People's hearts are clouded, and the insects that specialize in eating vegetables have died after eating this dish, and the dishes ... Poisonous?

"Mian Mian, did this batch of dishes go outside?" Mu Ruqing's face has never been more serious and gloomy.

"No, no, this batch is the dish that just arrived today, I found it when I washed it, and it hasn't been served yet." Ruan Mianmian waved his hand again and again.

Only then did everyone breathe a sigh of relief, if these potentially poisonous vegetables were eaten by the guests, I am afraid that many people would be harmed, and they would also go to prison without explanation.

"Mianmian, this is in your hand..."Fang Dacang grabbed Ruan Mianmian's wrist, only to see that her white and tender palms were already stained with some of this yellow powder.

Without waiting for Ruan Mianmian to speak, Fang Cannon pulled her to the pool, let her hand on top of the pool, and lifted a bucket of water to rinse for her.

A bucket of water was poured down, and the yellow powder on Ruan Mianmian's hands was much less, but it was still not completely washed.

"Sleepy, tell us more about how you found these things." Mu Ruqing frowned tightly and looked down at the vegetables in the basket.

These cabbages look like clean vegetables from the outside, but if you look closely, you can see the yellow powder in the heart. This powder is not easy to find, although it can shake off some, but it can't be rinsed with water, if Ruan Mianmian didn't happen to find it today, I'm afraid it will be washed once and then served on the table.

The people behind the bureau want to make Yipinju ruined and unable to turn over!

"Mianmian, I'll look at the powder in your hand." Uncle Hua, who didn't say a word just now, suddenly spoke, "I always feel like I've seen it." ”

Ruan Mianmian stretched out his hands in front of Uncle Hua, he looked carefully left and right, dipped a little more with a chopstick, and thought for a while before speaking: "This is like... A type of rat poison. ”

"Rat poison? Are you saying that someone put rodenticide powder in this dish? Could it be that the vegetable farmers used it to kill rats and accidentally got into the vegetables? Ruan Mianmian was even more puzzled.

"No way, even if it is the rat poison used by vegetable farmers to kill rats, it will not only be placed around the cabbage, let alone smeared on the heart of every cabbage." Jiang Xinyue denied Ruan Mianmian's speculation, "Someone must have drugged this batch of dishes and assassinated us." ”

"I remembered that vegetable farmers would not come into contact with this rat poison." Uncle Hua patted his head: "The rat poison that we ordinary people can buy is white tablets, which need to be ground and mixed with food by ourselves, but this yellow powder, which my father once brought home when he was a royal chef in the palace, is a rat poison that is only available in the palace, and it cannot be bought outside." ”

"In other words, the people in the palace want to harm us?" Mu Ruqing was a little frightened, after all, he didn't want to touch the powerful, and it was impossible to compete with the royal relatives and nobles in the palace, in case the powerful wanted to harm Yipinxiang, I am afraid it would be a big trouble.

"It doesn't have to be in the palace, this kind of medicine powder was originally developed by the pharmacists in the palace to deal with the rats in the palace, those mice eat big fish and meat every day, and they won't eat ordinary rat poison, it doesn't help at all, so there are pharmacists who make this kind of medicine powder, sprinkle it on the food to make the food more fragrant, and the mice are willing to eat it, and later the powerful people in the court who deal with the palace can also get this kind of medicine powder, and it gradually became popular in the aristocratic circle."

Uncle Hua still knows a lot about things in the palace, after all, he was not young when his father was the imperial chef.

"We haven't offended the powerful, so who will harm us?" Fang Cannon was a little angry.

"Our business is so good that we have already violated the interests of some powerful people." Jiang Xinyue has a more transparent view of this aspect, "Those nobles basically have some industries in their families, many of them are high-end restaurants or taverns, they will definitely not watch us thriving without backing to rob their business, I'm afraid this is the reason for poisoning." ”

"yes, the gun shot the bird. Throw away all this batch of vegetables, Xinyue, you go to the farmer's side tomorrow, and say that we won't buy vegetables in the future, and find another place to buy them. Although Mu Ruqing was angry, as the head of this family, he still had to deal with this matter properly.

"Uncle Hua, do you know any way to remove the medicinal powder from Mianmian's hands, this thing can't be washed off, I'm afraid there will be an accident." Fang Cannon was very worried about Ruan Mianmian, after all, the poison could not be washed off on his hands, so he was afraid that he would eat something if he touched it.

"There's a way, use white vinegar, wash it three times a day, and after three days it will be gone. But her hands can't touch anything these days. Uncle Hua repeatedly told Ruan Mianmian not to touch other things.

"Then don't work these days, if you eat, a few of us will feed you if we are free, don't touch it yourself." Mu Ruqing took the sweat towel of the cannon and wrapped Ruan Mianmian's hand. Seeing that the owner took his sweat towel to wrap Ruan Mianmian's hand, Fang Dacang's ears turned a little red, and he hurriedly said, "Yes, Mianmian, we will take care of you these days." ”

"Thank you, there are not enough people, and I have caused you trouble." Ruan Mianmian was a little sad.

"Don't think about it, you are a great hero, and you helped us discover this conspiracy, not to mention that we are a family, there is no polite reason." Jiang Xinyue rubbed Ruan Mianmian's head and comforted softly.

"Okay, let's do whatever we want, just forget about this matter, we can't ask for any justice, as long as we keep a pint of incense."

