Volume 3 The Walker in the Dark Eighty-seven, Poison

Minna felt the need to contact the Security Department again, tell them about what she had seen Old Fox, and inquire about the interrogation by the way

However, when she wanted to find another excuse to leave Heda's house, she was rejected by the old gardener, saying that if there was anything she wanted to buy, she could tell the housekeeper's assistant, and wait for the person in charge of purchasing to go out to buy it together

She was secretly frightened by the old gardener's strange behavior, and when he summoned herself alone to the hut where the tools were kept, she was finally sure that her actions during the day had aroused the suspicion of some people

The old gardener looked her up and down before asking, "I heard that you are sneaking around in the rose garden today, what are you doing?" The flowers there are all precious varieties, so you don't want to steal them, do you? ”

Minna hurriedly said: "Of course not, even if I steal the flowers, I can't sell them, what's the use?" She rolled her eyes, and said boldly: "Uncle, I saw that the lawn over there was not very smooth, and I wondered what was going on, but as a result..."

The old gardener hurriedly covered her mouth, quickly glanced outside the door, and then came back and glared at her: "You girl, you can't do a good job, why do you care about these things?!" Is this kind of nonsense also something to say? Minna looked confused: "Can't you?" Uncle, do you know what that place is? ”

The old gardener sighed: "There... It's hell..."

It's a good word to describe the secret room, and Minna deliberately asked, "Hell?!" How can it be? Isn't this the mansion of a noble lord? ”

But the old gardener refused to reveal more: "In short, you don't know about it, don't tell anyone about it, remember?" Otherwise, the master will definitely kick you out if he finds out! ”

His eyes glared at Minna and pretended to be scared by him, but he didn't dare, and when he walked out of the hut, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he should have passed

The old gardener did not return to his post, but walked in the direction of the mansion and waited until he reached the entrance of the side door, and then probed his head to find someone to take him in, and suddenly saw the second young master Exx dragging Dorothy down the stairs, the latter was snorting and squeezing, but Exx seemed to be a little absent-minded, and answered without a word, as soon as he saw Lao Yuandong, he raised his eyebrows, and raised his chin to the beauty beside him, signaling her to come forward and ask

Dorothy looked aggrieved, feeling that her identity was no longer the same, and she shouldn't do this kind of communication work anymore, it was all the responsibility of the low-level servants, and she was glared at by Ex, so she reluctantly walked over and asked angrily: "You old fellow, you don't work in the garden, what are you doing here?" Are you trying to steal?! ”

The old gardener frowned and ignored her, and turned to Ex: "The eldest young master told me to do something, and I have already done it, so I have come to report to him."

"Big brother?" Ex reluctantly accepted to talk to the servant face-to-face, "He's with the guest, what do you want to tell him, tell me, I'll tell him"

The old gardener hesitated for a moment, and thought of telling the second young master the same, so he told Esparo about his true intention of ordering him to inquire about Minna's approach to the rose garden, and he concealed that she had found a hole in the grass, and only said that she was curious because she saw the unevenness of the lawn, and said: "Mary (Minna's pseudonym) is a distant relative of a third-class cook lady here in the mansion because the cook was about to quit her job, and she was introduced to replace her, and she is only twelve years old this year, and she is a little stupid, so she should not be a suspicious person."

Ex sneered: "Big brother is just suspicious, a maid who does chores in the garden, it's not strange to do anything in the garden, and such a young child, what's suspicious?" Okay, I'll tell him to go back."

The old gardener stepped back respectfully, but Dorothy was thoughtful

Minna knew that she had aroused the suspicion of others, and she was afraid that her identity would be revealed, so she worked honestly for two days, but she gradually couldn't wait for the security department to have no news come, and she couldn't go out to pass on the information, so she could only sneak into the rose garden at night, eavesdrop on the sounds in the cave, and play some water balloons and pills to go in, but how much effect could this be? Sooner or later, the people of her Hedda family will find out, and her father and the horse will not be able to survive

Old Fox, on the other hand, took the opportunity to water the flower beds under the window of the mansion, and after a few looks, she found that he basically did not leave the room, and it was the personal male servants of Heda's son Esparo who sent food and daily necessities every day, and the other servants, not to mention sending things, even the corridor outside the guest room where he lived had to be driven away by the guards who came out of nowhere

It seems that old Fox lives here and can't be known

Minna remembered that the servants had mentioned in their conversation that Esparo was working in the Justice Office, and that Old Fox was being held in the Law Administration prison, could it be that he had smuggled Old Fox out?

If this can be proved, does it mean that it can be proved that the Hedda family and the Fox family are in the same gang and are both traitors?

Minna was so anxious that she wanted to find an opportunity to go out and inform the Security Service, but although Esparo didn't seem to suspect her anymore, she still couldn't get permission from the old gardener to go out, what should she do?

