When she opened Chapter 254, a sentence inside immediately caught the princess's attention.
After saying that, Ruan Mian turned around and walked to the desk to get the letter sent by Princess Jiacheng.
It contained her gratitude to herself. The princess, who had always believed in metaphysics, had just eaten her fertility ginseng and the next moment she was pregnant. She was naturally very happy.
She threw the letter into the brazier, turned around and wrote another letter, and asked her informant to take the letter to the mansion and find a reliable person to hand it to the princess personally.
In the past two days, perhaps because of her pregnancy, Princess Jiacheng has been feeling weak all over, even worse than in the past few days, and has completely lost all energy.
Sensing something was wrong, she specifically asked the doctor to stay at her house. After two days of seeing the patient, the doctor figured out something, but he wasn't sure and only said it euphemistically.
"Madam, you must pay extra attention to your daily meals and make sure they are prepared by someone close to you."
Upon hearing this, Princess Jiacheng vaguely understood the meaning of the words, and it happened that Ruan Mian's letter was delivered at this time.
When she opened it, a sentence inside immediately caught the princess's attention.
[Observing the celestial phenomena recently and tonight, the wind is rising and clouds are surging in the east. The princess is coming from her fiefdom, and her birthday is at odds with this. Be especially careful of water disasters today. Fearful that drinking water may bring about bloody disasters, remember this.]
This sentence seemed particularly abrupt. The princess frowned and after thinking for a while, she immediately called a servant.
After some arrangements were made, an unusual phenomenon was indeed discovered in the water that night.
Poison powder was secretly mixed into her daily drinking water, and the color test needle turned black.
The two cooks who were responsible for fetching and boiling water have been arrested and questioned.
The princess was so angry that she slammed the table and stood up on the spot! !
"In the Governor's Office, someone actually wanted to poison me?! If it weren't for Madam Ruan's letter, wouldn't I have been in great trouble?!"
"Who is so bold as to set his sights on me?"
The maid quickly stepped forward to comfort her, "Madam, please take care of yourself. The fetus is unstable, and you can't lose the big picture because of a small one."
"Speaking of which, Madam, Miss Ruan guessed so accurately, could there be any clues?"
The princess looked at her and snorted, "You mean that Lady Ruan is trying to harm me from behind? How could she be so bold, and why would she take such a huge risk to harm me? She knew that warning me would arouse suspicion. If she really did it, she wouldn't use such a stupid trick!"
"I think there are many people who are more courageous and have more harmful motives than her! Doesn't that dancer in the mansion have enough resentment towards me? And who of those women I drove out before didn't want to harm me?"
After she said this, the maid nodded immediately: "Madam is right, why don't we go and interrogate the cooks now? Madam's drinking water and food have all passed through their hands these days."
However, they did not expect that the two cooks kept their mouths shut.
No matter what tricks Princess Jiacheng used, the other party would not say a word, but would just kneel down and beg for mercy. Even when tortured to the point where he looked like neither a human nor a ghost, he kept crying out for injustice.
"Madam, please spare me. I really don't know what's going on here. I'm just fetching water and boiling it. I'm always by the stove! I fetch water from the Linfen River myself!"
"You picked the water with your own hands and stood guard by the stove day and night, but you didn't know the water was poisoned? How does that make sense?!"
"Tell the truth quickly!" the maidservant shouted angrily, but the two men still crawled on the ground, trembling and saying they didn't know.
Seeing this, the princess couldn't help but think of Ruan Mian again.
Since she has the ability to predict the future, why not invite her over and have a good talk with her? Maybe she has some ideas?
Or maybe... I can see some clues from her.
Thinking of this, she sent someone to the house overnight to invite Ruan Mian back to the Governor's Mansion.
It just so happened that Chen Bochong had gone to the place where the national wall was being repaired to handle important matters these days and had not returned home.
Ruan Mian seemed to have expected that she would come to find him, so he did not fall asleep in the house. Instead, he waited for the people to arrive in the village and followed them to the Governor's Mansion.
In the second half of the night, the entire Wuheng City was dark and silent, and no one knew that someone had come to the mansion.
Only candles were burning in the princess's house, and she told Ruan Mian that the water was poisoned.
"Madam Ruan, that gang refuses to come forward, and I've sent people to investigate, but to no avail. So, Madam Ruan, do you have any good ideas for me to find the person behind the poisoning?"
"If you can find the real murderer and help me this time, I will definitely be able to confirm your ability. Then I will recruit you as my staff member. I guarantee that you will not suffer any loss!"
"Don't you want to do business? The Governor wants to renovate and garrison all the external checkpoints, which will also block your business. But if you are my man, I can make this trade point smooth for you. It depends on... whether you have the ability to do so."
This is exactly what Ruan Mian was waiting for.
I smiled slightly and bowed, saying, "You are too polite, Madam. I am grateful that you have trusted me and invited me here, regardless of past grudges. I am also willing to help you solve your problems."
"Madam, could you please let me see the poisoned water?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the princess had already made arrangements for her.
He placed the cup of poisoned water in front of Ruan Mian. She stepped forward, sniffed it, and looked at it for a long while before speaking.
"This poison has a unique fragrance. It's light but lingering. If the person who poisoned it were in this mansion, they would definitely carry this scent. It's just that ordinary people can hardly smell it."
The princess frowned and asked, "Who can smell it?"
Ruan Mian brought the princess to the front yard, and a little deer slowly jumped out from the darkness.
The little deer jumped cautiously in front of Ruan Mian.
This made the princess and the maid very curious: "Is this a deer? Did you raise it?"
They didn't like livestock and subconsciously took a few steps back, as if there was something evil about the deer.
Ruan Mian said calmly, "Well, this deer is a sacred deer worshipped by the Jinsha people. It brings good luck to people and has an excellent scent. The fragrance cannot escape her nostrils."
Upon hearing that this was the sacred deer of the Jinsha tribe, the princess immediately changed her attitude and approached.
But the little deer didn't indulge her. He held his head high and turned his neck away. Even if she wanted to reach out and touch him, the little deer would shake his head and sneer.
The princess was so frightened that she laughed awkwardly: "This deer is quite arrogant, but no matter what, as long as we can find the person who poisoned it, it will be a good deer."
"Madam Ruan, let it go into the mansion now and let it smell all sorts of things. We just need to wait quietly, okay?"
Ruan Mian nodded, patted the deer's neck, and let it into the inner courtyard of the mansion.
While waiting, the princess also asked Ruan Mian many metaphysical questions. Ruan Mian, relying on his impression of the original book, predicted many important events in Kyoto.
If it were the original owner, he wouldn't know so much.
For this reason, Princess Jiacheng looked at her with even more confusion.
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