"Her birthday gift is poisonous? Grandma Meng, don't wronged people! Qing'er subconsciously defended He Angelica.

Shang smiled calmly and said slowly: "So many people are here, so many pairs of eyes are watching, are they all wronging her?" Lord Qingning, you don't have to quibble, quickly tell the truth about your poisoning! ”

Qing'er was angry, straightened her chest and shouted: "If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, she has always been a bodhisattva who saves people, and she will never learn how to hurt people in her life." Besides, Mrs. Su's illness was cured by her, she was afraid that the subordinates would not grind carefully, so she got up before dawn every day to make medicine, and finally all the doctors were helpless and the disease was cured by her. Falsely accused her of poisoning, do you have any evidence! ”

Shang stared at Qing'er's face, twisted his lips and smiled, and slowly opened a delicate printed gold box, which contained He Angelica's birthday gift, the four pills "Baochun Red Pill". Shang sneered and asked, "Seventh brother and sister, is this your birthday gift?" ”

"Exactly." He Angelica pulled the fried Qing'er back and responded calmly.

"What else do you have to say?" Shang was a little proud.

"I can't think of it for a while."

The tone is flat, as if the other party is not asking about a poisonous birthday gift, but a radish and a clove of garlic. Her unfazed attitude often makes her opponent feel discouraged, and there is an imbalance in the punch on the cotton. The output is very large, but it does not get the rebound back.

Shang gritted his teeth and said, "Since you admit it happily, I will also give you a good time, come on!" Lock up the county lord of Qingning and dispose of it after the birthday banquet! ”

The other subordinates were still hesitant, but the two mothers-in-law standing behind the Shang family couldn't help but say, walked up and twisted He Angelica's two arms, and showed the prepared rope in their hands, wanting to tie her up.

He Angelica did not move, and at the same time there was a dark shock, and the two mothers-in-law fell to the left, and the other rolled to the right, screaming in a fuss.

Shang Shipi asked with a smile: "What do you mean by this seventh brother and sister?" Think the old people are not tied well, so the guards outside need to come in and tie up two? The threat in the words is obvious, just imagine, if the guests here witnessed He Angelica being tied up by the guards, how would He Angelica see people in the future?

He Angelica was innocent and asked in confusion: "My sister-in-law's question is so strange, you let people lock me up and tie me up, I don't dare to argue." As the county lord, he stood honestly and was bound by his rough hands and feet. With so many people here, so many pairs of eyes watching, can I flick a finger on them? They can't stand on their own feet and fall, do they still blame me? She never used martial arts easily, and this was the first time she used martial arts against ordinary people. It's no wonder that the servants of the Shang clan are too arrogant, indiscriminate, and bold, and she will never be insulted like this.

Shang was speechless, and ordered the maids to tie up He Angelica, and several maids exchanged glances, but they didn't want to take this risk. The curvature of Grandma Seven's lips that seemed to be smiling but not smiling made people feel worried.

"She is the one who poisoned and murdered her mother-in-law," Shang slanted his Danfeng eyes, and his gaze swept over the young daughter-in-law present, "What are you still doing in a daze?" Why don't you call a few more people and take down this woman! ”

Lu Shi hesitated and said, "This is not very good, right? Or wait for your mother-in-law to come and ask her to decide, right? ”

Shang Shi scraped a shallow mark on the table with gold armor, and said in an unpleasant tone: "Mother-in-law's body is weak, how can she bear to be angry like this, all our daughters-in-law are here, can't even this little thing worry about mother-in-law?" What's more, there are guests present, won't it make people laugh at our incompetence and not even catch a prisoner? ”

Qing'er was so angry that she didn't expect that there was such a No. 1 scum in the Meng family's fat powder Jincui. With a horizontal right arm, she separated the maid from He Angelica, and asked with a sneer: "Have you checked it out, this is going to arrest someone!" ”

Shang said sarcastically: "No matter how heroic and generous Miss Liao is, she will wait until she marries into our family to ask us about our family affairs, please take a break first." ”

The louder the noise got inside, and finally attracted the uncle Meng Xian who passed by the door.

