Wei Yining followed Mingxin to the house where the Zhang family lived, which was originally the place where the Zhang family lived, which had been empty for eight or nine years, and had recently been cleaned up again.

Before I entered the door, I smelled a strong smell of soup, bitter and spicy.

Turning the large screen with silk inlaid with seven treasures, I saw only Mingxin waiting in the room.

Zhang was lying on the bed with his head facing inward. The old man's body shrunk, and the lady curled up on the bed like a half-grown child.

Wei Zongyong sat on the edge of the bed in regular clothes, looking like a filial son.

Wei Yining came in and saw Wei Zongyong, so he naturally wanted to greet him first, and when he saw the tiredness on his face, he knew that this time it was definitely a great toss.

After greeting Mrs. Zhang again, the maid moved over a plum blossom embroidery pier, and Wei Yining sat down.

Zhang's face was sallow, and his speech was obviously a little lacking in qi, and he asked Wei Yining: "Who told you to come back?" ”

Wei Yining replied: "Back to the old lady, it was Mrs. who asked the second steward of the house to go to Beiye to report the news, saying that you are sick, I am afraid that my grandmother will be anxious when she hears it, not to mention that the mountain road is not easy to walk at night, so I will go back to the house to have a look first." ”

Zhang snorted slightly and said, "She thought it through, and knew that things were not good, so she went to move the rescuers!" ”

Wei Yining didn't speak, with a slightly embarrassed and dazed look on her face, which seemed to be very in line with her age and identity.

It turned out that Zhang's was not sick but poisoned, and she took Buxin Pill all year round, which was a black-brown pill the size of a peppercorn seed, packed in a two-inch gourd-shaped porcelain bottle, which could be carried with her.

Not long after returning to the Zhiyong Mansion, the previous medicine happened to run out, so he ordered someone to refill a few bottles.

After lunch that day, Zhang felt a little tightness in his chest, so he asked Mingxin to get her some heart-tonifying pills, who wanted to take it for less than half an hour, she felt dizzy and abdominal pain, and vomited nonstop.

hurriedly invited Lang Zhong to come, and the diagnosis was poisoned.

Naturally, we need to investigate thoroughly.

So I checked everything that had entered Zhang's mouth, and the food and tea were non-toxic, and only found clues in the medicine.

It turned out that someone had moved his hands and feet in the medicine bottle, and there was a layer of dried glutinous rice paste in the middle of the thin waist, like a layer of translucent tissue paper.

The porcelain bottle is divided into two layers, the upper layer contains the real heart tonifying pill, and the medicine in the lower layer is mixed with poison.

The bottle of medicine had already been half eaten, and when Mingxin was taking the medicine, there were only seven or eight pills left on the upper layer, but there were obviously still them in the bottle, so she thought that the pills were damp and sticky, so she patted the bottle hard.

The layer of glutinous rice paper was easily broken, and the medicine in the lower layer was poured out.

That poison pill was no different from the original Heart Replenishing Pill on the surface, even if it was Lang Zhong, he had to distinguish it carefully to see it.

Fortunately, Zhang's poisoning is not deep, and she should not die, if she takes two more pills, she is afraid that she will die.

Zhang immediately made a decision and locked up everyone who had access to the medicine, including Bao, Wei Yimi, and He Ziyun.

But I only asked someone to guard it, and I didn't have time to ask them one by one.

"Five girls, since you're back, let's stay at home for one night!" Zhang closed his eyes and said, "I'm fine now, you can go back tomorrow morning." ”

"Yes, old lady." Wei Yining obediently agreed.

It seems that the Zhang family doesn't want Mrs. Zhu to get involved, Wei Yining didn't know that the Zhang family was poisoned at this time, she just felt that she needed to inquire about the matter more clearly.

If she could, she was ready to take advantage of the opportunity and make another move to get rid of Bao as soon as possible.

According to the experience of hunting, as long as the leader of a group of prey is captured, the rest is not to be feared.

After Wei Yining retreated, Wei Zongyong asked tentatively, "Old lady, what should I do now?" ”

Zhang said coldly: "What should I do? As I said a long time ago, you can't report to the official. This matter must not be publicized to the outside world. Those things that happened earlier have already ruined the reputation of the house! You guys are stupid! I don't even understand the truth that family ugliness should not be publicized! ”

Zhang's is always like this, she often speaks so harshly to Wei Zongyong, because she hates iron and does not make steel.

Wei Zongyong has long been accustomed to her obscenity since he was a child, but he feels strangely at ease.

Anyway, when something goes wrong, his mind will become even more chaotic, as long as someone can plan the aftermath for him.

"Having said that, this matter must be found out no matter what."

"What about after you find it? What should I do? Wei Zongyong asked this purely to show his concern for this biological mother.

But Zhang obviously didn't appreciate it, and said with a long breath: "What should I do? Naturally, he wanted to kill her, and he said to the outside world that he was sick and died. Who can't find out? Tell you, the main thing is to keep your reputation. You look at these high-ranking nobles, there are a lot of dirty things in every house, is it that who is afraid of mold, so they have to take it out and dry it? ! ”

Wei Zongyong had nothing to refute and sat on the chair in a daze.

Zhang glanced at him, couldn't tell what it was like, and was silent for a long time and said, "You can go back and rest too!" ”

Wei Zongyong then got up and went out.

After he left, Mingxin came to the bedside with a bowl of decoction and said, "Old lady, it's time to drink the medicine." ”

"How are the people who are being held now?" Zhang asked, his voice still trembling a little, this time it was really dangerous.

"Mrs. didn't speak from the beginning, the eldest lady cried vigorously, and Aunt He only shouted wronged." Mingxin said dryly: "The rest of the maids are frightened and have been shaking for a day. ”

"What did you find when you took someone to search for it?" Zhang asked again.

"I didn't say anything," Mingxin said, "It's a little difficult to do." ”

"What's so hard about it? Could it be that after the murderer finished poisoning, he still had to keep the rest to be caught and stolen? Zhang snorted coldly.

"Mrs. Tai's lesson is," Mingxin bowed and said, "It's the old thing of the country's mother, it's very unusual." ”

"She's an old dog who protects her master!" Zhang spat with some difficulty: "You'd better pry her mouth open." ”

"Got it." Mingxin agreed with understanding, and it seems that he won't have to sleep in the second half of the night tonight.

"It's enough to have a maid and a mother-in-law outside who go to work at night." Zhang said: "You go!" ”

Mingxin agreed, and went out lightly.

Wei Yining returned to her residence, and in the second half of the night, she began to pretend to be sick, she didn't want to go back to other businesses tomorrow morning.

As soon as the morning dawned, Xiao She'er went to ask Wei Zongyong to invite the five girls to Langzhong.

Wei Zongyong is impatient, now that he is sick in the house, he doesn't even have a person in charge, so how can he be in charge of the affairs of the house.

So he said, "It's bothering me for such a little thing, just go and say no to the housekeeper!" ”

Xiao She'er went to find the housekeeper's mother-in-law Liu, and Mrs. Liu had no choice but to say, "The doctor who will diagnose the old lady's pulse will come in a while, and let him take it to the fifth girl by the way." ”