good season

Chapter 19 Three people become tigers
These six people, without exception, are all elderly people who have served King Liang for many years. For example, Aunt Li in the kitchen is not an ordinary cook in the palace. She is a cook in Shun'an Palace and only cooks for King Liang.

There are four head chefs and eight assistant chefs in Shun'an Palace. Aunt Li knows how to cook medicinal food. Therefore, although she is only responsible for the soup, she is a chef who is paid ten taels of silver every month.

Her monthly salary is equivalent to several months' profit of a snack shop outside.

There are also two maids, Taofen and Libai. They have the least experience among the six, but even so, their families are wealthier than others. Take Taofen for example. When her brother got married the year before last, the girl's family learned that her family had a sister who served Prince Liang, and they asked for 100 taels of silver, which Taofen's family gave without hesitation.

There is also Li Bai. Like Tao Fen, she is a servant of Prince Liang's Mansion. Ever since she was chosen to live in Shun'an Palace, her father and mother have been living a life of idleness and waiting for death before they were even forty. Li Bai begged the prince to release her brother from nationality. This year her brother got married and bought a house with a private entrance and courtyard in Tieguo Hutong. I don't know how many people are envious of him.

The reason why these three people are mentioned specifically among the six is because of the news that Xiao Yao brought back.

Zhao Yunnuan was on guard in the first half of last night, and Zhao Shiqing was on guard in the second half. When Zhao Tingxuan came to replace her in the morning, he brought her some steamed cakes so that she could fill her stomach before going back to sleep.

There was fermented rice in the steamed cake. Zhao Shiqing couldn't wait to take a piece and put it in her mouth as soon as she walked out of the mourning hall. At this moment, the little demon jumped out from somewhere and jumped onto her right shoulder accurately.

Yes, right shoulder.

Because the left shoulder belongs to Xiaoguai, Xiaoyao will not break the rules even if Xiaoguai is not here. Although she is called Xiaoyao, she is a lady.

[The humans were all crying, and one was whispering to another, and the cat heard it. She was so fierce, but the cat couldn't understand what she was saying.

She smelled of herbs.

The one she scolded had a red spot on his face. 】

Zhao Shiqing praised: "Who said dogs have the best noses? My little demon also has a good nose. Even though they stink so badly, little demon can still smell the herbs. Little demon is the best."

Xiao Yao: [Don’t compare cats to stupid dogs that don’t know how to bury their poop. ]

Xiao Yao didn't know that what grew on her face were not red beans, but red moles. There was a red mole on her peach-pink face, and this red mole made her look more charming.

As for the person whose smell could not cover up the taste of herbs even though it was stinking, it was of course Aunt Li who was good at making medicinal food.

It is generally acknowledged that dogs have sensitive noses, but in fact, cats' sense of smell is not much different from that of dogs, it's just that cats are too lazy to show it.

Zhao Shiqing can communicate with birds and animals. Apart from her maid Ling Bo, there are only three people who know and believe it. One is the deceased King Liang, one is Zhao Shiqing's master Murong Linlang, and the other is Zhao Yunnuan.

At that time, the young Zhao Shiqing did not know how to conceal her ability. After King Liang found out, he told her not to tell anyone else about it. However, she was still too young at that time. When she was talking to the bird, she was discovered by Murong Linlang, who came to the palace as a guest with her father. Therefore, when Murong Linlang wanted to take Zhao Shiqing as her apprentice, King Liang agreed. After all, with this master-apprentice relationship, it didn't matter even if Murong Linlang knew.

Another person who knew about this was Zhao Yunnuan.

From childhood to adulthood, Zhao Shiqing's various strange behaviors would attract attention. When others asked her about it, she would tell the truth, but people like Xiao Su thought she was talking nonsense, but Zhao Yunnuan believed it. Zhao Yunnuan also warned her not to tell anyone else.

As Zhao Shiqing grew up, she learned how to tell the truth in a joking tone. The more she said this, the less people believed her. As time went by, people around her would rather believe that she was a weird little girl than that she could understand animal language.

