Chapter 20: Suspicion
The child recovered quickly, at noon, Mei'er was already able to run on the ground, Wen Yujiao was chasing her with a medicine bowl to feed the medicine, and suddenly heard the sound of the maid and the woman saluting in unison outside the door.
Wen Yujiao hurriedly turned her head, and sure enough, she saw Lu Yan's tall and slender figure walking in.
"I've seen the prince."
The man let out an "um", glanced aimlessly at the furnishings in the room, and asked, "Is Mei'er okay?" ”
He wore a dark embroidered dragon brocade robe today, and a majestic five-clawed golden dragon in front of him was very eye-catching, and the cuffs were embroidered with large auspicious clouds with gold threads.
"Back to the prince, Mei'er...... It's all right. Wen Yujiao looked at him suspiciously.
Last night, this person was still holding his tenderness and sweetness, and when he put on an official uniform during the day, he was so distant that he seemed to be a different person and had nothing to do with him.
"That's good." Lu Yan seemed to have something to say, and he didn't know how to speak, so he slowly paced to the window and sat down, picked up the Buddhist scriptures on the table and flipped through them.
In the past few days, Wen Yujiao has nothing to do during the day, so she borrowed a scripture from the study, planning to embroider a pair of protective scriptures and sew them in Mei'er's padded jacket.
Mei'er probably hadn't seen King Zhao for a long time, so she stretched out her two little hands and went straight to the couch in front of the window to ask for a hug.
The height of the little girl had just reached the man's knee, and she hugged his knee without thinking about it, shook it happily twice, and took a mouthful of brown bitter medicine in her mouth, "click", and fell on the embroidered dragon brocade robe.
"Get out of the way!" Lu Yan's face sank instantly.
Seeing his stern tone, Mei'er immediately cried out with an aggrieved "wow", and wiped more tears and snot on his knees.
Lu Yan's face became more and more ugly, if it was someone else, he would have kicked it away.
At this time, although he was angry, he still had a trace of reason, so he held back.
Wen Yujiao saw that his expression was wrong, so she hurriedly called Mama Fang, carried Mei'er to the inner room, knelt on the ground again, and personally wiped the stains on Lu Yan's clothes with a handkerchief.
Although Lu Yan was also serious and silent before, except for the occasional poisonous tongue, he has always been kind to Mei'er, but today he suddenly became so angry, Wen Yujiao was also a little at a loss.
"Get up." The man pulled her to her feet.
Lu Zhu went to make tea, and Wen Yujiao personally served it to Lu Yan.
When only the two of them were left in the house, she said worriedly, "What do the children know?" Don't be angry. ”
Lu Yan's expression eased slightly: "Fang is that I am too loud." ”
Wen Yujiao shook her head, her smile a little reluctant: "Mei'er is still young and ignorant." You used to be kind to her, and she thought you could get close. You fire at her once, and the next ...... She didn't dare. ”
King Zhao is known as the cold-faced god of war, and he will not change his temper in a short period of time. Wen Yujiao knew in her heart that no matter how gentle a man was on the couch, what he said should not be taken seriously.
For example, if he asks himself to call him "Brother Ah Yan", he must not take it seriously, he listens to it happily at night, and during the day he will only be bored by shouting like this, and maybe it will anger him.
King Zhao's occasional gentleness and goodness should not be taken seriously, but Mei'er doesn't understand this.
Wen Yujiao actually felt that today's incident was a good thing, so that Mei'er would be afraid of him, so as not to be presumptuous and cause even greater trouble in the future.
"This ...... Give it to Mei'er, and when she recovers, buy some delicious food. Lu Yan probably felt guilty, and took out a small goldfish from his sleeve and handed it to her.
"Thank you, Lord Wang." Wen Yujiao didn't shirk, took it with both hands and asked carefully, "Lord Wang, but is something wrong?" ”
She knew that King Zhao had a lot of small goldfish hidden in his sleeves, which were usually used to reward the guards and subordinates.
King Zhao just treated himself and Mei'er as a subordinate, and he must not be dismissed from his intentions, making him feel that he had lost face.
"Come and sit." Lu Yan beckoned her to sit down on the soft couch opposite, gently squeezed the tea lid and said, "A few days ago, when Mei'er was playing, did she come into contact with anything...... Something unclean? ”
Wen Yujiao was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and said, "The concubine doesn't know." How could the prince ...... Suddenly asked? ”
Lu Yan observed her expression, and said unhurriedly: "When Qiu Moumou was interrogating Liu, he asked about something. ”
"What's the matter?" Wen Yujiao was curious and nervous, "But it has something to do with the concubine?" ”
He came over in broad daylight today, and solemnly talked about it, presumably it must have something to do with himself.
"Miaozhu, the maid next to Liu's, said that when she came to the Spring Cold Courtyard that day, she saw Mei'er's two little hands being black, as if they were stained with some kind of medicinal powder."
"Powder?" Wen Yujiao rolled her eyes and said suspiciously, "On that day, I remember that the snow was heavy, and Mama Fang took Mei'er to build a snowman in the courtyard to play. I haven't heard of it...... Mei'er had some powder on her hands. ”
"Don't worry, it's okay if you don't remember," Lu Yan lowered his head and looked at the tea leaves floating on the tea water, "I also asked casually." ”
The two were silent for a moment.
Wen Yujiao lowered her head, still unable to understand.
What does Concubine Liu mean...... It means that the ice and fire powder was not added to the roast chicken thighs, but originally stuck to Mei'er's hands.
But Mei'er has always been by her side, if she is poisoned, how can she be fine?
Wen Yujiao told Lu Yan the doubts in her heart.
Lu Yan frowned slightly, and was silent for a long time before he spoke: "The maid said that when Mei'er took something with her hand, she already had some black powder on her hand. So I came and asked, "Look at your courtyard...... Whether or not someone has poisoned it. ”
Wen Yujiao caught a faint light in his eyes, and instantly understood that the prince was suspicious of her!
She suddenly panicked in her heart, and before she could answer, she heard Mama Qiu's voice from the courtyard.
Luzhu led Mama Qiu in and saluted the two.
"Mama Qiu, but what did the Liu family recruit?" Lu Yan asked coldly.
"Back to the prince, it's not." Mama Qiu replied, "It's still Miaozhu, the maid next to Liu, who said that two days before I saw the little maid Bihe in the Chunhan Courtyard...... With a bag of things in his arms, he went to the Moon Heart Courtyard. The old slave came to Bihe to ask. ”
"Bihe?" Wen Yujiao wondered, it had been less than seven days since she moved into this Spring Cold Courtyard, and not all the maids in the courtyard knew her.
Except for a few who served closely, she only recognized a few who came from Yuanfangju, and this Bihe had never heard of it.
"Mrs. Chen, I wonder if it is convenient to hand over that Bihe to the old slave?" Mama Qiu said and glanced at Lu Yan, who had calm eyes, unable to distinguish between joy and anger, and didn't know what he was thinking.
"Naturally, yes," Wen Yujiao nodded, "It's just that I don't know which maid is called Bihe, so why don't I ask Luzhu to lead Mama to find someone." ”