After I was reborn, I became the queen mother by fortune telling

Chapter 171 Jiang Guiren's Steamed Pork, The Taste Is Really Unique

The place for Mu Qingyuan to "treat guests" was not in his Chaoyang Palace, but in the pavilion beside the lotus pond in the palace.

Tonight is still an excellent weather, the moon and stars are sparse, and the breeze is blowing.

Jiang Yu got off the sedan chair, carried the food box by herself, and walked up to the pavilion.

Mu Qingyuan was standing by the railing admiring the moon, when he saw her coming, he unexpectedly gave her a smile.

"Jiang Guiren is here, and I am admiring the moon."

Jiang Yu put down the food box and walked to his side.

The moonlight shines on the lotus pond. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the lotus has turned from full bloom to wilted, and only a few are still in full bloom.

"That year when I entered the palace, it was also August [-]th." Mu Qingyuan said suddenly.

Jiang Yu recalled the time when she had just talked with Yang Guiren last night about the past. It was also because of the eldest prince's accident that the former emperor made up his mind to bring back his son who was left behind among the people.

"In two years, the concubine mother will pass away." He continued, "At that time, she often made some snacks from her hometown, and tamales were one of them."

Mu Qingyuan seemed to be talking to himself, but what he was talking about was his own private affairs.

"Jiang Guiren must have brought the tamales you made yourself?" He turned his head and asked Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu felt a little embarrassed. It turned out that Mu Qingyuan liked to eat this dish because of his mother, and the tamales he made randomly would probably disappoint him.

She walked towards the stone table, opened the food box she brought, took out a large porcelain bowl, lifted the plate on top, and coughed lightly: "Your Majesty, please taste."

Mu Qingyuan came over, sat down, picked up the chopsticks, pushed aside the wrapped lotus leaves, picked up a piece of meat with glutinous rice, put it in his mouth, and began to chew slowly.

Jiang Yu wished that there would be a hole to drill down at this time, but she pretended to be calm on the surface.

After a while, Mu Qingyuan swallowed the food in his mouth.

"Jiang Guiren's rice steamed meat, is it a surprise for me? It's made... a bit unique." He chuckled lightly.

Jiang Yu stood up, saluted with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, let's recruit concubines!"

"What? Did you poison me in this tamales?" Mu Qingyuan asked leisurely.

"Poisoning is not..." Jiang Yu immediately replied instinctively.

Suddenly, she froze.

Poisoned?

He didn't know what happened yesterday, did he?

Jiang Yu looked at his expression, as if nothing had changed, so she decided to play dumb first.

"It's just that the two steamed pork that the emperor ate before were not made by the concubines. They were made by the maids in the concubine's palace. This one was made by the concubine himself. It's delicious...the concubine also tasted it. However, it’s really unsatisfactory.”

Mu Qingyuan raised his eyebrows, and the corners of his lips curled up into a playful smile: "If you put it this way, the stir-fried shrimp I ate yesterday was not made by Mrs. Jiang himself."

"It's really not." Jiang Yu admitted frankly.

Anyway, a dead pig is not afraid of being scalded by boiling water.

"You are committing the crime of deceiving the emperor, you know?" Mu Qingyuan's eyes flashed.

"I know. So the concubine doesn't want to lie to the emperor anymore, and I hope the emperor will forgive me." Jiang Yu made a gesture and was about to kneel.

Mu Qingyuan waved his hand: "There is no need to kneel. Mr. Jiang Gui will answer a few questions for me, and I will forgive you the crime of deceiving the emperor."

The emperor really likes to ask questions.

It seems like there are a bunch of questions to ask yourself every time.

Jiang Yu stood up straight: "Your Majesty, please ask me, my concubine must know everything and say everything."

"Really?" Mu Qingyuan picked up the tamales on the plate with chopsticks, and actually picked up another piece and started eating.

After he finished swallowing the dishes in his mouth and took another sip of tea, he began to speak slowly.

"This morning, Gao Yilai told me about a small matter. He said that it was a wild cat in the palace. This morning, a dozen or so were found dead."

"He never kills. Seeing this place makes him feel very distressed. In the palace, palace people often feed cats in specific places. He suspected that someone deliberately poisoned them, so he sent someone to investigate."

"After checking and checking, I found that they were all poisoned by eating the stir-fried shrimp left by the maid Fengling of Mingxi Palace last night. There were still some shrimps left. He asked someone to test it. He said it was a strange poison. Did people eat it?" But when combined with another drug, it is highly toxic. But it is poisonous to cats or dogs if ingested."

"The stir-fried shrimp at the banquet last night was presented by Mrs. Jiang, right?"

After finishing speaking, Mu Qingyuan's eyes locked on Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu was stunned.

She never expected that after Fengling drugged Yang Guiren and fed the extremely unpalatable fried shrimp she made to the cat, there would be such consequences.

Now, with so many things going on, what should she say to Mu Qingyuan?

"Does the emperor believe that it was poisoned by his concubine?"

"I don't think Mrs. Jiang Gui is such a boring person who wants to poison cats and dogs." Mu Qingyuan smiled slightly, "It's more interesting to poison people."

"Then the emperor felt that the concubine regretted it after being poisoned last night, so he threw away the dish and presented the non-poisonous dish?"

"Originally, that kind of medicine is harmless to people. It needs to be combined with another medicine. Even if everyone takes it, only that person will be poisoned. I just want to know who that person is."

"Don't the emperor suspect that that person is the emperor himself? Did you dare to eat the dishes made by the concubine just now?" Jiang Yu asked back.

"If the person you want to poison is me, then I have already been poisoned at this moment, and it is my life." Unexpectedly, Mu Qingyuan smiled and said such an answer, "So, who is it?"

Jiang Yu couldn't help but want to tell him, let's have a snack!

Dare to eat any food, even if it is not poisonous, what should I do if I eat diarrhea?
"What is Jiang Guiren thinking?" Seeing that Jiang Yu was silent, Mu Qingyuan asked.

"The concubine is thinking, the emperor is so courageous, what if the concubine's cooking is not poisonous, but what if I get stomach upset after eating it?"

Mu Qingyuan laughed loudly: "Jiang Guiren is right, just treat me as invulnerable to all poisons."

After thinking about it, Jiang Yu decided to tell Mu Qingyuan the truth.

Since he believed in himself so much and dared to eat the tamales he made directly, there was nothing he couldn't tell him about this matter.

If he wanted to deal with Yang Ruojia, as long as he didn't execute her, he would naturally let her out of the palace when he became the empress dowager.

"That person is the Queen Mother, and the person who poisoned her is Yang Guiren."

Mu Qingyuan seemed not surprised at all, and nodded quietly.

"The reason? Since you know the person who poisoned and the person who was poisoned, you should also know the reason, right?"

"It would be better if Yang Guiren said this matter in person. Yang Guiren promised my concubine not to poison and kill people, and my concubine also promised her not to report on her. However, since the beginning has already been started, my concubine will Finish it for her."

So Jiang Yu relayed what Yang Guiren told her to Mu Qingyuan, but she omitted the fact that she had met the First Prince.

(End of this chapter)