This soup was sent into Zhong Xiaoshu's room along with other meals, and a table full of exquisite dishes was placed, which made people salivate when they looked at it.

After Qing'er laid out the meals on the table one by one, she turned around and called Zhong Xiaoshu, "Niangniang, you can eat." ”

"Hmm." Zhong Xiaoshu raised his eyelids lazily, got up, walked to the dining table, looked at the various delicacies of the mountains and seas in front of him, and had no thoughts of moving chopsticks.

Seeing this, Qing'er brought up a little soup, "Niang Niang doesn't seem to be in good spirits today, but she has no appetite?" Why don't you drink some soup first? ”

Zhong Xiaoshu glanced at Qing'er, these days, Qing'er is the person who understands her best, and she has done a lot of things very intimately.

So he smiled at Qing'er, took the bowl of soup, put it in front of him to buy, and scooped up a spoonful, but he didn't have the slightest desire to drink. Hope.

After stirring around there for a long time, he finally waved his hand and sighed: "That's it, let's go down." ”

Qing'er had no choice but to raise her head and greet the palace maids on the side, asking them to take down the food, and then asked.

"But these meals are not appetizing? The slave maid asked the dining room to make another one? ”

"No need, this palace doesn't want to eat yet, if you're hungry, I'll let you pass the meal."

Zhong Xiaoshu drooped his eyelids, and he did look a little in good spirits.

Qing'er said again: "The slave is going to call the imperial doctor for you?" ”

Zhong Xiaoshu waved his hand.

Two days ago, the imperial doctor had already come to check her pulse, and it was not very lucky to call the imperial doctor all day long.

She also felt that there was no need to make a fuss about this kind of thing, and she would wait until she was sick.

So, I picked up a book and started reading it.

This is most of the day.

Finally, she felt a little hungry, so she beckoned and asked Qing'er to ask the imperial dining room to make a bowl of soup.

At this moment, before he could take two sips, a eunuch ran over to the door in a hurry.

Standing at the door, he whispered a few words to Qing'er, Qing'er was stunned, and hurriedly trotted over and arrived in front of Zhong Xiaoshu.

Looking at the bowl in Zhong Xiaoshu's hand, he stepped forward and snatched it down, bowed his head and said, "Niangniang, the dining room has changed." ”

Zhong Xiaoshu paused, obviously not reacting, and only asked, "What's wrong with the dining room?" ”

"There's something wrong with the meal."

Qing'er raised her head slightly, and saw Zhong Xiaoshu's face change, so she could only continue to speak.

"The meal that came up just now was eaten by a little palace maid greedily, but I didn't expect to have a serious illness because of it, and I haven't woken up since I went back."

Zhong Xiaoshu trembled in fright, "What about the palace maid?" Can you send the imperial doctor to see it? ”

"It's passed, after all, it's your meal, and those imperial doctors naturally didn't dare to be careless, and gave the medicine, saying that it was not life-threatening.

It's just that you have to be cautious about this. ”

Zhong Xiaoshu nodded.

While the master and servant were talking, a royal doctor came to the door.

After that incident just happened, the eunuchs outside invited the imperial doctor to come over early, and by the way, they took a look at the bowl of soup that Zhong Xiaoshu was drinking now.

But I saw that the imperial doctor opened the medicine box, took out the silver needle and a packet of medicinal powder, and after blending the medicine powder and probing it with the silver needle, he was a little relieved.

"Back to the queen mother, the soup you drank is not poisonous."

Everyone was relieved to be here.

Fortunately, it was only a little palace maid who fell ill, if it was this palace lady, I am afraid that no matter how many lives they have, they will not be able to compensate!

However, since this problem appeared in the mother's meal, everyone naturally did not dare to take it lightly.

So the entire imperial dining room came to a big investigation, but the results of the investigation were not ideal.

It seems that except for the change in the meal at the table at noon today, nothing else can be found.

In other words, the person who took the medicine was drugged during the period when the meal was ready to be served, so it was very likely that it was the palace maids who passed the meal.

The palace maids were immediately arrested by Qing'er and interrogated, but they still couldn't find any results.

When the clue is here, it is probably broken.

finally waited until the greedy palace maid woke up, and when she asked, it was the same result.

The greedy palace maid saw that the queen had no appetite, and was afraid that she would waste so much food, so she ate it secretly.

I didn't expect to get into trouble, of course, this can be regarded as a detoxification for the queen.

Since it could not be found on the palace maid, the people in the imperial dining room were arrested, and small batches were arrested and questioned.

The people in the imperial dining room hung their heads one by one, and they didn't dare to come out, and most of them were old people.

There were only a few new eunuchs and palace maids kneeling in the back row, and they didn't look like the kind of people who dared to poison and murder.

Zhong Xiaoshu's cold gaze swept around them.

Qing'er pointed to the side and reminded: "Niangniang, there are new faces behind you."

If it's not threatened, it's these new faces who do it. ”

Zhong Xiaoshu nodded slightly and agreed.

She casually pointed to a palace maid in the back row who seemed a little calm, "You." ”

The maid paused and stood up.

Zhong Xiaoshu's eyes burned, and he burned straight on her face, suddenly smiled, and asked, "Do you know who poisoned the soup in this palace?" ”

The palace maid who was pointed to stand up lowered her eyes and thought about it in her heart.

It seems that if the murderer can't be found today, the queen doesn't plan to let them go, but she is afraid that if she investigates further, it will be unfavorable to her......

She thought about it for a moment, and finally raised her hand and pointed to the big butler kneeling on the very edge.

"Niangniang, the slave maid once saw the big housekeeper sneaking into the imperial dining room and pouring some medicinal powder into Niangniang's soup."

When the chief butler heard this, his eyes widened, and he looked at the palace maid incredulously, "Xiao Cheng, you ...... Don't talk nonsense! ”

"What nonsense am I talking about?"

Xiao Cheng snorted coldly, and suddenly rushed towards the big butler, and raised the big butler's hand.

As soon as I pulled it into my sleeve, I took out a piece of paper!

Xiao Cheng directly handed the piece of paper to Qing'er, and Qing'er took a closer look, and there was still a little powder left on it!

And after the imperial doctor examined it, he found that the powder on it turned out to be the poison in the queen's diet!

Zhong Xiaoshu looked at the big butler coldly, and snorted lightly: "Now, what else do you have to say!" ”

The chief butler suddenly "pounced" and fell to his knees, prostrate on the ground, and cried: "Niangniang Mingcha, I didn't do it!" ”

"There is human and material evidence, and you are still quibbling!" Zhong Xiaoshu was very annoyed by his noise, so he held his forehead and waved his hand.

"Drag it off, Hongu doesn't want to see him again."

The big housekeeper's eyes widened, and he hurriedly pointed at Xiao Cheng and said indiscriminately: "It's not me, Niangniang, it's her!" It's her poison! ”

But no one listened to the butler's arguments.

Even those eunuchs just did what Zhong Xiaoshu wanted, so they directly dragged the big housekeeper away.

The butler's voice soon grew quieter and quieter, and finally disappeared.