"What's going on here?" When Meng Xian came in, he glared at the Shang family, lowered his voice and reproached, "If you don't accompany the guests well, why is the matter turned upside down?" Several princes and marquis who came to celebrate their birthdays outside heard it, do you want to sweep everyone's interest? ”

Shang said aggrievedly: "What does Uncle blame me for? You've also asked the right questions. The mother-in-law had a big birthday, and the concubine was 110,000 happy, and she also wanted to slip through it smoothly, but she was shocked to find that the seven brothers and sisters had poisoned the birthday pill they offered to their mother-in-law. If Aunt Wang hadn't found out earlier, this medicine would have been sent to her mother-in-law, and the consequences would have been unimaginable! ”

Aunt Wang is the daughter-in-law who entered the door with He Angelica, the side room of the second master Meng Qi. After being named by the Shang family, Aunt Wang took a step forward and said, "The pill of the Qingning County Lord is indeed poisonous, poisoning a white sparrow. ”

With a finger of her jade hand, everyone's eyes followed her fingertips and landed on a fluffy white-feathered finch that turned its belly to the sky. The finch had wide open eyes, waxy red paws curled slightly, and its round chest had lost its heaval and seemed to be dead.

"What the hell is going on?"

In the distance, another male voice sounded, and two men in brocade clothes walked towards him. One is Zhu Di, the king of Yan, the other is Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, one is heroic and dignified, the other is of gold and jade, walking neatly, walking together is an indescribable match, no matter how you look at it, they are a pair of brothers with excellent relationships and deep brotherhood.

It was King Yan who spoke: "Before the birthday banquet started, there was a 'murder' first, and people must find out who deliberately got along with the Meng family and Mrs. Baoding Hou." ”

Meng Xian hurriedly greeted the second prince with a smile on his face, and said apologetically: "I was shocked by His Royal Highness's driving, I am really ashamed, there is something trivial in the family, it is purely a dispute between ignorant women, please ask the two highnesses to use tea in the outer hall, and let the students personally serve tea to make amends." ”

King Yan seemed to deliberately want to make a big deal out of the matter, sat on a horizontal bluestone beside the road, dusted the corners of his robe, and said in a disapproving tone: "Boss Meng, you are too careless, this king can hear it clearly outside, some people claim that the county lord of Qingning was poisoned as a pill for a birthday gift, this is not an ordinary trivial matter." ”

"But......" Meng Xian said with hatred of iron and steel, pointing at Shang's head, "this is clearly clumsy Jing stirring up trouble, as if this has alarmed the prince, we are all sincerely afraid." ”

"You probably don't know yet," King Yan smiled as if he was chatting with everyone, "Recently, there have been more than ten poisoning cases in Beijing, and the most recent one actually happened in the Imperial Palace, and three palace ladies were poisoned. The emperor was furious, and ordered the king to thoroughly investigate the poisoning case, the king was bitter and clueless, came out to participate in the birthday banquet to relax, but did not expect to encounter the poisoning case again, this king came really coincidentally! ”

"But......" Meng Xian's face was embarrassed.

There is a way, his wife Mo Ruofu, as soon as he came in and saw the battle inside, he suspected that the Shang family made this incident and had nothing to do with the poisoning case in the mouth of King Yan. If you investigate deeply, it's just a thug and ugly.

But King Yan didn't know whether he was really honest or pretending to be naïve, so he sat upright, and then began to question as if he was trying a case with a court official. "Meng Liu, you talk back, what is the ins and outs of this matter?"

The fourth grandmother, Liu, had been sitting in the back and watching the excitement, and was suddenly asked by His Royal Highness King Yan, so she stood up at a loss, and replied, "That's it...... We saw with our own eyes that the white finch pecked at the pill and then flipped its belly and died. The county lord of Qingning happened to come back at this time, and the sister-in-law asked her to tie her up and dispose of it after the banquet. ”

King Yan's gaze swept over the thick hemp rope on the ground, as well as He Angelica's indifferent expression, and suddenly struck his palm on the bluestone, making a bang. He himself shouted angrily: "How can this be reasonable, Qingning is also the daughter of this king, such a bizarre thing happened, she is obviously also one of the victims, how can you say that you will be tied up?" This hemp rope is even more weird, could it be that the people of the Meng family still prepare ropes for the banquet? ”

Yan Wanglu roared when he saw the injustice, which frightened the children of the courtyard and trembled, and several people even showed expressions similar to those of a weak heart.

