Chapter 146: Who Poisoned It?
"Wait, don't eat yet!"
When Qi Bing shouted this sentence, Jiang Muling and Xia Zhiqiu were not greedy for sweetness, so they hadn't even picked up the bowl yet, and they were very accustomed to letting Qi Bing eat first.
And the little junior brother Xu Rui, who has never had a chance to speak, has been holding his mouth for a long time, seeing this small rice ball, he feels that it finally has a place to use, and he is slowly scooping a spoonful into his mouth, and his teeth are about to chew the chewy glutinous rice and the sweet taste that fills his mouth.
Hearing Yu Bing's shout, Xu Rui was so frightened that he choked and almost swallowed it directly.
Xia Zhiqiu and Jiang Muling moved quickly, and when they saw this, they immediately flashed to the side and grabbed the disciple who gave the rice balls, and one pinched Xu Rui's mouth and slapped him heavily on the back, and the small rice balls with saliva were all vomited out and rolled down on the mahogany floor of the pavilion.
"Ahem, cough, cough, vomit ......" Xu Rui had tears in the corners of his eyes, kept hiccuping, and looked at Jiang Muling with some resentment.
He and this Penglaijiang senior brother have not seen each other much, neither friendship nor acquaintance, let alone any enmity, for Mao He just slapped himself down with that palm?
When Xu Rui vomited out the small rice balls, he silently took a step back, squatted down, broke a thin branch from the bushes next to him, and poked the small rice balls on the ground with his sharp tip until he poked the snow-white round glutinous rice balls.
After a while, the tips of the branches gradually turned purple from brown to purple and spread down very distinctly.
Zhu Bing doesn't know much about poison, but no matter how you look at it, it's not the effect that ordinary rice balls can achieve, right?
She also felt that this might not be the original effect of this poison, after all, it had been diluted a lot by Xu Rui's saliva.
"Xiao Qiuqiu, take Xu Rui to rinse his mouth," Yu Bing glanced at Xu Rui, as if to say, "Who told you to eat so fast like a starving ghost", which made Xu Rui even more embarrassed, "You must wash it well, if necessary, let him clear all the things in his stomach, and dare to eat casually in the future." ”
Xu Rui was aggrieved, didn't he think that the things Penglai gave were safe, and he didn't let him talk or eat, this was too miserable, right?
Xia Zhiqiu carried Xu Rui to the courtyard next to him to draw water to rinse his mouth, and while walking, he taught him a lesson, and Xu Rui's face became bitter.
Qi Bing came to the disciple who was captured by Xia Zhiqiu just now, at this time, although Jiang Muling was a disciple of Penglai, he was resolutely on her side.
"Who sent these bowls of things?" There was no hint of interrogation in Qi Bing's tone, because she looked at the little disciple's confused expression, and felt that he didn't look like he was pretending.
But it wasn't too gentle, and with the suppression of Senior Brother Jiang, whom Penglai's disciples were most afraid of, it scared the disciples who thought they had made a big mistake into a daze.
"This, this is the kitchen over there in the big dining hall, and it's the same person who usually delivers the food, so I took it and brought it over......," the little disciple tried to recall the situation at that time, but he didn't notice anything really wrong.
"Mu Ling usually eats dim sum in the afternoon?" This is what makes Yu Bing the most confused, Jiang Muling doesn't look like a person who can't do without dim sum every day like her.
"No, no, no! But the kitchen of our big dining hall sends snacks to the personal disciples of the elders every day, and Senior Brother Jiang only eats them occasionally, and distributes them to us at other times. "The little disciple guarding the door is quite dedicated, when will the kitchen send dim sum, Jiang Muling will eat those dim sum, he remembers it very clearly.
Qi Bing looked at Jiang Muling, who nodded slightly, indicating that what the little disciple said was right.
This little disciple has been helping this courtyard guard the door for almost a year, and Jiang Muling knows very well what he is in his heart, he will not do this kind of thing, and he does not have that scheming.
And the ice is sour, look at the disciples of other people, send snacks every day, and it seems that they still come every day, what a happy enjoyment!
Look at Penglai again, there are only a few dim sum to eat, and you have to take it yourself, there is really a big gap in comparison.
This delicate sect of female cultivators and the rough man sect of all men, life is really different.
But if it's really as he said, then this matter will be difficult to solve, most of the rice balls were done before they were delivered, and this kitchen is full of people, how to check.
But we still have to find out who is secretly attacking them.
"You, go to the disciples of each family to see if there is any poison in their glutinous rice balls," Qi Bing took out a white porcelain bottle from the Naxu bag and handed it to the little disciple, "If it is poisonous, take this first, and you can resist it for a while." ”
The little disciple hurriedly ran away after he got down, and Qi Bing looked at his figure a little worried, "Remember to call a few more people to accompany you!"
Xia Zhiqiu also completely helped Xu Rui "wash" his stomach once, which was unusually simple and rude, and it was also very painful, that is, after drinking a large amount of water, he violently induced vomiting, and vomited it all, so that the bushes here were in a mess, and Qi Bing stood far away and didn't want to go over, for fear of smelling something.
