Chapter 57: Dressing Change



"My dear Miss, today it is my servant." The little girl knelt on the ground, inevitably a little scared.

"Did you prepare this pregnancy-preserving medicine all the time? Did you deliver it yourself?" Jiang Ruohua's eyes were slightly gloomy, and she continued to ask, "Did anyone else intervene?"

The little girl didn't know what was going on. She shook her head after listening to Jiang Ruohua's words and said, "My servant took the medicine bag and started to prepare the medicine according to the time today. She didn't leave the stove for a moment, and she also delivered it as soon as it was prepared."

"My dear Miss, this person has been serving Aunt Yuan pregnancy-preserving medicine." The maid next to Aunt Yuan said.

Aunt Yuan seemed a little suspicious. She rushed down from the bed with a big belly and was about to attack the girl: "Did you switch my medicine? Are you going to harm my child?"

She stretched out her hand and pinched the girl's ears. Her expression was a little hysterical. The little girl was very young and had never seen such a scene. She screamed in fear on the spot!

"What are you doing? Help Aunt Yuan sit down!" Jiang Ruohua frowned slightly. She didn't know whether Aunt Yuan was pretending or she was really scared to death. She immediately ordered the girl to pull the people away. "If the brother in Aunt Yuan's belly is hurt, you will all be beaten with sticks and sold out!"

The servants realized the seriousness of the situation. They hurriedly carried Aunt Yuan away and pressed the little girl to the ground. Aunt Yuan seemed to hate... After having sex with this girl, her eyes were red. Jiang Ruohua said, "Aunt, she made the medicine, but she was not the one who prepared it. It is unknown whether someone else had tampered with it before her. Please be patient. If it affects your brother in your belly, wouldn't it really be a bargain for those who don't want you to have a child?"

Aunt Yuan murmured, holding back tears, "Please, Miss, find out the truth for me and seek justice."

"Don't worry. Since Auntie has handed Auntie to me, I will not allow such a heartless person to harm the descendants of the Jiang family to exist in the mansion."

But when she looked at Auntie Yuan again, she seemed to have calmed down too quickly. Could it be that... With

a turn of her eyes, Jiang Ruohua no longer looked at Auntie Yuan. But a moment later, the court doctor hurried over with a medicine box. He first examined Auntie Yuan and said that she was a little frightened but nothing serious. Then he looked at the pregnancy-preserving medicine. The boiled medicine and the medicine residue were sent to the court doctor. After identifying it, the court doctor's eyebrows were whitened and frowned.

"But is there any problem with this pregnancy-preserving medicine?" Jiang Ruohua raised her eyes slightly, and seeing that the court doctor had made a rough judgment, she asked.

The court physician put down the medicine residue and said, "Miss, there is nothing wrong with this medicine, but... it is not Aunt Yuan's pregnancy-preserving medicine."

"It's not a pregnancy-preserving medicine?" Aunt Yuan clenched her fingers, very nervous, even her voice became shrill, "What is it? Will it harm the child?" "

This medicine is a tonic I prescribed for the eldest young master," said the court physician, "and nothing extra has been added. But after all, the eldest young master's tonic and Aunt Yuan's pregnancy-preserving medicine are both prescribed according to different human constitutions. If you take the wrong one, you may hurt your body due to the different properties of the medicine."

Aunt Yuan fell to the ground, but fortunately, a maid was taking care of her, so she was not hurt. Jiang Ruhua nodded and signaled the court physician to go down first.

The little maid who was boiling the medicine was so scared that her face was covered with tears. She cried at Jiang Ruohua's feet and said, "Miss, I dare not! I dare not! I just honestly took the aunt's pregnancy-preserving medicine to boil, and I did not switch the aunt's medicine with the eldest young master's!"

"Let me ask you." Jiang Ruohua looked at her and said, "Besides you, is there anyone else who can touch this pregnancy-preserving medicine?"

The little girl nodded suddenly: "There is another person who serves the aunt's pregnancy-preserving medicine with me. She is not on duty today. I and she take turns. As for the eldest young master's tonic medicine, there are other people serving it. The medicine is stored there at one time. Except for us, no one else can easily touch it."

"When you were boiling the medicine today, didn't you feel that the medicine smelled wrong?" Basically locking down who did it, Jiang Ruohua lowered her head and asked, "You have been serving Aunt Yuan the pregnancy-maintaining medicine for a long time, right?"

After saying this, the girl looked a little flustered: "Something was wrong today, but Aunt Yuan asked for the medicine in her room, and I was afraid of being punished, so I sent it directly..."

Jiang Ruohua signaled her not to say anything, such things are not uncommon, especially in wealthy families, maids and servants are afraid of being sold out and punished, and many times they will try their best to hide or ignore their mistakes: "Bring the other maid as well."

After saying this, Jiang Ruohua hooked his finger at Yinqiu and whispered to her. Yinqiu nodded and bowed. After leaving in a hurry, everyone was confused, and then they heard Jiang Ruohua's instructions: "Aunt Yuan is pregnant with the young master of the Duke's Mansion. I will never tolerate the change of medicine. The medicine was delivered here yesterday, but there was a problem today. During this period, whoever saw anyone approaching the kitchen where the medicine was boiled, report it and you will be rewarded with half a month's salary. Those who do not report it will be beaten and sold. The Duke's Mansion does not need such disloyal and unrighteous servants!"

She played with the bracelet on her hand and spread the news. There were rewards and punishments, and she really needed an opportunity to improve her image. Jiang Ruohua now had a rough idea of ​​who did it, but it was good for her anyway, so it didn't matter who did it. She didn't care and didn't intend to get to the bottom of it.

Soon someone came in and knelt down and said that he saw someone when he got up last night.

"It was Xiaoju. I talked to her a little. She said she seemed to have forgotten to get the medicine yesterday. She was afraid that Xiaoxiang couldn't find it, so she got up in the middle of the night to prepare it."

Half a month's salary, even the lowest servants could get 50 copper coins, which was a lot of money for servants. After the reward was given, more people came forward and said they saw it.

But Jiang Ruohua was not a fool. When asked about the details, those who couldn't explain it were all just making up the numbers. She directly pulled them down and slapped them a few times to make an example of them. After screening, only two people really saw it, and the remaining few were there to testify for these two people.

Xiaoxiang was the maid who boiled the medicine today. She did not deny that another maid Xiaoju did get up last night, but she just thought she was going to the toilet, so she didn't pay attention to it in a daze.

The servants were very efficient and soon caught Xiaoju. It is said that when she was found, she was about to slip away through the dog hole with a bag on her back.

The matter was exposed. Xiaoju knelt in the room with a pale face. Jiang Ruohua slowly put down the teacup in her hand and said, "Xiaoju, you plotted against the master and ran away from the house secretly. Do you know what the consequences are?"


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