A tree of peach blossoms pressing the prime minister

Chapter 85
After scanning the list in his hand, Shen Zaiye lowered his head and asked Concubine Lan Gui: "Before drinking Jiang's tea, did you eat Qin's fried pastry?"

Concubine Lan Gui raised her eyebrows: "How did the prime minister know?"

"Although I haven't dabbled in the matter of self-cultivation, I have occasionally read two related books." Shen Zaiye said: "It is written in a book that if honey is mixed with fried food, it is easy to be poisoned, causing Abdominal pain and diarrhea."

Slightly taken aback, Concubine Lan Gui looked at him displeasedly: "Could it be that the prime minister made this up in order to exonerate the Jiang family?"

"If you don't believe me, you can ask the imperial physician." Shen Zaiye said with lowered eyes, "If I have half a false statement, I am willing to share the same crime with Jiang."

What a crime with Jiang's!Concubine Lan Gui sneered, closed her eyes and said, "Since the prime minister is determined to protect the Jiang family, what else can I say!"

"Lan'er, don't lose your temper." The emperor patted her on the shoulder: "The prime minister has always treated you very well, why would you deliberately excuse others? I think everything can be explained according to the prime minister's words. Jiang There is no problem with the inspection by the people in the tea palace, and there is no problem with other people's things, so it can only be caused by mixing them together. In the future, there will be no need for so many palace people to do the inspection separately, and only one person will check. To ensure that the palaces are complete."

"What the emperor said is true." Concubine Lan Gui nodded and asked in a low voice: "Then what should Jiang do?"

After looking at Shen Zaiye, the emperor smiled lightly: "What happened today was an accident. The Jiang family and the Qin family probably don't know how to restrain food, so let's just let it go. I will make it up to you."

Clenching her fists, Concubine Lan Gui pursed her lips and looked at Shen Zaiye: "Then please ask the prime minister to discipline the people in your backyard."

"I obey the order." Bowing his head and saluting, Shen Zaiye didn't even look at Concubine Lan Gui the whole time. After the matter was settled, he went to Sizong's mansion to pick her up.

Taohua squatted in the corner of the temporary cell in Sizong's Mansion in a daze, when Shen Zaiya went in, she was huddled up like a little mouse.

"Haven't you waited enough?"

Hearing Shen Zaiye's voice at first glance, Taohua immediately jumped up, turned his head and flew over, hugged his waist and raised his head and said: "Master! Give me a little time to explain, the poisoning of Concubine Lan Gui has nothing to do with me !"

He naturally knew it was okay, but seeing her nervous expression, Shen Zaiye suddenly felt teased, and looked at her with a straight face and said: "If it has nothing to do with you, why is it your turn to be locked up?"

"The concubine is unfamiliar with the place of birth in this palace, and I don't want to be seen by the empress, so there is nothing I can do if I am locked up!" Taohua stomped: "I have figured it out, if the empress insists on asking the concubine's crime, then Even the palace servants who inspected the food were questioned together, so in order to save their lives, those palace servants will definitely try to prove that the concubine's tea is fine."

"Oh?" Shen Zaiye raised his eyebrows: "Your tea is fine, and other people's things are fine, so how did Concubine Lan get poisoned?"

"This concubine has thought about it too." Wrinkling her nose, Tao Hua said: "There are two possibilities, either the imperial concubine deliberately wants to teach the concubine a lesson, pretending to be poisoned. Or there are some foods that are fine to separate from tea and water, but they will be poisoned if eaten together .”

With a slight movement in his mind, Shen Zaiye squinted at her: "Since you know everything, why didn't you just tell the imperial concubine clearly?"

Taohua flattened her mouth and was extremely wronged: "What does my concubine say? The imperial concubine sent the maids around her to inquire about her crimes in the inner hall. Those of them who are slaves will suffer, so today they are locked up."

After finishing speaking, she looked up at him again, and hugged his waist coquettishly: "The concubine is useless, I'll just wait for the master to rescue me, and the master must trust the concubine this time!"

Looking at her meaningfully, Shen Zaiye said: "You actually put the hope of being rescued on me, so what if I don't believe you?"

"You're not so cruel, are you?" Shrinking her neck, Tao Hua looked at him with strange eyes: "You don't even remember the help I did for you before? I promised to protect my body!"

"Well, this time I'll put in a little effort to get you out." Shen Zaiye smiled slightly: "The credit you helped me earlier will be written off, how about it?"

"shameless!"

"What did you say?" Shen Zaiya raised his eyebrows.

Taohua turned her head and gave a "bah", looked at him with a smile and said, "This concubine said, it's so dangerous! Fortunately, the master is willing to trust me, so the merits and demerits of the concubine will be equal."

"Okay." Putting his arms around her, Shen Zaiye's eyes were full of joy: "Then let's go home."

"Yes...wait, just go back like this?" Tao Hua was stunned: "Don't you need to explain clearly to the imperial concubine?"

"Don't worry about this, I'll do it later." Shen Jaeye frowned solemnly, eyes full of melancholy: "It seems that it will take a lot of work."

That's right, Shen Zaiye doesn't like Concubine Tilan so much, but now he wants to intercede with Concubine Lan for her affairs.Thinking about it this way, Tao Hua felt a little guilty for an instant, and went out of the palace to get on the car, and obediently squeezed Shen Zaye's shoulders and beat his back along the way.

