In front of several officials were dozens of ebony cages, and the new cages were all hung with copper locks, clearly reminding everyone that the dowry had just been sent to the Du family for a short time.

Xiao Rongyue sat on the couch with a sick face, coughed a few times before she said weakly: "Here is the dowry I brought from my mother's house, and the dowry list is also here, I don't know what you want to see?" ”

Those officials were afraid that it would be difficult to see such a rich dowry, and they looked at dozens of cages and long dowry lists with amazement, and said after a while: "There is a lady who opens the box and cage to a couple, and Tao Zhan can't resist confessing in prison, saying that he stole the lady's dowry to fold the money and silver, and only scraped together enough to buy the house." ”

Xiao Rongyue looked surprised, and shook her head again and again: "How could it be, how could Mother Zhan do such a thing!" She was the person next to my aunt, and she called me to be my mother in charge of the marriage. ”

She shook her head in disbelief and ordered someone to get the key to open the cage.

It's just that Sanqi replied with a bitter face: "Lady, these dowries are all handed over to Mother Zhan, and the keys are all in Mother Zhan's, and no one else has them." ”

Xiao Rongyue was surprised and stammered: "This, how is this good?" ”

The official glanced at each other: "That can only make people smash the copper lock and open it." ”

Taking advantage of the effort of smashing the copper lock, the official asked again: "The government also sent someone to report to the official, saying that a little maid was poisoned last night, but is there such a thing?" ”

Xiao Rongyue seemed to be too sad at this time, don't turn her face and wave her hand, she couldn't speak, but Guangdan came forward with red eyes and replied: "Yesterday, Mrs. Xiao came to the house, talked with the eldest lady, and invited the lady over, saying that she saw that the lady was sick and was not in good health, and sent some people to participate in Shouwu to come over to recuperate for the lady." ”

"Last night, the maid waited to see that the ginseng was good, so he asked the small kitchen to stew a ginseng soup and send it up, Yanlai, who watched the fire, was the most attentive on weekdays, but he didn't want to be shallow for a while, and he secretly ate a few bites behind his back, but he couldn't do it at night, and the maid and maid hurriedly sealed the ginseng soup, and even put away those ginseng and shou wu, and let people report to the official early in the morning."

She said with her eyes red too: "I don't know what kind of person with a rotten heart does such a vicious thing, and he wants to attack the lady, poor Yanlai...... After all, it was a life, and they came from the Xiao Mansion together. ”

As she spoke, the little maid had already come up with the sealed ginseng shouwu and the rest of the ginseng soup, and placed them all in front of them.

The official sent a look at the ginseng, and then looked at the marriage, I only felt that it was strange and weird, I had never seen a family make two things at the same time, could it be that there was still a connection here?

This poisoning case sounds like Mrs. Xiao did it, after all, the ginseng was sent by her, but why did she want to do it to her own lady? Could it be because it's a stepdaughter? It doesn't make sense, but the matter of the Yin family's mansion also has something to do with this Mrs. Xiao, maybe it was because Mrs. Xiao instigated Tao Zhan's family to steal Xiao's dowry to buy the house, but the East Window incident was discovered by the Xiao family, and Mrs. Xiao was ruthless to kill her?

The officials were still speculating that Pei finally helped Bai Zhi and hurried over with Mother Lin, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw the dozens of cages, and the people on the table participated in the ginseng soup!

Suddenly, his back was cold, and his feet stumbled a little, so he stepped forward tremblingly: "What's wrong?" How did you get it like this? ”

She turned her face to stare at Xiao Rongyue: "It's you causing trouble again, in the middle of the autumn, even the officials of the government came to the door, you should really teach San Lang to take a leave of absence earlier, and rush back to the Xiao family." ”

In front of the officials and everyone, he didn't show any mercy to Xiao Rongyue.

Xiao Rongyue was not annoyed at all, but looked sick and crooked: "A few officials are still asking about this ginseng soup, speaking of which, the A family and the aunt are very close, this ginseng shou wu also sent a copy to the A family, and this early spring Huayuan chef sent the ginseng soup in, but it seems that there is nothing wrong." ”

Pei Shi was anxious, and hurriedly said: "How do I know that this ginseng will be poisonous, even if there is anything that was also sent by your Xiao family, it has nothing to do with me." ”

Xiao Rongyue smiled: "This is strange, I haven't said that ginseng is poisonous, how can the A family be so sure?" Isn't it ......."

She didn't continue, but several officials frowned and stared at Pei's: "Madame also got this ginseng?" ”

Pei's family was completely confused, and hurriedly denied it: "I don't know, I don't know any of this, it was sent by Xiao Liu's family, she didn't look down on Xiao's stepdaughter to marry into our house, and she wanted to marry her own daughter, so she did such a thing......"

Before she finished speaking, she realized that she had said something wrong, she shouldn't have said this anyway, she had already seen Xiao Rongyue's smile full of disdain, and she chuckled in her heart, and she couldn't say anything anymore.

It's just that it's too late, Xiao Rongyue has already asked her to say what she wants, and it's time for the show to officially start.

"How is that possible...... My aunt treated me very well, she came to visit me in the house from time to time, and she sent medicinal herbs when she knew that I was sick, and even the people in my garden were picked by her, how could she ......" The mournful voice was really pitiful, but in a moment, Xiao Rongyue's face had perfectly expressed her consternation, denying the pain and despair, "How do you know this?" Auntie, she actually wants Le Niang to marry in, so what should I do? You want my life? ”

She covered her face with a handkerchief, sobbing weakly, out of breath, very sick but couldn't hold back her sadness, or Sanqi stepped forward quickly, while her eyes were red, while comforting her.

Pei's almost jumped up, what did they say they wanted her life, it was Xiao Liu's doing, what does it have to do with her, she opened her mouth and was about to shout, but she listened to the official: "This matter is very important, I'm afraid that I have to ask the two of you to go to the government to explain it." ”

As he spoke, the copper locks over there were also smashed open, the cage was opened, and everyone poked their heads over to see what was going on, after all, such a rich dowry is rare on weekdays.

However, they were disappointed, and except for a few boxes that contained a lot of money, the rest were mostly empty, and only a few items remained.

"How can this be, when the lady married in, these forty-eight boxes and cages were full, but they were opened in the courtyard for the guests to see, why are there only so many left now?" This time she arrived at Zhuling, she looked at the cages in horror, and quickly stepped forward to open them one by one, so as not to be distressed.

The official was also surprised, after all, Fang Cai's dowry list was full, but now it was less than half of it, and looking at this confused and simple bitter lady, it seemed that he didn't know about it.

One of them found a note in a half-empty cage, picked it up curiously and looked at it, and there were two big words on it: IOU!

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