Chapter 173: Ink Dye Incense
Meng Xiangrong calmed down and thought about it carefully, saying that since she arrived at the Mu family, no one was willing to pay attention to her at all, and only the maid she brought from the house accompanied her.
"Maid, what's your name?"
"Linglong."
Linglong grew up with her since she was a child, just like Chunxing, her daily life has always been Linglong's service, and after she got married, she was taking care of everything.
The bowl of fish soup was also made by Linglong after she explained it.
She said that she thought about it for a long time, and felt that what Yue said made sense, and she was married to Mu Mansion in a beautiful way, as long as she tried to please the people in the mansion, they would not embarrass herself.
That's why she asked Linglong to cook fish soup and send it over, thinking of showing her generosity as a main room.
"What about Redsleeves?"
"Although she is Mu Ying's concubine, she is a palace maid in the end, her status is low, and she rarely walks around the house on weekdays, and there are only a few little maids around her."
The red sleeves are timid, and they also have a lot of respect for Meng Xiangrong, they have never done anything transgressive, and they will not make enemies with anyone.
It can be said that in the Mu family, the only one who has the most reason to kill her is Meng Xiangrong.
All the spearheads are pointed at Meng Xiangrong, and the red sleeves are dead, and those maids of the Mu family must not say anything useful, it is really difficult to prove Meng Xiangrong's innocence.
Seeing that Meng combed her eyebrows and didn't speak, Meng Xiangrong thought that she didn't believe in herself, and swore that she had really poisoned the fish soup, and if she lied, she would not be able to die of thunder.
"Where is Linglong now?"
"Linglong grew up with me since she was a child, and she will not betray me."
Meng Xiangrong said with great certainty.
"I didn't suspect anything, I just wanted to find out."
She instructed Chunxing to bring Linglong in.
Linglong had already knelt on the ground with a stick of incense, but Meng Combrow just drank tea slowly and didn't speak.
The room was filled with the smell of spices, and she lazily moved around, saying that the room was too stuffy, and asked Linglong to open the window.
"How long have you been serving Second Miss?"
A gust of wind blew in, Linglong shivered, and replied in a proper manner that his ancestors had been servants of the Meng family for three generations, so he grew up in the Meng family's family since he was a child, and he has been serving Meng Xiangrong.
"Then you must be familiar with the second lady's temperament?"
"The servant didn't know what the princess meant by asking."
Chun Xing stepped forward and gave Linglong an ear scraper, what the master should answer when he asked, he has been in the Meng family for so long, don't he even understand this rule?
Linglong was beaten and looked at Meng Xiangrong aggrievedly.
She is also her dowry maid, and Meng combs her eyebrows and beats herself, isn't that equivalent to slapping her own lady's face?
It's a pity that now Meng Xiangrong can't even protect himself, let alone stand up for his maid, so he just lowered his head and pretended not to see it.
Seeing that Meng Xiangrong didn't want to help herself, Linglong had no choice but to reply with fifteen and ten.
"Yes, since Miss married into the Mu family, I have always been serving me, but I am loyal to the second miss and the Meng family, and I have never done anything to betray my master!"
"I didn't say anything about you, what are you panicking about."
Linglong lowered her head and knelt on the ground honestly.
Seeing that it was not early, Meng combed his eyebrows and asked Chun Xing to prepare the carriage to return to the palace, Meng Xiangrong hurriedly asked her that she was leaving like this?
Three days later, the Mu family will go to sue the emperor, and when the time comes, in front of the emperor, her life will definitely be in danger, should she really want to see death and not save it.
"Isn't three days too early?"
There's still a lot to do, and now that she has a clue, it's a waste of time to stay here.
After Meng Combrow got into the carriage, he called Mo Han and asked him to go to the first floor of the world.
"Miss, Shopkeeper Zhu said this is what you want."
When Mo Han came back, he also brought a big bag with him, and when he opened it, it was full of all kinds of spices.
Meng combs his eyebrows and picks up a sachet and smells it, shaking his head, it's not like this.
Chun Xing was puzzled, doesn't Miss usually dislike incense? How did you get so many spices?
"I can smell the smell of the room across the yard."
Jing Qicheng walked in with a ball of cold air wrapped in his body, he was worried that Meng would comb his eyebrows from freezing, so he first roasted his body by the brazier and warmed himself before walking over.
Looking at all kinds of spices, Jing Qicheng picked two.
This taste is the most elegant, and it matches Meng's temperament very well.
"I'm not picking spices for myself."
Meng combs her eyebrows like natural floral and fruity aromas, although the spices smell very good, but the artificial traces are too heavy, she doesn't particularly like it, if it weren't for the stuffy room in winter, she wouldn't use spices.
"Then let me guess, the reason you came here is because you found a clue to the death of the Red Sleeves on the spices, right?"
"Okay, how did you guess?"
Meng combed his eyebrows and looked at Jing Qicheng with interest, he was simply a roundworm in his stomach, and he guessed it right at once.
And Chunxing next to her still didn't understand, Miss asked a few words today, why is it related to spices?
"When I asked Linglong today, there was a faint sweet fragrance on her body."
Although Meng combs her eyebrows and doesn't know what kind of fragrance it is, she is very sure that the spice must be very valuable, and she has never smelled this smell on Meng Xiangrong.
Either Linglong has been to a place where this spice has been burned, or she has used it herself.
Therefore, as long as you can find out which shop this spice is sold in, you must be able to find out some clues.
"Miss, you're so smart!"
Chun Xing simply admired the five-body throw.
After Meng combed his eyebrows and sniffed the spices one by one, he found out the spices on Linglong's body.
"This is an ink-dyed incense from the Western Regions, which is very precious, and it is estimated that there are no more than ten shops selling this spice in the entire capital."
Ink-dyed incense is obviously not something that a delicate little girl can afford.
Meng combed his eyebrows and immediately asked Mo Han to check, someone had bought this spice recently.
"I didn't expect that the princess of this king is not only smart but also able to investigate cases, it seems that the next personnel transfer of the Criminal Department, I can recommend you to my father."
"If it's very high, it's not like I can't think about it."
Meng combs her eyebrows and doesn't bother to care about these things, she just wants the Yue family to spit out the truth of the year.
"By the way, what has the prince been doing lately?"
The Mu family and the East Palace have always advanced and retreated together, and if such a big thing happened to the Mu family, the prince must have known about it.
"Didn't the Mu family say that they would give you three days?"
After all, it was the concubine who died, and it is estimated that the Mu family did not really want to make trouble in front of the emperor, but was just using this method to force the Meng family to hand over people.