"Back to the county lord, Feng's mother's family was all killed, and the people sent to Huaifang County by the county lord a few days ago also died. As for the goose picker, we have found it and imprisoned it. ”

In just two days, Donglin, the guard beside the little prince, brought back the news he had found.

"Mother Feng's family was all killed?" Mu Ningxuan was shocked and couldn't say anything else for a while. Mother Feng has never heard from her, although she has thought about such a result, but Mu Ningxuan doesn't want to believe it in her heart.

Donglin replied, "Yes, our lord has ordered them to be buried. The master asked the little one to ask you about the goose picking. ”

At the feet of the Son of Heaven, how can you kill people at will, Guo Xiaoniang is so bold!

Mu Ningxuan tried her best to hold back her tears and said, "I want to judge this picking goose myself, you go back and talk to your little prince, and I will change my clothes and go over." ”

"Yes." Donglin retreated.

An hour later, Mu Ningxuan took the carriage to the hut under the west corner of the city that Donglin said.

There were four or five guards around the hut, and Donglin stood at the door waiting for Mu Ningxuan to get off the carriage.

As soon as Mu Ningxuan walked into the hut, she saw the maidservant girl called the goose picker squatting next to a pile of straw.

Dong Lin brought a stool and put it in the middle of the room, and Mu Ningxuan sat down calmly.

The guards pulled the wild goose from the straw pile to Mu Ningxuan and knelt in front of her.

Cai Yan lowered her head, her whole body was trembling, and she seemed to be frightened.

Mu Ningxuan said coldly to Cai Yan: "Tell me everything you know." ”

Cai Yan knelt on the ground and shivered, but did not speak.

"Deaf or dumb? When the master asks you, you can't speak? Donglin shouted.

Mu Ningxuan thought that Donglin was going to use some medicine again, but she didn't expect Donglin to directly take one of Cai Yan's hands.

In a moment, I heard the goose screaming in pain.

Donglin actually broke the little finger of one of the hands of the goose picker.

"County master, the slave really doesn't know anything." Cai Yan shouted hoarsely.

Mu Ningxuan smiled: "Don't know anything? How do you know I'm the county lord? Looks like you're not hurting enough. ”

Donglin comprehended, and when he was about to pick geese, his hand pulled up again.

Cai Yan's face turned pale with fright, but she still didn't let go.

only heard a scream of "ah", and Cai Yan's second finger was also broken.

"So bearable, it seems that I underestimate you." Mu Ningxuan said lightly.

Just as she was hesitating to let Dong Lin fold her third finger, the little prince walked in, and the guards behind him were escorting a woman about forty years old with a withered face, and the guards knelt the woman in front of Mu Ningxuan.

When Cai Yan saw the woman, her face changed greatly, and tears fell from her eyes.

"O my goose! Your fingers..."The woman saw that the two fingers of Cai Yan were broken, and she howled in distress, "It's all my mother's fault, it's all my mother's fault." ”

"Mother, it's okay, I don't hurt." Cai Yan cried and comforted her mother.

The mother and daughter hugged their heads and cried for a while.

Donglin brought another stool and put it next to Mu Ningxuan, and the little prince sat down.

Cai Yan wiped away her tears, comforted the woman a few more words, turned to look at Mu Ningxuan, and said bluntly: "You can actually bring my mother out, county lord, as long as you promise to let me and my mother go, the slave will tell everything she knows." ”

Mu Ningxuan nodded.

Cai Yan began to say: "The slave maid was originally a rough maid in the yard of the eldest lady, and the eldest lady saw that the slave and maid were working diligently, so she asked Mother Liu to teach the slave and maid the rules, and the slave and maid became the personal maid next to the eldest lady, and the slave and maid were really grateful to the eldest lady." ”

"So you helped Guo Xiaoniang kill my mother?" Mu Ningxuan said disdainfully.

Cai Yan hurriedly shook her head and said, "I didn't do the poisoning of the eldest lady. ”

"Poisoned?" Mu Ningxuan's face changed color suddenly, her mother was really poisoned, but her mother's daily life has always been cooked by Mother Liu and Cai Yan, who will it be if she is not Cai Yan?

The little prince saw that Mu Ningxuan was distracted, so he took over and asked, "What kind of poison is it?" ”

"It is a chronic poison given by Guo Xiaoniang, saying that a little bit is put in the tea bowl every day, and it will not be detected." Cai Yan said truthfully.

The little prince continued to ask: "You just said that the person who poisoned you was not you, so how did you know this?" Who is the poisoner? ”

"It was poisoned by Liu's mother, and I found it by accident."

"You're lying!" Mu Ningxuan came back to her senses and clenched her fists tightly, "Mother Liu was married by the eldest lady and is the confidant of the eldest lady, how could she do such a thing?" ”

Cai Yan said decisively: "So far, the slave maid doesn't dare to lie, it is indeed Mother Liu who poisoned the eldest lady." It's just that Liu's mother didn't expect the eldest lady to die, Guo Xiaoniang just told Liu's mother that this medicine will only make people tired and unable to take care of the house's affairs, and it will not cause death. ”

Mu Ningxuan said in disbelief: "Why does Mother Liu want to help Guo Xiaoniang?" ”