Zhou Kunming woke up groggily the next day, and Aunt Song asked him if anyone else had given him anything to eat before he was poisoned.

Zhou Kunming thought for a while and said, "No one else has anything to eat for me." ”

"Then what have you eaten since I went to the theater?"

"I've had pastries."

"What pastry? Who gave it to you? ”

"Lotus root flour cake, Xiao Ju made it for me."

Xiao Ju has been serving the fifth young master Zhou Kunming for many years with Aunt Song, she is the best at making pastries, especially the lotus root flour cake is the best, Zhou Kunming likes to eat it very much, Xiao Ju will make it for him when he has free time.

Zhou Kunming has been eating Xiaoju's pastries, and there has been nothing wrong with it.

Aunt Song continued to ask: "In addition to eating Xiaoju's lotus root flour cake?" What else have you eaten and drank? ”

"I also drank sweet milk."

"Did Xiao Ju give you a drink?"

"Uh-huh."

"Haven't you eaten anything else?"

"Uh-huh."

This is strange, I haven't eaten any other food, so how did the poison get into Zhou Kunming's stomach?

Shisu listened carefully on the side, and at this point, he couldn't help but think of a very critical question.

Zi Su thought for a moment, "Mrs. Aunt, can I ask the Fifth Young Master something?" ”

Aunt Song nodded and let Shisu approach Zhou Kunming's bed.

"Fifth Young Master, isn't the lotus root flour cake sweet? You eat such a sweet lotus root flour cake, and then drink such a sweet milk, aren't you tired of panicking? ”

Zhou Kunming said: "Yesterday's lotus root cake was not delicious, so I drank sweet milk." ”

"Why doesn't it taste good?"

"It was a little astringent at first, and then it became bitter, so I drank sweet milk."

"Is it that the lotus root flour cake I ate at the beginning was astringent, and then it was bitter? Two flavors of lotus root flour cake? ”

"How do you know?"

Shisu nodded, "That's right." ”

Aunt Song was puzzled and asked, "Zisu, I don't understand what you mean." ”

Zi Su said: "Auntie, there are some things I can't say in front of the Fifth Young Master, so it's better to let Xiao Ju serve the Fifth Young Master, and I'll go to your room to say it." ”

Aunt Song looked at Zi Su with a serious expression, and seemed to have some eyebrows, so she nodded, called Xiao Ju to take care of Zhou Kunming, and took Zi Su back to the room.

"Shiso, what did you find?"

Zi Su said: "Auntie, what the fifth young master vomited yesterday is indeed some milky white things, it should be sweet milk, and judging from the current situation, Xiao Ju is the most suspicious." ”

Aunt Song looked at Zi Su in astonishment, "You can doubt Xiao Ju so much, Xiao Ju has been serving me since she was a child, she watched the birth of the fifth young master, and the process of the fifth young master's growth, she has always taken care of it very carefully, Xiao Ju has always been honest and responsible, saying that she wants to poison the fifth young master, I don't believe anything." ”

"Mrs. Auntie, I believe in your judgment of Xiao Ju, and I also think Xiao Ju is a good person. However, maybe Xiao Ju really didn't want to harm the fifth young master, yesterday you suspected that the second young grandmother did it, and it is hard to guarantee that it will not be the second young grandmother who forced Xiao Ju to do it. ”

"Zisu, although I trust you, but you can't say that Xiaoju, yesterday she went to ask Doctor Yu to treat the fifth young master, you didn't see her hurriedly trotting all the way, as if her family had suffered misfortune."

"The more this is the case, the more it can be proved that this matter has something to do with Xiaoju."

Aunt Song looked at Zi Su suspiciously, "I didn't understand what you were saying?" Xiao Ju is good to the fifth young master, is it the reason to harm her? ”

Zi Su explained: "I know a little about the medicinal properties of some drugs, there is an anesthetic drug called mandala, the taste of the entrance is astringent, and the taste of arsenic is very bitter, which just corresponds to what the fifth young master just said, Xiao Ju first fed the fifth young master to eat the lotus root flour cake containing mandala, and then ate the lotus root flour cake containing arsenic, so it happened yesterday, which was also confirmed by Doctor Yu."

It was precisely because Xiao Ju had been serving the Fifth Young Master that she didn't want the Fifth Young Master to die in such pain, so she chose to give him anesthetic medicine first and give him arsenic, so that the Fifth Young Master could reduce some pain.

Fortunately, those sweet milk just protected the stomach, so that the performance of anesthesia and poison was slow, so the fifth young master did not have symptoms of poisoning so quickly. When she saw the fifth young master's painful appearance after being poisoned, she couldn't bear it, and she would be so anxious when she went to find Doctor Yu.

Madame, this is my inference, do you think it is reasonable? ”

Aunt Song was speechless for a while, she didn't believe that Xiao Ju would do this, but Zi Su's inference didn't seem to have any flaws.

Shiso continued: "There is one more crucial piece of evidence. Yesterday, I went to follow Dr. Yu to get medicine, and on the way, Dr. Yu asked me, is it that the girls around my aunt know some pharmacology?

I didn't understand at first, but after asking Dr. Yu, I found out that when Xiao Ju went to invite Dr. Yu, he said that the fifth young master had been poisoned by arsenic.

