The Queen also felt that there was something wrong with this matter, but she did not want to make a big deal out of it, and even less did she want the Dali Temple to intervene, so she ordered the head maid to be placed under house arrest, and also instructed someone to call Er Liu into the palace the next day to thoroughly investigate the matter.
It's too late today, everyone should go to bed. Su Qingming watched the whole process from the side. They didn't care whether Su Qingming stayed or left, so he stayed. After all, this was about his friend.
After leaving Concubine Shu's palace, Su Qingming immediately wrote a letter, spent money to bribe the people in the palace, and delivered the letter to Jiang Tuantuan.
After Mingman returned to the palace, she immediately ordered Zhenzhu to tell Jiang Tuantuan about this matter. If there was a problem with Zhenzhu Cream, it would definitely be related to Jiangyue Pavilion, and Jiangyue Pavilion was owned by Tuantuan, so there would definitely be trouble.
Jiang Tuantuan, who was sleeping soundly in bed, was awakened by a knock on the door, and the whole family was awakened.
Li Jingchen yawned, put on his coat, and went to open the door, muttering, "Who is this? Why is he here so late at night?"
When he opened the door and saw a woman, Li Jingchen asked, "What can I do for you, young lady?"
Zhenzhu said, "I want to see Madam Jiang."
Li Jingchen invited her into the main hall first, then went back to find Jiang Tuantuan, "Tuantuan, there's a girl looking for you. She must have something urgent to tell you."
Jiang Tuantuan looked sleepy. As he got up, he complained, "What on earth is going on? It's the middle of the night."
When she walked into the main room and saw that it was Zhenzhu, she immediately asked seriously, "What happened to Mingman?"
Zhenzhu said, "The princess is fine, but Erliu is in trouble. The princess specifically asked me to come and tell you."
Then, Pearl told the whole story.
"Madam Jiang, I believe this was not done by Er Liu. It is impossible for Er Liu to frame Consort Shu. I have served the princess with Er Liu for many years, and I know Er Liu's character."
Jiang Tuantuan also didn't believe that Er Liu would do this. If she really did that, it would not only harm herself, but also the Jiangyue Pavilion would be ruined.
After saying this, Pearl left in a hurry.
Just a few minutes after Zhenzhu left, someone knocked on the door again. Jiang Tuantuan went to open the door himself. After opening the door, he saw a man who looked like a eunuch standing in front of him.
The man said, "I'm here to help deliver a letter. Jiang Tuantuan took the letter and immediately called Li Jingchen to get the silver."
He gave the eunuch a purse of silver. The eunuch weighed it, nodded with satisfaction, and left.
After opening the letter and reading its contents, she learned that it was written by Su Qingming to tell Jiang Tuantuan about this matter and to let him take precautions in advance. He also said that arsenic, a poison, was rarely circulated on the market and only a few medical clinics would sell it. The letter told her to check it out quickly, as Er Liu would most likely be taken to the palace tomorrow and his life or death was unknown.
If this matter is not investigated thoroughly, it will definitely affect Jiang Yue Pavilion and thus affect Jiang Tuantuan himself.
Everyone stood up after hearing the noise. Except for Yubao, everyone sat together and started discussing the matter.
Everyone agreed that this had nothing to do with Er Liu. After discussing countermeasures, they all went back to their rooms to sleep, as they had a lot of work to do tomorrow.
The next day, Jiang Tuantuan arrived at Jiangyue Pavilion before dawn and found Erliu. He was still sleepy, but after hearing about this, he immediately perked up, "Boss, I didn't poison you. I would never frame Concubine Shu."
Jiang Tuantuan said, "I believe you. You must have been framed. Don't be afraid. You are mine. I will definitely protect you."
Jiang Tuantuan's unconditional trust in Erliu brought tears to Erliu's eyes and made her feel warm in her heart.
As soon as it was dawn, a group of people came to the door. Although they were all in casual clothes, Er Liu still recognized them. They were people from the palace. He followed the group without any resistance.
Jiang Tuantuan went to Tongji Hall to call Hua He. Hua He immediately put down the work at hand and followed Jiang Tuantuan to Jiangyue Pavilion. She began to check one by one. First, she wanted to see if there was anything wrong with the things in her shop, and whether someone had sneaked in and poisoned them.
Jiang Dafeng took Jiang An and Jiang Li to various major medical clinics in the capital to look for any ***.
A whole morning passed without any results. Everything in Jiangyue Pavilion was fine. They searched all over the capital, but no clinic dared to steal.
Some medical clinics even thought there was something wrong with them and almost reported them to the county government.
Then the problem must be with the head palace maid. She must have done something after taking the things.
But we have no idea what happened at that time, and there is no evidence to prove that it was done by the senior palace maid.
Things have reached a bottleneck.
After Er Liu entered the palace, he was taken directly into the Queen's palace. After entering, the Queen was sitting in the middle, with Princess Mingman and Concubine Shu sitting on both sides respectively, and the senior palace maid was kneeling in the hall.
Er Liu knelt down and saluted the three masters.
Ming Man looked at his former subordinate and asked, "Er Liu, did you frame Concubine Shu?"
Er Liu said, "I don't have any."
"But she said that you poisoned Concubine Shu because you hated her."
After saying this, he pointed at the head palace maid.
Ming Man glanced at her, his eyes filled with disappointment. He paused and said, "Your Majesty, Princess, I have long forgotten what happened back then, and there is no way I will hold a grudge against you for this. This was my fault. I bumped into the Imperial Concubine, and I am thankful I wasn't punished."
"It's impossible for her to poison someone out of spite as she said. I'm not that stupid. And why is she so sure that I did it? Isn't it worthy of suspicion? It's like she's looking for a scapegoat for herself."
The eldest palace maid said, "It must be you. Stop pretending. I would never poison you."
Then she looked at Concubine Shu, "Your Majesty, I have followed you for so many years, how could I possibly poison you?"
Concubine Shu also felt that it shouldn't be her, but it couldn't be Er Liu either.
Seeing that he could not get anything out of them, he had no choice but to lock the two men up separately in the hall, and ordered the people in the hall not to make any statement about the matter.
Jiang Tuantuan found that he could not find anything from the investigation, so he had to change his approach and find out who the relatives of the senior palace maid were.
I hope there will be a breakthrough.
The matter was handed over to Li Jingchen. Li Jingchen paid money to learn from the palace maid that the eldest palace maid's family lived in the city, and she had two younger brothers. They were sold into the palace when they were very young. It was said that it was because the family was too poor. He didn't know much else.
As the palace maid said, they immediately went to look for this person. In order not to cause any commotion, they came to this area and saw someone selling pancakes. They took the opportunity to buy pancakes and asked the shopkeeper about it.
The shopkeeper was also a talkative person, and he immediately started chatting with them. The Wang family had changed a lot in the past few years. They had been living in other people's homes, but they didn't know how they made a fortune and bought a big yard on this street. The family's life also improved.
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