Chapter 25 Poisoned
Li Xiaxin kept smiling in his mouth, and stepped out of the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen with kicks and feet.
Zhu Xixiao caught up from behind: "I'm very happy!"
"If this news is transmitted back to Zhejiang, the soldiers of the Qi family army and the Yu family army, as well as the coastal people, will be very happy." Li Xiaxin looked at Zhu Xixiao and said solemnly and gratefully: "Your Excellency, this time it was you who said good things in front of the emperor, and General Yu was able to save the day, thank you."
The corners of Zhu Xixiao's mouth raised a sly smile: "What? Is it just a verbal expression of thanks, not a matter of actual action? โ
Li Xiaxin blurted out almost without thinking: "In the future, adults and their families, relatives and friends can come to our house if they have any internal and external injuries, my father ......" Li Xiaxin was suddenly silent and lowered his head, as if he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.
Zhu Xixiao frowned and said, "You curse me!"
Li Xiaxin plucked up the courage to raise his head, and his big watery eyes looked at Zhu Xixiao with an inquiring look.
Zhu Xixiao looked at the food box in Li Xiaxin's hand, and said meaningfully: "What you stewed for Mr. Yu today is gastrodia wolfberry soup, it smells very fragrant, and the ginseng and deer antler soup the day before yesterday is also very good, but I like to drink chicken soup the most."
"What's so difficult about this, I boiled it up tonight and sent it to the adults, I don't know if the adults want to drink gastrodia black chicken soup or ginseng and deer antler chicken soup......" Li Xiaxin, who was gushing, suddenly stopped, because she remembered - her father and brother never let her have contact with male patients, no matter how many patients there were in the hospital, no matter how busy they were, my mother would help take care of them by herself, and after she went to the army with her brother, her brother never let her make food or send medicine to the wounded soldiers, let alone make food and send it over, they all said that it was not good. She naturally didn't understand why she had never explained it to him, but she believed that what her family said would not be wrong.
"Uh......" Li Xiaxin timidly looked at Zhu Xixiao, who seemed to be looking at him with a smile, and finally spoke in embarrassment: "My lord, actually...... I'm only good at decoction, and it's okay to make medicinal food, but I can just cook...... My lord, you are in good health, and it is not good to take medicine and eat indiscriminately. In this way, I invite you to eat out, how about it? โ
Zhu Xixiao showed a look of disbelief: "Ah, you invite me to eat out?"
"That's right! These days, I go back and forth between the Chengguo Mansion and Jinyiwei every day, and I found a particularly delicious place, go! Li Xiaxin said that, he pulled Zhu Xixiao's sleeve and ran forward.
Zhu Xixiao actually let Li Xiaxin pull him forward, and he was suspicious in his heart: "This girl actually wants to spend money to invite me to dinner?"
Li Xiaxin dragged Zhu Xixiao to the crowded street and found a noodle stall restaurant to sit down.
"Boss, two bowls of beef noodles." Li Xiaxin turned his head to Zhu Xixiao and said, "I ate here that day, but it was delicious!"
Zhu Xixiao sat expressionlessly, and sighed secretly in his heart: "It turns out that this girl's so-called invitation to me to dinner is obviously to save trouble and perfunctory me, but I didn't expect that the status of me and Yu Zongbing in her mind is so much different." That's right, General Yu is a big hero who rolls out of the blood and crawls out of the pile of dead to protect the country and save the people, and I, a gentleman! โ
Li Xiaxin quietly took out a purse from his arms, reached under the table, and quietly counted out some copper plates. walked up to the proprietress who was cooking noodles and whispered: "This sister, I want two bowls of noodles, one of them doesn't need to put meat, just pour some soup casually, I pay a total of one and a half bowls, can I?"
"Absolutely."
How could Li Xiaxin and the whispers of the proprietress escape Zhu Xixiao's ears.
When Li Xiaxin put the noodles covered with beef in front of Zhu Xixiao, the little complaint in Zhu Xixiao's heart immediately disappeared, and was replaced by a full of warmth and sweetness. Looking at the bowl of clear soup and watery noodles in front of Li Xiaxin, there was a little more distress.
Zhu Xixiao picked up two pieces of meat and put them in Li Xiaxin's bowl. Li Xiaxin was stunned, staring at Zhu Xixiao with a pair of big watery eyes.
Zhu Xixiao smiled slightly: "Why are you looking at me without eating, do you mean that you still want two pieces?"
"Of course not." Li Xiaxin hurriedly shook his head: "Thank you, sir."
Suddenly, Zhu Xixiao's eyes lit up and he threw out a chopstick in his hand. It turned out that there was an object the size of a copper coin flying towards Li Xiaxin. After a muffled thud, both objects fell to the ground at the same time.
When Zhu Xixiao looked up in the direction where the object was flying, the proprietress had already blended into the crowd.
Zhu Xixiao held up his waist card and shouted: "Jinyiwei captures the fugitives, and everyone squats on the spot."
Everyone immediately exclaimed and squatted down with their heads hugged, and Zhu Xixiao's keen eyes found that a piece of sleeve flashed at the mouth of an alley and disappeared. A small banner dressed in civilian clothes who had been secretly guarding appeared with five of his subordinates, Zhu Xixiao made a look, and several people immediately ran towards the alley.
Zhu Xixiao picked up the "hidden weapon" that he had just shot down, and it turned out to be just an ordinary pebble. He closed his eyes and tried hard to recall the target location of this stoneโit should be the bowl in Xia Xin's hand.
Everyone crouched with their heads in their hands, not even daring to come out, and the whole street suddenly became quiet.
Li Xiaxin came to Zhu Xixiao's side, and his voice trembled slightly: "Big, my lord, what happened just now?"
Zhu Xixiao didn't say a word, and stared at the two bowls of noodles on the table and the two pieces of meat that he sandwiched into Xia Xin's bowl.
It just so happened that two dogs came running out of nowhere, wagging their tails around the food stall. Zhu Xixiao returned the two pieces of meat to their place, and then poured the two bowls of noodles on the ground. After a while, one dog was still alive and kicking, while the other was foaming at the mouth and lying on the street.
Li Xiaxin was stunned, picked up the two bowls and sniffed again: "Colorless and tasteless, like the poison of the Japanese Bandits."
The little flag held a cloth shirt in his hand and led his subordinates to return in a huff: "My lord atoned for his sins, but he didn't catch the murderer, he only found this." That cloth shirt was worn by the proprietress who sold noodles.
Zhu Xixiao has sorted out the whole incident in her heart - the boss lady's poisoning target is herself, when she saw that the poisonous meat was sandwiched into Xia Xin's bowl, she chose to expose it in order to save Xia Xin, and she changed her clothes and escaped smoothly, so her face was ......
Zhu Xixiao looked at Li Xiaxin, whose face was pale and his body trembled a little, and finally didn't ask anything: "It should be here to take revenge, the biggest feature of our Jinyiwei is that there are many evils and many enemies, it's okay, go back!"
Li Xiaxin said ashamedly: "I'm sorry, if I hadn't pulled the adults here to eat noodles, I wouldn't have encountered such a big disaster, you go back first, my legs are a little weak, I have to take it slowly."
Zhu Xixiao said aloud to everyone: "It's okay, what should you be busy with, I'm disturbing everyone today." Then he turned his head to Li Xiaxin and said, "I'm scared, it's okay, I'll take you back."
"Huh?" Li Xiaxin didn't seem to understand what Zhu Xixiao said, and was stunned for a long time before he smiled awkwardly: "My lord, you are really humorous."
Zhu Xixiao returned to his usual indifference, and said to the little flag expressionlessly: "Find a carriage to come over."