Chapter 173: Strange Things Keep Happening!
Originally, Murong Huan learned a good craft from Gu Suqing, and the pastries she made were superb, but now that she was pregnant, Xiaoqin said that she didn't agree with her to make her own pastries, so she asked Ye Bo to buy all kinds of pastries.
Because of Dongfang Miao's intentions, Ye Bo was very concerned about Murong Huan's pregnancy. He could see that the queen mother did not attach ordinary importance to the fetus in Murong Huan's womb. Although there are many rumors in the market, he knows very well that his princess and King Nashou are absolutely innocent. Therefore, as soon as he heard that he wanted to buy pastries, Ye Bo did not dare to slack off at all, and ran all over the capital to buy all kinds of famous pastries.
First, Nini feasted on drugs under the banner of tasting drugs, then Murong Huan selected, and finally selected an old shop named "Liudefu", which was bought back to the house by Ye Bo every day. Ye Bo is very cautious, he never says which family's pastries Murong Huan likes, and when he sends someone to buy them, he also buys some from each family, and each garden in the house is divided, which is virtual and real, so that people can't guess what Murong Huan wants to eat.
The pastries of "Liudefu" are crispy and fluffy in the mouth, the fragrance is pure, the production is fine, the layers are even, and the filling is soft and sandy. Especially the glutinous rice cake, the outer skin is made of the best glutinous rice supplemented by just the right amount of wormwood, with a faint grass fragrance, and the inner filling is a smooth mung bean filling, and the outer skin is sprinkled with some soybean flour.
Murong Huan's favorite is this glutinous rice cake, and he has to eat a few almost every day. For this reason, Ye Bo secretly enjoyed it for a long time. The princess doesn't know, the princess's favorite is also this glutinous rice cake, it seems that the princess must have a little prince in her belly, and her preferences are the same as the princess!
Who knows, one day there was a problem with the pastries that I took home.
On this day, after the glutinous rice cake was delivered to Meiyuan, Xiaoqin tested the poison with a silver needle and found no abnormality. But Nini found a problem in the process of tasting. It turned out that someone had ground the seeds of strychnine into powder and mixed a little with a little soybean flour sprinkled on the outer skin. If it weren't for Nini's natural sensitivity to poisons, and she had to taste it before Murong Huan every time, it wouldn't have found out.
The seeds of this strychnine are poisonous, and overdose poisoning can cause limb tremors, convulsions, difficulty breathing, and even coma, which is a taboo for pregnant women. The person who poisoned him was very cautious, and only used a little powder, and ordinary silver needles could not be detected at all. Presumably, this person knew that Murong Huan liked this glutinous rice cake, and tried to mix a little strychnine every day, and after accumulating over time, the toxins penetrated deep into the internal organs and led him to a stillborn womb. If Murong Huan didn't have Nini, he would have already been tricked!
This scared Xiaoqin, Ah Ming and Nini a lot, and immediately found Ye Bo, who was also stunned. I didn't expect to be so careful, but I was still hacked.
As soon as everyone summed up, they decided to keep quiet, so as not to startle the snake. Naturally, everyone was most suspicious of Leng Yuxin, but after a secret investigation, it was found that Leng Yuxin and his subordinates had no private dealings with "Liudefu". Moreover, according to various investigations, Leng Yuxin and the others had no possibility of touching the pastries sent to Meiyuan at all.
Ye Bo secretly checked again, and finally found out that a side concubine in the house colluded with the little maid who distributed pastries every day and did it secretly. The concubine gave the little maid a lot of benefits, a silver ticket and jewelry, and promised to bring her to the room in the future, and then promised to send a good family out of the house, so the little maid was moved and agreed to help.
Because this little girl is responsible for distributing pastries to various gardens every day, after a long time, she can also see that Meiyuan will have this glutinous rice cake every day, so she guessed Murong Huan's preferences and secretly moved her hands and feet.
When Ye Bo found out here, Dongfang Miao's secret guard reported the situation to the palace, and Dongfang Miao's immediately sent someone to Xu's palace to arrest the concubine and interrogate her in the palace. However, when the people in the palace entered the concubine's garden, they found that she had hanged herself. This matter has become a headless case.
said that it was a headless case because everyone felt suspicious in their hearts. This concubine who instructed the little maid to poison her had never had any conflict with Murong Huan, so why did she suddenly have such a bad idea? What's more, this concubine had never left the house for a long time, nor had she asked Lang Zhong to see a doctor for her, and no one in her garden went to the pharmacy to get medicine, so where did this strychnine seed powder come from? Besides, this concubine was also selected by Baili Mingjiang from the prisoners of war to Baili Moxu back then, and she didn't have a rich family, but the amount of silver tickets she gave to the little maid was very large, and those jewelry were also very luxurious, completely exceeding the sum of the months and months for many years after she entered the mansion, where did the money come from?
All of the above, with the death of this concubine, has become an unsolved case that cannot be investigated, and it has also made the people of Meiyuan more vigilant. Come to think of it, there is someone else who really wants to harm Murong Huan! This concubine is just a ghost for the dead!
