Chapter 42: Poisoning
"She should be the murderer, send her to the government, is the case over, I have really tossed enough in the past two days." Yi Huan stretched out his fingers coated with impatiens juice, teased the birds in the golden wire cage, and whispered softly in Xie Hanci's ear.
Xie Hanci looked up at the sky, the sky was still blue just now, and in a blink of an eye, the sky was getting darker and darker, and the clouds were densely accumulated, and two or three dragonflies flew low at her feet, with a boom, and there was a thunderclap in the distance.
The storm is coming.
After the time of a pillar of incense passed, the housekeeper and the family took the family out of the fence again, and said to everyone: "The king of the county, please let everyone in." ”
Bao'er stood at the dining table, calmly pouring wine for the king of the county, when Xie Hanqi entered the door, she held the wine jug in one hand and covered her mouth with the other, laughing wildly, as if the two of them were just telling a funny joke behind the screen just now.
The county king's face was even more ugly than Fang Cai, and he barely managed to squeeze out a smile when he saw everyone coming in.
"Actually, if you think about it, it's not a big deal, it's just a dead musician. I don't think I should pursue it, if anyone asks, they will say that they saw her drink too much and fell into the lake, and she was already dead when she was rescued. He raised his glass and said to a few people in a pretended relaxed manner.
The change in the attitude of the old county king made everyone look at each other.
Xie Hanci looked at the wine glass in his hand, there was only half a glass of wine in it, but it was Bao'er who had just added it for him, King Ning once told her that the rules of the capital are big, and people must pour wine to the full, but they can only pour seven points for pouring tea, otherwise it is rude.
Was it unintentional, or was it intentional?
"Dad, what did she tell you? Are you blinded by her? Yi Huan couldn't hold back at all, looked at his father's eyes full of surprise, and asked directly.
The eldest sister Li Yirong was even more angry: "This slut killed his fellow musicians just to hide his lowly background and stay in the house, does my father even have to cover up the murderer now?" “
A loud slap sounded in the empty vestibule, and everyone present was shocked.
"You beat me for such a prostitute?" Li Yirong looked at his father and covered his cheek with his hand, with shock and incredulity written on his face.
"Shut up. This is not the Xiao family, and it is not your turn to call the shots. If you still have any affection for this family, for me, or for your brother, don't mention it again. ”
The old king's eyes are often sharp, like a goshawk on a cliff, looking at Li Yirong, as if he saw a running hare, and he was about to eat her alive at any time.
Li Yirong raised his head and glared back at his father, his eyes were full of unwillingness and anger, and he was about to speak, but the old county king took the first step, pointed at Li Mingchen and scolded.
"Look at you, your sister is disobedient to her elders, and her brother doesn't know how to persuade her. Every day, I hid in the criminal department to look at those broken files, and I didn't know how to change the cuffs of my clothes when they were worn out, and the face of the county king's mansion made you lose everything. “
Li Mingchen was wearing an ivory white mountain vine pattern cloud sleeve robe today, he looked down at the sleeves, and there was indeed a slight twitch on the cuffs of his left hand, but it was not obvious.
He was a little confused by the second monk, and was talking about whether to send the concubine suspected of murder to the official mansion, why did he suddenly pull his cuffs, and he also loved and scolded him.
But it was this very ordinary sentence that made Li Yirong, Princess Jun and Bao'er change their faces at the same time.
After Li Yirong heard this, he first looked at Li Mingchen's sleeve, his whole body seemed to be drained, his mouth opened and closed, his eyes flickered, his eyes wandered on the county king and Bao'er, and finally fell on the county princess.
"Is that you?"
The princess frowned and said word by word: "I don't know what you're talking about. ”
Li Yirong looked around at the people in the room with a panicked expression, and shouted, "You want to harm me!" Someone is trying to hurt me! With that, he ran out screaming, and bumped into the butler at the door.
The housekeeper didn't care about helping the eldest lady at the moment, and walked straight to the old county king.
"Oh no, the third young master is bleeding non-stop, and the brocade quilt is soaked, and Dr. Li has already gone to see it."
"What?"
The old county king staggered and fell to the ground, and suddenly his throat was slightly sweet, and a mouthful of blood sprayed on the ground. The hall was in chaos for a while, and I don't know whether to go to help the old county king go back to his room to rest first, or whether to go to see Li Nianyou first.
In the end, it was the princess of the county who made a decision and said to the housekeeper: "Carry the princess to Brother You'er, so that the doctor can treat him together." He glanced at Bao'er who was standing on the side again, "You go back to the county king's room first and wait, and if the doctor sees that it is okay, he will send it back." ”
Li Nianyou lives in the northwest corner of the county king's mansion, which is close to the back mountain, and the lake is also introduced into the mansion from there, and there is a small garden next to the house, raising a few white cranes, which looks leisurely and elegant.
Just hear the heart-rending cry of the nurse from afar, and no matter how good the scenery is, people have no intention of appreciating it. As soon as he entered the door, Yi Huan exclaimed in surprise, and retched again and again while holding on to the door frame.
Li Nianyou's small body curled up in the quilt, the snow-white quilt embroidered with cranes was also dyed red, and the corner of the mattress was also soaked in blood, and it was wet and stuck to the legs of the three-screen arhat bed of the red acid branch.