Enjoying it silently, the corners of Shen Zaye's lips curled slightly, and suddenly felt that cheating Jiang Taohua to play was the most interesting thing in the world.

However, after returning to Xiangfu, the atmosphere became serious in an instant.

Although Shen Zaye said in front of the emperor that it was just an accident that the food was incompatible, he didn't believe it was such a coincidence that the two incompatible foods happened to be brought by the people in the prime minister's mansion.

Mei Zhaoxue brought all the concubines to kneel in Linwuyuan, Taohua and Qin Shi knelt at the front, all bowed their heads and did not dare to make a sound.

"Let's talk about it first. Did you prepare your fried pastry and honey tea by yourself?"

Qin Jieyu frowned and said in a low voice: "Although I did prepare it, I didn't know that this kind of thing would happen! Lord Mingjian, I decided to make the fried pastry a few days ago. , I have informed the kitchen a long time ago, so that no one will do the same as I do. As far as I know, Jiang’s tea was bought back in two days."

Taohua nodded: "It's true that the honey tea was bought in the past two days, but I really don't know that honey and fried snacks can't be eaten together."

Gu Huairou knelt at the back, hesitated for a long time before saying: "This concubine bought the honey tea for Mrs. Jiang, and I don't even know that there is such a thing as food."

"It's a coincidence. Others don't know, and Madam doesn't know?" Shen Zaye looked at Mei Zhaoxue: "Madam should have learned the way of self-cultivation very well."

"The concubine is terrified." Mei Zhaoxue frowned: "The concubine has been busy with the tea ceremony recently, and never asked about the affairs of the backyard. Naturally, she didn't pay attention to the snacks they made. Even the list was for Qin's purpose."

"Let Mrs. Qin help in everything, how about sharing half of your wife's position with her?" Shen Zaiye said with a smile.

The atmosphere in the yard suddenly became heavy, and Qin Jieyu hurriedly kowtowed: "Your words are serious, I just help my wife occasionally..."

"Madam's mistakes, shouldn't you also help bear the burden?" Shen Zaiye said: "Linghan Courtyard and Haitang Pavilion, the monthly expenses will be halved this month."

"...Thank you, Lord." Mei Zhaoxue kowtowed, but Qin Jieyu was a little annoyed: "How can this matter be left to the concubine and his wife only? Jiang and Gu should also be guilty of the same crime."

"I didn't say they were innocent." Shen Zaiye said: "It's just that the two courtyards have been rewarded a lot recently, and the reduction of expenses doesn't help. Let's copy the "Family Instructions" thirty times."

"Thank you, Lord." Tao Hua and Gu Huairou also bowed their heads in salute. Although Qin Jieyu was still dissatisfied, he could only suppress his temper.

Shen Zaiye looked very unhappy. Such incidents in the mansion would inevitably affect his relationship with the emperor. Recently, he had to spend some effort to make up for it. Naturally, he would not have a good face towards them.After finishing the processing, they went back to the study and asked them to retreat.

Everyone didn't make a sound when they went out, but as soon as they left Linwu Academy, Qin Jieyu couldn't hold back, and stepped forward to stop Jiang Taohua: "Ms. Jiang is ashamed to hurt everyone by doing these things?"

Taohua looked at her up and down: "Why does Miss Qin think that the incident happened because of me? I am the only one who was murdered and imprisoned in Sizong's mansion today."

"It's none of your business if you act as a monster?" Qin sneered, "If you want to use this to drag me into trouble, your heart is vicious!"

Gu Huairou frowned: "Miss Qin, don't talk too much, it's not certain who wants to drag whom into the water. Lady Jiang is already favored, why do she want to hurt herself? Only people who don't deserve favor will come up with ideas Let’s use these bad ideas to harm people.”

"Hey, our lady Gu is now on a high branch, so we're going to talk to me?" Qin Jieyu looked her in the eyes: "What? I forgive you for the false news of pregnancy, so you just pretend it never happened. Passed? You can be a man with your tail between your legs, be careful and get retribution again."

"you……"

"Stop arguing!" Mei Zhaoxue scolded angrily, "Is this a vegetable market? You all come from high families, what are you talking about! Why don't you go back soon?"

Everyone fell silent and dispersed.Gu Huairou also wanted to drag Taohua away, but Jiang Taohua walked very slowly, watching the others leave, but she stayed by Mei Zhaoxue's side.

"Ma'am, I still have something to say."

Glancing at her, Mei Zhaoxue asked lightly, "What are you talking about?"

"Don't you think today's good show is a bit strange?" Tilting her head, Tao Hua said with a smile: "It seems that it was not your idea, nor the concubine's idea. Our four yards suffer, resent each other?"

"Your mouth can really turn black and white." Qin Jieyu didn't leave, he looked at her and said, "It's clearly you who made it, who else do you want to pin it on?"

Looking at the back of someone in the distance, Taohua shook her head: "Whether you believe it or not, I would like to advise you, don't really regard me as an opponent, the real opponent is someone else. Beware of the fight between the snipe and the clam, the fisherman will benefit .”

Mei Zhaoxue was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and looked ahead.After a while, he lowered his eyes and said: "There should be no disputes in this yard, the lady's reminder is a bit redundant."

(End of this chapter)