Chapter 123: New Clues
"Although the palace maids who served the food were arranged the night before the banquet, they were all old people who had been in the palace for several years, and they knew the rules of the palace very well. Besides, this is a banquet that His Majesty will attend, and they will never and will not have the courage to break the rules. Qingyun assured Chi Xi Nian.
She swore an oath, almost to heaven.
In this way, there was only one thought left in Chi Xinian's mind - the dishes on Chen Meiren's table had been moved!
Chi Xinian hurriedly got up and pulled Qingyun to stand in front of the table: "How these dishes should have been placed, do you remember?" ”
"Yes." Qingyun bowed slightly.
After a little recollection, Qingyun, as the person in charge, told the details of the dish placement: "Sweet and sour tenderloin and West Lake vinegar fish are the main dishes, both of which are arranged in the middle of the table.
On the right hand side of the guest are appetizing cold cucumbers and jade shrimp balls, while on the left are osmanthus sugar lotus root and Taihu boat snacks that are presented as the finishing touch...
"In the end, everyone had a cup of wolfberry stewed pigeon in front of them..."
"So, the osmanthus sugar lotus should have been placed on the left side of the table?" According to Qingyun's words, Chi Xinian found the position where the osmanthus sugar root should have been placed, bent his knuckles, and tapped twice, "But the osmanthus sugar lotus on Chen Meiren's table is not here, but..."
She turned her eyes to look at an empty dish on the right side of the table: "Instead, it became a superfluous side dish, squeezed on the right side of the table." ”
"It was the person who poisoned the dish when it was poisoned!" Xin Yi was the first to shout to break the cat.
She looked at Chi Xinian excitedly, with a happy look on her face because of the breakthrough on her face.
But Chi Xinian did not show a happy expression with her, but frowned deeper at this time: "If you poison it, you will poison it, what will you do with that dish?" Moreover, since she was going to poison Chen Meiren, why did she move the poisoned dishes to the side of Qing Concubine?
"Could it be that the murderer is the Qing concubine?!"
This complicated idea gave Chi Xinian a headache, but fortunately, she quickly simplified the complicated problem - no, the murderer's purpose was not to clear the concubine. Because everyone's flower tea is different, the selected poisoning targets will only be Zhou Guiren and Chen Meiren.
As for the poisonous dish being moved to the Qing concubine, it should be an accident caused by the murderer when he noticed that Chen Meiren did not drink tea and remedied it for the second time.
With a conclusion in his heart, Chi Xinian's brows finally stretched a little.
But at the same time, she also thought about the information brought to her by this discovery in her heart: "The murderer needs to change the position of the dish to achieve the second poisoning, which means that she is probably not the Qing concubine who shares the table with Chen Meiren, and it is inconvenient to do it unknowingly."
"At the same time, she should have a certain understanding of Chen Meiren, and she is sure that no matter where the osmanthus sugar lotus is placed, Chen Meiren will definitely stretch out her chopsticks to clamp it..."
When you think about it, it seems that the scope has narrowed down a lot.
The interpersonal relationship in the harem is complicated, but not everyone can easily understand others. In order to prevent accidents, everyone will not easily expose their preferences and tastes.
So this person must be familiar with Chen Meiren!
Thinking of this, Chi Xinian immediately got up: "This palace has to go to Your Majesty to talk about this!" The hope of solving the case is in front of you, and you don't have to catch others for the crime! ”
"!" Seeing Chi Xinian passing by as lightly as a gust of wind, Xinyi and Qingyun hurriedly lifted their skirts to keep up.