"Okay, it's almost," Xia Zhiqiu threw people over, "What are you going to do now?"
"Let Mu Ling lead us to the kitchen of Penglai Canteen," Qi Bing looked at Xu Rui, who was lying on the ground half-dead, "Send this guy back first, he probably won't be able to toss." ”
Xu Rui enjoyed a fast flight embraced by the wind on Xia Zhiqiu's owl sword, and in the messy flying hair, he was slapped on the fleshy cheek by the wind, and thought in a broken heart: It's because my rank is too low, and I am not worthy of all the big guys!
After sending Xu Rui back, the three of them, led by Jiang Muling, went to Penglai's canteen.
The scale here is several times larger than the one in the Fog Void Peak, because Penglai only has this one canteen, and all the disciples come here to eat, and as soon as they enter, they feel a sense of spaciousness.
Other specifications are similar, but the style of the building is not the same, Kunlun is a typical Jiangnan building, with pink walls and tiles, and it is different here It is a spacious courtyard.
It's not a meal at this time, there are not many people, it's sparse, and there are only a few chefs standing there.
They asked where the kitchen was, and they went in through the back door, through the yard and granary, which was full of miscellaneous items, and into the kitchen.
The kitchen is huge, the walls are full of ingredients, and the stove table is polished and clean.
The kitchen people seem to have done most of their work by this time, some people have set up a chaise longue in the kitchen to take a nap, a few people are playing mahjong outside the kitchen in a circle, and a few are putting plates and dishes into the cabinet.
When they saw Jiang Muling coming in, their first reaction was to be stunned, the voice of the person playing mahjong gradually became quieter, and finally disappeared, and the person who loaded the dishes and chopsticks dropped a chopstick, and he didn't care about picking it up, but the person who took a nap didn't know anything, and he felt that it was good to be quiet, and he slept very soundly.
This Penglai Senior Brother Jiang, the head disciple of the sect, and the little ancestor, how could he come to such a kitchen full of smoky smell and subordinates?
After a few breaths of sluggishness, the sound of the chair pushing back sounded one after another, and all the people inside and outside crowded here, "Jiang Gongzi, you, why did you come to our vulgar place?"
A person who seemed to be the head of the kitchen came up to speak with some trepidation, Jiang Muling nodded slightly, turned sideways, and revealed the ice behind him.
The people in this back kitchen are not monks, but some ordinary people who live in the sect, living in the territory of the immortal family for generations, and they may not have enough food and clothing than the ordinary world, and there will be wars and famines, and if the children in the family are talented, they can also be sent to practice.
These Penglai disciples have a very good cultivation and have always respected them, and of course these people will put the monks of Penglai in a very important position.
So even if Jiang Muling asked a small man to ask them questions, they were not dissatisfied, let alone speak wildly, they just felt that the picture of a little doll asking them a group of muscular men was a bit witty.
"Who cooked the dim sum dumplings sent today?"
"Uh, I, I!" a young-looking teenager next to him hurriedly raised his hand and picked up the pot next to him, "If you still want to eat, there is still something left." ”
This is really too enthusiastic, Lu Bing looked at the remaining small half pot of rice balls and swallowed his saliva.
Although she really wanted to eat, but now is not the right time, Qi Bing looked at Xia Zhiqiu, the other party immediately understood, went out with the pot of dim sum in his arms, and soon hugged it back, attached to Lu Bing's ear and said, "This pot of things is fine." ”
That was mixed in later, so the rice balls of other personal disciples might be fine, and the people who poisoned them came at them.
"Did you see anyone coming in when you were cooking rice balls here today?" asked the cooks as he walked around the back kitchen.
"No, is it? What kind of young lady would come into a place like this?"
"If there is a door, just this one door, we will definitely see it. ”
"When we were cooking the afternoon snack, everyone was almost finished, and we weren't busy at that time, so we still knew who was in the back kitchen. ”
The uncles muttered for a while, thinking that they had all been working together for years, and that there was going to be a sudden extra person in the kitchen, and they would know that no one else had been here today.
Although she said that, she felt that if she wanted to come in silently, there must be a way, after all, she had also used the Hidden Pill to sneak into other people's bedrooms, and she had stayed for a long time.
Or, it's not impossible that one of them poisoned it......
Qi Bing squinted, and the appearance of not smiling was really a bit intimidating, but for the time being, he couldn't see who would do such a thing.
"Who sent the dim sum to Mu Ling?"
"Ah, it's my sister, she's still cleaning in front of the canteen, I'm going to call her!" The man who had been cooking the rice balls spoke again, and then hurriedly brought his sister.
His sister looked a few years younger than her, about her early twenties, and her face was quite delicate, mainly tidying herself up and behaving well, like the daughter of a worldly rich family.
She was suddenly called, and so many people looked at her, although she was a little surprised and blushed, but she was quite calm, which made Qi Bing sigh at Penglai's upbringing, people who are not disciples are more powerful than ordinary people.
"You're the one who brought snacks to Mu Ling?"