Busy and busy, it will be the Chinese New Year's Eve. Because Emperor Yonghui did not like to be too pompous and wasteful, since he took the throne, no big banquets were held in the palace on Chinese New Year's Eve. Therefore, the ministers of culture and martial arts and the families of the nobles in the capital all had Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in their respective homes. Just wait for the first day of the new year, and all the courtiers and foreign women can enter the palace and knock on His Majesty.

In this way, on the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, a banquet was set up in the Guogong Mansion, and everyone gathered in the main hall of the upper court.

Shen Hongcong was punished by the old Guogong and did not come out, plus he was still recuperating from his injuries, so naturally he couldn't come. Naturally, his wife is not there, and she wants to serve her husband? The rest of the people all arrived, just waiting for the banquet to begin.

Today is a big feast, so the banquet is not like everyone sitting around the table like on Chinese New Year's Eve. Instead, there are countless tables in the hall, and several people sit on the same case, usually husband and wife, and some have a small doll in the middle. The large open space in the middle is reserved for the singing and dancing people raised in the house to perform.

Yun Xue sat with Shen Hongjun, looking at Shen Hongli and his wife opposite, as well as the pair of twin boys with pink makeup among them. The two little boys looked almost the same and dressed the same, at least Yun Xue couldn't tell the difference.

Shen Cong and Shen Wei are twins, but their sons are not twins, but grandchildren, both of whom have twins. Shen Wei's son, Shen Hongqi, also has a pair of twins. At this moment, I am also sitting in the middle of my parents, looking at the field with great joy.

Yun Xue turned her head to look at Shen Hongjun, I don't know if the two of them will also give birth to twins in the future? How fun, two identical little dolls, they look so cute. The Shen family has such a heredity, but I don't know if I am so lucky.

The banquet began, and the maidservants served the dishes one after another. Rulan stood behind Yun Xue, and after the dishes came up, she helped Yun Xue and Shen Hongjun to make dishes.

In the winter banquet, there is slightly more soup, and there is a small charcoal stove underneath, which can keep warm for a long time. The maid carried a large cup of ginseng and black chicken soup in front of Yun Xue, and the strong ginseng flavor showed that the ginseng was not short.

"What kind of 200-year-old ginseng did you say you were looking for that year, but what was there in the Guogong Mansion? I'm afraid that in today's cup, it will be at least nearly a hundred years. Yun Xue looked at Shen Hongjun with a smile and deliberately made fun of him.

Shen Hongjun glared at Yun Xue, and then smiled, "At that time, I didn't know what excuse to use, so I thought that the Northeast was rich in mountain ginseng, and I said it casually." Shen Hongjun said, then picked up the soup spoon and put a bowl of soup in front of Yun Xue.

Yun Xue smiled, picked up the small spoon and was about to bow her head to drink the soup, but found that the originally brilliant beads on her chest had turned black at this moment. "Zhiyuan, look." Yun Xue pointed to her chest.

Shen Hongjun also saw the change in the bead, and couldn't help but change his face, and slapped it on the table hard. "Come on, seal the kitchen, and lock up all the people."

Shen Hongjun's voice made the originally somewhat noisy hall suddenly silent.

"Jun'er, what's wrong with you?" The old man asked with some puzzlement.

"What kind of madness are you? Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve feast, is there anything that can't be said after this time? Shen Xuan said loudly to Shen Hongjun.

Shen Hongjun raised his eyebrows, "Grandfather, the dishes at this banquet are poisonous. ”

Shen Hongjun's words suddenly set off a thousand waves in the hall. "Jun'er, what did you say? Poisonous in the dish? When the old lady heard this, she turned her head and said to Mama Liang beside her, "Go, get a silver needle, and try it one by one." ”

And they were all amazed, but they had all eaten these dishes, and if they were poisonous, they would be finished.

Mama Liang quickly took the silver needle, and then tried it in the dishes on the table, but did not find any change in the silver needle. "Let's try the ones on the other tables, especially the ones at Jun'er's table." The old lady commanded.

The maidservants took silver needles and tried them from table to table. In the end, only when they were testing the cup of mountain ginseng black chicken soup in front of Shen Hongjun and them, the silver needles turned black.

"Old lady Hui, only in this cup of soup, it is poisonous." Mama Liang hurriedly said loudly.

Everyone in the hall breathed a sigh of relief, but next, they all turned their eyes to Shen Hongjun and Yun Xue. Only their table was poisonous, that is to say, the person who poisoned it was going for Shen Hongjun or Yun Xue. Everyone has some scheming in their hearts, after all, these two young couples have offended a lot of people in the Guogong Mansion.

"Check, let me arrest all the people in the kitchen, the maid who just gave Jun'er this table, and interrogate them carefully." The old man was angry at that time, and how could he bear the poisoning of his favorite grandson and grandson's daughter-in-law at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet?