Qing'er saw that King Yan's attitude was biased towards He Angelica, and her impression of him was immediately very good, and she interjected: "Who said it wasn't!" They insisted that the birthday gift was poisonous, and before the words could be explained, Aunt Shang's personal slave suddenly took out the rope from her waist and tied people without saying a word, which was smoother than acting, as if she had been rehearsed in advance. If you want me to say, this is Sima Guang's heart, everyone knows it! ”

"Meng Shangshi, what do you have to say?" King Yan asked with residual anger.

Qing'er said that Shang and others were acting, He Angelica watched coldly, but felt that Yan Wang's tantrum was really acting. King Yan seemed to be more protective of her, but the bits and pieces of calculations in his eyes made people have to guard against her. If it were possible, she would rather face the Shang clan than the Yan King, the former being an old eagle pecking at people, and the latter being a tiger with a monstrous appetite.

Shang Shi trembled, pretended to be calm and said: "The rope is always carried by the subordinates, His Royal Highness King Yan Mingjian!" The birthday ceremony was when the lord of Qingning went to the banquet, and she walked over step by step with the box in her arms, how could the concubine know in advance that it was poisonous, and how to prepare the rope in advance? Your Highness, don't be fooled by Miss Liao's words, this young lady is well-known in the capital for being joking, and we don't take her words as normal people's words. ”

Qing'er took a sip secretly, feeling that the woman Shang's face was thick enough, and finally talked about her head. I was just about to reason with Shang's family, and when I was talking about things, I would talk about things well, and I didn't have such a human rooster, but I actually scolded her for not talking about people! Suddenly felt that her arm was being pulled, Qing'er turned around, He Angelica happened to approach with a mysterious and strange smile, and explained a few words to her like this with his ear.

King Yan asked the party who remained silent from beginning to end: "Qingning, why don't you defend yourself?" ”

He Angelica walked around the dead bird on the ground for half a circle, supported his chin with one finger, and analyzed while thinking: "This is the falling goose sand that seals the throat with blood, a secret poison made by the palace, but its formula has long been circulated, and there are such things in the courtyards of many large families and in the places where dirt and dirt are hidden." The 'Baochun Red Pill' I made melted when it met water, and it turned black when it met iron, it is certain that the pill has been tampered with, if you don't believe it, please take a look——"

The jade hand slowly held up the medicine box and invited King Yan and the ladies to take a look.

She said: "When the pill is just ready, it is red, round, fragrant, and beautiful, and it melts in your mouth. But now, the shape is deformed, and the bottom is black, apparently touched by someone with a water-soaked iron tool. The poison is also on the surface, if the surface layer is scraped off and the poison is tested with a silver needle, there is no poison inside. ”

"That doesn't prove the innocence of the county lord, because it could also be the county lord who poisoned the pill." The person who spoke was Duan Xiaolou's mother, Mrs. Ge, who was obviously deliberately making things difficult for He Angelica.

He Angelica had expected that others would ask such a question, pursed his lips and smiled, and said unhurriedly: "If I poison my mother-in-law, first of all, I will not poison my own congratulatory gifts, and secondly, I will not poison my pills." Because only the most clumsy poisoners will choose to put poison in tea, pills, and fruits, which are the three things that 'poison them'. Taking tea as an example, the ladies here are all masters of tea tasting, and it should be clear that a little change in water temperature and brewing technique will affect the color and taste of tea. The pill is more delicate than tea, and now it is black and smelly, and it looks like a defective product, how can my mother-in-law take it? ”

King Yan bowed his head and said, "It makes sense. ”

On the other hand, King Ning had been standing silently behind a dogwood, silent as a shadow. At this moment, he suddenly asked: "If the pill is placed in a box and stored in a fixed seal, how can it be pecked by birds?" ”

The ladies who were asked were stunned, yes, how could the finches flying in the sky eat a box of Chinese medicine pills for no reason?

Aunt Wang said hesitantly: "Just now someone praised the county lord for refining the medicine, we were all curious and wanted to see it, but then I didn't know who it was, so we opened the brocade box." ”

"This doesn't matter now," He Angelica said with an unexpected smile, "I suddenly noticed another thing, please look at the tea in your hands...... IMHO, the color of the water is very strange, as if something unusual has been added. Dare to ask, who cooked the tea for today's banquet? My pills are poisonous, after all, they don't poison people, but you have all drunk the tea in your hands, right? ”

As soon as the words fell, the female guests were coquettish, and Shang's complexion changed greatly. Qing'er covered her mouth and smiled, and said in her heart, who is more shameless than whom, you will only know after the comparison!