It was nearly evening, she carried a large basket of flowers into the mansion, and walked to the small living room, which was what Mrs. Helen wanted, saying that it was just to get together to drink a cup of tea and listen to the two little young masters play a bad tune, is it necessary to be so particular? Minna smiled self-deprecatingly, wondering what the hell she was doing here? Waiting for the enemy to come?

There was a sound of footsteps ahead, and the head of the house came in from outside with his three adult sons, all of whom had Simina on their faces, and hurriedly avoided them, bowed their heads and bent over, and scolded again, but when she heard what the men said, all her attention was drawn to it

"It's a great day for you, father, do you see the faces of those people in the Security Agency? It's really ugly" This is the second Ax, with a frivolous face

Esparo glanced at him, with the same smile on the corner of his mouth: "Of course, we didn't make any arrangements, and now that the suspicion of treason has been transferred to them, who will say that we are the ones behind it?" ”

"That's right," the more Ackes thought about it, the happier he became, "they also specially asked to take Old Fox from the Department of Justice, and now the witnesses are retracting the confession under their eyes, and it is they who have nothing to do with us, as long as they don't search the house, they can't put the charge on our heads!" ”

Esparo coughed and glared at him, and his father glared back at him, "Be careful if you're heard outside, it's us!" Only then did Ex realize that he had slipped his mouth, but he didn't care, but just smiled, even if he apologized

Etta, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "Does it really matter? I look at His Majesty's face today, it doesn't seem very good, I suspect he already has doubts about our family"

Ex frowned: "Etta, why are you here again?" Can't you splash cold water a few times less? Every time! ”

The father of the three of them also glanced at Etta with displeasure, and the latter bowed his head and said, "I just think that things have been too rampant at home lately, and even private soldiers have been sent out in a bright way, I'm afraid His Majesty will be dissatisfied, right?" ”

As soon as he said this, the other three people didn't look very good-looking, and Esparo coughed lightly, and said with a smile: "My dear brother, you just like to worry about things that you don't need to worry about, don't forget, Aunt Lorna will speak for us in front of the king, Your Majesty will never misunderstand us, if there is really any unfavorable situation, Aunt will also inform us immediately, you can rest assured"

He turned to his father: "Now that the security department is busy proving its innocence, I'm afraid it doesn't have much time to trouble us, the people who are locked up will find time to clean it up, anyway, they won't last long."

Etta immediately interjected: "Big brother, you promised to hand that person over to me at my disposal, but you are the one who makes the decision from beginning to end!" ”

"My brother, isn't my decision the same as yours?" Esparo smiled and stroked his shoulder, "Anyway, you always feel uncomfortable when you do it, why don't you let me come, but it will make you angry even more?" Okay, I know you've never been good at these things, so leave them to me, you don't have to worry about it" He smiled and said to his father: "Happy today, why don't you open a good bottle of bar?" How many of our fathers and sons have a good drink? ”

Hedda withdrew the displeased gaze he gave to the third son, and glanced at the eldest son: "Stinky boy, you know the idea of beating my treasures!" But he didn't refuse, and Exx was busy arguing about which bottle of wine was more mellow

Etta was weak for a while, but she didn't know how to speak, just as the two little brothers rushed over and pestered their father to listen to their newly practiced music, and the father and son went to the living room in harmony, and Etta was dragged away by the eldest brother

Minna straightened up, looking at the men with hatred in her eyes, the basket of flowers she was holding in her hand had been deformed

How could she just let these people go?

Hurried to hand over the basket, and ignoring the complaints of the favored maids beside Lady Helen about the shape of the basket, she hurried back to her cottage, and turned over all the magic materials she had gathered in the garden during this time, and a broken clay pot, and boiled a pot of flowers

Since she was separated from her grandfather, she had been grateful countless times to the Demon Master Sauron for teaching her so many things, and she had complained about his bad attitude before, and he was only willing to teach basic magic weapons, and he didn't teach her a single clever formula, but now she felt that it was fortunate that Sauron had taught her enough basic knowledge and methods of picking and identifying the raw materials for magic leaves, otherwise, in the past four years, maybe she would have died a long time ago

Carefully boil the juice in the pot into a paste, dry it again, grind it into a powder, use the vegetable juice to form a dysentery pill, wrap it in a handkerchief, and put it in a pocket

This is a kind of chronic poisonous mushroom, no se and tasteless, it dissolves when it comes to wine, and she wants to find an opportunity to put it into the wine of those men surnamed Heda, and see how long they can be arrogant!