"Grandfather, please send someone to Uncle Zhongyong's Mansion and invite Yunni here. I want her to identify what this poison is. Shen Hongjun was already angry in his heart at this moment. If it weren't for the bead sent by Yun Lin, tonight, I'm afraid that both him and Yun Xue would be poisoned.

In the Shen family, someone dared to poison himself and Yun Xue, such a thing, Shen Hongjun felt unbearable. He looked at the Yun family with cold eyes, in the Shen family, only she would have such a deep hatred for herself and Yun Xue, and only she would be so unscrupulous.

"It's better to find out the person who poisoned it first, this Chinese New Year's Eve, run to Bofu to invite people, do you think our family has not lost enough people recently?" Shen Xuan glared at his son, if he was looking for someone to test for poison now, I am afraid that tomorrow the entire capital would know that the Shen family, the Duke of Zhenguo, was actually poisoned during the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. The Shen family can't afford to lose this face.

Shen Hongjun raised his eyebrows, "What does father mean?" Lose face? Is it a shame on me, or is it a shame on someone else? Someone poisoned me, who did I lose? Shen Hongjun raised his voice and shouted, "Fu Bo, go to Uncle Zhongyong's Mansion and invite Yun Ni and Dong Lao to come over." ”

He didn't want to care about other people's thoughts right now, he just wanted to figure things out right away. "Uncle Liang, please bring all the people in the kitchen to the flower hall next to it, and I will interrogate them personally."

Fu Bo is Shen Hongjun's person, so he naturally listens to Shen Hongjun's words, and Steward Liang is also obedient to Shen Hongjun's words. The two men sprang into action immediately.

"I said, don't invite people, don't I still talk about this country's mansion? Someone, stop that minion for me. Shen Xuan stood up and ordered his subordinates to stop Fu Bo.

Shen Hongjun also stood up, "If any of you dare to stop it today, I will kill him." ”

At this moment, Shen Hongjun's expression was cold, and his whole body exuded a thick murderous aura. Let those subordinates who wanted to stop Fu Bo all tremble, as if they were frozen, and did not dare to move.

Shen Hongjun looked around the entire hall, "Uncle and aunt, brothers, since the food in front of you is not poisonous, then continue to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner here." I'm going to interrogate those people. With that, he walked to the flower hall to the west.

Yun Xue didn't move at this time, she was going to look at this cup of soup here. What if she leaves and someone does something and destroys something? She also wanted to know what kind of poison was in the soup.

It stands to reason that the poison in this is certainly not acute. In that case, the husband and wife would have been poisoned at this banquet, and the consequences would be too obvious. So, it's probably a chronic poison, and she just wants to know, what is the effect of this poison?

Shen Hongjun sat in the flower hall and looked coldly at the large number of people kneeling on the ground, "At today's banquet, it was found that there was poison in the soup. I just want to know, which one made that soup? Who touched it during this period? Who is responsible for serving it in every soup cup? Also, who delivered it to my desk? Just tell me what you know. ”

The people below were still inexplicable, they didn't even arrive at half of the banquet, and many dishes didn't go up. Why do you just let them all stop and do what they are doing here? Unexpectedly, someone poisoned the third young master. I'm a mother, what kind of immoral thing is this, and you dare to provoke the living Hades?

The people below are shaking like sifting chaff. Everyone carefully recalled what had just happened in the kitchen, and then someone began to clear themselves. said that they were not responsible for the ginseng and black chicken soup, and they were on the stove all night, and they didn't have time to go anywhere else.

The person in charge of making that soup was also crying out there. Because he made many copies, but only one cup had problems in it, and it was obvious that he didn't do it.

The person in charge of serving the soup also shouted injustice, it was the same soup cup, he was only responsible for serving each one, how did he know who it was for?

Shen Hongjun looked at the three maidservants who were in charge of the food on his table, "In this way, the most likely one is the three of you." Who sent that soup? ”

A handmaiden trembled and crawled forward twice, "Yes, yes, slave." But, however, the slave was not poisoned. Third Young Master, the slave maid has no grievances with you and the young lady, why do you want to poison you. ”

"Hmph, you said lightly, who knows if you were instructed by anyone? Someone, go to her house and have a look, see if there's anything out of the ordinary? "This servant girl is the last person to come into contact with the soup, and she is also the most suspicious person, of course, you have to investigate carefully.

The maid knelt there, kowtowing vigorously and saying that she was wronged, and her tears were crackling down. poisoned and murdered her master, if this is confirmed, then she has a few lives that are not enough to die.

After a short time, the person who went to check on the maid's house came back and said that there was nothing unusual. The maidservant's dwelling had only a few clothes, not even silver coins and jewelry.

Shen Hongjun thought about it carefully, someone wanted to poison them, probably because it was only the idea that came up in the past few days. But as the end of the year approached, none of these maids had a chance to go home. If someone instructed her to do something, she had to give her a lot of benefits, but she didn't find out, perhaps, this girl was really innocent.