Stop acting, Your Majesty, the queen knows you're faking it

Chapter 109 It's More Likely During the Banquet

Yan Chujing naturally didn't know that Chi Xinian had silently labeled him "cute" in his heart.

After being angry with her for a while, he put the unhappiness behind him, and re-examined the mess on the side with seriousness.

"Tell me, in which ring did the poisoner poison it?" He tapped the table with his fingertips, rested his elbow and made a gesture of resting his chin.

"I don't think it's in the back kitchen, but during the banquet." Chi Xinian imitated his movements, and looked at the mess on the floor with his chin in the same place, "Because I found something interesting when the imperial doctor was testing for drugs just now. detail."

"Oh?" Yan Chujing raised his eyebrows, "Tell me."

"Do you still remember that plate of osmanthus candied lotus root?" Chi Xinian gestured casually, "It's not the same as that plate of sweet and sour pork. The sweet and sour pork is just contaminated with a little poison in the dish. It looks like it was contaminated when the vegetables were served. up.

"But sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus root are different. The edge of the dish is poisonous. No matter how much the person picks up the vegetables with chopsticks, the edge of the dish will not be infected with poison, right?
"I think it was caused by the second poisoning by the poisoner."

"You mean, because Chen Meiren didn't drink the poisonous tea prepared by that person in advance, the poisoner had to take another risk?" Yan Chujing narrowed his eyes and said thoughtfully, "Indeed, if it's just chopsticks It is impossible for the poison taken away to touch the edge of the dish.

"The poison on the edge is more like... the hand with the poison on the plate."

Speaking of this, Yan Chujing suddenly said again: "But if it's serving the dishes, shouldn't it be the maids who take turns serving the dishes? How can you doubt the people at the banquet?"

Although the order of serving dishes has not been arranged in advance, as long as there is a heart, it is not impossible to observe that Chen Meiren did not drink tea, and take advantage of the opportunity to make up for the poisoned dishes.

Even compared to people who can't move when they sit at the banquet, it's more convenient for the itinerant handmaids to poison.

"At first, I wasn't quite sure until you said that the mastermind behind it was a palace concubine who wanted me to be unable to be a queen." Chi Xinian explained to him, "She has such a big purpose and such a ruthless method, so it must not be a temporary intention.

"And I am a casual person, not only do I not have the idea of ​​forcing everyone to eat here, but even the maid serving the dishes was arranged by Qing Yun yesterday.

"In such a short period of time, it is not easy for that person to bribe someone.

"If he is not careful, he will leave a hole."

Yan Chujing nodded thoughtfully. Indeed, although Chen Meiren and Zhou Guiren did not have much background, they were not ordinary people either.

If you want to kill these two people, you still have to be fully prepared.

The person who delivered the dishes was not sure until yesterday that when the murderer was preparing, he definitely couldn't leave the most important part of poisoning empty and gamble on the possibility of "successful bribery".

What's more, the handmaidens arranged by the empress must all come from Fengqi Palace, if they are not guaranteed, there is a risk of being told.

In this case, it is better to put the poisoning thing in the banquet.

It's better to do it yourself than fake it...

"However, if poisoning is done during the banquet, there are not many people who have the opportunity." Yan Chujing looked around the hall and said, "At that time, I sat in the first place and was in the middle. The queen sat with me, and Concubine Shu was a little farther away. , live on one side. The rest of the people sit in pairs, and each chooses a seat to sit on both sides...

"Chen Meiren and Zhou Guiren are both on the left seat, so the person on the right seat can basically be ruled out as suspect."

(End of this chapter)