A tree of peach blossoms pressing the prime minister

Chapter 48 this account

As a result, at night, another accident occurred in the Prime Minister's mansion.

The little girl who ate the preserved fruit had a severe stomachache. She thought she had a stomachache, but it was useless to go to the toilet. She lay pale on the bed, sweating.

Meng Zhenzhen was taken aback, and watched in her room, but she didn't dare to call the doctor, for fear that it was really a problem of preserved fruit, then Liu Ji's charges could not even be evaded.

"I'll ask someone to get you the medicine first, and you can bear it for a while." As Meng Shi said, she asked someone to go to the pharmacy to get some painkillers indiscriminately, and gave them all to the little maid.

"Master...you can hire a doctor for your servant." The servant girl looked at her with tears streaming down her face: "My servant hurts, these medicines don't work..."

Meng Zhenzhen gritted her teeth, sat on the edge of her bed and looked at her: "It's not that I'm ruthless, it's that the rumors outside are getting tighter now, if something happens to us again, the situation will be bad."

"But..." The servant girl cried hard: "This servant is going to die of pain..."

"Just took the medicine, maybe it will take effect in a while, so bear with it."

"..." The little maid endured it, but her face became paler and paler, and her brows became more and more wrinkled.

The next morning, there was a scream in the Nephrite Pavilion.

A servant girl stumbled and ran out, shouting as she ran, "He's dead! He's dead in the Nephrite Pavilion!"

As soon as Shen Zaiye got up, he was changing clothes when he heard the noise outside, and couldn't help but glance at Zhan Lu next to him.

Zhan Lu frowned: "If you don't kill someone, you won't die."

With that little medicine, he could be rescued by just looking for a doctor, so how could he die?
Pursing his lips slightly, tidying himself up, Shen Zaye opened the door and stepped out.

Zhanlu followed beside him, and whispered as he walked: "The rest of the things have been arranged properly, and the doctor has already informed that the preserved fruits and plums are filled with fennel seeds, which is good for liver blood deficiency and pregnant women. harmful."

Shen Zaiya nodded, and as soon as he entered the nephrite jade pavilion, he saw Meng Zhenzhen rushing towards him.

"Master!" She said with tears all over her face, "Someone is going to kill me in the Nephrite Pavilion! You must make the decision for this concubine!"

Taking two steps forward, Shen Zaiye slowly knelt down and looked at her: "Is someone trying to harm you, or are you going to make things difficult for yourself? Weizi is not a poison. Since your maid can't eat because of insufficient liver blood, she should seek medical attention in time." That is to say, why did people die?"

Meng's eyes widened, and her head shook like a rattle: "Master, don't listen to people's nonsense, what Xiaoqing eats is Chi Weizi! How can Chi Weizi poison people to death!"

Shen Zaye raised his eyebrows and looked to the side.

The doctor stood aside, still holding half a pack of preserved fruits in his hand. Seeing him look over, he hurriedly saluted and said, "The old man has already checked, and there is nothing else in these preserved fruits, but it may have been accidentally mixed in during pickling." Quite a lot of Chi Weizi... the plums from Mrs. Gu's side also have this kind of thing in them."

"Put it in when marinating?" Shen Zaye took a breath: "Are you sure you didn't just sprinkle it on the surface?"

"No." The doctor shook his head: "If it is sprinkled on the surface, there shouldn't be any preserved fruits and plums inside, but the old man has checked, even if the preserved fruits are cut open, the meat still has the smell of fennel seeds, so we can only It was put in when marinating."

"Chi Weizi should be slightly bitter." Shen Zaiye turned to look at Meng Zhenzhen: "Didn't you eat it when you ate it?"

Meng Shi shook her head blankly, she didn't eat it at all, how did she know that the other maids didn't eat it either?

"It seems that I really wronged Peach Blossom." With deep eyes, Shen Zaiye stood up, and said in a low voice, "Zhanlu!"

"The slave is here."

"Report the case to the Yamen in the capital, and arrest the owner and shopkeeper of Liu Ji Dried Fruit Shop!"

"Yes!"

Meng's legs were so frightened that she almost lost her knees, and quickly pulled Shen Zaiye's clothes and said, "Master! How can a shop as big as Liu Ji put this kind of thing when it is pickled? I went to buy preserved fruit while pregnant. There are quite a few people in Meizi, why did something happen to our Xiangfu?"

"How do you know that only the Prime Minister's Mansion has an accident?" Shen Zaiye snorted coldly: "Maybe there are innocent people out there who suffered. But those are not important. The important thing is that two lives were lost in my mansion, and one of them was me. Future eldest son!"

Said, frowning slightly, looked down at her: "Does Liu Ji have anything to do with you?"

Opening her mouth, Meng Zhenzhen was not sure whether to tell it or to keep it a secret, so anxious that she burst into tears.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Shen Zaiye seemed impatient to ask, so he turned around and went out, ready to go to court.

As soon as Master Xiang left, the mansion became a mess, Meng rushed to the Ling Han Court without hesitation, grabbed Qin Jieyu's hair and wrestled with her.

"You bitch! It's not enough to kill me, you want to kill my whole family?!"