There was a pot of charcoal on the side, and there was a thick decoction in the decoction pot, and the doctor had already given him a needle, and was sewing the wound on his hand with thread, Li Nianyou heard someone come in and straightened up to look, and blood flowed down his nose and ears again.
"Doctor, what the hell is wrong with You'er?" The princess looked at this bloody scene, clutched the handkerchief tightly in her hand, and asked Dr. Li.
Dr. Li stroked his gray beard and sighed.
"The old man has been practicing medicine for decades, and he has never seen such an emergency. Although Saburo has had a deficiency from the womb since he was a child, and later he ate some big supplements indiscriminately, and his deficiency was not replenished, resulting in blood fever and easy nosebleeds, but this is not a big problem, but it is ...... today."
Seeing that he seemed to have concerns, the princess of the county said sincerely: "Doctor Li, you are also a relative of the county king's own family, although you are out of five suits, but you can be regarded as half of You'er's cousin, if you have anything to say, you can say it directly, it is related to You'er's physical health, and you must not hide your words in your stomach." ”
When Dr. Li heard this, he arched his hand, and it was not good to hide it anymore.
"The old man has a guess that San Lang Xu has accidentally eaten something that should not be eaten, and this symptom is like eating the juice of aconite, arrow wood, etc., and it is difficult to stop the bleeding after bleeding."
The room was so quiet for a while, aconitum and arrow wood were highly poisonous things, and they would not be planted in the house, and the children could only be poisoned by mistake.
The nurse, who had been standing at the head of Li Nianyou's bed crying, pointed at Xie Hanci and shouted, "What did you give him?" Saburo woke up early in the morning and disappeared. When you found him, you stayed with him in that haunted courtyard, it was you, you must have killed San Lang! ”
Xie Hanci was taken aback, and before she could tell the difference, the princess of the county, who had always been gentle and polite, stepped forward and slapped the nurse hard.
"You shut up for me, there have been a lot of things in the house in the past two days, and I have neglected to discipline you, so that you have indiscriminately bitten the distinguished guests in the house."
Li Mingchen rarely went home and never saw the princess of the county. In my impression, she is still a little girl who leans on the fence and writes poems and is ignorant of the world, but the trivial things in the back house have already forced her into another look.
Seeing this, the doctor came out and made a round.
"The princess of the county doesn't have to worry, San Lang's bleeding has stopped, and she will take the medicine after a while, if she doesn't bleed again tonight, she will be over."
The princess of the county breathed a long sigh of relief, and then turned her head to look at the nurse.
"Now that San Lang is seriously ill, you should take good care of him, and when he recovers, I will remember his mother's good for him. But if there are three long and two short, you are the person of the princess of Xianjun, and you can't send it away at will. However, I heard that the uncle who was recently convicted and exiled to Mobei happened to have one less person to serve around. ”
The nurse nodded in response, she didn't dare to come out, where was she still half arrogant just now.
Dr. Li took the pulse of the old county king who was lying on the couch and unconscious.
"It's okay, it's just that I'm angry and anxious, plus I have drunk too much in the past two days, my blood is surging, and I have opened the recipe to clear the fire, and after a while, I can wake up after half an hour, but I must not be angry again in these two days."
After hearing this, the princess of the county nodded, and said to everyone: "Let's stay here is not conducive to the doctor's healing, let's disperse first, and when the prince of the county wakes up, if you want to see anyone, just call again." ”
Xie Hanci wanted to leave with Yi Huan, but was stopped by the princess of the county.
"Miss Xie's slow, I'm afraid you'll have to leave in two days, so I told the embroidery lady to make your dress first. The embroidery lady is right there now, you go back with me, try to see if the clothes fit, if there is anything to change, let her change it today, save delay. ”
"You go back and wait for me first, and I'll come back after trying on clothes." Xie Hanci patted the back of Yihuan's hand and said.
She asked the embroidery lady when she was measuring the ruler, even if the three embroidery girls were in a hurry at the same time, it would take at least five days for a ready-to-wear garment to be made. The princess invited her to the room, she must have something to say to her, and trying on clothes was just a disguise.
Sure enough, as soon as she entered the main house, the princess of the county asked her subordinates to retreat, and there was not even half a shadow of the embroidery girl inside.
"I have something I want to say to Miss Xie, it's inconvenient for others, so I found an excuse, and I ask Miss Xie to forgive me." The princess of the county ushered Xie Han into the inner room, stood in front of the immortal crane Tengyun Lingzhi Panhua candlestick, and hesitated to speak.
"It doesn't matter. Even if the princess doesn't look for me, I'm going to come to the princess. After a noon encounter in the antechamber, she was almost certain of the real culprit of Rakuki's murder.
"You also saw it today, the county king's attitude suddenly changed, maybe he heard what people said. But I don't think Boa is necessarily the murderer. As I said before, I saw a figure passing by the lake that night, and the clothes on his body were similar to those worn by Brother Ming, so I did that foolish thing later. ”
"But what did the princess remember?" Xie Hanci asked, after all, she had already said these things before, and there was no need to call her here to bring up the old things.