This was a loud noise, Xiao Zhou woke up later, opened his eyes, and looked at him: "Husband, what's wrong?" ”

Li Yu's face turned pale, staring at the pastries on the coffee table, and even Xiao Zhouhou's sober surprise was overshadowed, and he said in a trembling voice: "Don't move!" Just lie in bed! Don't touch the pastries on the coffee table! I'll be right back! ”

Li Yu opened the door, went out to the lobby, and looked at the front and back doors, which were all closed properly, and the latch was closed. He rushed to the front door, opened the door, and came to the bottom of the porch.

The snow had long since stopped, but the courtyard was still quiet, and not a single servant had risen.

Li Yu was already accustomed to the laziness of his servants, and no one got up to ask about the sound of the screen falling down so loudly just now, which made him feel the coldness of the world. However, what he found just now no longer allowed him to question with emotion, and he shouted loudly: "Someone! Anyone? Come on! ”

After calling several times in a row, an old woman opened the door sleepily and came out, squinted to see that it was him, and said busily: "Is there something wrong with the master?" Is it that the lady's illness is not good again, let the call people? The old man immediately called them up! -- Get up all ......"

"No need!" Li Yu hurriedly said: "Madame's illness is nothing serious, you go to the kitchen immediately and help me catch a chicken!" To live! ”

"Catch chickens? What does the master want the chicken to do? ”

"You don't have to worry about it! Go now! ”

"Oh!" The old woman hurriedly agreed, and was about to walk to the kitchen while stepping on the snow, but after thinking about it, she stopped again, turned around and said, "Master, does this chicken want male or female?" ”

"Whatever!"

"Oh!" The old woman nodded, walked a few steps and stood again, turned around and said, "Master, do you want an old chicken or a young chicken?" ”

"It's all right! Hurry up! ”

"Got it!" The old woman walked a few more steps, stopped, turned around, and wanted to say something, but when she saw Li Yutie staring at her with a blue face, she scared back all the words and hurried away.

Li Yu was worried about his wife in the house, so he hurriedly returned to the bedroom and saw that his wife had already gotten up and sat at the head of the bed. Her expression was sluggish, but her eyes were full of horror when she looked at the pastries on the coffee table by the bedside, and it was obvious that she also saw a problem.

When Li Yu saw Xiao Zhouhou's expression, his heart was sour, and he hurried over, sat on the edge of the bed, and supported her. Xiao Zhouhou leaned on his arms and said tremblingly: "Husband, ......, this is ......, what's going on?" ”

"Don't be afraid! Let's take a look! ”

Li Yu's comfort made Xiao Zhouhou panic even more, and her body trembled like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind. Li Yu himself was even more scared, and he also began to tremble.

When the two of them were panicking, an old woman's voice came from under the porch outside the door: "Master, the chicken is here!" ”

Although the door is not closed, as long as you are not a servant in the house, you cannot enter the master's inner room. So the old woman just stood under the porch of the door and gave a report.

Li Yu hurriedly let go of his wife, got up and came out, saw the old woman holding a fat old hen in her hand, and smiled at him: "Master, what do you think of this one?" This is an egg-laying Luhua chicken, one egg a day, very accurate! Today's eggs haven't been laid yet, and the old body is just wondering, what do you want chickens to do early in the morning, sir? Come to think of it, I'm afraid it's not to watch hens lay eggs, right? So the old body chose this one, and there were several hens that laid eggs in the kitchen, why did the old body choose ......?"

Before she finished nagging, Li Yu had already snatched it up, the hen was clucking, Li Yu couldn't catch it, and a chicken wing was out of control, constantly fluttering, and the feathers flew wildly.

The old woman hurriedly helped catch it, helped Li Yu catch the chicken, and continued to nag in her mouth: "This Luhua chicken is the most obedient, and it is also diligent in laying eggs, but if the old man is not satisfied, the old man can catch other ......."

Before she finished speaking, Li Yu had already turned around and entered the house, and closed the door of the lobby with a bang.

The old woman smacked her shriveled lips, looked at the closed door, thought for a moment, looked left and right to see that there was no one, and then quietly went out of the bedroom window and listened. I heard the reed chicken inside clucking, as if it was pecking at something. I couldn't help but smile, thinking to myself, it must be that Mrs. has just recovered from a serious illness, she is upset, and there is nothing to play, the old man feels sorry for Mrs., so he found a chicken to play with Mrs.