She walked out of the hut, and was about to touch the mansion for an opportunity to poison her, but she saw a figure sitting under the grape verandah, bottles of wine poured into it, and she looked closely and it turned out to be Etta

This man is the one who caused my father to suffer in the secret room

Minna gritted her teeth for a while, and suddenly thought of an idea, so she deliberately took a heavy step and walked over

Etta heard footsteps and raised an eye to glance at it, "Uh... You're doing odd jobs, aren't you? Bring me some bottles! ”

You can say that again! Minna immediately went to the cellar and fetched two bottles of wine, then turned around and walked to a place where no one was there and quietly threw the pill in, and then brought it to Etta to drink

After that, she also often moved around the grape gallery, every time she saw Etta drinking, she deliberately approached, and then took the opportunity to get the wine to go down, seeing Etta's face gradually gray, but she didn't realize it, she only thought that she was secretly happy in her heart because she hadn't rested recently

Inspired by this, she started the idea of the rest of the Hedda family again, there are not many poison pills, rather than scattering them on a few people, it is better to poison one person, but other people can't be cheap like this She noticed that every day after dinner, the hostess Lady Helen had to make rose tea for everyone in the family, and she had an idea

She collected several kinds of flower buds and grass roots, and mixed them into a brew of tea, which tasted fragrant and pleasant, in fact, if drunk for a long time, it will form toxins in the human body, and if the person who drinks it eats a lot of meat, the toxin will accumulate faster

She sniffed the brewed geothermal tea, and thought that the aroma was attractive enough, but how to get Lady Helen to accept it?

She was annoyed that she didn't notice the approaching footsteps, and it wasn't until she heard a high-pitched female voice that she realized that there was someone behind her

"What are you doing sneaking around?" Dorothy questioned loudly

Minna was a little caught off guard, and subconsciously blocked the can of herbal tea: "It's nothing."

"Nothing?" Dorothy looked at her suspiciously, and suddenly reached out and pushed her aside, and saw the jar of tea, as well as the unused flower buds and grass stalks in the basket next to her, and immediately screamed: "You dare to steal Madame's flower buds without permission?!" Say! What's your plan?! ”

Minna secretly screamed that it was not good, so she had to pretend to be blunt: "I will have some schemes"

Dorothy stared at her for a long time before she said, "The eldest young master thinks your behavior is very suspicious, I thought he was too careful, but I didn't expect you to really do bad things!" Come with me to meet the second young master! "Reach out and grab Minna

Minna avoided it, and she was tired of the eldest young master doubting her for a while, what is the matter with the second young master? Don't think she doesn't know that Ex has recently had a new land hunt, Dorothy just wants to use her to improve her status in front of her master

Dorothy was surprised by Minna's dodge and pounced again, Minna dodged and suddenly had an idea, she exclaimed, "I really didn't do anything bad!" I just heard that my wife likes herbal tea, so I wanted to get a new recipe for her! Seeing that Dorothy had withdrawn in disbelief, she hurriedly threw a few grasses into the tea, and the hut was filled with a pleasant fragrance

Dorothy's eyes lit up, and she said quickly, "I was really right! You little girl looks stupid on the surface, but you're not a good person! No wonder you've been around the third young master lately, and you don't look at what Nirvana you look like, you're as thin as a three-month-old vine, if you want to seduce a man, you need at least half of me! She straightened her chest, glanced at Minna haughtily, and scolded, "Why don't you hurry up and tell me the formula?" For the sake of your good tea, I won't tell others about you stealing flower tea, thank me" with a magnanimous face

Minna looked at her low chest speechlessly, but her face showed an angry and aggrieved Nirvana, reluctantly told her the formula, and got a basket of ready-made tea bags for her to take away to see her go away, Minna couldn't understand, how could she have such a weird idea?

After confirming that Heda's entire family had drunk the poisoned tea she had prepared, Minna felt a burst of joy in her heart, ignoring Dorothy's teeth and claws after winning the reward, her parents in the secret room, and the horse Why hasn't the security department sent her the news yet? Is it true that they are too busy to take care of themselves, as Esparo claims?

She felt that she could no longer sit idly by, and although she could still hear her father's moaning and her mother's crying in the rose garden, she replied that she had already used japonica and decided to venture into the secret room from the flower room in the middle of the night to inquire about them again

"Mary, are you there?" The old gardener called at the entrance of the garden, and she hurried over, and heard him say, "The person in charge of the procurement has brought a few vendors to the back door, didn't you always want to go out to buy things the other day?" If you want to buy it, go to the back door and see if there's anything you want."

Minna hesitated, but pretended to be happy and went to the excuse that she wanted to go out the other day, but now she couldn't go

She walked along the east aisle of the garden to the back door, passing through a secluded side door, but heard the neighing of horses outside the door, and someone "whined" calling, she was suspicious, hiding behind the bushes to peek, but saw a few big men outside the side door carrying a black cloth package to a carriage, the package kept struggling, obviously containing a person, she was shocked, was trying to get closer to see more carefully, only to see a big man did not grasp steadily, the package fell to the ground, let out a scream, struggled, the mouth of the bag was loosened, revealing half of the head of the person inside

Minna almost screamed, it was clearly her mother Dora

Where are those people going to take her?!

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