On Chinese New Year's Eve, the two families of the Zheng Qishuo brothers gathered in a low-key manner to the Jian'an Hou Mansion to keep vigil together. Chinese New Year's Eve is about a happy family reunion, there are few entertainment programs in ancient times, and staying in the mansion is even more fun to find.

However, Jintong had already prepared, and asked a few people from Qinyin to come over quietly and rap and play a few programs, which made the atmosphere of this sparse crowd as lively as adding fuel to the fire. As the night deepened, the Zheng family was still in filial piety after all, and they were mainly low-key, so Jintong asked them to go back first.

The family kept vigil around the fireplace, and the two Zheng Qishuo brothers played Go, and the left Congyun Jintong added two children, just to get together a table and play poker.

The poker game here is in full swing, Jintong is not lucky, her face is full of notes, she snapped her fingers domineeringly, called the brocade flatbread and snowflake velvet over, and guarded her on both sides.

Jintong said proudly: "The left big cake and the right velvet, the two divine beasts protect the law, this game is guaranteed to win." ”

The other three laughed, Zheng Yu won the most, so he put two notes on his chin, Zheng Yu was no better than Jintong, so he was in a hurry to discuss with Zheng Yu: "Brother, can't you be merciful?" ”

The people who played Go over there were as quiet as old monks, Zheng Qiyan was very focused on playing chess with a maximum of two points, and the rest were basically paying attention to Jintong's side. Coincidentally, Zheng Qishuo only put two points of mind on playing chess, and the rest was on the impact of what was about to happen tonight on the future political situation. Two people who are also a little accomplished in the game of Go play a game of chess like two stinky chess baskets playing hooligans.

When the time came, the bell to welcome the New Year rang, and many powerful people set off firecrackers to celebrate, Zheng Yu ran out to see it happily, and Zheng Yu and a group of slaves hurriedly followed.

Wu An hurriedly came in and handed a small round bamboo tube to Zheng Qiyan.

Zheng Qiyan put the small bamboo tube close to the candle flame, melted the wax seal, took out the small note inside, looked at it, handed it to Zheng Qishuo, and said casually: "Concubine Chen's palace banquet is poisoned." ”

Zheng Qishuo put down the chess pieces in his hand, looked at the note, and then went to the candle flame to burn it: "What a coincidence! Fortunately, the rescue was timely and his life was not in danger. The brothers looked at each other and smiled, no surprise, everything was under control.

Zuo Congyun couldn't help but ask: "Who is so bold as to dare to poison Concubine Chen?" ”

Jin Tong interjected while petting the cat: "Nine out of nine is herself, otherwise, how could she save it so coincidentally, and control it so accurately: it has nothing to do with her life." Speaking of which, Jintong pondered for a moment, and always felt that her cheap husband's third brother's sentence "It has nothing to do with life" has a special connotation. Life is kept, but whether the body can still be healthy as before, or what material has been added, and what kind of tormenting disease has ended, it is better to live than to die.

Zheng Qiyan smiled slightly, interrupting Jintong's infinite association: "Tongtong is smart, it's late at night, let's go back to bed." ”

"I'm not sleepy! I'm in good spirits! I don't want to sleep! I'm going to see the fireworks! Jintong lifted her skirt and flew out like an arrow from Xuan, and her slightly hasty back disappeared in an instant, leaving Zheng Qiyan who shook his head and smiled helplessly.

After a lively night, on the way home, Jintong slept in the carriage and drooled, Zheng Qiyan hugged Jintong and looked at her gently. Although Jintong is smart, but the real inside story of Concubine Chen's poisoning, he doesn't plan to tell her. He wanted Jintong to live happily under the sun, and he would do the dirty work with his hands stained with blood in the future.

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After the banquet in the middle palace of Fengtian Hall was hastily over, the Holy Lord brought a group of dishes and dishes and drinks used by Concubine Chen at today's banquet to Qixiang Palace.

Ye Chongde obeyed the Holy Lord's arrangement, checked those dishes, dishes and drinks one by one, and finally reported the overall situation: "Holy Lord, on this fish stew, there is a residue of acacia broken intestine red medicinal powder, and the fish stew is equipped with spearmint as a condiment, and the combination of the two doubles the toxicity. If it is used by a woman, the cold enters the abdomen, even if the poison is detoxified, it is impossible to get pregnant in this life. Thanks to Father-in-law Tian, he immediately gave the antidote pill to his mother to take, and forced the poison out, if he slowed down half a step, the poison would enter the lungs, and the gods would be difficult to save! ”

"Humph!" The Holy Lord sneered twice, looked back and asked Tian Dayong, "What can be found?" ”

Tian Dayong said: "Holy Lord, it is the imperial chef Jia Sixiu and the eight assistant chefs who cook the fish stew. During the serving process, King Qing personally went to the imperial kitchen to explain, saying that Concubine Chen had a poor appetite recently, and asked the imperial chef to make Concubine Chen's meal more palatable without violating the palace rules. ”

