Don't let the private kitchen, Fu Pingyuan can't bear to starve his wife, and since then he often asks people to send some dishes from the Jiangnan restaurant outside.

Externally, he claimed that he had worked in Jiangnan over the years and was accustomed to the taste of Jiangnan.

A month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Fuping returned to Beijing for a month, and half a month ago he had already conducted a report on the work of the prefect for the past three years under the arrangement of the ministry, and the next thing was to wait for the imperial court to arrange a new position.

These days, in addition to going to the ministry from time to time to inquire about the news, it is to visit friends in the capital, and the life is leisurely.

At noon on this day, a family of three had lunch at Haitian Courtyard.

When Fu Pingyuan returned home in the morning, he passed by the Jiangnan restaurant and brought back three dishes and one soup that Shen and Fu Yuanyuan loved to eat, and the three of them had a great appetite and were very satisfied.

"Ma'am, something is wrong."

The three of them were eating, and suddenly saw the big girl Moqin running in anxiously.

In Shen's room, there is a housekeeper Shu Sanniang, and four big maids, namely Moqin, Siqi, Zhishu, and Xiaohua.

"What's wrong?" Shen's heart suddenly jumped wildly, and he put down his chopsticks.

Mo Qin raised her face and couldn't hide her panic, "Mrs. Hui, Hongyu is dead." Halfway through lunch, I suddenly vomited blood from my mouth, and I was completely out of breath. ”

"What?"

Shen slammed to his feet.

Hongyu was one of the second-class maids arranged by the eldest lady to Haitian Courtyard.

Because there are a lot of servants with her, after Shu Sanniang negotiated with Mama Zhu, she finally left two second-class maids and two sweeping girls.

Among them, the second-class maids are Hongyu and Ziyu.

"Sanniang," Shen's body suddenly exuded an abnormal condensation color, "You took Moqin and the others to close the courtyard door." Arrange for the mother-in-law to guard, and no one is allowed to go out, and no one is allowed to come in at will. ”

"Yes." Shu Sanniang was ordered to go out.

"Husband, full," Shen got up, "let's go and have a look." ”

The three of them followed the servants to the dining room where the servants were eating.

Before he entered the door, he heard two loud slaps, accompanied by a stern shriek, and asked, "Say, did you two poison Hongyu?!" ”

Everyone quickly walked into the dining room, and saw Mama Zhu with one hand on her waist, Qing'er and Ziyu kneeling on the ground, the two of them covering their cheeks, obviously just slapped by Mama Zhu.

"Slaves don't, slaves don't dare! Not a slave! Ziyu trembled and leaned down, while Qing'er whimpered and cried, shaking her head violently.

", don't you admit it?" Mama Zhu raised her hands and wanted to fight again.

After Shu Sanniang arranged the matter, she hurried to the dining room, and almost her heart jumped out when she saw this scene, "Qing'er." ”

She rushed to Qing'er's side, intending to block Mama Zhu's hand, but Mama Zhu's eyes were horizontal, "Mama Shu, human life is at stake, do you want to protect Qing'er?" ”

"Even if human life is at stake, it shouldn't be bent into a move!" Shu Sanniang straightened her chest, "It's absolutely impossible for us Qing'er to have half of the heart of harming people." ”

As soon as these words came out, many maids and women in the dining room nodded.

Shu Sanniang has been serving by Shen's side since she was a child, and at the age of eighteen, she left the house with the consent of Shen to marry her cousin.

Qing'er is a mute.

The couple begged for a famous doctor but failed to cure Qing'er's illness, and Shu Sanniang's cousin died after a cold.

After the Shen family found out about this, he personally went to pick up Shu Sanniang and Qing'er back to the house, and arranged for Shu Sanniang to be the housekeeper in the room, while Qing'er was a second-class maid.

Although Qing'er can't speak, she is diligent and honest, and she is quite loved by the maids.

If you want to say that Qing'er will poison people, none of the people who came back with the Shen family will believe it.

Mama Zhu pulled her lips: "The second-class girl's lunch was received by these two cheap hooves in the big kitchen, Hongyu used the lunch and died on the spot, if it wasn't for the two of them, who else could there be?" ”

There were originally six second-class maids in the second room, and the eldest lady sent Hongyu and Ziyu over, and now there are eight second-class maids.

Because Ziyu is an old man in the Guogong Mansion, she takes Qing'er to take care of the second-class maid's meal.

I didn't know that this day's lunch actually ate people to death.

"It's not a slave," Ziyu knelt on the ground and rubbed a few steps forward, raised her head and cried, "Today, the slave and maid had diarrhea because she ate the wrong thing, and ran to the thatched house a few times, so she let Qing'er go to fetch the meal alone." ”

When Mama Zhu heard this, she took a step forward and glared at Ziyu angrily: "You dead girl who is lazy all day long." ”

After that, she proudly raised her nostrils to look at Shu Sanniang: "Mama Shu, what else do you have to say now?!" ”

"Shut up."

Fu Yuanyuan turned his head and looked at Yinbao: "Yinbao, go and see how Hongyu died." ”

Hongyu was lying on the ground, and a mother-in-law had already taken a mat to cover her body, for fear of hurting her master's eyes.

Yinbao took the order.

Mama Zhu stopped her with an arrow: "Second girl, even if human life is at stake, you should ask the doctor in the house to check the body first, instead of just letting a maid come to see it." ”

Shen stared at Mama Zhu indifferently, and after a long while, he said: "I have already arranged for someone to ask for a doctor, Yinbao understands medical skills, so it doesn't hurt for her to take a look first." ”

"If Mama Zhu is afraid of mistakes, she can supervise them."

Yinbao glanced at Mama Zhu, and came to Hongyu's side with a flash of dexterity.

After a short time, she came back and reported: "Girl, Hongyu has been poisoned by a dove." ”

"This poison is very powerful, as long as you take a little bit, you will definitely die in less than ten moments, and the medicine stone will be ineffective."

As soon as the words fell, a mother-in-law hurried in with the house doctor.

The conclusion of the doctor's diagnosis is the same as that of Yinbao.

Shen and Fu Yuanyuan listened to the advice of the house doctor, and the two were stunned for a while.

What happened today in a past life has also happened.

At that time, Hongyu was also poisoned, and the eldest lady led a group of people to search in the second room, and found the poisonous powder that poisoned Hongyu under Qing'er's pillow.

The evidence was conclusive, and Shen's plea inevitably led to Qing'er being beaten with a cane and slatting fifty boards, and finally died of her injuries five days later.

Since then, Shu Sanniang has been like a walking corpse, and was soon caught by Mama Zhu for other things and sent to Zhuangzi in the countryside.

Then Mama Zhu naturally became the housekeeper of the second room.

Shen still remembered what happened in his previous life when he returned home for three months, but he didn't want this life to be two months ahead of schedule.

"How dare you poison the Guogong Mansion!" Mama Zhu screamed, "The slave went to find the eldest lady to administer justice!" ”

"Wait."

Shen and Fu Yuanyuan stopped her at the same time.

Fu Yuanyuan dug up the matter of his previous life from the memory of the original owner, and realized that everything was no longer controllable after the eldest lady led people to break into Haitian Courtyard.

In this life, you can't let her come over until you find out the situation.

"Since Hongyu was poisoned and died in the dining room," Fu Yuanyuan said calmly, "then everyone in the dining room is suspicious." ”