XXXXI: Sophistry
Almost all of the girls' meals came from the hands of Mother Yuan's mother in the kitchen, and she was brought in fear, along with the three maids who cut vegetables and brushed the dishes from the kitchen.
The old lady sat on the upper seat, Qin Manhuai sat beside her, Su Qianyao was silent, and Su Moyao's eyes were red when she was crying, and it was distressing to look at it.
Ding Lan was tied up and gagged and thrown in the firewood room to wait, just waiting for her mother in the kitchen to come, and argued with her face to face that since the poison was not given by her, it must have been done by the people in the kitchen.
It's just that little raccoon... It's obviously dead, how can it come out and test the girls for poison? After thinking about it, a bad thought appeared in Ding Lan's mind, I was afraid that she was used by the girls of Qin Zhuxuan!
The raccoon is simply dead.
Yuan's mother is not young, her steps are slow, and it has been more than half an hour by the time she arrives at Qinzhuxuan.
"Yuan family, how many years have you been serving in my Su family?" The old lady asked.
Mother Yuan hurriedly knelt down, "Back to the old lady's words, the slave was bought back by the old lady when she was a child, and she has been serving in the kitchen for almost forty years." ”
"Do you know why I called you today?"
Can you not know? Mother Yuan's eyes were deep, and she kowtowed twice, "The old lady Mingjian, the slave has been working in the kitchen on an errand all the time, and she knows that she will not be able to run away from me if she is poisoned in the food, where can she dare to poison a few girls?" ”
"That's a good thing." Qin Manhuai said, "Mother Yuan, you are a safe person, you haven't made a big mistake in the past few decades, I don't think it's you, it's someone who wants to frame you." ”
"Big Lady Mingjian! The eldest lady is a seven-trick exquisite heart, and the slave maid would not dare to do this even if she has a hundred guts! Someone must have wanted to harm a few girls, and this caused the slaves and maids. ”
As soon as the words fell, Ding Lan was lifted out of the firewood room by two rough envoys, tied like a zongzi, and after pushing into the house, one stumbled and fell to the ground, looking painful.
"She is here to get the girls' lunch today!" Mother Yuan recognized her at a glance, pointed at her and said, "The slave remembers clearly, she went to the kitchen to get it!" ”
The old lady knew this, so she told Mother Yuan to go down, and looked at Ding Lan's eyes for a while.
Although she was gagged, her face was very recognizable, especially since she was still a child of the family, and she could be regarded as growing up in the Su Mansion, and her mother, Mrs. Ma, also remembered it clearly.
A mother-in-law approached, tore off the rags from Ding Lan's mouth, and heard her shout, "The old lady spares her life, the slave didn't poison the girls!" ”
"Yes or no, it doesn't matter?" Qin Manhuai sat upright, "Today's meal is only taken over by Mother Yuan and others except for you, the possibility of Mother Yuan is not high, only you are the most suspicious." ”
Ding Lan had tears in the corners of her eyes, and she wanted to tell the real reason for the poisoning, but she didn't dare to say it, that was to confirm her poisoning the little fox. If she can resist herself, it would be fine, but she couldn't give the second lady and the others out, which annoyed them, Ding Lan knew that there must be no good fruit to eat in the Su family.
"Old lady, big lady." Bihe, a first-class maid beside the old lady, approached, "This is the rat poison found in the pillow in Ding Lan's room, the slave and maid asked the doctor to check it, and there is still a little left, if the dose goes on like this, it will definitely eat the dead." ”
The old lady took the paper bag handed by Bihe, looked at the light pink powder in it in a daze, and slapped the table angrily, "The matter has come to this, what else do you have to deny?" Come! ”
The two rough mothers-in-law entered the house and set Ding Lan up.
"The old lady spares her life!" Ding Lan's tears flowed down his face, and the dirty things mixed with the firewood room were stuck to his face, looking embarrassed.
This rat poison is indeed hers, but it is just something used to kill the little fox, and it is not so much, since there are not so many, it must be a few girls who planted themselves.
"The old lady knows that this is the slave who brought the medicine rat!"
Su Yunyao stood up, "There has never been a rat plague in Qinzhuxuan, not to mention that the little fox is kept in the yard, and things like rat poison are not possible at all, where did you have the courage to bring in rat poison?" If someone tells you to drugged, who is that person? ”
Ding Lan was stunned for a moment, the words of the eleventh girl could really kill her!
And in Fang Cai's words, she admitted that the rat poison came from her, and no matter what she defended, I am afraid that the old lady would not believe it.
"It's... These are not slaves at all! Ding Lan knelt on the ground and tried to rub against the old lady, "The slave is tired of the cat raised by the eleventh girl, she wants to poison it, and the little fox has died yesterday, the slave and the maid saw it buried in the back of the house by the girl Lixi, the old lady knows that the slave and the maid did not poison the girl!" ”
"Kill the raccoon?" Su Moyao got up and gave Ding Lan a slap: "You poisonous woman!" The raccoon dog is just a cat, and if you do something to it, you still have no humanity! ”
"It's... It's the little raccoon that jumps up and down all day long, and the slave and maid see that it's so annoying, that's why it's like this..."
But the old lady is so foolish?
"You said the little fox went into the dirt yesterday?" The old lady looked at Bihe, "Go and see if she is telling the truth." ”
Ding Lan saw that there was still a turning point in this matter, and hurriedly mentioned another sentence: "The slave maid put the rat poison under the west wall yesterday, Sister Bihe is so good to rummage through it, and she will return the innocence of the slave maid!" ”
"Nonsense!" Su Qianyao also said loudly, "You are a second-class maid in the tenth sister's room, and you can hardly meet with the little fox on weekdays, why are you so annoying?" Then she knelt down before the old lady, "Grandmother, the little fox has just died, although it is a cat, it is also a life!" The granddaughter had it buried outside the yard, for fear that you would dislike it, what... Why is Ding Lan so vicious, seeing that she didn't succeed in harming her granddaughter, she would rely on the little fox's head for this matter, and it would not be able to live in peace when it died! ”
The old lady has always loved the fifth girl, because Su Qianyao's health has always been bad, so she believes in her more.
Then Bihe came in from outside, frowned tightly, and first saluted, "Back to the old lady, back to the eldest lady, there is no place in the backyard to bury the little fox as Ding Lan said, and the slave maid on the west wall has also carefully checked it, and there is no place for her to poison." ”
Since Su Yunyao is doing this game, can she leave evidence in favor of Ding Lan?
So Li Xi buried the little fox just to show Ding Lan, and then she told the news that the little fox was safe and sound in Chang Xizhai, and the person who poisoned it would definitely not be able to sit still, and it was inevitable that Ding Lan would be carefully inquired, so that she could find out who was behind the scenes, and the poisoned place was also covered up by Mother Zhao herself, and the old soil specially used, even if Ding Lan went to check it herself, she was dumb and ate coptis.