The Holy Lord glanced at King Qing, who was squatting in front of the carbon stove and personally helping Concubine Chen decoction medicine, with an appreciative expression, and said, "Little Eight is commendable!" ”

Tian Dayong said with a smile: "King Qing is absolutely fine, the old slave can guarantee it, just to show fairness, the old slave will list all the people who have been to the imperial dining room and those who are not in the imperial dining room one by one." ”

He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to the Holy Lord: "Holy Lord, there are too many people in the imperial dining room, Zhao Baoshan and the others are still inquiring, the list is here." ”

The Holy Lord took it and glanced at it a few times, and then returned it to Tian Dayong: "Check it out for me!" I would like to know which thing that has eaten the gall of a bear's heart and a leopard dares to poison the concubine under my nose. ”

There were 136 people on duty in the Imperial Dining Room that day; the palace maids who are responsible for serving the food, ninety-six; There were 27 other people who went to the imperial dining room on the way.

Tian Dayong cooperated with Zhao Baoshan, the head of the imperial guards, Mama Lu of the Tingye Pavilion, and Xue Hua, the chief of the imperial dining room, to screen all the personnel three times and interrogate them repeatedly.

Among the twenty-seven people who went to the imperial dining room, only eleven people had come into contact with dishes or various utensils, and after a round of cross-examination, three of them looked suspicious.

Among them was Xia Wenluo, the personal attendant of Li Wei, the king of Wei, who, under torture, actually took advantage of the unpreparedness and committed suicide by cutting his throat.

When Li Wei learned of this, in order to show his innocence, he personally accompanied Tian Dayong and others to search his palace in Beijing.

After checking along the vine, Tian Dayong found that this Xia Wen was a little wooden and was not a confidant of King Wei. This time, I was able to participate in the palace banquet with King Wei because I often followed the four entourages of King Wei on weekdays, two of them were out of business, and one of them suddenly had diarrhea before the palace banquet, and now I am so weak that I am bedridden, so I naturally can't accompany King Wei. King Wei considered that Xia Wen was a little wooden and not good at words, so he let him accompany him.

Tian Dayong searched for a powerful laxative from Xia Wenluo's residence, and it seems that this Xia Wenluo should be the real mastermind behind the scenes.

The other two, one is Xie Shunfei's personal palace maid, named Huaihua, who was tortured several times, but she couldn't survive her life.

One was the entourage of the clan relatives of the side branch, saying that someone gave him five hundred taels of silver tickets, and asked him to deliberately bump into the palace maid who served the food to Concubine Chen, so as to ensure that the dish could not be served in front of Concubine Chen. He was obsessed with money, so he should go. According to this person's description, the person who gave him the silver ticket was Xie Shunfei's personal palace maid Huaihua.

In the imperial dining room, the most suspicious one is the assistant chef named Amu.

Everyone in the imperial dining room pointed out that after Concubine Chen's fish stew was broken, Jia Sixiu accidentally broke it in the process of recooking, burning his right hand, but fortunately, the fish stew was only the last plating, so he retreated to apply the medicine, and the assistant chef Amu replaced the plating.

Zhao Baoshan personally inspected Jia Sixiu, his right hand was pressed to the stove in order to maintain balance, and his skin was burned, and the leg that was hit had a less obvious scar on the soft tendons of the knee socket, it is estimated that Jia Sixiu was deliberately injured with a small pebble and let him leave injured, so as to buy time for poisoning.

Amu admitted that it was a palace maid who held King Qing's famous thorn, and gave him a jade box of light red fine powder, and asked him to sprinkle it evenly on the fish stew of Concubine Chen, saying that it was a beauty and beauty maintenance thing, and mixed with fish stew to eat, the effect was the best. According to Amu's description, the appearance of this palace maid is consistent with Xie Shunfei's personal palace maid Huaihua.

King Qing just came, and in order to convince him, the palace maid also dipped her finger in a little fine powder to show him that it was not poisonous, and Amu dared to sprinkle the fine powder, who knew that it was a highly poisonous thing?

After repeated torture, Amu couldn't survive the punishment and died of his own heart. Only those who learn martial arts and have a certain degree of attainment in internal strength can have the ability to self-destruct. And the move of self-deprivation is a necessary pressure box stunt for those who are hard-working people like dark guard killers in order not to endure the punishment.

However, this Amu was actually temporarily arranged, and since yesterday, he has been working silently. The most particular thing about fish stew is knife work, Jia Sixiu saw that the kitchen knife workers were exquisite, and his hands and feet were nimble, so he did not suspect him, but asked him to help cook, so that he broke into a big disaster.

Continuing to investigate, the real Amu has died under the bed in the residence of the imperial dining room.

The truth seems to be about to come out.