So Zhao Shiqing told Zhao Yunnuan the information that Xiao Yao had found out without reservation, and Zhao Yunnuan took action immediately without saying a word.

The so-called action was to take Aunt Li and Tao Fen out of the dungeon, gag them, tie them up, stuff them into a carriage, and send them directly to the Royal Guard Battalion.

Those rough men in the Royal Guards had plenty of ways to get confessions. Sure enough, that night, Taofen gave away Aunt Li, and to Zhao Yunnuan and Zhao Shiqing's surprise, she also gave away Li Bai.

Not only did Li Bai participate, but she was also the one who brought Tao Fan in.

Originally, she was the one that Aunt Li was looking for, and she also brought in Tao Fan, so the matter was settled.

Aunt Li put poison in the hangover soup. The maid Qinghe, unaware of the truth, sent the soup over. Taofen received the soup at the door. Prince Liang only drank one glass of wine. With his alcohol tolerance, he didn't need to drink the hangover soup at all. He didn't want to drink it either. After all, it didn't taste good.

However, Taofen and Libai sang the same tune and urged King Liang to drink it while it was hot. King Liang was annoyed and drank the bowl of sobering soup in one gulp.

After a while, Prince Liang felt uncomfortable in his chest. Logically, even if Prince Liang sneezed a few times, the servants around him would make a fuss and ask for the imperial physician stationed in the mansion. So Tao Fen went out to call for help. She did not send the eunuchs and maids to ask for the imperial physician on night duty, but asked people to go to the house of imperial physician Han to ask for help. The reason was that it was imperial physician Han who had always taken care of Prince Liang's health, so if Prince Liang was unwell, even if imperial physician Han was not on duty today, they would go to his house to ask for him.

Although Imperial Physician Han's residence was only across the street from Prince Liang's mansion, the trip back and forth took a lot of time, and by the time Imperial Physician Han arrived, Prince Liang was already dead.

If only Aunt Li was responsible for this task, she would not be able to perform it at all. The bowl of hangover soup with added ingredients would either be poured out or exposed during the routine poison test. However, with peach powder and pear white, King Liang could drink it all without leaving a drop.

Although Taofen confessed, Aunt Li and Libai gritted their teeth and remained silent despite torture, coercion and inducement.

However, the Liang Palace does not need solid evidence to convict, because the Liang Palace is the law.

Zhao Yunnuan waved his hand and Li Bai's family was captured and beaten to death in front of Li Bai.

They didn't dare to scold Zhao Yunnuan and could only curse Li Bai with gritted teeth. At this moment, they had forgotten the contributions Li Bai had made for them. Li Bai was no longer the good daughter and sister they were proud of. She was a bitch, a shrew, and a damn whore.

Li Bai stared at them in a daze, a mocking smile appearing on her face which had been beaten beyond recognition. It was unclear whether she was laughing at her family or at herself.

A trickle of blood flowed from the corner of her mouth. Zhao Yunnuan asked someone to pry her mouth open, and found that her tongue had been bitten to pieces by her.

But Aunt Li’s son was never found.

Aunt Li was a widow who raised her son with the ancestral craft. Unfortunately, her son did not live up to his expectations and became addicted to gambling.

Aunt Li received a monthly salary of ten taels of silver, and received rewards from time to time, as well as a big red envelope at the end of the year. However, the Li family was penniless, without even a decent quilt. All the money she earned was spent on gambling by her son.

Zhao Yunnuan sent people to look for Li Daniang's son Sun Changsheng, but they searched all the gambling houses, big and small, in Liangdu, but could not find any trace of Sun Changsheng.

In the end, Xiaoguai was the first to find Sun Changsheng, but what he found was a corpse. Several eagles were pecking at a male corpse. That corpse was Sun Changsheng who had been missing for many days.

Fortunately, Aunt Li was different from Li Bai. The moment she saw her son's body, she fainted.

Zhao Shiqing stabbed her philtrum with a hairpin, and Aunt Li woke up slowly.

She had been able to hold on until now just for Sun Changsheng, but now that Sun Changsheng was dead, the energy that supported her was gone.

She admitted that the poison was put into the bowl of sobering soup through her hands.

(End of this chapter)