After Ye Mu's question, Ye Tanghua suddenly stopped thinking about talking to her again, thought about it and said: "That's it, maybe it's possible that I'm too careful, it's getting late, my mother should rest, and the child will retire." ”

Ye Mushi nodded, motioning for Yuxia to send her out, Ye Tanghua got up and walked a few steps, and turned her head again: "By the way, there is one more thing to go back to my mother, when the child came home from the palace today, I met a girl Lu who is very accomplished in tea art, her family is a tea house, and the child wants to ask her to teach the child tea art, so I want to ask for some good tea from my mother."

This kind of trivial matter Ye Mushi naturally didn't brush Ye Tanghua's meaning, so he nodded: "My tea on weekdays is brewed in Yuxia, you just have to ask her." ”

Ye Tanghua nodded and looked at Yuxia: "Let's go, take me to my mother's teahouse to have a look." ”

Yuxia nodded, and walked to a small warm pavilion on the edge of the main hall of Mingguangyuan with Ye Tanghua, only to see that there was a small wind stove for boiling water in this warm pavilion, at this time a pot of water was being placed on the top of the heat, a shelf was placed against the wall, and various tea cans were placed on it, all of which were labeled on red paper, and a table was placed near the window, and there were various tea sets and trays on it.

Ye Tanghua glanced at the structure of the room, then walked to the front of the shelf where the tea canisters were placed, and then took a closer look, and found that Ye Mu's drank a lot of tea, including cake tea and loose tea, and a shelf was placed in a sparse manner.

Ye Tanghua pretended to be curious, and approached each tea jar to take a closer look, but in fact, she wanted the poison test jade worn on her neck to get close to each jar, but she was busy up and down, and the test poison jade still didn't emit any light.

This makes Ye Tanghua really incomprehensible, the tea that Ye Mushi usually drinks is here, and Yuxia is also made here for tea, but why can't the poison jade test detect which can of tea is poisonous?

Ye Tanghua thought about this, so she turned around and approached the Xiaofeng stove again, deliberately lowered her body and squatted down, so frightened that Yuxia exclaimed: "Miss be careful, there is water in the stove, don't burn it." ”

Ye Tanghua looked down again, and after confirming that the test poison jade was indeed not shining, she stood up and said with a smile: "Yuxia, you are too careful, I just want to take a look, where can it be burned." ”

Yuxia said with a smile: "The eldest lady is naturally blessed, and she will never hurt herself for these little things, but the slave maid is here to serve the young lady, and the slave maid must not say less if she should be reminded, otherwise wouldn't it be a dereliction of duty for the slave and maid."

Ye Tanghua smiled noncommittally, although what Yuxia said was good, but when it came to Ye Mu's poisoning, she couldn't let go of a single suspicion, and now she found that there was no poison in the tea and no poison in the water, so Yuxia, who made tea, naturally became the number one suspect.

Ye Tanghua thought about it, pretended to walk into the table in front of the window casually, and took the opportunity to test whether the tea set was smeared with poison, while turning her head and asking Yuxia: "Did you make all the tea that my mother drinks every day?"

Yuxia shook her head: "Not necessarily, in addition to me, there are also Tongyin, Yundan, and Qianqiu who are serving around Madame, and the work of making tea depends on who has no work at hand, but I often serve by Madame's side, and finally I take it out." ”

Ye Tanghua couldn't help frowning even more tightly when she heard this, she had already leaned over and tried it when Yuxia was talking just now, and there was no poison on this tea set, so to speak, the person who poisoned it was actually to make tea once, and the next poison could not be done, and not to say that this method is stupid or not, it is not certain that these four people will make tea, if the poisoned person is making tea, what if there is someone next to him when he makes tea, or that these four maids are all bought

The most important thing is that it is too dangerous and inconvenient to put poison in tea and poison in tea, but it is okay to take a risk if you put poison in tea once, but you can make tea once and poison it next time, it is at the risk of being found out every time you poison people

Another point, when Ye Mushi asked Yuxia to go down to make tea, Yuxia would also pass by her, and the poison jade would not light up at that time, that is to say, Yuxia did not have poison on her body, but when Yuxia came back, the tea in her hand was poisonous, that is, the person who poisoned it was not Yuxia, but the person who poisoned it was poisoned in front of Yuxia

Ye Tanghua was very confused, and the expression on her face was also very complicated, so that Yuxia standing on the side was unclear.

Yuxia thought for a while and said with a smile: "If the eldest lady wants tea, I will wrap these tea leaves separately and bring them back to the eldest lady, if you don't go back, it will be dark." ”

"Just as you say." Ye Tanghua was also helpless at this time, she had tried all the places she could think of that might be poisonous, but none of them were poisonous, and now she could only hope for Lu Xiu'er.

Yuxia found a few pieces of red paper, wrapped the tea leaves separately, wrote the name of each bag of tea with a pen, and finally wrapped it into a large paper bag and handed it to Ye Tanghua: "Miss, all the tea slaves in this house have wrapped a little, it should be enough for you." ”

Ye Tanghua smiled: "Thank you for your hard work." At the same time, he took half a piece of broken silver from his purse and handed it to Yuxia as a reward, "I can't always serve by my mother's side, you are my mother's most powerful maid now, you have to be more careful in everything." ”

Yuxia responded with a smile, and sent Ye Tanghua out of the door, and then turned back to the courtyard to close the door.

