Chapter 18: Eavesdropping in the Corner
Lu Yuanbai's eyes swept over the maid, and the maid timidly lowered her head and didn't dare to look at it, but she could still vaguely identify it by the smell on her body.
"Why are you pretending to be sick when you're not sick?"
The maid cried intermittently, and her mouth choked constantly: "The maid's illness is real, the medicine found by Chu Tongfang is indeed my antidote, I don't want to be discovered, so I want to deal with it secretly in the middle of the night." ”
Chi Yingchu's face was full of disbelief, and he snorted coldly: "It's a lie!" I have seen it with the doctor in private, those flavors of medicine are highly poisonous, you obviously took the medicine yourself, and then framed Zhao Lique ......"
The maid kowtowed and her head was about to break, and her body and voice trembled: "The maid doesn't dare to lie, because it is poisonous, so it will use the method of fighting poison with poison, and the prince can let people fish it up and check it." ”
More than a dozen torches were erected by the pool, and there was a jar floating on the water, Lu Yuanbai said to the guards behind him: "Go and fish it up." ”
"Yes. The guard put down his saber and jumped into the pool to scoop up the jar.
"Even if there is no slap from the fifth aunt, the poison of the maid itself is also caused by her, when she was sent to her side to serve, she suspected that the maid was from another hospital, and if she was slightly unsatisfactory, she took the maid to be angry, and forced to eat rouge gouache, and the poison gradually accumulated......"
Chi Yingchu's eyes were shocked, he didn't expect things to have such a reversal, so the maid was the victim, and Zhao Lique purely deserved it.
"What's the smell in your house during the day, and the strange thing I see on you......"
"These are the sequelae of toxicity, and the strange smell is that the maid hides something that can smell under the bed, thinking that this can prevent others from approaching. ”
Lu Yuanbai asked the imperial doctor to come over again, and the general result was similar to what the maid said, so that everything made sense.
Chi Yingchu thought that he was going to turn around and leave, so he immediately reached out and grabbed him: "This time it can always prove my innocence, right?"
Lu Yuanbai glanced at Zhao Lique who came in a hurry, and an unknown smile appeared in his eyes: "This king understands that you want Zhao Lique to take it for you, but his nature is not the kind of person who is easily persuaded and moved. ”
White-eyed wolf, this is! She has been frowning about this matter for the past few days, thinking about how to investigate it all day long, and now he has changed the nature of this matter with a single sentence.
She was innocent!
Chi Yingchu grabbed his arm and wanted to throw him to the ground, but the half-angel had to give up without strength, and Zhao Lique's voice suddenly sounded behind him, with annoyance.
"Chu Yimiao, do you still want to harm me?"
"It's not me who harmed you!" she quickly let go of her hand, it was the dog man next to her who harmed people, not only harming her but also wanting to harm herself.
"Now it's useless to say more, I won't believe you easily......"
"Okay," Lu Yuanbai interrupted her at the right time, her narrow eyes became deeper in the night, "The maid has already confessed you, and the king of tomorrow will write a letter of resignation and send you back to the Zhao family." ”
"Lord Wang!" Zhao Lique was angry and annoyed, his eyes were red, but Lu Yuanbai didn't give her a chance to plead, and left directly.
Chi Yingchu is not afraid of anything else, but he is afraid that Zhao Lique will find himself to be angry again, so don't think about resting tonight.
She hurriedly followed Lu Yuanbai's steps: "The prince is waiting for me." ”
Chi Yingchu followed him back to Qingzhuyuan, Lu Yuanbai was not in a hurry to drive her out, he pulled the corners of his mouth with a smile: "Who asked you to come?"
She looked around the house, and although there were not many extravagant objects, the house was much larger than the place where she lived, and the calligraphy and paintings framed were priceless.
"I'm worried that the prince will be boring tonight, so I will take the initiative to accompany him, and I will take the initiative to leave tomorrow morning. ”
"You should call yourself a concubine. Lu Yuanbai glanced at her and corrected her title.
Chi Yingchu pretended not to hear, thinking that if he really wanted to be his concubine, it was better to kill her with a sword.
"Lord Wang, the hot water has been prepared. ”
"Hmm. ”
Lu Yuanbai packed up his bedclothes, and his subordinates brought in the hot water and poured it into the large wooden barrel behind the screen.
The subordinate retreated very knowingly, Chi Yingchu was still sitting there, and Lu Yuanbai glanced at her: "This king wants to bathe, and you still don't go out?"
The itch on his arm was terrible, and he didn't know where Fang Cai touched it, Ji Yingchu's eyes collided with him, and he didn't get up to go out, but walked behind the screen.
She stretched out her hand to test the temperature of the water and felt that it was just right, and pretended to start undressing: "Don't come here, my body is red and itchy, you might as well let me wash it first, and then you can let people prepare water again." ”
Lu Yuanbai laughed when he heard it, but he didn't really laugh: "You are still arrogant, what is the reason?"
"It was I who caught that maid that led to the next thing, otherwise this mystery would not have been solved tonight. The more she spoke, the more she felt right, "You think so, don't you?"
"Do you really think that's the end of things?" Lu Yuanbai didn't get close to the screen, dropped a sentence and walked out.
When Chi Yingchu heard the door, he really began to undress, carefully sat in the barrel, and began to think about his words.
The maid is in this backyard all day long, and it is not easy to get more than a dozen precious medicinal herbs, unless there are other people behind her to help.
Wouldn't tonight's move be a surprise to the snake?
She furrowed her brows in contemplation, the look on her face fell little by little, her arm was still a little itchy, and she looked down at the water that had not added anything.
"Is it necessary to add some rose petals, jasmine essential oil, or something to make the skin as delicate as jade?" she shouted at the top of her voice.
It was not the maid who responded to her, but Lu Yuanbai: "Then don't wash it, come out." ”
Chi Yingchu suddenly stopped talking again, no, no, no, she could barely settle, and she didn't get up until she washed for almost an hour.
The clean clothes were sent in by the maid, and when she walked out, she was thinking, did Lu Yuanbai bathe on weekdays and the maid sent him clothes?
Lu Yuanbai saw that she was still there after washing, and his eyes climbed ambiguously: "Do you want to take the initiative to dedicate yourself tonight?"
Chi Yingchu originally had something to ask him, but as soon as he said this, he turned around angrily and left, passing by the guards at the gate of the courtyard.
Her pace gradually slowed down, it's so late, Lu Yuanbai still can't handle official affairs?
The guard's face was hurried, as if he was in a hurry: "Lord Wang......"
Lu Yuanbai let him into the house, Chi Yingchu turned back with light steps, the lights in the room were bright, in order not to be discovered, she had to squat in the corner and eavesdrop.
"The Zhao family secretly colluded with the crown prince in an attempt to create chaos on the occasion of the emperor's temple sacrifice, I'm afraid it will be unfavorable to you, and their men and horses have already begun to act......"
"That is, half a month later, before this even started, some people were already starting to get anxious. Lu Yuanbai sneered with a sinister look in his eyes.
"Are we going to do it, then?"
"Wait and see. Lu Yuanbai said coldly, and the next person was about to send the medicine in, when he saw Chi Yingchu outside, he suddenly opened his mouth.
"Why is Chu Tongfang here?"
Chi Yingchu's face changed in shock, it was too late to cover her mouth at this moment, and at the same time, Lu Yuanbai also opened the door with a gloomy face.