The symptoms of the fifth young master, I observed it for a long time before I thought it was poisoning, guessing that it was arsenic poisoning, even if it was a doctor's consultation, it had to be carefully observed to determine, why did Xiaoju say what poison in the fifth young master in one mouthful? If it weren't for her own hands, she would be able to say exactly what poison was in it. ”

Aunt Song was too frightened to ask, "Is this really the case?" ”

Zi Su said: "This is what Dr. Yu told me, if you don't believe it, you can ask Dr. Yu." ”

"How could Xiao Ju do such a thing?" Aunt Song stood up suddenly, "No, I'm going to ask her in person if it's her poison!" ”

"Mrs. Auntie, you can't startle the snake now, even if it was done by Xiao Ju, it must have been instructed by someone behind the scenes. The aunt had suspected the second young grandmother, but she had to have evidence, and this evidence had to be found from Xiao Ju. ”

"Xiao Ju has served me and the Fifth Young Master for so many years, and she will definitely tell the truth when I ask her."

"What's the use of being honest? When the time comes, the second young grandmother will not admit it, and bite back and say that you connived at the maid to deliberately frame her, Xiaoju is the person next to you after all, and you are speechless. ”

Aunt Song was stunned for a moment, and then shouted nervously: "Zisu, since you suspect that Xiao Ju is the murderer of the Fifth Young Master, you still want Xiao Ju to take care of the Fifth Young Master?" No, I'm going to take care of him myself. ”

Zi Su stopped her, "Mrs. Auntie, don't panic first, just now I asked Xiaoju to take care of the Fifth Young Master, the purpose is to make her feel at ease for a while, I feel that we have no suspicion of her, she likes the Fifth Young Master in her heart, and she will definitely not do anything to the Fifth Young Master." ”

"So what are we going to do?"

"Now the master is not in the mansion, and Mrs. Zhou is in charge of the mansion, and this matter can only be decided by waiting for the lord to come back. During this period, what we have to do is not to startle the snake, successfully find the evidence, and find out the person who planned this matter, even if the second young grandmother did the tricks and feet, the master will not believe it. ”

Aunt Song looked at Zi Su in disbelief.

Zi Su said abruptly: "Mrs. Auntie, if you believe me, leave the matter of finding evidence to me." ”

Aunt Song nodded, "You saved my son's life, of course I believe you." ”

"Mrs. Aunt will be patient for a few days for the time being, and after I find the evidence, I will wait for the master to come back and administer justice for you and the fifth young master."

Aunt Song has been in the Zhou Mansion for so many years and has experienced a lot of things, but most of them are Wei Wei Nuo Nuo has no ideas.

Shisu, a rational and intelligent person, made her feel as if she had a backbone.

"Shiso, I'll leave everything to you."

Zi Su believes that people like Xiao Ju poisoned the fifth young master, they must have been poked in the weakness, Xiao Ju has been a maid in the Zhou Mansion since she was a child, and her biggest weakness may be that her family has been threatened, so it is necessary to secretly investigate whether her family has been threatened by the second young grandmother Tan Suyun.

After Xiao Ju entered the Zhou Mansion, she never mentioned her family, Aunt Song secretly helped and inquired about Xiao Ju's home, which happened to be in a village three miles away near the mass grave in the southwest of Jinling City.

Zi Su thought to himself, and took this opportunity to pay tribute to his parents and younger brother and burn some paper money for them.

Early in the morning of the second day, Zisu left the Zhou Mansion, first bought incense, candles, and paper money at the sacrificial store, and took a rickshaw to Xiaoju's village.

As soon as she entered the village and asked, Zisu was a little flustered, because Xiaoju had no family members alive.

At the beginning, Xiaoju was sold into the Zhou Mansion, and her parents were seriously ill before they had to sell their only daughter.

Less than a year after Xiaoju entered the Zhou Mansion, her parents both passed away.

Could it be that I guessed wrong?

Shiso began to doubt his own judgment, since this was not the case, then what else was hidden?

With a feeling of trepidation, she decided to go to the mass grave to worship her parents first.

There is still no tombstone on the grave of her parents and brother, and there are still traces of the paper money she burned that night.

She knelt before the grave, her eyes weeping.

She didn't know how far away her revenge was, but she knew she would do her best.

"Father, brother, you have to bless me under the Nine Springs, so that I can successfully avenge you and me."

Zi Su couldn't help but look at the grave in a low voice, talking about what had happened in the Zhou Mansion these days, she hoped that her parents could know her condition and let them not worry about themselves underground.

The mass graves are overgrown with weeds, half a man deep, and in late autumn the grass leaves have turned yellow, and occasionally hungry rats can be heard searching for food.

Immersed in grief, Shiso suddenly felt a loud movement in a nearby bush, not like the sound of a mouse.

She shouted in some horror: "Who is it?" Who's where? ”

A person slowly stood up behind the grass, it was Gu Junyi.

"Mr. Gu, why are you here?"

Gu Junyi walked to Zisu's side, "I just went out to run errands, and I accidentally saw you buying candle paper money on the street, and I thought that you should be coming here, so I followed." ”

"You've been following me? And then hide in the grass? Did you hear everything I said? ”

Gu Junyi's face was slightly embarrassed, "I did deliberately follow you to eavesdrop, just to find out your identity, I have long suspected that you are the girl Su sister who was killed by the Zhou Mansion, and this grave belongs to your family, but I am not sure, so I ......"

Zi Su was annoyed that Gu Junyi secretly followed him, and he was also a little angry when his secret was broken, "You understand everything at this moment, I am Sister Su, the maid who was killed by the Zhou Mansion, and my parents are buried here, are you very happy to get such a result?" It turns out that you reporters are all sneaking behind your back! ”