Chapter 288 Is It the Devil?

"You guys go out first."

The two maids retreated immediately.

In this yard, the only people who could get close to the two children were those she trusted, and those unfamiliar maids could only wait outside the door.

Su Ying picked up the dishes and chopsticks on the table and looked at them, but didn't find anything unusual. She also tasted the food on the table one by one and found nothing wrong.

Just as Su Ying was about to turn around and leave, she found a stack of unfinished snacks on the table. They were the date paste cakes that the two children liked to eat.

Su Ying picked up the date paste, took a bite and immediately spit it out. There was a layer of light powder mixed in the date paste. If she was not extremely sensitive to the smell of medicine, she would not have been able to detect it at all.

Su Ying narrowed her eyes, turned around and left the house.

"Did Uncle He make those snacks, too?"

Seeing Su Ying's expression was not right, Lin Zhuyu hurriedly said, "Yes, Uncle He also made the snacks. After Uncle He finished making them, he gave them to me to bring over."

"During this period, the food box has not passed through anyone else's hands?"

Lin Zhuyu shook her head and said, "No, I came here from the main kitchen. The servants are carrying the food boxes."

"Go, bring all the people from the big kitchen to the front yard."

"yes."

What Su Ying hates most is the scum who preys on the weak. The two children are her bottom line. If she touches them, she will die a miserable death!

Soon, everyone in the big kitchen was taken to the front yard and made to kneel.

Uncle He was also among them.

Su Ying walked up to them expressionlessly and threw the date paste cake to the ground.

"This is a snack for the young master and the princess, but it is mixed with powdered medicine that irritates the stomach and intestines, causing the young princess and the young master to vomit and have diarrhea. Don't rush to complain. I also know that the snacks were made by He Shouyi, but the big kitchen has been in this for so many years, everyone is a suspect."

After she finished speaking, she paused, and her cold eyes quickly swept over them. "I'll give you a chance to live. Tell me, who did this?"

"Princess, Chef He has been in charge of cooking in the big kitchen these days, and we can't help at all. I was sick a few days ago and just recovered today. I haven't even entered the big kitchen." The first person to speak was the steward of the big kitchen.

"Yes, Princess. Chef He said we couldn't do anything right and couldn't help, so he kicked us out of the kitchen. We didn't even have a chance to add the drug."

"Princess, we are really wronged."

Su Ying slowly turned her gaze to He Shouyi.

"He Shouyi, do you believe what they said?"

He Shouyi frowned and raised his head, "Princess, I wonder how the young master and the young princess are doing? This is indeed my fault, please punish me."

"Hmph, He Shouyi, stop pretending. It's obvious that you put medicine in the snacks. You want to murder the prince, the princess, and the princess. Such a person must not be allowed to stay in the kitchen. He is a disaster. He dared to attack the prince and others today. Tomorrow, won't he also have evil intentions towards the princess and the prince?" The kitchen manager was filled with righteous indignation. Those who didn't know would think that He Shouyi really did it.

Su Ying raised her eyebrows slightly, and her eyes fell on the kitchen manager, "Are you the manager?"

"Yes, I am in charge of the big kitchen, but He Shouyi is very strong and won't let me get involved..."

"She told you not to take care of it, and you didn't care about it. Then what do I need a useless steward like you to do?"

When the steward heard this, he quickly argued, "I thought he did this with the princess's permission."

Su Ying raised her hand and signaled him to shut up. "Since you are unwilling to tell the truth, then just do it. He Shouyi, the accident happened to Dim Sum in your hands. You have to take the responsibility. Take him to the torture room."

Upon hearing this, the two guards stepped forward and took He Shouyi into the room behind them.

When the manager saw He Shouyi being taken away, a gleam of triumph flashed across his eyes.

"Don't worry, Princess. I will supervise you strictly from now on."

Su Ying raised her eyelids and said, "You reminded me that you are the manager. If something happens in the kitchen, you will also be held responsible."

Su Ying waved her hand, and two guards came over and lifted up the steward.

The steward panicked, "Princess, I was wrongly accused."

"If the supervision is inadequate, then it should be punished."

Su Ying directly asked the guards to set up a stool in the yard and escort the steward onto it.

"Hit until you see blood."

Beating him with a solid wooden stick until blood appeared, this really meant he wanted to kill him!

"Princess, please spare me... ugh!"

Su Ying was annoyed by the noise and asked someone to cover his mouth with a rag.

The sound of the stick hitting flesh made people's scalp numb as it hit them again and again.

"Don't worry, everyone has a share."

The people kneeling in the yard were trembling!

For what seemed to be a long time, the yard was filled with the sound of sticks hitting each other, until the steward did not respond.

Su Ying asked people to stop.

"Let me see, who's next?"

"Princess, please spare me. Please spare me. I really don't know anything, Princess..."

"It's really not us who made the princess..."

Those people kept kowtow to Su Ying, but Su Ying turned a blind eye and asked the guards to take them away.

"No, Princess!"

When Wei Xi arrived, he saw people in the yard begging for mercy. The kitchen manager was thrown to the ground, and it was unknown whether he was dead or alive.

"Princess, calm down. Don't let these unworthy servants ruin your health."

Su Ying glanced at him calmly and said, "You came to me on your own. If I don't fight you, wouldn't it be a waste of your trip?"

Before Wei Xi could come to his senses, he was carried to a stool by the guards.

When the stick fell, he was completely stunned!

I was also very angry.

"I, I am sent by the Emperor to serve the prince, how dare you!"

Su Ying stood up, walked to Wei Xi, stretched out her hand to the guards, and signaled them to give her the stick.

"When I beat a dog, I never look at the owner."

Su Ying raised her brows and smashed down with the stick.

"ah!"

The whole yard was filled with Wei Xi's terrified screams, which were so piercing that they hurt people's ears.

So scary!

Those people didn't even dare to beg for mercy.

Help! Is the princess a devil?

Su Ying took action personally, and after just a few blows, Wei Xi lost consciousness.

When Su Ying's eyes swept over them, those people didn't dare to beg for mercy anymore.

A kitchen helper kneeling in the middle said in a hoarse voice with a strong desire to survive: "Yes, it was the steward, it was Steward Li who asked me to give you the medicine. Princess, please spare my life. I had no choice. If I don't do as they say, they will beat me to death. Please, Princess, spare me..."

Su Ying's eyes swept across him and fell on him. "You said, was it you who gave me the drug?"

"Yes, it's me. I had no choice. Princess, please spare me..."

Manager Li, who was lying on the ground, twitched in confusion, as if he was struggling to make a final argument for himself.

(End of this chapter)