cut off and she will die! ”

(Here is the first correction, when I just flipped through some notes, I found that in the records of the noodle food in the diet, lotus root powder first appeared in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, here because I am lazy, so I casually flipped through a book that introduced Wu Zetian's personal life in modern times, and I looked at it at random and did not check it...... Sorry everyone! I'll find a way to correct it when I get back to it, I'm really sorry!! ）

Yuru Dao:

"Yes......

Didn't she die of poisoning?

Why does it have anything to do with this ice cream again? ”

"Liu Gongshou did die of poisoning, but he did die of poisoning from eating this ice cream."

Liu'er's voice sounded not far away.

A few people turned around, and Ryan, who had not spoken, immediately said:

"You said that Liu Gongshou died after eating this thing?

Poisoned again? Did my brother say that?

That......

Is the poison in this ice cream? ”

Liu'er nodded, shook his head again, and said:

"When Liu'er went, Brother De'an was about to arrange for someone to report to us about it!

It is said that because of the special matter, the Lord has already transferred Lord Di Renjie, who originally arranged to go out to accompany Lord Tang to inspect the provincial case offices, and he must carefully investigate this case before making a decision! ”

Ryan's eyes immediately widened:

"Why so cautious...... Could it be that this poison really came down in the pastry in which palace intended to harm the queen, and as a result, indirectly harmed the palace attendant Liu? ”

"No......

Listening to Brother De'an, the meaning of the lord is that I am afraid that this queen is not the one who was killed, but the one who caused the harm, but her target was Liu Gongshi.

So this time she was really prepared.

After all, the entire Taiji Palace knows that the queen likes to eat ice cream.

can know that Sister Wu and the queen are both very fond of ice cream, but on the contrary, there are few people who must eat ice cream made of thick flour to be too hard!

And this queen herself is one of them. ”

Ryan and the others immediately understood, Qi Qi gasped, and before he could say anything, he suddenly heard Mei Niang faintly laughing from behind:

"But it looks like Jiro has made some arrangements, right?

Otherwise, there would have been news in the palace at this moment, saying that I was the real culprit behind the killing of Liu Gongzhi. ”

Immediately, all the attendants hurriedly turned back, first stunned, and then rushed to the side of Mei Niang, who had been listening for a long time, and supported her, so that they complained and complained about her situation, and they didn't know how to call someone to serve.

Mei Niang smiled and said:

"It's okay...... I'm also very busy......

How is it?

Jiro has made some arrangements, right? ”

Liu'er stared at Mei Niang closely, watching her sit on the couch with the help of Ryan and Wen Niang, and then she breathed a sigh of relief and nodded:

"My sister is right, I heard Brother De'an say that the queen also died by herself, in order to be afraid that Liu Gongshou would not die, the thick-bottomed powder used was actually an extraordinary thing, what is it called...... What kind of konjac is still konjac, a cake made of corn flour made of ground cornstarch!

I heard that the konjac is still a pastry made of konjac powder, and it looks very fine and greasy, even compared to the refreshing and slippery taste, this thing is better than the thin powder, but yes, this thing is the most absorbent, once it is stained with water, it is hundreds of times to death, plus it is toxic, once the heat is not good, it is very easy to be poisoned.

Although it is not poisonous and lethal, it can be added to the body that is prone to growth...... Since ancient times, many famine victims have died under it! ”

Mei Niang was stunned, and suddenly smiled:

"That'...... How does Queen Wang plan to teach people to know that this demon yam or konjac powder is only available in our Lizheng Palace? ”

Liu'er nodded and said:

"That's where it is! Listening to the Lord and Brother De'an, when the prince went to see General Li Yun, General Li had already said, didn't we break into the concubine's cat who had a conflict with Concubine Cui a few days ago?

My sister also took the opportunity to get a ban on the ......"

Mei Niang nodded, and then suddenly said:

"That's right......

It's been so long, and only that once...... Only that time, outsiders entered the Lizheng Palace, although it was only the courtyard outside the palace, but that was enough...... After all, what they were staring at was the unnoticed dining room in the courtyard......

Well, sure enough, they are interlocking, one plan after another!

She's so smart, ......."

Mei Niang smiled, and the murderous intent appeared in her eyes:

"If I don't repay the favor, how can I be worthy of her?

Wen Niang, you go and arrange, you must find a way after tomorrow night, so that I can meet His Royal Highness King Chen!

Ryan, you go and inform Jiro, and ask him to make sure that it is arranged, at least until I meet His Royal Highness King Chen, no matter who it is, can't come to bother us with the Imperial Palace!" Got it? ”

"Yes!"