Chapter 023: The Fruit Wine Puzzle
Huai Mama took the order, swept her eyes over the four wives one by one, and told the things on the mountain without hurrying.
At the end, she said: "This gatekeeper's surname is Zhang, she is an old man in Shen Mansion, after last year and winter, she had a serious illness, her body was cold, and she would drink two sips of fruit wine every night to warm her stomach."
Zhang Gui, the son of Mrs. Zhang, is the little guy next to the third master. Mrs. Zhang's grandson, Shanxi, serves in the courtyard of the sixth young master in the fourth room.
The pots of fruit wine that Mrs. Zhang drank were originally brewed in the eldest lady's room, and they were given to each room to taste. First of all, in order to honor Mrs. Zhang, Shanxi begged for two pots from the sixth young master and sent them to his father Zhang Gui, who asked for some from the third wife and sent them to Mrs. Zhang on the mountain. ”
Hearing this, several wives present vaguely understood.
In the fruit wine that the gatekeeper usually drinks, he was drugged so that the man in the cloth jumped into the courtyard at night and blew poisonous smoke into Shen Shu's house.
This is a big crime of colluding with the outside of the house, trapping the masters in the house, and eating inside and outside!
The three wives, except for Mrs. Jiang's second wife, all changed their faces.
Mrs. An Si was the first to react, and said angrily and with a smile: "What does Mama Huai mean...... Is it our sixth brother who drugged the fruit wine and colluded with outsiders to harm his fourth sister? That's really ...... People sit in the house, and the pot comes from heaven!
To put it mildly, how many hands did those two pots of fruit wine go through from the sixth brother's hands to the gatekeeper's mother-in-law, how could it be so coincidental that they were drunk by the gatekeeper last night and were stunned? If that makes sense, then I think ...... This fruit wine was mixed with drugs when the eldest lady gave it away! ”
The eldest wife, Zhao, who was named by Mrs. An, is the oldest of the four wives and the least courageous.
She stood up in a panic and clenched the handkerchief in her hand: "I'm not...... I didn't have ......"
Because of the panic in her heart, she couldn't even speak.
Seeing this, the third wife, Wang, hurriedly spoke out to relieve the siege: "The fourth brother and sister are used to bullying honest people, and Mama Huai has said that the fruit wine brewed in the sister-in-law's room has been sent to each courtyard, and the sister-in-law is Zhuge Liang who is alive, and it is not allowed to send the fruit wine to the sixth brother's yard, and it will be begged for Mrs. Zhang to eat by Shanxi!" ”
It sounds like a mediocre sentence, but it seems to have lit a cannon battle, and Mrs. An Si has blown up her hair at once!
"Yo! Look at what the third sister-in-law said, who in the house doesn't know that our sixth brother is practicing children's skills, and he hasn't drunk since he was a child? The sister-in-law sent the fruit wine into the courtyard of the fifth brother, obviously not for the sixth brother to appreciate people! Isn't it accurate that the fruit wine will be begged for?! Are you talking to your sister-in-law, or are you pit your sister-in-law...... What about bullying honest people? ”
These words made Mrs. Zhao's face even more frightened, and the handkerchief in her hand was shaking uncontrollably.
Mrs. An Si is the daughter of the Yunjiang An clan, and she has always looked down on women from small families the most, and she can't see the big lady's timid and can't get on the stage.
Her gaze slipped around the face of Mrs. Zhao, who was silent, with a look of disdain.
He turned his eyes to look at Mrs. Wang San, and without waiting for Mrs. Wang to speak, she continued unceremoniously: "Besides, I just said that, but it's just an analogy, my mother said that the wine that Mrs. Zhang drank was through the hands of the three rooms, and Mama Huai didn't say that death was the matter of Shanxi begging for the two pots, how did the third sister-in-law know that it must be the two pots of Shanxi, not the wine you rewarded Zhang Gui?" ”
Mrs. Wang San was already planning to get herself out of this circle of suspicion, but she didn't want to be killed by Mrs. An Si in a few words, and her face suddenly didn't look good.