Ye Tanghua hurriedly returned to the Flowing Frost Pavilion, at this time Lu Xiu'er was still in her room, gossiping with Wen Xibai and Yuqiu, seeing Ye Tanghua come back with a big paper bag, she couldn't help but be a little curious for a while: "Miss has been gone for so long, isn't it that Mrs. gave me any snacks."

Ye Tanghua sighed, opened the paper bag, turned out the tea leaves inside, and then bowed to Lu Xiu'er: "Miss Xiu'er, Tanghua has something important to ask for now, and I hope you will do your best to help, and there will be heavy thanks after the matter is completed." ”

Lu Xiu'er was startled, and hurriedly stood up and went to help Ye Tanghua: "Miss Ye doesn't have to be like this, since I am hired as a tea master in Yefu, I naturally should do my best for the main family, and Miss can just tell me if I have something." ”

Ye Tanghua stood up and sighed again: "Now there are no outsiders in the house, and I won't hide it from you, now I don't know who poisoned the tea that my mother drank, my mother is afraid that she has been poisoned, I am just rude to the tea art, and I can't see anything strange about this tea, and I ask Miss Lu to help test it." ”

Lu Xiu'er nodded, a little embarrassed: "This matter is about Mrs. Ye, Xiu'er should do her best, but although Xiu'er is good at tea, she is not good at poisons, so she may not be able to really do what Miss wants."

She knew that as soon as Ye Tanghua met, she suddenly said that she would invite her to be a tea master, there must be something greasy in it, and the maids and aunts in the house who had been interrogated for a long time just now did not interrogate, but now Ye Tanghua has a direct showdown.

She is actually quite happy to have such an opportunity to help, after all, the Lu family will ask the Ye family to do more things in the future, don't take advantage of the current situation to have a good relationship with Ye Tanghua, let alone when she is not very good at poison, what if she disappoints Ye Tanghua, what if she is disappointed, it is okay to be disappointed, in case Ye Tanghua is angry with her

Ye Tanghua saw that Lu Xiu'er was a little worried, and if she thought about it, she could know what she was worried about, and couldn't help but sigh: "Miss Xiu'er don't worry, don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious, since I asked you to do this, I won't blame you anymore, I only hate myself for not going to study medicine at the beginning, but now I can't help my mother when I see my mother poisoned, it's good that you can help, and it's not your fault that you can't help, it's my own carelessness that made my mother suffer." ”

When Lu Xiu'er heard this, she couldn't help but feel distressed, ordinary people are mothers who take care of their children, but looking at this Miss Ye family, she is a daughter who is worried about her mother, and they all say that the children of the poor are in charge of the house early, Lu Xiu'er looked at the young and old Ye Tanghua, and couldn't help but feel a little more close.

She sighed: "Since Miss Ye is so trusted, Xiu'er must try her best." ”

At this time, the surrounding aunts and palace maids also knew that the matter was serious, and they hurriedly stood up and prepared to start, so under the guidance of Lu Xiu'er, everyone began to work for these teas. Fortunately, Ye Tanghua does not necessarily drink any tea on weekdays, and all kinds of tea drinking things are complete, so it will not take long for more than a dozen bowls of fragrant tea to be placed on the table.

I don't know which cup of tea here is poisonous, Lu Xiuer didn't dare to drink it, after thinking about it, he ordered someone to take a silver needle to try it first, and after trying it one by one, he found that there was no silver needle turned black, and Ye Tanghua's face changed: "Could it be that there is no poison in these teas?"

Lu Xiu'er shook her head: "It's not for sure what to say, it's a good idea to test arsenic with a silver needle, but if this poison is arsenic, Mrs. Ye will have symptoms after drinking it, and she will never survive until now." ”

After that, Lu Xiuer looked at the tea, smelled it, pondered it for a while, and shook her head: "I see that the aroma and color of these teas are excellent, and they really don't look like they are poisonous." ”

Ye Tanghua bit her lower lip, she really didn't want to give up such a good opportunity, now that Lu Xiu'er is an expert, she should have found out what the poison was in one go, if she didn't hurry up, in case the poison attacked

Thinking of this, Ye Tanghua ruthlessly ripped off the poison test jade on her neck, regardless of the strange eyes of the two aunts, she tried the tea one by one, and when she tried the last tea, the poison test jade actually lit up.

Aunt Wenxi glanced at the jade pendant several times before she looked up hesitantly: "County lord, this jade pendant is not it"

"It was brought by King Yong'an on weekdays, and last time he took me into the palace, he found that I seemed to be poisoned in my body, so he lent me this jade pendant temporarily." Although Ye Tanghua was cross-minded, she didn't want people to think that there was no ambiguity between her and Feng Jiuge, so she simply took Qi Minzhi as a raft, and there were many opportunities for her and Qi Minzhi to meet in the bright light, and this excuse was not so unconvincing.

Lu Xiu'er picked up the tea and sniffed it, and said after a moment: "This is the Longtuan tea made of Lushan Yunwu tea." ”

Wen Xi immediately handed over the tea bag wrapped in Longtuan Tea, and Ye Tanghua tried it with the poison test jade, but it didn't light up.

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, and their hearts were at a loss, the water for making all the tea is the same, so it's not a problem with the water, but the tea is not poisonous, but the tea brewed is poisonous, what is the reason

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