The crowd dispersed, but on this day, there was no smile on people's faces. I disposed of the vegetables and went back to work worriedly.

Early the next morning, Jiang Xinyue rode on a horse and rushed to the farmer's house on the outskirts of the city to find out. The powder was smeared on the heart of the vegetable and sent it, and the vegetable was picked by the farmer himself and sent it by himself, so the farmer could not help but take a look.

When she arrived at the outskirts of the city and followed the green farmland to the front of the village, Jiang Xinyue found that something was wrong. Farmers are often idle, often getting up before dawn to pick up crops, not to mention that the sun has long since come out, but there is no one in this farmland.

The more careful she is in the abnormal situation, Jiang Xinyue took out the usual mask and put it on, led the horse to the hidden woods and bolted it, and then avoided the main road and walked towards the village.

When I walked into the village, I couldn't even hear the cries of chickens and ducks, and the whole village was silent.

Jiang Xinyue walked cautiously against the wall, and followed the route in her memory to the farmer's house that provided cabbage. The door of the house was ajar and unlocked, and she listened to the wall for a while, but there was no movement inside, and then she went in sideways.

As soon as she stepped into the door, a thick bloody breath broke into her nose through the mask, which was passed on to her by Jiang Xinyue's master, and had the effect of repelling poison, but the bloody qi was too heavy, which still made her a little unbearable.

She walked to the door of the house, saw that the window paper was cut, pushed open the door, and saw that the farmer's family of four or five people were all lying on the ground, the room was full of splashed blood, and there were several obvious knife wounds on the farmer's body.

Jiang Xinyue was shocked, and hurriedly went to investigate door to door, and saw that every household was in such a situation, all the living things in the family were slaughtered, and there was not a single living mouth left.

Could it be that the person who poisoned the village just took the opportunity of the farmer to deliver vegetables, and was afraid that the matter would be exposed? At the feet of the Son of Heaven, a village disappeared overnight, who could do such madness.

Jiang Xinyue returned to the farmer's house where she planted cabbage, trying to search carefully for something, but she heard some movement in the backyard. She took the sword in her hand and walked lightly into the backyard.

There are also a lot of vegetables and fruits planted in the backyard of this family, and some uncommon farm tools and sundries are piled up behind the house, which looks a little messy, and suddenly, a wooden basket on the pile of sundries shook for a while, Jiang Xinyue turned around and took out the sword, and picked the basket with the tip of the sword, but saw a face suddenly poking out inside.

There was a boy in the basket who looked to be in his teens. The child was a little frightened, his hands were still wrapped in gauze, he put his hands in front of his face, and said tremblingly: "Sister... Sister, don't kill me, I don't know anything..."

"Are you a child of this family, why are you hiding here?" Jiang Xinyue didn't put down her sword and still stared at him.

"I... This is my house, my father and I quarreled last night, I ran out of the room in anger, suddenly I heard the sound of horses' hooves, and then I heard someone breaking in, the voice of my father and mother begging for mercy, I was so scared, I hid here and didn't dare to go out, I just wanted to come out to see, and you came. ”

"What's wrong with your hand?"

"I burned my hand while cooking yesterday, so I wrapped it up, and it was because of this that I quarreled with my father." The boy lowered his head.

The boy seemed to be frightened, his eyes were a little glazed, and his gray face did look pitiful. Jiang Xinyue didn't say anything anymore, stared at the boy for a while, and couldn't see any clues.

"Your family and the people in the village have already suffered a terrible situation, would you like to go back with me? At least keep you safe. Jiang Xinyue decided to tell him the truth, after all, it was a fact that could not be hidden.

"I... I'm willing to go with you. The boy's eyes were deep, as if he couldn't see through it at a glance, and his lonely expression was filled with grief, and tears rolled in his eyes.

Jiang Xinyue took out a strip of cloth to cover the boy's eyes, put a hat on him, and then took him to the woods where the horse was tethered, and rode the horse and took her all the way back to the capital and went straight to Yipinxiang.

At this time, Yipinxiang already had a lot of guests, in order not to affect the business, Jiang Xinyue directly took the boy around the back door and entered the courtyard through the back door. It wasn't until she entered the courtyard that she removed the strip of cloth from the boy's eyes.

In the courtyard, Ruan Mianmian was still holding the sweat towel of Fang Dacan's in both hands, and at this time she and Mu Ruqing were sitting on the square table under the willow tree, both of them holding a thin strip like a blue-green straw in their mouths, and the other end of the thin strip was inserted in the chicken soup in front of them.

"What are you doing here?" Jiang Xinyue is also used to seeing the strange ideas that Mu Ruqing often comes up with, but she can't figure out what they are.

"I call this a straw, made of the stems of the weeds in the yard, hollowed out the inside, the rod on the outside is very hard, like this, you can drink the soup in your mouth with a suck, Mianmian is now inconvenient with your hands, it is just right to use this." Mu Ruqing smiled at Jiang Xinyue, and turned his head sideways to see the little boy hiding behind Jiang Xinyue. "Who is this? Is there a result of the investigation? ”

"Go upstairs and say, Mianmian, you stay here with him for a while, and I'll discuss things with Brother Mu." Jiang Xinyue glanced at Mu Ruqing, Mu Ruqing understood, got up and told Ruan Mianmian to follow Jiang Xinyue upstairs.