If that's the case, I should choose a few little chicks for my wife to play with, and eat on Twitter, so as to be funny. But the old man didn't say it, and he didn't know that his wife wanted to watch the chickens eat. It's a shame I didn't find the best one.

The old woman shook her head, sighed secretly, turned to leave, and suddenly heard the miserable scream of the Luhua chicken in the house, and could hear the Luhua chicken constantly flapping its wings, the sound was very miserable, and then I couldn't hear the cry of the Luhua chicken, only the fluttering of the wings. This voice is very familiar to the old woman, every time she kills a chicken, when the chicken is dying, it flutters like this.

The old woman's face couldn't help but change greatly, didn't the old man use the chicken to make the lady happy, but killed the chicken to show the lady to make her happy? How can there be such a delight!

The old woman muttered and walked to the door of the lobby, and wanted to push the door in to see what was going on, but it was still not good, so she stood again, hesitated for a moment, and sighed, thinking that this was someone's chicken anyway, and they could play as much as they liked, but they took pity on the Luhua chicken that laid eggs.

She sighed as she walked down the steps, and at this moment, she heard the door of the lobby squeak open, and the old man Li Yu came out of the house quickly. The old woman hurriedly stepped aside and said to Li Yu with a smile: "Master, is that Luhua chicken okay?" How do you ...... old man?"

Li Yu ignored her at all, as if he didn't look at her, and walked straight to the gate, shouting: "Quick!" Fast! Prepare a sedan car! Fast! ”

The old woman looked left and right, and there were no other servants in the courtyard except her, was the old man talking to himself?

Li Yu didn't hear the reaction, turned around and said angrily at the old woman: "I said let you prepare a sedan chair, are you deaf?" Hurry up! ”

Li Yu's temper has always been very good, but he sighs or cries his nose, and he never gets angry with the servant easily, but this time he was on fire, which frightened the old woman, and quickly agreed, and quickly ran to the front hall, pulled the sedan chair man up, and let the sedan chair be prepared quickly, and the old man would go out early in the morning.

Those sedan chair men have not woken up, and were pulled up by the old woman from the bed bare-chested, and heard that the old man was angry, so he panicked, hurriedly got his clothes and carried the sedan chair out, Li Yu was like an ant on the hot pot in the front hall yard, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask the master to get on the sedan chair. Li Yu didn't care about reprimanding them, hurriedly got into the sedan chair, and went out.

Li Yu's shout, the people in the front yard and the back yard heard it, and knew that something was wrong, so they quickly got up, came out one by one, and discussed what happened under the porch. When they saw the old woman, they all gathered around and asked.

The old woman told her that the old man had asked her to catch the chicken early in the morning, and said that she heard the reed chicken in the house fluttering as if it were dead, and then the old man hurried out. When the servants heard this, they were dumbfounded, not knowing what was happening. They all turned their heads to look at the main room. However, since something had happened, and the lady had been very ill for the past few days, even the emperor's imperial doctor had come to see her, and she didn't dare to come forward to inquire, so she shrank under the porch one by one and muttered and discussed.

The old man Li Yu finally came back and invited the cold push official of Kaifeng Mansion. Leng Yi has been here before, most of the servants know each other, and when they saw that the official in charge of solving the case from the yamen came, these servants even guessed that something must have happened!

Something really happened in the lobby.

Leng Yi walked into the bedroom door and saw a Luhua chicken lying on the ground with its legs stretched out, with white foam at the corners of its mouth. Xiao Zhouhou leaned on the head of the bed in horror and looked at him.

Li Yu cried with a sad face, and said in a low voice: "When I got up in the morning, I wanted to eat breakfast, but I found that the pastry was not wrong, it was torn apart, and a dark red powder was put in the interlayer, I looked very like a highly poisonous crane top red!" I asked my servant to bring a chicken and feed it a snack, and the chicken convulsed and died of convulsions! ”

Leng Yi leaned over to look at the pastries on the coffee table and found that almost all of them had been broken and sprinkled with this dark red poison. asked, "You say this is Heding Red?" ”

"Yes! I recognize this kind of poison, in the Southern Tang Dynasty, there was it in the palace, and it was used by special people to kill ministers, concubines, etc. If you eat it, you won't need a cup of tea and you'll die! - Now someone has put Heding red in my pastry, this kind of poison is only available in the palace, ordinary people can't have it, it must be the last time the official family hung white silk and asked me to commit suicide, I didn't do it, so this time I poisoned it directly! I ......, what can I do? ”

Li Yu was already frightened, and his face was pale, and he was covered in chaff.

