At first, Jiang Li thought it was normal for her mother to worry about her father and brother.
However, a strange thing happened a few days later, which made Jiang Li realize that something was wrong.
With the army setting off, the capital has become quite quiet recently.
Everyone is keeping an eye on the Daning Daily, hoping to get timely news from the front line and see if they can be of any help.
"Who?"
This morning, Jiang Li had just left the general's residence and was about to go to the palace to see the empress dowager.
As a result, as soon as he went out, he bumped into an unfamiliar man who was hanging around the door of the general's mansion.
When Mo Xiaoxiao raised her eyes, she bumped into the man.
"What's wrong, Xiaoxiao?"
Jiang Li stepped out of the door and saw Mo Xiaoxiao preparing to chase after him.
"Princess," Mo Xiaoxiao, who was called over, pointed in the direction the man had fled, "That man has been hanging around outside the general's mansion. He doesn't look like a good person."
Bai Zhi leaned over and took a look. "This is the General's Mansion. Which villain dares to hang around here? Do you want to die? Xiaoxiao, you must have seen it wrong. Maybe it's just a passerby."
As he was speaking, the coachman drove over. Jiang Li was thinking about the things in the palace and didn't take it to heart.
That night.
"Ari, why are you back so late today?"
Ever since Jiang Li moved back to the General's Mansion, Xue Rou would wait for Jiang Li to have meals together every day.
After taking off his outer robe and washing his hands, Jiang Li sat down at the dining table. "The Queen Mother hasn't been feeling well these past few days. I'm afraid she's been thinking about the Prince, so she kept me here for a while to chat with her."
Picking up a piece of black plum pork ribs for Jiang Li, Xue Rou said, "He's my own son after all. Even though people in the palace are known for being cold and indifferent, as a mother, how could I not feel sorry for my own child?"
"Yes." Jiang Li bit into the sweet and sour spareribs. "Today, the Queen Mother kept holding my hand and talking about the prince's childhood."
"By the way, Mom, these greens are quite fresh. Where did they come from?"
Jiang Li had just finished eating a piece of pork ribs and felt a little greasy.
There were actually some stir-fried green vegetables on the table, which looked very fresh.
"Try it quickly. An old lady brought it to me today."
"They said they received a favor from the General's Mansion before. Look, they sent over a lot of newly grown greens, the first crop and the freshest."
Jiang Li nodded and picked up one with his chopsticks.
As a result, I just took a bite.
His face changed.
"Mom, have you eaten these vegetables?"
Xue Rou shook her head. "Not yet, what's wrong?"
As she spoke, Xue Rou raised her chopsticks and prepared to pick up some food. Jiang Li held her chopsticks down and asked, "Anyone else want to eat this dish?"
"I saw that there were too many dishes and was worried that they would go bad, so I gave them to the servants. Oh, and I also had someone prepare some for your second sister-in-law. What's going on?"
Jiang Li spat the vegetables in his mouth onto the table, "There's poison in the vegetables."
"What?"
"Shh, mother, just wait here and don't go anywhere."
Jiang Li took only one bite and felt something was wrong. She asked Mo Xiaoxiao to watch here and Jiang Li took Mo Qi to the kitchen.
only.
As soon as I arrived at the kitchen, I saw that everyone had fainted.
Jiang Li hurried forward to check the cook's pulse. She found out that she had fainted from poisoning, while the others were knocked unconscious.
"Oh no! Someone has broken into the General's Mansion."
Upon hearing this, Mo Qi immediately blew the whistle.
A group of black-clad secret guards fell from the eaves with a few rustling sounds.
"princess!"
The leader bowed to Jiang Li and said, "I am following the order of the prince to lead the team to protect your safety."
The man's voice was very familiar. Jiang Li looked closely and found that it was Shi Zhuang, whom she had met several times a long time ago.
He was the pretty boy who ruined the third prince's plan.
"The rest of you, investigate carefully and see who dared to take advantage of the fact that no one in the General's Mansion came here to commit such evil!"
"yes!"
After saying that, Jiang Li checked the kitchen again and saw that there was no trace of poison in the pots and pans.
"Princess, look, are these the vegetables the kitchen prepared tonight?"
Baizhi took out some green vegetable leaves from the bamboo basket behind the house, wondering if she could find anything.
Jiang Li quickly took it and took a look, "It turned out to be like this, what a vicious mind!"
I originally thought that an outsider had entered the kitchen and put poison in the vegetables, but I didn't expect that the poison was actually put in the vegetables, and the poison had already penetrated into the vegetable stalks. I think that in order for these vegetables to be able to grow, they must have been watered with a special potion.
It seems that...
Both the old lady delivering food and the person hanging around outside the door this morning were very suspicious.
"Someone come!"
Jiang Li shouted loudly. There were actually quite a few guards in the general's mansion, especially after what happened that year. In these years, whenever Jiang Yao was not at the mansion, many skilled fighters would be left to guard the mansion.
Hearing the princess' call, the nearby guards quickly appeared.
"There are outsiders in the palace. Gather all the guards in the backyard now!"
"yes."
Being able to knock out the person guarding the kitchen, I think that person wanted to confuse Jiang Li and make her think that the poison was deliberately put in the food.
But they overlooked the fact that Jiang Li had been playing with drugs since childhood, and those tricks he had were not enough.
She broke the detoxification pill she had on her into a few pieces and asked Bai Zhi to feed them to the poisoned cook. She then found someone she knew well, took another detoxification pill, and went to inform her second sister-in-law to see what the situation was.
When Jiang Li returned to the dining room, Xue Rou was already sitting there with a pale face, not daring to move.
"Li'er, what's going on?"
Seeing Jiang Li coming back, Xue Rou hurried to greet her. See, she said that her right eyelid had been twitching a lot in the past two days.
Sure enough, something happened.
"Mom, don't worry. I'm afraid some venomous people will think that father and brother have left and think that this general's mansion is easy to bully!"
Today, she must catch the person behind this!
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"Princess, all the guards have been gathered."
Jiang Li glanced at Mo Qi, and Mo Qi nodded slightly, indicating that Shi Zhuang and the others had been investigating secretly in the general's mansion and had indeed found no one who had escaped.
"Okay, manager, come here."
Jiang Li waved to the uncle who was in charge of the general's mansion. Xue Rou had been standing not far behind Jiang Li, not knowing what she was going to do.
"You should know all the guards in this general's mansion, right?"
This steward was an old man in the General's Mansion. He had been in charge of the mansion since the steward's accident. When he heard the princess ask this, he quickly bowed and said, "Before the general left, he specifically instructed me about the safety of the mansion. I have already met all the guards one by one and I know them all."
Although everyone worked for the general's mansion, he was the steward after all. If he wanted his subordinates to be obedient, he had to interact with them in private on a daily basis.
"Well, now go over and identify them one by one to see if there are any bad apples among these guards!"
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