Xiaoqin checked all the items that the little maid had recently distributed to Meiyuan, and found that some of the cotton, linen and silk sent were also problematic. At the beginning, Mama Li privately told Xiaoqin that the royal heirs have not been easy to raise since ancient times, and the reason for the poor raising is not congenital insufficiency, but that these children often become victims of the mothers' competition for favor, so they may be secretly poisoned from the snacks they wear, so they specially told Xiaoqin not to be careless.
At that time, thinking about preparing small clothes and swaddling clothes for the baby, Xiaoqin specially asked Ye Bo for some cotton and linen and silk, and she also checked when she first sent it, and there was no problem. I didn't expect to check it again now, only to find that most of the fabrics and things that the little maid sent later were actually soaked in venom, and if the newborn baby used it, it would soon be dead.
retried the maid, and naturally pushed all the qiē on the dead concubine. After Dongfang Miao received the tip, he sent someone to interrogate again, and this time, before he could ask anything, the little maid hit the wall and died. Obviously, the matter can no longer be investigated.
After this incident, Xiaoqin and Ah Ming became more and more cautious, and Ye Bo also did everything himself, and did everything related to Murong Huan in person, and then did not hand it over to his subordinates to take care of.
After Baili Moxin learned about this, he specially sent a lot of fine cloth and cotton and linen fabrics, and every time he came to the palace, he would bring some delicacies to Murong Huan, and he tried everything in person, which made Xiaoqin and Ah Ming feel quite moved. Although this Shouwang is just the princess's uncle, he is really too attentive to the princess. Knowing that there are constant rumors outside, he should keep his distance from Murong Huan, but he is a gentleman and frank, and he doesn't take those filthy things to heart at all, but just treats Murong Huan well. Isn't that moving?
When Baili Yumeng heard this, he began to get nervous again. Previously, the father and the queen rewarded Murong Huan with great fanfare, saying that she had contributed to the birth of an heir for King Xu, Baili Yumeng personally went to the worship room to check the records of the day, and found that the thing was indeed not a forgery, and he more or less believed that the fetus in Murong Huan's womb was not Baili Moxin's. Although the "Shougong Sand" is a little suspicious, seeing the queen so happy is indeed not like a show, and Baili Yumeng is relieved.
But now, someone is trying to poison Murong Huan's child, and Baili Moxin actually cares so much, which inevitably makes Baili Yumeng unable to understand the truth. She went to Xi Guifei again, and wanted to ask Xi Guifei to help analyze and analyze.
For this reason, Concubine Xi and Baili Yumeng had a long talk, and this time, she even avoided her own son. In her words, this is a heart-to-heart conversation between her and Baili Yumeng, a heart-to-heart conversation between her mother and daughter, a purely woman's conversation, and there is no need to let Baili Moxin know.
This time they talked heartily all night, Baili Yumeng actually stayed in Xi Guifei's Wanshou Pavilion, and the two slept together, talked all night, and were like mother and daughter.
No one knows what Concubine Xi said to Baili Yumeng, but since this day, Baili Yumeng's attitude towards the eldest prince of General Nage's Mansion has changed a lot. He used to be a novice, but now he began to allow him to appear in front of him, and to allow him to saddle up and ride behind him to be courteous.
Moreover, in the past, as long as Baili Yumeng heard Ge Dagongzi and Baili Moxin mention Murong Huan, she would blackface and curse, but now she seems to have taken a light look at the affairs of this man's family. Men, how many of them are not eating in the pot and looking at the bowl? To expect them to be stronger than Jin is undoubtedly a fool's dream. What a woman has to do is not to firmly grasp a man's heart, but to firmly grasp the glory, wealth, fame and fortune that a man can bring to herself. Love ^ love is like floating clouds, power is eternal!
Of course, if a woman wants to gain power, she can't just focus on her future husband, because marriage is extremely unreliable. Comparatively speaking, bloodline is more important. Therefore, one's father and brother are more important than their husbands in a certain way, and the importance of supporting one's brother is no less than supporting one's husband. It would be better if his husband could form an alliance with his brother!
Therefore, after thinking about these truths, Baili Yumeng thought about the school-age men who were haunting him and his third brother, and the most suitable candidate for the future colt was of course this Ge Dagongzi. Even if it's for the third brother, I should choose him!
With such an understanding, Baili Yumeng no longer bothered about the romantic stories of Baili Moxin and Murong Huan, and personally went to the Xuwang Mansion to send a gift to Murong Huan, saying that he congratulated the imperial sister-in-law on opening up the branches and leaves for the second imperial brother, and hoped that the imperial sister-in-law would pay attention to her body, give birth to an heir, and grow old with the second imperial brother, and have many sons and blessings. This surprised Murong Huan. However, it is always good to have one less enemy, and Murong Huan really hopes in his heart that he can laugh and enmity with those who are secretly hostile to him!
In fact, since it was confirmed that Murong Huan was pregnant, the strange things around her have not stopped. First, the pastries were poisoned, and then a lot of wild cats suddenly appeared in the Sunny Palace