Following Cui Mixue's instructions, Biwu tricked the cook to the edge of a cliff and cruelly pushed her down. Her hands were shaking. She knelt on the ground and cried, "I was forced to do this. Please don't come to me."
A life ended with just a few words from her.
As luck would have it, the cook's body fell at the foot of the mountain and was seen by Situ Yao and his group.
Some of the guards had some impression of the cook and were puzzled, "Did he fall down accidentally?"
"Go back first." Situ Yao ignored the cook and instructed the others, "Go back and find her family and give them some money as a sympathy."
Unfortunately, the dead cannot speak, and the cook died unjustly.
Su Mengyan stayed in the woodshed for two days. She kept staring outside and finally heard footsteps. The door of the woodshed was opened and Situ Yao was standing outside with an unhappy look on his face. "You asked me to come here because you want to tell me that you didn't poison me?" He had a sarcastic smile on his lips, and he didn't believe her at all.
"Your Highness, it's Fangcao. As long as we arrest her, everything will be clear." Su Mengyan didn't rush to get away with it, but reminded Situ Yao, "She deliberately led me out of the kitchen to give others the opportunity to poison me."
"Fangcao has been with Yunfu for several years. You said she wanted to harm Yunfu?" Situ Yao seemed to be watching a huge joke, and his whole body exuded a terrifying coldness. "If Yunfu is in trouble, you should go down and accompany her."
Su Mengyan had been clinging to someone so long, but she never expected to face her greatest existential crisis so soon. Her mind raced, and in a split second, she came up with a feasible solution. "Your Highness, give me three days. If I can't find the person who actually poisoned me, I'll have nothing to say."
"Okay, I promise you." Situ Yao quickly agreed, "But if you dare to lie to me, you know what the consequences will be."
Su Mengyan breathed a sigh of relief, "Then can I go out now?"
Situ Yao nodded, turned around and left.
Su Mengyan returned to her residence, cleaned herself up hastily, and immediately ran to Yunfu's room. Yunfu lay motionless on the bed like a lifeless porcelain doll.
Su Mengyan saw her pale lips and said distressedly, "Princess, don't worry, I will help you find the antidote."
"Why are you here?" Fangcao came in with medicine and started shouting immediately when she saw Su Mengyan.
Su Mengyan was quick to run over and cover her mouth, "Shut up!"
"The thief cries thief!" Su Mengyan was certain that the poisoning was definitely related to Fangcao. "Who asked you to poison the princess?"
"Consort Su, stop spitting bloody words at me. It was clearly you who poisoned me." Fangcao panicked, her eyes evading. "The princess got poisoned after eating the cakes you sent her. How dare you come here?"
"How dare you lie!" Su Mengyan suddenly exerted great strength and dragged her in front of Yun Fu. "Tell me in front of the princess, who was the person you went to see before?"
"And the cook who inexplicably fell to the foot of the mountain, what does that have to do with you?" Su Mengyan also learned this news from Situ Yao, and now it's just the right time to use it to blackmail her.
Fangcao was indeed panicked, but she still refused to admit it.
Su Mengyan struck while the iron was hot and continued to provoke her, "Aren't you afraid that the dead cook will come looking for you at night? What benefit did she give you to make you willingly help her? And now you turn around and kill her?"
Fangcao fell to the ground in fear, her face pale. She was already feeling guilty, and now she heard that the cook had died, she had long since given up. Su Mengyan's words were the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Seeing her like this, Su Mengyan was already confident, "If you don't tell the truth, you will be the next to die!"
"It's me." Fangcao said dejectedly, "But I was forced to do so!"
Fangcao and Su Mengyan said that she had an affair with the guard, but was seen by the cook, and she was forced to do the wrong thing because of this incident.
"So you want to poison the princess and put the blame on me?" Su Mengyan wanted to pry open her head to see if it was filled with paste.
"If she spreads this, my innocence will be ruined, and I won't be able to follow the princess anymore." Fangcao yelled loudly, "Do you think I want to? If the cook hadn't repeatedly pressured me, how could I possibly harm the princess?"
At this point, the poisoning became clear. Su Mengyan was puzzled by why the cook poisoned Yun Fu. They weren't from the same world, and there was no hatred between them. It was just that the person was dead now, and she had no way of finding the answer.
Su Mengyan sighed, looked down at the unconscious Yunfu, who was breathing weakly, and asked while holding the fragrant grass, "Where is the antidote?"
"I didn't. She gave me a packet of poison and asked me to put it in the cakes." Fangcao told everything, her face covered in tears. "I've told you everything I know."
"So, the cook deserved to die." Su Mengyan never thought that the cook who died at the foot of the mountain had anything to do with this matter. At the same time, she also didn't expect that her little trick would actually make Fangcao tell the truth.
If you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door. What the ancients said still makes sense.
"I beg you, don't tell His Highness and the Princess." Fangcao still had the nerve to plead.
Su Mengyan sneered and pointed at herself, "Are you asking me to take the blame for you?"
Fangcao remained silent until she heard that Su Mengyan wasn't going to keep it a secret for her. She suddenly exploded, "Now everyone knows that you poisoned the princess. Even if you tell others, will anyone believe you?"
"Really?" Su Mengyan smiled, raising her voice to the outside, "Your Highness heard it all just now. The princess was not poisoned by this servant, but by the fragrant grass."
Situ Yao came in with two personal guards and looked at Fang Cao, who looked pale, with disgust. "Drag her out!"
This was a plan by Su Mengyan and him, to deliberately stimulate Fangcao and make her tell the truth when she lost control. So Situ Yao heard the whole process and didn't even need to interrogate her.
Fangcao glared at Su Mengyan fiercely, "You lied to me?"
"That's called deception in war!" Su Mengyan laughed. "Besides, you're just a palace maid after all. I don't know where you got the courage to let me take the blame for you."
"Hahaha..." Fangcao laughed like crazy, "Even if they catch me, what's the use? The cook is dead, and there's no antidote for the princess's poison."
Situ Yao drew his sword and stabbed Fangcao in the heart. She continued laughing crazily until she died.
The room was filled with a pungent smell of blood, which was extremely disgusting.
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