Seeing this, Mrs. An Si smiled mockingly, turned her head to look at Mama Huai, and asked, "Mama Huai, tell me, who sent someone to add something to the wine?" ”
Huai Mama's eyebrows did not move, and she bent her knees and replied: "Back to the fourth wife, Zhang Gui sent a total of five pots of wine to the mountain, Mrs. Zhang ate three pots, and there are still two pots left, which have been tested by the doctor.
These medicines are special, at first I took them, they didn't have so much medicinal power, and the longer I took them, the greater the medicinal power. ”
As soon as these words came out, it meant that no one could easily take out the three rooms-
Mrs. Wang San stiffened her body when she boarded, and her panicked appearance was no better than Mrs. Zhao.
Mrs. An Si looked at her, her red mouth hooked, and she was about to poke a few more words-
"That's it!"
Mrs. Shen, who was sitting on the side and watching the reaction of several daughters-in-law, opened her mouth in a deep voice: "Mrs. Zhang's family, I have already let people be detained, and they will be detained in the East Courtyard." Now that they should have confessed, they have almost confessed, and I have a little frowning in my heart. ”
She paused: "Our Shen family, the old lady and the eldest went early, the third child walked around outside all the year round, the fourth child was in the barracks all day long, and the men were not at home, this disaster must have come out of the inner house." I will give you seven days, and you will come to me by yourself, and if it is a mistake made in a moment of confusion, I will be the master to protect you, and we will still be a family in the future. But if you don't come to me...... After seven days, I'm not welcome, I'll all disperse. ”
When the four wives heard this, they didn't dare to say more, so they all stood up and said yes, and retreated silently.
When they got to the room, there were only two left, the old lady and Mama Huai.
Huai Mama pondered and said, "It seems that the fourth wife seems to be unaware...... The second and fourth masters were both born from your womb, and the fourth wife would not do such a thing. ”
"I hope so." Old Mrs. Shen rubbed her eyebrows: "People's hearts are separated from their stomachs, before the matter is clear, I really can't say who it is, of course I hope it's not An's, but if something happens to Brother Ming and Shu Ya, the fourth room is the ...... that benefits the most."
She let out a long sigh, and her eyebrows were fierce: "In the realm of Yunjiang, no matter who is in the mansion, eating inside and outside the house and pit their own family is dragging the Shen family to death." My wife will never allow this to happen. I don't believe that they will be stared to death in these rooms in the past few days, and they will not show any clues. ”
Mama Huai bowed her knees, turned around and walked out.
*
Late at night, the second wife of Jiang Chunyuan.
In the bedroom, the maids and servants were all sent down.
Second Mrs. Jiang and Shen Chong, husband and wife, sat facing each other, and their faces were not good-looking.
Shen Chong opened his mouth in a deep voice: "This time on the mountain, thanks to the good luck of the girl, she didn't live in that meditation room, otherwise, someone in the meditation room was blown poisonous smoke, the maid died, she didn't die, and she couldn't hide the fact that she could 'turn poison' into poison." ”
Mrs. Jiang muttered: "It seems that it must be the person behind it, and he will test it when he gets some rumors." Now that Ah Shu and Brother Ming have been poisoned in public, it can prove that their brother and sister are just ordinary people, and the person who poisoned them must have stopped thinking about it, and it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise. ”
Shen Chong's thick eyebrows frowned, and the hand on the table was clenched into a fist.
His voice was very low, and he gritted his teeth and said: "I thought about it, the little guy in white said in public today, he said that he met Xiao Yuanliang halfway, how can you say that it is so coincidental, Xiao Yuanliang went up the mountain at that time, and he also took the doctor with him to diagnose and treat the girl."
Xiao Yuanliang has been sick for many years, and he has been searching for doctors everywhere in Yunjiang to treat him, if he is the mastermind behind this matter...... He comes from a big family, and he is suspicious by nature, so he is afraid that he will not give up easily. ”
Second Mrs. Jiang's face changed slightly.
"How could Xiao Yuanliang know about Auntie? Could it be ...... Is it true that someone in the house leaked the news and went out? But the events of that year have been ...... by everyone who knows about them Even my mother and a few brothers know very little, how can they ......"
Shen Chong's face could not hide the pain.
"In any case, the top priority is to arrest the traitors in the house first, two children, you watch carefully, before you find out, you must not let them go out of the house again."
Second Mrs. Jiang nodded solemnly: "Don't worry, there is me in the house." ”