Xiao Zhouhou didn't know if it was because of his illness or because of nervousness, he kept coughing, and his pretty face turned red.

Leng Yi asked, "Who sent this pastry?" ”

"It's the chef in my house who made it himself, there is no problem with the pastry itself, last night, I and the flower doctor and we both guarded my wife, I was hungry, I took it out and we both filled our stomachs, there was no problem at that time."

"Oh? Have you two eaten this pastry? ”

"Yes! Everyone ate several pieces and nothing happened. But today, I found out that something was wrong with the pastry, and sure enough, it must be an official ......."

Leng Yi waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, don't talk nonsense before the matter is clarified!" ”

Li Yu immediately woke up and quickly covered his mouth.

Leng Yi said: "You didn't have anything to eat last night, so you should have been poisoned at night." When did you go to bed last night? When did you get up? ”

Li Yu said: "When I sleep, it should be the third watch!" Because I have been guarding my wife a few days ago, I basically didn't sleep much, and last night when the flower doctor left, I said that my wife's illness is no longer dangerous, so I can sleep boldly with confidence. When I woke up, it was just dawn, probably morning. At that time, I was about to eat breakfast, and I noticed that there was something wrong with this pastry, and if I hadn't looked at it carefully, perhaps it would not be the hen that laid the eggs that was lying on the ground now, but me. ”

Li Yu looked at the hen on the ground with palpitations, and his words were full of fear.

Leng Yi said to Xiao Zhouhou who was leaning on the head of the bed: "Madame hasn't gotten up, has she?" ”

Xiao Zhou shook his head: "I woke up once yesterday, and it wasn't until this morning that my husband found that the pastry was poisonous and knocked over the screen, which woke me up." I slept all the time and never woke up. Just now, after my husband gave the hen a pastry, he found that the hen was poisoned and died, and we were very scared, so we thought of you, Lord Leng, and my husband went to invite you. I haven't gotten out of bed since then. ”

Leng Yi asked Li Yu: "When you got up, were the doors and windows closed?" ”

"Shut it off! I closed it myself before I went to bed last night, and I was worried that bad people would come in and harm our husband and wife, so every time I went to bed, I also carefully checked the doors and windows. ”

"And what about last night?"

"The door is closed, I sent the flower doctor out last night, and then I closed it and plugged it in. Then I watched for a while, and I was so sleepy that I sat down in my chair and fell asleep. ”

Leng Yi nodded, squatted down, and observed the traces on the side of the coffee table, but unfortunately, there was nothing unusual to find. He got up again, looked up at the roof above his head, and there was no sign of it being turned, and checked the window in front of him, and found that it was closed properly. I walked to the back window again, glanced at it, couldn't help but be stunned, and turned back to Li Yu and said, "Are the windows all closed?" ”

Li Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "It should be closed!" Because I haven't opened the window for any of these days. However, before going to bed, I had to check whether the doors and windows were properly closed, and since they were not moving, they should have been closed. ――What's wrong? Li Yu found a question Leng Yi asked in front of the back window, so he felt a little strange, and hurriedly walked over and asked.

Leng Yi looked at the back bed Nunu mouth.

When Li Yu saw it, not only did his face turn whiter! - There is a window in the back window that is hidden!

Li Yu said in horror: "Yes! That's it! It must have been the official family who sent someone to come in through the window while I was asleep, poisoned the pastry, and wanted to poison me! ”

Li Yu whimpered and cried......

Leng Yi carefully observed the back window, pushed it open again, and checked the snow under the window outside, but there were some messy footprints. He looked closely at the footprints and frowned.

At this time, Li Yu's crying became louder and louder: "Oh my God! I have surrendered, there is no country and no army, just a poor helpless literati, and I no longer write poems for my homeland, can't the officials let me go? Why do you have to put me to death? Woowoooooooo

Leng Yi hurriedly turned around and said: "Grandpa, don't worry about it first, whether the official family sent someone to do it or not, it is not too late to let the lowly investigation be carried out first." ”

Li Yu shook his head gloomily: "No need to check, I already know very clearly, it is the official family who wants me to die!" He thought, he wanted to kill me, so that he could take over my wife! Just like when Emperor Gaozu poisoned Meng Chang, the lord of Shu State, and occupied Mrs. Hua Rui, ......! ”

Leng Yi hurriedly waved his hand to signal him not to talk nonsense.

(To be continued)