It was just this early in the morning, but it frightened Mei Zhaoxue who was still drinking tea next to her.Staring blankly at the two of them, he forgot to ask the maid to come up and pull her.

What's wrong with Qin Jieyu?Inexplicably, someone grabbed her hair, and immediately kicked Meng Shi in the stomach, kicking her back a few steps, and fell to the ground.

"You shrew, why don't you continue to pretend to be weak and boneless, weak and sick? Such a lot of strength!" His eyes were red with anger, Qin Jieyu stepped forward while cursing, grabbed Meng Zhenzhen and slapped her twice.

The two continued to wrestle, pulling their clothes and hair, swearing and refusing to let anyone else go, and the viciousness of their hands was evenly matched.

All the masters in the yard came to watch the fun, and Liu couldn't help laughing: "What is this for?"

Mei Zhaoxue pursed her lips, and when she saw that it was almost done, she asked someone to go up and separate the two, and said with a sullen face, "Is there any more rules?"

"Seeing that the whole family is going to be a disaster, what rules do I need?!" Meng Zhenzhen stared at Qin Jieyu fiercely with red eyes and said, "It's nothing more than a small fight, at most it's to make me suffer But I really didn't expect you to be so cruel, what did my family offend you?"

After straightening out his clothes, Qin Jieyu stopped talking: "I don't understand what you're talking about."

"Don't understand?" Meng sneered: "Last time you laughed at my father for marrying a concubine who was about my age, but this time you moved your idea to Liu Ji's dried fruit shop opened by her brother, but It's really obvious. It's a legitimate business, how can you add fennel to the preserved fruit? Your chess moves are really good, and you have dragged Jiang Shi into the water!"

Qin Jieyu smiled lightly, with a bit of complacency in his eyes, he looked at her and said, "My own family's unscrupulous business, but it's my fault? What? Is it possible that I can still have great powers, so I went to your house to pickle Putting medicine on the place where the dried fruit is? Don’t be ridiculous.”

"You..." Meng was so angry that she couldn't do anything about the woman in front of her.

"Have you had enough noise?" Mei Zhaoxue pressed the teacup on the table with a sullen face.

The room finally became quiet, Meng's knees went limp and he knelt down towards his wife, choking with sobs, he said, "Madam, please help me!"

Rubbing between her brows, Mei Zhaoxue said: "This is the end of the matter, how do you want me to save your life? I have said before that no matter who the murderer is found out, he will be punished severely and will not be spared lightly. Now it is There is something wrong with your shop, and more than one person died, what do you want me to do?"

"I..." Meng Shi felt extremely wronged: "How did I know that the maid would die if she ate it?"

"Qi Weizi is forbidden for pregnant women and people with insufficient liver blood. Since your maid is still a girl, she has insufficient liver blood. You won't die if you eat a little bit. Didn't you call a doctor for her?"

"..." Meng Shi pursed her lips and lowered her head guiltyly.

Liu Xiangjun looked at it, covered his lips and muttered in a low voice: "This is really cruel. He didn't have to die, but he was killed by his master."

"Cause and effect have rewards." Mei Zhaoxue shook her head, "You'd better go back and deal with it when the Lord comes down."

"lady……"

Tears fell down, and Meng cried bitterly: "Take a step back, even if it is really Liu Ji's fault, it's none of my business, it's something from the Liu family, at worst, my father will retire. That woman..."

"Save these words for the Lord." Mei Zhaoxue shook her head and looked at her with pity: "I can't help you."

Meng Shi also knew in her heart that even if she could help, Madam wouldn't help her.But she was really desperate, so she could only sit here and cry.

Shen Zaye had already stood in the court hall, and after explaining a series of important matters to His Majesty, he stood aside with an uneasy expression.

The emperor looked at him with concern: "I heard that Shen Aiqing lost a son, and I should be sad. Don't be too sad."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern." Shen Zaiye sighed, "I still want to seek justice for that innocent child."

"Naturally." The emperor nodded, "If someone is so vicious, let alone you, I can't stand it."

In today's court, Shen is the only one who can disturb the emperor even with family affairs.All civil and military officials knew it in their hearts, and the people who were married to Shen's mansion standing beside him couldn't help but feel uneasy.

After the court, Shen Zaye was surrounded by three layers of inner and outer layers, and everyone was concerned about what happened to the missing child.

Shen Zaiye only said lightly: "I have already had the murderer arrested, and I will definitely ask for an explanation. As for those who have something to do with the murderer, Shen will definitely not stay in the mansion."

Everyone was startled, and they answered yes, but they still prayed in their hearts that they must not be their own daughters.

"Master Meng." Shen Zaiye turned his head and looked at the chubby fat man next to him, without a smile on his face: "I'm afraid you have to talk to me this time."

Meng Taipu was taken aback for a moment, and after understanding his eyes, his face paled instantly.

The rest of the people breathed a sigh of relief, took their leave one after another and left, leaving Meng Taifu alone, looking at Shen Zaiye tremblingly.

"Prime Minister?"

"Liu Ji's dried fruit shop caused me to lose my eldest son, and another maid died last night." He lowered his head, with his face turned away from the sun, looking extremely gloomy: "I will settle this account carefully. "

(End of this chapter)